The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-07-16
Brpoklyn Ean's Estimate OF the Al
ia legged Eldorado, 81
8coAs1'.l {: S !; 0]vERWORKED.
Prices High For Everything and No
Gold Dust in ctrcuihtion-warn-
ins to lNeWco,uers-Al.vil Creek
the Richest. Z
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trustwoEthlness Of the story told by Mr..
Rudolph and suggests Its publication
1t Is becoming daily more apparent to
the officials that the conditions in the
new gold Stlelds are almost certain 10
result in great suffering during the
!. coming winter, especially as epldemlcs
Of Smallpox and typhoid fever are
threatened The letter q us follows:
ION account Of the terrible reports
in the newspapers concerning the con-
ditions at Cape Nome, + take the liberty
OF sending you a few liness st left Nome
on June 20, and, being an old miner. I
am fully capable OF stslng Up a new
mining camp in q few days. arrived
at Nome on June 70. NJ, partner and I
tried working the beacl, for gold In
several places, and personally saw
others by the hundreds 40 the same
but not in one INSTANCE tlil VIC see n
man take out enough gold to pay for
his grub. The only place. where any
gold was being taken off Vas between
the beach and the tundra There they
were only making days wages Of from
s7ItoEslO a day. 3.
Nearly Worked, Out.
This place Is only aH6Ie three-qnar-
tiers OF a mile long, and 1t is all taken
up by about FIVE hundred men. Like
the beach. it, Is now Neatly all worked
ont. l, with thousands ;ot others. had
been led to believe that..atlel a winter
81 after any storm the beach would he.
5dstIas good as II was Originally. THAT
IL not 50. When once. $orlted OUT the
Beach there is done for!esNEhile at Nome
I talked with men who had come from
points. as far as fifty tniles below the
camp. They told me t!iey had found
nothing, and; they wereGoirs further
north. talked, too, with men who
had come from points :at- DIP the beach,
but they declared there, was nothing up
there. and they were sdpG down the
beach. So it seems tlu.t the whole
stretch is nearly all worked out.
Now, concerning the ltreeks, Anvil
Creek Is the richest. Having sprained
{ my knee, could not go up. but my
partner went the full length of it, look :.
ing for work or for q. lay. He could get
neither, for at that tirnc-1ule 15--tLe
creeks were still frozen. Drill. that lie
/ could discover was five miners there
were beginning to strip-thnt Is, take
off the top layer of moss=;-nnd loose
earth. which Is left to dry, while. they
begin again in another place. Mean
while the flrstShole would be thawed
Z out. by that meansT:hey mahagcd to-
work alternate holes. There Is no.
wood In Nome, as there isainEf the Klon.
dixie, and Goa! Is $50 a ton j6njthe beach,
while, the cost OF refrelshting it over to
the: Anvil Creek Is twelve cents &
pound. You can figure, how rich. the
ground must be to stand|sacA costs OF
mining. 'sssg. sue
No one estimates that more than
three hundred hands arc,oat work on
Anvil Creek, with as mary more ench
onlsnow. Glacier, and Dexter Creeks. q
total OF perhaps l.598 fnennsWhcn left
10000 men We're In the district, and the
. only work was in unloading or putting
up new buildings. The former tasks
kept about five hundred, men busy aud
the building employed ahout three hun
dred. When l left. on Tune 70. between
five hundred and one Thousand were ar.
irving daily. went on the Gan Bias,
which made q trip on 10 St Michn:l
and brought down three hundred men
The Aberdeen, on which I came hack,
made two trips, ind brought few
over five hundred. Several other bonts
made one or more trips5to st. Michael
and brought more. I.4rf
=, There are far more destitute people
at Nome than people on the outside
know Of. know that the San Bias
Ind storage b,:nlss numbered up to
300. and over one hundred were in the
cabin, while there were also about
twenty stownways. on the Aberdeen
they told me that they hpd about TWEEN
t. stowaways, and no doubt every boat
/, had o great many stownwnys. spol.c
to dozens or men, and theyEtold me that
they had no food. but expected TO so to
work when they reached Nome.
Provisions Exceedingly High.
"A meal costs from $ifto 81 50. coffee
I md pie or three crullers twenty five
cents. Il bed from 81 to So, or when you
furnish your own blankets, from 81 to
81 So Canned goods are Nifty cents q
can. bread twenty-five cents O loaf
+ fresh meats from seventy-nve cents to
81 u pound and other things In proper.
ton. For water. the cUsr was twenty.
five cents for four buckets. and wood
was nearly Nil son,. except: at a point,
serera, miles down the beach. Even
the little to be found there was half
rotten and water soaked. Goal oil Is 81
casc. and III .iber sl5O }for dry and
S125 for green per thousa..d. nnG Is
scarce at tE.,.f The water wells l saw
were from twelve to fifteen. feet dee.
and arr sure to be contaminated by all
OF these people being huddled together
When left there were tents
twenty deep and about three miles long
Nov, you don't want to forget that It
took i"ore than 1fty vessels to bring all
OF thee people to Nome. to. say nothing
OF over 1000 coming from tho Yukon
country. There are no Inducements for