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The San Francisco call., 1910-01-02
NOM, m
GMW.
TEN YEARS

countless thousands of flowers OF all
colors and in hundreds of varieties ap-
pear both on the hills and in the val
leys, And the tundra mass OF
MOSES of various and beautiful shapes
and delicate colors. more than a foot
thick, and that sinks like velvet under
foot as you walk over it. soon attains
perfection in the warm sunlight. Lovely
as is the tundra on close inspection, it
has a more important mission than to
beautify the slopes of the northwest
it holds moisture like q sponge, con-
serves the surplus moisture in early
summer and, causing it to run of slow
". keeps alive the creeks and rivers,
thus lengthening the season for work
ing the placer mines. During the sum
mer the tundra is covered with berries
of many varieties, principal among
which are the blueberries, that are de-
lightfully favored and add materially
to the food supply of miners distant
from the base of supplies. Another
source of food supply are the streams
that TEEN with the finest favored fish
in the world: there are a half dozen
kinds of trout, greyling, whitefish, sal
mon and many others, of which dozens
may be caught in few minutes.
There are more than 700 miles of
creeks and rivers in the Nome district,
all of which are gold bearing. but on
which there has been very little actual
prospecting. Only superficial work has
been done on the outlying creeks, actual
development being limited to the imme
diate vicinity of Nome city. While oc-
casionally a claim is being worked hon
estly on the outlying creeks, on 50 per
cent there is no evidence of honest in
tent on the part of those who have filed
on them. With honest administration
of the laws nine-tenths of the claims of
the Nome district will be open for re-
location.
The geological formation in the Sew
ard peninsula is unlike that found in
other goldheIds. Elsewhere the richest
concentrate is found at bedrock; but
here il is where you find it, and more
often than otherwise there is no bed
rock" the gold being deposited among
coarse gracial float Or on veins of blue
clay Nor are the finds" limited to the
creek beds; the pay streak" being
found here on hillsides, in dry gulches,
in beach sands. in ancient beaches" as
well as in the beds of the streams. Some
of the richest deposits have been found
far up mountain sides among heavy
rocks, mica schist and volcanic rubble,
quence it is a most fascinating field in
which TO prospect and there are many
interesting stories told in Nome of rich
strikes" that have been made.
It is related that a tenderfoot came
Mp several years ago, and, landing
The San Francisco call., 1910-01-02
Eorr fIightIess Months
months there are night
IA which the streets are file

months tnere are night
in which the streets are filled
81 hours with cosmopolitan crowd
OF men, restless and tireless in the
rush for gold. During the remainder
OF the year the city is cut off from
steamship service, its front yard is
field OF ice that reaches to the shores
OF Siberia, while it's back yard is a
gold mine. There are many weeks
when the sun shines but a little way,
glimmers for three or four hours and
fades behind palisades OF ice, leaving
the people 10 darkness and unspeakable
loneliness until it reaches again it's
full bri1liance in spring and opens the
way for the return of the ships.
Back from the beach the country lies
comparatively level for two or three
miles, then commence hills and noun
tains that rise in gradually increasing
attitudes back to the arctic circle. a
hundred miles away. The trend of
these elevations is north and south,
forming divides 1000 or 1900 feet high
at intervals Of six or eight miles. Be
tween these divides are small rivers
into which flow, from the hill sides,
creeks that are rarely more than a
mile apart. There are numerous de-
pressions in the hill sides, called
gulches, that tend to make the country
more broken and difficult Of access to
wagons or other vehicles. The creeks
are fed By melting snow in spring and
later by rains. and slow melting gla-
ciers that lie, in many places. imme-
diately beneath the surface.
Early in September snow begins 10
fall and by midwinter attains depth OF
about 80 inches; the temperature then
ranges from 10 degrees FA renheft be-
low zero In ordinary weather 20 so de-
grees below during billiards.; the lat
ter. however. seldom last more than
three or four days.
Early IN May the snow commences to
melt, the creeks and rivers become
raging torrents and soon the hills and
mountains assume their summer garb
OF vivid green. There are no trees. but
on the hillsides, in clumps, and mark
fng the courses of the streams with
their silvery green foliage. hardy will
lows grow. AS the summer advances
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grass roots and with the help Of three
men shoveled out more than s1.00o,o00
in IL days.
Another party struck a pocket in a
gulch several hundred feet up hill
side and took OUT $4,000 In seven
hours. From this strike more than a
million dollars has been since taken.
Such finds as these have not been un-
common and have served to keep up
the excitement.
In 1897 the product of the district
was $4,000. In September Of the fol-
lowing year Chilberg and two other
Swedes struck it rich on Anvil noun
tain, about six miles back from where
Nome now stands, and the output In.
year gold was discovered in the sands
OF the beach and during the summer
500 men were sluicing there. in what
was probably the best poor mans
diggings" ever discovered. All made
from wages to home stakes of from
$4,000 to 100000 wages at this time
being S10 per day The seasons clean
up amounted to about sS.000.0Oo.
The greatest stampede the world
ever saw occurred the next year $4,000,
when $4,000 people, men, women and
children, struggled through the break
ers to the new Eldorado during the first
two weeks of the open season. Many
of these became wealthy, as the pro-
duction that year was s5,Oo0,000.
AS the beach workings were ex-
hausted shafts were sunk some dis
tance back in the tundra and here were
discovered, at depths of from so to 100
feet, what are termed the ancient
beaches" In these the richest deposits
were found; the gold was so plentiful
IN many places that the yellow parti-
cles could be plainly seen in the lighter
material. Single pans of this concen-
trate yielded over $1,000 worth OF gold.
Three of these ancient beaches have
been discovered between the beach and
the hills. They are supposed to be
The San Francisco call., 1910-01-02

NAORE than s50,0o0.BO Of placer
gold taken out" in 10 years
that is record of the Nome
district in the Seward peninsula,
Alaska. From small particles to mug
gets worth thousands of dollars it has
been scooped up, shoveled out or
washed from beach sands. from an
cient beaches" from creeks. from
gulches from hillsides. and yet there
has only been q beginning. The opin-
ion of experts is that there is more
gold here than in any area of similar
size IN the world.
Though more than 10 years old the
spirit Of Nome is still restless; it is
the spirit OF the gold seeker. the sea
farer, the victim Of wanderlust, and it
quickly gets into the visitors blood
Twelve years ago there was moth
ing here save the golden sands, the
sea that broke upon them and the
gray-green tundra slopes-there is not
a tree in 50 miles or more. Today
there is town of 5000 in summer
and 1000 or 1000 in winter-a town
N4AdN Ade mus 0A the tpllAoINo anu
many Of the luxRries that pertain to
older and more favorably located cities.
And such a town-so pagan and so
civilized, so crude and so refined. 1t
IS the gateway through which thou
sands of people OF all nations jostle
and crowd each summer TO and from
the goldhelds Of the northwest
Treeless and harborless it began, and
has continued, surmounting all OBJ
: stacles that stood in its way to be-
! coming q city Imagine three or four
miles of two and three story buildings
strung out on a low, ocean washed
beach, the back doors OF one side
OF the main street jutting over the
water. the town widening considerably
back on the tundra, all things jumbled
together-saloons. churches, clubs. gov
ernment buildings. banks. dance halls,
hotels hospitals millinery shops, life
saving station, steamship offices, wire
less telegraph. Eskimo villages. ware
houses, dredses. newspaper Offices
presenting the appearance OF having
been thrown into the air and left where
they fell-this is Nome city
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broke. as many do. went to work as
a teamster for a freighting outfit. He
was anxious to stake claim, II for
nothing else, as he stated it. $50 he
could write the folks at home that he
had one" But everything in the vicin-
ity of Nome that was considered Of any
value had been located. This, however,
did not prevent him from keeping con-
stantly on the outlook and question:
ing every one who would talk to him
about claims. One day, while hauling
some lumber out into the hills, an
other teamster, wearied of his lamen-
tations, pointed to a dry gulch half
way up a mountain side and said,
There is your claim. 1 don't see how
that was overlooked" The tenderfoot
seized some pieces of lumber from his
wagon and ran up the mountain and
staked the gulch, his friend meantime
laughing heartily at what he consid-
cred a good joke. A few weeks after
ward the tenderfoot got together SUM-
cient money to lay off few days to
do his assessment work. Every one
who knew him had a good laugh when
he went out, but few days later the
laugh was different. The tenderfoot
struck the pay streak" just below the
The San Francisco call., 1910-01-02

There are several companies that own
bitches delivering water in the vicinity
of Nome. but as these companies are
also engaged in mining, they use most
of the water working their own claims,
hence there is little chance for the
small or independent operator to hy-
draulic extensively The price of water
is high. during last season selling at
IS per miners inch per day. with very
little for sale at that.
While the general, principle of hy-
draulic mining is the same, the method
varies with the mine. the work being
done in no two alike. The illustrations
will give an idea of some OF the meth
DDS in vogue. as well as the formation
in which gold is found.
Government experts estimate that
there are $4,000 miners inches of water
fowing in the rivers OF the Nome dis
The San Francisco call., 1910-01-02
By Andrew Reid

TORE than s5O,Ooo.WO of placer
gold taken OUT in 10 years
that is record of the Nome
The San Francisco call., 1910-01-02
Water Is Expensive

bout S10,OO0 per mile.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1910-09-06
PUNAHOuP
INSTRUCTORS

Punahou had large contingent
on the Wilhclmina. Besides W. l..
whitney. trustee, and several re.
turning pupils, fourteen teachers
came. These included Miss c. p.
Dodge, Miss 4. !. Foster, Miss c. L..
Sheffield, d. Howard Hitchcock and
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles T. Fits Of the
old stan and list of new teachers
who come to take charge Of depart.
ments-Ernest T. Chase, the new d.
rector of the boarding department;
c. u. Barter, head of the science de.
partment: ID. J. Kicker, who Will
have charge Of athletics; Miss Fran
els -. Dillingham;, u niece of u. +.
Dillingham;. who will teach English .
Miss Lu y Crosby, for the CONNER
| cial department; Miss Aida Brooks
whore speciality Is oral expression
Miss Helen cambridge and Miss
Blanche Folsom, for the grades.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1910-09-06
TEACHERS CAME
home TODAY

Numbers OF teachers arrived from
vacations on the mainland by the
Wilhelmina this morning, and all
the neS teachers engaged in the
States for work during the present
school year have arrived and are
now on the ground.
Work at the Office of Superintend-
ent Pope of the Department OF Pub
lie Instruction is rushed these days
Just before the opening OF the schoo
year, and books ior the outlying dis
triots are leaving on every steamer
Many tea hers are calling ever!
day about their assignments, ant
some changes are being made, bu
, they are extremely few.
The school year opens next Mon
! day.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1910-09-06
NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.

Every copy of the Z en-.
ing Bulletin served on
the city carriers routes should
reach the subscriber by $50
p. m. Subscribers who fail
to receive the paper by this
time will confer a favor upon
the Bulletin circulation
department by telephoning
complaints to 1855, A special
messenger will deliver the
Bplletin after this honr
when name and address OF
subscriber are gwen
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1910-09-06
Tuesday. Sept. 6.

SALES-Betwecn Boards: 100 Haw.
c. q S. Co, siO.S7A; 100 Honokaa,
SlS.37la; so Onomei lex. DlvJ, $40.
Session Sales: $1,000 McBryde 6s,
$685.; $4,000 McBryde, s9S.25: 10
Haw. c. & $. Co.. siO12lg; 3 olaa,
S612is; 100 Olaa, $G.12E; olaa,
s612R.
GlVlDENDS-Sept. 5, 1910: Haw.
c. & S. Co, $50 SpD, 75c share; Ono
mea, lOc share; Honomu. 81 share.
---~-
Latest sugar quotation 4.425 cents
CT $3.50 per ton.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1910-09-06
STEPFATHER dies

Shcrin Henry yesterday received n
rablcgram announcing the death at
Lewiston, Maine, 81 his stepfather,
Jacob NJ. shaw, nj the age Of eighty
ears. Nj. shaw was the only father
Sheriff. Henry ever knew as his OWn
father was killed in the Civil Wat
when he vas 1 Young bOy.
The kindom waits for every day
kindness and justice.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1910-09-06
LOCAL AND GENERAL

The nickel tablet sold by the
Bulletin is the biggest and best
tablet for school work that can be
found.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1910-09-06

tablet for school work that can be
found.
Observation-Disclosures.
Try case of Pinectar II is pure.
Phone 1851.
Spend the week at lialtiwa. Every
thing attractive there.
II your horse or dog is sick. A. II.
Rowat, d. " s., phone 2429.
Do you want clean comfortable
room $3.50 or 81 week7 Call 1881
Fort st.
Rex Hitch ock Jr. departs for the
Coast on the Lurline today. He
goes to Harvard TO take up a course
of study.
See the new bathing caps in the
window at Benson, Smith 4 Co.'S
store at the corner of Fort and Hotel
streets.
Pay cash and ask for green stamps.
They're free. Call at the show rooms
and see what you get free for
stamps.
p. l.. Rice has been appointed
| ,t,rL ~ ia, KuuaI CircuIt Court by
80, 1T. r,o soior, IL ttoo
'uuee a.
P', no","' , :, "a. Auto
jerry noones 49,, aa.
No. 27O. Hotel and Union streets;
phone lo-o.
Commencing Sunday, August 2s,
the Bulletins phone numbers
will be. Business ONCE, 22ob; edl-
torial rooms, 2l85.
A number OF local medicos paid
n visit 10 the Institute OF Physio.
theraphy last evening and were
shown all through the building.
If you have a business or personal
message for some one on another is
land. use the Wireless. The rates are
low and COMMUNICATION instantan
oous.
For the very best beer served In the
very best way go to the Criterion, cor
ncr Of Hotel aud Bethel, where the
beer is served at Just the right tenn
perature.
There " no lPcosnI]e" i've 'e"'
cigar being s"M !" any extent .''"'
Is strictly unh' nidue as 10 '"o Wv
manu- "'au' ''E"' i'e""' ''''
'" s o,s , r,,o ,no ,pu.
Nv - 80, ,,,np,sn and donosi,o,
,nnn,hiv win coon crow into =, nd,
sur, Tho lam. NJ Hawaii LA Fort
and Merchant SITS
Emil Johnson, who received
bump at The skating rink Sunda'
evening that laid him out, came L
last night. lie Will pull through al
" right from now on.
The shoerest garments womal
ever wore can be sent to the FrencI
Laundry ~ King street with Tn
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1910-05-24
RAYCRAFT To
COMPLETE STATION
At MANHATTAN
WIRELESS APPARATUS IN THIS
CITY is NOW IN WORKING
ORDER.

Arthur Raycraft leaves this
morning for Manhattan where he
goes to complete the wireless tele-
graph station at that camp. The
local station was completed Sun
day and as soon as Mr.. Raycraft
has the northern station in work
ing order he will endeavor to COM
municate with this city.
An attempt was made Sunday
night to get in communication with
one of the coast stations, but no
success resulted. Considerable
trouble is caused by an arc at the
sub station of the power company,
which is near Mr.. Raycraft's resi-
dence, and it is possible that the
dispatches were arrested there.
Future developments will determ-
inc this and if it proves to be true,
the masts of the wireless may be
removed to another site
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1910-05-24
SERVIAN PRIEST
PAYS A VISIT To
THIS DISTRICT
ADMINISTRATOR OF SERVIAN
CHURCH OF NORTH AMER
ICA is IN TOWN.

Rev. Sebastian Dabovitch, admin
istrator of the Servian church of
North America, arrived from San
Francisco Saturday on a visit to
the local members of the church.
Reverend Dabovitch has held sew
eral services during his stay here
and last evening visited the Gene
terry and held brief services at
the graves of departed members of
the Servian church.
There is no Servian church in
Nevada and owing to the scarcity
of priests of this order in the
United States the visits of Rev.
Dabovitch are quite few. While this
is his first visit to Tonopah, he is
no stranger to the desert coun-
try, having held services at Can
dleria and Columbus, twenty years
ago. While here he is the guest
of Frank Mandich.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1910-05-24
THREE MILLS
TO Be OPERATED
At MANHATTAN
LEASERS AND OPERATORS IN
NORTHERN CAMP ARE
HARD AT WORK.

Gilbert C. Ross, who returned
from trip to Manhattan and
Round Mountain Sunday night
states that both camps look pros
porous.
Two mills are working in Man
haitian and the third (the Veith
milD will probably soon be moved
to Litigation Hill and there equip.
ped with five additional stamps, a
tube mill and possibly cyanide
plant.
DRY Wash" Tom Wilson and
several others are actively at work
on the placers. Gold from both
quartz and placer is being sent
out of Manhattan almost daily.
Mr.. Ross says that the Swan
son-Ross-Layn lease on the Earl
has about eight hundred tons of
good ore ready for milling and at
least two thousand tons more
blocked out. On the 250-foot lev
ell, two shifts are engaged in stop
ing an ore body at present seven
feet wide.
This ore runs between $40 and
$50 a ton. Stopping is also going
on actively on the 100-foot level.
On the whole Manhattan looks
more prosperous than for a long
time past. All that is needed is
capital to do some real mining.
And the capital could not be more
invested.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1910-05-24

and placed in the Miners hospital.
DR.. Grigsby stated that the knife
after entering the abdomen, must
have been given twist, for the in
testines were cut in a frightful
manner.
The wound bled profusely and
Clark was in weakened condi-
ton when he arrived here.
Both the Italians were placed
under arrest. Under Sheriff Mike
Catalan, of Esmeralda county ar
rived on the morning train and
took with him on his return to
Goldfield ]. Antonini, who, it is
believed, used the knife. The 9th
er brother was placed in Jail at
Millers.
There was considerable excite
ment in the mill city following the
affair and threats were made to
lynch the knife user. Had Clark
NiiSu uui Tic his III II WOulu nave
meant lynching, for he is quite
popular among his fellow employ
ees.
About five years ago Clark resid-
ed in Tonopah and is still well
known here. He is a quiet, unas-
Stunning person and very steady in
his habits. He is a member OF
the Miners Union.
There appears to be little doubt
that ]. Antonini is the person who
attempted Clark's life, although the
injured man is not positive. The
Italian was covered with blood
when arrested and his hands still
bore the stains. Dominick later
during the excitement denied hav-
ing committed the deed and blam.
ed his brother.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1910-05-24
NOTICE For PUBLICATION.

Serial No. O4S1S.
Department of the Interior, UAite6
States Land Office, Carson City, Me-
vada, March 20, 1910.
Notice is hereby given that the Az
tee Land and Cattle company, limiteA
a corporation, organized and existing
under and by virtue of the laws Of
the state of New York, has filed IN
this office its application to select,
under the provisions of the act of
congress approved June 4th, 1897 (Sh
Stat. $50, the northeast quarter of
the northeast quarter of section nine
teeen (19); the east half of the south
east quarter and the southeast quar-
ter of the northeast quarter seq
ton eighteen 1S); all in township
(4) north. range forty-four CAD east,
Mount Diablo base and meridian.
Any and all persons claiming adverse
ly the lands described, or desiring 10
object because of the mineral charac-
ter of the land, or for any other rea-
son, to the disposal to the applicant.
should file their affidavits of protest
in this office, on or before the 17tA
day of May, 1910.
LOUIS ]. COIN,
Register.
Date of first publication April 10,
1910.
Date of last publication May 81.
1910.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1910-05-24
USES
KNIFE IN QUARREL
At MILLFRS
John Clark Attempts to Act as Peace
maker and Receives Wounds That
May Result in Death.

In an endeayor to prevent an al
tercation between friend and two
Italians at Millers Sunday night, ].
w. Clark, an employee of the Des-
ert Power and Milling company,
sustained injuries that may cause
his death.
The trouble happened in Sted-
mans saloon. Clark had just come
off shift and had stopped in the
saloon for minute. While there
a fight arose between a person
named Kane and two Italians, ].
Antonini and Dominick Antonini
brothers. Clark endeavored to
separate the three and in the scuf-
fie, j. Antonini stabbed him in the
abdomen. The details are rather
conflicting but according to the
story OF Clark, one of the broth
ers held him while the other WELD
ed the knife. The wound is Just
below the navel and four intes-
tines were severed.
Willard Kearns, who attempted
to aid Clark also received cuts, the
knife making a cash on the left
hand and in the abdomen, but nei-
ther of the wounds are serious. An
Austrian who engaged in the scuf-
fie in attempting to wrest the knife
from the Italian, received scratches
on the breast and hip.
Immediately following the affray
a telephone message was sent to
this city and Drs. E. S. Grigspy
and E. K. Smith fastened to the
scene in on of the Consolidated
Auto company's cars Kearns, al
though injured himself, aided the
medicos in dressing the wounds of
Clark who was brought here later
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1910-05-24
NOTICE.


IN the district court of the fifth
judicial district of the state of
Nevada in and for the county of
Nye.
In the matter of the estate of
that Sophie E. Williams has filed
NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN.
that Sophie E. Williame has filed
with the clerk of said court, a De-
tition praying for the admission to
probate of an instrument purport
ing to be the last will and tesla
ment of Joseph T. Williams, de-
ceased, and for the hearing of
the application of Sophie E. VIII
liams for the issuance to her of
letters testamentary thereon; and
that Tuesday, the S1st day of MAJ.
A. d. 1910, at two o'clock D. m
the same being day of the regu-
lar session Of said court, at tina
court house, and in the court room
thereof, in the town of Tonopan.
county of Nye. state of Nevada,
has been set by the court for the
hearing of said petition, when AMI
where any person interested may
appear and show cause why said
petition should not be granted.
In witness hereof, have hero
unto set my hand and affixed the
seal OF said court, this 18th dav
OF May, A. ID. 1910.
tSeaD ROBERT G, POLL,
Clerk of court.
by LOWELL DANIELS. Deputy.
T. r. Keller. attorney for petit
Toner. 5-i5 to 81 inc.