The Nome nugget., 1901-08-13

juncts old Tubal Cain must have beer
 on hand to glVe her pOlnter--that i, to say, If Dame Nature set out to makf
 an anvil, which she proba biy did not.
 Anvil creek has produced millions Oi
 gold in two brief and Meeting years. 1 Some of the creek claims above dis cOvery give evidence of the inrOad oi
 the white man and,his datacing work, in order to wrest the gold from the
 bosom of the stream. Huge piles of
 "tailings" show where the refuse was dumped after the gold was extracted. One day these sall 4gsin be worked at 1 OS No. 2 bsasw. tho Alaska and New Yeek Mining Compsny have . steam AAONol sssWork. TS see 1t dsarinR into th6 tSaSsl d4Rosits reminds oAA of the reh6rk of the 1rishmAn Whan he first CIV | steam shovel on . railway cut . "You murtherin', steanin' baste: you can do.more, ,wurk than twinty honest 1rishlnsn, but you can't vote." The steam shovel on No. can do the work of about 40 men. In IS hours it will raise about 250 cubic yards of dirt. The gravel is dumped into q huge hopper, from which it passes into the slulce boxes. and when the days work ! Is through all that remains to be done Is to "clean-up." The plant k very complete, and Is giving excellent satis- faction to the mine managers, |. j. Lauritzen and George II. olrout.
 On No. , below the Wild Goose Min ing Company have also a large hosting plant. It is a derrick, winch lifts the cars filled with dirt and dumps them into 3 hopper whlch in turn dls- charges the dirt into the sluicc boxes. This plant l, very complete, and, judg ing by its operations, comparatively cheaply handled. The water used for sluicing purposes on this claim Is taken from Moon' sht Springs.
 On Discovery claim large number of men are being employed and the pay IS running we'll up in the bench. A bove discovery the most noticeable work in progress is on from No. 5 to No. 10. Lines of slulce boxes are everywhere seen. and hundreds of men are buslly engaged.
 | A new feature has been added and a rnew era has commenced. however, for the creek men are invading the benches and rich dirt is being found. It is likely that the benches on the left limit of Anvil are good all the way from No. below up to No. lO above.
 The principal work being done on the benches just now IS on Nos. 5 and I.
 On NO..3 E. J. Matthews has a force l of some 1o men ut work on the creek claim and adjoining benches. The work is both thorough and systematic. There Is pumping plaut on the claim. which lifts the water to tbe bench above, where it is used and is again | Issup ip1 i,,y Ii md wash the bench gravel into sluica 1 t"'.'-sl;,7t t4A -1t.-s. s.. asaxa. -a ss.,-;a.t- LAews iio rec .s hs. rouhtcbetore open ing it To and he has sunk many holes. some 30, 40 and even 90 feet deep. On bench cli.im, where number of men
 were at work in an open cut. one man said Its no trouble to get S3 or S4 pan
 The claims above No. 3 arc also busy scenes. Men are busy on Nos. ], ,, 6, IT., $, 9 and 10, the last three being owned by c. w. Price and the Wild Goose Company. On l2, owned by George '. Borch>enius, pumping plant has just been placed iu position and work wal SoCn be III Iu'l swing. The claim at the meath ui Sp4cmen ! gulch, which enters Anvil at No. |, is q rich one arH IS being extensively de- veloped. n2 belclc., on the rjght limit of Any snow evidences of IL" pr0spector 0rk. hm so tar nothing encouraging has been reportsd ihe pay lies on the left limit, anu it has been. iecated xs far back as the second 1, tier Uf bsnches. There is absolutely no doubt that the henches will yield mueh smyFA .aolA than the creek has ever done. ThAFe is A vast body of Ilosy dirt, the extontAnd importance of