The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1900-09-26

Der Ire was worth about $500 900 and
probably he has real estate at Nome
that Is going TO raise $4,000 higher
during this year. lie was one of the
i've original gold dggers at Cape
Nome. and he had his pick OF the rich
est piaecrs In the virgin gold field. lie
had gone To st. Michael to spend the
winter and do missionary work among
the Mhalers and innuts. when 1t WAS
whispered about that the natives on
Cape Nome had found gold nuggets a
few months before. Anderson organized
IA party. and although 1t was late in
the season, and there was danger of
being frozen In the ice miles from st.
Michael. several eX-klondikers accom-
panied the Lutheran missionary across
Norton Sound to Cape Nome. The
party found the beaches Of the cape
Nome creeks more literally streWn
with gold than they had imagined. and
they would not risk chance location
of placer claims there when they had
departed for St Michael So Anderson
and his party stayed right ON the scene
of the find all winter, They lived in
tents amid snow and Ice endured Il
temperature of sixty below zero for
u ei-- aed pubaiated on frozen half
cooked food for six months until
spring came and they could go about
digging nuggets and flakes of gold
from the gravel of the creek beaches.
Anderson happened to claim the two
richest spots ON AnVil Creek He got
otrf 900 ounce of gold, worth at
Nome about $IGa0 an ounce. ftem one
claim in twenty-five days when he had
TIM sluiccs In operation there lHst sum
mer He claimed seven acres of land
In what * now Tho heart of Nome. aud
his claim being legal, he has sold some
lots 30Xi0 feet fur $4,000 each. and
many fur $500 aud 81 900 each 1t Is
generally understood that Anderson
VIII stick Ia Nome until he GETS a half
million of dollars. 4 ,n he win give a
lm Of II to the Iatheran Chuich of
Sweden for In spite Of his enormous
business activity hr 81 always Jeli-
flous lie viii build tl0.0O0 Lutheran
church at Nome tins year OF neXt.
Jim Grady. no IL the King Of the
sports OF Alaska was a sailor un the
United states cruiser Philadelphia
three years ago last January Ills in
come then VAS about SlC0 year and
food. He has an income nowadays 81
about s.. 0G0 naruth- II is difficult to
gauge the actual wealth Of port like
Grady hul hc muat surely he worth
$40 900 lie owns the Hirloln of bust
ness property at Byea. Dawson and
Nome nesides he has three saloons
that would sell foI 100000 each ana he
owns ono half the Lehman mine on
Snake Cree, al Mono. and that Is "a
good gold producer
"GIady came FROM Baltimore. When
the KlOndike boom came out lac got
dy embarked WITH 800 In the saloon
business at Dyea. II Is said that he
introduced faro aud roulette gambling
and he lad a mint from the hour Of
opening. lie wont newt. So 1t r. told
to Dawson and opened the most pala
tial saloon and gambling han ever
known there. His place was crowded
day and night Games with stakes Of
thirty and forty pounds Of gold were
played many a time, SO the story runs.
Ills daily gross receipts for months
were from 5000 10 $500. ON Christ
mas. 1898, he took IN at Dawson $500.
Everything he tou,h he'd seemed to turn
to gold He invested IN a patent oil
heater, suitable for thawng the frozen
gravel In the klondike placer mines.
He was advised by many men to keep
out Of the patent cnterpriNe. But It
proved "A success. and when the things
had sold like hot eakes he sold the pat
ent at profit Of $4,000 or $4,000"
One Way OF Making II Living.
There are many and various ways Of
making a living in this big city, says
the New York Times. AMI between
Chasing eighthS" in Wall Street and
chasing potato-bugs In jamaica, tho
ways of gathering dollars are OF wide
range. One OF those seldom seen by
any except the people directly II ter
ested Is the oytgrowth Of recent extern
live waterfront improvements In the
Navy Yard Strlngers. timbers, and
planking OF yellow pine and sbillng OF
spruce have been used by the scow
load and around the corner OF tae
yard, In Little-st., some enterprising
young men have started woodward.
Ends OF spiles, rejected Dlank9. any
thing OF wood that Is found floating In
the Wallabout Channel Is taken In
out OF the wet" dried, split and
peddled around the nelghborhood at
prices which the klndling- wood peo-
pie cannot touch, but which. low as
they are, represent good wages for the
work done.
A suit has been brought against the
city of New York by Ulaintiff who