Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1900-06-21
THE ALPHA LANDED
Had No Trouble Getting to
Cape Nome May rs.
DID NOT TOUCH AT ST. MICHAEL
Brought Back -Four Passengers, Witt
Quarter Of MilIion-CIaiins
Richer Than Reported.

Vancouver, b. c., June 19.-That
the gold fields OF Cape Nome are richer
and more productive than has yet been
represented, is the story brought down
by the steamer Alpha, which arrived
from the North tonight. From single
claim, worked by 20 men in the employ
Of Jack Brady, $4,000 was taken ont
in one week and the same claim panned
out $50. 900 within month. As an
earnest OF Cape Nome's golden pro-
ductiyeness. the Alpha brought down
$3.50, 900 in gold dust. There were
five passengers on board, and the dust
belonged to four OF them, in the fol-
lowing amounts:
Jack Gill, of Seattle. $145, 900; J. @.
Monaghan, OF Denver, $4,000; Frank
Green, of Kansas City, $50. 900; Glen
Tinsley, an old Dawson miner, who
went to Nome last year, $35, 900.
Unusual interest has followed the
Alpha's trip, not only because she was
the first steamer to sail for Cape Nome,
but more especially on account OF pos
sibility OF international complications,
the Alpha being q Canadian bottom
and Home not being SUPPORT OF en-.
hy. But tile skipper had no trouble
with the customs regulations. He
sailed from Vancouver on April 5,
clearing for st. Michael. He says he
was go menaced with icebergs as he
approached st. Michael that he pro.
ceeded directly to Nome, landing 15S
passengers and their supplies on the
beach on May 25. and sailing for Van
couver on May 80.
The Alpha was carried by the ice tc
the Siberian coast, and for five days was
packed in the ice unable to move.
She finally made Nuniyak island, where
she found the San Francisco whalers
/ Alexander and Jeanette, with about
| 100 passengers each, also trying Il
reach Nome. After spending thre'
days more in very heavy ice near Pri
byloff islands, the Alpha finally made
Nome, whittier the Alexander had pre-
ceded her two days. So oyerjoyet
were the miners at the double arriya
of the Alexander and the Alpha that I
civic holiday was declared. and tn
Canadian boat was received with sa
lutes, all the customs regulations beinI
waived, although as she had cleared
from Vancouver for st. Michael tn
discharge OF her freight was in direc
contradiction OF the custom laws.
| Nome was rather dull during Marcl
and April. work being entirely sus
pended on account Of cold weather
Several times durinegthe winter tn
settlement Narrowly escaped total de
struction by fire. All the building
are said to be fimsey structures. an
NO fire protection is afforded.
The extent OF the producing are
OF Nome seems much greater than wa
at first supposed, and all over the coun
try mer are reported TO be washin
from l5 to % cents to the pan in gold
: Golden Gate and Mascot creek ar
turning out we'll. Topcock is the big
gets find OF the season, where it is con
sidered nothing remarkable for a mine
to make $50 day on many of tn
: claims, although the gold is found i
intermittent streaks. 1t was ON Tor
cock creek that $56, 900 was cleaned u
In 80 days. Topcock is 10 miles fror
the sea, and so miles south of Nom'
One thousand people are working ther
now, and there have been clean up
from $25, 900 to $4,000 on loO-foo
claims.