The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-02-20

They went into camp on No. 6. Anvil creek,
and there organized the Nome mining dis
trict with DR.. Kittelsen as recorder. On
No. and on Snow gulch the party washed
out 81 800 in four days.
After having built storehouse and
staked large number of claims, the party
went down TO the mouth Of the Snake riv-
err. where they found the schooner frozen
In two feet of ice. They cut the vessel out
OF the ice and hauled her up on shore, and
made for an Indian village located some
twelve miles east OF Snake river. There
they secured dog team from the natives
and started for Goovin hay Two days
out on the trip they met Missionary Ander-
son, who. being provided with reindeer
teams, conducted them to the trading sta
ton"
Stories Don't Agree.
Comparing the two previous accounts.
some marked discrepancies are seen.
IAnderberg says I'VE had not the slight
est mixing that there was gold TO be
found in and about Cape Nome.
but where that lucky spot could be We
could only vaguely conjecture;" while, ac-
cordng to Brostroms account. Lindblom
knew it. having made a previous discov-
cry. Linderberg says that they found gold
on Anvil creek September is, while the
other account says ii was the 18th. Lin
derberg says they arrived at Nome the
second time to form the mining district
october Is. while Brostrom says II was
October 10.
Here is another account of the same
expedition by Carroll Bennett. and II VIII
he noticed in Il that "Dr. Hutberg, John
Bryntesin and several others are cred
tied with making the discovery. not in
July when IAndblom is said to have
dshed up his first painful but in August,
thereby establishing new date:
THE first discoveries at Cape Nome
were made in August, 1898 by DR. HUT
berg. the swedish missionary at Golovin
bay. John Bryntesen and several others,
who had started on the mission schooner
for Cape York. A storm drove the boat
over the bar OF Snake river. near Cape
Nome and here they anchored and be-
gan prospecting. From Snake river they
crossed a ridge to Anvil creek. and pros
pected half way down the stream, finding
good pay from tbs grass roots wherever
they worked. The first pan washed out
sl.35 and in other places they found from
10 cents TO 1928 Bryntesen staked dis
eovery claim on Anvil creek and the rest
Of the party took one claim each.
They returned to Golovin bay pledged
to secrecy until they had made further
locations but the news was too good to
keep. and It gradually leaked out The
first to learn the secret were Or. kittel-
sen. r. j. Anderson William kjellmau,
John Lindblom. Jafet Linderberg and q.
w Price, the Alaskan representative Of
c. u. Lane, the successful California
mining man. The party went to Cape
Nome in September. 1898. and organized a
mining district. with Dr. Kittelsen as re-
corder They staked the whole length Of
Anvil creek. Bryntesen staked the whole
az SNOW gulch, an ahnormaily rich stretch
OF ground about q mile lone. ON behalf Of
himself i.indcrberg and I.ndolom. under
ppny. This company also took four claims
on Anvil creek and number on other
creeks. making about thirty In all
Sill Another Account.
Stul another account IS given by an
authority. who says:
The discovery Of gold on the Anvn and
adjacent fggings WAS originally made in
1885 by two prospectors named Hackberg
and Blake. Not being able to do much
work that fail the two came out for the
winter. Huckberg came BY way ~ Colo
vim hay. where he communicated his i'm
formation 90 q. ". Price representing
Charles Lane al san Francisco, and
others. among whom were IludeEberz
Lndhiom. BrinstFVm ard kjellsherg.
They formed party. went 10 the Nome
creeks. and located all they could. start
ing great winters stampede FOR Nome.
These we're the claims on which Nome
district was organized October g. 1855
After informing the Price party al Col
OWN bay of The md Huckberg had con-
unued on out Of Alaska 70 his old home
lu Sweden. and returned on the FIRST boat
In the summer Of is,a. 20 hud himself rich
In the locations made FOR him by his
friends His old partner Blake. not be-
ing In with that party returned after the
FIRST excitement and found the most val
liable claims had been stake1. Yet Il ia
understood THAI Blake stin succeeded in
securing valuable ground.
There il stan another story that also
seems probable: The LaplanAers. from
long life Ia the north are accustomed to
seeing gold and knowing IL when they see
H. ana Il is believed that they first found
The riches OF Nome and Informed the
Swedes and others. who seem 70 have
formed the first expedition TO locate.
A Dawson paper gives this account OF
the discovery.
1T was Hultherg. a Lutheran mission
airy, who first learned OF the presence of
gold about Cape Nome from the Eskimos.
His mission Is stationed az Golovin bay.
1 and he notified the Swedes L.inderaerE
and Lindh.om. Brtns~iiu and lhc Hasa
| lesn brothers. who IN turn saw G. W.
Prizes, and induced hun 10 ga along, a.