The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1900-08-06
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ANOTHER NOME LETTER.
Salemite Finds Business Poor Some Gold Il
Creeks, But Not on Beach.

Salemite Finds Business Poor Some Gold In
Creeks. Bnt Not On Beach.
The following extracts are taken from
letter written by A. NJ. Brown at
Nome, July 10, to Os West:
Iarrived here Sunday evening, June
II, but did not get ashore until two
days later, and have been very busy
ever since. When landed it was esti-
mated that there were $4,000 or 30, 600
people here, and there may have been !;
anyway ! never saw so many tents in
all my life, l suppose there were 10
miles of tents OF the beach, and you
could hardly get along the water front
in town for people. / never saw any
thing like it.
There were a few wooden buildings on
Front street, but now there are hun.
dreds of them and the building is still
going on, night and day, and rents are
higher here than in the best buildings
on the best streets in Portland. An up
stairs room 10 by ~ rents for from $50
to 80 per month. Business of all kinds,
no matter what, is overdone, to beat
the band, too, and would cay that all
kinds of business is on the bum,
Harding and your brother got here
with their cattle in good shape and |
think they are going TO do iairly well.
The last time | saw Harding he said
that they were not going to open shop,
but were going TO wholesale them
dressed.
Alb, and another brother of yours, l
think, came in from Dawson in a small
boat about week ago. | see him every
day or two. | asked him where he was
camped and he said for me to gs up to
the smallpox hospital and enquire there
as he was close to it. | told him would
be tight up sure.
There was quite a smallpox scare
here last week and they thought the
town would be quarantined, but il did
not amount TO anything as there were
only q few cases of very mild form and
there are no new cases.
The weather has been very nice most
OF the time since came, except that IL
is pretty windy some OF the time aud il
is very raw and cold when the wind
blows and the sun does not shine. IL
has rained very little and they are
needing rain bad for mining. On lots
of the creeks they have no water at all,
and where they are working there is not
quarter enough enough water, and they
are all running short.handed on that ac-
count.
There are some good mines here on
creeks, there IS no doubt about that.
But the beach is no good. What was
good on the beach was all worked out
before any boats landed here this year.
You might find some places where you
could take out with good rocker three
or four dollars day TO the man, and
perhaps a little better in some, but il
does not amount 10 anything. So you
will see that there were thousands of
people disappointed when they got here
and found out the situation, as most Of
them came expecting to mine on the
the beach. The creeks, Of course, are
all staked, and all the rest Of the coun-
try for a great many miles, too.
A good many are going TO the interior
prospecting, and some OF them may
strike something; you can't tell about
that, however, and | suppose good
many will return home II they can raise
the price. Quite number have gone
home already.
There is railroad building from here
out 10 Anvil creek, and they have IL
pretty well along, too, and they are
putting in quite waterworks system,
have IL almost finished, bringing the
water five or six miles from large
spring. There has been no killing here
for several days, but there has been
about a dozen men killed since came
here, mostly on account OF disputes
over lots, etc. but for all that II seems
to me 10 be quite orderly considering
the number Of people here. and every.
thing is wide open, two. The town is
under military rule now, and will be
will be turned over to the civil authori-
ties.
We have done first rate, considering
everything, and are thinking of doing
some mining If they ever get any
water, but are somewhat undecided at
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