The Nome nugget., 1901-10-22
Twenty-Five Hundred People
 Have Recently Left.
HOW MANY REMAIN?
The Nuggets Estimate for Nome Is 1000 Seven Thousand Souls in This Entire Section Remarks as to the Closing of Navigation.

The exodus from Nome the past six weeks has been heavy. Probably nc less than 20OO persons left this section last week: another 300 will follow on the Queen, due to sail today. That makes total of 25O0 in less than q week. A number of sailing vessels have also taken out number of pass engers and it i> probably safe to say that the last fleet of steamer, and sailing vessels have carried sOuthward 5000 people.
 The next question that confront $ those who will remain in Nome this winter is: How many people will win ter here? The estimates are many and are widely divergent. Last winter probably 45O0 people, men, women and children, made up the population of Nome and it's immediate vicinity: and in the entire peninsula there were probably 1000 souls. exclusive of the military detachment al Fort Davis.
 There are more school children in Nome this winter than ever before, but this is merely indicative of the fact that many men have sent for their wives and families.
 From careful estimate made by the NUGGET it is believed that NOme's population this winter will he at least 40OO. In this estimate is included those residing in the immediate vicin- ity of Nome but outside the city limits. This estimate shows q falling of in the population since last winter of 500
 In the winter of lS99- 1900 the popula- ton of Nome was estimated at 25OO. 1t certainly did not exceed 5000.
 Approximately speakin. there are as many people in this entire section as there were last winter. Tellers's population perhaps has dwindled some what, but the number of people in the Kotzebue sound country have notably increased. In Fairhaven district, in which the new town on the Keewalik, at the mouth of Candle creek, is sit uated, there are as far as can be ascer- tained at least 400 people. Council City district will have as many people as last winter, aud so will Bluff and other places along the coast, east and west.
 Closing Of Navigation.
 T,1 ,I, 1,. to leave Nome was the steamer Albion which sailed on the afternoon of No- vember 3. The last steamer to reach Nome was the Alpha which arrived on Oct. 2, bringing Seattle papers of Oct. 10. By singular coincidence the last papers received last fall from Seattle bore the same date, and unless other steamers arrive sh4s fall, the same will also have been tue ~QuU. as the latest papers brought by the Queen bear date of Oct. 10, 1901.
 The last steamers to leave port last fall hOisted anchor and fled sOuthward on the night or early morning of Nov. 7th. A gale sprang up and the steam CTS did not wait for it to terminate.
 Shore and mush ice Appeared the first week in November and somewhat retarded the steamers from discharg- ing their cargoes.
 On the morning of Nov. Is, 1900, ice had filled the rOadstead for a consider able distance seaward and on the morn- ing of Nov. l7 nothing seaward was visible except mighty expanse of white ice. It came swiftly, silently, like thief in the night. It always does; the churning up process usually comes later. The ice, however, last year disappeared on Nov. Is as quietly as it came, a strong southeasterly gale having sprung up, accompanied at in- tervals by heavy rain. On the same date in 1899 there was plenty of snow and frost.
 On Nov. 70. 1900, the ice again filled the roadstead, aild this time it re- o1