| Show RETURNED FROPd NOME I CONDITIONS E S HU33BARD DESCRIBES DITIONS AT THE CAPE is Not So Says Limo Situation There ns Bad as it Hns Been Reported Was There During Big Storm returned from K S Hubbnrd has just said I Nome and In a talk yesterday The Nome correspondent In yesterdays yester-days Tribune has evidently run up hard proposition and against a pretty thesltuullon I was rather exaggerates at Nome bclween June 9th and Sepicm bcr ISih and found time bench sands thoroughly worked out so that many people who went to the cOuntry equipped only to work the sands were disappointed Ilbwcvcr up Anvil ant Dexter creeks Snow gulch and time J3lue Stone country there arc good claims which which will pay as soon as titles v confused maze arc set are now In a 1 tied There Is not a decent claim along any of the creeks but what la claimed tav four or five people und an soon KM a prospector thinks he has got a good I I i thing he finds It plastered with an Injunction I In-junction There are so many properties proper-ties thus lied up that It will bo two amount of yeara or over before any gold can be got out of these claims the trying to work There Is i no use beach The reports as to disease have been enlarged The smallpox has been confined con-fined lo Nome City und It Is now pruc llcally slumped out People outside are entirely free from it There Is a good deal of typhoid but that was to be expected ex-pected with the lown built right on a swamp for the moss tundra la nothing else It Is Just like a sponge I was In Nome during the great storm and tidal wave which did u million dollars worth of damage I had bought my ticket home und was ready 10 leave for the steamer but the sea was so rough I that It was seven days before I could get away from the beach out to where the steamer was The newspapers ot the coast and the transportation companies com-panies are to blame for keeping the public In Ignorance as lo time true state of things for GO long thus Increasing the throng who went to Alaska only to be disappointed and very likely suffer Mr Ilubburd did not make any great pile but he managed to get a little ahead by the trip so It was not entirely In vain and his experience will last him a long time |
