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NUGGET MINING AND DREDGING
MAGAZINE, *
(Issued Annually In October.)
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Holered as second-class matter Feb.
*6. 1907, at the Postotlice. at Nome,
Alaska, under the Act of Conitress of
V.arch S, 1878.
Copy for regular advertisements
must be In by 10 o'clock on the day of
publication.
City Official Paper
NOME, ALASKA, AUGUST 13, 1915.
Now that the time is approaching for
the contemplated governmental ex
amination of tlie harbor and the mouth
of Snake River with a view to im
provement of the shipping facilities, it
would seem.about time that the mer
chants and shipping men of the com
munity should get together and take
some action to prevent the matter
and is of sufficient importance as a
shipping center to demand some im
provement in the matter of adequate
shipping facilities, will doubtless not
iie gainsaid by even our most reaction
ary citizens. Nome is the distributing
point for thousands of square miles of
territory and the volume of shipping
Is of sufficient value to procure us a
safe shelter for our coastwise shipping
at least, but it Is a certainty that if we
make no active effort to show the
necessity for improvements to the
examining engineers, the matter will
be investigated in prefunctory man
ner and then forgotten. Throughout
tlie previous years of tlie existence of
Nome, although the necessity for har
bor improvement lias been a matter of
much discussion, nothing has been
done toward securing such improve
ments. While desultory attenpts
to secure an appropriation by
interested individuals have been
made, that we have not had con
gressional recognition of the needs in
tills direction is largely due to tlie
failure of the citizens to take active
steps to place the matter before tlie
authorities in the proper light. Yet,
during the same period, almost every
Jerkwater port along the Atlantic
coast from Maine to Flordia has ob
tained improvements of some nature
in the line of harbor facilities. A
glance over the record of congressional
appropriations for 'harbor improve
ments for the period since nineteen
hundred and, five alone will convince
one that Nome has indeed been sadly
neglected in tills respect for therein i
will he found the record of improve
ments granted to shipping points of i
which tlie volume of business was in no
way comparable to that of Nome.
While the general volume of Nome's
-—- '
commerce has dwindled greatly In re
cent years, investigation discloses that,
both in value and volume it is still of
sufficient proportions to demand at
tention. The Treasury Department
report of the general trade relations
of the Territory for the year 1914 dis
closes that the value of merchandise
shipped to this and other Bering Sea
ports, exclusive of St. Michael, was in
excess of three and one half millions,
while the total volume of domestic
commerce for the years 1910 to 1914,
Inclusive, aggregates nearly nineteen
millions of dollars. This, as stated,
does not include the immense volume
of business handled through St. Mich
ael for trans-shipment to interior
points: the figures given are for Ber
ing Sea points alone. Also the figures
represent merely the value of domestic
imports from the ports of the Pacific
coast. Also no account is taken of the
considerable volume of exports from
this section, which total many thou
sands of dollars per year. Of this im
: mense quantity of trade, fully two
I thirds arc handled directly through
Nome, as the distributing point for the
I district. Taken together, the imports
and exports of this section, including
the gold export, will reach a grand
total of nearly seven million dollars
per year and possibly more, as no ac
" curate figures arc available upon which
' estimates can be based. All this dis
’ closes that, as a port of entry, Nome
can make a very respectable showing:
at least sufficient to entitle her to
recognition and a share of the immense
expenditures of Congress for the 1m
porvement of the horhors of the na
tion. Yet, as before remarked, these
facts must be presented to the atten
tion of the authorities for it is hardly
to be expected that they will attempt
to hunt them up for theitiselves. It
must also be remembered that while
there is at present a very great ln
erest being manifested in Alaska, Con
gress will do little or nothing for us
unless we attempt to do something
for ourselves.
GOVERNOR STRONG IS
PRESENTED WITH JEWEL
JUNE.VIT.—Governor J. !•' A.
Strong was presented with a jewel
badge of past Arctic grand chief at a
meeting of the local Arctic Brother
hood recently. The presentation speech
was made by John T. Reed and was
appropriated to the occasion. The gov
ernor replied in a manner thnt brought
forth hearty applause._
CAUGHT 10,000 KINGS IN
ONE TYONIC TRAP
A man named Pond recently caught
ten thousand king salmon in one trap
alone at Tyonlc. He has heen offered
twenty thousand dollars for the site
but has refused.
A country editor wrote: "Brother,
don't stop your paper just because you
don’t agree with the editor. The last
cabbage you sent us didn’t agree with
us either, but we didn’t drop you form
our subscription list on that account."
—Boston Transcript.
“Why do you feed tramps who come
along? They never do any work for
you.”
“No,” said the wife, “hut it is quite
a satisfaction to see a man eat a meal
without finding fault with the cook
ing.”
“It’s all very well, Jarge, for you t’
say why don’t Kitehner an' French do
this an’ that. But what I say is, it
don’t do for you an’ me t’ say any
thing what wight embarrass either of
’em.”—Punch.
The forthcoming number of the Nome
Nugget Mining Hdltlon Is progressing
nicely. It will undoubtedly be more
interesting than any previous editions
ind will contain many subjects other
:han mining -in fact a magazine de
leting the entire peninsula. An in
:reased edition will be published thi9
■ear and there will probably be enough
'or all, but to insure receiving your
■opios il would be best to send in your
trder at once, 50c per copy, or $5.00 a
jozen. Postage 5 cents per copy.
NEWEST NOTES
flBjSCIENGE i
French scientists have demonstrated 1
that tho vapors of Iodine and bromide
pass through thin glass, even at or
dinary temperatures. i
A Washington Inventor has patented ,
a newspaper file equipped with a wire
frame to hold a paper open and guard
it against tearing.
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A process which permits lllumtnat- j
ing gas producer* to manufacture
ammonia by synthesis has been per
fected by a German scientist.
A novelty for fishermen is 11 hook
equipped with a clip to hold a living
fish as bait without injury so that it
| can swim naturally.
Success has attended experiments in
England with spinning a textile fibre
J from a form of sea weed that grows
) plentifully in Australia.
Flordia is the leading state in the
production of fuller’s earth, providing
more than 75 per cent of the United
States total last year.
A French engineer has invented a
sand box for locomotives in which n
stream of water carries the sand to the
rails with a minimum of waste.
For the use of tailors a device has
been invented which shows just how
doth will look when made Into cloth
ing without cutting the fabric.
British scientists have discovered
that a nut ailed to the nutmeg that
grows in Brazil yields an oil of much
value in the manufacture of soap.
A street car wheel which its I iaine
inventor dalms is noiseless in reality is
a wheel within a wheel, the two being
separated by rubber cushions.
The Japanese government has adopt
ed a plan of railway building that will
require ten years to complete and add
more than 1200 miles to existing lines.
The output of the fish cultural op
erations of the United States Rureau
—>.nics ror .... ~
' fiscal year ending
with June was the In.sen, mi
Tlie equipment of nil vessels landing
passengers at its ports with wireless
telegraphy apparatus has been made
romputsory hy the government of Ur
uguay.
A Pennsylvania inventor’s tool chest
carries its contents on shelves mounted
on a collapsible framework that can he
extended to form a convenient stand.
An American scientist is experiment
ing in England with shale oils and
other Indigenous fuels in the hope of
finding a commercial substitute for
gasoline.
Operated by an electric motor, a
fountain has been invented that uses
the same water repeatedly so that
there is no appreciable consumption of
the supply.
The hatching of eg* by artificial heat
has been practiced in China and Egypt
since prehistoric times, huge hrlck
ovens heing used in the latter country.
A new electric fuse plug is equipped
with four wires that can he brought
into service in succession so that it is
useful until all four have been burned
nut.
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