The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-10-18

= opening up quartz ledge. While
was there he pounded up some rock in
: pan and showed twenty-five or thirty
msde thai r sa ne to have had
creek lot Of work has been done. on
Lindbaoom creek little work has been
zone, but l don't know with what re-
Mr.. Bard's own interests are on Twin
Mountain creek. about twenty-five miles
above it, mouth He has two claims
strike that justif,ed nm in ORGANIZING liking
= company that has taken in 40 acres
The company intends to hydraulic the
nsas snd 4 VIII h0as up s
IN fact there promises 10 be a great deal
q hydraulic operations next year. II be-
Ing the opinion OF some Of the best min
ing men here that q number OF claims
now practically worthless can be made
70 pay in that way. Mr.. Bard says he
has secured from his Twin Mountain
e Il. Ssiss 'e Ga. ran vast Is n pss
try at about its Intersection BY dissier
crd mSuSss wss ~. ~ ;: dou a deal
Nome's two daily papers. the Chronicle
and the News, viii tomorrow publish their
run during the winter as weckiies.
Nome beach miners are inclined these
fy wnd sas blown n. nc sso ons 10Y for
! property loss Of $4,000 70 others and
s Tse @ seoH re ns e% Their 81 ,s ss world
richness. 'tis true. but sufficiently 10
make II profitable again to work over:
layer Of the ruby sand on Y the hard iI sur.
face OF the beach which. when run
!shrousn . rocker. Yields excellent pay.
ss ssr s Ss n shs
which enables miners to operate on spots
heretofore Inaccessible.
ditions have 20 " FAR been at TopkuK where,
IN sand that was worked over twice be-
fore the storm, men are now making
from 80 q day up. Two men. II Is said
washed out $40 in two days from this
discarded sand. the golden richness OF
which seems 70 be rejuvsnated by the
are now earning independent homestakes.
Many people have always commended that
the beach gold IL thrown up by the sea,
and they have their opponents sI, N stats
The belief that smallpox had been
stamped out here was dissipated on Sat
urday when Private Young. Of Company
with the disease in its most malignant
form. He has been in the military hos.
pltai at Nome river. Where he contracted
the disease - Htystsfys
An engineering party sent out by. the
United States Geographical Society, have
lust completed a geographical. geological
and Typographical survey OF the Nome
country. and will leave at once fer the
outside with the data secured. The hign-
est mountain found by them Is Mount
osborne located near the head Of Ptl-
rytm river. which Ia 500 feet in height
Several others were found 10 attain an
altitude OF 1900 feet. or more a coast
survey was also made with the steamer
patterson. a report OF which Will appear
simultaneously with that OF the inland
Robbers chloroformci judge John
pegrs 4 San Francisco attorney ny IN
troduc,nr the drug through slit cut n
his tent and robbed him 81 y .s-' when
he had concealed in the s~eatband OF MS
hat .,h..t
= man named George Nelson, was ~ VII.
day. sentenced to ave years lrnpri,son a,s,s
tn the penitentisry al McN'e" ir'A"''
state Of WASHINGTON. -.
Judge Noyes. of the district court mas
,.s,lsd an order naming October y a. VIC
aate of the proposed elestion Ter mum,
sIpai officers and the Incorporation OF
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