The Nome daily nugget., 1912-11-18
OF FicIAl PAPER.
NOME, ALASKA. NOV. 1s. 1912
THE TUNDRA.

Il t.as rsaliH to Ice tEc general
 opinion amongst mining men that tb.
 tundra holds pay m a far greater
 number of places than those discov-
 cred. The news of the past few days
 -"os q" pr".c this opinion to be very
 well founded and may have the ef-
 feet "f increasing prospecting activi-
 ties at this side uf the coast range
 for a i"ng distance up and down.
 lt stands to reason that the sea
 washing over such an extensive flat
 and and ,dicPositins eYegedlngly, rich gold
 could hardly have failed to make rich
 deposits in many intermediate. placesI where the bedrock and other condi- ti"ns were favorable.
 Away down. Us far as the creeks behind Cape Nome. layers of beach sands carrying gold can be found near The surface and several miles back from the present beach Just below Fort Davis pay has been found within half a mile of the present beac1. | Coming closer to the city pay has been found at various distances from sea water. Above Nome city gold is found | again under almost identicaIly similar conditions.
 The fact that the richest pay has been found near the city and the greatest number of strikes made there would probably be accounted for. off hand, hy the statement that the rich- est creeks are in the same neighbor- hood. Most people would say so at once and, perhaps. not many would place much weight on the suggestion that one particular reason why gold has been found oftener and better near the city is just because it Is ne1r the city. Does anyone positively be- hrve if the same prospecting were done above Snake river and below Nome river as had been done between them that several other strikes would not be the result?
 If good pay has been found on the present beach all the way up for d dozen miles or SO why is it not likely that old beaches might not be found directly behind?
 Of course, quite a bit of prospecting has been accomplished up there with out very encouraging results but when We remember the number of holes sunk sometimes on one claim before finally finding the pay NC must admit
 . the tundra twelve miles above Nome and down as far as Topkok. where the present beach has gold, did not yet receive the prospecting which H anyone could call anything like final. H
 We know that in the history of all II amps pay has often been found on 'laims after the original prospectors II lad punched several holes and quit in y despair. The tundra is one great placerl 'iaim four or five miles in width and iozens of miles in length. As with an 'rdinary claim the paystreak Is only egular at times. once it is on the eft limit. then on the right limit. tsen m one bench and the other. It is some ines not a streak at all strictly peaking but q deposit caused by the avorable nature of the bedrock which atches il.
 Some people seem to think since he strikes recently made near Anvii hat the third beach line will be found D follow the foot of the hill around E 3 the mouth of Glacier. It would be othing short of extraordinary if the Id beach deposits stopped abruptly Snake river while the deposits on le present beach continue for several iles further on. It would also be