The gold seems to lie packed together just beneath the surface. There yc-t remains to be worked the strata un der the tundra. That will require machinery. A lot of this lias been brought in this spring, but half of it was found to be useless, and it is lying anywhere along the beach. A man from Salt Lake City brought in 35 horses and a large amouut of machinery, with which, in the innocence of his heart, he imagined that lie cou'.-d scrape the surface of the tundra by means of ploughs with out the sliglitest difficulty. Now, the tundra is frozen to a depth of 40ft during the en , tire -ear. beginning from about 2ft below the surface. Above that is moss and mud and thick grass. It has been like this for ages, and it wants more than a plough to go through it. So the man from Suit Lake Cit'- is. disgusted at his investment, and is going uack to say that the place is no good. Running into the sea. are a large number of small rivers, and brandling out from these are numerous small creeks—gullies we should caK them—and it is.in these gullies that tl.e rich claims hive b?en located. Then, be sides the country in the neighbourhood of Nome, there is Bonanza, to the east, Ripple Hiver, Ura.nit3. Sinuock, Fajrview, and near {!bpe York there is* the Khowgok district. All these places are producing gold in enor mous -ti.uittties, and any man who can stolid the climate has a far better chance than he would have had in tha Klondyke. WHERE THE GOLD COMES FROM. Some scientific people from the States have been trying to find out where the gold conies from, and they go about asking ques tions of the inineis. Thr-y get a wag of the head and "Dunno. I reckon efs thar, an , that's enough fur mc." It is a difficult ques tion to answer. TII3 gold is much coarser near the water, which might lead one to be lieve that it came from the sea, because the finest particles are found at the furthest point fr.-ini the sihoip. There are two or three t>iv streak«. and the gold lies in a stratum of ruby or d:uk grty :a:iu. The bedrock consists oV a stratum of clay. 