11 Jun 1906
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Newspaper
The Nome Nugget Mining Edition
Location
Nome, Alaska, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1906
Page
2
The Cornnell district shows little winter mining with output not exceeding 75000 dollars, while Casadepaga reports extensive deep diggings and plans for heavy winter activity. Summer prospects look bright with several promising ventures and a possible dredger addition. numerous prospectors and outfits operate along Bear Creek, Gold Bottom, Crooked Creek, and Ophir areas.
The article traces Nome’s early churches led by Presbyterians and mission workers. It names Rev S. Muth Your 0 1. and Rev Roblins among pioneer clergy, notes leaders at Holy Trinity and St Mary’s, and mentions later transitions with Rev John White and other clergy guiding congregations through expansion and retirements. The piece highlights the role of Presbyterians, Anglicans, and Catholic churches in establishing religious life and community services in Nome.
A historical account describes the life of a miner prospecting in Nome, detailing the self reliant path, dangers, and eventual hope of wealth. It outlines the Sawtooth range geology with granite, gneiss, and various ores while stressing the need for legal protection for individual prospectors to secure Nome’s long term mining future.
Hobbes Jas and Bell Attorneys and Counselors at Law list offices in Nome Alaska with board of trade phanding and architecture services. They advertise mechanical drafting, copying and blue printing, prompt superintendence of work, and provide a Seward P.O. Box 261 telephone blue 42.
Four thousand tons of coal were mined and delivered last winter from the Chicago creek coal mines to the miners of Inmachuk and Candle creek. Owned by T. S. Solomons and associates the coal is in demand and of fair quality. The mine is extensive and cheaply worked, with mining costs reduced by a rich deposit. Next winter the operation will scale up output significantly.
In Nome the mining boom on Seward Peninsula brings rapid city growth from shacks to sturdy business blocks and homes. Lumber shortages limit spring building, but arrival of supplies could unleash a large construction surge.
The Honey Claim on Dexter hill reveals a pay gravel channel extending from the Daisy channel toward the Lena line. At 140 feet depth and 220 feet southeast of Lena, a complex bedrock system with multiple depressions and double gravel strata complicates mining. About 660 feet of the channel was opened with 17,000 cars of pay hoisted, using one shaft for continued work next winter.
The Pioneer Mining Company reports a heavy winter of mining on its Little Creek properties with substantial cleanups promised, though water scarcity delays washing dumps. Under Lindeberg and Stevenson Johnson, the firm has secured several promising claims and started a 35 mile ditch system from Moonlight creek to supply water for future operations. President Lindeberg is due aboard the Victoria to begin summer work.
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