INFORMATION
GIVEN ON
HOUSING
The following information is
required by the Federal Public
Housing Agency of cities in
Alaska seeking aid for housing:
1. Population (1944): Winter
and summer: Native, 100; Mixed
Blood, 800; White 700.
2. No. of single dwelling units
in town, 256. All have chemical
toilets. None have piped water
from their own wells.
8. No. of multiple dwelling
, units, 304. Most have chemical
toilets. Flushed toilets are in
buildings on south side of street
and less than 10 In number.
About six hotels and busines
places have their own wells. Most
of the homes have water piped
in, for summer usage from Moon
; light Springs.
4. Total number of dwelling
units in town, 551. Adequate:
157; sub-stardard, but passable,
298; Inadequate, 96. There are 99
single units and eight multiple
units amongst the Eskimo. 1000
Natives lives in these 107 homes.
5. Generating capacity of pow
er plant, 450 KVA. Average peak
6. Most practicable heating
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method is fuel oil sold here by
Standard Oil Co.
7. Good water is supplied for
winter use froc two wells, averag
ing 15 to 20 feet in depth.
8. Average monthly tempera
tures are as follows: Jan. 5-2;
Feb. 12.8; Mar. 6.4; Apr. 16.2;
May 34.0; June 45.4; Jul. 49.4;
Aug. 48.8; Sept. 40.2; Oct. 30..; j
Nov. 14.4; Dec. 11-1. Mean an-!
nual 26.2 (1944).
9. All the months of the year
are windy. Average hourly veloc
ity for 1944 is 9.5. Number of
lays with wind over 32 mph for
1944, 21.
10. At the present time, the
| number of building materials as
; tabulated, is very limited, in fact,
! impossible to get.
11. Nome may be the distrib
uting center on Seward Peninsula
' for army surpluses, both from
immediate area and Aleutian Is
lands.
12. Army authorities do not
wish to express any opinion as to
probable surpluses.
13. It is hard to make an esti
mate as all craftsmen, resident
1 of Nome and otherwise, are em-|
ployed by government agencies
in the defense work in this area.!
14. In round figures about 600
1 people, government employes (U.!
S. E. D. 55 units, U. S. Dept. Jus
tice, 1 unit; Territorial, 0 units;!
Air Transport, 10 units; Miscel
laneous, 40 units.
15. The type of housing con
struction most practical under
local conditions, could be better
ascertained through further in
vestigation. Weather conditions
are controlling factors in the lift
of a building in this community.
There is ample space available
for building purposes.
Forty to 82 per cent of the of
fice workers in small-arms plants
are men.
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