The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-03-25

attend to last summer. There, are two young
men, Harry p. Foster and Charles Y; Reynolds,
graduates OF Leland Stanford and Pennsyl'
vania University respectively who have already
made fortunes in real estate deals. The whole
site Of Nome could have prompted from the Gov
eminent for nothing two years ago Io-tay
sss p'1 ,Ssre ' ssil s Si 81 "a E ZEE, '"f Tnsss lo Ssu sold Id last Isss
May for $1,000
One successful man at Cape Nome is Alher,
McDufv, He was born In Hoboken, \. j., about
hfty years ago, and was a Bowery saloonktep per
for years. He says he is . cousin Of the late
Harry Hill Of New York. For ten years h. has
run faro and roulette gambling nails in Seattle
and Butte City. lie took about $1,000 10 Cap
Nome and opened the Royal Bengal saloon
HIS gambling palace ~ not 81 gorgeous as one
might infer from the name, but II Is a wonderful,
m~onaymakcr. 1t is n low, one story affair OF
pine board walls half tn way up and rough sawed
pine bpards for the upper walls and roof. It's
Interior ARA is 3Oy 10 feet. Mud and moss a foot
thick coat the roof for III" sake Of warmth within
about the log walls, The bar and tables are ,n
painted. The glassware back OF McpntS's bar
Is NE most dazzling IN all Nome, II consists
oftwo cheap mirrors and about thr'." dozen com
mon bar glasses. The whole could b" bought
anywhere in the States for So. The rent of tn
establishment, is. 500 n week, or six ounces
OF gold, and the landlord has been lamenting all
winter tina, he had toolishly given a lease for such
Q beggarly sum.
Money lending at Nome is a great business.
and several people who learned the tricks ui the
business a, lawson are making lots Of money.
They never lend over SlOO, and the extrem" life
Of a loan there Is thirty days, So a man turns
his ca pital over every four weeks al good profit.
The established Interest, rate is 10 per cent, a
month. But when there il some element Of risk
involved. and the borrower be'rayS his urgent
desire 10 get money, Is and 20 per cent q month
Quoted from The loan when II is made. have
known ignorant miners 10 give n bag ~ gold
dus, as security for a 500 loan, and then pay
10 per cent. interest in advance on the loan.
"ihe richest part II the CAPE Nome gold field
Is the nrighbOrhood of .Nnyil, snow and
Dexter creeks. bq, the PROSPECTING Of nex,
summer will undoubtedly reveal some rlch grave.
In localities where II l. now least suspected. ANVIL
Creek has he very richest gravel known there
Wy =" the time came down tie coast, The
original Nome claims were made there, and the
pioneers. lindholm, ByfnSicin and l.indetfrtg.
choa. wisely, for they shipped from their four
claims on Anvil creek 10 san Francis co last year
gold that paid them S26i ,OS. ] happened that
way one evening last July and ] saw four pounds
and nine ounces Of golo that had been sluiced
there during the seven hours pmvi"nS. MI Of
these three Nome pioneers could not have raised
$500 between them = year and a half ago, \
Swedish Lutheran missionary named Carlson
owns the richest claim on Snow , te'k. lie has
not developed his property any where nearly "a
rapidly aS ms neiChborN nave theirs, hut he took
out about 81. 100 in u few weeks last year, and he
intends to spend every cent 81 Il ~ improvements
to his property this year. r. !. Lying, q nati,"
Of RpcheSter, y. \, and for years superintendent
In tha Alaska Commercial Company, owus claim
No, BON Dexter 'reck, and from Jul" TO Sepien
1P1 lUNl, If t'hk ou' 40 UllIIlN ~ gnu lIiul wv
gTaye!ly bench lie bought the claim for $500
rom a di henrtened. hom"Nick man, and in less
than sixty days {. d.. Lane Of san Francisco
offered him SiO, 900 for the property,
Il, Is almost useless "a warn u man who has
the in,s,iate hunger for gold within him To keep
away from such "A wonderful region Of gold a.
Cape Nome. hut all the stories Of hardship, SUI
fering, starvation and freezing that cam" out
from the klundik" when thousands IF men rushed
there two years ago will as surely come frOm Nome.
All III" arnlngS Of old time miners 10 tendefie"t
TO keep away rom the .hrctlC mining camp, IN
1873 had no effect, and there have since been spme
very piiiful experiences Of deludcl men up there.
Nevertheless, wish to urge every one hut the
strongest and most robust not To- tempt Providence
by going IN Cap Nome 10 mine gold, Nowhere
in all Alaska does the wind blow harder and colder
than At Nome. In the winter II tonnes from north
west across BehtlnE Sea, ana 50 strong that no
vegetation has ever grown In It's face but the
ArctiC moss that cover, the marShN lands all
over cape Nome. lfthe men who are abandoning
fairly good incomes. and leaving homes, families
and friends to 70 Ia CHpe Nome To yet rich ot dig
and how little chance Il '.nderfoot has in q STAN
p'de into now gold fields alongside " experienced
gold seekers. they would give the matter moro
consideration. Long before any of them can
now gct 10 the Cape Nome region all who ore now
there viii have searched very thoroughly over
the unclaimed localities themselves and IN nine
cases out ui ten the cream Of the gold-strevn gravel
benches will have been Clsimed. The hloudike
people have estimated that about Sl4,0oD.O oJ
was spent by 10000 men in going to klOndike,
and In Transporting goods there in 1898. Tho
gold output Of kloruiike in the same year was
only s., 200. 900 more than was spent"