Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1900-08-09
Harry rlalIison Returned.

I
here last Saturday morning, having
sailed from Nome on the Goth OF
July. He does not bring very
glowing accounts from that section.
In fact, thinks it the biggest fake
ever started by transportation conn
panies. Admitting that great
deal of gold is coming down from
Nome does not prove the richness
of the mines. Put $4,000 men at
mining along Snake river and
though they made but small wages
it would aggregate a large sum
and such is the case at Nome beach
to day.
Mr.. Zaspel returned ON the same
steamer with Mr.. Madison, but
Captain Whitney, Charlie Howeth,
Elmer Smith, Andy Griffin, Avery,
Helmer and Metcalf will remain
and try their luck while longer.
Mr.. Madison believes there will
be great suffering at Nome from
poverty alone, and it is his opinion
that the government must come to
the relief of thousands who are
stranded there and unable to get
away.
Harry expresses great pleasure
at again being in his Mountain
Home, and yet he does not regret
his great experience and outlay of
funds on his trip to the land Of the
midnight sun that he left a few
weeks ago.
When Mr. Madison left Seattle,
passage was 1925. Now one can
go by the same steamers for $25,
but it costs cool 500 to get back
from Nome to Seattle.
Bill Dial, formerly of this county,
is in Nome. He is not Furnishing
and does not hold federal position,
as he represented when he passed
through this place a few months
ago on his way to Alaska.
We are indebted to Mr.. Madison
for copies of the Nome Daily News
of July IL and IA, also a copy of
the Arctic Weekly Sun, printed at
Nome. They are both neat anG
well edited papers of six columns
to the page. The daily is furnished
at % cents copy or $35 year,
and the weekly at 81 % per month
or $40 a yeat. We copy a few
items from these papers:
The Sun sends out this note OF
warning: 1.-THE local press owes a
duty to humanity to give the out
side world warning that Nome and
vicinity is no place for people to
come to in search of employment or
to better their condition. 1t takes
time, money and mining experience
to secure foothold in this nothern
country. There has beeu an over
rush to the camp and many Of the
late arrivals are stranded, without
mcney and friends, and with no
show to secure employment. So it
is well that people coming here
should know the condition of affairs
and be provided with sufficient
funds to carry them through the
year, if they hope to make success
in mining ventures
The News has these items:
Judging from the number of sa-
looms running and about to be OPEN
ed, the thirst for water filled with
mierobe germs will not increase to
an alarming extent.
A problem is confronting the peo-
pie of Nome which, unless taken in
hand at once and Immediately at
tended to, may assume such pro-
portions and become so serious as
to threaten the very existence of
the camp. This problem is the
disposition which shall be made of
the INDECENT ones of this community,
whose numbers are daily, yes hour
ly, increasing. Already there is
percentage of penniless people in
the camp that is out of all proper
ton to the population of the town
and, unless steps are at once taken
to provide for them untold misery
and hardship will result.
There are any number of char
acters in Nome who only need
little darkness and the absence of
soldier law to turn themselves loose,
and make the name of the camp
bye-word for lawlessness and sub
ject of jest for our cousins over the
border.
Frank Wright, formerly of Seat
tie, who has been running a 30-ton
plant with ten men on the beach
for the last two weeks, said this
morning that the highest cleanup
had been 1882 and the lowest $73.
you may safely say" he said with
that none of the ma
chine men are making anything.
The beach is better proposition
for rockers run by hand than for
the big plants because the gold is
in pot holes, and man who is not
handicapped with heavy outfit
can move around wherever he finds
pay"
A nugget worth $14 Sc was found
yesterday, about seven miles up the
beach. 1t was unearthed foot be-
low the surface. The finders were
d. E. Hughes, formerly of Law
renceville, Ills, and e. N. Bowen,
of Denver, Colo.