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Encyclopedia Britannica



NOME

This article appears in Volume V19, Page 735 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: NEW-NUM
NOME , a mining town about 12 M. W. of Cape Nome, on the S. shore of Seward Peninsula,
Alaska
 , in 1900 the largest
settlement
  in the
district
 . Pop. (190o) 12,488; (1910) 2600. Gulch gold was found near Nome on Anvil Creek in September 1898, and diggings in the ocean
beach
  were first worked in July 1899. The rush to Nome in 'goo was one of the most remarkable stampedes in American mining history; the town soon had hotels, banks, stores, several
newspapers
  and weekly mails from the States, and for part of the year there were, it was estimated, 20,000 inhabitants. This rapidity of growth and the 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 population had greatly decreased, and in subsequent years the 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 quartz mining was done. A municipal government and local police force were early organized after the fashion of American mining communities, and United States soldiers from the St Michael reservation aided in the preservation of order. The greatest
drawback
  to the town's prosperity is the lack of any good harbour nearer than Point Clarence, 8o m. W. The winter ice-floes, sometimes 30 ft. high on the
beach
 , render harbour improvements at Nome almost impossible. There is connexion with
Seattle
  by steamer (since 1904) in about 82 days. In 1901 the town was incorporated under the
laws
  of the United States. It is the north-western terminus of the United States military telegraph. k was first called Anvil City; the name " Nome " is derived from Cape Nome, first so called on a chart dated 1849, and said to have been a draughtsman's mistake for the query " ? Name " on the
original
  chart.


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