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PEOPLE'Letters From North IndicateThat New District is aPromising OneTACOMA, May 18.—George F. Do-den, an Australian, left Nome two years ago with a fortune to settle down at Melbourne. He received let-X)toters describing the new Iditarod dig-1 gings, could not resist the temptation, 1 and has returned to go north. At Honolulu he picked up Frank Hirtzer, |his former partner. IIMaj. G. F. A. Strong, who was offered the Democratic nomination asiio4 40r.ydelegate to congress from Alaska, is waiting for the first boat to St. Mich aels to ship a newspaper plant. Allen Grant, who owns a plant in Nome, has forwarded it to the new Eldorado, so there will be two newspapers at Iditarod before the end of July.The following extracts from letters written at Fairbanks, April 20, have been amply confirmed by later telephones from Iditarod, carried to Seward for transmission.Everybody here Is crazy over Iditarod. This district will be depopulated as soon as navigation opens. Archie Mitchell wires the prospects are as good as reported. Pay dirt has been found on Flat Beach, Willow, Otter and several other creeks. The Bates brothers ‘lay’ on Otter Is yielding pansrunning from $5 to $26, and one pan running $250 was taken out. Grey and Stew’art are taking machinery for Flat Creek, where they have uncovered a forty-foot ledge eight feet deep, that averages from 8 to 10 cents to the pan. Every operator in that district is getting ready to ship his thaw-«ing machinery from Tacoma as soon as navigation opens.”CASTOR IAFor Infants and Children.The Kind You Have Always BoughtBears theSignature ofKodak Finishing—Leave your Koaak work at White Cross Drug Store and Corbett will dothe rest.
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Santa Ana Daily Register
Santa Ana, California, US
Thu, May 19, 1910
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