The Savannah morning news., 1901-01-06

whole output of the beach since it was
discovered.
Dismal FOrebOdings.
Now, it is important to consider: Anvil
Creek was discovered in 1898, three sum-
mers ago. 1t was worked all last summer.
and this is its third year. Eldorado, at
Klondike, produced nothing until the year
after the discovery, and its bigger re-
turns the second year, although worked
both winter and summer, instead of only
in summer as at Nome. The Nome creeks,
1t is true, being shallow, are much more
easily prospected ana worked, but still
even with this advantage, the work Of
developing a claim from a prospect"
to producer is slow The scarcity of
water in most parts of the gold region
during the first half of the season brought
the prospecting of new ground and the
development of old almost to a stand
still yet steadily and as rapidly as one
familiar with the conditions could rea-
sonably expect. Outrageous mineral laws,
allowing many claims to be staked by
one person and held idle for from one to
Two working seasons, and considerable
litigation growing out of claim jumping,
greatly held back development work.
AS late as the 1st of September, the out
look for an early Improvement of condi-
ions was very dismal indeed Those who
We're convinced that Nome was a great
mineral country kept saying, 1T will be
better camp next year." a reluctant ad-
mission that 1t was a very poor one then.
Many men of long mining experience in
Alaska, feeling that there would be no
material Improvement until next year,
lett the country, intending to return in
the spring.
The fall rains began about the LIST of
august. Thousands of men went out into
'he creeks with picks and shovels. 1t
was far to go to find ground not already
staked. Thirty thousand claims, each
twenty acres in extent, had been plaster
ed upon the country 1t takes an immense
country to accommodate so many. Yet
mere was much vacant ground; small
tributaries, fractions taken off claims
staked too large; bench" or hillside
GAINS until now unprospected and I'M
valued, but of immense richness, were
FOUND IN many places. Within six weeks
from the LIST of August it was not the
same camp. Bank vaults and trading COM
Pdhles safe We're filling up with gold
FROM all over little sacks Of dust began
coming in, and were deposited for safe,
neeplng or for assaying. The idle crowds
III the streets had perceptibly thinned
OUT and sooner or later. every one real
lzed the turn in the tide.
Inc Council City country developed
Ivy out the extent of promising ter
t"ofy IN that pioneer district was much
enlarged, while single claims worked for
NE first time this season. turned out as
mIsh as twenty-five thousand dollars
4oPNok, fifty miles cast of Nome. was
discovered this spring. Six hundred thou
Sahd dollars were taken out of the beach
Ule nrst three weeks in May. ana several
r'eeks found, of which Daniels Creek
pnr ,9es TO equal Anvil Creek in richness.
Jlners' east. north and west of Nome,
pesan to be producers But It was for
liver districts, remote from Nome, to
uIhNh ncws so sensational that. when
'ousht TO Nome. II was wholly discred!-
'"L ono H. the so-callcd "Blue-stoae"
Instruct at Port Clarence. and tho "Kou-
SuIok district on the headwaters Of
Dtl"mtley Harbor, inland sixty miles north
W. nome. \ remarkable story is that OF
lneir discovery Many Of the details I
s"'H be OBLIGED to refer TO briefly
Two Sensational Districts.
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