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mining See also:town about 12 M. W. of Cape Nome, on the S. See also:shore of See also:Seward See also:Peninsula, See also:Alaska, in 1900 the largest See also:settlement in the See also:district. Pop. (190o) 12,488; (1910) 2600. Gulch See also:gold was found near Nome on See also:Anvil See also:Creek in See also:September 1898, and diggings in the ocean See also:beach were first worked in See also:July 1899. The See also:rush to Nome in 'goo was one of the most remarkable stampedes in See also:American mining See also:history; the town soon had hotels, See also:banks, stores, several See also:newspapers and weekly mails from the States, and for See also:part of the See also:year there were, it was estimated, 20,000 inhabitants. This rapidity of growth and the See also:isolation of the settlement raised prices to extraordinary heights, and in other respects created economic conditions remarkable even among Alaskan mining camps. By 1903 the See also:population had greatly decreased, and in subsequent years the See also:winter population averaged about 3500, the summer population from 7000 to 8000. In 1905 the gold output of the Nome region amounted to about $2,500,000, nearly all from placers, though some See also:quartz mining was done. A municipal See also:government and See also:local See also:police force were See also:early organized after the See also:fashion of American mining communities, and See also:United States soldiers from the St See also:Michael See also:reservation aided in the preservation of See also:order. The greatest See also:drawback to the town's prosperity is the lack of any See also:good See also:harbour nearer than Point See also:Clarence, 8o m. W.

The winter See also:

ice-floes, sometimes 30 ft. high on the beach, render harbour improvements at Nome almost impossible. There is connexion with See also:Seattle by steamer (since 1904) in about 82 days. In 1901 the town was incorporated under the See also:laws of the United States. It is the See also:north-western See also:terminus of the United States military See also:telegraph. k was first called Anvil See also:City; the name " Nome " is derived from Cape Nome, first so called on a See also:chart dated 1849, and said to have been a draughtsman's See also:mistake for the query " ? Name " on the See also:original chart.

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