Arizona silver belt., 1900-06-21
CAPE NOME.
, Favorable Opinion of the New Alaskan Gold
 Fields.
MANY RICH DIsCoV FRIES.
he Area of the Country in Which Gold strikes Have Been Made of Far Greater Extent han IS
 Generally Supposed.


 Vessels still leave for Cape Nome crowded to the safety limit, and leav- ug behind freight and passengers inn possible to take. The Klondike hegira of ,97 is outdone. In San Francisco eyerything in the way of ''Cape Nome outfir' is prominently advertised, The rush will continue through June. says the Mining X Scientific Press.
 \. R. smith, deputy land and min pral surveyor at Cape Nome, is down rom there, coming out over new md route. He left Nome March 18th, vent on foot with one. companion scrass the country from the kusko- quim river to katmai, coast port on tae mainland, opposite Kadiak island; .e!J kuskoquim river on April 10th, hopping the dog team which they had ned on the trail from Nome, to allow thorough survey uf the country.
 Katamai was reached May sth, and .n bidarkas, variety of canoe m use by the coast Indians, the two took the uyeu water to Kadiak, thence by steamer Bertha.
 Mir. smith says: People on the outside cannot realize the extent of the valleys, beach, tundra and noun 5ains included in the Nome district; the area of the country in wEIch rich strikes have been made extends 70 miles back from the beach at Nome and 21O miles east and west. Gold has been found in creeks prospected north to Cape Prince of Wales. Fully 5000 men spent the entire winter in pros pecting and locating claims.
 "A strike on Ungalaltolik going so cents to the pan was reported in Feb ruary. This is east of the Norton bay country. The two creeks which have been opened so far as to give fair idea of their real character are Bryan and Mckinley, between Golovin bay md Norton bay. Other strikes and locations have been made in the Ana cOndG district.
 .'O.d Russian workings have been found in the Golden Gate district. Quartz has been found on the kus- ril,ne, a tributary of the Ammain river. flowing into Granely harbor' in the Port Clarence district.
 .sTo the north among strikes may be mentioned discoveries on Mint and Grouse creeks in the Arctic district, back of Port Safety, Just before ! left lots in the town were selling for 2,O0O. It is expected that Port Safety will be the saltwater entrance into the Cape Nome country. Last year there was k a great amount of goods lost or de- k ,troved through lightering it ashore Fl to the beach at Nome; 1t is tiresome and costly job.
 "A peculiar feature of the plating of the Nome townsite occurred thls spring. The Anvil district had al ready organized as a municipality and a regular board of trustees was ap' pointed to look after the little towns affairs. The surveyors who were plat ing the Nome townsite took in all ol Anvil. two square miles, and labeled it as a part of Nome. Anvil had al ready plated streets, located and dis posed of town lots, had town officials at work. but is now what conld vir tually be called prisoner within th' limits of Nome. It is all called Nome but there are perhaps yet two sets O city officials, one looking after the af fairs of Nome and the other after th' interests of what they yet term Ahvli
 Lumber when left Nome was sell ing at s5OO per M., ana even at Una figure there was a great demand 10 the article.
 Interest is shown in the Penn. River district. The old mouth of tn Anvil river is said to have iormerl made it's way to the sea, ana It thought to lie somewhere near wher the Penny river makesits way throug Lllt luIluTd. anu IT oNSh ID S'N
 diggings will he found there.
 The Ruby sand along the oeache has been found to contain gold. Tn clay deposits also contain gold and places the strata are from four to nv feet in width.
 Quartz strikes have been made a the way from Norton bay to Gap Prince of Wales.
 developments on Tundra th spring have shown that that sectio will eventually produce gold; that tf
 tundra has been built up by the actio of the ice. The dirt and Silt whlc
 forms that section has been worke
 away from the mountains and foo
 hills to the beach, where it has bee
 gradually packed and worked back
 the action of the ice foes which el
 close Bering sea from the outsie
 world during the long winter. IT
 action which eroded the dirt from l
 original resting place in the mountail hau ole.