The Nome nugget., 1903-05-06
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 bEbET TER A,Nome Mans Opinion
 NffValdez.. NOT GOOD AS. NOME
No Railroads Will be Built This Year. Many Nome People
 Wish They Were Back.

t is net n cheerful tale that is told by Gcorre Beale concerning the new own of Valdez. Alr. Beale, who is an old-tinDr of this section, left Nome last summer thinking that Valdez offered inducements that were not presented by Nome or this section. He has since changed his opinion. He now says that this is the best town, and the best mining section in Alaska. He also says that many former Nome men, who are now in Valdez. are of the same opinion.
 Mr. Bealc arrived in Valdez on July IT. last. He heard much talk of q rali- road that wa, to be built from Valdez 70 "Ea~le through the Copper river country. It has not muterlalized. \ few men were engaged on the survey of a towlsite tour miles below Valdez, and they worked from November until Feb 20, and no pay day appeared and they were gettin. tired. The rumored
 
 ceivcd for tOwn-booming purposes. Capt. John !. Hcaly, who was said to he one of the chief promoters, had not fisitcd Valdez: neither rails nor rolling stscN had arrived. Il, was reported. still there was d good deal of building under way. Valdez has 600 or 700 peo- ,l ,,yt t,re ,,Y 111 kinds, and business is overdonc. There are many saloons in the camp, but only one, the Gold Dust Exchange. io doing any business. "Red" Mcconnell. for merly of Dawson, is running saloon 1t Valdez. His bartender, one day. tol6 Mir. Ecale that the day before he had not taken ill enough money to pay his wages. The chcchIkOes who go tC Valdez do not "iOoseu up.'
 Capt. Gclger has located in Valdez, md be ha- w,iarf-building project or hand, anu was about to leave for Seattle on Feb. %, when Alr. Beale left Valdez Charley Brown, formerly of Brown X f;oOdfricnG, i, in the grocery business Dutch Henry is '',peculating w. A Barrieau i> running gambling game and wishes he was back in Nome. w G. Shaeffer who used to run grocery store on snake river, shot himself through the head on Feb. $, with q 3> caliber revolver. He was not dead when Mr. Reale left, and Dr. Tiede mann. his attending physician. former ly health officer at Nome, said that fl About four ounces of brain matter oozed oat through the wound. Shaeffer's re lEites live at Logansport, Ind. Shaeffer went to Valdez with the idea of engaging in business, but he was disappointed and became Respondent He had abou. 9l200 in cash when he at tempted to kill himself. Ed Doziel ms building restaurant when MT Beale left. The latter says that hC would uot take the best restaurant il Valdez is a gift, and"run 1t.
 Prices are higher in Valdez than the, are in Nome, with the exception O meat and coal. Billy Small, alia Billy. the Cow," is in the meat busi ness there.
 Nothing much is known concerning the Nazina country, where d strike wa: reported last year. Robert Blei, for merly of Dawson, later of Nome, al CTS. while snowman. arrived in Nalde. the beginning of the year with 600 tom of supplies, 100 men and 50 horses. He Was bound for the Nazina, where, las year, he secured number of claims Nazina is 250 miles from Valdez. in the !ateriOr. Blei st stsd' that that sectior looked all right, but did not know wha actual developments might prove. Mir Beale met several men who had pros pected in he Nazina country, but they said they had found nothing. A dozer tf SO copper experts visited the Copper river last year and examined proper 1tcs. Nothing has been done on then