Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1900-07-28

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The disappointed miners navigating
eastward from Nome City are prospect
ing - fxr ~ st. Mtchacls, but no dis
coveries Of any Importance have been
reported except near the mouths OF
Solomon and Topkok creeks. To visit
one Of these places II like going into y
gambling room and watching y game.
A few are making . stake, and then
there IL . little city OF tents whose oc-
cupants are just knocking around the
hills and the beach. Some ure working
vigorously ~ near the rich claims -
they can get. Following up some OF the
creeks one can aud c0nsidernb BILE gold |
Ia grsins the size Of rice, but In xll |
cases 1t IL staked or. and generally |
there Is NO water, 20 the prospector |
moves on.
There are scores OF boats TO be seen
every dsy, and where there IL strip
Of beach containing . little gold sos0e
fellows will be found working, gener-
ally waiting for the rainy season 70 put
water 10 the creeks or to get \ little
money for buying supplies. In some
places perpendicular ellis rise for miles
along the SEA and Il IL impossible to
mako = landing In such places, but
nature has bean good to u and reserv-
ed her storms. Wherever there 10 .
beach line there are great wind rows
Of drift-wood sometimes . hundred feet
10 width. The rise and fall Of the tide
and the ceaseless surge OF the pillows
makes landing more or less trouble
come everywhere, and sometimes .
boat Rets swxmped and the boys may
b. feen fishing groceries out OF the
brine, and trying 70 keep their boat
from being pounded 70 pieces. At
night We unload the b0ats and beach
them. The tundra Joins the beach or
the cliffs everywhere and the moment
one sinks : shovel into It he strikes
frost, except 10 the gulches where it II
mot covered with moss. In some places
one can get water to supply . rocker
by digging little we'll In the frozen
ground.
The cliffs bordering the sea are COW
cred with moss. Except ou the perpen-
dicular sides, and IL has the appear
ance Of = gay-coiored carpet On the
sides are the meets Of the small north
ern ses-gulis. They place all their
nests out OF the reach OF everything
but winged creatures, aud In some local.
tiles the face Of the cliffs is speckled
with them for miles, while hundreds Of
acres Of the sea are covered with gulls
Passing along near the cliffs the boat
man finds himself under y great bevy
OF them squalling and screeching like
. lot Of old machinery that is being
operated without oil. In some places
great monuments rise out OF the ocean
10 front OF the cliffs, and the action oil
the waves has worn away the bases till
they resemble the Balanced Rock In
the Garden Of the Gods. In one case 4
tunuel 10 worn through such . section
OF cliff aud taking it and the adjacent
cliffs and the hsxy sea, 1t seems . re
production Of the picture OF the Nor
densjold coast of Norway. As we &c
farther east, the cliffs are Of more strik.
Jog dimensions. and the opportunities
for landing are fewer. People coming
from the eastward say there is nothing
desirable 10 that direction and . gen.
eral scarcity OF water.
Fires may be seen everywhere burn
ing the moss on the tundra and the
whole landscape is smoky and dreary'
looking. II \ man should take notion
J 70 get home-sick amid such surround
ing, all nature would held the disorde,
} 70 run It's course. BYRD.