Northwest History. Alaska. General.
$6,000 In Gold Dust: Father Here Gets Alaska Nuggets. $6,000 IN GOLD DUST FATHER HERE GETS ALASKA NUGGETS A bag of gold dust weighing about twenty pounds and worth between $6,000 and $7,000 was delivered yesterday to James Kelliher, retired Alaskan miner living at the Prye Hotel, tl came from his so...
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ftwashstatelib:oai:content.libraries.wsu.edu:clipping/91952 2023-05-15T16:07:23+02:00 Northwest History. Alaska. General. Seattle Post-Intelligencer 1935-11-27 $6,000 In Gold Dust: Father Here Gets Alaska Nuggets. 1935-11-27 http://content.libraries.wsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/clipping/id/91952 English eng nwh-sh-10-8-94 http://content.libraries.wsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/clipping/id/91952 http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0 Copyright not evaluated. Contact original newspaper publisher for copyright information. Northwest History. Alaska. Box 10 gold dust Alaska nuggets James Kelliher Alaskan miner Frye Hotel Morris Nome Seattle Arthur Eide motorship Meteor St. Michael Lumber Eskimos Northwest Pacific -- History -- 20th century Text Clippings 1935 ftwashstatelib 2021-07-26T19:18:51Z $6,000 In Gold Dust: Father Here Gets Alaska Nuggets. $6,000 IN GOLD DUST FATHER HERE GETS ALASKA NUGGETS A bag of gold dust weighing about twenty pounds and worth between $6,000 and $7,000 was delivered yesterday to James Kelliher, retired Alaskan miner living at the Prye Hotel, tl came from his son, Morris, who is now working his claims near Nome, and it was' brought to Seattle by Arthur Bide, I 1768 Alki Ave., who has been working in Nome the past few months as a contractor. Young oMrris simply tossed the bag into Eide's berth just before the motorship Meteor left St. Michael, Alaska, for Seattle, and asked that it be given his father. It represents, perhaps, two months' Nome in Slump Eide, who is writing a history of the Eskimos of tahe Nome county, brings back interesting news of Nome. The town has failed to buildj^to the extent which was expected after the fire, he says. Prices are exhorroitantly high. Lumber, when he left, was selling at $100 a htousand feet, cheap coal at beter than $20 a ton, reindeer meat, of which there is a plentiful supply, is selling at 20 cents a pound. Water is $1 for sixty gallons, he said. "The town will never be what it was again," he says. "Everyone is living as inexpensively as possible. Most commercial buildings are partly occupied as homes." Text eskimo* Nome Alaska Washington State University: WSU Libraries Digital Collections Eide ENVELOPE(6.250,6.250,62.517,62.517) Pacific St Michael ENVELOPE(58.492,58.492,-67.195,-67.195) |
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$6,000 In Gold Dust: Father Here Gets Alaska Nuggets. $6,000 IN GOLD DUST FATHER HERE GETS ALASKA NUGGETS A bag of gold dust weighing about twenty pounds and worth between $6,000 and $7,000 was delivered yesterday to James Kelliher, retired Alaskan miner living at the Prye Hotel, tl came from his son, Morris, who is now working his claims near Nome, and it was' brought to Seattle by Arthur Bide, I 1768 Alki Ave., who has been working in Nome the past few months as a contractor. Young oMrris simply tossed the bag into Eide's berth just before the motorship Meteor left St. Michael, Alaska, for Seattle, and asked that it be given his father. It represents, perhaps, two months' Nome in Slump Eide, who is writing a history of the Eskimos of tahe Nome county, brings back interesting news of Nome. The town has failed to buildj^to the extent which was expected after the fire, he says. Prices are exhorroitantly high. Lumber, when he left, was selling at $100 a htousand feet, cheap coal at beter than $20 a ton, reindeer meat, of which there is a plentiful supply, is selling at 20 cents a pound. Water is $1 for sixty gallons, he said. "The town will never be what it was again," he says. "Everyone is living as inexpensively as possible. Most commercial buildings are partly occupied as homes." |
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