Making Bread From Reindeer
Moss is Practiced jn Norway
From the Nome Nugget.
One of The Nugget’s Scandinavian
friends recently received a paper from
the old country in which was the fol
lowing item, which will be of interest
to local readers:
‘•Dr. Hansteen, professor at the Nor
wegian high school, has discovered a
process to make bread from the tundra
moss. It will thus be comparatively
easy to exist in the severe Arctic cli
mate.
“Through careful investigation of the
tundra moss in Osterdatem, Norway,
Dr. Hansteen claims to have solved the
problem of transforming moss into
food. From one species of moss he
makes flour; from another kind, vege
tables and higher grade of breadstuffs.
The moss bread is of very good taste
and highly nutritious. No expensive
machinery is required to transform the
mosses into breadstuffs, and the re
planting' of tundra moss is exceedingly
easy.
“Hundreds of people are now em
ployed in harvesting the tundra moss in
the northern part of Norway. At pre
sent the price is 15 ore per kilogram,
women and children especially making
good wages.’’
Lieut. Evrington and his construction
party have the line between Rampart
and Tanana completed to Clark’s camp
six miles below the rapids.
Egan Bros. & Nelson are going to
drift in the deep ground on discovery
Thanksgiving this winter. This is one
of/the richest claims on the creek.
Lieut. Hemphill, signal officer, is ex
pected up from Ft. Gibbon on a tour
of inspection over the new land lines.
He will return to the Post via Baker
and the Tanana.
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Ole Thronson came in from Slate last
Thursday to locate a generous portion
ol his winter’s outfit. He found that
the freighter had left it somewhere in
the Pioneer country. Thronson will
work on 10a this winter. The prevail
ing warm weather has delayed him.
Location Notices: Forum office.
Generous Paystreak Opened
on No. 3 Thanksgiving Creek
It has often been said that mining is
an uncertain vocation, and that gold is
where you find it. The truth of these
two propositions is generally recognized.
It is indeed rare that mining is uncer
tain when the claim worked contains a
paystreak, This, however, is the ex
perience of R. H, Wright on his claim
3 Thanksgiving last winter.
With one of the most complete steam
plants in the district Wright took out a
large dump that barely broke even. As
soon as he got to that time of the year
when the lengthening days permitted
greater rapidity of work, a glacier in
the drift met bedrock and the pay was
cut off so effectually that the concensus
of opinion was that the limit of the pay
had been found.
This year, within one hundred feet
above where the pay cut off with Mr.
Wright, the latter’s laymen, Scribner,
Hall & Henderson have bedrocked three
shafts, and each shaft cuts a paystreak
6-feet thick, of unknown width, but of
known richness. The layn^en are well
satisfied and will take out many thou
sands this season. Wright is also well
pleased, but is at a loss to account for
afflictions of last winter and believes
his luck has turned.
Rampart Dogdom Facing
Extermination by Poisoner
Some unknown local Nemesis is on
the trail of Rampart’s canine popula
tion, and is seemingly bent on their ex
tinction. Poison is the method being
made use of. In the last ten days six
dogs have paid the extreme penalty.
J ohn Clinton lost three, and the Signal
station the same number. The Signal
dogs all went in company, and their
bodies were found in the rear of the
station, exhibiting, said Operator Kyt
tle, all indications of death by poison.
When a civillian dog dies his body is
thrown into the river and the incident
is closed. With the military dog it is
different. Every man in the station is
required to make affidavit of the mat
ter-one for each dog, and each affida
vit must be in triplicate, with three set
of each triplicated affidavit. This means
27 affidavits for each dog. Sergeant
Kyttle is now working overtime.
ON THE CREEKS J
Mild weather is delaying operations
on both sides of the divide.
Fisher & Hernquist, on 2 Thanksgiv
ing, are not yet on pay.
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M. S. Gill is doing representing work
on his various claims.
Frank Stevens, Louie Seyler and sev
eral laymen are working on 4a and the
lower portion of 5a Glen.
Lindsay & Graham have sunk a i
ber of holes on the high bar off Seattle
but have not found anything yet.
Hebb & Gaetz, on Skookum, are tak
ing out rich pay. An ounce to the pan
is not uncommon.
Max Neville and M. S. Gill started to
sink on lb Glen, but surface water
forced a suspension of operations for
the time being’.
McDonald & Parson, Skookum, have
drifted 18 feet from their shaft, strik
ing frozen ground, but no pay. They
are now drifting in the opposite direct
ion.
Fehring & McKenzie are hoisting ex
tremely rich pay on Chicago. Ander
son & Olson are on good pay at the
mouth on Omega, as are also McG^ -r &
Blom above Fehring & McKenzie
Joe Kaminski and Cap Lindeboomare
hoisting pay on 5a Rhode Island. Pike
& Enders, laymen on the same claim,
are sinking a shaft. They endeavored
to reopen two old shafts but the water
drove them out.
George Shirley came' in from Seattle
creek Tuesday last. He has been try
ing to sink on 1 Seattle, but the surface
water has prevented. Mr. Shirley says
that the present mild weather is ham
pering mining on his side of the divide.
Uhe Ring
WHISKEY
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