The Nome daily nugget., 1911-03-15
Special Correspondence.)

Squirrel is all the excitement here Latest reports are encouraging. Fair pay is found on benches, both limits of Cleary creek for several miles We hope the report is true. Kobuk is our neighbor and some prospector may drop off here and give us a whirl. We have lots of ground unprospected.
 H. Greenberg, the big merchant ana mining magnate, has reached Candle on his way to Kobuk. He has a stor.. at kiana and has large interests in the heart of the pay belt The lucky Swede" is not in it with the lucky Jew"
 Advices from the outside inform Us that We are to have another powerful company in here next summer. C. H. ferbert and z. F.. Foster, pioneers ,f ttis section, have secured options on some of the finest property 3n the In machuk, the Dashley ground and the Wan West ground. We are informed that Messrs. Ferbert and Foster intend using dredge to exploit their property. Both those gentlemen are at present on the outside, but will be in early next year equipped to do busienss.
 Nome must be almost depopulated as We would infer from seeing and hearing of, the number of Nomeites passing through our district en route to kobuk Most of the mushers take the route via Council and Candle but the knowing old timers. who have made the winter trip into this section. al- ways travel by the Jagged trail via Kougarok. Good Hope and Inmachuk rivers to Deering from which point it is plain sailing over the ice to KobuI. It is far and away the shortest route from Nome. The new mail route is this way.
 D Buhr and Woodwork are getting their workings shaped up with a small crew on the Dashiey ground. but will PNN Ni d AuiA lolNt anu stacking up a dump permeated with that "root of all evil" gold. It is sin gular that good churchmen like De Buhr. Woodwork. Dave Chase Calame, otto Danielw and a host of other re- ligious men. who are usually mild man. nered. will strain their energies to the breaking point for that evil root How ever. nearly all Inmachukers are phil anthropists. and knowing that gold ex- Earth is not tainted money. they will do good with it.
 Chase and Ison. locally known as the silent ones" are quietly stacking up fine dump and saying nothing The two Dawes are great "sawyers of wood." and leave 1t for your corre- spondent to do the talking
 Judge Kepner. ertswhile commission CT for the Fairhaven mining district. has resigned his office and accepted a position with Merchant Greenberg in his Candle store. The judge says that there is now money in mercantile career in here. than in a judgeship We believe Greenberg would back the judge up in that assertion. We are a very moral crowd in here anyway, and there are not even enough squaw scrapes to keep a lawyer alive. and We believe lawyers can live on "black stone" or coke" which diet in here would keep them on very short rations indeed.
 Ike Johnson (Uncle Ike) single hand ed and alone. is sinking a hole on one of his many claims. headed towards bedrock. Uncle says that he does not need any help. and ws believe him. for Uncle had his training in the United States navy and Uncle Sam's boys are notorious for being able to hoe their own row wherever they are.
 'Scotty" Nicol and Harry Campbell both "canny" old countryk Scots. are keeping to themselves up on Cunning ham creek. Nothing Is heard from them; but we. who know them. are sat = isiied that they aer drilling all the time. Harry got his mining knowledge in