BETTER MAIL SERVICE CAMPAIGN
ACHIEVES DISTINCT VICTORY
,'i That the improved mail service e
campaign conducted by the i
Nome Chamber of Commerce and <
other commercial and civic bodies .»
of interior Alaska has finally i
forced the obdurate and slow :
moving postoffice department to
take gome decisive action to rem"
edy the many deficiencies of the j
pressnt service is amply attested
by the following communications,
copies of which were forwarded :
to the Nugget by Delegate Wick~
ersharn. It is doubtless well un
derstood by the mapority of
Nomeites that the efforts of the
mail committee to secure an im
proved service were not without
effect- We have already received
evidences that the constant bat
tering at the official door was
producing results but that these
results were to be so far reaching
as to embrace a complete revis
ion of the service was something
hardly to be thought of. Such
happens to be the case however.
This assurance is not given upop
the authority of the various as
sistant postmasters or any othei
of the departmental understrap
pers, big or little, but is the un
qualified statement of the post
master general, Mr. Burleson, ir
reply to the appended letter froir
Mr. Wickersham.
Regardless of what the inter
ested knockers may think about
it, this result may be considered
a distinct victory for the loca.
chamber of commerce.
Fairbanks and the other towns
of the interior have maintained a
desultory campaign for relief
from the present inadequate ser
vice for several years but, al •
though they achieved some bene
fits, it was not until the Nome
Chamber of Commerce added its
voice to the constant chorus ot
complaint that the department
commenced to realize its own
deficiencies with respect to tin:
winter mail service and to set
about to find a remedy. Also, il
must be remembered, it was pri
marily due to the efforts of the
Nome chamber backed by the Al
aska bureau that the department
consented to provide an addition'
al appropriation for forwarding
the early winter accumulation at
Cordova. We do not mean to
infer that the credit is entirely
SUMMONS FOR PUBLICA
TION.
Ia the District Court for the
Territory of Alaska Second Di
vision.
Philip DeFontville, plaintiff, vs
Gold Bottom Hydraulic. Mining
Co., a corporation, defendant.
The President of the United
States of America to Gold Bot
tom Hydraulic Mining Co., a cor
poration, the above named defend
ant, greeting:
You are hereby summoned and
required to appear and answer the
complaint of the plaintiff on file
in the office of . the Clerk of said
court at the City of Nome in said
district, within thirty (30) day3
' from the service of this summons
upon you, towit: From the 27th
day of May, 1916, or judgment for
want thereof will be taken against
you; and you are hereby notified
that if you fail to answer said
complaint the plaintiff will take
judgment against you for the sum
of eleven thousand five hundred
fifty-two and 85-100 ($11,552.85)
dollars with interest thereon from
the 31st day of October, 1915, at
the rate of 8 per cent per annum
and for his costs and disburse
ments herein, being the amount
claimed by said plaintiff on an ac
count for services rendered and
monies advanced for the use of
plaintiff.
The order for service by pub
lication of this summons is dated
April 15th, 1916.
The date of the first publication
is April 15th, 1916, and the date
of the last publication is May
27th, 1916.
Witness the Honorable J. R.
Tucker, Judge of the District
Court for the District of Alaska,
Second Division, and the Seal of
said court hereto affixed at Nome,
Alaska, this 15th day of April..
•1916.
(Seal.) G. A. ADAMS,
Clerk of the District Court, Dis
trict of Alaska, Second Division
due to the local body, ior such
is not the case. It is plainly in
dicated, however, that the elforts
of Nome proved the deciding
factor. Following is the corre
spondence referred to.
February 3, 1916
Hon. A. S. Burleson, Postmaster
general, Washington, D. C.
Sir—Herewith inclosed is a
copy of tli/e Record 'Citizen, a
newspaper published at Ruby,
Alaska, I call your special atten
tion to the editorial headed
‘‘What can be done about it?” I
respectfuly request the depart
ment to read this editorial and
to consider the situation o'f the
people in the Ruby' country where
y'our own friends, for the Record
Citizen is a democratic paper and
is Jfriendly to your administra
tion, find it necessary to write
such an editorial. Certainly' these
people are not getting good mail
service and they ought to have
better.
I respectfully request you to
prepare a special estimate for an
additional appropriation sufficient
to give the people of the interior
of Alaska better mail service. If
postoffice deparement will make
such an estimate, and thereby
give me any standing before the
committee and urge its passage,
|1 will undertake to secure the
passage of a bill giving you addi
tional appropriation sufficient to
give the people of this great inte
rior country su^li reasonable mail
service as they need in building
up the country.
The situation at Nome is even
worse than it is at Ruby, and it
is bad enough in every portion of
the interior of Alaska along the
great mail route. It can be made
•much better if somebody’ with
authority in the postoffiec depart
ment can be. given charge of it
and permitted to work with me
in an effort to secure the needed
.appropriation for this work.
You appreciate that I can not
secure an additional dollar of ap
propriation without y'ou estimat
under the law, and you are cer
tainly in duty bound to make
such an estimate so that those
people who are producing so
much of the great wealth
coming out of Alaska can have
the mail service they deserve.
Will you kindly give your per
sonal thought to this matter for a
moment and give me the assist
ance asked for?
Will you please return this
newspaper to me when you have
examined the editorial mention
ed since I desire to use it in pre
senting another matter to another
department.
Verv truly vours.
TAMES WICKERSHAM,
Delegate from Alaska.
Office of the Postmaster General.
Washington, D. C. Feb. 29.
lion. James Wickersham, House
of Representatives.
My Dear Mr. Wickersham: Re
ferring to your letter of the 23°
instant, with which you forward”
ed a copy of the Record Citizen
of Ruby, Alaska, issued of Jan
uary 15, 1916, containing com
plaint of unsatisfactory mail ser
vice for Ruby and other points
in the interior of Alaska, and in
which you request the prepara
tion of a special estimate for a
deficiency appropriation to be ex
pended for additional service in
Alaska, I beg to inform you that
the question of what action
should be taken at this time rel
ative to the Alaska service has
leceived careful consideration.
The department recently au
thorized the employment of
emergency service, in addition to
the regular service, for transpor
tation to the interior of Alaska of
all mail possible for an expendi
ture not exceeding $2,000. It is
estimated that between 2,500 and
3,000 pounds of additional mail
will be carried to destination un
der such authorization. Emer
gency service was authorized on
the 17th instant for the transpor
tation of a total of 2,000 pounds
of mail between Fairbanks and
Tanana ; also a late shipment was
made last fall of 4,900 pounds of
Alaskan mails from Skagway to
Dawson and by late boat from
Dawson to Eagle to Circle, ar
riving at Circle October i8th and
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a BOUT your magazines and newspapers
not arriving from the outside, when
it is possible for every one in Nome to
subscribe for the Nome Daily Nugget
which furnishes the latest telegraph
news as well as local happenings.
You do not even have to go to the
postoffice; you can have the paper
delivered to your home or office every
day day before supper is served
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SUPPORT AND ENCOURAGE
YOUR HOME INDUSTRIES j
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DOLLARS spent outside go out of cir- |
dilation and never return here again.
Dollars spent with your home mer
chants makes for Home Prosperity.
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connecting with the regular route
for Fairbanks. These amounts j
,of additional mails, will .he car
l ied during- the present season, I
whereas the-oirly additional mail 1
carried last' winter' was" a ship-;
merit of 2,000 pounds from Cor
dova to Fairbanks .. .'■■■■•
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The regular contract service .
provides for the transportation of j
much smaller amounts of mail in j
ihe fall and spring than in mid
winter, the service being so ar
ranged on account of the diffi
cult travel during the periods be
fore the trails are well frozen and
after the} begin to thaw. The
amount of mail carried on the
contract route from Cordova is
i.<’>oo pounds a week from Octo
ber i to November 23 and from
March 21, to May 31, whereas
the amount carried from Novem
ber 23 to March 20 is 4,800
pounds a week. The less exten
sive service in the fall does not
provide for the transportation of
all the second class matter in ad
dition to the letter mail, resulting
in an accumulation at Coruova
by November 24th. When the
midwinter period of service be
gins large amounts of second!
class matter are dispatched re
ducing the amount of accumulat
ed mail, as well as carrying cur
rent mail, so that by about Feb
ruary all second class mail of-1
fered for dispatch is carried. Re-!
cent reports from the depart
ment’s representatives indicate (
that the midwinter service now I
in operation is carrying material
amounts of parcel post matter in
addition to the first class and the
second class matter.
The conditons after the dis- j
patch of the large amounts of
mail now authorized to be car
ried, will be ascertained, .with
the view of providing further re
lief if found necessary. A COM- .
PTETE REVISION OF THfi
WINTER SERVICE IN AL
AASKA IS BEING CONSID
ER FD BY THE DEPART
MENT WITH THE PURPOSE
OF MATERIALLY IMPROV
ING THE POSTAL FACILI
TIES FOR THE INTERIOR
BY THE NEXT SEASON.
Copy of the Record Citizen is
herewith returned to you as re- j
quested.
Yours very truly,
A. S. BURLESON,
Postmaster General.
the plaoe to pat your job printing at ,
right Pricea and prompt delivery Is
,->t the Nugget office.
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