| Show TOO MANY AT NOME o l R CARTE BELIEVES PLACE I IS OVERCROWDED Country Will Support 2500 or 3000 but Not the 30000 Who Have Gone There Hr Carter Will Return A 1 Carter who returned honic from Cape Nome Friday night spent two months In thai country with P A Snell with whom Mr Carter wen for the Interest of themselves and a number num-ber of SuIt Lake parties Including Judge W I DIckson David Keith Moses Tlmlchcr and others When naked about the trln and the Nome country yesterday by n Tribune representative repre-sentative I Cater said We purchased pur-chased our machinery at Seattle and worked It until Just before I left when we housed It for winter We located ten claims and did l work on all of them These claims are mostly on Anvil creek and Its tributaries and are AVth in fiom two to ten miles of Nome None of our claims were Jumped so that we wore not troubled by litigation j Mr Snell will bo home In a few weeks and some or us will return In the spring There Is no gold left In the sands along the shore but there Is enough mining along the creeks to support 0 town of 2500 Or COOO people There Is much prospecting yet to do there and It bids fair to be quite a rich country I toolc two years to put the Dawaon country on a paying basis and I think Nome may develop to be quite a prosperous place but there Is no place for the SOOOO people that have been there the past summer The captain of one t the early boats that l ale to Seattle Inth spring reported re-ported that he had brought 1500000 from Nome Tho fact Is about 10000 was obtained at Nome and the balance war brought from Dawson This report re-port set the people wild and there are people going there yet and taking valuable machinery although the coast Is already lined with machinery that wil i novot hi ii orl |
