Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-11-12
A SUCCESSFUL MINER
D. L. Goldbach, Formerly of Eddy
vile, Returns From. Alaska.
HAS GOOD CLAIMS ON DAHL CREEK
Was in ottumwa Yesterday on the
Way to Eddyville for Visit With
His MOTHERHOOD Nuggets for Coat
and Vest Buttons.

Gold nuggets for buttons on coat and
vest, another for watch charm,
share in claims in Alaska which yield
5000 to $500 per day per man, gold land
in California, good health and prospect
of long life. These are some Of the
possessions of which D. L. Goldbach of
Cleveland, Ohio, who was in Ottumwa
yesterday might justly be proud. He
is an unassuming man, however, and
We're it not for the odd buttons on his
coat and vest he would not be recog-
nized as a successful Alaska miner.
Lived in EddyviIle.
Mr.. Goldbach is an old Eddyville
boy, and is well known to several OF
tumwa people. He is the son of Mrs.
H. ]. Goldbach of Eddyville and was
in Ottumwa yesterday on his way to
Eddyville for visit with her. When
approached by a Courier reporter with
an inquiry as to his identity and his
experiences, Mr.. Goldbach very kindly
answered the questions and told an
interesting story of his travels and
| gold hunting in the far north.
Was North of Nome.
He has been farther north than the
majority of miners who have returned
| to Ottumwa, and to say that he is sat
isfied with his two years of life there
| Is putting the matter rather mildly.
He has mined gold at Nome and far
ther north than that point, and when
he returns to Alaska next summer, he
will 60 to his Dahl Creek claim, 100
miles due north from Nome, and there
he will rejoin his three partners, who
are working there now.
A Perilous Trip.
Mr.. Goldbach is an old miner. He
went to California in 1888 and did con
siderable prospecting in which he was
successful, though moderately So Ii
1900, when the Nome beach claims be
gan TO be heard of in America, Mr.
Goldbach decided to go to Alaska. He
sailed in the early spring on the whal
er, "Thrasher," from San Francisco
and not yet has he forgotten the awful
trip the boat made in getting to Nome
Ice foes We're encountered and an ex
ceedingly stormy passage was expert
enced, but finally the gold hunters
reached Nome and the gold country.
Beach Gold.
The beach claims were, of course
seized upon at once. The gold there
was in the sand, and though it is al
most pure it was in such small pieces
that great deal of it must be found tx
4 prove paying. In some places, MI
} Goldbach said, there was gold enough
to make shovelful of sand taken from
the beach look as II some one hat
LID + d, lD, -
meal, so plentiful was the Color Mr.
Goldbach was successful here. and IL
three weeks he, with one partner, tool
out $4,000 in gold.
At Dahl Creek.
Mr.. Goldbach, with three partners
left Nome in April of the present yea
and went to Dahl Creek, which is ii
what is called the Kuglok country
This is located on Cape Prince o
Wales, the most westerly part o
North America, and is about 100 mile
north OF Nome, across the country
The weather was very cold in the kug
rok country until about August 1,whel
the four men began mining on a creel
to which the Dahl is a tributary TIL,
i pay dirt soon worked out here, and i
was found that the gold was onl,
brought there by tributary streams
Many Of the miners were discouraged
and returned to Nome, but Mr.. Gold
bach and his partners went up Dab
Creek, located claims and We're yer,
successful.
, Not Very Big.
THAT is pretty gratifying luck, ism
it?" suggested the reporter when toll
of this by Mr. Goldbach yesterday, blu
he was told that such yields as are be
ing realized there are not calculated t
. turn MIXERS head The amount
3 look pretty big, however, to the ave.
age inhabltant of the United States,
Will Return to North.
Mr.. Goldbach left the Dahl Cree
4 country October l. and came fror
Nome to the States on the steame
' Centennial" He had been in Clev,
land with his family for short tim
: and is now on his way 20 IDAHO an
California, where he has recent
n bought some land In California b
S intends to prospect for gold. Ne,
summer he VIII again leave for tt
a north and will return to his claim 0
Dahl Creek.
/, High Prices in North.
4 Mr.. Goldbach quoted some price
s which sound rather fabulous, but whic
do not allow of enormous profit in I'll
Kugrok country. Although article
can be bought at almost the sam
prices in Nome that they command
the United States, the cost of trans
portation is great. Wood costs $40
4 per cord on Dahl Creek and coal is 81
> per 100 pounds. Potatoes come at
: cents per pound and the same amour
: is asked for a small glass of bee
= Milk commands fifty cents per can an
: lumber is sold at the rate Of 81 pt
. foot.
STRANGE STORY OF j. r. FAuS-
Falsely Arrested for Arson, Imprsone
alter Taken TO ASYLUM