Show CAPE NOME PLACERS leo little of butte who has just returned from alaska tells the butte intermountain that cape novae nome exceeds the klondike in its wealth of placer gold and in speaking of the former diggings he says there are few placer miners who have not heard of the wonderful beach diggings 0 cape nome nowhere in the wide world have gold hunters found anything like them many fairy stories have been told and believed about them the truth concerning them is enough Str stretching reaching St eachin 9 along the beach from a point about two miles to the south of nome and extending to the north of the camp for a distance of nearly twenty miles to a point where the mountains come down to the sea and apparently cut off the pay is a streak and in some instances several streaks of fabulously rich gravel this streak varies from six inches to a foot in width and lies like a blanket over the beach lands it is on a light bedrock and is as a rule near the surface being on an average aver acre I 1 about one foot below the surface although although 11 h in some instances it is ten feet below when the story of the finding of these diggings was first told the old placer miners laughed at it and refused to belie veit it did not take long for the truth to come out however and in a few days the beach was alive with men and in some instances women whose efforts were handsomely rewarded when writing to advertisers please mention the mining review |