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NUGGET MINING AND DREDGING
MAGAZINE,
(Issued Annually in October.)
Price per copy .Do
Price per copy, mailed .66o
Hates for advertising space la my
ot ll.e H'icve publication* will be made
known on application.
PHONF MmIN 46.
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Entered as second class mailer Feb
26, too;, at in* poslulhc* at Nome,
Alaska, under the Act of Congress of
March, ltVk
Copy for regular advertisements
must be In by lo o clock on the day ct
publication.
NOME, ALASA, NOV. 23, 1916.
Since woman lias obtained the ballot
man has someone to put the blame on.
There doesn’t seem to be much use
in trying to whitewash the blacklist.
Pr. Sharpe says that he thinks any
one who dared to run against Urignby
Is nothing short of a hero.
Since the hopeful pre-election days
many people are like the man In the
story who said that he would bear It
but darned If he would grin.
Every one who ever owned an auto
mobile can understand Mr. Hughes'
petition on the German vote. He
could not afford to keep it or throw
It away.
Secretary Lane asks what thing is
there that any American can say we
ought to bo willing to fight for In
Mexico. The one thing which we
seemed not only willing to fight for,
but did actually fight for was the ar
rest of a boatload of marines and
blue Jackets and their detention in
Tcmpico for half an hour.
Edison Is a good advertiser end
keeps himself on the front page a
good deal of the time In one way or
another. He likes to prophesy and
his latest prediction is that there
won’t be any poverty In a hundred
years or so which Is a perfectly safe
prediction so far as most of us are
concerned.
Hans Lageroff, an American citizen
of Swedish parentage, sailed from
New York on a visit to Sweden on
beard a Swedish vessel, carrying with
him $10,U00 in gold. The ship was
stopped by British crlusers, taken to
a British port and the $10,000 was
taken from Lageroff on the ground
that he was probubly Intending to take
It into Germany. He was permitted
to return to New York, but the Brit
ish retained his gold. Is this war or
piracy? asks the P.-L
Among commodities which have
not participated in the almost gen
eral rise in price is the daily paper In
Nome. The paper used for printing it
costs nearly fifty per cent more and
other items are higher but the sub
scription is the same as In former
years. Still now and then soiucuno
Intimates that the price is too high.
It is then very truthfully pointed out
that two dollars In Seattle will huy
the P.-L, the Curtis publications and
a handful of other magazines. This
cannot be denied and wo are glad that
so much good reading can be got for
so little money But on the other
hand it cannot be denied that wages
are much lower in Seattle than they
are in Nome. This, however, la not
the reason for the highor price of
Nome and Alaskan papers. The
reason Is that Alaska la Isolated and
the communities are small. As the
circulation la necessarily limited and
as only a certain amount of advertis
ing may be counted on, the large ex
pense Incurred in making the paper
and paying telegraph tolls has to be
borne Jointly by the subscribers. Ruby
and idltarod have weekly papers for
wihch one dollar a month Is enargeu.
They are very small sheets but tnoy
have the important telegraphic news
and bright local notes along with ar
ticles of general interest reprinted
from exchanges. The people of those
communities aro willing to pay this
price for a little weekly and there
would be a void in thoir lives If the
papers stopped coming out.
There Is another class of towns In
Alaska where the news U even high
er and where the price is paid giaily.
Bueli towns are places to small to
support even a weekly. Bt. Michael
is an example. There the hews is
sold in bulletin form by the radio
men who deliver the single sheet ot
condensed telegraphic news which has
been multigrapiied on a typewriter.
Tins daily service is paid for at the
rule of two dollurs a month by indi
viduals and five dollars a month by
merchants. And at those figures the
people are delighted to have the bul
letin service.
So it appears that the smaller the
community the higher the prieja for
news and the smaller the service
given. These bulletins have no local
news, no advertising and no notes
of g-neral interest. They are bare
skeletons of the ou.side news and tliui
is all. a hey compare with the Nug
get about as the Nugget compares
with the i‘.-l. and yet they are con
sidered good value for the money in
Bt. Michael.
A little dusty paper In Alaska has
by telegraph tho principal news from
the war and the leading events all
over the country, but this Is only a
part of its value. It serves as a me.in3
to advance the interests of the com
munity in every way, socially as well
a« materially. Local entertainments
are announced so that all may know
of them and some account of what
happened 13 given so that those who
did not go may know about them. In
it the merchants may advertise their
wares to their own and their cus
tomers' advantage. Local news Is
given more or less fully and is often
rtod with greater avidity than the
telegraphic news.
Thus it appears that the local dally
in Alaskan towns at a cost of eight
cents per day is not charged for ex
orbitantly. To And out the place it
occupies in the community it is only
necessary for it to suspend publica
tion. When thi3 has been done, the
people have complained ot the vo'd
and have usually chipped in generous
ly to start it up again.
PAYING THE NATIONAL DEBT.
It is a habit with certain lndivduals
who sometimes pose as mining experts
to refer to the reserves of a mining
diBtrict, or even of a single deposit, as
being sufficient to pay off the national
debt of this or that country. Usually
the country speciAed is the one where
the patter is to be used us a solvent
to loosen up the cush of "tighl-wnds,'
since it is the latter class which hopes
for big prohls. The glamour of the
phrase certainly appeals to the Imag
ination, and the mining man without
imagination is an ordinary plodder.
By stimulating the Imagination, a
iiuntal picture may be built up in py
ramidal form, with silver bullion top
pirg copper igots and surmounted in
turn by smuller and more attractive
gold bricks.
But there 13 another kind of national
debt which cannot properly be meas
ured by any monetary standard. Each
nation has a debt of honor and of re
pect always due and always payable to
other nations and a debt of self-re
spect and protection to its own com
ponents. Although a monetary na
tional debt may be, and usually Is,
refunded and increased or even at
limes successfully repudiated, the mor
al debt must constantly be paid or ‘.he
tuition ceases to exist. In some cases
the moral debt of one nation to another
rosy be converted to a monetary equiv
alent or subsititute, with or without
the accompaniment of force in tho pro'
cess of collection. But the entire fab
led pavement of hell, Aguratlvely con
ceived as a mineral deposit, would not
suffice to pay the moral debt of a na
tion untrue to Itself.
MACHINE GUN DISPUTE.
The war department hopes to put a
stop to all of the controversy over the
Lewis gun by appointing a special
board of Ave army officers and two
civilians to take up all the phases of
Professional Cards
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Dr. A. F. Heimlich
PHYSICIAN AND SURQKON.
Offlo* and RaNdano*.
OVER HILL’S PHARMACY.
Offloa hourai 2-5 and 7>S p. m.
Phono Main 7.
the machine gun problem and to de
termine finally upon the type or types
of such gnus for the use of the Uniiled
Slates army. The Lewis guu is un
dergoing its first real test in the tinny
and its use has revived the interest in
the charge of Col. Lewis that that.oia
naace department directly dliscrimt
uuted against this American invention.
The fact seems to bo unquestioned
that when CoL Lewis perfected his in
vention he offered the free use of his
gua to th American government, but
that the ordnance department declined
the offer, lie took it to Europe ana
found no difficulty in placing it. A
great factory was established in Bel
g.um for making machine guns o| the
a<ewis type, lie arm was promptly
adopted by the English army, after the
oigbreak of the present war and
thousands are now in use in the Brit
ish trenches.
Vi'hen the administration suddenly
found the Mexican situation acute and
ordered the guardsmen to the border
i developed that our at my was with
out uny adequale supply of machine
guns u:ia liad liulc piospcel of gal
ling them. In the emergency and
through the friendly oilices of the Brit
ish government an American coU">;rn
manufacturing Lewis guns wus per
muted to sell a nui.ib.r winch had
oecn made under contract with '.lie
British government, lo the American
army. Apparently they arc giving
satisfaction.
Lutil the full investiigation is made
and all the facts determined by the
new board it is hardly safe to assume
that the Lewis is the last word in ma
chine guns, or that, it is by far the
best type yet produced. That 13 pure
ly a matter to bo determined by ex
perts. It is diilicult to believe in ad
vance of absolute proof that the ordin
ance department of the army deliber
ately discriminated against an Ameri
can invention and gave preference to
a foreign type of gun inferior to the
American.
The resources, industries, flora and
fauna, the Eskimo, and every Inter
esting feature of Seward peninsula
detailed in the 1915 edition of the
Nugget Mining and Dredging Maga
zine. A few copies left. Price, fifty
cents.
OYLKSTOCKE1X
To the public.—
We nave Just finished stock taking
and find that «-e are heavily overstocked I
so are malting enormous reductions it I
Hardware—as mucn as uit per cent h |
•ertaln lines. Notwithstanding linmenst j
advances outside, especially In Hard- !
ware and Metal Goods, we are still sell
ing on tne basis of goods purchased the
past two or three years.
We wt'li sell tor cash only at thes
prices, and for a limited time, until w<
imng our stock, down to the require
meins of the camp.
11 you nave an order to be tilled, lei \
us figure on It; we can save you money
We have proved it to others, we eai t
prove ii to you.
HAULING AND PEAN COMPANY, 1
BEFORE LEAVING FOR
THE GREAT 0U% SIDE
To Insure a pleasant voyage come !
In and have your clothes cleaned, pres-s
ed and repaired.
Wo make them look like new.
We make alterations.
We do cleaning, pressing and re
pairing for Ladies and Gentlemen.
We make and repair furs.
First lass workmanship. Modern
methods and prompt service. Onoe a
customer always a customer.
Give us your work. Satisfaction
guaranteed.
NOME TAILORING CO.,
N’cxt door to Segersiorm & Hagen.
Jewelers.
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$3.50 to $7.00
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CHILLED BEEF
Just received on Victoria and now on display
at the
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NORTH POLE BAKERY
ANVIL BAKERY
BEGINNING MONDAY, juNE 7TH, THE PRICE OF BREAP
WILL BE 10 CENTS PER LOAF OR THREE LOAVES FOR 25
CENTS. THE SIZE OF LOAVES HAVE BEEN INCREASED
WHICH INSURES MORE AND BETTER BREAD FOR OUR
PATRONS.
CHA&, CAVEY, Prop.
When Ordering
Insist on
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