The Nome nugget., 1902-10-01
FUTURE OF BLUESTONE:. Lies in the BenCkeS and
 Not in Geek. \ RESUME OF WORK Shows that the Season Has Been a Prosperous One...Win.
 ter Prospecting.
\ RESUME OF WORK

Bluestone district from d good prodvc- ing point of view. The district, as a whole, is at least thousand per cent. better than last year. and another year will prove to the world that it is one Ol the best mining districts in this part of the country.
 The main Gold Run district last fall was considered as good as worked out, and people left it with the intention oi never returning, cursing the day they ever heard of the creek. This fall it is quite different, for all who are leaving the district are doing so for the purpose of going to Nome or the outside, to pur- chase machinery and mining imple- ments to be prepared for work next year.
 The district has had its first boom, as all mining camps have when gold Is found in large quantities on the first two or three claims prospected, and it Is we'll known to all that during the past twoyears it has gone farther back ward than the boom ever sent it ahead, and from now on it must come to the front strictly on its merits. That it Is doing so is beyond doubt to the people who have spent the past season on the creek, but to the outsider it Is still "hot air" and "pipe dreams
 If one stops to consider that there has been more new discoveries this season than all the others put together, and that some of these new discoveries have produced gold to the extent of many thousands of dollars from ground that could have been purchased for the price of the recording fee, it must mean that the camp is coming to the front.
 The bench off the famous No. :. above HAyden's, turned out over $l0,GOo and only few were aware of the fact. Last year three different parties prospectcd this same piece of ground and gave it up saying there was not enough gold in it to pay for the breakfast of sick dog. On the bench off No. above Hayden $, different parties have been sluicing whenever the ground would become thawed enough to give them dirt for T d2y's run, and were able to take out all the way from $S to $20 per day tc the shovel. During the past week this property has changed hands, and the present owners have started ditch to ibring the water, next spring, on the top of the bench where they can force all the dirt through the boxes without the aid of the shovel and oldfashioncd methods. The ditch will cost a large sum of money and is to be completed this fall.
 On the bench of the Seitfert Bros. claim at the mouth of Alder creek, they have taken out at least Sl5,0 ,000 within the past month, and this pay was mot located until late in the summer. If the weather would permit of sluicing for . month longer, this piece of ground would open the eyes of some of the wise sones who think Gold Run is on the down grade without brakes. Last even- iDg on this claim, the foreman, E. Null grew, picked up enough nuggets from the boxes to pay all the wages for the shift, some of them being worth over S27.
 Harry Hill, of the Bluestone Mining company, has very good prospects at a ~H on1 ic I,,i f. inn for the main channel, for all the gravel passed through contains gold. This claim is about a quarter of mile up on the hill oil Gold Run, and has proved that there was run of gold across the hill at some early period.
 Down at the mouth of the right fork and Gold Run creeks where they unite to form the main Bluestone liver, good pay has been found in the benches, and two ditches are under construction to tbring water to them. One of the own CTS laughed at an offer of Sl,000 cash for. the bench part of his creek claim saying that would be small days run ,next year when he got water on it.
 On No 3 above discovery on the main Hluestoae good pay has been found in ahe benches during the past summer knear Ruby creek, and MT. McAdams, of the California Mining company, has Abeen trying to bond all the property in .,that vicinity at the rate of 5000 per .claim, and has gone to the outside to ,,obtain the money to pay for the proper . ties he has bonded.
 Robert G. Walker, of the Far North Mining company of New York, has rspent many thousands of dollars during thegpast two years in developing the claims owned by his company, and the other day he told the writer he had de- vveloped mine on Igloo creek that was "a good one, which would take few years to work out; but the best proper sty hs had was off Gold Run near White stone (thst is, he thought more of it) and would have. it developed next gear.
 The ditch, about three miles long, built by Gslen, Sullivan and Ryan, has rpsid for itself, and that is better, than s,ope can expect from ditch of that