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In The News
A WORD OF INTRODUCTION.
The Gold Digger, which appears today for the
first time, asks of the public only such support as it may merit.
Nome Gold Digger
Nome, Alaska
Vol. 1, No. 1
Wednesday, October 25, 1899.
Page 1.
BONANZA PLACER MINES OF NOME.
Remarkable Facts Incident to their Discovery and
Product.
ANVIL CREEK A TREASURE BOX
Yielding $300 and $400 Nuggets and Up To $32 A
Pan.
W. H. Price Said to Have Cleaned up $192,000 --
Charles D. Lane will Clear $1,000,000.
Development of Snow, Dexter, Buster, Glacier and
Other Creeks - Nichola Gulch the Source of Anvil Gold.
[By the Rev. D. J. Elliott, Superintendent of the
Hultberg, Lindbloom, Lindeberg and Brynteson Mines.]
This is certainly, speaking temperately, one of
the richest gold districts that has ever been known. There are claims on
the creeks about Nome that will rusprise the whole world.
These mines begin about five miles northwest of
town, and are situated on Snow, Anvil, Glacier, Dexter, Buster and some
other creeks and gulches.
Richness of Snow.
Snow gulch which is enormously rich, only has
four claims on it. Nos. 1, 2,and 3 are owned by the Pioneer Mining Co.,
and No. 4 by Chas. D. Lane, of San Francisco, who bought it for $20,000.
Nuggets have been found on these claims worth
$150 each. There has been taken out of Snow gulch during the past summer
between $300,000 and $400,000. The gulch has a length of but one miles,
and each of the four claims on it is 1320 feet long.
Bonanzas of Anvil Creek.
The first discovery on Anvil creek was made about
a year ago by N. O. Hultberg, the Golovin bay missionary, and was
followed by locations by E. O. Lindbloom, Jafat Lindeberg and John
Brynteson. The whole of Anvil creek was staked by these four, and by W.
H. Price, Dr. Gregory, Wm. Kjellman and two Laplanders. The Pioneer
Mining Co., of which I am superintendent, and in which Messrs.
Lindbloom, Lindeberg, Brynteson and their associates are owners,
possesses discovery claim and No. 1 below and No.'s 1 and 3 above, of
the entire eighteen claims on Anvil. No. 2 below on Anvil was sold to
Chas. D. Lane, for $75,000 cash.
Dexter Creek.
On Dexter Creek numbers 2, 3 and 8 are owned by
the Pioneer Mining Co. Dexter owns No. 1, Lindbloom No. 2, Robt. Ling
No. 3, R. T. Ling No. , John Brynteson No. 5, Lindeberg No. 8. The
others up to No.'s 11 and 12, which comprise all the claims on Dexter
creek, are owned by other persons.
Source of the Large Nuggets.
No. 1 below on Anvil is a bonanza. That is where
the $300 and $400 nuggets were found. It is only four or five feet to
bedrock. The ground pays up to $32 a pan. It has a wide pay streak.
_____ays over the whole claim. We have had up to $13,000 and $14,000 in
different clean-ups, and have turned out about $115,000 from the claim
this summer.
No. 2 above on Anvil is owned by P. H. Anderson,
3 by John Haggalin, 4 by A.E. Carlson, founder thirteen years ago of
Unalaklik mission, 5 by N. O. Hultberg, the original discoverer of gold
in the Nome district, 7 by Dr. Kettleson, former superintendent of the
Easton reindeer station. No. 8 above is owned by W. YH. Price. He has
cleaned up about $192,000 from it.
Mines of the Laplanders.
No. 9 is owned by the Swedish missionaries of the
Golovin bay station. No. 10 and 11 were owned by the two Laplanders,
Michael and Johan Tornenses, but they were bought out by Mr. Lane for
$90,000. Lane will clear $1,000,000 on his properties here. Anvil creek
is a big creek, being five miles long and having sixteen claims, 1320
feet long.
Tributary to it is Nichola gulch, which has two
claims on it. It is really the source of the Anvil gold. The Laplanders
owned this gulch, formerly, but they sold out to Lane, and he now owns,
on the different creeks and gulches, forty or fifty claims.
All these claims, without exception, are very
rich. Five or six have not showed up very rich yet, but as soon as they
get on the pay streak they will.
Yellow Metal on Other Creeks.
Then comes Glacier creek. This is a wide stream,
and, if there is any pay streak there, it will be a wide one. The gulch
is about 600 feet wide. Glacier is seven miles long and has fifteen
claims above and seven below discovery. Only 2 below and 3 above have
been developed and they have shown up quite fairly.
Rock creek, three miles long, has twelve claims
on it. The Pioneer Mining Co., owns the claims there. I think it will
show up well. Just as work closed down the men came on to a pay streak
containing nuggets of $1 and $1.50. It is about five or six feet to
bedrock.
Lindbloom creek, Grouse creek and one or two
others, all tributaries of Snake river, will I think show up well.
On Nome River
Nome river district - Dexter is a tributary of
Nome - and quite a number of tributaries on the east side show up well,
but very few claims have been developed. Next summer, however, they will
be.
We ought to produce next year from these placers,
$10,000,000.
Anvil, Snow and Dexter yielded about $1,000,000
worth of gold. The beach mines also produced about $1,000,000.
During the past summer about 200 men worked on
Snow gulch and Glacier creek, and 250 on Anvil creek. On Dexter only
rocking was done. The gold will come out of there early next spring.
Probably 650 men in all worked on the creeks. Two thousand men worked on
the beach.
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COST HIM HIS LIFE.
Finale of Thomas Murphy's Recapture of $75,000 in
Gold.
Thomas Murphy, for about twelve years chief
painter for the Pacific Mail Co., San Francisco and for several months
past a resident here, died a few days ago off typhoid fever. The remains
were sent to San Francisco on the steamer Cleveland. The deceased was 34
years old and left a wife and young son.
The cuase of his death, it is said, is directly
traceable to exposure contracted at the time Jafat Lindeberg's tent on
Anvil creek was robbed of a box containing $75,000 in dust. The thieves
got the gold, but it was too heavy for them to get away with, being
hotly pursued by Murphy. It was wet and cold, and the exposure caused
him to become ill, the illness eventually developing seriously. Murphy
had a great many friends here.
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GOLD KING'S PARTNER SHOT.
Frank Gillis, a partner of Alex. McDonald, the
gold king of the Klondike, was shot through the right leg, just below
the knee, Tuesday night near the A. C. Co.'s warehouse, by Joseph Lyne,
the city patrolman and watchman for the company. Gillis had been
drinking heavily, and had fallen in with three rough characters at
present unknown. Some or all of these men were carrying away boxes of
canned goods of the company. Lyne shouted to them, asking what they were
doing. Three dropped their boxes and ran.
An instant later Lyne discharged his weapon and
shot Gillis. The wound is so bad that his leg may have to be amputated.
Gillis appears to bear an excellent reputation. He used to pack Alex.
McDonald's gold from Eldorado to Dawson, and in one instance had
$111,000 entrusted to his care. An investigation will be made into the
case later. Chief of Police Eddy said he considered Lyne justified in
what he did. Gillis in connection with McDonald, is the owner of
valuable mining property here. He is now in the A. E. hospital. Gillis
was formerly of Woolley, Wash.
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City Treasurer James Rudd, who has been an inmate
of the City Hospital for a few days past, owing to an attack of fever,
is improving.
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Page 2.
MINING MILLIONAIRES LEAVE.
John Brynteson, Jafat Lindeberg, E. O. Lindbloom
and N. O. Hultberg, the mining millionaires, have taken their departure
for the outside. Mr. Lindbllom left about a week ago for his old home in
Okalnd, and the others took their departure on the Roanoke for Seattle
and San Francisco. Mr. Lindeberg had for some time been ill at the U.S.
military hospital, but had improved considerably. He was accompanied by
his physician, Dr. James Miller.
The fortunes which have been acquired by these
great mine owners in a short time are colossal and the story of their
adventures is stranger than fiction. One was a missionary, another was a
sailor and the others had been tossed out and buffeted in the world,
apparently without hope of ever attaining positions of affluence. Others
connected with them in their mining enterprises on the different creeks
and gulches, have been, perhaps, equally successful.
Mr. Lindbloom is credited with owning
thirty-eight claims on Anvil, Snow, Dexter and glacier creeks; Mr.
Brynteson with eight placers on Anvil, Dry, Dexter and Snow creeks, and
a quartz property on Snow; Mr. Lindeberg with eight placers on the same
creeks and on Rock and Moonlight, besides a quartz property.
As for Mr. Hultberg, his possessions are as
great, but he is perhaps, in every way as distinguished as a rich owner,
but more so as a miner, because of his discovery of the phenominal
placers of Nome. All these owners will return in the spring. The mines
they possess are, largely at least, incorporated under the name of the
Pioneer Mining Co. These men carried aeay with them, so their friends,
say, "a barrel in gold," aggregating a very large sum. Dr. Kittleson,
who left a few days before them, took with him 500 pounds of gold, or
about $100,000.
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PERSONALS.
Ex-Mayor W. D. Wood, of Seattle, who owns a
number of mining interests here, left for Seattle on the steamer
Cleveland.
Wyatt Earp who was deputy U.S. marshal in Arizona
at one time, and who is a celebrated personage in nearly all the mining
camps of the country, lfet on the steamer Cleveland for San Francisco.
Dr. F. N. C. Jerauld, assistant health officer,
is severely ill with typhoid.
J. H. James, proprietor of the news store here
and also of a similar store at St. Michael, sailed Sunday on the Homer
for Porterville, Cal. On his return to Alaska in the spring he will make
Nome his permanent headquarters.
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Page 3.
RICH MISSIONARIES DEPART.
N. O. Hultberg and P. H. Anderson, of Golovin
bay, and A. E. Carlson of Unalla Hik, missionaries of the Swedish
American Society, who have been here for some time, have sailed for
different places on the Pacific coast. Mr. Carlson has been unwell for
several weeks, but has improved sufficiently to start away. These men
are all owners of fine gold properties. Mr. Hultberg is the possessor of
No. 5 below on Anvil creek, concerning which he said:
"It has panned out from 50 to 75 cents a pan in
some instances, and lots of pans have yielded as much as 25 cents each.
There are other properties in the vicinity just as good."
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NEW SIXTY ROOM HOTEL.
Frank Sanders, who left here a few days ago,
will, so he stated, return about June 10, bringing material for a sixty
room hotel and a stock of supplies to outfit it.
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Mrs. Florence Shaw, formerly proprietress of the
Bank Cafe at Dawson, has bought the Pioneer restaurant from Frank
Sanders, and has already taken charge. Mrs. Shaw's Dawson friend and
others here will find a great variety of fare at the Pioneer.
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PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
ATTORNEYS.
Hubbard, Beeman & Hume, Attorneys
F. W. Mettler, Attorney At Law and Notary Public
Milroy, Hannum & Milroy, Attorneys at Law (W. J.
Milroy, C. S. Hannum, R. B. Milroy)
Whittlesey & Fink, Lawyers, Notaries Public
W. H. Bard, Attorney at Law, criminal and civil
practice; 8 years practice in U.S., 2 years in Yukon Territory, Canada.
Rosener & Pittman, Attorneys at Law, mines; real
estate.
PHYSICIANS.
E. M. Rininger, M.D.
Dr. W. T. Miles, physician and surgeon
Dr. H. Newton Kierulff, surgeon
REAL ESTATE.
Miller & Wilkinson (George J. Miller; H. C.
Wilkinson)
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Page 4.
TWO BOLD ROBBERTIES.
Mrs. Florence Shaw Loses $1,700 in Nuggets and
Cash.
James Starr also Parts with an $800 Sack While
Talking with a Friend.
On Friday evening Mrs. Florence Shaw, owner of
the Pioneer restaurant, was robbed of a satchel containing $1,700 in
gold dust, nuggest, coin, and currency and a draft for $1,500 on New
York. The robbery took place in the rear of the restaurant. Mrs. Shaw
had just come in from down town and laid her stachel on a table for a
few minutes while talking to the day cook.
"Waiter John Hall was changing his shoes, and sat
right at the table, said Mrs. Shaw, "and James Powers, the night cook,
was around there. There were probably others. However, the satchel was
not on the table more than five minutes. The loss, coming on top of an
investment of $3,400, is heavy, especially for one who has just arrived
here."
The police have since arrested Hall and Powers,
and also Curley Carr and C. P. Hansen, and are holding them on
suspicion. Mrs. Shaw has notified a Seattle bank to stop payment of the
draft, and she expects to get that much back, thought it will not take
the best part of a year to do it.
Stole His Bag of Money
James B. Starr, who owns the Anvil saloon, was,
on Friday afternoon, also robbed on $800 in gold dust. It seems he had
$800 in dust in each of his coat pockets and on top of the bag in his
right pocket, he also had $680 in gold and currency. He thrust both his
hands in his coat pockets, and started up town to deposit the money in a
safe. On the way he met an acquaintance and the two finally got into
quite an acrimonious conversation. In his excitement Starr took out his
hands and gesticulated. A few moments afterward, when he had passed on,
he missed his bag of money. He had his suspicions, but he could not
prove anything. Mr. Starr sailed for San Francisco a day or two later.
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J. A. Ellis and J. F. Ellis have sold their half
interest in the large two-story building just west of the city hall to
J. C. McCann, a wealthy resident of Oakland, who has been here for some
time, and who owns other real estate as well as mining interests. The
building is to be used for business. The Ellis brothers left for San
Francisco on the Cleveland. They will charter a schooner and bring up a
load of goods in the spring. J. A. Ellis will visit his old home in
Beverly, Mass., before he returns.
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WILL EMULATE GRACE DARLING.
Ladies Trained in Hospital Work Come to the Aid
of the Sick.
Miners Hold on Enthusiastic Meeting and Rally to
the Hospital's Support.
Among the arrivals on the Bertha to labor among
the sick at Nome were six ladies who expected to care for the sick at
the St. Bernard hospital. As, however, a large portion of the hospital
was lost in the recent storm and construction of the building has been
delayed, they will assist in hospital work at the old building of the
Alaska Exploration Co., where Dr. L. L. Wirt has been engaged for some
time.
These ladies are Miss H. V. Harbaugh and Miss
Elizabeth Benton, of Oakland; Mis Rosa Lamont, of San Francisco; Mrs. J.
Tiedemann and Miss Vivian Tiedmann, of New York, and Mrs. Wirt. Dr.
Tiedemann is also at the hospital assisting in the work. There are now
ten patients in the hospital. The ladies who arrived are all trained
nurses.
Miners Lend Aid.
The miners and others of Nome are rallying to the
support of the St. Bernard hospital. On Saturday night there was a large
meeting in the Brown-McCann building, presided over by commissioner
Alonzo Rawson. Dr. L. L. Wirt recited the loss of a large portion of the
hospital and supplies in the storm. He said that it was urgent that
something be done.
Judge Rawson, Mayor Cashel, Rev. Dr. Young,
Deputy U.S. Marshal Lee and others ______ _____ing Dr. Wirt and his
associates of their cordial support. They and others at once subscribe
$125 a month in aid of the hospital, to continue through the winter or
longer. Others subscribed material, labor and money to the total amount
of $100. The object is to increase the support to $1,000 a month. To
this end a committee of ladies will canvas the city. The ladies met at
the residence of the Rev. Mr. Elliott on Tuesday to formulate their
plans.
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EXPLORED THE FRANKLYN MOUNTAINS.
Chas. D. Stanstrom, formerly engineer of the U.S.
gunboat Nictheroy, and connected with important explorations in the
Franklyn mountains of the far north, left on the Roanoke for Seattle and
the east. While absent Mr. Stanstrom will publish books and maps of Nome
and the surrounding mines. He has obtained his material by careful
personal observation during several months residence, and as he is
unusually qualified for the work, his publications ought to possess
unusual merit. Mr. Stanstrom has for some years been a great traveler,
and has lived months alone in the Arctic.
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