Show IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST Nome was rather dull during March amid April work being entirely suspended suspend-ed en account of cold weather Returning prospectors report the general health at Nome to have been good throughout the winter There has been lack of accommodations and prices for everything arc high The extent of the goldproducing area of Nome scoma much greater than var at first supposed and all over the country coun-try men are reported to be washing out from 15 to 25 cents to the pan inf gold Several times during the past winter win-ter the settlements at Nome narrowly escaped total destruction by lIre all the buildings are said to be flimsy structures and no lire protection is afforded af-forded a The people of Nome have been anxiously anx-iously awaiting the arrival of the early steamers and a guessing contest with a 3000 prize has been arranged for the I naming of the first vessel from the south Top Cock Cape Nome distrlct is Jlf teen miles from the sea and fifty miles south of Nome One thousand people are working there now and there have been clean ups from 25000 to 50000 on 100foot claims Golden Gate and Mascot crocks Nomd district arc turning out well Top Cock is the biggest find of the season where it is considered nothing remarkable remark-able for a miner to make 530 a day on many of the claims although the gold is found in intermittent streakru The steamer Jennie has arrlvedat Seattle fourteen days from Cape Nome with few passengers and no freight The Jennie brought out no gold except ex-cept what was in possession of her passengers as it has not been possible to do much work in the district during the winter aoason |