TUNDRA
By AUDREY HENDERSON
Walking down Front Street,
kicking my way mentally and
physically through a little bit of
snow here and there, brought to
mind that at last we can no long
er ignore a fact—the moonlight
water is turned off for the win
ter months. And once again the
population of Nome will turn to
the Pioneer Water Delivery and
the Bronson Water Delivery for
their water supply. There are
so many questions that new
comers are puzzled about why
is it necessary to deliver water
in the winter? Why can’t Nome
have piped water as any other
both Eric Nelson and Lester
city usually has? And so in an
swer tc these questions I visited
• Bronson and interviewed them
. personally.
i I found Eric Nelson busily
greasing and lightening bolts on
his new gray water truck. Not
wishing to take up his precious
time by idle chatter—I could see
he was going to tune up the mo
tor on the huge water truck in
a few moments—I said:
“Mr. Nelson, why is it neces
sary to deliver water in the ^in
ter? Why can’t we have piped
water as other cities?”
• JWell, I’ll tell you,” he replied.
“In the first place—=call me Eric.
In the second place it is an im
possibility to run water in the
pipes in the winter time.”
"Well, why?” I interjected.
Eric took off his cap and ran
his fingers through blond Nordic
hair, and replied, “Because we
have frozen ground the year
around.”
"DO you mean to say that the
(round is perpetually frozen?”
“Exactly £hat,” a Eric went on
to say, “THr (round'«* not only
frozen, tire also live on a glacier
and are subject to glacial move
mcnts.”
"But isn’t there some way en
gineers could surmount difficul
ties and allow for both the frozen
ground and the glacial move
ments?”
"Hardly,” Eric countered. “It
would be an engineering ^feat
that would cost the city of Nome
such an exorbitant amount that
it would be years and years be
fore Nome could ever free her
self.”
Just then the telephone rang
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into our conversation and both
of us knew that a water emer
gency existed somewhere in the
city of Nome. Ertc picked up the
received and said: “Pioneer Wa
ter Delivery.” And a long silence
while the party on the other end
of the wire told in an axious tom
of their wants. Eric buttond up
his jacket and answered, "I’ll be
right over.”
I knew our interview for the
present time was over. But a«
Eric climbed into the cab of his
gray truck, he called out, “How
about a trip with me sometime?”
! “That’s okay'with me if I don’t
have to carry any water,” I
1 yelled back over the noise of the
truck motor. Eric gave me a
great big smile and the big wa
ter truck of the Pioneer Water
Delivery was on its way to an
errand of mercy.
There were other questions
; about the water business that I
felt I ought to know, so I found
Lester Bronson out in front of
his home giving his new green
I water truck an extra “shot” of
grease here and there. Lovingly
he rubbed the new paint, hoping
against all odds that it would be
, as pretty in the spring after a
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"Hello, Mr. Eronson," I greet
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“Hello, there,” he replied.
“What can I do for you—do you
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the Bronson Water Delivery?”
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the grind of delivering water in
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