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VOLUME
NOME. ALASKA SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 9, 1922
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GOV. INJUNCTION TO BE MODIFIED
60V. TO MODIFY
INJUNCTION SCOPE
WASHINGTON, Sept. {}—In hopes that the strike injunction will
be made permanent the government will propose a modification when the
case is called Monday in Chicago before Judge Wilkerson. The govern
ment will move for an order to remove all restrictions imposed upon con
tributions to strike funds and publications of interviews, statements and
other news relating to the strike.
PLEDGES LABOR SUPPORT TO IMPEACH DAUGHERTY AND OTHERS
NEW YORK, Sept. 9—Support of the American Federation of
Labor in its efforts to bring about the impeachment of Attorney General
Daugherty and Federal Judge Wilkerson of Chicago for their part in Issu
ing the rail injunction, was pledged by Gompers in a telegram received
from Atlantic City by the Central Trades Labor Council.
CHANGE FORM OF
PRESIDENT’S PRAYER
PORTLAND, Sept. 9—The House of Deputies of the triennial con
vention of the Episcopal-Baptist churches adopted a new prayex for the
President of the United States to supplant the one in the prayer book.
The old prayer was declared to have been an adaptation of the prayer for
the king of England. ,
PASHENGBRJJimX AMI SWITCH ENGINE COLLIDE
SPOKANE, Sept. 9—Five of the train crews were killed when a
west bound Northern Pacific passenger train collided with a switch engine
LLOYD GEORGE PRESIDES OVER CABINET MEETING
LONDON. Sepl. 9—Fresh from a holiday in the country Lloyd
George presided yesterday over a cabinet meeting, called to consider the
near east crisis and a reply to Poincaire’s note relating to Ireland and
other subjects.
FLYING PARSON KILLED
FALLS 3,000 FEET
RUTLAND, Vt., Sept. 9—Lieut. Belhin W. Maynard, known as the
tying parson, was killed while flying at the Rutland Fair yesterday. Lieut.
Charles Wood of Ticonderoga. New York, and Charles Mionett of New
York were also killed when the plane fell three thousand feet.
Maynard won the flrst trans-continental air derby.
GREEKS READY TO EVACUATE ASIA MINOR
CONSTANTINOPLE, Sept. 9—French. British and Italian represen
tatives here have informed the representative Turkish Nationalist govern
ment that Greeks are ready to evacuate Asia Minor if an immediate armis
tice is granted. *
SYMRNA SURROUNDED BY VICTORIOUS TURKS
SMYRNA, Sept. 9—The Turkish offensive is rapidly drawing to a
atose as the victorious columns, which have made 150 miles in ten days,
are enclosing this city. Already cavalry occupies heights surrounding
the city and are awaiting arrival of their man forces.
RUSSIANS SEIZE
TWO BRITISH SHIPS
BAUM, Sept. 9—Russian Port authorities have seized two more
British veasels, the Hedwlge and Lady Elinor. When the British lias
was lowered the military band Btruck up "God Save the Kina," after which
the red flag was hoisted to the trains of the International. Word has
been received here from Constantinople that if ships are not released the
British will despatch a fleut of destroyers to Baum and forcibly take them.
additional today s telegraph news on page seven )
TWO MAMMOTH DREDGES,
ELECTRIC POWER PLAHT
HOW BEING COHSTRUCTED
FORMER PIONEER MINING & DITCH COMPANY
PROPERTIES TO RE OPERATED RY ELECTRIC
DREDGES, COLD WATER THAWING
AND HYDRAULIC METHODS
A representative of the NUGGET i
made a trip to the Little Creek op
erations ami returned convinc ed j
that a Nome visitor to the Yuba j
Mfg. Company camps at the Associ
ated Oil plant and Little Creek is J
at once impressed with the fact that !
the old methods of minin'# and con-I
struction work have beeu replaced.
by a new regime. No longer are
antiquated and extravagant met-!
hods pursued, instead modern tech
nical methods, in charge of capable
engineers. are supervising th** con
struction of a power plant and two
mammoth dredges. The dredges
now under construction are but the
forerunners of many more of the
same type and perhaps larger, all
depending on the ground to bp min-1
The Yuba Manufacturing Com- j
pany. with Mr. P. E. Morse as Su-.
perintendent, and Mr. E. A. Weeks f
h:s assistant, in the construction.1
branch of the ITammon Company
will have charge of all construe-J
tion work being pursued by the.
Hammon Consolidated Gold Fields.
At the Oil Plant will be situated
the central power plant, an electric
power house with three 500 h. p.
units, which will supply the electric
power to operate the dredges. The
machinery for this station and also
for the two new dredges will arrive
shortly on the company’s special
carrier which was scheduled to
leave San Francisco Sept. 1st. In
the meantime work on the power
house and the two dredges is being
carried forward with rapid progress
The engine room of the power
house will rest on a concrete base
32 feet wide 3 4 feet long and a
depth of 6 feet, one solid mass of
stone. The surface wa s scraped
with a tractor and horse teams after
which the ground was excavated to
a depth of eight feet. A drain was
constructed, consisting of 4 three
inch drain pipes encased in a rock
matrix and upon this will be placed
the concrete foundation. The na
ture of the drain is such that seep
age water Is carried away from the
base? which is in this manner pro
tected against frost and percolation
from the surrounding ground. A
concrete mixer and other modern
appliances will be employed in this
construction work. A large derrick
has been erected to handle the heavy
material and man power will be re
duced' to a minimum.
Conforming to the methods pur
sued by both the Yuba and Haro
mon Companies suitable, comfort
able quarters have been provided
for the workmen. At the Power
plant the buildings have been reno
vated, a cook house built and the
men aye provided with comforts
mining camp of Nome. The com
panies realize that when the physi
cal comfort of their laborers are
properly balanced the morale and
esprit de corps of the organization
is enhanced and in these cases the
(lesired results are obtaftied. At
the power house Joe Sigsby and an
assistant have charge of the cook
house and cater to every want of
Mr. Morse is straining every effort
to have the foundation of the power
house in place by the time the ma
chine parts arrive.
imKDCE BUILDING ON
LITTLR CKKKK.
One million feet of lumber and
tons of steel will be used to con
struct the two dredges now under
way at I he company camp east of
Little creek. Simultaneously Yuba
No. 53 and Yuba No. 54 the two big
machines are rapidly assuming
shape. No. 53 is 115 feet long, 5.6
feet wide and 12 feet deep and will
dig to a depth of 45 feet below the
water line. No. 54 is 140 feet long, j
56 feet wide and 12 feet deep and
will dig to a depth of 60 feet below
the water line. The buckets are
of nine eu. ft. capacity and have a
theoretical digging capacity of 4500
cu. yards in 24 hours. Each boat
will be provided with electrict mo
tors generating an equivalent of 500
h. p. Boilers will be installed In
each boat and a steam heating sys
tem will enable operations to begin
earlier and continue later in the
season than is now possible on the
smaller dredges.
When Mr. Morse and his crew ar
rived on the scene early in the sea
son they expected to find a camp
fully equipped with all ready for
the men to go to work, instead t*ey
round that as the company intended
to operate the Little Creek hydrau
lic works the camp reserved for the
instruction crew would be retained
!>y the hydraulic crew. This neces
sitated the construction of an en
tirely new camp. Accordingly the
present site, east of the Little Creek
:amp, was selected, the ground level
ed by hydraulic giants, and the
launching pit piped out to a depth of
en feet and materially widened to
tccomodate the simultaneous laun
:hlug of the two new boats. Build
ing material was procured at the
Port and other places and parts of
iresent structures erected. As
(oon as the new lumber arrived Mr.
VIorse was able to complete his
fundings and now the camp has the
ippearance of a good sized village.
An office, cook house, machine
ihop, two individual hoists, ware
house and 16 tents accomodating
ployed and UO more are expected on
The machine shop also includes
the blacksmith shop, tool room and
blue print room. Two air compres
sors are run by a '70 h. p. Yuba
gas engine and power is furnished
for the various machines in the
Two derricks, operated by TO h. p.
Yuba gas engines are so placed that
all material is rapidly picked up
and spotted in its designated place.
Compressed air bores the holes,
drives the nails and air hammers
set the many bolts. Hand labor
has been reduced to a minimum and
the work swarms with men, each
having his assigned duty to perform,
all of which is done without hurry
or confusion, proving that system
and cooperation prevail thruout.
A railway encircles the works en
abling lumber and other material to
be readily transported from one
place to another, saving time and
labor, all factors of great weight in
construction work.
The Yuba Mfg. Co. has provided
tents, well constructed in every par
ticular; each tent being supplied
with steel spring cots, mattrasses.
heating stove and coal oil lamps all
supplied without cost to the men.
The cook house is in charge of
Denny Loveway. an old timer at the
cooking game, and two assistants
who provide the men with the best
food that the market affords. Not
only is the food varied but is of the
best quality and abundant in quan
tity. In this particular the com
pany again exemplifies its Interest
in the men who are employed.
The site of the dredge construc
tion is at the edge of a large hy
draulic pit. which has been widened
and deepened, and the boats are
being built on ways which will en
able the boats to be slipped into the
water as soon as completed.
LITTLE CHEEK OPERATIONS.
West of the Yuba camp the Ham
mon Consolidated Gold Fields are
putauing the hydraulic mining be
gun by the old Pioneer Mining and
Ditch Company. H. R. Edwards. Su
perintending Engineer for the Ham
mon interests is In charge of the
work, and is assisted by Superin
tendent Louis Stephensen. At the
present time but two elevators are
being operated, due to the shortage
of the encessary water. A few
weeks ago four lifts were operating.
Two new elevators are being erected
and will be in readiness for spring
work. The ground to be worked
by the new lifts runs into the hill
side and would prove difficult to
dredge, so the hydraulic method will’
b«- continued until such ground isi
worked out.
To the East of the dredge pondr
engineers have set a battery of cold •
water points and thawing of the
frozen ground Is being carried for- ■
word as "rapidly as possible to pre
pare the ground for dredging next!
spring. Cold water thawing has.
been developed to such an ex-1
tent that no other method has^
been found so universally economi-r
cal and satisfactory. Engineer H.’
Ft. Edwards has invented an air ap-,
pliance by which the thawing crew l
can sink the points in a much short-;,
er period than by the former cum- j
bersonie manner of driving the*
points by hand.
On the tundra the old Brower.1
drill is pounding away, sinking pro-R
spect holes over an area which is n
being platted for future operations. ‘
It is the plan of the company to
each year, for a series of years, con- c
struct two or more boats until a j
fleet of mammoth dredges dots the
beach line. The size of the boats *
will depend entirely on the character 1
and extent of the ground. *
A separate camp is maintained at
Little Creek, separate and apart ^
from that of the Yuba camp and a
crew of about 75 men employed. J
Two cooks with their assistants are ®
kept busy here supplying the men j
with food excelled no where. ^
A new day has come to Nome, old -y
ideas and old methods must make •
way for the new. System and scien- s
title supervision are now on the y
bridge and the new ship of industry )f
will sail into the harbor of coin- ^
mercial success. <1
Mr. Morse. Mr. Edwards and their
corps of capable assistants are set- c
ting a new record for Nome and it *>
is the hope and belief of Notneites a
who can adapt themselves to new
sn<l changed conditions that the new (1(‘
regime will bring a new prosperity
to our Seward Peninsula. J,'
iters ooor j
Washington, Sept. 9—The coikli- ti
tion of Mrs. Harding, wife of Pres. tJ
Harding, Is so serious that “recovery 0)
is not yet assured” according to a a
itatement issued at the White House
rhe family physician said that com- si
plications which developed yeater- j*
lay make Mrs. Harding's condition
'critical’' It was added.
Washington Sept. 9—A latter bul- te
ietin says the conditions of Mrs.
Harding la “as good1 aa can be ex
pected at this time."