The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 7, 1900, Page 7

THE SUNDAY CALL. T t0 Try DourLuckat Mome This Dpring? pPoints Coneerning D¢ Famous [Mining Distriet &hat All Should Be Ipformed Upon Befdre (oing To the Far North ltems That Will Proug Interesting Even if You Have Already Made Up Your Mind to Stay Comfortably Home tundra or In the hill land. The size of of the gold. North of Nome” sontinuss the claim allowed by law is 1320 fest In Judge Blackett, “thers is yst ninety miles length and 0 feet tn width, making a of gold-bearing beach to be gome ever rectangular plece of land contalning tw and then to the south there is & vast ty acres. The process of staking out, stretch of like character, extanding to as it is called, is simple, and needs only Norton Bay. Tne tundra, which {s noth as the ways and doings of s are many and PRIFFWO0D On THE BEACH AT /YOME: £ ing else than an extir the present shore p particular P ductive and s the inland 1 re trave: ers and al ng sotl FMTYSTERIES OF THE SEA. [ P r g worr he four stakes - er e a »ne sh | Facengle 1s dectded v s . r sult, o the distr . s the smal re ords to f . we . claimants, ¥ [ - Ne the locati h alime ar a r r need In the York 1 same In process ls himself w re than one but differen size, inasmuch as the geography of the sea—“ocean- > o es, and these should occuy land geologic is different from that ography” it is called, bega y . & space and weigh as little as of the other di s. The area ‘allowed ing of the ocean cables and was elevated . concentrated here is feet in width, and the length into a branch of the eruise of . milk and p depe th graphical formation. the Challenger has been r e principal articles i The widthk may vary from a hundred feet foun are forty-three great e de fois gras and anchovies ki e to half a mile. The creek on the bo Ocean - eft at home. Incidentally, Ietit ), o.icer 1s the most complex of of which the claim is taken up generally mountainous 4 that the same should be . s usilh’ 504 Sbak . 3 4 Auay,. SIZE OF NUGGET passes thrc What is known thers are with al s, as they are more aod cibatete o & A technica rims, forms the ept to ge to trouble than to keep _ 7,.-’ -Cn”.‘g‘n 5 s\.:\!:nyrnu: WR/Gr7 28 ozs boundar of the claim A abeolutely necessary t 4o onsth. boldh At Bie and Yve S #80. 0 The ri thing else but that place in 4 be taken along. Every ., foot In width, wiiiintly Vaght- A the forma £ d where the hills @ have one, s no man can tell | sik dnitias: sl 0er Th forming the w ! It . ght shower will spring UP— (1o bottom of this tre are Dxell sev- is esti - where ne knows, but seeminglyY ora) copper plates over which the quick- panies tk . . some region ten feet above ONE'S giyer s poured. Directly over the JArEE SO DO D Y DA DAy DA A DT S DS DA, @seckers, number b i ring the last season much sIcK- o4 of the trough and fastened to it is ) Anew gold fields next spri was prevalent, especially typhold ger s woo two or o feet$ Y Judge C. S. Blackett of the Nome and . B e et Gl o MR votom(THE ARTICLES WHICH ARE NEEDED BY THE MINER INTENDING(¥ork Mining and Trading Company, wh »d In Ise wort of @ WAY— 14 of ¢ tkel ofl can per-/) )is a man well in things concerning simple remedies as aconite, quinine gorated with g R 3 Jome, b Iy ey oomite, Quinine forsted with holes the sze of ones) TQ STAY A SEASON OF FIVE MONTHS, AND WITH WHICH (Yome, beins an ey = ed m for the oned to a set of rockers not unlike the () {‘ as his reas . w ked us to and fro in our » HE MAY ENJOY “ALL THE COMFORTS OF NOME.” Jincentives offered to the prosp e mixed sand and gravel( Yabove those of any other gold f are shoveled ir e box and then water Groceries — 5 sacks of flour, 50 of assorted fruits, 4 dozen cans of shovel, 1 gold pan, 1 frying pam, i (/known o e 1se of con- s poured over. The rc is set in mo- ) pounds of ham, 50 pounds of bacon, milk, 4 dozen cans of cream, 4 dozen coffee-pot, knives and forks, plates, ) “There can be little doubt.” says Judge tion and the sand is washed through the | 25 pounds of rolled oats, 20 pounds cans of corn, 4 dozen cans of toma- cups and saucers, breadpans. ‘AI‘»L'-M: that there will be room for through the trough and over the copper plates. The(/of rice, 50 pounds of beans, 30 toes, 4 dozen cans of beans, 2 dozen Clothing—1 suit of oil or rubber (all in these new districts water and free sand pass out through the ) pounds of dried fruit, 12 tins of but- cans of chicken, 4 dozen cans of soup, clothing, 1 pair of rubber boots, 3 ?‘” Present are prac iled small e AR Th6 Spdiat, !‘”"_‘"“"‘f the gold ) ter (2 pounds each), 50 pounds of 2 dozen cans of jam, 5 boxes of dried suits of light woolen underwear. The )¥°®2¥ "'“"'-" s o beach was ome amalgamaied with the quicksliver. Truly¥ sugar, 3 pounds of tea, 10 pounds of yeast, 5 pounds of baking powder. rest of the clothing worn is practi- HProspected by =ume Wn men. These men class and the hand that rocks the rocker rules the() ooffee, 15 pounds of salt, 8 dozen ~ Hardware—l stove, 1 tent (10x cally the same as is worn in Califor. (Scarcely left any impression upon that has been world. ; \which they had gone over. The fever was et more the rate will be re- The miner on his arrival at Nome m;y(‘“n' of assorted meats, 8 dozen cans 12), 1 ax, 1 hatchet, 1 pick and nia. upon them, and they consequently mined the level of the sea than the summit g. the reduction being pitch his tent any place until he 10Calé!() (Jonly the richest of the clalms, and these of Mount Everest, in the Himalayas, is L to the fact that several his claim, either upon the beach, theP OO IOTITSITSTITIT DTS VIS TS DS TID I DD TSSO SISO GIn a very careless manner, losing much above it conclusion