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THE NOME DAILY NUGGET
VOL. 38. No. 308. NOME, ALASKA, Tuesday. October 26 1937. per Copy 10ct§
Landon-Hoover Rivals Leadership
Japs Destroy R.R. Tracks Cut Off Chinese Defense
Approximately $300,000 In Tin Mined This Season
BACK IN SPOTLIGHT. Into political limelight stepped
Herbert Hoover with the suggestion that the G.O.P. “take stock of
party position" prior to the 1938 elections through a convention.
Chairman John Hamilton, shown with the former President, would
make no comment on the plan.
REPUBLICANS PLAN BIG 1938
CONVENTION—HOOVER ON
AIR TODAY IN BROADCAST
(By The Associated Press'
WASHINGTON, D.C., Oet. 26—
Both Herbert Hoover and Alfred
. !M. Landon. reported rivals for
the Republican leadership in the
political spotlight—Landon is eon
ferring at Topeka, Kansas, with
John Hamilton the Republican
National Chairman; while Hoover
will make an address to a nation
wide radio audience from Boston
at 9:30 p.m. Eastern Standard
Time, tonight. I \
Both events are connected with
the National Committee meeting
to be held next week at Chicago
to consider the holding of the
1938 Republican Convention.
Shaw Operations
In Council Section
Good This Year
The Tom Shaw and brothers
mining operations in the Council
section, were reported to have
been unusually successful this
year. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Shaw
are now in Nome awaiting the
sailing of the Baranof for the Out
side, where they will spend the
winter. While not declaring de
finitely what the production of
gold was this year, Tom hinted
that he was completely satisfied
with the results this season. '
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C. J. Woofter Gets
Second Highest
Honor Masons
WASHINGTON, Oct. 19—Clar
ence J. Woofter of Fairbanks, and
formerly of Nome and Juneau,
was one of the Alaskans whom
Supreme Council for the Thirty
third Degree of Masonry selected
today for the rank of Knight
Commander of the Court of Hon
or, which is neict to the highest
honor in Masonry. The highest
honor is the Thirty-third Degree.
The Supreme Council, which is
holding its biennial session in
Washington, announced the selec
tion of 336 Masons through the
nation for the rank of Knight
Commander of the Court of Hon
or. Besides Mr. Woofter, the Al
askans selected fo«r the rank are
John Fargher,Frank Garnick and
Howard Stabler of Juneau.
The Supreme Council announc
ed the selection of 181 Masons
throughout the nation for the 33rd
Degree. The Alaskans who re
ceived this degree are Walter
King of Ketchikan and Frederick
Nelson of Petersburg.
The rolls of the Supreme Coun
cil show that the only other Ma
son, besides Mr. Woofter, with
the rank of Knight Commander
of the Court of Honor in the 4th
Division of Alaska, is Andrew
Nerland of Fairbanks.
TIN MINING AT
PRINCE WALES
ON INCREASE
The TIN' fields, about 100 miles
northwest of Nome, located at
Tin City on the coast of Port
Clarence Bay. are gradually be
coming more productive each
year as new and modern equip
ment is finding its way to this
long neglected rich mineral belt.
Tin placers have been mined in
a desultory manner for the past
thirty odd years, considerable
money has been spent in sinking
shafts and running tunnels on tin
ore leads, but usually the com
panies that have endeavored to
locate tin ore in place have been
forced to abandon their work of
prospecting and development due
to lack of sufficient capital to
complete the necessary work to
to open a paying mine.
In the meantime, the owners of
tin property have seized upon the
float or placer tin concentrates
which are deposited in the creeks
as a means of getting quick re
turns on a small investment in
operations, just like the placer
gold miners do. to get quick re
turns from their gold operations.
However, the day is not far dis
tant when capital will realize the
opportunities of extracting tin ore
in this section, and operations
will then continue the year aro
und.
This summer nearly 250 tons of
this valuable placer tin concen
trates have been mined and ship
ped to'the States, whence it will
be transferred to other ships and
sent to England where it will be
smelted, due to the fact that
there are no tin smelting con
cerns in the United States, thus
a great deal of the profits go for
freight transportation.
Recent market quotations place
tin at 56 cents per pound. Last
year tin concentrates grossed
around $1300 to $1400 per ton,
leaving a net balance of near
$800 per ton to the operators of
tin mining property. It is believ
ed that the shipments of tin con
centrates will amount to approxi
mately $300,000.00 this year or a
net value of near $200,000.
Returning to Nome a day or
two ago from Tin City, George
Waldheim w'ho operates tin pla
cers on Goodwin Gulch in the
Tin City section, and about
miles from the ocean beach, and
reports he had a fairly good sea
son, having taken out over twelve
tons of tin concentrates, which
are being shipped to England for
smelting and refining.
The American Tin Fields com
pany, it is reliably reported took
out 207 tons of tin concentrates,
under the Superinitendency of Mr
Ralph Lister. Plans are made to I
take out an even greater tonnage
next season.
—
Tommy Christiansen and M. A.
Domingoes, operating on Buck1
creek, 14 miles from the coa^t.
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ONLY YESTERDAY full-rigged sailing ships like the Seven Seas (above; were a common
sight upon the waterways of the world. Today they are rare indeed. Another ship of the sailing era.
the Joseph Conrad, is racing the Seven Seas from Newport, R. I., to Bermuda, while overhead are
winging the modern clippers of the air which shuttle from New York to Hamilton in a few hoara.
are said to have taken out about
10 tons of tin concentrates.
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H. J. Christensen operating on
Goodwin gulch, took out some
three tons of tin concentrates.
Most of the tin was shipped out
on the S. S. Derblay, and the re
mainder is going on the S. S.
Baranof. sailing for Seattle, this
Thursday.
News Received
Death Of Elder
Ferguson Kotz.
News arriving yesterday by
plane from Kotzebue, conveyed
the information of the death of
Warren Ferguson, Sr., father of
Warren Jr., and Archie Ferguson,
the well known Kotzebue and
Kobuk family.
A passenger arriving by plane
brought the news of his death
Sunday, at the hospital at Kotze
bue. Details were absent, and
the cause of death was unknown.
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CHINESE GENERALS
ADMITTED TAZANG
IN HAND JAPANESE
(By The Associated Press)
SHANGHAI. Oct. 2&-—A Chin
ese army spokesman admitted
that the Japanese forces occupied
Tazang, key to the Chinese de
fense position five miles north
west of Shanghai.
The occupation came after sev
en days of heavy fighting
A Japanese army spokesman
announced that a Japanese flying
column, meanwhile, had reached
the North side of the Shanghai
Nanking railway, and were pre
paring to destroy the railroad
tracks and cut off the Chinese
defenders of Chapei.
Another mechanized unit of
Japanese forces are said to have
occupied Chinjo radio station on
the western border of Chapei.
FRESH KILLED
REINDEER, LIVER.
AND TONGUES,
AT P O L E T S
Lammers* Season
Reported Better
Than A Year A^ o
Graham Lammers Jr. in char. *
of the Fox Bar Dredging Co., wo >
is in town these days, followi '
a successful dredging season just
completed, will be an outgoi" {
passenger on the Baranof.
Mr. Lammers declared they < s
perienced a more successful sc -
son this year than in 1936, and
although not caring to announce
the gold production, intimated
that it exceeded last season's,
considerably. The dredge, situ
ated near Nugget Gulch in the
Kougarok section, shut down Oct.
5th. Since then drilling has been
carried on up to the last 2 days,
when that was shut down, and
operations closed for 1937.