THE NOME NUGGET
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THE MINING FUTURE OF NOME IS BRIGHT.
fT IS A somewhat stereotyped form of expression to say that any
now country is only in its infancy, bat of Seward Peninsula that
9 form can be adopted once again, not only with truth, but, with
the positive belief that it is literally correct.
The country around Nome has produced more than eighty millions
•f dollars in gold but that amount, great as it is for the time since Nome’s
discovery, will be but a minor portion of the total output as the years to
come immediately roll over Seward Peninsula.
It' may be said that the very richest placer mines have been worked
in this division and that never again can the fabulous wealth of some
of the old claims be discoyered in an equal area but it is safe to say that
^or every claim worked in the past there are scores which are still wait
teg to give up their wealth either to the pick and shovel and sluice bov
or to the machinery which capital will provide.
loathe placer mining o£ gold has this district depended almost ex
clusively in the past but during the activity in that branch of operations
the miners did not by any means close their eyes to what might lie beyond
and th6 result has been that other resources have been developed and
other means adopted for the conversion to money of resources which tht?
ordinary means of mining were insufficient to develope.
It is a difficult task to create faith in quartz in the minds of those
who know nothing about this branch of mining, for such people have only
seen quartz mining in the light of stock gambling and have in conse
quence acquired a scepticism which is almost ineradicable. But those
who are quartz men and those who are interested in anything but a pro
. fessional sense have long ago relinquished all doubts as to the really
stupendous probabilities which lie ahead in connection with quartz mine
development in this immediate section. The bead of the Federal Bureau
of Mines himself has spoken highly of the quartz outlook here and hun
dreds of men are giving up the best years of their lives here now to
prove that their faith in Nome’s quartz is not merely the spoken word
hot the belief of their hearts.
The writing of the names of the various metals and other resources
of this peninsula is too much like writing the list of the exhibits in a
metallurgical museum. Jade, asbestos, bismuth, graphite and various
sorts of products equally scarce and unusual, added to the more “fre-;
queA” gold. Iron, copper, coal and tin, make Seward Peninsula, perhaps,
the most extraordinary field of exploitation under the snn.
To return to that time worn phrase—Seward Peninsula is only in
ite.infancy. It bolds greater wealth covered in Its gravels and its rocks
than any other territory of equal area Id Alaska. and In Alaska probably
means in the world. To bring it to a full development, encouragement
is needed for the efforts of patient and industrious men who have labored
against tremendous odds and against the doubt and the pessimism which
is engendered by a lack of knowledge of a technical kind on the part of
This encouragement will come in .the shape of the capital, and
capital invested in this territory will be twice blessed like the gentle rain
from heaven—it will bless him who gives and him who takes.
I»RKIX»I\<» INDUSTRY OFFERS BIG RETURNS
HEDGING on Seward Peninsula is an industry which has resulted1
|U1 in iai greater profits than any other undertaking in Alaska has:
produced, and as tve time goes on and experience is acquired ,
the profits become greater and greater until it has gradually dawned on ;
mining men that the dredging field in this district is almost infinitely
more extensive than had been supposed because it has been shown that
by good management ground can be successfully worked which never had
been regarded before as possible of profitable operation.
No undertaking offers greater returns than dredging around Nome.
There is a vast territory carrying gold that will pay splendidly when oper
ated by these machines. ,So vast is the territory which has good dredg
ing ground that the best authorities are confident that within a few years
the number of those machines #thaf will be operating here will be many
times the number now operating and that they will still be coming and
finding lots of profitable room.
For the man who can secure a dredge this district offers more
inducements than the richest placer camp ever offered to its first stam
peders. Right today and for many weeks to come the dredges are and
will continue to hoist pay for they have overcome to a remarkable extent I
the difficulties which confront all other kinds of gravel mining by enabling,
the operator to work with less water and inspite of the frosts of the early I
winter. In doing so they have practically nullified the effects or climate
by making longer the "open season" during which mining can be carried
These facts have been realized by men who are bringing in greater
machines than ever, and as the seasons go on others will learn the truth
about the possibilities, and dredges will make dredges until Nome will
be producing far more by this mining method than she ever produced
before by all methods combined.
\OH>; HAS SI'FFKIIKU FROM FICTION \\ KITKItS.
aLASKA, Nome included, has suffered unjustly by the impression
whUth has been conveyed to the Outside world. Writers of
romance have strained the truth to retaip the local color which is be
lieved to be necessary to success in fiction, and newspaper and magazine
Correspondents have not dared to trust the plaiD facts entirely and have
found it advisable to emphasize all the features of life in the territory
with the result that our cold Is the coldest on earth, our people are the
wildest on the continent, our homes are the crudest, our English is the
most barbarous, our courts are six shooteres and all of us are, in short.
a.bout half civilized and living under conditions which would satisfy no
other people with skins of the same color in all the wide globe.
To offset such ideas would be really hard, indeed. They have re
ceived so great a start that it almost seemes like attacking a religion so
rooted have those impressions become. Hut at all times Alaskans should
raise their voice to spread the truth about such matters if it were for no
other purpose than the spreading of the truth alone. We ought to let
It be known that we really live like any other people in the United States,
strange as it might seem, and that we are not at all burrowing into snow
hiouses and living off blubber or performing any of the antics that some
gullible people'in New York and elsewhere imagine to be our regular
practices.
Writing in Nome for people who will read this paper far away,
and writing something that will be published here in Nome where all are
witnesses to the truth of it, the statement can be made without hesitation,
that in no town of equal size in any land can a more pleasant time be
enjoyed than right here in this city. As a matter of cold fact the winter
time in Nome is regarded by many as the pleasantest and best period of
the year in many ways. No tow’n of equal population can offer more
diversions with greater pleasure. Others may be able to travel further
afield for pleasure in winter but the very limitation of our field makes
the pastimes more frequent, and creates conditions which gives such paat
titmee greater zest. This is a fact and one can say no more no matter |
how long he might take to say it.
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0. D. COCHRAN
(CANDIDATE FOR “LONG TERM” SENATOR.)
GENERAL ELECTION. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, II
FRED M. AYER
(XNDIDATK FOR (I>ONO TERM) SENATOR.
GENERAL ELECTION, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1982.
M. (Jake) JACOBSGAARD
(A Workingman, a l’ium-«r of Alaska.)
( CANDIDATE FOR THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVE )
I WILL APPREC LATE VOI R VOTE AND SUPPORT.
A. N. [Andy] NYLEN
(CANDIDATE FOR THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES)
GENERAL ELECTION, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER T, 1982.
E. [Dick] RAELSON
(CANDIDATE FOR THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES)
GENERAL ELECTION, TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 7, 1028.
JAME5 P. DALY
(CANDIDATE FOR.THE HQUHR OF REPRESENTATIVES)
GENERA L KI.RCTION, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1982.
JOHN A. WILSON
(CANDIDATE FOR THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES)
GENERAL ELECTION, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1922.
DAN CONNOLLY
(CANDIDATE FOR THE HOUSE OP REPRESENTATIVES)
GENERAL ELECTION, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1882.
RICHARD D. DECKER
(CANDIDATE FOR THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES)
OENHUIi ELECTION, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 192K.
REPUBLICAN TICKET
SBC9ND DIVISION
Delegate to Cpngrtff
PAN SUTHERLAND
S*n«$*r (M«g Term)
FRED M. AVER
Senator (Short Term)
E. L. HOLT
Representatives
J. C. KENNEDY
KATHRYN KITTILSEN
E. (Dick) RAELSON
M. A. WINKLER