Job May Be
Completed
Next Year
Under the direction of Con
struction Foreman Horace Kel
sey of Nome, .progress is being
made in the building of the new
$100,000 hospital at Barrow.
“The new building will be
ready for use next summer,” it
was reported in Fairbanks by
Earl D. McGinty of Juneau, su
pervising construction engineer
for Alaska for the Office of In
dian Affairs. At present, tempor
ary hospital facilities are housed
in another government building.
The new construction, for a 24
bed hospital, will replace the one
burned more than a year ago.
The work at Barrow is being
done by force account, not under
contract, according to Claude M.
I
Hirst, general superintendent of
the Indian Service in Alaska.
At Bethel, another hospital,
will be constructed, under con
tract, although the contract for
the building has not yet been
awarded. The cost of the propos
ed construction is estimated at
$145,000.
Under the direction of John P.
Snow of the Reindeer Service at
Bethel, piling is being driven for
the new hospital.
Mr. Kelsey, Mr. Hirst and Wil
liam Zimmerman of Washing
ton, D. C., assistant commission
er of the Office of Indian Affairs,
recently visited both Barrow and
Bethel in their tour of the terri
tory. Sunday they went to Jun
eau on the PAA Electra.
—Fairbanks News-Miner.
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DREDGING ON WATTAMUSE
CREEK GOES AHEAD
Dredging operations on Watta
muse Creek, in the Kuskokwim
district are progressing satisfac
torily, Walter W. Johnson, head
of the Walter W. Johnson Com
pany of San Francisco, designer
and maker of dredges, reports.
He has just returned to Fair
banks from the Wattamuse pro
perty, in which he is interested,
after a week’s stay there.
“The dredge is working in fine
style and is giving good results,"
Mr. Johnson said. “The season
in the Kuskokwim area is longer
than in Fairbanks. Dredging on
Wattamuse will continue until
early in December.’’
All the dragline outfits in the
Kuskokwim district are still go
ing strong. They are expected to
close down late this month.
—Fairbanks News-Miner
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Mining Notes
The Sunset dredge it is under
stood is digging a location for
the dredge to winter.
The Monument Creek dredge
shut down Saturday after a suc
cessful operating season. The
dredge is now in winter quarters.
Grover Andree and James
Panos, operators of the Osborne
Creek dredge, closed down opera
tions the latter part of last week
and placed the dredge in winter
quarters after a very successful
season. The old gasoline engines
which formerly produced power
for operations were discarded
this spring and a new diesel en
gine installed, which they say
ran continuously without trouble
and delays, and the operating
cost is so low compared to gaso
line engines, that the difference
in the cost of oil will pay for the
new engine in about two years.
The dredge was located on St.
Michael Creek at the time Mr.
Andree and Mr. Panos took it
over. It was then necessary to
dig down thru old tailings to get
back into Osborne Creek, there
by consuming a great deal of the
working season until they reach
ed virgin ground after which fa
vorable cleanups were made.
This winter the operators in
tend to block out the paystreak
for next, season’s operations.
Harold Bayne, well-known
Kougaroker, who has been so
journing in Nome for the past
two or three weeks, looking af
ter the interest and health of
■ Mrs. Bayne, expects to return to
the Kougarok section following
the departure of the Mt. McKin
ley for the States. Harold will
carry on drill prospecting this
winter in the canyon of the Kou
garok river about 5 miles above
the Fox Bar dredge, where he
expects to uncover another like
ly dredging prosposition.
John Mitchell who has been in
the employ of the U. S. S. R. &
M. Company the past season at
one of the ditch camps, was a
recent arrival in town. John ex
pects to leave in a day or two
for the Ungalik River section to
carry on prospecting and devel
opment work in connection with
George Geamalis mining property
which adjoins that of the Un
galik syndicate, which company
constructed a new’ dredge this
summer and whose operations
are said to have been very suc
cessful. Mr. Geamalis will join
Mr. Mitchell later and it is ex-!
pected that the property will be
surveyed and patented this win
ter.
George Hellerich. superintend
ent in charge of operations of the
Bartholomae dredge on Gold
Run Creek in the Port Clarence
district, accompanied by Arnold
Thommen and “Lucky” Peterson
arrived in Nome via plane Sat
urday, after a very successful
mining season. Mr. Hellerich left
via plane for Fairbanks Sunday.
Mr. Larson who has been look
ing after his mining interests on
Sunset creek, a tributary of
Grantley Harbor, in the Teller,
section, is a recent arrival from
that section. Mr. Larson expects
to return next season with pro
per modern machinery to w'ork
the ground more successfully.
W. W. Fox, for many years
connected with mining activities
on the Inmachuk River, and who
returned to Nome this spring to
look after his claims, returned to
Nome from that well-known sec
tion a day or so ago. His property
is located just below that of H.
L. Stull, the lava miner. Mr. Fox
plans to spend the winter out
side.
H. L. Stull, of the Inmachuk
section, returned to Nome a few
days ago after further prospect
ing and developing of his placer
gold mining property which lies
under the lava beds in that sec
tion. It is understood that good
and substantial pans were ob
tained after several thaw’s had
been put in. An accident which
happened to the boiler caused
considerable damage to Mr.
Stull’s face and hands, however,
the flesh and scars are now prac
tically as good as new. Mr. Stull
dream theatre
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will spend the winter outside as
usual.
LET’S BOTH RESIGN.
SAYS C. I. O. CHIEF
WASHINGTON. Oct. — John
L. Lewis offered to resign as
chairman of the C. I. O. if Wil
li; m Green resigns as president
of the A. F. L. to pave the way
for peace between the two or
ganizations.
Lewis told newsmen the sug
gestion made at the Federation's
Houston convention that he, Lew
is, withdraw from the C. I. O.
was “manifestly not a unilateral
problem but obviously it is bi
lateral and that the same sug
guestion should apply to Green
whose recent ferocity seems to
know no bounds.
“In any event, it’s worth try
ing. It may then be possible for
the remaining leaders of the Fed
eration of Labor and the C. I. O.
to conclude a peace pact, in
which event the contribution by
Green and myself may be of
some value.”
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NOTICE
Notice is hereby given that the
Unemployment Compensation
Commission of Alaslta will hold
a public hearing on the eighth
day of November, 1938, in the of
fices of the Unemployment Com
pensation Commission, new Ter
ritorial Building, Juneau, Al
aska. At that time the Un
employment Compensation Com
mission will hear any ob
jections to any general or
special rule pertaining to the pay
ment of Unemployment Compen
sation benefits to seasonal and
non-seasonal employees under
the Alaska Unemployment Com
pensation law that may be adopt
ed, amended, or rescinded by
the Commission at their meeting
which convenes on November 1,
1938.
Publish Oct. 10,17,24,31. 1938.
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APPRECIATION
I wish to thank all my kind
friends and others who support
ed me in the election for Queen
of the N. W. Alaska Fair, and
trust that I represented them to
their utmost satisfaction.
Ruby O’Farrell
NOTICE
All bills against the Fair As
sociation not already in, kindly
leave at the office of President
A. Polet or hand to Fair Manag
er Howard Lyng.
lie sure to leave your address
and subscription for The Nome
Nugget to be forwarded to you
this winter, so you can keep in
touch with the mining and soc
ial activities of Nome and out
lying sections.
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November 9
December 14
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