ALASKA

New Zealand Illustrated Magazine, Volume 01, Issue 9, 1 June 1900, Page 83

ALASKA

The next great mining boom, if report speaks true, is likely to be at Cape Nome, ou tho shores of Alaska. The usual fairy stories told about new rushes sink into tho shade before the auriferous assertions regarding this golden shore. After you get there it is essentially a poor man's field, scooping up the sand in buckets between high and low tide, and washing it, is spoken of as tho system of working. Thousands upon thousands are waiting to set out for this promised land as soon as the thaw sets in, until tlteri at all events, it is a frost, whatever it may' result in afterwarcfc,