The Nome nugget., 1901-09-24
DOING DEAD WORK
An Interesting Batch 0f News Co . cerning Work Being Done on Vari- ous CIaims-Prcparing for Work on the Big Sugar Claim.

Dexter Creek, Sept. 2O.-Dexter creek either has to have a cloudburst or & tidal wave to remove the drouth. For the last three weeks not 8 shovelful of gravel has been put in sluice box. Almost every claim is employing from three to five men, making preparations for the rain, but apparently it isn't coming this season.
 Del Ray, on No. l Grass gulch. is doing some good work, imsmuch as he is thoroughly prospecting his claim while the creek is dry. Several holes have been sunk to bedrock and good pay located on different parts of the claim. Dexter would be much better creek and the country in general would show up better if we had few more men like Del Ray to take charge of the claims.
 Sutherland Bros. & McQuaid, on No. II, Dexter, have done probably more work on their claims this season than any others, but have practically sus- pended for the present.
 Allardyce X Whitehead, on Lower No. II, have done some systematic work under their able foreman. Jack Irvine, than whom there never was a more thorough miner.
 On No. 10 some two or three men are working and making about wages at rocking out tailings.
 No. 9, which is being worked on a lay by Peck & Buffers, has great deal of dead work done, with the expecta- tion of the coming of the waters before Oct. l, when their lay expires. Frank Buffers intends working lay on Cooper gulch this winter.
 James M. Streeton,. the most popular man on Dexter, has ten men at work on Nos. , and 8, doing dead work.
 On No. ' very little work is being done, as the owners are waiting for the numerous water works that are trend ing Dexterwards.
 Otto Straub, of No. :, was on Snow gulch Monday.
 Sveidrup X Silian are not very un- easy on No. 6, as they have a perpetual lay, and as they have as fine quarters as are to be found in the district they are able to enjoy themselves.
 On No. , Mir. Wilson is doing quite little work, but lack of water greatly injures the progress.
 Fred Gedda and A. NJ. Wilson, on Lower Grouse gulch, are working at stripping, and have just completed three miles of ditches, which will give them plenty of water if it rains long enough. Mcclellan, above them, is rocking at present, but is ready to sluice if such contingency arises.
 Jack Tattan, representing Vallier & Thompson, is doing some stripping, but the claim has been practically at a standstill all summer.
 The Sugar claim, the banner claim of this district, is making preparations for quite lot of work this winter. The owners are all old miners in the dis triot, and are entitled to all they car get out of it.
 Messrs. Ruttie and Sullivan are pros pecting a bench off No. l, left fork, and it is to be hoped that they will strike it rich.
 This creek is now mourning the loss of the rural mail carrier, who was a welcome caller to all the cabins and tents on the creeks. The miners now have to either lay off for day or send some one for their mail who may not return for week or two.
 Much adverse comment is being made on account of the refusal of the new charge d'affaires in the Nome postoffice to fill out list of mail that was sent in by lot of the representa- tive men of this vicinity. p,an signed his own name, but Hwas met with the assertion that the regulations demand that each man must apply for his own mail in person.
 Prominent among the guests at the Sour Dough roadhouse recently were Magnus Kjelsburg, Jafet LindeberG Louis Lane, Dr. Whitehead, Captain Jarvis, Captain Armstrong, Lewis Gar risOn, Jack Leedy, Frank Thatcher, w. B. Hastings, Bob Hayner; Alex. Lindsay, George Dawson, Commissioner Frye, of Bluff City, E. M. Adair, of the Matte claim, and M. l.. Blake.
 Ex- Postmaster Joseph Wright and brother have been spending few days at the Sour Dough and pass their time hunting and roaming the hills in search of big game Thus far their efforts