ALASKA IS SEEN AS GREAT
BASE FOR NEW WORLD AIR
TRAFFIC BY ONE WHO KNOWS
Ily FITZHUfSH URKKN. I'. S N
By 1930, at the latest. comm.T
rial aviation across the Polar 3e%
should be an accomplished fact. Al
aska will then automatically be
come th» greatest service station in
the world.
The successful automobile service
station has two requisites. It is
properly equipped for the aa.e of
>.as and oil and It Is situated on
some corner where traffic is the
heaviest. Alaska is equipped for
the sale of everything from oil to
clothespins, and her position, aerial
ly. is soon to be at the hottest cor
ner of the globe. Thus is our North
ern Territory a child of luck and its
citizens inescapably foredoomed to
There Is little room for argument
tn the matter. Only the fact neols
to he known. So^ak’ng In approxi
mate fleures. Toklo and London, by
the conventional routes are 10 000
miles apart. Across the top of the
world these two trreat capitals artt
separated by but 5.000 miles. And
these B.000 level miles, from tho
aviator’s point of view—considering
the weather, fuel and 1and:ng spac®
easy to cover by plane than miles
around the mountain-studded cen
ter of our sphere.
It is not exoneration, then, to say
that in July. 1930. the conservative
date by which polar freight rates
will have been established. Great
Britain and Japan will be thrae
times closer together than today
What then? What hannened. in
deed. when the East and West of our
United States were joined by the
miracle of the railroad’s web?
First, commercial Intercourse grew
beyond man’s Imagination, and. sec
ond, communities situated on the
new trade routes became great hivea
of humaJ^toll. Chicago. Titan of rM
West, became the great service sta
So w'll it be with Alaska Vo
other civilized community is so
strategically situated to become tne
pole route’s great and only service
station. Ice-buried Greenland. Can
ada blanketed by a vast and barren
archireligo; Russia and Siberia with
the natural cruelty of their desort
steppes—what chance have they to
compete with a land of plenty or a
people wl’h a will, as marks our own
Alaska. Let the arctic traffic be
gin to flow and. like Chicago. Al
aska must spri-ntr to wealth.
Phophecy Is a perilous feat. In
this anticipation of events two basic
assumptions may be Impeached, the
assumption that polar aviation is
bound to arrive In the n°ar future,
and the assumption that our sub
Arctic Territory will profit by it.
Aiwlreo flic Pioneer
Arctic aviation to date has beer,
an exceedingly anaemic acMvity. Its
history can be recounted in a para
graph. Andree 'began it. in 1897
He established headquarters in
Spitsbergen, roughly north of Scan
dinavia. He built a balloon shed.
He inflated a gas bag of cheap and
pathetically flimsy as that used by a
parachute jumper at a county fair.
Think of the physical courage of the
man! And If the thought does not
impress you read something of the.
four hundred years of suffering and
death that went into the discovery
of the North Pole. Andree, with an
equipment that scarcely would have
strained a steamer trunk faced the
terrors of clambering into his little
basket, gave the fatal signal to hla
workmen and faced the polar desert
without a qualm. He ca9t off. Ex
cept for a few photographs of the
balloon as it drifted swiftly out
over the icy wastes, no trace of An
dree has ever been found.
Wellman took his dirigible to the;
same spot In 1907. To call his con
traption a dirigible Is a compliment.*
That the whole of the expedition wa*-1
a fiasco was the popular belief at
the time. As & matter of fact al
though the dirigible was annihilated
by collision with a glacier, real suc
cess attended Wellman’s efforts In
that he brought back definite infor
mation as to flying conditions in the
The next step invllved no actual
attempt to fly. Peary and his skip
per. CaTtfaln Bartlett, mapped accu
rately an& with first hand informa
tion of conditions the most practical
routes for exploring by air the lce-f
Jammed Polar 8ea. This was In*
1916, second year of the war. and
the final amazing advances In flying
which followed had not yet come.
So the plan produced by the two ex
plorers was geographical ratheT than
commercial. Wo entered tho war
and the flight was never made.
Peary died. But the results are liv
ing just the same.
This year Amundsen planned to
fly from Alaska to his native Nor
way He had to postpone hta plan
another year. He or some other man
lucky enough to be on the ground
will succeed. The feat Is r.n longer
a particularly spectacular or heroic
one. ' Using twenty four hours of
sunlight. planes that hop 2,000
miles with scarcely an effort and
smooth landing areas on the sea-ice
all the way. the average modern
aviator would put the task far be
low the perilous crossing of our
peak-ribbed Contlnet.
Now let ue get down to first prin
ciples for a moment. Suppos™ two
great reservoirs are connected with
a pipe. Once the pipe Is open, grav
ity does the rest. Flow beg'rs at
once and continues in a flood so
long as the other reservoir will wel
come tt.
Whom Gravity Comes In
Specific trravit.y applies to trade as
well as to liquids. Europe and As'a
are two stupendous res'rvo’rs for
the reception of every kind of raw
product. The chart of the top of the
trloho will show that Europe and
Asia lie at the ends of a roughly
rectangular pipellko area formed hy
th« Polar Sea. The walls of this
pipe are American on the one hand,
Russ'an on the other. Like sentin
els at the pipe-ends stand two fam
ous capes—North Cape and Po'nt
narrow. The one shall be the land
mark for the departure and arrival;
the other the alsmpost for our store
house In the North.
From Asiatic capitals to Point
narrow 19 about 2,50b miles. From
Point narrow to North Cape, the
European step-off for tho flieht, is
an equal distance. Alaska, then. In
addition to beine on the course 1‘self
besides havlnsr all the natural re
sources such aa traffic would re
quire, Is miraculously almost exactly
at the midpoint of the route.
The active parties to thl3 northern
commerce of the air probably will
be Japa-n and Urltain. Those two
great Inland emp:rns are. and always
will be restless. Such is the penalty
of their geographical predicament.
It Is reasonable, then, to suppose
tha* they will organize and direct
the early success of the polar fligh's.
Hut It must not be foreo’ten that
simple trade statistics are our surest
trn'de to what will happen. In 1922
our export to Japan and other Asi
atic countries tota’ed *4$0.85*>.4d<t.
To Scandinavia and Northern Em
tops we expor'ed about ?5nn.nno.nn
worth of goods. We were thus in a
central pns’t’on. exnorHng annroxl
mately equal amounts in opposite di
Assume that the United States
does not exist. Interpose an area of
oren water in our place. The two
great buyers of our goods would
then face one another. Northern
Europe and Asia would then ex
change their products and their raw
materials where once they bought
from us. Nothin* would please
them better.
Have a look at Canada and the
dreaded “barren lands’* of but a
few years ago. When we fought the
Spanlsh-American war, towns like
Edmonton were picturesque outposts
of hunters and trappers. Now, Ed
I monton has 60.000 inhabitant*. The
other day a coal deposit estimated at
32.000,000 tons was d scovered in
Saskatchewan. Oil is flowing with
in a stone’s throw of the Arctic
i O rcle. The Hudson Hay Reindeer
j Company, one of the great future
j meat industries of the hemisphere,
(leased lit.000 square miles for its
! ' In our own Alaska President
Harding bae driven the last
.spike of our new 415-mlle railroad
(tapping that half-million wonderful
, square miles of land. Tho Navy has
j put f 1,000,000 into its coal mine
i there. The orig'nal thousand rein
deer imported as an experiment,
have increased to the enormous
I number of 300,000. From this herd
It is estimated that the annual out
put of carcasses in twenty years will
he well above a million. Unques
, tlonably we shall live to see the rein
deer as one of the world’s chi •?
sources of meat supply. Alreadv in
Norway and Sweden tens of reindeer
| s*eaks are eaten every year. This
spring fifteen hundred reindeer oar
! casses were shipped to New York
bv way of San Franc'sco and tho
Panama Canal. The meat sold on a
carcass basis at thirty five cents a
pound.
Great Progress Abroad
i In America we are surprisingly ig
norant of the leaping progress com
mercial aviation has made abroad.
I True, we have our postal aervlce of
the air and our military aviators
make a few stunt flights each Bea
, son. But as to the way European
airway* have developed since the
: war not one American In a hundred
: Is properly informed.
! Who knows, fo’r'instance, that an
air service within the Arctic Circle
has been in full commission for more
than three years? It is the project
of the Royal Swedish Waterfalls or
ganlzatlon, and carries passengers,
freight and mall. This line should
make a serious bid in years to come
; for the transpolar business. Then
, there la the Newfoundland Squadron
j operated by the Aerial Survey Com
1 par.y, which works up the Labrador
coast to the Eskimo settlements In
the North.
France is the world’s air leader. In
1922 French pianos (commerc'al >
flew 2,798,446 kilometers, carrying
0.S41 passengers and about 1,000,
000 pounds of freight. Accidents
have become so infrequent that the
risk of travel in the air is today lit
tle more than by train; certainliy not
to be compared with the pedestrian’s
peril at almost any c’ty crossing.
Our army has announced the de
velopment of a new type of plane
the North
i May 1 and
that will lift 40.000 pot
1 travel more than 100
• hour. With such a plane
let us visualize a polar ait
The flying season
; nay be limted to bet*
t Sep’ember 30. During that period
! daylight and fair weather are a
■ reasonably continuous assurance.
! The average temperature will bo
I around the forties and fifties above
zero, although in Alaska as high aa
110 degrees Fahrenheit has been re
! corded in the summer. Since there
I are no great land masses known to
• exist In the Polar 8ea. air curreats
• unquestionably will be more gentle
! a-d undisturbed than over the land.
The unbroken Ice-fields provide
practically unlimited landing apace
io case of accident. An the weather
is U'Sially clear and no darkness
come* at night. an air patrol will
make forced landing* a different
matter from such accident* in trans
oceanic flights.
It is logical to suppose that the
northern air fleet will be divided In
to two squadrons, Asiatic and Euro
pean. The first will fly from Chin
ese. Japanese and Siberian centers
to Alaska. The other will make the
other transverse across the Pole to
Northern Europe. Alaska must not
onl<y become the central service sta
tion, but provide immense waxe
houe facilities as well.
The schedule will provide one dav
for each plane for each trip. One
day at each end will be further re
quired for loading and repairs. Thus
the entire flertt will spend at least
one th’rd of Its time in Alaska.
There will he ample demands on Al
askan resources for fuel, building
material and supplies.
Rasing estimates on the new Army
plane a* a unit, and upon the known
European aircraft, It is clear that
even dur'ng the curtailed flying sea
son of the Arctic, a freight tonnage
could ho carried fully equal both in
weight and in value to that by water
borne shipping'of today. Taking
Into consideration the element of
time , as well as the reduced cost of
aircraft made In quantity, we find
that freight rates must then come
down to an average of 10 to 25 per
What course of action wo should
pursue is an exceed!narky complicated
question. For many reasons It ap
pears that we shall have to be satis
fied with making a virtue of neces
sity. If Europe and Asia are going
to trade substantlaly over the top
of the globe, something no well-in
formed person now can doubt, the
I'n’tod States must largely be short
circuited. That we have Alaska Is a
piece of gorgeous luck. We are in
the position of a fruit vendor who
chanced to buy a piece of land that
In later years became a gold mine
because It turns out to be situated
on a busy corner of a metropolis.
The vendor can sell his corner. We
can't, that Is, we never would. But
we at least can realise the possibili
ties of the corner Itself, and we
should make the service station pay
for all It is woTth.
Vome N the outfltlng ha**e for nil
Alaska exploring expedition*
PIONEER SCOUT IVCREASFS
PURIFICATIONS
The Pioneer Scout has started a
weekly publication. Heretofore the
Scout has maintained a bl-monthiv
edition, but the Publisher, Walfer
J. ?.Tarx. states thnt In order to keep
up with the present era of prosper
ity in Teller, and in order to rive
Teller a little more distinction, he
has decided to make the Pioneer
Scout a weekly edition until further
notice. This goes to prove that the
! newspaper is generally among the
j first to anticipate the needs of a
community and it is very seldom
that the newspaper is not directly
responsible for the many Improve
ments that will take place In the live
communities from time to time.
Publisher Marx Is to bo commended
| In anticipating the needs of his com
j munity In a way that is a credit to
the newspaper profession.
DECEMBER 1923
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BOX LOCATION
12 .*tMdtrd Oil Company
13 .©old Bonci plant, East
14 .Alaaka Lichtarafe Co.
15 .Opposite Racordara OfBea
21.Cor. Stead moo. Sod area.
| 24.Cor. B at. and 1st are.
I 25. • Catholic Church
J 31. Polet's Residence
•32. PlTe sta;t,,on
41 .Opposite Webb's Market
42 . Method tot Mission
3 .Fire Out
(> Bells.Shut Down
7 86,11.Turn on Water
FOR BALK.
N#w and upcodata legal forma fo*
’roof of Annual A^acsamcnt Won
Iho Oil Location blanks. Deed blank*
or general use. Special and Gancra'
’owrr of Attorney forms. Placer iik
■’unrt* Location forms *now on «air
■t Nugget Office. Price 15 eenfs eacr
■r $1 00 per dozen
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
To Cabell Whitehead, E. E. AUes.
C. O. Cotoden, Chas. Thompson,
A. 8ehne:de<r, S. K. Rocks, and
John Duma, your and each of
your helm, executors, administra
tors and assigns:
You are hereby rotlfled that the
undersigned has expended during
each of the years of 1907, 1910,
I 1911, 1912. 1914. 1915, 1910. 19?0.
i 1921 and 1922, the sum of One
I Hundred Dollars, in Labor and Im
[ provememts upon that certain pla
I cer miolne claim known as and
| h«*ng BENCH NO. i. BELOW
I GOODLUCK, situated on the left
l limit of Anvil Creek, opposite placer
I cla m No. 1, below, on said creok.
{ in the Cape Nome Minins D'stirict
}*nd Pr^ncr, Territory of Alaska.
I the locaitrton certificate or notice of
i wh eh <*iwid claim Is of record In the
I office of the recorder of said mining
[dletJrict and precinct, im Vol. 2. at
Page 2 24. of the records of toon
tlona of said mining district and
I precinct.
That aaM labor arnd im Movement s
were performed and made -upon
aa'd mining claim during each of
said joani for the purooeo of hold
ing the same under the provisions
of the laws of the United Slates ai.d
of the Territory of Alaska, concern
ing annual tabor upon mining
claims.
And If within ninety, days aft^r
ihe service of this notice uoon you
by the publication 'hereof for *hc
per-fod of ninety days, you or either
of you fall, refuse or neelect to
rontTlhute your proportion of such
expenditure as a co-owner with the
undersigned, youT interest In sa'd
m'nlng citL'm w'?l become the pro
perty of the subscriber, your co
owner, who has made tne required
expenditure necessary to hold said
claim under sa'd laws.
Dated at Nome, A»«ska, this 3rd
day of November, 1923.
Pioneer Mining and Ditch
Company, Co-Owner.
Bv E. J. OOrtMAN, Agent.
Publish Nov. 3. 10. 17. 24. Dec 1. 8.
15. 22. 29. 1923. and Jan. 5. 12.
19. 26, 1924.
FORFEITURE NOTICE
To JOHN A. DEXTER, and to h*s
executors, admlnLst'*»tor3, heirs,
and assigns:
You are hereby notified ^hat the
undersigned ha3 expended on® hun
dred dollars ($100.00) in work,
j labor, and Improvemeri's upon “No.
i 1 SPECIMEN GULCH," or the
, “HESTER” Placer Mining Claim,
the location-certificate of which is
recorded in Vol. 3, Page 48, of the
Records of the Cape Nome Record
ing Precinct, Territory of Alaska,
the recording precinct In which aarfd
claim is situated, for each of the
years 1910, 1911, 1913. 1913, 1914.
1915, 1917, 1920-21. 1921-22, 1922
-23, hi order to hold said claim un
der the provisions of Section 2324,
Revised Statutes of the United
States of America: this being the
amount required to hold said claim
for each of the years above enum
erated. And if within ninety (90)
days from the service of this notice
upon you, you fail or refuse to con
tribute your proportion of auch ex
penditure as oo-owner, your Inter
est dn said claim will become the
property V>f the subscriber under
said Section 2324.
Dated at Nome, Alaska, this 3rd
day of November, 1923.
Pioneer Mining and Ditch
Company, Co-Owner!
By E. J. GORMAN, Agent.
Publish Nov. 3. 10, 17, 24. Dec. 1, 8.
15, 22, 29. 1923. and Jan. 8. *2,
19, 26, 1924.
To Guy B. Brubaker and Blanche
McGrath, you and each of your
heirs, executors, administrators
and assign*:
You. and each of you, are hereby
notified that the undersigned, as
co-owner Oheredh, has expended the
sum of One Hundred (*100 00 >
doffllaTS during the year ending July
1, 1923. f<Vr labor and improvements
on and for the benefit of the JAUN
ITA BENCH PLACER MWING
CLAIM, situated on the Left Limit
of Dry Creek, opposite Ne. 13 Be
<ow Discovery, in the Cape Nome
Mining and Recording iDstrict,
Territory of Alaska, notice of loca
tion whereof is recorded in Book
•1, at page 42S, in the records of
said reeord'ng d'strict
That eald work wee performed as
provided by See. 2814. of the Re
vised Statutes of the United Skates
and supplemental
I
the purpose of holding etala.
A*d you ar© severally required t*
contribute your proportion of sot*
expend Rare accord mg to your arw>
el interest* in aaid eida.teduia
deruigtned oo-owner with you then
in, within ninety days nfter the eer*
vice of thi* notflce on you by pubH
ceUoo thereof, or your intereet in
e»Id claim nil become forfeited end
rent in the undersigned, as ororldeJ
by said statutes.
Dated at Nome. A task*, this 3rd
day of November, 19S3.
F. 8. Powell end Geo. W. Dutton.
Trustee* for Nome Dredging Trust
By E. J. GOP MAN, Agent.
Publish Nov. 3. 10, 17. 24, Dec. 1, g,
15, 22. 29. 1923. and Jan. 5. 12,
19, 26, 1924.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
To Nels Sngolson, P. V. Davis, Wm.
A. Gilmore, you and each of your
heirs, executors, administrators
and assigns:
You and each of you are hereby
notified that tihe undersigned, as
co-owner therein, has expended the
sum of One Hundred (6100.00- dol
lars during the year *«ding July I,
1923, for labor and improvement*
on and for the benefit of GOLD
DUST BENCH Placer Mining Cla^m,
situated on the Left Limit of Dry
Creek, in the Cape Nome Mining
and Recording District, Territory of
Alaska, notice of location whereof
's recorded In Book 10, at Page 86,
of the records of said Recording
District.
That said work was performed a*
provided by 8ec. 2324. of tfce Re
vised Statutes of the United States
and supplemental legislation, for
the purpose of holding said claim.
And you are severally required to
contribute your proportion of such
expenditure according to your sev
eral interest* in said claim, to th*
undersigned, co-owner with you
there'n, within ninety days after the
service of this notice on you by pub
lication thereof, or your interest la
said claim will become forfeited
and vest in the undersigned, as pro
vided by said statutes.
Dated at Nome, Alaska, this 3rd
day of November, 1923.
F. S. Powell and Geo. W. Dutton,
Trustees for Nome Dredging Trust,
Co-Owner.
By E. J. GORMAN. Agent.
Publish Nov. 3, 10. 17. 24. Dec. 1, 8.
15. 22, 29. 1923 and Jan. 5. 13.
19. 26. 1924.
NOTICE OP FORFEITURE.
To Mary E. Searl. C. O. Cowden and
Wm. A. Oilmore, you and each of
your heirs, executors. administra
tors and assigns:
You and each of you ame hereby
notified that tihe undersigned, aa
co-owner therein, has expended the
sura of One Hundred ($100.00- dol
lars during the year ending July 1,
1923, for labor and improvements
onand for the benefit of LUCKT
TWO BENCH Placer Mining Claim,
situa'ed on the Left Limit of Dry
Creek, second teir, In the Capt
Nome Mining and recording district.
Territory of Alaska, notice of loca
tion whereof Is recorded m Book 88,
at page 31, of the records of said
Recording District,
That said work wns performed as
provided by See. 2324. of t)he Re
vised Statuses of the United State*
and supplemental legislation, for
he purpose of holding said claim.
And you are severally required to
contribute your proportion of such
expend ture according to your sev
eral interests in sa'd claim, to tho
undersigned, co-owner with you
therein, within ninety days after the
service of this notice on you by pub
l'eatlon thereof, or your interest in
said claim will become forfeited
■ r<l vest, in the undersigned, as pro
vided by said statutes.
Da*ed at Nome, Ateska, this 3rd
dav of November, 1923.
F. S. Powell and Geo. W. Dutton,
Trustees for Nome Dredefng Trust,
Co-Owner.
By E. J. OORMAN, Agent.
Piibl'sh Nov. 3. 10. 17. 24. Dec. 1, 8,
15. 22, 29. 1923. and Jan 5. 12,
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE,
ro Peter Johnson. E. Onsrmnn, V.
A. Graffam, Mary Nownomw an4
Dan Kellv, yotir and each of your
heirs, administrators, successors
and assigns:
You and each of you are hereby
notified that the undersigned, as
x>-owner therein, bee expended the
mm of One Hundred (MOO.00- dol
ors during the year ending July 1,
1923, for labor and improvements
upon and for the benefit of the.
BONANZA ASSOCIATION Placer
Mining Claim, situated immediately
North of the shore of Bering 8ea,
and In the Bast end of the cKv or
town of Nome, fn the Cape Nome
Recording District and Precdnct.
Territory of Alaska. The original
location of which elaim is recorded
in Vol. Ill, at Page 339, of the
records of locations in the office of
the recorder of said precinct.
That, said labor and -improvements
wore made and performed in ths
development of aald claim and in
the performance of the annual labor
required by Section 2324 * Revised
Statutes of the United States apd
inflation supplemental thereto, la
order to hold said claim.
And you and each of you . aro
hereby required to contribute to the
undersigned co-owners your propor
tion of such expenditure eecord'ug
to your respective interests !n said
mining claim, within ninety days
after the service of this notice upon
you by publication thereof, or your
merest in said mining olalm will
become forfeited to end vest in the
undersigned co-owners who have
made such expenditure.
Dated at Nome, Alaska, this Ird
day of November, lit*.
F. S. Powull and Ooo. W. Duties
Trustees ter Nome Dragging TruJf,
By 1. J. GORMAN, Agent.
Publish Nov. S. Id, IT. 14. Die. i, §.
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