The Nome nugget., 1902-09-24
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 IS LIVELY Lots of Gold is Being Produced Daily. PLENTY OF WAFER
Transformation of Creek Brought About by the Mioeene
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ditch was completed and plenty of water is the result. Every claim is working full blast and before this winters snow whitens the landscape many pounds o gold will have been wrested fron mother earth.
 Dexter creek and gulches owe q thousand thanks to the Mi0ccne Ditch company, who have expended an enol nous amount of energy and money, a. well as brains, in completing q task that, to the uninitiated, has long been considered hopeless. Instead of the old condition of affairs when, with the few rains of the only too short season. the claim owners could produce only enough to carry them until the next rain, and often times not even till then, we now have steady output, ana though some of the cleanupo are not ul to expectations it is possible to put through every bit of dirt. The charge, are very reasonable for water, being as rule l24 per cent of the gross out put, which gives the mine owners q show to work over old ground and tail ings. The energy and capacity Of the able manager, w. l.. Leland are con- si lered little short of marvellous, and the ability of all the other officers aud foremen is unquestioned.
 The largest nugget of the season was picked up by w. B. Petrie on his claim, the Good Luck fraction. and weighed $53.40. Large nuggets are not so much in evidence as hetetofore. owing prob ably to the fact that the best part of the claims have been gopheled out by the winter work of recent years. The Miocene company have control of a great part of the creek and, probably, in the near future they will have the whole of it. At present their holdings are No. ?, ,, Gt. and 8, on the main creek. No. l and on the left fork, and two claims on Grouse gu!ch, all Of which they are working except No. ?. They have mess and bunk houses built to accommodate all their men and these camps present q busy appearance at meal times.
 On No. l, Grass, the banner claim of this section, hydraulicing is in pro gress and the claim is being thoroughly worked under the able management of its supsrintendents, Geo. R. Worn and B. Bolray.
 Tn I hap nd gr nf have been stopped from working by an injunction, sworn to by Miss l.. A. Burke, of lower No. II. The claim will, in all probability, be closed for the remainder of the season.
 On No. 10 ''Duffy' Dufresne is work ing full force. As to the amount of the gold extracted deponent saith not.
 On No. 9 Leo Loewenherz has a large force and is working from rim to rim, clean to bed rock, from the lower line. Here may be seen an architectural oddity, ''placerly" speaking. The tail ings from three claims are dumped in one place and the three strings of boxes cross and recross but strange to say for this creek, all this is done in perfect harmony.
 Messrs. Wilson. Lemon X Gedda are working on No. l Grouse. They have had but little water thus far, but con dtions are changing on the little gulch and it will speak for itself.
 Holt X Morris are patiently waiting for water on Deer creek, but it seems the ditch can't spare the water for this creek.
 On No. 8 Mir. StreetOn closed down flor few days on account of the loss of the pay streak, but he has again started at a different point.
 On lower No. 8 the Miocene company are doing a great deal of fine work. This part is almost all virgin ground, no work having been done heretofore by the owners, the Pioneer company
 On No. they are also hydraulicing, the same company having lay on the claim Messrs. Baldwin x Keene are in charge and the work done is first class.
 On No. 6 Sveidrup X Siljan are work. ing full force of men, and in no dis. taut time this claim will be finished, as they are going at it for all it is worth.
 On No. 3 Robert Lyng is operating with good results, while on No. Pyle x Adams are tearing up the earth with . vengeance.
 A. E. Murphy, of the Dexter Creek Placer company, who has been operat' ing with drill on the benches On the left limit, has shut down for the season but will do more work next year.
 The Nome Exploration company are doing considerable prospecting and are making good showing.
 Tho Sour Dough has been a busy scene for the past month and a l0x3( addition has been built on the dining < room, making it, the largest one ir Alaska. Recent guests at that place were Judge Moore, Colonel Grigsby, E. Ehilberg. Mir. LampeS Jas. T. Frawley
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