Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-08-28
and costly devices for working the beach

and costly devices for working the beach
sands will be seem.
II made several trips down to the Colo
win bay district where Dick Watson and
Ballou are located. They were preparing
tor winter when 1 left. Peter Wilson a
saloonman of Helena who went to that
country in 1873 r%ecentlyy sold his interest
IN three or four claims there for $50, 900.
The recorder of the district is a Butte wo-
man-Mrs. Alexander, whose husband is
in the employ of the Alaska Commercial
Co. John Noyes ST., is at Nome. He is
waiting to settle some litigation in which
he is involved over a mining claim before
leaving for Butte.
The Noyes' are operating a rich strip
of ground on Nakkila gulch. Frank Du-
rand formerly of New Chicago ana
Philipsburg is also interested in the
same ground. 1t is immensely rich and
paid $1,000 a day, when water had to be
packed 400 yards to operate the rockers.
Chas. Gable of Butte and Lump Gulch is
on the same creek, being interested with
Mr.. Conrad of Helena who has Just re-
turned home. This claim is also report
ed to be very rich. Tom Noyes will re-
main there all winter. Ed. Lynch who
was working for SIS a day has joined his
brother John, who was prospecting in the
foothills for quartz. 1t is believed they
have discovered some rich quartz leads.
A. T. Mcmillan is conducting a saloon.
Lee Little is in a fair way to make some
money. A law suit over some valuable
real estate was decided in his favor re-
Gently. Col. John Doyle and Frank Cary
are at Nome, but are not doing any
thing. James Brown. formerly of the
firm of Kirkendal & Brown has a lay on
a claim on Golovin.
II believe that many Of the men who
remain there this winter will make mon
ey. Many of them have already settled
1nyryyo or,1 l-rv1 -
around Golovin bay. This is a pretty
country and I think it will be a rich min
eral country when Nome is an abandoned
city. There are fifty-nina claims above
Discovery all of which are rich. Cape
Nome prices, however, do not prevail
here. Milk was selling at 81 a quart and
four beef steers driven from Dawson sold
for s., 300. 1t was the first fresh beef
seen in that country
Mr.. Clerke will probably resume his old
position with the M. j. Connell Co., for
the winter.
DR.. G. V. Norcross also returned this
morning. He says there nave not been
more than 800 men at work in the placers
near Nome, and that the beach diggings
have been worked three times and are
exhausted. The Butte men, he says,
have generally been out of luck. A. T.
Mcmillan who went up there with $780,
600 has lost most of it. Lawrence Harris
has a LAY" on a claim and may come
back with a stake. The main trouble is
about titles each location having from
three to half a dozen alleged owners. The
doctor, himself, has some property from
which he expects good results next
spring. He left some men at work on his
grounds. Nearly all the money! at Nome
came from the Klondike. He believes the
government will have to bring nearly 1U,-
600 men away from Nome in order to
avoid great suffering this winter. The
greatest drawback is the lack of harbor
| facilities. Every storm wrecks much of
the shipping that can not put to sea.