The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-04-18
SIBERIAN GOLD FIELDS.
Rich Discoveries Reported to Have
Been made by Two Americans.

Been made by Two Americans.
| From time to time since last Octobe
stories have reached Seattle concern
| ing fabulously rich placer gold mine
on the coast Of Siberia, across the Be
| ring Straits from Cape Nome. Th
| first information came in the form
! of an opinion from old miners and pro
spectors, who said that they believed
| the gold belt, which had been traced
from Golovin Bay to Cape Nome, abou
seventy-five miles, extended across thu
water to the domain of the Car o
Russia. No effort was made at speci
flying the location of gold. The sup
position has been, however, that it lay
in the district nearest to the mos
westerly portion of Alaska. Cape
Prince of Wales is the most westerly
point of Alaska, and can be reaced BY
following the coast line something like
fifty miles from Port Clarence.
From here it is only sixty or seventy
miles due west to Cape Nuniano, al
the entrance of st. Lawrence Bay, or
on the coast of Siberia. This point is
fifty miles south of East Cape, the
most easterly point of Siberia. 1t is
comparatively easy matter to cross
from the domain of Uncle Sam to that
Of the Car, but actually to explore the
country is very serious matter The
world knows something Of the prisons
of this desolute country, and the per-
emptory manner in which transgres-
sions of the imperial decree are punish
ed
Recent reports indicate beyond a
question of doubt that daring Ameri-
cans have actually discovered wonder
fully rich gold deposits in Siberia, and
made their way back to Cape Nome
without being molested They speak
of their finds as being situated east of
Nome, but are careful not to go into
details, as they hope to secure from the
Car an imperial charter, fashioned
something after that which Great Bri-
tain gave to the British South African
Company
William Frye and Charles Swanson
are the discoverers. Their story indi-
Gates that the Siberian mines will
equal If not surpass those of Cape
Nome in richness, and certainly ex-
tend over much larger territory.
While one always thinks of beach dig
gings when Nome Is mentioned, this
phase of mining does not crop out in
the report of Frye and Swanson. They
say the gold they found in Siberia lies
somewhat back from the coast and
chiefly along the beds of dry creeks.
They are experienced miners, and have
t,,or
ments, including those of the Klondike
and Cape Nome, but never saw any
thing as rich as in Siberia. With their
shoes they turned up nuggets as large
as kernels of corn, and in many instant
ces much larger They say that all
they had to do was to- stoop down and
pick up the gold y from the surface.
The earth on the, surface and as far
down as they went+ only short dis
literally filled with pure
aluvial gold nuggets.
In these discoveries they have
partner named Henry Crowley. who is
a correspondent Of The London Daily
He went to the Klondike
some time ago and until recently has
been connected with The Klondike
Nugget, one of the newspapers Of the
Northwest Territory. Mr.. Crowley ar
rived in Seattle this week on his way
to st. Petersburg to see If the Car
will grant his company a charter to
work the mines. He has interested
local capitalists in this venture, which
he considers one of the largest and at
the same time most promising ever
evolved from the many golden oppor-
tunities afforded by the extraordinary
of the land of gold, ice,
and snow.-Seattle Washington Tele-
gram to st. Louis Globe Democrat