The Nome nugget., 1903-09-05
Lots of Work Planned
 Ahead.
COUNTRY STILL DRY
Much Prospecting and SIuicing Being DOne--Water Question
 is a Serious One.

The writer has just returned from ewo-weeks mushing trip to the Kouga- rok and return, and herewith appends few observations:
 Bosworth on No. 6 above on Iron creek, got an sS3 nugget the other day.
 Crabtree on No. , above is getting good pay.
 Sinnott, near the mouth of Coz prospecting, with fair .--'- ,..,yon, is On Homes'- .esult- .. ''Ne eek, tributary of Y,' '' .~er, Jensen, Peterson X ,-.ug are slucing, They cannot com plain, as water and rocks are quite plentiful. Mike Madigan, on Quartz is having a hari time of it. The Olson-Galvin outii' arr taking the water above Madi-
 .rll4u.tr. over tn Dahl, and Mike .', SOP. r~ t' nae no water to work AIj., aDd either don't Know or hasn't nerve cuua-h 10 Ee' out warrant. Lately he has been making several gun plays. shooting v.ld Last night, the 94th ult. Jerry Calvin layed for Mike with 3D-30 and took couple of shots at him. not attending to hit him, of cour.c, and when Mike heard the whiz of the bullets he ran so fast he took all the willows before him. Now Madigan is laying low, but No. , Dahl is still getting the water. The water ques- tion over there is a serious proposition.
 Bil Wooster located the pay on Mrs. Lanes bench on Dahl and was rocking out some money when Broncho Bill came along and stopped him. Wooster measured up the claim and got j0-foot fraction right on the pay.
 Steiner is putting in ditch opposite the point on Dahl 2o00 feet long taking the water out of small lake. Broncho Bill is putting in ditch 66O0 feet long, which is nearly finished getting the wlter out of Independence creek and bringing it down to the point on Dahl Nafong the right limit of Quartz to be used in sluicing the bench belonging to Tom and Mrs. Lane. The ditch when finished will carry water one foot deep and three feet wide.
 Al Carey and the Dahls, working on lay for Olson, fonnd the pay on right limit on Dahl on No. 3.
 The miners on Dahl were anxiously waiting for John Hinkeman alias Hinky Dink, with his bunch of live stock. If Vivian finds him out John will get all that's coming to him.
 Valentine has surveyed ditch from Taylor to Arctic creek on the kougarok to supply the benches on the left limit.
 Baird and Armstrong are sinking on the rich bench of Bobby Brown on the Buckhorn group on Homestake.
 The Anderson boys, on Anderson gulch, tributary to Windy creek, are sluicing when they have water. They have cleaned up from $500 to Sl,O0O a day, and when the writer was there the other day he helped shovel in for one hour, which was all the water they hao ana they cleaned up Sl25.
 Perry Eddy and Teddy Gledhill found the pay on the Tripple.fraction between Sand 6 on Henry creek.
 Il Leora"d Dodge and Sam Bassett struck good pay on enches above the left limit on Homestake.
 Banby, Lee Maj shall and Jim Mo Allis'er are sluiHing on ? below Mer- rit', eisfovery on the main Kougarok uoar mouth of Art t!c.
 S.nith Bro-. are running ditch from Go"ce creek around to the benches 400 feet above the river, where they are getting from l5e to 25e pans and big body Of gravel on the upper Kougarok. Skinny Wells aud Judd are sluicing on'fDroamy gulch, just telow Taylor cree. on upper Kougarok. Taking out satisrett ry pay, but everybody is pray ing for ,ain as th9 country is very dry.
 Ino. Alon has run two big cuts in the benches on the left limit of the Kougarok.
 Martell is sluicing on Eureka creek and the writer hopes he will take out enough 10 last him and his estimable | wi4e for the rest of their lives.
 ". E. Hawkes., who is freighting for Johnson, on Dahl, sold a half interest iu No. ? below Connoll's discovery on the main Kougarok, to Nels Christian son for slooo. cash, Blanch Monroe putt jag up the money. It is reported that Nels took out Il ten dollar pan. Joe Vint and Julius Gunderson came | over from the Schismareff country a few days ago where in the nelghbor-