Show CAPE NOME FILLING UP There Te are several thousands of people in the th Cape Cap Nome Nonie Nole country now ac an according a cording to recent advices advice It is a rich richer er or e field feld bad and nd far more accessible rc than tan was wan the tha Klondike Klonke It I is a a a long way vay ay off offin of in irs the farthest northwest up by b Be rings strait but it can cast be reached reche by ocean oc steamers There Tere will wi be hun hundreds dred of going in this spring Many liIa ny Utah people contemplate mak making makin makIng ing in the trip and several inquiries inquires have been b received concerning con nin the locality the te expenses of going prices prices there thee and ad chances for a fortune fort ne From all al accounts there ter are ar many ex eec excellent C celent opportunities to find a stake sake In Inthe Inte inthe the te Cape Cp Nome region regon but it goes ge without staying saing that many ma who go will come away The Te distance from Victora Victoria to Cape Nome Name is 2500 miles mie and passage om on OI the te first fr boats of the season season has hI ha already alrea been ben absorbed by intending miners Iner and ad prospectors It I is computed that there the are ae now on the te Pacific coast cot per persons pr sons eons BOn who Yo desire d re to go to Cape Nome Noe as soon as as possible Seattle Sete is the principal principal pal pat outfitting point for Americans but Tacoma Tacoma San Sam Francisco ranc o and antI Portland are ae all al thronged with wit eager prospect prospectors ors ana ad fortune hunters hunt waiting for their ships to leave I I It I is not nearly so S expensive a trip tripas rp as a was wan wa that tat to Klondike during the boom boom The Te prevailing fare fae Is i for passage from Sette Seattle or Victoria Victora to gape Cape Nome Tome and SO 80 for steerage The Te rate for freight fright is 40 0 a ton Expenses Exes at Cape Nome are ae 3 naturally high but not so s exorbitant as a at Dawson Dawon or Circle City CI The rent ret of an a house If It can cam cn be called cne a house is put down do at a month but wages wage are Ae at a correspond corresponding lag ing Ing figure A regulation drink drin costs 50 cents cent and a an a cigar the th h same The Te race re for good properties this spring will be exciting There Tere will wi be great contests between rival claim claimants claimant claimants ants ant for the coast gold landa lan and nd some of the miners miner have preempted as many as a forty acres are and ad by this means forty fortY miles mie of J La l a coast coastline coat line Una between Cape Nome and Cape York have been bee staked off of of The Te federal fe authorities at at Washing Washington Wahington ton have made a ruling that land lands landa be below b below low loW ordinary high tides cannot canot be staked stake off of and held hed by individuals or corporations and ad that the right to dig in these thee tide Inside landa lad and ad to wash gold out of the sand sn between high and low lowI I water w ter is as a free as the right to fish in inthe Into Inthe the to adjacent waters Right on top of this decision how however however ever eer the te administration has ha permitted eastern eater syndicates to lease this tide tidewater tidewater water shore Sore line lne and an to dredge for gold farther out One thing In favor of the te gold hunter at Cape Nome is that tat he will wi escape epe the Canadian Canadian ore t which were W e said to be worse wore in the te Klondike than the te taxes tae imposed impose by I Kruger on the mines of the Transvaal I |