Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-07-20
MACHINERY ON
MONIES BEACH
USELESS VENTURES OF MEN
WITH MONEY - FORTUNES
ARE SQUANDERED.
CHARLES HORTON RETURNS
WITH STORY OF FAILURE.
Ed. Lynch Writes Of the "Biggest
Fake" on Neutrality-suspicious.
of a Butte Man.

Letters arrive almost every day now
from the Butte men at Cape Nome.
They are all written in the same strain.
The mad rush for the pot of gold under
many and those who expected to sift the
sands of Nome for the yellow dross are
g~rievously disappointed. Many of the
Montana men now realize that they pass
ed over hospitable fields of treasure in
their own state to seek riches in a dis
tant and inhospitable land in the belief
that nature hides her precious things in
the most inaccessible and f%orbidding
places.
Charles Horton of Butte, who went to
Cape Nome with M. e. Graves, a New
York capitalist. who formerly owned the
Ruby mine near Bernice, returned yes
terday to Butte. Mr.. Graves took $780,
600 worth of machinery to Nome. The
machinery is still on the beach with d
placard on it to the effect that any -G&e
who needs it can haul ii away. Nobody
wants 1t, for no one has any use for it.
and Mr.. Graves and his partners are now
wiser by the venture.
Under date of July l Ed Lynch, a we'll
known young man of Butte, writes hat
Nome is the biggest fake of the century.
ing worked. The big plants which We're
placed on the beach in the expectation
that there was a great deal of gold left,
have closed dow because they could
not Ildk6 IL pay. oeNefdl HuHufeu CHOu-
sand dollars worth of machinery re-
mains on the beach and will never be
set up.
Several three-story buildings are now
going up at Nome. Mr.. Lynch says he
expects to see the town burn up almost
any day. If a fire should ever start it
will be all off with the town, as it is
composed mostly of frame buildings and
tents. Many people are leaving daily
for the states, but many are also arriv-
ing.
The outlook for quartz properties is
cheap there as in Seattle. Many went
there with big stocks of goods and We're
so Disguised upon their arrival that they
sod out at a sacrifice. Labor can be had
for $3.50 per day and board and thou
sands would be willing to accept work
at any price.
A railroad is being built across the
I tundra to the mouth of Anvil creek tC
haul supplies to the mines.
A lodge of Elks with 20 members was
organized July l.. 1t was composed 81
E'ks from about as many state in the
union.
mother of the Butte boys writes as
follows:
Cane Nome, July l, 1901 arrived here
on the 25th, landed on the Goth of June
slept on my freight for two NIGHTS and
got located on the 28th. being in a maeI-
strom of excitement all the time. Peo-
Pile so crowded as to render 1t impossi-
BILE to move chattels and tents so thick
for miles that could not get a place tC
rest. For Is miles are tents. five deer
or wider. covering all available space tc
the tundra. The tundra is a morass, but
like peat, dry on top. The beach, too, is
good enough in spots. but was all worked
creeks are good, but only a few IN num-
Der. Of course, all located. People make
more fuss over a little bit of gold here
than they do in the abandoned camps OF
! California. The place is emphatically n,
! G., overrated and overdone. Butte Is a
gem beside it: it is Buffalo Hump out
buffaloed. Water is poor ana sanitary
conditions menacing. On the third day
of my arrival I walked up the beach five
miles n viewed the already wrecks 81
machinery scattered there. Returning,
set up a second and store and disposed
of all my beach outfit without loss. Ar
now building a boat IA fee, long to get
about in and prospect. We don't know
where. Hundreds, nay, thousands. have
left in the same manner uDon a similar
errand. 1t is the same condition as OBJ
tanned on our trip. People everywhere
however remote people, people. too many
people.
It is warm May and June weather II
Alaska. I have found 1t to be delightful
/ have seen no mosquitoes: IT does ne
grow dark, and people are up and arOunG
at all hours. The ruby streak of beach
pay dirt that I have seen goes about
cent to the pan. The professions are
crowded, but little business and small
fees. They charge big, but don't get It
Lots are $50, O00, down, but dom sell. NJ
, courts here. only martial law. Town i
as quiet and orderly as Butte, only they
steal. Good meals are so cents: gooG
pies. rs cents.
There is a good pay streak near us. bu1
81 Is all a man can max in a day., ant
vet the most fabulous stories are afloa'
respecting this identical spot. They arr
such great liars here. have seen nt
dust yet: it is all money. Potatoes hav'
dropped to 3 cents a pound n outfit.
are cheap. The place is overcroWdet
with netty pedlers and fakirs