Arizona republican., 1900-10-06
ONE OF THE FORTUNATES
Will Sexsmi'h Returns from Nome to
 Spend the Winter in Yuma.

William Sexsmith was one of the in | coming passengers on Monday nights eastbound train, says the Yuma Sun.
 He was direct from Nome. having come
 as fast as steam by water and rail could carry him.
 He is the same big, husky, healthy VIII Sexsmith of yore-in fact, seems to 1 have thrived and grown more rugged upon Alaskan hardships and the in clemencies of arctic climate.
 Best of all, he is eminently satisfied with the financial outcome-or to be more exact. the prospects for favor able outcome of his few months ex- perience in the northland.. And. indeed | why shouldn't he be? While g, 900 others were suffering and starving. out of money, without friends, unable to get work, or undesirous of doing so, SeXsmith and his three partners-J. w. Davis, Ed Hunt and Al Wright-"fell into several pieces of good ground with which they would not part for less than a handsome competence for each. The manner of securing the claims is best told in Sexsmiths own words:
 When my partners and myself got together at Nome, We were not long in finding, as thousands of others had that there were hundreds of people for every claim in the country and hund- reds more for every job. The country was located up and down the beach and on every creek to the very limits of the known gold bearing region But " q if f were possible to get it. So Davis str-ci. down for the Golofnin Bay coun- t"y. end Wright made for the Port Clarence region, in his hunt for gold. reaching as far as the Arctic Divide Hunt went inland, to discover. if pos siole, new creeks and new diggings. But didn't go far Within two miles and a half of Nome was Bourbon creek. from which a great deal of gold was be- ing taken, and I thought it possible there might be a piece of ground over looked. But I couldn't find any unoc- cupied, and even deserted Bourbon creek to make similar investigations on other nearby creeks, but with the same lack of success. made daily ex- cursiOns up and down these streams, where everywhere men Were taking out
 
 fled myself that the ground was ;tll claimed. Then l went to prospecting with tape-line. and the first claim I found which exceeded the limit jumped the fraction to which the claimant was not entitled, and went to work on it. Of course. there was q howl. but I made the owner survey his claim and the fraction proved to be mine. |
 
 the same way, and when my partners came in from their trips we all went to work on them. We haven't made much penses and have some valuable claims. | We have stopped work on them until ]! spring. when we will resume operations l. just as early as We can get on the 1 ground.
 Wright is now in New York, but will | be here before long. Hunt and Davis | have probably started home already " |
 Messrs. Sexsmith. Wright. Hunt and ! Davis are not the only Yuma men who | have made a success in their quest fo- | Alaskan gold. B. A. Haraszthy has good claim and expects to take out q fortune. Ed Dunn and Tom Ferrie, | who are in partnership, have some val uabe properties, and are already re- i alizing handsomely. while Ward Priest, | who has been their foreman, has sa- 1 cured a claim from them and will go to . work on his own hook next spring.
 C. D. Ladd. the owner of Fortuna, is , according to MT. SeXsmith, the largest and most successful operator in tho { country. and to use the latter's own words. will not quit taking out gold as r.n. lives -