The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-07-01
One Hundred Million Dollars
Worth 81 Gold--Mincs Of Cape
Nome and Se war Peninsula.
EXTENSIVE NEW RAILROADS.
Alaskan Central to BE Opened to.
Traffic. This Month w De.
partmei1t is Doing. s86
by Frank q Carpenter.

hhNDSS y * 80 - -
ALASKA BUILDING, sEATTLB. June
81 writc these notes Ii Sths heart 81
4 Alnska.s great commercial metropolis,
Seattle \ am III the ALASKA Club, SUR
rounded ny 'neinberss from the KlondikA,
banks, Ketch!kan, sitka and juneau; And
at my Show "a Nj. ". M. shefield, the
secretary. Upon tho walls nre photo.
graphs showing I'LL phases OF lite iii our
treasure land of the Arctic, Here lisa
picture OF "a railroad Nwllose tracks iie
nearer the pole than any other on earth.
srids there All automobile. filed with e..
KINDS puirIng saiotig on tie edge o. Cape
Nome. About the room nres specimens OF
wild hay. Alaskan rpR ns vegetatdes and
or the table arc numerous nuggets Of
copper, silver and gold locked up b
glass caneA.s Before coming up, y stopped
1.-THE gcandinavlan Bank, on tho ground
floor to look at some gold which had
Just come IN. II WAS brought out from
the vaults by the cashier In a plain
canvas bng Sof the same size as those
which our Virginia boys use for chest
nuiting. II would bold, I fudge. peck.
and III was half foil 3ofs dust. grains. peas
and $gteat nuggets OF gold. The cashier
bent over $as lie carried ltf In, and he
asked me u lift II. 38did so, and ~
5OpAbaEA liz Ap%IthS 1890 ltlSsNMSSS4S
I manages however. q get IL upon&the
table. We united tho leather drnw-string
and picked out three nugRets-pne worth
S9a,bCO.@ S mother 81, 400 and A third 31.S00.
Each had u bit %of dirt here and there
5ac1inging to It. but aside from this was
nothing but metal. The nuggets were soft
and had worn somewhat In carrying. 1n-
deed. tho cas- hier told me that w cents
gworthsof gold rubbed away cs,ery t!i;;s the
bag e handled. The dust work its way
"a into the cloth, ana tie bags are event
3uallys burned and the gold$Ssnyed when
the stun III sent to- the mint.
Thirty MillionED Dollars Year.
IL md these sAtaskans enthusiastic over
their mines. They talk big and their.
Abatement should be taken with ~ feW8$
ssraaIirnhs 81 salt. 8Gss They are claiming low
That Alaska will eventually produce
enough gold TO pay Dur national debt
and that twill soon be turning outEan
annual product greater than ithat%5oft8
Colorado It is claimed that IS. y 300 orE
O.00o.o 10 worth has been mined within
the past year. and that the territory may
IT some time produce e. much az TIRES
Zines $.this5 q amount. 5$A According to Sthe
latest report sof Uncle SANG oftLce5
here In Seattle, AZ had takep In upSttoE
IunneE 80. 1875 .Nmnrs than $l0D,1 ,n0 worth
apfs s1Ktold.5 ThIs Swas the total Of there
S$acaipts since St,s opening OF to sontceS "a
1895, and 1t weighed altogether 90 tons
lavoird 3 Think - that s Two hum
5dred5F tons Of solid gold! SsA ton q q oood
agohIooad ffor aI%%two-horse team. and i,
would take two hundred such teams To-
drag that golden burden. of#ths WHO'S
from Cane Nome. or the above amount
the assay ONCE that almost eigh-5
teen million dollars havs bsSn8 ssnt In
from tnhpt point. and a should lhau not$like
to quote their claims for tho future 40: Ao1
cotrding ITO gSSthe Alaska Club men they
are the gold out Of the beds
81 Tn, streams as well as from oil EnloIlg}
he beach. Anvil Greek has produsedl5
more than III million dollars worth
8it8Sis said that nosaSone can predict as.
10 ttsa future until the benchesShave been
ssJluiced down8fand the 3tailings rewashod.s
Rlchia discoveries have baen made 8along
the base of Anvil Mountain, and Sllttle
discovered q placer at its foot. the gravel
from which yielded $50 per pan. ~
sR,lse-acres trophesied What b mine
would turn out something like million
dollars, worth OF gold lin one year.
All about Cape Nome gold Is being
washed from the streams. A mining &ex-
pert recently said that standing on on;
Anvil Mountain one could look on more
placer gold values than from y otAleelr
noint III the world. There Is space
fhereSabout six miles wide and nine milas,
long which 10 said TO be one OF the
richest spots Ans northwestorn Alaska
ss Gold has been mined on the shores OF
fhA sea for q distance OF forty miles fro
Nome to the 6lnuk& River, and has been
found to pay. This first successfulS beach
digging was done about ago.
when there was q great rush from the
craeks. and II q short time 800 miners Ok
racted two million dollars worth Of
dust. Or an average OF four thousand
I dollars per man. aMuchsof this sold was
FOUND an layers OF ruby . It was
fine. but not scale gold. The bod rock lay
from four TO- eight feet below the sur
gface, and good payIdirt was usually found
when II was reached IA little q later on!
ali kinds Of machinery were paoy
and some mon trisd to get the gold out
I ofsthe sands from beneath the seaS water,S
such attempts have usually failed,
The Seward Peninsula.
eeward Pep,nsulat IL being psppered with
" mining companies. A great deal OF rhe
mining there d done By dltching, 2
there are several hundred miles OF dltohss
* already dug, representing an investment
4 az something Ike two million dollara,
AgThesa dltchss are gnscessary 9 placer
mining, the water being carried up 2
down hin, through Iron pipes. andSflnally
us Z ia ar numbet Of ditch companies
nave been organized. each ot which has
~. own mineral properties, have be-
fore ne q little book gotten out by the
nitixens Of Nome and Seward Peninsula
whioh mentions tho names of 2 number
81 tie companies. ! s count Twenty-Five
combinations, most q, them Eeptes ons
considerable capital, In addtuon4 quarts
liver mines and mines q copper and TN,
Corporations IN Alaska,
"A great deal OF eapltal y eSn'l't Y, ;n tse
States. Nearly every big industry there.
a eanIitsi in other parts OF the Union:
There are more than one hunaseG a Hha
fifty different oorporations lls1ea tH,.Ms
Almanac of the Alaska Club here, eovI
sr,ng every kind of investment lFo'n.Msh
tLEStsLIIR9fAN ~ "a, q EatF pherAN Av6t vuEl.