The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1900-01-18


and the one at Port Clarence. At this
place the most northern newspaper on the
continent is published. The subscrip-
ton price 10 only dollar . year and IL
is printed once every twelve months.
The illustrations appearing In the paper
are made by the natives on smooth ivory.
The publisher gets more money for his
edition than be knows what TO do with,
IS they have no use for money that far
north.
at lie 80 miles by land from Golovin
bay to Nome. There 10 . deep.watsr
landing at Rockyport; thence to Golovin
or Dexter's store is Is miles, which has
to be covered by lighters. the Eskimos
taking freight in skin boats to Dexter's
store and the mission. the only habita-
tions there. Fish river is navigable for
four-foot draught boats to Dixon's creek,
which is about twenty miles. There is
good timber to my cabin, but not stick
west from there to Nome. My son is
wintering there now. Fish river lie navi.
gable for sixty miles from it's mouth.
The mines are reached BY boat in sum-
mer and by dog teams in winter. The
claims l am interested in are held BY
myself and son Ray and Thomas Hum
phrey OF New York. We have eight
claims in Bonanza 1920 feet by GAO feet,
or 20 acres; there are two in Discovery,
eight in Big Four district. q miles back
Of Nome, and six claims on Dixon creek.
"The Golovian bay county was ex.
plored first by telegraph party, Messrs.
Vandeleven and Libby, twenty years
ago. A man by the name Of Dexter has
been in there ten years and does the
principal trading with the natives.
There are two tribes Of Eskimos, one
known as Salt Water and the other as
Timber The latter trade squirrel,
dried salmon, black. buckle and salmon
berries for seal skin, walrus teeth and
sea crabs, the latter are the finest in the
world. There is no night there, the sun
merely goes out of sight and rises again.
It is never dark in winter. An hour and
twenty minutes is the shortest twilight.
You never see the stars from February to
November. In the winter the north star,
dipper and other consultations observa.
BILE here may be seen there. but the
grandest sight is the northern lights
One side of the heavens is constantly
ablaze with this phenomenon and We
often sat up until two or three o'clock in
the morning watching the wonderful
electrical display.
"The scurvy broke out last winter in
our camp. Six died in the next cabin
and was stricken with it. The disease
first appeared in little black spot on
my knee and was soon black from my
waist to my ankles. There were six in
my cabin and / was the only one affected.
The rest took plenty of exercise, while /
was too much confined, as l was the
cook. We had no medicine, though
was lucky enough to have small bottle
Of arnica. With this and hot baths and
can Of tomatoes. for which 1 paid S,
they brought me out all right.
81 went in the 10th of July, 1898 and
left the 10th of September, 1899. / did
no mining, only prospecting, and just
PANIED out little gold here and there.
This gold we had assayed in San Fran
cisco and it ran $l9.40 to the ounce. At
Council City the Alaska Exploration
Company, twelve men, cleared up about
$110, 900 in about six weeks. The next
largest was that of the Mermaid, clearing
up $50, 900 on Sweet Cake. On Elkhorn
a company Of five men told me their
cleanup was satisfactory Pete, Ger
man, cleaned up six or seven thousand
dollars in about ten days on Goose creek,
three miles from Dixon creek. He got
into pocket, but having no water he
had to wait for rain. His gold weighed
$40 SO to the ounce. He has come out
for machinery, pumps. etc. The Big
Four and Ophir claims had gold that as
fayed $3.50 to the ounce at the assay Of
fee in San Francisco. When the Nome
excitement broke out we couldn't hire
men, who were getting ten dollars Q day
and they all quit. There have been
seven millions Of gold taken out Of Snake
river alone-as much money as Secre-
tary Seward paid for all of Alaska.
Lindrom took out 100000 of this vast
sum. From the formation Of the coun.
try there is no telling how long the gold
will pan out. The gold belt is from $50