( NAMItFK OF <X>MMKRCK CAM*
AXXHI, GKNKKAIj MRKTIXG
The annual general meeting of the
Northwestern Alaska Chamber of
Commerce will he held on the even
ing of Tuesday. January 10. pursu
ant to resolutions passed by tlv
Board of Directors at ;> recent meet
occasion when the entire member
ship assembles and an effort is to be
made to make it something more
than a mere formal gathering this
year, by including a dinner in tlv
round of things to he discussed dur
ing the session. The meeting will
be held in the large dining room of
the Bnhlke Cafe under the direetlo 1
of a committee composed of L. Leh
mann. F\ M. Kiesele and A. Polet.
At the last regular meeting of the
Board of Directors it developed thru
the reading of a number of tele
wav between the Alaska and Terri
torial Road Commission’s and the
Pioneer Mning company for the pur
chase of the Nome-Kougarok rail '
■way from the funds provided by the!
last legislature. According to om*j
of the messages the officials at Jun ]
eau are in complete accord as to the]
project and there is every prospect I
that arrangements can be made to!
purchase the line.
The Board also discussed the trans
portation question at considerable
length and a committee composed of
A. Polet. F. M. Kiesele and E. L.
Holt was appointed to draft a reso
lution of protest against the present
high transportation charges between
Seattle and Nome, which would also
show that unless relief Is granted
Nome will lose much valuable busl
The Board also named A. Polet,
Ira Rank and G. S. Mayanrd as n
committee to look into the matter cf
the intended reduction of the Coun
cil City mail service, concerning
which a protest was recently laid be
fore the Chamber of Commerce by
the Council members. The commit
tee was instructed to take up the
proposed cut in service with Alaska
Delegate Sutherland and the Post
office Department and resist not only
the reduction in the case of Council
but also other sections similarly af
fected .
r
The Nome Nugget delivered by
or mailed. Per month $1.00.
SEIDENVCRG
Where Quality Reigns
Complete Outfitters
for Ladies, Men’s and
Children’s in ready
to-wear or yard goods
Out of town buyers
will kindly drop us a
line and your needs
will be attended to
promptly
CHEAP JOHN STORE
WHOLESALE & RETAIL
A. II. IIARX DAXCK BIG SliXTOS
A proRram replete with pleasant
surprises ami much fun making ca
pacity served to make the barn dance
Riven by the Arctic Brotherhood in
A. It Hall on New Year’s eve one
of the most entertaining social func
tions of the present closed season,
in addition to a well balanced list
of dances, the program included a
chicken catching contest, a butter
guessing contest, a potato race and
some excellent musical selections
contributed by the Moose orchestra.
The butter contest centered around
the contents of a butter churn and
was won by Miss I na Sltton after a i
tie with Creighton Hecht.botli guess-!
ing in the first instance within a half
pound of the actual weight of butter
in the churn. The chicken catch
ing contest and potato race were
open only to ladies and were won
respectively by Mrs. F. M. Ayer
and Mrs. E. M. Ronan. Both con
tests provoked great hilarity and
helped not a little to sustain the
“barny" ensemble induced by the
hay. harnesses, and other decora
tions. and the countrified attire worn
by many of the dancers. Grape
juice punch, commendably free of
any suspicion of "hardness.” was
served during the evening and pea
nuts and apples were distributed
generously. R. B. Julian was*mas
ter of ceremonies with W. 0. Mc
Guire as chief assistant and an
nouncer. The dance music was fur
nished by the Wathey orchestra as
sisted at intervals by the Moose or-1
chestra. and II. G. Gabrieison and
R. B. Julian.
The committee in charge are to be
congratulated for providing a decid
edly unique and amusing entertain
BOY KORN TO MU. and
MRS. THOS. A. BOSS
The birth of a son and heir to Mr.
and Mrs. Thos. A. Ros9 is announced
in the following telegram received
by J. J. Mitchell of the Coast Guard
service from Capt. Thos. A. Ross.
Seattle. Wn„ Jan. 3. 1922
JOHN J. MITCHEL, Nome:
Arrived today nine pound boy.
Mother and son fine.
Thomas A Ross.
RESULTS OF HOLIDAY
GUESSING < 'ONTEST
As a result of sundry complica
tions. the Pingge^firt' .•/»to announce
In its last issue tin- winners of the
two guessing contests held during
the holiday period by Jeweler A. J.
Mueller. The first of these, center
ing around the weight of .t big
lump of coal, displayed in the Muel
ler store, was won by Chas. Ragle
with a guess of 47*4 pounds, the
exact weight of tho lump. The
guesses in this contest showed some
remarkable variations of judgement.
Some of them ranged as low as 21%
pounds, others reaching up to 150
pounds The prize was a handsome
scarf pin. set with a small diamond.
The winner of the other contest,
involving the identity of a certain
well known motion picture actress,
whose pioturp was displayed. was
Mrs. G R. Jackson, who identified
the photo as that of Florence Evelyn
Martin, and was awarded the beauti
ful Oceana pearl necklace.
E. H. Johansen was a close second
to Eagle in the coal contest, submitt
ing guesses of 47 pounds. 4 ounces
and 47 pounds, 2 ounces.
MINIATURE ALMANAC
(By John A. Wilson)
165 Meridian Time
Latitude 64% degrees North
Full Moon, Jan. 13. 3:36 a
Moonlight nearly all night
Ssn Rises
Tli«* Northwestern Alaska Cham
ber of Commerce will hold their An
nual meeting and dine at llalilke's
liestaurant on Tuesday, Jan. 10th,
«::«t> p. in.. .The reading of the an
nual activities of the Chamber and
the olectiou of officers will also take
place. On account of the limited
seating capacity, members anil in
teres ted citizens are requested to
hand in their names to the under
signed committee. The customary
dinner rate* of $1.00 will be charged
Signed: T. l.KirMANN,
F. >1 KIESFI.K
LOST—I .ally’s hand bag, containing
sum of money and a rent n«ceipt he
louging to Miss M. McMiut:!?'. Find
er please return to owner and receive
SPILLING THE HEMS
(From Fairbanks News Miner)
Private interest* would never
build another mile of track or run
trains a mile farther than it paid
them to. and their system would be
“all the traffic can bear." We are
anxious to hear the arguments in
Our Town for the New bill from the
merchants who have been for so
many years wailing about the Alaska
coast rates on private interest boats;
the arguments for a bill which may |
throw our railway and Government-1
built-and-owned boats over to the
same private interests which have so
long owned and conducted the coast
boats and railways, who could by!
so doing get our railroad and boats j
on lease and cut out all possible]
competition which might make the!
freight and passenger burden of the j
interior lighter. Even tho Morgan!
or Guggenheim did not bid for such 1
lease, if Rockefeller or Schwab DI1>!
bid and get the lease, the first thing
they would do would be to enter into
a “gentlemen's agreement" with
Morgan and Guggenheim to main
tain the same rates for all of them.
It is no argument acceptable to
the Interior for them to point with
pride to the fact that Government
ownership has not paid in the United
States. Private interest railroads
and steamboats on the Alaska run
and in Alaska have not paid US.
The merchant who feets his goods
deliverej^-at a rate of freight he can
afford will not worry whether the
carrier made money on the freight.
This country needs a chance to de
velop itself. The farmer needs
tractors and farm machinery, and
he can’t afford them at private in
terest rates of freight. Wo need
to import building material, for bet
ter buildings, but it cannot be done
at private interest freight rates.
No man can get away from the
fact that at the time our railroad
was conceived we needed a railroad,
and tho Government planned to give
us one as soon as possible, that Ala
ska might be developed for the Na
lion's benefit and profit. NO PRI
VATE INTEREST would build it.
The Government HAD TO, us a Gov
ernment aid and encouragement to
the development of Alaska They
h ive spent or will spend $52,000.
000 on this work, every dollar Rain
ed from the United States Treasury
upon the representation that it was
to be used to put a Government rail
way in Alaska to be operated by the
Government, for the benefit of Alas
ka and its development. Just as it
is nearlnR completion up jumps the
J>evil of Graft and demands that the
completed railway be turned over to
“private interests,” leased to them
at a song, to make or break as their
interests may appear, and they can
only make it pay by soaking Alas
kans on every pound of freight and
every passenger going over that
road. Private Interest is so greedy
it couldn’t wait, to fasten its talons
upon a choice piece of Government
pork which was being handed the
struggling upbulders of Alaska.
Private interests will put such a
freight rate on our coal that we will
have to turn the coal mines of the
Interior over to Wall Street; will
charge such a rate on mine machin
ery and supplies that our mines can
not operate and will fall into the
hands of Wall Street, all to mske
one common graft which looks now
as tho Wall Street and Washington
intend to spend no more than four
years in grabbing Alaska and divid
ing it among themselves, with no
future for Young Alaskans in their
Own Home Land.
Listen to and mark well the local
business man who talks for the New
bill in Our Town. Without excep
tion you will probably find hint to be
the man who has hollered loudest
against the freight rates to the In
terior/ which private interest has
maintained for a quarter of a cen
Jfome will always be ilie supply
base for the Arctic Oil Fields.
KETCHIKAN PAPER
VOICES COMPLAINT
(From Ketchikan Chronicle)
Once again we hear the voice from
the North, the Juneau Empire, in
forming us that the Alaska fisheries
should be turned over to Alaska out
right for the legislature to handle as
it will. And once again we rise up
Theoretically the Empire conten
tion sounds plausible, even intrigu
ing. but iu practice it will not work
out, as everyone must know who
gives it even a little thought. It
will be recalled that at the last ses
sion of the legislature there was
considerable discussion of fisheries.
There was the Britt bill which the
Senator from Juneau said he drew
up^ himself when the opposition
claimed it was framed by the Inter
ests. a bill drawn by a druggist, who
so far as we have been able to as
certain. has had no personal experi
ence in the fisheries of Alaska. And
there was the Holt memorial, sup
posedly drawn by the representative
from Nome where they don’t have
$•500 worth of fisheries operations
in a year, and where It is admitted
they know nothing about the fisher
The legislature, more than half of
which was made up of men from a
section where they don’t know a fish
from a flying machine.hattled might
ily over the measure. And to what
end? They got nowhere.
In the house of representation,
Ketchikan, with about one-sixth of
all the white population of the Ter
ritory had no representation among
the sixteen members. Yet Ketchi
kan is the fishing center of Alaska
as all statistics show. It was the
town more vitally interested thaa
any other, yet it had no voice.
Even if it had had a member there
he would have been helpless with
the “Northern Bloc" which is suffic
iently numerous to make the South
eastern part of the Territory pay
the bills for the districts from which
there are practically no revenues.
It is in the First and Third division?
that virtually all the taxes are col
lected for the maintenance of th^
Territory. It is in these divisions
that the fisheries are located. And
yet part of the Third division is sc
mutually interested with the North
ern section that they join with them
and wield the power necessary tc
direct all appropriations, make oui
laws and regulation}* to their hearts’
content.
Far better indeed is it to leave tho
fisheries of Alaska under the control
of the Federal government than to
trust it to a legislature such as the
last one, or even the one before.
True, conditions under the federal
government are not ideal now but
there is at least hope that the pres
ent administration is going to do
; something to protect the fish and
make the industry an everlasting
I There is no question but that the
fishing season must be cut down.and
with proper protection to the spawn
ing streams and the waters immedi
ately adjacent to them. There is
no question that there should be
stringent regulations placed on the
traps and trapmen, but by the same
token even they should have their
rights in the matter of locations and j
not be subject to annoyance from
the “jumpers,” many of whom are
now openly boasting that they are
going to grab somebody’s location,
not to operate themselves, but to
“hold up the original operator."
nsnenen
NO, we aon i warn me
Alaska In the hands of an incompe
tent legislature even though we do
want changes in the law. Much bet
ter would it be if congress would au
thorize the appointment of a com
mission to handle the fisheries, giv
ing them broad powers to alter the
old or make new regulations, gov
erning the fisheries on the ground
in a business like and farseeing
manner. Such a commission might
; and should have a representative of
the President, a representative of
the bureau of fisheries who .would
undoubtedly be a scientist, and as
many Alaskans as congress and the
administration might think advisa
ble. There at least should be one
Alaskan on such a board.
The Alaska legislature has shown
that it considers the fisheries legiti
mate prey for its pet.y politicians;
to such an extent, indeed, that it
would be a menace to entrust their
very life to such a body.
OX THE WAV
That Wash ington- Li ncol n
FRONTIER NIGHT
By the American Legion, Saturday,
February 18,. 1022.
BETTER, WILDER, THAN EVER
BANK STATEMENT
( OFFICIAL PUBLICATION )
REPORT OF THE FINANCIAL CONDITION OF THE
MINERS AND MERCHANTS BANK OF ALASKA
Located at Nome. Territory of Alaska, at the close of business on the
31st day of December, 1921.
_ _RESOURCES
Loans and discounts .
Unitjod Stnites bonds owned . .
Other bond's and warrants owned.
Ranking' house, furniture and fixtures.
Other real estate owned .
Due from other Banks.
Checks on other banks and other cash items
Exchange for clearing house.
1476,402.22
5,933.78
36.198.00
29,427.08
6.150.00
3.300.00
19.012.95
4,879.48
Other re-ources, judgments, claims, «-tc,
Expenses in excess of earnings
Gold Bullion on Hand.
TOTAL
$641,988.06
LIABILITIES
Capital stock paid in .
Surplus fund.
Undivided profits less expenses paid.
Dividends declared but unpaid.
Due to other banks—deposits.
Duo to other banks—overdrafts.
Individual and saving’s deposits.
Demand and time certificates of deposit.
Cashier's and certified checks . .
Notes and bills re-discounted .
Bills payable (including certificates of deposit)
for money borrowed .
$
.*100.000.00
25.000.0#
58,119.15
314,223.69
89,645.22
55,000.00
TOTAL.$641,988.06
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA |
TERRITORY OF ALASKA !.««.
2nd JUDICIAL DIVISION |
I G. R. Jackson. Vice President of the above named bank, do solemnly
swear that the foregoing statement is true to the beet of my knowledge ani
belief. G. R. JACKSON. Vice President.
( Notarial Seal)
Subscribed and sworn to before me this
5th day of January. 1922.
F. BOCKMAN
Correct Attest :
FRED M. AYER
A. N. KITTILSOff
Directors.
Notary Public in and for the Territory of Alaska.
My commission expires September 20th, 1925.
ALL TO CLK THKIt NO W
♦ Spit on your hands, get a good hold on the Seward Peninsula <
4* bonds of affiliation, and pull ’em up closer. A chain may be •
♦ only as strong as its weakest link, Bt’T WITHOUT A CHAIN.
♦ THERE IS NO STRENGTH AT ALL.. .Even a ptarmigan and
•fr a timber wolf know there is power in E Pluribus Unum. •
<• For a long time the different localities of this District have •
♦ been backsliding iuto little hermit villages; there has been a
+ frightful lack of co-ordination. We have pulled at Congres- «
+ sional influence from every point on the compass, with the re- «
♦ suit that we haven’t gotten anywhere. We have been like «
4 some dog teams we all know of: “Geeing” and ‘‘Hawing’’ *
♦ when the command was Straight Ahead. - '
♦ The NUGGET wants a weekly news letter from every settle- <
4 meat in the District. It wants to print your activities, social <
♦ and otherwise, and it wants the feelings and expressions of <
♦ your community on the big issues confronting us all. It <
♦ wants your support by subscription. A larger paper means a
4 better paper. Buy it; read it, and send ua your suggestions
4 as to how to better it. We would like to be a perfect mirror
♦ of the Peninsula's thoughts and desires. This will require
♦ teamwork.
♦ 4
♦ Just laying back there in your cabin, grumbling and growl
4 ing to yourself wont help any. Clear, constructive criticism.
4 though, when given the light of day may accomplish wonders.
♦
♦ Get together. Appoint someone in your community as cor
♦ respondent and let the World know you haven’t hibernated for
4 the winter. We might suggest that your local school teach
4 ers be interested In writing up your activities, and we will
4 make substantial remuneration for thetr literary labors.
4 Interest is what we want. The country is Interested In us.
4 Let’s show them we are interested in ourselves.
Happy New Year j
4
To All j
From
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Arctic Bakeru, Candu Store j
and Ice Cream Parlor
CARL PORATH, Proprietor