THE NOME NUGGET
AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER.
PUBLISHED WEEKLY—EVERY SAIURDAY AFTERNOON.
Q£Q. a. MAYNARD. Sou- Owner and Publisher.
gatarad as Saeosd Claw Matter, at tha poatoffica at Name, Alaska,
Under tha Act of March 8, 1S79.
SUBSCRIPTIONS PAYABLE IN ADVANCE
Price par Single Copies .■25e
Delivered by Carrier or Msiled...*1 00 Prr Mon,h
Weekly Nugget may be subscribed fv/r independently of dally bulletin.
Subscriptions to th»* dally telegraph bulletin and weekly newspaper
■vice will be 12.00 per month, delivered.
£?u!.*criberr will con.for a favor If they will netify the affliv promptly
any failure or irregularity in She delivery of their papers.
RATES FOR LEGAL ADVERTISING
lln Advance)
Notice to Creditors .
Notice Settlement Final Account .
Bubobs la Divorce Cases .
Notice Sale Property Estates, per line, per issue.
Notice Marshal’s Sale, per line for period publication.
Application for Patent 9 issues, per line .
Notice of Forfeiture, single claims, 13 issues.
Forfeiture Notices, Additional Claims, each .
Other Advertising not specified, per line, per Issue.
For further Informal
and advertising rates apply at Nugget office.
The Nugget extends a
Merry Christmas to
All
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Recently a newcomer in Name dropped into t:he Nugget Office anti
stated thait he wished to purchase a pa|H»r, when he asked the price and
was told that the weekly issue sold at twenty-five, cents per copy, be was
surprised and stated that in the States a daily paper could t*- purchased
for three cents. We agreed with him that such was the case, but in offer
ing an explanation to his statement, we made the following aigument on
the expense of publishing a paper in a locality situated as Nome is.
A man Is employed in Seattle to furnish the telegraph news and
«end the same to the Nugget. Besides paving the Government the press
tolls, which is just, double the amount paid bv any other paper in Alaska,
owing to the location of Nome being at the'tail end of tbe line, so to i
•peak, we are required to pay ten cents on each and every message which I
amounts to approximately $1.00 per day. or $360.00 per year, at least. :
Tliis tax. remember, does not include the charge of the message, which is
one cent for each word. A rough estimate of the number of telegraphic
words received per month by the Nugget is 20.000 words at one cent per
word. On top of this expense for getting the outside news in. there
eomes the expense of the salary of a man to rewrite the telegrams at the
Nugget Office, and still another man to set t)he type before it can be placed
in the forms and run off on the press. After this, there Art- two boys em
ployed to deliver the paper, so that, the subscribers can receive the papeT
oq time either daily or weekly. The expense of publishing the Bulletin
and Weekly paper does not end here. For instance.—it requires the
.purchasing of sufficient news stock to last from ten months to a year in
adrapce, such as paper, ink, rollers, metal, etc. Then alone comes the
lights, heat, power, and numerous other expenses that are necessary to
conduct a business, and finally the upkeep of the plant which must be
considered.
Nome U s nwte.fl i
from any other town at like population, that the c«>mmerci;tl advertising of
the merchants cannot be figured as very big revenue, as the cost of pro
ducing the advertising is almost equ-a! to the amount i
ived for same.
At intertaJs, there Is considerable legal advertising done, but the
greater part of the year there fcs little or none, and what Is more, we are
not in a position to know if there will be one legal or a dozen or if there
will be any next month, or the next six months in advance, therefore you
readiiy see the result. We cannot count our chid' ns before they are
hatched, and revenue from the source mentioned casino* be flgur^'l on it:
advance.
war, legal advertising was practically done away
as com pe. Med to depend almost altogether on the
of income. While the conditions at present are
ewspaper in Northern Alaska than existed during
legal or any other form of adve-rliging is concerned,
without depending on the subscriptions t6 defray
Durmg the ?i
with and the paper
much bitter for th.
the war. still, as far
the paper could not exist without
some of the. overhead expenses.
The publisher of the pape:
ing the paper regularly with the
gardleps of whether his a-dvertisi
leas than cost or not
make plain, and that
i,riably expected to continue, issu
miount of overhead expense, re
ing and subscription incomes diminish t>
brings us to the point which we wish tc
too great a number of FRRE READERS.
enjoys the privile,
The person who picks up the pap r here or thei
of reading the news without giving thought t<*
or how or by whom it is paid for. they feel that
be published regularly regardless of whether t
scription list or not. and such will possibly be the case. But. suppose
everyone thought the same. What would be the result? NO RARER
FOR NOME! That is the answer. It may seem a trivial affair to some,
but shouild the paper f«il to he published, there is net a man. woman or
child who would not be the worse off for the fact. Ret the kill-joy and
the paper not being essen
ho thinks and does things.
the woold-bf* wise guy say what he likes j
tial to the community, just the same the i
realizes the importance of a paper in any
size or location.
The larger subscription list a p.ipei
publisher is able to give his readers,
that has just been written about, improvi
ardlefts of the
In order to run a newspaper without a subsidy or political ha- o;
sold, ft is necessary that it bo run on a strictly commercial basis. the same
as any other business concern, and in 'doing so it cannot pleas.- everybody
with its policy. The Publisher of the Nugget feels from the support Riven,
that we have managed to please a large majority all the time, which feel
ing goes a lone way in recompensing the publisher. We aim t<* cater to
the best interests of the majority of the people and no select f.-w can. or
ever will, dictate the policy of the Nugget, while under the present owner
ship and management.
It is absolutely impossible to compare th. newspapers of Northern
Alaska with those in the States, for the simple reason that conditions ex
ist here that are unfavorable fo-r a newspaper, that would not exist in any
other part of the world.
The papers outside do not have to depend upon the subscriber to
assist in paying a portion of th,e overhead. Th- fact of the matter is that,
the amount charged for the subscription oI a paper outside, would not pay
for the cost of the paper- .-n which the reading matter is printed. Hut the
advertisers, of which there is a large field to depend on. pay the deficit
amount of the subscribers’ quota. This is impossible here on account of
the limited number of advertisers.
Pages upon pages could be utilized in showing-the difference in the
cost of publishing a newspaper here and in the States. Stop, and consider
what is received for the amount spent when'subscribing for the Nugget,
and we feel sure that you will be convinced that the paper is the cheapest
necessity anyone can buy in Nome.
After all the facts are gone over-, the result is that it is necessary
for a publisher in a limited field -like*Nome, to give a good news service
and ask a reasonable price for advertising, and also a reasonable-price for
subscriptions to the paper, thereby giving the people good value in return
for whit they pay.
This is not a wall. Far be it from such. The Publisher is satisfied
with the support being received, but we are anxious to constantly im
prove the Nugget’s service to you and the emmunify. and we would wel
come a number of new subscribers to join with those already subscribing,
to make, possible for the Nugget to continue the present service, and to
better if if possible.
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FOR SALE—INQUIRE AT NUGGET
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The Number
of Buyers
Attending our sales is steadily in
creasing — as we carry on a con
> tinuous publicity campaign in the
chief Fur Buying Centers.
Sales every month in the year.
SHIP NOW
for our next sale
Advances made on shipments when
requested.
Commission
We charge shipper 4% on lots over
$1,000 and 5% on lots under $1,000,
which covers fire and burglary insurance
and all handling charges.
Canvas sacks for shipping furs furnished
upon request.
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