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Show Gold Bullion From the Arctics First Consignment of Treasure This Season From the Nome Fields. SEATTLE, Wash., June 22. The steamship Oregon reached port at ah early hour this morning from the Nome gold fields. The vessel is the first to complete the round trip this season. .The Oregon brought four passengers and more than $400,000 in bullion consigned to local banks. The ofllcers of the Oregon report that the steamship Corwin was the first vessel to reach Unit port. "When tho Oregon sailed the steamship Portland had not been sighted, and It was the general opinion In Nome that the vessel ves-sel had been carried into the Arctic ocean by the heavy icefloes. The treasure on the Oregon repre-nented repre-nented part of thc wintcd clean-up, on a number of claims neur Nome. There is a big demand for laborers at the gold fields and wages will probably be $7.50 a day In the open season. |