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THE CAPE NOME GOLD DISTRICT 



often found to be richly auriferous. Beach diggings have been oper- 

 ated during tlie past summer and fall for about thirty or more miles, 

 from Ca])e Nome to near Synrock. Coarse gold is being mined in 

 Anvil, Glacier, Dexter, and Osborne creeks, and along Penny and 

 Cripple rivers. The production of the region for the past season of 

 1899, as near as can be estimated, amounted to 82,000,000, of which 

 one-half has been produced by the beach. Discovery claim and one 

 below on Anvil Creek produced S225,000, Avhile Snow Gulch, a very 



SNAKE RlVKIt AND XUMK, FROM TUXIlRA AlllilT ONE MII.E WEST UK X"ME 



small tributary of Glacier Creek, is reported to have yielded over 

 8200,000. 



In the gulches the work is carried on l)y stripping, sluicing, and to 

 some extent by rocking, while on the beach the method of extracting 

 the gold has thus far been almost exclusively l^y rocking. Here the 

 water used for rocking is generally that of the ocean. In a few cases, 

 however, the sea water has l)een raised by steam power and sluices 

 constructed along the beach. In the rocker the gold is caught on 

 blankets and to some extent on co))per plates coated with mercury. 



