THE NOME NUGGET
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Under the Act of March 3, 1879.
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NEW ALASKA CABLE WILL AID NORTHLAND
While reconstruction of the Alaska cable is required to facilitate !
business between the States and the Northland, the relaying of the line
is of importance from a military viewpoint. The first replacement work t
wiU be done between Seattle and Sitka, and plans then call for the substi- |
tution of the stretch between Sitka and Seward. Further extension is
regarded as possible to Dutch Harbor, and from there continuation of th-' j
system, either direct or by way of Yokohama or Shanghai, to the Philip- 1
pines has been a matter of frequent discussion.
The first piece of Alaska cable was laid between Juneau and Skag
way in August 1901. The line between Seattle and Sitka was put in
operation in August, 1904. and the extension to Valdez was made later
In the same year. The system was completed to Seward in 1905. All
together, main Tine and branches, it has a length of 2,800 miles.
Willi the $7 50,000 made available in the War Department bill, a
new line can be laid between Seattle and Sitka. To obtain the materia)
and do the work would require a little more than a year, and then the
next Congress wouTt be expected to appropriate a similar'amount for re
construction between Sitka and Seward.
Extension of the system from Seward to Dutch Harbor, a distance
of 600 miles, will be certain if the Aleutian seaport is selected for a naval
station. Dutch Harbor, because of its proximity to the Asiatic coast, is
Dow under investigation by naval officers. it is distant about 4.000
miles in a direct line from the Philippines, and 2.600 miles from Yoko
Better cable facilities are needed between the United States and the
Far East, and recently the report was current that the company owning
the Pacific cable might lay an extension to Japan from-Dutch Harbor if
the Federal authorities should continue their system to that port. A
private corporation, however, could not be expected to construct a line
from Dutch Harbor to the Orient and divide with the Government tolls
on through business. Rather the company could better afford to lay its
own cable for the entire distance.
Whatever the outcome of the tentative and rather remote plans of
the Army and Navy for a Far East extension, early reconstruction of the
Alaska system will greatly aid business here and in the northern territory.
THE TIME NOT TO LAUGH
Don’t laugh at the man with the “crazy idea.”
Forty-five years ago Thomas A. Edison laughed at himself', be
cause he had a "crazy idea”. But he kept on, and today in millions of
homes the phonograph plays.
Less than a score of years ago Langley was laughed to death be
cause of bis "crazy idea” that man could fly. The greatest mathematic
ian of this country, Newcomb, demonstrated "conclusively t!»" that a
heavier-than-air flying machine couldn’t fly!
The world has been laughing for a hundred years at the ’’crazy
idea’’ that women could, should, or would vote.
It was a “crazy Idea” that two great nations, with a boundary line
between them three thousand miles long, could, by treaty, do away with
armed camps, forts soldiers, ships of war on lakes. Hut Canada and the
United States never have any use for the soldiers and the forts displaced
by a treaty.
Wireless was a "crazy idea". So was Bell's telephone, and Morse's
telegraph, and Whitney’s cotton gin.
Many have thought Jesus Christ had "crazy ideas."
Don’t laugh at the man with the idea which seems “crazy" jus*
because it’s new. If there had never been any new ideas we would still
jail lunatics and debtors, burn men for witchcraft, and use pine knots
for illumination. It’s not so ong since a republic was a “crazy idea” in
government.
Some day the man will be •horn whose "crazy idea" will end war,
strikes, oppression, anarchy, crime, and fraud. He will be laughed at.
as all leaders have been. But let us, you and me. be not among those
who deride, merely because not not yet has it been given to us to under
A real idea of progress, of human betterment, comes from God.
Don't laugh at it because you don't understand it. Exchange.
WANTS GOVERNMENT RAII/ROAD EXTENDED TO NOME
One of the most welcome exchanges coming to our table is the
Nome Nugget, says the editor of the Seward Gateway in a recent issue.
For several years the Gateway has not been receiving an exchange from
Nome, owing to some differences existing between the former editors of
those papers, but under the new management these have been satlsfac
torily adjusted and we can now keep our readers posted on the doings of
the great district to the north of us.
Many persons are under the impression that Nome is a dying camp,
which is not a fact, as shipments from that section including the Siberian
trade, are greater than for many years, and all the district needs is avail
able transportation to bring it back again to its former greatness.
Efforts should be made by Alaskans to have the government rail
way extended front Nenana to Nome. The district is easy to build a road
in, and a railway would tap some of the richest mineral sections in Alaska,
besides opening up a wonderful field for trade with Siberia, which in time
will be one of Alaska’s greatest assets.
The district round about Nome is very rich in gold and other min
erals, but* the long period during which th.' country is without transporta
tion during the winter months causes a cessation of production, and stifles
trade of all kinds. About S00 miles of road would have to be built, but
the route could be along the right bank of the Yukon, through a district
practically level, and with no obstructions to speak of. The grade would
be easy, and the travel heavy.
Xomeites must now come out by dog team to t.he Yukon, thence
up the Yukon to the Tanana and from there to Nenana. This trip is an
expensive one and takes several weeks time. The winter mails are also
Another route for the government railway which would bring more
trade would be to extend the line from a point about Nancy, thence to the
rich Kuskokwim district, by way of Rainy Pass, from there to Holy Cross
and to Nome. This is a much shorter route and would also give the rail
way the Kuskokwim trade.—Seward Gateway.
MOTHER TON(*!'E FOR VOI NO
The Supreme (’curt of Nebraska has upheld a law of English in
schools below the Ninth Grade. That is well. The law is not only
sound in law but sound in reason. This is an English-speaking -nation.
Moreover, English is rapidly becoming the language of the world, so far
as commerce and international communication are concerned. The time
is not far distant when all nations will make Bglish a part of the course of
instruction for their young people in order better to fit them for their
life occupations.
It is entirely proper for the young people of America to study for
eign languages but most of them have all they can do to get a fairly good
command of the English language during the eight years they spend
in the elementary schools. Tn fact both the spoken and written language
of many of our high school students indicate that some of them did not
achieve a very notable Success in their study of English in the elementary
schools. Those who wish to study foreign languages after they have
mastered English, may well be encouraged to do so. but their first atten
tion should be given to that language in which we have written our history,
in which we transact our official business and in which we conduct our
ordinary conversation and communication.—Exchange.
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