Evening journal., 1900-01-25
GOLDEN BEACH
Like a Chapter From the Ara
bian Nights.
WEALTH OF CAPE NOME
New Faets About the Golden Sands
---lsasyson VIII BE About Deserted
The Country All staked for Miles
Cost. Of Food and Fuel.

OCSL OF F6St aiA
who solves the riddle Of the Cape
Nome ,each sands. gold laden beyond
the drea. ms OF. the most avaricious, says
a. corrosp ondent of the st. Louis Globe
Democrat. viii earn enduring fame and
,he gratiti ide OF the hundreds OF pros
pectors W. 10 will search durlnf, the
coming yea.s the low mountains be RIDER
ing the Arc Tic Ocean and Behrin x Sea
| Tor the mother lode" The off spring
| Of this 'motrAer lode" are the plac brs OF
Snake River, Nome River, Anvil Creek
and n score OF other streams Dor derine
Retiring Sea and the Arctic Gee ,n, 1875
miles north of ST. Michael, 200 miles
northwest OF the Yukon's mouth.
| tits easy 10 toll the truth about Cape
| Nome but a very hard thing 10 make
people believe You are not indulg ing in
the widest flights OF fancy or the
Arabian Nights order. However, 1t
bonnened that such very wel-l tnown
army officers MS M.eJor Philip Ra y and
Captafn Walker. who were statiolned in
Alaska last summer, made a Thorough
investigation of the higgings, and their
reports at Washington substalntlate
! everything that is eRid Ia this article.
/ But probably the ,bdst proof Of Jail of
Il the wonderful Cape home sands. irher =
rold was as free as the air to over'30IO
j., stranded miners last summer, lies An
the sacks OF the yellow stun which
have been brought down during the
past three months and sold TO U hcle
sam through the government assay Of
fee at Seattle. rl
Z Aesayer Wing estimates that at least
$500 900 in Cope Nome gold has beer de-
posted with him this fall, whilel the
records of the transportation COM
z nanles show that as much morcl has
= been disposed OF through other so nrces,
or sent to San Francisco.
Y The discoveries OF the Cape Nome
g district were Peter 'iLinderberg. John
}, Tdnibloom and Jbhan Bfapdso1 .t1fe
D first two We're sailors on the INHALER
al Alaska. Becoming dissatisfied with
their lot, in August, 1898, they deserted.
landing on the beach near Cape Nome,
on Norton Sound. They hid Tor a few
DAYS and then were taken into camp,
, hungry and worn, by the tribe Of Es-
u kImos. A few days later they canoed
n IN the Snake River on little pros
o pecting trip, The result was that
II IAnderberg and I.indbloom found gold
/ bearing gravel on a shallow bedrock
s, on the bed OF creek entering Snake
l. River. They rocked out over S5,eoO on
le the second day, when they had laid out
stl their GLAZING They kept their secret
ST for n few days, brought in some of
,e their countrymen from Port Clarence.
In and then organized the district. Since
Al that day they have located claims all
nj over the district, which is thirty miles
n square 1t is estimated that each one
- OF the three discoveries of Cape Nome
AZ has taken out upwards OF 100000 since
their lucky find was made.
~ The romance about Cape Nome
III however, lies in the discovery Of gold
sn in the beach sands. In June, this year
n the camp numbered not over 800 peo-
IT, nle. Late in the month steamers from
Dawson brought hundreds OF miners
down the Yukon bound outside hav-
he ing found mining in the interior un-
er profitable. They camped in tents or
of the beach at Nome, waiting FOR Tho
3. steamers to take them 10 Seattle. Hal
Al. OF them had barely enough money t,
m pay their passage. The rest were pre-
w. pairing. to work their way 10 Seattle
- one day, one OF the miners in a ten
-. accidentally found gold colors in sane
81 beneath his tent. He seized a pan. ant
y, with the sea water PANIED dozeI
eI' pans full OF the dirt. The deeper n
an went into the moist beach the highe
ny grew the number of 'colors. In al
sh- hours work he found pay streak
with pans averaging 1oc to i5c. Tha
settled IL. The next day sluice boxes
men with pans and shov3s,were thicl
Of on the beach as flies around a molas
Or aes barrel In n country store.
l12 For weeks the beach fairly swarme,
the with men. All made wages OF s. up L
for $50 per day. All who were working a
on wages IN the little City OF Anvil. nov
ns- called Nome, threw mp their position
cal. and went 10 paning gold on the beach
cut The deposits lay I'm a 60-foot strip be
.ay- tween low and high tide, reserved b
re- the government 1t was free 10 all VIII
ia came. There was no stalking OF claims
az as no TILE could pass from the govern
his lment.
"' At one time there were over 800
men at work. on the beach. The steam
crs that came from Seattle with miner
bound for Dawson, for tho Koyulkul
VIA cd their passengers at Nome. Soon III
country was stalIed FOR miles. III
ON steamers two months later bega
per- bringing the beach miners to seattl
ola Instead OF coming down from the mort
~ with empty pockets. all had none
on,- The individual amounts ran from a fe
.ov, hundred 10 10000 Great excitemei
no -, reigned among north-bound miner
= -, and returning steamers went ava
~. - with every foot OF space occupied
- - passengers and men.
Vi out OF space OF ground 20 fe
square on Anvil Creek two miners TO,
900 in day. Back TO the hills WEI
'in's the prospectors. over the tundra,
which they found colors. In the sprii
20 an effort win be made TO find the mot
1lso err lode, from which, IL is supposed
rect the miners, glaciers ground down Il
iark, gold bearing rocks into the sea ag
niger ago. dcpositing their precious conten
more, on the sands for American miners
gent, find at the dawn OF the twentieth cel
d, d. tury. Nome is typical mining camp
gent, Alaska. Half Of the people viii live n
r ad- winter in tents. Every article of TO-
neral Is dear. Wages are $40 per day and u
Hundreds have already gone to ,Da'
son TO winter. expecting to take Z
!. first boats for the new mining fields
Dela- the spring. beating the all-Eater rou
\ its several weeks.