The Nome nugget., 1923-08-11
MOORE PARTY OF
 GOLD SEEKERS
 ARRIVE NOME

The sailing schooner Fred J. Wood from San Francisco with the A. H. Moore party of gold hunters arrived in the Nome roadstead last evening and anchored.
 In an interview with the represen- tative of the Nome Nugget, A. H. Moore disclosed the following inten- tions and facts concerning the ex- peditio from Southern California.
 The Fred J. Wood which is sail tng schooner of 800 tons net capacity was purchased from the E. K. Wood Lumber Company in San Francisco by the Moore party and will be used exclusively by that corporation in the. interests of their mining operations here in Nome. The Moore contin- gent is absolutely Independent of any needed assistance according to MT. Moore. and enough provisions were brought from ,k statessta last the enf5fs party dullkt Il6. y+Ss4ay h Nome. which will be until late in October. when the party will again sail for the States for the winter months, during this time the scho0- her Wood will be equipped with power and in the early spring of 1924 will again return to Noms where the. mining activities of the company will be resumed for the summer months.
 The discharging of the cargo aboard the Wood will be started to- day and will continue until the en- tire cargo is on the beach. The cargo will be discharged by members of the party. using lighters that were built on the ship during the voyage t6 Nome. The lighters will be lowed to and from the ship by the power boat belonging to the Moore party.
 Mr. Moore states that the party aboard will be housed temporarily in the quarters owned by the Moore Company at the lower end of town at the foot of Moore's Way. and up- on the completion of the discharging of the cargo the party will proceed at once to the company's property located near Nome.
 Various camps will be esta ablished in the company's holdings, camps will be situated on Osborne Creek, Discovery Creek, on Flambeau river, another camp On upper Flambeau and one on Bldorado Creek, all these camps will keep in communication with each other thru the aeroplane which was brought. up with the party. After these camps are completed it is the intentions of the party to place in repair the dredge on Osborne Creek that was purchased from Vic- tor Julian by A. H. Moore last year, after this dredge is placed in opera tion the ditch line on Osborn Creek will be opened up and the work of biuChu6 Wlth tA0 8tO OI Lue WdC0r from the ditch started, this complet- ed, the work of fnishing the 45 mile ditch line owned by the Moore Com pany will be started and continued untA completed.
 The Nuggets representative paid visit to the schooner Wood upon the vessels arrival in the roadstead Thursday night and met the mem- bers of. the party which proved to be the best crowd of entertainers that the representative has had the pleas- ure of meeting in some time. The entire party are happy carefree Am- ericans of a high class. Co0kentmeut is manifest turnout the entire party, all the hammers in the world could not knock from the minds of those in the party the esteem in which \. H Moore is held. The party in like one big family, the following state msnA male by A. H. AIoore | sanc-