The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1900-04-28
MEN WILL Els 81 FOR FORTUNES.
Continued From Farst Paxe.l

gan to be put down in Seattle more than
a year latter. all doubts were dispelled
and "a mad rush to reach the scene az
the discoveries began at once.
The peculiar situation of the gold de-
posits at Cape Nome is explained by the
topography Of that portion Of the Alas
kan region The name properly applies
to a point projecting into the sea on the
west coast of Northern Alaska B 1t is
located on the northeast arm of Behring
sea, at the entrance of Norton sound, and
is the southern promontory of "a large
peninsula extending westward TOW ards
Siberia. between Kotzebue and Norton
sounds. Old sea captains know the place
well Long before the discovery of gold
there they We're accustomed, to refer to
Anvil Rock as one of the peculiar feat
ures of the now famous point. Those who
are not familiar with this particular part
Of American geography will be surprised
to- learn that Nome City is 2,7OO miles
from Seattle by the most direct route.
In other words, the voyage from Seattle
to Nome is almost as long as that from
New York to Queenstown
The district that has been explored thus
far extends from the apex of the pronon-
3 III
| miles northwestward along the coast and
| about twenty miles inland to the north.
In the middle of this shore line, at the
mouth of Snake river the town Of Nome
is located. rt. sts#5. sss5s
IS The tundra slopes gently upward from
the beach to the base of the mountains,
where it reaches an elevation of one huns
dred and fifty to two hundred feet. None
| oc H., d.
sand feet high. Near the mountains the
gravel Of the tundra is often coarse, car
| rying powders of considerable size. but
| along the beach they have been: reduced
| to fine gravel and sand by wave action.
1t is in this reduced material that the
beach gold is found. 3D.. @'.- ..
| A range of unnamed mountains extends
parallel with the coast, and the foot
| hills of these mountains rum down to
within four or five miles Of the shore
| line. Between the base of the mountains
and the sandy beach lies strip of land
| known as the tundra-a Russian word
slgn1fying marshy plain or steppe. II
is dreary, desolate stretch. Not tree
or shrub grows on it, and the only
vegetation it supports is the moss that
] covers the marine gravel During the
summer months 1t is wet and Doggy. A
few ponds dot it's surface, and the Snake
| Nome and Cripple rivers flow through it.
Back in the hills are numerous creeks
and in the gulches of these creeks rich
! gold deposits have been found Numerous
claims have been staked on Anvil an6
Glacier creeks, and prospecting is coins
on along, most Of the others. In fact
! these creeks were prospected before the
| gold in the beach sands was discovered
The first prospectors passed directly ove1
| what may prove to be the richest placer
mines in the world. not thinking it worth
while to look for gold beneath the wave
! washed stretch Of sand.
The first discovery of gold in tn,
| gulches back of Cape Nome was made j,
| the summer Of 1898. It was year later
IN July, 1899, that the first gold wa.
washed from the beach sands and tn,
discovery at that time was almost Al
accident. according to the account of i
generally accepted in the mining country
One of the miners, an old Klondiker
was i'll with the scurvy, and SO was un.