The Nome nugget., 1902-07-12
Modern Methods of Mining
 Being Introduced
WITH MUCH SUCCESS
Excellent Results Being Ootcined on , Above Hay yden's and on Other Claims -S3S Nugget Found Ana oshAK Swindling Tale Told.

Sullivan NllF, JulN ',-- He blutstoue district is just starting on the miner like method of operation, from an economical point of view, and the key note has been sounded by Jack Sul- hyau and Captain Hammond on their No. 3 above Hayden- discovery, where there is pumping plant in operation 10 keep the pit dry, so as to get down to the bedrock. as far aS the pay extends, thus doing away with the bed sons to break away from that old worn out expression oi the miners, that the old way is the best, meaning bedrock drains and China pumps turned by hand, is better than machin- cry worked by other power than jack asses" A better example of the ad- santages of the centrifugal pump us T means of keeping the pit dry, without the aid of drains and China pumps, cannot be found than on this No. ,,
 where it was worked last season by lay
 men, with bedrock drain, one thous- 1pd feet long, which fept two men working day and night to keep open, also two men on on China pump to help out the drain.
 This year there is no drain and the men are working the same ground that the lay men skinned over last year and are more than making wages. Saturday morning S3J20 nugget was picked up, and a S2 pan taken from ground worked last year. for the creek Is too flat for drains, and it Is out of the question 70 save and get all the gold working in water knee deep.
 Green, Morgan and Lewis, on No. 4 above, are putting in two pumps.
 Moses and Jaffe, ou the right fork, are working with a pump, after spend- ing year in keeping drain open and not having time to shovel into the boxes.
 Unger and Warren, at the mouth of the right fork, are trying to work their claim by the old method of bedrock drain, and devote three days to the drain to one shoveling into the boxes. The sooner all the claim owners awake 10 the fact that they must have machinery other than that turned by hand the better it will be for them from financial point of view
 Harry Hill, of the Biuestone Mining Company of Chicago, is busy freighting his 40 tons of machinery from the mouth of Tishou river to the bench claims owned by the company between Alder and Boulder creeks, where MT. Hill spent last summer prospecting with a steam thawer, and claims to have got enough prospects to warrant the amount Of machinery he has brought from the outside with him this spring to open up the property.
 Henry Alheidt, or Dutch Henry" as he is known to the minersr has put in the winter on Sunset creek, up at she head of Gold Run, thinking he had All kinds of moaey, somewhere in the vicinity, as he had received d letter from some member of the company he Is working for, telling of the dollar pans taken from the gravel at that place, or creek, and were coming in the spring wish large outfit to open up the same. Henry stakrd some t0 claims on, and in the near vicinity, of Sunset, about New Year trusting to his partner on the outside, for the paystreak upon their return, as he could not find anything himself. They came in with about ten tons of goods, including team of horses, blows and scrapers, prepared to take out thousands of dollars from the claim where they had taken out the prospects the fail before. When they pointed out the hole where they had found the prospects, and Henry worked for . week in the same place without finding a color, where the fall before, were dollar, sixty and twenty-five cent pans. He commenced to ask questions, Ind wished to know where the other Pellow was that helped to find those fine prospects. When told that he had sold ,ut his interest to the company for Il2,OOO during the winter, he did not Day . word, but fixed up a pack and 'tarted overland to the Arctic. The est of the party have gone to work for he owners of No. 8, and if you mention salt" to them, they look at you for a minute as if taking your measurements, |hen say, i've have plenty"