Show GAPE NOME PLACERS WONDERFUL niceness niCH NESS OP THE SANDS OF THE SEA gustav givis the folina ILS interview in tha bt louis lic since the fall of I 1 have been in the klondike first at dawson city and then for several months on the ing gold bearing sands on the coast near cape nome from a waste of sandy seacoast the borders of behring sea for a distance of miles have now been turned by the influx of prospectors and gold miners into a populated and popular eldorado of gold hunters the accidental cry by a swedish missionary gijun a year of nuggets of gold on the surface of the sandy seacoast has lead to the arrival on the shores of this cm sea of the many thousands of miners and gold hunters gamblers sellers of vile liquors and thieves and criminals who are always among the to rush to a newly discovered eldorado cape nome about miles north vest of st michaels is the gold fieo ing country of the age the gold is here found on the very sea beach sometimes a few inches below the BU face most often at a depth ot three or four feet every shovel tul of sand pans out more in this edorado than the miners in the klondike were ablo to dig up from thirty to forty feet below the surface by the hardest of acau ual labor in the klondike thera a c thick forests from which you can pio cure wood necessary to furnish some little comfort in the rough bleak ail dismal winters night bufa at cape nome and iff the surrounding country no tree or shrub can stop the howling winds at night and warmth is only secured from tho flotsam and jetsam 0 lumber broken branches of trees growing in some tar off country and floated to the seacoast of cape nome on the creast of the mountainous waves which break over its fortune laden sands close by cape nome is the town of anvil city where from the beach within a stones throw ot the tents storehouses ot the alaska commercial company and the saloons ai 1 gambling dens a man single handed and with only the aid ot a hand made rocker and a sifting pan can gather gold dust at the rate of 75 a day while an experienced miner can with nid of an assistant or two figure up a profit of from to every night |