The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-07-21
NOME WILL BE LIGHT
CITY OF GOLD TO HAVE BIG
ELECTRIC LIGHTING
PLANT
FAITH IN CITY IS STRONG
Rich Placer and Quartz Discoveries
In Immediate Vicinity of DnY-
son Cause Stampede to
New Camp.

TACOMA, Wash, July 20.-Wthin q
few months the residents of Cape Nome
viii have a modern electric light plant
installed In their city. Capt. F. N. Sell
berg is now in this city, purchasing
the equipment, which will cost $4,000.
Coal to operate the plant viii cost SIS
a ton. When running, the plant will
supply 25C0 incandescent lights of six
teen candle power. 1t is proposed to
charge 20 cents per day per light. Capt.
Seiberg says:
Within month of the time our plant
is in operation we will be supplying 1000
lights. The business Will grow. Nome
is going to be substantial town. 1t
Will be permanent. The gold output this
fall is going to surprise everybody, and
next summer l expect to see a. greater
rush to the Nome diggings than we wit
messed during the season of 1900. That
may seem q wild prediction, but time
viii demonstrate the correctness of my
Judgment
Rich placer and quartz discoveries back
of Dawson and almost within the munic-
ipal limits of the metropolis, continued
and sensational strikes in the Big Salmon
district, with hundreds stampeding to
the new camp from White Horse, Daw-
son and other Yukon settlements, a cut
on river rates for transportation by the
up and down-river routes, diversion of
much of the former up-river traffic tone
lower river boats, a. constant flow of gold
into Dawson from the auriferous creeks
Of the Klondike, are the principal new
features of the northland advices re-
ceived via the Washington & Alaska
Steamship company's- Victorian, Capt.
John Robert, which has arrived from
Lynn canal.
The Victorian brought seventy eight
passengers, nearly fifty of Whom nan
from the Klondike. They bring Dawson
and district advices to July 3. The YES
sci has no large amount Of treasure, not
to exceed 100000 all told About July
1 B.. L. Gates, a travelling representative
of the Ames Mercantile Company of
Nome and Dawson, says important placer
and quartz discoveries were made on the
Allen farm, along the Klondike river,
just back of Dawson The placer finds
on the banks of the river were made
first, followed a day or so later by the
discovery Of a quartz ledge. Hundreds
Of claims were sta@ted, some making
quartz locations, while others staked fol-
lowing the placer claim regulations. And
the indications were that CLASH between
the two sets Of locators was bound to
result. Some of the placer ground, it
is claimed, ran as high as IS per
pan almost at the surface, and the ore
assays, it is reported, were correspond
ingly rich,
Up on the Yukon, in the Big Salmon
district even greater excitement pre-
vailed. Further strikes have been made
in that district, which demonstrated last
season that it was destined to be a great
gold producer. Gravel running as nigh
as $50 per pan is reported to have been
found on number Of claims, and many
OF the mines were yielding $50 and 500
per day to the man.
White Horse was almost depopulated
during the first days of July Hundre DIS
of people, not a few KIondike- bound,
staupeded to the Big Salmon section.
Dawson, too, was contributing to the
rush.
The condition of the river for navigat-
ing the vessels could not be better. Not
since the summer of 1855 has the water
been as high.