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NUGGET MINING AND DREDGING
MAGAZINE,
(Issued Annually In October.!
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NOME, ALASKA, NOV. 26, 1916
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He wonder how many readers of a
newspaper published ill a small com
munity realize that they have a mani
fest duty to perform toward a pub
lication of that character. Not many
we warrant; for the reason that the
puuiic generally fail to realize the
true importance of the newspaper as a
means of furthering the interests of
tne community.
x lie leading public give little or no
relieclion to tne considerable inlluence
exerted by u live paper on the social,
industrial and business liie of the com
munity in which it is published.
To the average person ill a small
town tne newspaper is merely an ordi
nary utility, a commonplace, like
measles or freckles, a somelning useful
only in the degree that it saves one
the trouble of looking for things bur
themselves of of having to await the
- beiated arrival of information from
otner sources. To a great many the
gieatest utility of a newspaper lies
m ns particular adaptability to the
business of building the morning lire.
V, e admit that this latter view is well
taken in many cases but at the same
time it may be argued that unless a
newspaper fails to tullili its primary
l unction of furnishing at least a fair
amount of news to its readers or is
managed along lines which cause it to
be a detriment to the best interests ol
the community, it is in greater or less
degree a benelit to both the public anti
the individual, and is therefore worthy
of support. A newspaper may be smalt,
it may coniain comparatively little
information, may be poorly managed,
may even none-progressive—it may be
sadly iacking in many things—still, as
long as it provokes no harm to the
community it is a beneheial institu
tion. if it he wide awake, progressive, j
mi 111 some sort fulliliing the func
tions for which it was created, it is
really a powerful influence in shaping
tile thought and inclination of public
life. A moment's reflection will dis
close that the live newspaper is a force
*n any community regardless of wheth
er it be large or small. In a great
■sense it is really the hub around which
revolves a major part of the thought
of the community; it is the radiating
Point from which emanate a consider
able portion of the Influences which
shape public opinion. And, in a gen
eral sense the smaller the community
the greater is its influence.
There are few, however, who stop
to consider or measure the value of
influence and the majority are ut
terly regardless of the read benefit of
having a newspaper in their midst.
The educational element Involved In the
possession of a local Journal Is gen
erally completely overlooked together
with its capacity for actual benefit.
The main reason for this probably lies
in the fact that the newspaper is now
adays a commonplace thing and the
public have grown so used to having
one around that were it not fo.r the
insatiable demands of curiosity few
would even patronize it by subscrip
tion. Few indeed look upon the news
paper as an important factor in the life
of their community and fewer still are
willing to grant It more than a grudg
ng support. Yet, a little reflection Is
convincing thm.t the benefits bestowed
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an a community by a live newspaper
vo of far greater proportion than the
opneiit the paper receives from the
. amity, in other words the pub
lic generally get a whole lot more
value from the newspaper than the
owners receive from the public. In
any case as long as the paper is pub
ishtng news in proportion to the vol
ume of its patronage the public gener
ally get full value for their money
and the same applies to the advertiser.
Few, however, realize this and there
fore fall to appreciate the fact that It
is their duty to help the paper along
as long as It is serving the public in
a useful manner.
The advantages gained by advertis
ing In a newspaper are obvious and it
is therefore the duty of all who can
expect a benefit from advertising to
assist the paper by employing such
;pace as they can afford, in as much
s this is the most effective way in
helping it along. For this they at all
times receive full value in free adver
tising alone as every newspaper an
. nuallv gives awav many columns of
I
space in quietly boosting along its
advertisers. Few realize this but it
is none the less a fact. The average
newspaper is ever looking for an op
portunity to aid those who extend their
patronage by making helpful references
1 to what they are about. Not many
are aware of this yet a glance through
the columns of the average paper will
disclose its truth. A newspaper can
aelp a business along in many dlffer
, nt ways and in an almost impreceptl
. hie manner by means of a few appar
ently casual references—and usually
does without even the advertiser or the
b public becoming aware of the fact,
l This free advertising is extended by
the paper in every direction where it
■ will bo of benefit either to the commun
ity or the Individual. Day In and day
out the paper is quietly boosting the
jommunity and its citizens; is helping
things along in countless ways that
tre none the less effective because of
being almost impreceptible. The
newspaper at all times has Its eye on
he fact that the progress and pros
iciity of the community is the index
f its own prosperity and the more
.hat it can do to further the interests
,f the community and its citizens the
greater will be of its own bene
its. It is therefore up to the commun
.ty to aid the paper in its mission by
aoi lg all it can to help the paper along
and so increase the range of its inhu
me. It is their manifest duty to sub
scribe, to advertise and, if the paper
s equippedd to handle such matter, to
assist with their Job printing. Every
ittie iieipa tiio Dupw. Too many peo
pie accept the view that they are sav
ug something by rushing off to a jot)
.Aunt when they have a little job work
o do, when the town paper is fully
able to handle such work.
In the majority of cases the only
eason for this is that the Job plant
icrforms the work for a little less
money. Such people are losing sight
■ f the fact that they are in reality
riaking no particular gain, especially
,f they are business people, as the
newspaper can more than make up a
ight difference in costs through ad
vertising the business for which such
printing is done. Also they are losing
light of the fact that their first duty
s to the paper which is doing all in
its power to further the general as
ivell as the individual interests of the
(immunity.
ALASKA
NOTES
Reward.—Jack Ronan and Bennett
James are "in the money" here, so to
^peak, as the quartz mining property
which they recently bought near Moose
ass bids fair to be fabulously rich,
•oth of the mining men state that they
re more than pleased with the out
look.
A few days ago a mill run of four
ind a half tons of ore was made as
i test of the rock. It yielded eighty
ounces of gold, which means that the
re goes in the neighborhood of $270
:o the ton.
In the balmy days of Dawson, a
^tory gaineii circulation that “Swift
vater Bill” Grates had, at one time
purchased all the eggs in town, with
t view to gaining the affections of a
refractory maiden. And the story went
further to the effect that by getting
a corner on the eggs that he gained
his point. Whether or not the story
was true, “Swiftwater 13111” had noth
ing on Andy Lovig, of tlie Circle hot
springs district, as he recently cornered
i lie watermelons of that district by
paying *80 for an eight pound melon.
Tlio purchaser had struck it rich byt
a short time before on Signora creek
and as his .poke was fat at tlie time of
the sale, lie had no objection to paying
a high price, fly people of the hot
springs country, it is claimed that this
is the highest price ever paid for a j
melon, ten dollars a pound.
After making the purchase, Mr. Lo
vik treated his friends and shortly
afterward left for the hills to secure
his winter’s supply of meat.
The little power schooner Augusta
C., Capt Abe Lee, arrived last night
from Nome after a rough trip. The
others aboard were the Jacobson bro
thers, who own tlie boat, and two pas
sengers, says the Alaska l’ost of Sep
tember 2.
Captain Lee says that the trip was
not unusual lor Being sea navigation
at this time of year. There was plen
ty of wind and high seas, and once
they escaped loss only by reaching a
safe harbor just ahead of a 75-miio
an hour gale. The schooner left Nome
the same day the Corwin sailed and
arrived only 86 hours behind.
The owners intend to make Seward
their headquarters for the winter.
Seward.—Newspaperdom in this city
,s now in an uproar for the reason
that it has just been discovered that the
majority of the stock in the newly
ued local paper, The Alaska Post,
is owned by four members of th6 Sew
ard city council, called locally "The
liig Four." As it is seen here there
would be no harm in the councilmen
mning stock in the paper were it not
.'or the fact that all of the city business
4oes to tlie new paper. The people
here think the city business should go
to the paper making the lowest bid for
it, but it goes to the newspaper re
ardless of that fact or without the city
asking for bids.
Fairbanks Citizen.-—Albert Johnson,
who has been prospecting on Gilmore
creek for past three months, has Hied
on three claims at the head of that
creek which are stated to contain
ledges of tungsten ore in commercial
quantities. Mr. Johnson describes the
ledge as being about three feet wide
and running north and south. He has
traced the ledge for about 150 feet.
Assays of the rock brought to town
by Mr. Johnson sliow that it will go
in th<“ neighborhood of *800 to the ton.
it contains one ton of scheelite for
every eight tons of rock, and scheelite
is stated to be fully 80 per cent pure
tungsten. Scheelite sells for about 40
cents per pound.
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