THE NOME NUGGET
AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER.
PUBLISHED WEEKLY—EVERY SATURDAY AFTERNOON.
GEO. S. MAYNARD. Sole Owner aud Publisher.
Entered as Second Class Matter, at the posioffice at Nome, Alaska,
Under the Act of March 3, 1879.
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THE PROPOSED ASSESSMENT CHANGE
i their prof
raids and othn
The hill iu>w bef«»ro the lower house of Congress |«-u|»t>sing amen
mcnl of ‘.he piresent assessment law to permit Alaska claim owners to e'th
perform labor or make improvements to the value of $1hh
on adjacent roads, trails and bridges, or. in lieu thereof, |ia
the territonial treasury to be governmcntaJly expended!
public highways in ‘he same locality, appears to furnish a most sensi
tlon of the question of how to make the performance of annual as
work of real value in the develojnnent of the country.
If. as is generally afire d. the main purpose of annual i-sessnn
Is to induce development of the mineral resources, the law, uisof;
placer areas of ‘.he country are concerned, fails almost *uitirel\ to acl
object at which it is aimed. No one who has follow.tl the progress
ing development in the placer sections, which constitute at loa.-a foil"
the total gold producing area of Alaska, but will concede ‘.hat the
of actual development induced h> the performance of annual labor <
claims is negligible at best. Wilier
depth the development object is attain
of labor required to penetrate to bedrock is considerable the law is almost
wholly Ineffective. Sinking a hoi
considerably more than the amouii
the result is that unless the owner is in a position to spend more than
cost of assessment work, lie usually contents himself with doing merely enou
work on the surface to enable him to say that $100 worth of labor has h.
performed. This work usually takes the form of a few shallow ditches
cuts of absolutely no value in the development of the ground and in the m;
constitutes only a useless waste of money and time.
As applied to quartz or lode claims, ‘.lie law operates to better ndv:
tage as the labor may be made cumulative through the permenancy of such
os may Ih*. porformed. When the quartz prospector sinks .1 shaft or run
d*-ift on his property it remains usually for years and may he extended .
nually; the shaft slink on a placer claim generally lasts no more Mian a t
weeks or months unless protected by timbering, at a cost usually much fin
*han the expenditure required in assessment work. By the mere perform ■
of annual labor, working in the same shaft or drift, the lode claim owner >!
Jug a pel iod of years may develop his property to a considerable extent, h it j
a decade of mere scratching around on the surface such as is do:m bn tie- :
majority of placer claims would not be worth a pinch of snuff in developing i
the mineral deposits contained. Ninety five per cent of tin- labnn* per- |
formed on placer claims is work absolutely thrown away insofar as develop- i
< >n the other hand, if the same amount : I
n roads and trails it would usually In- w :! j
dividual claim hut Jmany other claims in the i
the public. Highways are the chief need !
Transportation and commerce are essential to the <•>:- j
•Jiether the product be grain or minerals. Alaska r- j
the ground happens
I to some extent hut w
ock is considerable tl
i bedrock in deep grm
expenditure required
locality
nd also of wide utility
of a. new country.
f.loi tat Ion uf the so
fewer roads than any other section of Uncle Sam's domain. In no otlisr
civilized country on earth is the transportation problem as acute, hence the . x
penditure of money and labor for assessment work can he .made to
serve a most practical purpose if expended on the development of raids and
NATIVE EDUCATION QUESTION RAISES TROUBLE
Wrangell is up in arms over the native question, says ‘.he Juneau Unpit: 1
The trouble was precipitated when the government educational olficials «!>■ 1
cided that the native school would be abolished and that the public schooL |
would l>e required to look after the education of the Wrangell Indian boys and
girls. To the latter proposition the school board and Parent-Teachers as
sociation of Wrangell says nay. Ln turn the grand camp of the Alaska
Native Brotherhood has issued a lengthy pronunciaJniiento declaring that a
legal fight, will commence to compel the admission • *f Indians into the while
schools of the Territory. Rut for that is Wm. L. Paul, secretary, a lawyer.
The people of Alaska generally do not favo-r the mingling of the two
races in the public schools and believe that it wore better for all concerned
for the government to look after the natives in the future as is has in the
PARCEL POST SYSTEM AND THE SALARY OF
THE FOURTH CLASS POSTMASTER
By W. H. BROPHY. National League of Postmasters
One of the crying needs of the service is a classified civil service status
for third and fourth class postmasters The parcel post system, has placed
a burden on the postmasters of this class that is all out °f proportion to their
compensation. Since the parcel post system was established it has grown
to gigantic proportions, and in the smaller towns, where a large percentage
of buying is done from mail order houses, it fonkns the bulk of the mail handled.
The present compensation of the fourth-class postmaster is fixed on
conditions that existed a half century ago. His pay is hased on a percent
age of the cancellation of stamps in the outgoing mail. Incoming mail is
from three to eight times greater than the outgoing mail, and the postmaster
gets nothing far handling 1t. That means that he has from three to eight
times more work to do free than his paid work.
An adequate wage scale, based on the hours of service required and the J
amount of work performed, is what the National League of Postmasters '
stand for, and congress will be asked to grant such scale at the coming session. {
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EDITORIAL VIEWS OF ALASKA NEWSPAPERS
SCOTT BONE—GOVERNOR
if there is ;in> ohjerlion in Ketehi
; • : th. Territory anything: for
;x>ljtkviI support. He will he truly Un
representative of the .President, as tin
ivith an ' ii*n mind, anxious to study
through the dfpartinnii’s and light
t is pr huhle that he will mk- the
ALASKA’S FUTURE
Only the very exceptional commun
ity was satisfied with the 1920 census
“howin", so it should not la* held
yyainst Alaska, points out tin- Idaho
Statesman, that its population fell
54.R99 during: the decade since 1910.
War and war activities mils' neces
sarily deal heavy blows to territories
ike Alaska because the departure of
n the United States proper must mean
ilso the departure of women and chll
In two years alone Alaska los: |
• .(ii.’Hy ccrt.'iin exports* r»f
The government whieh Aluska
is the merest husk. Its pl.tr.. is nmmis
other issues whirh vex m l annoy .ml
I
iih Heap's humble
r«-llanr»*. ...iirnK.. and earnestness ««f
purpose. Then will M...-kiins . •• •
Who the Mask.!ti that vvll tret this
boon for Ala.ska may be we have not
the sliuh test idea. Whoever h<- m.iv
front, his fame will beronie < omt'. < n- t
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GOV RIGGS1 GOVERNMENTAL
SUGGESTION
NOTICE TO DOG OWNERS
Nolice is hereby given to owners of
dogs that any dog found running at
large contrary to the following Ordin
ance will he summarily -hot by the
Chief of Police or ant police officer
Ordinance No 212. Section 6—It
-liall he unlawful for any person to
suffer or allow any dog to be at large
in the town of Nome, during the Dav
lime between the hours of 7 a m and
10 p. m from May 1 lo Nov. 1 Or to
allow any vicious dog or any dog af
flicted with an contagious or loathsome
disease to be at large at any time
whether day or night
Thi- notice also applies to owners
of -o called pet dogs, of - ll classes and
Ihe police have been given special or
ders not to play any favorite- Tie
your dog up now, help enforce Ihe law
and avoid trouble.
Signed: POLICE COMMITTEE
City of Nome.
Dated Nome. Alaska. June 14, 1921.
CURFEW LAW NOW ENFORCED
Notice i- hereby, given lhat the
Curfew Ordinance will be enforced to
the letter, from now on. Any chil
dren who are out after 10 p. m. at
which lime the curfew bell will be
rung, will find themselves in the hands
of the police, unless the children are
with a guardian
The police department have been
given strict orders to see that the law is
complied with There will be no fa
By Order City Council.
Police Committee
NOTICE OF SCHOOL TAX
Notice is hereby given that pur
suant to an act of the Legislature of
the Territory of Ala-ka, approved May
1st. 1919, Entitled “An Act to im|tose
tax upon male persons in the Terri
tory of Alaska for School purposes
etc ," there was imposed and levied
upon each male person in the Territory
of Alaska, excepting Soldiers, Sailor- in
the United States Navy or Revenue
Cutter Service, Volunteer Firemen,
Paupers, Insane Person-, or Territorial
charge-, within the Territory of Alaska
or the waters thereof, over the age of
twenty one years and under the age of
fifty years, an annual tax of five ($5 00)
That said tax is now due and the
same will become delinquent on Aug
ust 4th All persons subject to said
tax are hereby warned to pay the same,
and that in ca-e of failure to pay said
tax the penalties provided for by said
act will be imposed.
Dated at Nome, Alaska, thi- 18th
day of June 1921
JOHN HANCOCK
School Tax Collector
For Nome. Kiana. Kotzebue and 2nd
Division.