The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-07-26
LARGEST DISPLAY OF GOLD
Armed Guards Stand over Alaska Ex-
hibit at A.-Y.-P. Fair.
Seattle Times.)

Curiosity. which has been aroused by
the arrival in Seattle Of more than hsIf
a million dollars in gold from Alaska. can
be gratified if one will visit the Alaska
building at the Alaska-Yukon-P Pacific ex-
position. Upwards Of a half million dol
lars worth Of gold was placed on exhibit
there yesterday, and on Wednesday morn
ing an additional million i'm dust n11grafs
and bars viii be found on the pile Ii is
the biggest most costly single exhibit
ever shown at any worlds fair
Only on rare occasions is an autonO-
bile seen within the grounds of the ex-
position, but only a mild curiosity was
displayed yesterday afternoon when q car
drew up at the front door Of the Alaska
building. This, however, turned ewes big
with interest when the word was passed
around that the Alaska buildings gold
exhibit had arrived
The car, with its load OF more than
SiOGO09- had excited no interest until the
men who were in charge Of the treasure
closed while the gold was being taken
inside and arranged on the big, velvet
lined pan in the exhibit booth
In charge Of the gold during its trans
mission from the Scandinavian-Ameri-
can bank to the exposition grounds were
James c. Mcbride. Alaskan commissioner
70 the tair, and John Field. the mining
expert in charge Of the mineral exhibit
in the Alaska building. The two men and
the chauffeur were all heavily armed
while armed guards attended during the
o o.
to the place of exhibit
The same precautions which were axer-
clSed with the placing Of the exhibit YES
terc2y VIII be followed in caring for 4ba
golden treasure. 1t now rests in q steel
ana glass cage the whole surrounded biz
a steel cage. At night. the gold is dropned
INTO a steel vault and two guards stand
on watch all night.
The principal nugget in the collection is
the great lsO-ounce lump, owned bv Jafat
Llndeberg, president of the Pioneer Min
ing company or Nome. and one Of the
original discoverers of gold at Nome
This is the largest nugget ever taken
OUT OF Alaska, and Il has an interesting
history. A workman was sinking a boI6
Ior a post under a sluice box on Anvil
creek When ne encountered what he
thought was a large piece of gravel AZ
ter some difficulty he diglodged IT. snd
brought to the surface the huge nugget
mat lucky posthOle meant a 500 note m,
the spot, given to him By M Tfrda-
berg The two other large NUGGETS
oWneQ Dy me Nome millionaire and dis
prayed with the big one were tn ken
from near the same spot. There are
ection. -1i
The next collection in point Of value
outside the five bricks loaned by the
= ~ ileo states assay office Of this citv
ano valued at $4,000 is owned by Mrs
Clarence Berry Of Fairbanks She has
Two large nuggets on exhibitfon one
Weighing ll5 ounces. The s7OO00 worth
OF samples she shows are aIl the frIifs
80 on MIs, Berfys own panning Her hus-
Dahd told her she could have for herself
all OF the gold she panned off his ciair's
ana the efo.UoJ collection is the ras11ff
mere are number Of smaller cole.
tloIls represented. and among the most in
t5I5slihg thing shown is a gold flasl-
hammered out OF one nugget, and five