The Saint Paul globe., 1900-04-29

gravel on my claim on Anvil Creek
| slu1ced with the help Of three hired menl
over seventy pounds of gold, worth near
Iy $4,000. declined to sell my claim te
n. y. Eak1ns & Co., of Los Angeles, fo1
$S0,OOO 1 believe 1t will yield me fully
$4,000 in gold annually for six or seven
years.
Il prof1ted by the experience Of the
pioneers in the Klondike region, and in
| vested my gold in other placer claims on
| ne1ghboring creeks and have leased two
claims on the sandy beach at Nome All
my investments have been extraordinari-
ly lucky. One beach claim I bought last
July for ten pounds of gold and sold
1t two weeks later for fifty pounds of
gold. 1t seemed at first when 1 began
to store away my gold every night last
summer that I must be dreaming all my
success after years of toll and hardship.
mad boarded some 100 pounds of gold
by August /. 1t was months before I
really came to realize that was actually
possessor of fortune many times larger
than 1 had ever imagined would be my
own
Belongs companions were frequently
as lucky as himself.
II heard" said Belding, "of a man
narned Sloan, from Vancouver, who, with
one helper, cleaned up $4,000 in six weeks.
He brought down on the Portland with
him in July over $4,000 IN gold. When T
was at Glacier Creek last September I
saw a pile of gold that had been taken
out the week before l got there. Three
Englishmen, Manchester, Phibbs and
Drummond, owned the gold. They were
working on Snow Creek, and sank a flf-
teen foot hole in the gravel ten feet from
the water. They kept striking it richer
as they went down. Well, at & depth Of
twelve feet, they ran into the richest
| dirt l ever saw. For two weeks they
could work few hours a day, when
every pan was worth 81, and sometimes a
shovelful of gravel ran over S125. Just
! few days before I heard OF this the
Englishmen had worked in gold that
went 81 to the pan. The men are there
yet, and the last 1 heard from them,
which was In June, they were each max
ing over $1,000 week. They have all
their gold there still, and It must be q
large fortune by this time.
But these are cases only that know
of personally. If L were to tell all I have
! heard of, it would fill several columns Of
q newspaper. z..-.-,
There can be no doubt that the Capo
Nome golden placers are the richest ever
| found up to date. That whole region is
going to astopish the world l have
heard dozen of veteran miners and men
who have made the geology of mining a
study Of years say that the Cape Nome
placers will probably yield over $25, ,OOO, coo
in gold this year. Why, Klondike is mo-
where nearly so rich as Cape Nome!
Hundreds of men who mined in the Klon-
dixie have already gone to Cape Nome
Every one at Cape Nome made money
last summer. 1 don't know how 1t will
be next summer, when thousands of In
experienced, hard-up fellows have
stampeded there from all over the world.
But marvelously rich as Cape Nome is in
gold, 1t has a frightful climate for even
the toughest people to live in. It is con-
structive suicide for any one of weak
physique and delicate health to attempt
TO live few months there. If ever there
was a region where pneumonia prevails,
1t IS Cape Nome. One year up there racks
| the hardest constitution, and two years
will wreck any constitution but the most
adamantine. The wind blows a hurricane
all the time 1 have known 1t to blow
for three weeks straight from one direc-
| ton so hard that it seemed as If tho
whole landscape would be carried away.
There can be no more trying climate
for nerves. There were several cases of
nervous insanity among the few women
at Nome last summer. The Kansas farms
have been typically lonely spots for all
Americans but they are picnic grounds
by the side of the utterly lonely, God
forsaken regions where men dig gold on
the coast of Alaska.
What am | going to do with my
money? Well, it has all come to me so
! suddenly and 1 am so unused to the pcs
session of wealth that have but a vague
idea Of what 1 am going to do when I
have got all the money 1 can out of Cape
| Nome. There's one thing 1 shall do very
; soon, and that is to help my two sisters
| and my crippled brother who were living
| in poverty III Paterson, N. J., when
| last heard from them, some four years
| ago."