The Nome daily nugget., 1910-12-09
Special Correspondence.)

DEERING. Nov. 10-We are just now getting the desirable winter wea- thcr to enable us to set things moving Up to few days ago We have had nothing colder than zero, and that only at night. while the days have been warm. The marshes. slouehs and river crossings along the trail had not hard . ened sufficiently to make freighting perfectly safe. We have not had much kept the tundra so moist till the freeze up, that sleds slip along the trail with out friction, regardless of lack of snow. The last few days the thermometer has kept below zero and freight moving is progressing merrily. Quite number of claims will Ne worked this winter. besides considerable prospecting will be done. This section is barely scratch ed. and it is only a matter of time when Nome will have in the mmachuk section one of her greatest business tributaries.
 Charles M. Garfield. the lava enthus- fast. is clearing cut his tunnel. which sloughd great deal during the sum mer. and will extend it to his latest find, 25 foot depth of gold bearing wash gravel. The channel Mir. Garfield has discovered is high one. His tun- nel begins on the side hill. left limit. of Perry creek, a tributary of Pinnel river. He has q track and cars with which to handle his dirt. Being so high up he will have to depend on snow water to wash up with in the spring for which he is prepared with a large reservoir and ditch along the water shed of Pin mel MT. Garfield has his own team hauling up supplies from Deering.
 Ernest Fox, another firm believer in the existence of a rich lava channel has his provisions. supplies hauled up from the coast, and has a team now engaged bringing coal over from the kugruk coal mine. MT. Fox uses a steam tram to bring his dirt out of the tunnel. His workings are on the left limit of lnmachuk off the Utica river claim.
 The mmachuk section is the proud rGssessor of an anomalIy. It uhe anomallyD is q perambulating postof- flee. Otto Daniel, who We are inform ed has recently been appointed post master for this section. has two places e, business: one at this town of Deer inGs. and the other up river on the ttica mining claim. When NIT. Daniel moves from one place to the other the rcSt"fii2c moves with him: they are 'ne ard .nscparable However. MT Daniel will make it a point to be up al the Utica claim to meet mail carrier who does not come to Deering, the Fostofilce authorities having sidetrack- cd this town in the new route sched- ule
 We are just in receipt of our first mail overland. via Utica mining claim up river. which is the terminus of the mail route. The carrier reports the trail in poor shape. He had To drop a part of his load away back. This mall should have reached us before navigation closed.
 A lot of our boys got away during the fall for Squirrel river. and a mum Der of others Nyara Nuai,,,.. ,,, ,k1 IN.,.. bury to come from Nome to take them over. Some had gone to Nome for out its and engaged passage and freight on the Duxbury. That boat started all right. but was held storm bound so long that she was forced to return to Nome. So there are Kobukers strand et everywhere. However. Kotzebue sound is freezing mp now, and the stranded ones here will be able to sled over before great while.
 Dick Hoogendon. owner of the rich No. l below Pinnel, has gone to the outside. He figures on hydrauliclling No. l with lot of his other Inmachull claims.
 Neal HoOgendorn. brother oG Dick. stops with us this winter. He is look ing after his own and his brothers af- fairs and also attending to the prop "rty belonging to the Inmachuk Gold Mining Company of Hannum creek. d Seattle company. which expects (" re sume operations next summer
 Frank Knapp Jack Weeks and Alex. Sicotte. while waiting for sledding across the sound to Kobuk have gone in with Larry Stevenson to prospect some Hugruk property.
 otto Daniels is the busiest man on the river Experimenting his own and the F. ". Co. affairs and packing the pOstofiice around on his back. keeps him on the keen jump.