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Show QGOEN MAN BACK I f, FUM GOLD FIELDS ' j I Alden Brothers Are Doing Well i in the Famous Nome ! jj Country. H BEACH DIGGINGS MAKING ; j if FORTUNES FOR OWNERS Litigation Is the Greatest Draw-: Draw-: J back to Be Contended Hi Special to Tho Tribtrn. H! t' OGDEN, Sept. 6. M. S. Alden, formerly Hj , ' ' foreman of the baggapo room at the Og- den Union depot. Is back from n trip to Alaska, whore ho and his brother, P. Q. h, Alden, aro running on the quartz ledges H ; that overllo tho beach placers that aro H making Nomo famous. Tho quartz ledges Hj f T carry great gold values In Alaska, but H have been neglected becauso of the beach H j;' placers, and those owned and now being H, jr operated by the Alden brothers are lo- j; c&ted about forty-five miles southeast of H Nome. H J. Of th beach diggings at Nome,. Mr. H ' Alden says they axe meeting with great H' success. The "Bessie Bench," on the Hj second beach. Is producing from $35,000 Hj to $50,000 per day, and Is building up for- tunes for its owners. The great drawback to tho complete development of the Alaska gold fields H Is litigation. Shysters, he sayB, are on H be Alert for chances to secure suborned HJ witnesses, and tho man who has the te- Hj . merlty to locate and work a claim near Hjt Nomo Is taking chancos on being cited Into court. The judicial conditions are H Just as corrupt, Mr. Alden says, as they H! were before the notorious McKenzlo was Hr sent, to San Quontin for corrupting the HT conditions. H, Of tho general work on tho streams, Hl Mr. Alden says that dredgjng is being in- Hj stalled on the Yukon for 600 miles, In the vicinity of the Klondike, on Solomon Hj rivor and at Fairbanks. The trouble is Hj that whilo many orders are in for H dredges, tho manufacturers are unable to fill orders for this season, but accept 1 orders for 1007. 1 Mr. A'ldon says that in the beach i placer, and particularly tho second beach, l in tho deep workings, ISO feet or more, . ! the water has come in in such volume as to drive the men out. Pumping machln- ; cry cannot be obtained quickly, and work : has to be suspended. He thinks that j y when pumping facilities can be provided j to permit working on bedrock the Nome placers will be. the greatest tho world ever knew. Wages In that section arc uniformly H. $5 per day and board, and the summers i are Ideal, being the equal of California. ! . The great bold-back, says Mr. Alden, ' 1b that thero are , too many lawyers. |