The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-11-15
MAKE FORTUNES
At CAPE NOME
The BenbrOOk Brothers Will
Come Out Milli0naires.
OVER A THOUSAND
DOLLARS EVERY DAY
Stories of Big Money Made By
Salt LakerS.

'Smithy' BenbroOk will come out Of
Nome a millionaire several times over.
He has the second richest, if not the
richest claim in the whole region and
is taking out about S1,150 every day of
the year"
James T. Fulton, popularity known as
Jimmy" formerly with the Rio
Grande Western ticket office. returned
from the frozen north last night and
made the above statement. Jimmy
went with the crowd of Salt Lakers
last spring to find a fortune at Nome,
and he returns well qualified to wear
diamonds, even though he spent most
of his time working in the diggings,
through the ice and cold rock He will
return this winter or in the spring, at
the latest.
'.Smithy' Benbrook and his brother,
John Benbrook. the gambler who killed
Burton {. Morris, Joined the flood into
Nome. and the last account that
reached Salt Lake was to the effect
that they were not Ver-prOSperOuS.
Now comes the statement that they
are of the few who really are making
piles of money
1T came about this way" said Full
ton at the Kenyon last night When
the BenbrOOk boys got there, they
opened in the Belmont saloon with Sen
ator Freeze of Arizona. and that seemed
to be the only profitable business in
the district A couple of Swedes had
located NickOla gulch, Nickola being
the name of one of them, and the whole
pOpulace laughed at them for trying to
get pay dirt out of the top of noun
tain. But these men soon began to get
dirt worth 81 and So a pan, and -Smithy
B ion wifi n hT1 h
/ er and Freeze, for $4,000. That very
day dirt worth IS a pan was discovered
and the Swedes tried to repudiate the
/ option For long while the property
( was in litigation and receiver was
/ finally appointed. The BenbTOOk party
/ finally won out and the day l left, Oct
/ p, the receiver turned over to them
/ $3l 600 in gold dust.
The NickoIa gulch is producing on
/ an average of $1,150 a day, and it is
/ one of the few properties that will run
: all winter. Charles d Lane, the Cali
] fornia capitalist, secured the claim
/ next to il. and the two are generally
/ conceded to be as rich as No. u, Anvil,
! which produced s., 600 900 last year.
I -Smithy' is looking after the interest
of the party in the property, and John
is tending bar in second-class saloon
at $40 a day Those boys will come out
! OF Nome. whenever they get ready.
/ with money 10 throw at the birds. They
will all be milliOnaires two or three
J times over.
Mr.. Fulton stated that at the time
he left a big strike was on in the Port
Clarence district, the miners demand
ing higher wages, although the amounts
2 they receive at present would bulge the
eyes of any American workingman
This strike viii not affect any Salt
L.akers. he said, unless it should be
/ come general.
While on the road down on the
steamship Ohio. Fulton was one of -four
men who were chloroformed and
robbed. He lost S155, and to cap the
climax his trunk. with all his clothes
was swept overheard by a tidal wave
the passengers luckily escaping disas-
ter When ne left Nome was in pros
porous condition in one way, gambling
being lively and most Of the mines be
ing closed for the winter. Everybody
in town had plenty of ksin. He tells
many thrilling stories of enormous
losses over faro tables, and says that