The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-03-07

The principal occupation OF the mining
communities of Northern Alaska during
the winter is stampeding. The scene of
the latest excitement on the faraway
Boring sea coast was above Cape York,
along the Anakvick ana Linden rivers.
Advices from Cape York under date OF
November Is say:
"a meeting was held November 10 to
straighten out town affairs. II. S. Me-
Donal was elected town recorder. The
main street will be 100 feet wide and the
lots 100 feet deep. The fee for recording
Is 81. All lots staked prior to November
10 without parties recording them are open
for relocation.
THE prospects In the Arctic mining dis
trict. the new district over the divide
from York, run as high as 50 cents a pan.
No prospecting can be done on this side
OF the divide for at least GO days. There
will be considerable done when the
weather permits"
In the Bonanza district. drained by
Bonanza, Eldorado ana Solomon rivers
and tributaries. good reports had come to
Nome concerning big strike In coarse
gold. which has caused a large stampede.
Estimates of GuIch CIean-up.
Several of the gulch clean-ups OF last
year have been pretty carefully checked
up. and make the following showing:
No. ! below on Anvil yielded In four
months siuicing $4,000. 1t was four to
five feet to bedrock.
Discovery on Anvil yielded $4,000 In
three weeks; No. above, $4,000; No. 4.
81. 600: No. s, $4,000 on No. 6 the pay
streak was not found. No. produced
$50 900: No s, $4,000.
Nicola gulcn also proved rich and had
claims among them that yielded thou
sands.
The largest nugget, from No. below on
af
sinking holes In the ice out from the beach
In December to test the ocean bottom for
gold The work had just begun on De-
cember ..
Cummings. II is said, took the biggest
pile from the beach curing the season,
and realized $4,000.
Prospecting Through the Ice.
Considerable prospecting will be carried
on this winter at Nome Many miners
have an idea. whether tenable or other
wise prospecting only VIII determine, that
at and below low water mark the richest
sands win be found. Therefore as soon
as the ice is solidy frozen TO the bottom
OF the shore they will vegrn prospecting,
and their work will be watched with
much interest, inasmueh 1t will tend
to solve a much vexed question as TO the
origin Of the gold in the Nome beach
sands
Prospecting I'm the tundra warrants the
belief that Il Is impregnated with gold in
much the same manner as the beach.
Tundra prospecting has not yet been
carried on extensively, owing TO the diff
Guilty of sinking to bedrock without being
swamped by water, The ground Is found
frozen an unknown depth just the same
as In the l<londike, and II II should prove
rich, an area Of country win be develop
ed that will be greater than a score OF
klondikes rolled into one From what has
already been done. It Is reasonable to
predict that most OF the tundra will
prove very rich Big prospects have been
found in dozens OF places right at the
grass roots. but the weather has not Vet
been cold enough to enable the cleaning
up Of the bedrock. Work In progress viii
demonstrate the value of the tundra.
Taking Out winter Dump..
Many men are engaged in rocking and
taking out dumps for the spring Jack
Underwood and James Freeman are TAX
ing out a dump six miles west OF Nome
which Underwood estimates VIII average
twenty-eight cents to the pan, Numbers
are prearing 20 prospect the beach be-
tween here and Penny river and to take
out dumps during the winter.
Contrary TO the general opinion. Il is
believed the beach can be worked the
greater part OF the winter without burn
inx The work VIII be slow but the quail
ity Of the dirt. Il Is thought. Will enable
fair wages 70 he made.
Some 81 the finds on the Nome beach
have been phenomenal Nuggets worth "a
high Is S1G have been found. while those
worth from 81 10 s. each have been com
mon Men who could not make AT least
SIS dAS counted the ground poor and SO
= day was considered not worth wasting
time on. As much as s9o a day 20 the
man was taken out. and not a few In
stances are reported where two men rock.
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