SEWARD, Alaska - There is notable expansion in Nome mining this year
over recent seasons. The Hammond Company alone has 200 men employed and if the water situation permits, more than that number will go on the job as the season advances. Three all-electric dredges are also employed and others will follow.
Operation on a mammoth scale are to be undertaken on the Gold Run properties, a newly capitalized concern to install a ditch system that will cost $250,000 and that will carry on huge hydraulic work. Investigations covering this ground had been carried on for a long time with undoubted values established. But not until this year was the capital obtained to launch out on a development program that the promoters felt jusifitable and required.
Candle Creek shows general reawakening, a section of country that has
yielded millions of the world's gold supply. Enterprising minds, seeing the possibilities on the left bank opposite Candle on ground heretofore overlooked, will prosecute development on a big scale, a conservative estimate being that fully double the area mined
in seasons past will be occupied this year.
A new outfit is carrying on drilling near Spring Creek, on the Neukluk
River; good ground is being prospected at Sunset on Monument Creek; Council dredge is being put into commission for the summer work, and a dredge will soon be on the ground at
Spruce Creek.
The big task of transferring the dredge from Solomon to a point on the
Kougarok required, two months to complete in good shape and there, as on Sunset Creek, where a dredge was transferred from Osborne, work of development will go forward. Quartz is not going to be overlooked as both Big Hurrah and Bluff areas are to be in operation.
The mining development will employ altogether at least thirty dredges.
