The Nome nugget., 1903-09-19
in Bering strait will be such that they will be able to catch more seals

will be able to catch more seals.
 By January there will be enough ice in Boring sea to keep the straits full of floating ice whenever the wind is from the south. The natives go on to the floating ice to catch the seals, but when the wind is from the north the ice is blown south, and if the natives are out on it, they are carried out to sea- By the last of April or the first of May they will have their skin boats out after whales and seals. They put their boats into the water only when the wind is from the north, as then the ice is scattered enough to allow them to navigate. The walrus season is in the last of May and June.
 No natives at the cape were able to capture anyrwhales this year, ,Gud the walrus catch was smaller than usual. In good years the caches of the meat of whales and walrus last all through the following year, and serve to augmept the food supply when the weatheris bad for catching seals.
 Last year eight whales were cap tured by cape natives, so there was pleAty in She village all winter.
 Mir. Lee said the reason why so many of the natives from the cape came to Nome this year was that the catch of Nwalgns was so small this year that they had to spend the summer trading for food stuffs for next winter, and hun dreds of dollars worth of provisions are now in the skin boats and on the way to the cape.
 The natives to the northeastward of the cape are short Of food this year, and the captain of the Saddle has sup piled them with some food. The cap tain is great friend of the natives, and he takes the place of Capt. Futile to certain. extent in getting the na- tives back to their homes. Of course, he doesn't. t.call at Kings island, the Diomedes or East Cape, but they all appreciate the efforts toward helping them.
 So many of the natives have been away from the cape this summer that it has been very quiet there. The only excitement in the region is the tin proposition. There are a number of different outfits vw0rl1ing at both the stream tin and the lode tin. The stream tin miners have been quite sue cessful. and have shipped out quite Il good deal of their product. The only question is one of quantity, and those interested feel confident that the 9uan- tity is sufficient to warrant the bring ing in of better appliances for getting out the ore.
 In three different localities lode tin claims have been staked and the pros poets, according to the owners, are very good. These three places are the Cape Pr4ace ,cf Wales mountains, Lost nj; n1 he Ia pc, p,nnptons M (' J. Bartels is the principal owner at the staked around there by other parties. have holdings in the Ears mountains, and Mir. Bartels is quite heavily inter- ested there, too.
 Mir. Lee says he expects soon to have something to say in regard to the rein deer which will serve to give the peo- pie a better opinion of that animal as domestic beast, and he believes that he can convince any fair-min6ed person that the reindeer industry, properly carried on, would be the best solution of the Eskimo problem, which seems now to be agitating the minds of the Nome population.
 Mir. Lee says he believes the mission at Quartz creek will be fine thing for the natives who live here, but he says the natives who are now located in places remote from Nome had better be left there. He is of the opinion that the easiest way to make an Es- kimo indolent and just like the city tramp is to have the white man coddle him. If the people of the mining camps would cease to receive them ,;t he xvnu1A shun the camps, only coming to them devote most of their time to hunting and fishing, which they do not do now.
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