Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1900-09-08

streams are broad, but not deep
They are navigable with fat.bottom
boats all the way from 10 to 80 miles.
No timber of any kind is to be seen,
although there is another source OF
fuel supply on this bleak coast. II
consists Of driftwood or timber cast
ashore by the sea, where il has been
left near the base OF the tundra.
This wood consists principally of
stumps and trunks of trees. The
timber is Alaska spruce and is sup
posed TO have come from the Yukon
river and distant shores. For 80
great population as that Of Nome,
however, the supply is necessarily
limited. Fish is plentiful in all the
rivers-salmon, cod, rock cod, trout
and smelt. High in the mountains
are to be found Tomakin, a native
name for the grouse. The wild fruits
are the blue berry and salmon berry,
and at this season Of the year they
are plentiful. Wild flowers abound
in great profusion. To look from
the mountains back Of Nome gives
one the impression that il is q vast
farming country that the farmer
had plowed and changed his mind
about narrowing. Grass on the tun--
dra is good and stock keep fat on it
without other feed for o few months
in Summer.
From Nome 25 miles inland the
mountains rise from 1000 to 1000
feet above the sea level and have q
round slope. So far there have been
no very rich quartz lodges discov-
cred. The character of the rock
where it is exposed is limestone and
micha-schists, and it usually has q
dip southeast at varying angles. The
veins are mineralized, but not all
have a commercial value. Float
quartz, carrying large quantities Of
galena, has been found by your cor.
respondent % miles north Of Nome.
The Summers are not very warm,
but from the 18th of June to the
1st of August the climate could not
be improved upon-sunshine. no
rain, and daylight the whole "a
hours. But since the 1st of August,
and up to the present date, 1t has
rained continually; and to travel
now in this tundra is almost impossi-
BILE.
Notwithstanding the fact that re-
ports have reached the outside that
hundreds are dying daily with pneu-
monia, smallpox, typhoid and other
diseases, I can only say the report
is not true. and Nome is as healthy a
mining camp as I ever lived in. A
few cases of smallpox, brought here
from Seattle on the steamers Ohio
and Oregon, were the only ones
known in Nome.
The most urgent need is that oi
harbor facilities, as at present the
large ships anchor from one to two
miles from shore. Passengers and
freight must then be transferred il
lighters and barges from there to the
shore, and when the surf is high II
is often attended with great danger
A gale comes on the Bering Sea with
very little warning. and thousands o.
dollars worth Of property. which car
not be removed from the beach, ID
often destroyed, such is the fury o.
some OF these gales. Since the Ice
went out from the shore "a vessels o.
all kinds have been driven on the
beach and wrecked.
Nome has eight miles of railroad
two telephone lines, q good water sys-
tenn, two daily and two weekly news
papers, three churches, two banks ani
one safe deposit, and one theater. The
professions are well represented, snd
most all lines of business are largely
overdone. In one line can voucf
for this fact, as friend of mine from
British Columbia complains he only
made $75 in the last thirty days, while
rent alone was $l25. To earn the $7t
he exhumed the body Of miner who
died in March, he being an under
taker.
Several steam dredging plants are ir
operation on Snake river, and from
the way they push the work both day
and night they must be taking ou
gold in paying quantities.
G. d. Lane, an old time Nevsdan, il
one of the largest owners in most o
the best mines here. That he will
take. out millions goes without saying