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City Official Paper
NOME. ALASKA. MARCH 10, 1915.
THE FUTURE OF DREDGING.
The statement that three additional
dredges will be installed on Howard
Peninsula during the coming summer,
,'ii''Ch was published in yesterday's
Nugget, Is authentic in every way and
,s a complete refutation of the state
ments of those pessimistically inclined
ones, who profess to believe that
dredging on Heward I’eninsul i Js a Joke
and a failure The three machines
mentioned were contracted for lost
frill before the dose of navigation at ,t
two are for people who have pre
viously been engaged in the dredertrg
business in this district and are well
acquainted with the conditions
The last mentioned people are well
known level headed, sensible buslnes*
men, who have tried the game and
know thoroughly well what they are
about Tho third party, has not as
far ns known, any experience in the
dredging business, but lie also is u
conservative business man, and n. t
one who is easily led to venture into
unknown Holds without knowing wlier •
his returns are coming from. <>f the
three parties, none are stock jobbers
none have sought in the highways and
the byways for means wherewith t<•
speculate, as has been the rule in this
business in the past, and none have
anything to sell.
All three are closed companies, led.
in two eases at least, by men who
know the game and who are investing
their money and that of their asso
ciates in what they have demonstrated
to be a sound, safe and highly re
numerative business when handled
along sensible business lines When
men of this caliber continue to take
an active interest in the industry, and
confirm that interest by putting their
own money into their projects it is a
safn assumption that the dredging in
dustry i.s not quite gone to the dotnni
tion bow wows as some, and they .are
not a few, would have us believe.
Admittedly, there have been tnauy
failures in the business, and last sum
mer several of the dredges failed to
pay their expenses but this is no argu
ment against the future possibilities of
the industry. In the groat majority of
such cases tho cause of failure can be
traced directly to mismanagement, or
incompetence, it is a known fact that
two dredges, costing many thousands
of dollars, were erected in this district
In the paBt, and the management ad
mittedly knew no more i oncoming the
values contained in the ground to be
operated than had been told them by
tho parties from whom the ground was
purchased.
Those dredges failed and It was nat
ural that they should As has been
previously pointed out, the majority
of the dredges operated in this dis
trict during the past few years, have
been managed by men who knew very
i little concerning dredges and equally
, little of the conditions under which
[such machines must labor That many
[have failed under such management is
not to he wondered at. Unless condi
tions are wonderfully favorable no
business can succeed when guided by
managers who have little or no know
ledge of what is necessary to achieve
success The Hrudatreet reports of the
causes of business failures are ample
confirmation of this fact.
Except in a few cases the dredg
ing business In the past has been con
ducted along the most slip-shod lines
It has. In the main, been a case of hit
or miss and the misses have exceeded
| the hits Yet. if comparison of yardage
lvalues are made, it will be found that
where one dredge has failed in ground
; of a given value per yard, another
!dredge, under more careful manage
ment. will work ground of equal or
less value at a profit. Of the several
I machines which have heen consistent
money makers in the past, and there
are not a few, the majority will be
'found to be under the management of
| men who knew the business from A
to 7. and who do not venture a yard
I until thev know what values are to be
! returned It Is a fact that in everj
lease where full and comprehensive
I business methods liavc been pursued
land where the ground has been
thoroughly tested there h;us hardly
been a failure, and it is safe to assume
ilist half the failures during the past
few years could have been averted by
| proper handling and a thorough
I knowledge of conditions
The advent of the new additions to
jtlie dredging fleet of Seward Penin
sula is observed with pleasure and it
is prophesied that each succeeding vear
will witness further installations of
these mechanical diggers There is an
abundance of ground suitable for
dredging in everj- section of Seward
Peninsula and it is believed that time
will witness no less than a hundred
machines tearing up ttie golden stratas
in the streams of this district Each
year the list has continued to grow. In
the face of the many difficulties and
discouragements due to thorough lack
of knowledge of the conditions.
From the first crude dipper dredge
installed on Solomon river the dredge
fl et hn.s grown until at the present
I
>v. r two score of the giant machines1
ore to he found scattered over the Pen - |
i \sula Three additions were made to I
the fleet last summer, two are now be
ing installed in the Kougarok, and the
three mentioned in the Nugget dis
patches will further argument the list
during the coming summer. The steady!
growth of the industry is the best
attestation that it is a business learn
ing with possibilities and as one of
the most promising fields for enterprise
in this section, it should he given all
possible encouragement
The Nugget Is giving its subscribers
rare telegraph pews than any other
super in Alaska and will continue to
do so. Send in your name and have
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Wanted, a good woman oook for road
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Marks Roadhouas, Counoil, Alaska.
ODDITIES
IN THE
WAR NEWS
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Items which have not reached us by
wire, culled from outside exchanges
The big paintings in the Louvre, a
I Vi r is paper announces, have been
bricked up in a secret place to pro
tect them from aeroplane bombs.
A French captain caused a number
of his horses to lie loaded with hay
effikies and then nil bunched together
and covered with hay to resemble a
giant haystack. As the mosteer emerg
ed from tlie haze the Germans were be
wildered but charged, which caused1
tlie horses to separate While the Ger
mans were slashing at the hay effleie*
on the horses tlie real French troops
got a position in the rear and defeated
them
Tlie eleven languages spoken in the
Pii.il Monarchy case much confusion
in the Austrian army Two-thirds of
a company it is said, do not under- |
stand the German of their commanding !
officer, and five fir six Interpreters '
sometimes have to lie used The only .
language all understand is that of the
trumpet and often tlie trumpeter gets \
killed
Tlie Marquis of Anglesey, one of the
wealthiest peers in England suddenly
returned to his London hotel from
France, and after twenty-four hours
rejoined tiis regiment Ilis flying trip
was due to the fact that tie had no
coat, a piece of shrapnel having torn
the whole back out of tlie only one he
had He has his uniforme made lu a
fashionable tailor
German soldiers sent to tlie French
trenches, fifty yards away, a cow with
a card about her neck. “How are you'”’
Tlie French tied a plneynrd to her
horns, "We’d he lots better off thank
:- ui, if li was not fur your Kaiser,” but
while tlie cow was on her way back
fighting was resumed and she was
killed “We had tier for supper that
night." wrote tlie soldier responsible
for the yarn.
A Berlin dispatch says the Goeben
and Breslau, after being bottled up in
tin* Meliterranean liy twelve British
ships, escaped by switching their bow
and stern lights To tlie British look
outs it apeared as if (tie cruisers were
headed inshore while they were mak
ing for the open sea. stern lights fore
most
A Hindu belonging to a Lancer re
giment. when lie beard a comrade
abusing the Germans, rebuked him:
“Do not talk like that of tile Germans
It is n great country which can make
war on five powers. They are brave
men who can fight and die as the
Germans do.”
The butler for fifteen years in a
wealthy English family, in resigning
to join the colors wrote: "Mv work as
an indoor servant is such ns can be
done—and In times like these 1 think
should he done—hy women.”
ALCOHOL HURTS GERMANS.
WASHINGTON—"If the allies abol
ish the use of alcohol In their military
service and the Germans continue to
drink beer and alcoholic beverages, the
ultimate outcome of the present war in
Europe is settled.” says a prominent
governmental surgeon.
This authority said it has been found
Ihnt the alcohol habit totally unfits a
| man to endure the cold, tat it reduces
jthe accuracy «>f vision, that it brings
, «>n fatigue ..and deadens the sensative
jregulating mechanism of his machfn
i ery.
GERMANS USE
FEMALE ATTIRE
AS DISGUISE
PARIS, i 'lie of the latest of the
German ruses is to disguise themselves
as women, according to semi-official in
formation given out In Paris.
In this garb German soldiers re
cently went out to gather potatoes in
a Held near Senones, while in the
neighborhood of Trois Maisons a Ger
man convoy was observed apparently
escorted hy a group of women. In both
cases the fraud was discovered hy the
French troops, who opened Are The
disguised soldiers ran, and under their
skirts appeared the boots of cavalry
men.
WEATHER REPORT.
Nome. Alaska. March 9. 1919.
Temperature Max. 17. Alin. 1
Barometer 29 61 inches
VA’eat her Cloudy snowing.
Wind N 19 miles per hour. Max.
3fi miles, average 2G miles.
Precipitation-- Trace snow.
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picking and contain ail the natural oil.
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weigh not over 11 pounds; the bacon Special price for this week:
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about 4'/a pounds to the slab. Small Tins 30c
Ipolets tores
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