The Nome daily nugget., 1911-07-12
SEEN AND HEARD

] H. Mclean has orders for five hand drills to be completed at once for the Good News bay country. The drills will be taken over on the Seddun that is two sets and the balance on the Mary Sachs. which are supposed to leave in the next week or SD for that camp.
 There will be quite q number of prospecting outfits taken in to the Good News bay country this summer and the bedrock should be reached through the medium of the drill and sand pumps being taken over even II the country is water logged
 John j. MCGrath in writing tn Nome from Ruby creek says he will be in this camp before many weeks He is making a tour ot Alaska for the ? l.. gathering material for the Alaska edi- ton also to handle the Alaska depart mcnt of the paper during the winter. much the same as J. J. Underwood is writing the Alaska dope for the Seattle Times.
 George Prusscr. the harness maker. was a passenger on the senator. He expected to go into the IditarOd coun- try this summer with large outfit but reports from the inland city did not warrant the taking an outfit so he has sailed on a business trip to Seattle and san Francisco Mir Prosser will have his leg treated while on the outside for it has been hothering him again rhis spring. it being an old sore due tu a kick from a horse years ago
 To timber one of the best looking quartz mines here in the vicinity of Nome it required four thousand feet of lumber. and the shaft is only one hundred feet deep. The cause is the sloughing that has been going on dur ing the three years the owner has been prospecting the ledge. Every winter the owner would prospect on the ledge and the shaft not being timbered the ground caved in for many feet around the opening during the summer.
 The Pioneer Mining Company's go devil" as many call their new traction engine is proving a success It will take a five ton load up over the DeX- ter divide with ease and will haul loads up to the limit it is expected to do over the tundra The machine is prov
 ing the proper power for transportation of freight over the tundra where wag- on roads have not been constructed.
 The jury brought m a verdict of not guilty in the case of the government vs George Prendergast. who was brought to Nome over the ice from Seward last winter, charged with sell
 ing liquor to the natives and having jumped his bond over year ago.
 Frank Kleinschmidt. the hunter and mail contractor. who has been writing stories for the magazines on Alaska was a member of the crew that came north on the Polar Bear the new trad. ing schooner with gasoline power built by Louis Lane during the past winter near Seattle.
 NJ. McGovern. writing to Manager Taggart of the Pacific Cold Stnrag, Company from the Iditarod under dat, of June 24 states he had just return ed from the Kuskokwim river countr1 which is now frost, although tht place looked good last fall He state the country may turn ont to be goo, yet. but the present indications arr such that the prospector is not war Iranted in spending his time over there | The Iditarod does not book any tou good and the only talk over in tha section Of the country is the new strik at Ruby. but there Is little news to 2, on from that place also.