Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-07-02
DISSATISFIED
WITH NOME
MONTANA MEN WARN THEIR
FRIENDS TO STAY AWAY
FROM THE PLACE.
BEACH CLAIMS HAVE
ALL BEEN WORKED OUT
Freight Piled Up for Miles-Enormous
Value Of Town Lots-Exodus
Will Begin.

Yesterdays mail brought to Butte scores
of letters written to friends by the Montana
gon. The letters were mailed at Nome on
June Is, two lays after the arrival OF the
Oregon. The Montana men are apparently
dissatisfied with the country ana war
their friends to stay away. The believe
hey have been poorly paid for their trip.
especially as they ran the risk OF contract
ing smallpox or pneumonia on the trip. II
is said that several Butte men are now
a~uarantined at Dutch harbor owing to the
prevalence of smallpox on board OF the YES
sells on which they took passage.
In letters to Butte friends, Ed Lyncn, a
we'll known Butte boy, who left Seattle
i from M NSms adv wins e1 he waa GLAD lac 1 to pa auaI
pate in one of the biggest mining STAN
pedes in the history Of the country, he be-
Nome during the next winter, as many OF
the men who made the trip had barely
enough money to get there. Work will be
difficult to obtain owing to the big influx
| The following letter from a Butte man
explains the situation there two weeks
ago: "
Special Correspondence Inter Mountain.
Nome. Alaska, June 15.-The Oregon, with
! about 80 Montanians on board, arrived
here Tune 10. We mad a pleasant trip all
finding a passage through the ice Of Bering
sea. After rounding the cape We We're con-
tinually surrounded by icebergs, which de-
layed us about 10 days.
But Nome is a bigger frost than the Ice
bergs, and the Montana men are already
| Disguised and are writing to their friends
beach diggings, Of which we heard Sc
much, are all worked out, and it is only by
hard prospecting that a place on the beach
can now be found that will pay IS a day
to the man. 1t is said there are some good
claims on Anvil and Snow creeks, but thelr
richness has been terribly exaggerated.
From what ! can learn here all kinds Of
has brought a stock Of goods, and the
freight is piled up on the beach for miles
without any regard for the manner In
which it was dumped off the lighters: They
My belief is that within six weeks all kinds
Seattle.
About 4.5o people wintered here. There
are fully 10, 900 people here now, and by
July 4 it is believed the population OF
Nome will be $4,000, as they are coming
in at the rate of 2,WO per day. The exodus
and very many of the Montana pilgrim:
will be seen back in their native haunt'
before November. No new strikes hav'
been made around here recently and NJ
stampedes ave occurred, SO the only thlnl
the Montana boys can do Is to go -bacl
home.
There is only one business street In Nom
| at prices ranging from 5000 to s25,o0o Yo1
can't lease or rent a lot there, but they ar
all for sale. Back on the tundra lots ca
be secured at from $500 to $500.
The tundra, which it was claimed woul
prove a veritable Pandora'ss box OF riches
! has proved to be a frost. Thousands Q
} holes have been sunk at enormous eos
! ground found that would pay days wages
All the creek ground has been staked Ion
ago, much of it Illegally. In much Of
only a color or two has been obtained; !
! the pan. Vast areas of ground are hel
by corporations.