The Nome nugget., 1902-06-25
A Shortage of Men is Feared
 This Summer.
WORK STARTING UP
No Bedrock Pay This Year-rliners Arc Receiving $5 Day and Board Good Work Being Done on Sev- eral Claims in That Section.

Sullivan, June lO.-On Gold Run, right fork and Alder creeks few of the claims are shoveling in, and in short time quite q number will be ready.to start with day and night gangs.
 Owing to the working men being paid s'on bedrock" last summer up here in this district, there will be a shol tage of men this summer, for the men found to their sorrow that blocks of bedrock would not purchase outfits and pay for their passage out on the boats. On Gold Run and the right fork they are short at the present time about 100 men, and later they will need that many more to work the claims to be opened up: but this summer the claim owners are not offering bedrock: they offer to pay & and board, and 1 am given to understand that they guarantee the wages and the men do not have to look to the claim for their pay.
 George H. Dawson is getting ready to open up three claims, and will be ready to shovel into the boxes in a few days on the Florence claim, which used to be the upper half of No. 6 above Hayden's. He expects to have No. } above Hayden's ready for sluicing in the course of few days. and will open up discovery claim during the summer.
 Unger X Warren are shoveling in on their claim at the mouth of the right fork. The owners of this claim put in the whole winter prospecting their ground, in order to work to an ad- vantage during the summer, for they say that ''Home, Sweet Home' is to be their watchword this year, and in the fall they expect to start outside with a good size sack.
 Moses x Jaffe have returned from the outside to open up their claim on the right fork, on which they got good prospects last fall. Mr. .Iatfe has gone to Nome to purchase d pumping plant, for there is little or no grade to their claim and they will have to keep the pit dry with d pump.
 AhS ohis pioISi'y N'e' S''S " hands on the outside in this district during the past winter was on the right fork, and Robert Walker, who has lots of faith in that creek, has purchased a few interests here and there and expects to open them up during the present summer.
 William Sullivan has been sick for the past week, but is now getting better, and the doctor has hopes of getting him out in few days.
 Joe Brady was poisoned by eating canned tomatoes yesterday, and for while it looked pretty serious. They say that Dr. Wm. Sloan made q new record in long distance sprinting when they went after him to come and see Joe. beating the messenger some three minutes. At the present time Brady is considered out of danger.
 Kelly X Hagen are doing good work on the lower half of No. 6 above Hay den's. They have beer ground sluicing the point off, where McCumber x Cushman found that the pay ran under last summer, when it was too late in the season to strip off the tundra, which was some five feet thick. These two men deserve to strike it rich, for they have put in some pretty good work, and have done it in way to open up the eyes of some of the would | b; ,; hn riuo a II their attention to building wing dams, when a little ground sluicing would give better results.
 Mir. Mulgrew is still ground sluicing on~No.'2 ? Alder, owned by Jack Sul- livan and others. The ground is being opened up under a lay to R. J. Park, of Nome. Mulgrew seems to have the right idea of how a claim should be opened up, and when once he is ready to shovel in he will not have to keer half of his men stripping. the same Us the men who worketsslise claim las, summer.
 eLong Shorty" is running No. above Hayden's and has been shoveling in for the past three days. Mckay, who has the lay with him and is ar owner in the property, has turned the whole claim over to him to operate, and he has got all the heavyweights in the camp to work for him. If the amount of work man can do is ir proportion to his weight, they should turn this claim bottom side up through the sluice boxes during the presen, summer, J. POTTER WHITTREN.
 From St. Michael.