THE NOME DAILY NUGGET
GEO. S. MAYNARD, Editor
RUSSELL G. MAYNARD, Manager.
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GOLD MINING BOOMS AGAIN
Placer gold mines of Alaska are awakening from their
winter slumbers—and soon again will be pouring out their
stream of wealth.
The most stirring movement in the inland regions of
Alaska today is the preparation for the placer season. An
army of men are making their way to the creeks and hills.
Some are returning from the outside, others going out from
the towns where they have spent the winter—others bestirr
ing themselves on the creeks where they wintered.
Big scale mining equipment is being gotten into shape
—dredges, giant draglines and hydraulics. Never before has
Alaska seen so much of this sort of equipment brought into
service to strip the wealth from the innumerable paystreaks.
Supplies costing millions are on the way from American
farms, factories and wholsale centers to equip and feed the
many mining camps.
The new mining equipment is far more efficient than
that of twenty years ago—yet, and of ten years ago. What
was thought a splendid dragline ten years ago is now in the
discard. The tractor and the diesel have been combined to
make a mechenical marvel that digs at lower costs and such
as not dreamed of when Fairbanks, Dawson and Nome first
broke into the horizon All this helps to tackle ground which
years ago was beyond the pale of profitable operation.
The higher price oi gold, more efficient equipment,
lower costs of commodities and greater accessibility to plac
er fields because of more and better highways and the ad
vent of the airplane have revolutionized the game. This
means the addition of millions to the annual output which
was not within touch years ago.
Gold quartz mining also has advanced, and new process
es are helping to open new properties and to swell the terri
tory’s golden tide.
Alaska is in for a big year in gold mining. Anchorage
—at the crossroads of Alaska—will benefit mightily from the
gold activity of the year. Her business men and all factors
in Anchorage should do all possible to help further the great
gold game—and all will share the bounty of the golden har
vest.—Anchorage Times
An Iowa professor has discovered five types of dumb
ness, although there are more students than that in his class.
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A VANISHING HERITAGE
Visitors to Europe return to the United States loud in
their complaint and criticism of the burdens of identification
demanded before they may cross a frontier, and the addition
al irritant of being compelled to keep their identity well dis
closed even in the fashionable centers and cities.
This system of keeping track of everyone is the out
growth of a condition which is rapidly presenting itself in
the “Land of the Free.”
A movement is afoot to fingerprint everyone in the Un
ited States. In this the Department of Justice envisions the
only sure method of stamping out crime.
Thus we who have so boastfully shouted our superiority
and freedom find ourselves reverting to customs grown old
in Europe and productive of the same conditions which have
caused us to gradually allow our heritage of freedom and
justice to fritter away.
It is not difficult to understand the contrast between
crime conditions in Europe and the United States when we
study the methods employed to stamp out lawlessness in
those countries who, by experiences, have reached maturity.
Hair-splitting, public circuses like the recent Haupt
mann trial, and the multifold expediences utilized in Ameri
can courts are not tolerated when the European state comes
to grips with the vicious criminal. Long before he faces the
bar of justice his history has been pretty well established in
the minds of those whose set to combat him. Thus the chanc
es for escape are reduced to the minimum.—Exchange
The family of a prominent motor car and airplane man
ufacturer, has been sent to England to save its members
from the threats of kidnapers. The attention of the lowest
denizens of the underworld had been shown in a number of
averted attempts in recent months and it is said to have been
on the advice of police that the manufacturer sent his family
out of the country for protection.
There is a lot to think about in that situation. It con
tains a compliment for England, where people of all degrees
are safe, but nothing pleasing to Americans in its intimation
that persons of any means are increasingly unsafe in the
United States.
The worst phase of the American crime problem is dra
matized in this flight of a family from home to seek safety
among strangers.—Journal-World, Lawrence, Kansas.
Every dollar spent away from home makes the home
city that much poorer. Every dollar spent in the home city
makes it just that much richer.
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