The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-09-02
CARTER RETURNS FROM NOME
MANAGER ALASKA MINING COM
PANY AT HOME.
Thinks the Northern Country WI.
Yet Produce Some Good Mines,
But he Didn't Strike AIRY.


Gradually the Utahns who went to
seek fortune in the sands of Cape
Nome are drifting back home.
The latest arrivals are A. +. Carter,
his two sons. Harry and Morris; Ed
Bell, George Mullen and William Hau5-
lam, who reached Salt Lake yesterday.
William Pilgerrin, who came with the
party as far as Seattle. is expected
here this morning.
Mr.. Carter left for Nome last sp4'ing
as manager for the Alaska Gold Min
ing company, composed largely of Salt
Lake citizens. He went into the camp
with one of the finest outfits of ma
chiHery that landed in the diggingS,
but on account of the delays that un-
fortunately came up, the plant was
only operated for a limited time before
Mr.. Carter sailed for home. The COM
pany owns a large group of claims:
the assessment work for the year had
to be done, and for that reason the
ground could not be prospeeted to bed
rock. consequently the value of the
territory acquired by the Alaska COM
pany was not fully determined. But
everything was put in shape for next
years work. ana before the country
freezes up the belongings of the cor
pOTatiOn will be housed in the build
1ngS erected recently, and Charley
Horsfall and Ben PiersOn will remain
IN charge during the coming winter.
The management was turned over
temporarily to P. A Smell, who will re-
turn to the states with w. c. Buck
and wife, and probably r. H. Nichols
of Murray, about Oct. 1. Mr.. Smell will
bring with him the first cleanup from
the cOmpany's plant on the beach.
While Cape Nome has been a great
disappointment, Mr.. Carter is still of
the opinion it viii make a good camp
after the great bulk of people leave.
He says there are a, few good mines;
Charley Lane, the California mining
man, has some good properties along
Anvil creek. At present there is not
room for more than $500 people to en-
joy prosperity. A great many of the
best propositions are tied up with liti-
cation, and 1t will take at least a year
to clear up titles.
Charley Lane has recently put in
water system at Nome City. The sup
ply is taken out of Anvil creek, and is
the puTeSt kind of water. Citizens of
the town are using il, at a reasonable
rental, which will be the means of pre-
venting the prevalence of disease this
fall and winter from the use of well
water.
e. G. Rognon is one of the Salt Lake
contingent that has prospered. He
made money out of his steam launch
and had bargained to sell it for $4,000;
but the day before the delivery was 20
have been made the craft was wrecked
so ROgnon did not receive his price
The Nome Review, his newspaper, has
been a paying proposition <-
Mr.. Carter estimates that fully $780,
600 worth of machinery was landed on
the beach which was never set up In
most instances the men who brought it.
in had no titles to ground to put it up
on.
Had the gold discover ies been made
few months earlier in 1899. Mr.. Car
ter is confident the ma ! rush to Nome
would not have occurred.
It will be recalled the finds were
made shortly before the ground froze
up, and no time was had to determine
the extent of the gold bearing stratas.
Outside of 300 feet of the tundra, no
values are found. The beach is pretty
well worked out and gold was only
found over short strip of the beach
on each side of Nome tGwnsite.