. Alaska and the Klondike . found that there was more than a miners pailful, the valueof which was nearly $8,000. And beautiful stuff it was,too. The Nome gold is brighter and prettier than thatwhich is found in the Klondike and assays $2 or so more tothe ounce—about $15 to $17 in the one case and $16 to$19 in the other. The greater part of it is in fine particlesabout the size of the grains of rock salt, or smaller, but agreat many nuggets worth from $2 to $7 were found inthis clean-up. I saw one piece that day said to be worth$300, and have learned that after we left there a nuggetwas taken
. Alaska and the Klondike . found that there was more than a miners pailful, the valueof which was nearly $8,000. And beautiful stuff it was,too. The Nome gold is brighter and prettier than thatwhich is found in the Klondike and assays $2 or so more tothe ounce—about $15 to $17 in the one case and $16 to$19 in the other. The greater part of it is in fine particlesabout the size of the grains of rock salt, or smaller, but agreat many nuggets worth from $2 to $7 were found inthis clean-up. I saw one piece that day said to be worth$300, and have learned that after we left there a nuggetwas taken from one of these Anvil Creek bench claimswhich weighed out $3, Late in the season of 1904 a sensational discovery wasmade on Little Creek, about three miles from Nome and NOME AND THE GOLD FIELDS 165 between the city and the centre of operations on AnvilCreek. Pans of gravel yielded as high as $135 and onepan is said to have contained ten ounces of gold or $ deposit is found at a depth of forty-two feet and. Sluice Boxes on Anvil Creek promises to rival the original discovery on Anvil Creek,of which ore streak it is probably a continuation. Thelucky discoverer is J. C. Brown, a pioneer on the I get the fever? No, not exactly, but when you seethe yellow metal gathered up by the panful and see itpicked up in chunks as big as hens eggs, you no longerwonder at the fascination which holds the prospector to hislife of solitude and privation from year to year. Hope 166 ALASKA AND THE KLONDIKE never fails; he hasnt struck it rich yet; but he may to-morrow. I saw, on an island oft the south coast of Alaska,a typical prospector—a prospector is a miner who hasntstruck it yet. This old man was bent with age and crippledby rheumatism. He came aboard our ship to get somemedicine from the ships doctor. The doctor ministeredto him the best he could, but told him plainly that he hada serious infirmity and that if he didnt stop work, stopcamping on the ground and
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