Show NOME IS PROSPEROUS Alaskan Mining Man Tells of Conditions in Far North William S. S West Vest a mining mining- man mail of or lt Nome la J Alaska lm arrived III in Salt Salt Lai Lake Ial i yesterday from lOm Mexico where ho he has hag listed a 1 brother brothel who who Is engaged In mining Mr 1 West Vest time the working of or six claims of or the Wild Goose Mining Min IIII- IIII In ing imig Trading company on the thc d peninsula and has been heen actively cly en engaged engaged en- en in placer mining in him that country coun couii- try UY for fOl tho the a last t six years Speaking of oC the time Nome country Mr Mi- West rest said 1 In the Nome NonH district was was as begun In the thC first gold being discovered dis dis- covered b by beach diggers Since that time the Industry ha has imas been wonderfully wonder wonder- fully rully developed The output of ur last year car was as fully double that of or tho he previous pro pre Ious year ear and 1101 this years year's output bids ld fair CaLr to be more than double that of or l l war U nut But little quartz mining I is done In lit district butone hut but Alaska In out our we wc have hae one mine amine the time Solomon thirty miles niiles I south of or Nome QU Quartz Quart mining minin Is Js very on ott account of oC the time the moss covering co the ground to the depth of two feet or more mon This tundra Is Js Is however r A great reat help to the time placer placer- miner as II keeps the time frost out omit of ot tho time ground Work Is Js done mostly during tho the live summer months Good Place for flU Miners liters sl During this thus period a miner gets 5 r rl a l tiny day and his board In the time winter he lie heIs heIs lieis Is paid patti from rein i 0 to lo toI I 1 a day and ami his board Alaska AIl Is a good country Corthe for Cor forthe the time experienced miner umber but I would not hot recommend m It to a novice The person who vho has ha not been cen In him Alaska has generally wrong Tong ideas concerning con con- corning It Time The climate Is good Time The winters are arc o of course cold but the thc atmosphere Is verv ver dl dry a nut and that tempelS tempel'S tempera tem tom pets pera the time chill chili considerably The Time summers summers sum sum- mers arc are arcel el very vei comfortable and vegetation vege vege- tation is rea really luxuriant flowers growing grow grow- log ing abundantly The natives arc are Es Es- kimos They Thoy Y are honest and peaceful but dirty r and lazy Salmon is plentiful but tho the fishing lishing Industry is very little developed Our chief beast beasl east of burden is the dog log The only native bird d is the time ptarmigan which is Js line fine hunting an and good eating Has lias Modern Con I Iome I Nome ome Is 18 a vcr very ery good community with many modern conveniences TheDo The Tho Do Dc Forest people have a wireless telegraph telegraph tele tele- graph s station erected and have been sending tho the farthest commercial messages mes mes- sages sas-es in the world and we have two very good daB dally daily newspapers In one ommo of oC them recently received I noticed that an earthquake eai shock had been felt relt February 21 but no dama damage e was recorded Mr 1 West Vest went to Mexico to investigate investigate gate ate the tho mining Holds of that country Jut hut sa said lei he preferred Alaska His company is capitalized at fully lully paid uJ up and at present none of the stock is on the market |