The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-06-09
RUSH. FOR CAPE NOME.
THOUSANDS ALREADY ON THE
WAY.
Latest Tales of the Richness of the
D.ggings.

tic has just opened, and already e'lo'
men and women have sailed from Seat
tie, Vancouver and San Francisco fo1
| Cape Nome. Passage to Cape Nome
has been provided for about seven thou
sand more who will sail this month
Captain Hanchett, who has long been If
the Alaskan steamship business, thinks
that almost sixty thousand men and
women will have gone to the Alaskan
mining fields when the season OF naVl-
I cation closes next October
'There are twenty-one steam craft,
besides thirty-tWo schooners ard ships,
| he said, that will leave California ana
| Washington ports for Cape Nome be-
tween May 10 and June 10, and each
! craft will carry from fifty to twelve
I hundred people Eight of the steam
ships will carry more than one thousand
people each. They will no doubt make
{ four round trips between San Francisco
/ and Cape Nome this season, and their
owners have reason to believe they
alone will carry about thirty thousand
| gold-hungry folks to Alaska before the
/ ice closes in and stops navigation next
| fall The rush to Cape Nome is more
general than that to the Klondike, be-
| cause it is easier of access, and ore
does not have any of the privations in a
| journey to Cape Nome that We're en-
dured two or .hree years ago in gong
to the Klondike. Then, too the Ameri-
can mining laws that prevail at Cape
Nome please more people than the Ca
madam laws in the Klondike diggings.
Our estimates of the number of people
who will go to Cape Nome thos season
are confined wholly to people in North
America, but there are several thou
sands who are now sailing from Austria
liza, from Chill, Peru and New Zealand
for Cape Nome, Judging from cores
pondence, Sweden and Norway will con-
tribute heavily to the crowds going to
Alaska this summer. You know that
three of the seven pioneer gold-washers
at Cape Nome were Swedes who had
been engaged as Lutheran missionaries
among the Eskimos on the Alaskan
coast"
The rush to Cape Nome involves the
transportation of an enormous quantity
of mining machinery. portable houses,
tents, beasts of burden, stocks of mer-
chandise and articles of household use.
cisco last week for Cape Nome with ny
draulic machinery aboard to the value
of three hundred and fifty thousand dol
lars and another steamer similarly
laden left Seattle two days later, For
months the iron founders and mining
machinery builders of the Pacific coast
have been at work on new devices to
meet the demands of gold mining on
the sandy sea beach and among the
gravel beds Of the creeks at Cape Nome,
for, in some respects the mining con-
ditions in the new Alaskan field have
revolutioniZed placer mining methods.
A race is now on among several freight
steamers to see which will reach Cape
Nome soonest and thereby make the
profit there will be in disposing Of new
ly invented machinery for washing the
golden specks from sand and gravel.
Several machine companies have each
put tens of thousands of dollars INTO
gold rockers and mammoth sluices for
use in the Cape Nome placers. A half
dozen schooners cleared from Seattle
and Vancouver week ago. laden with
coal and lumber for use in the new
mining field, where there has been a
very serious fuel famine ali winter.
company of Denver and Ell Paso cali
taists have invested seventy-five thou
sand dollars In barges and steam tugs
for carrying freight from the ocean
steamers to the land at Nome. Another
company has had brought from Japan
twenty-nine sampans for use in lighter
ing at Cape Nome. A sampan is a flat
bottomed boat peculiarly adapted for |
carrying loads in a heavy sea. TO man
age these craft many Japanese have
been sent to Cape Nome.
Since the palmy days Of the California |
gold diggings there has not been stam- |
pede to newly discovered gold region |
that has comprised so many men of |
fame and wealth in the mining world. |
Scarcely any miner of experience and |
wealth Joined in the rush over the Chill |
coot pass to Dawson City in 1898 |
Nineteen out of twenty men in the |
Klondil1e stampede were tenderfoot !
The number of wlIite-haired |
miners, millionaire miners and expert |
miners who are going to Cape Nome is |
surprising. For instance, there is |
Lucky Baldwin, of San Francisco He |
was one of the first Comstock Lode min |
ing kings, and first and last he has |
made and spent millions of dollars in |
gold mining. No other mining excite
ment in thirty years has moved him.
Now at the age of seventy-two he is
about to go to Cape Nome with a COM
pany of experienced prospectors and |
to recoup his fortunes.
There is Charles ID. Lane, the richest
gold miner now operating on the Paci-
tic coast. He owns one-haf the famous |
Utica mine and several other gold mines
that altogether pay an average of be-
tween forty and forty-five thousand dol \
lars a month, He has fitted out the |
Sacramento with provisions
and mining implements, and, with a
company of experts, will sail for Cape
Nome before June 1. His son-in-law
las made small fortune in two placer |
claims on Snow creek at Cape Nome.
George NJ Dobbins, one of the silver
Kings of Leadville, Col, twenty years
lgo, will sail this week along with a
iozen old-time Colorado miners for
cape Nome, intending to be gone in the
lorth a year or two. Two Of the miners
Who returned from the Harqua gold
ield twenty years ago and have been
wing in atfluence in Los Angeles ever
ince, have been so stirred by the re-
,OrtS of former associates concernirp |