THE NOME DAILY NUGGET
GEO S MAYNARD. Editor
RUSSEI.L G MAYNARD. Manager ,
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ALASKANS MOVE ABOUT
The people of Alaska get around. They see things.
They are in a sense cosmopolitan, because their view
isn’t restricted to some small town in the north. De
spite the great distance between most Alaskan points
and the states, residents of Alaska manage to get south
frequently, to see new things, absorb new ideas. Still
others frankly come north only for part of each year.
This constant state of flux among the population
creates a very special problem for all Alaskan enter
prises. For the newspapers, it is found that the people
demand variety and breadth in their news, treatment
leaning to the factual or even the sophisticated and not
to flattery. For the dealer in women’s goods, it is found
that there is a demand not for the shopworn stuff that
once characterized the crossroads general store, but
for the latest styles with life and modernity. For the
food stores, it is found that there is a demand for var
iety and for quality as near as possible consistent with
prices the residents know by frequent trips to prevail
outside. For the other stores, it is found that people
want novelties, new attachments for this or that, and
that they aren’t very often satisfied with something
just as good.
The difficulty facing Alaskan business, continuing
to supply the increasingly particular demands, is not a
little one. Because the country is so small in popula
tion. because each town is really only a small town, the
lack of volume makes it almost impossible to stock the
variety demanded and to sell it at the expected prices.
Yet for all its difficulty, it is better this way than
that we should be a people in a rut. a people satisfied
with anything. By constantly striving to better them
selves. the people are on the go. They know things.
Knowing things, they are more apt to do things. And
the businesses trying to keep on top do so by constant
improvement. Each factor helps the other to make
Alaska a better place.
WAGE INCREASES
Another series of wage increases seems in prospect
on top of those granted last autumn. Some of the re
cent advances have come as the result of strikes, some
of amicable agreements. The General Motors Corpor
ation and the Chrysler Corporation have increased
wages; so have most of the units in the rubber tire in
dustry. A 12 per cent increase has just been granted
to 135.000 workers in the clothing trades. Further ad
vances seem in prospect in the steel industry; the tex
tile workers are demanding another advance of ten per
cent; the railroad brotherhoods have voted to demand a
20 per cent increase.
These developments raise some important questions
concerning the relation of wage rates to each other, to
employment, to production, and to prices. Sidnev Hill
man. president of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers
of America, commenting on the 12 per cent increase
granted to the workers of those organizations, remarks
that because of the somewhat higher cost of living it
will mean no more than a 7 or 8 per cent increase in
real wages." Unless all industry grants such increa
ses. he contends, the improvement in business cannot
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continue.
In considering these new advances and new demands
we must keep in mind existing relationships of wage1'
and prices. Average hourly wage rates in manufactur
ing industry are already higher than those in 1929. Be
cause the cost of living is still substantially below the
1929 level, hourly wage rates are higher still in terms
of what they will buy. How does it happen that with
higher wages in manufacturing we should have lower
price levels? There is nothing mysterious about this
result. The average per capita productivity of the
workers is higher than in 1929. It is higher partly be
cause of technological improvements and partly be
cause. when there is a large volume of unemployment,
the unemployment falls mainly upon the less skilled and
the less efficient, who are ordinarily ill paid, thus tend
ing to raise the average per capita figure of earnings for
those remaining employed.
In short, there is nothing unhealthy about an increase
in wage rates when it comes as a result of a greater pro
ductivity for labor. That, indeed, is the real aim of
economic progress—greater production, and a fair and
prompt distribution of the fruits of that greater produc
tion. But increases in wage rates may often prove
worse than futile when there has been no increase in
individual productivity. The rise in wages of clothing
workers, for example, is sound if it merely cuts into
abnormal profits that would otherwise accrue to the
clothing manufacturers. But if it should cut seriously
into merely adequate profits, the result will almost cer
tainly be a rise in the price of clothing. If that takes
place, the result of the increase in the wages of the
clothing workers will be a reduction in the “real wages”
of all other labor.
A final question is raised by the latest of wage in
creases. They are taking place even though there are
still estimated to be 8.000.000 or 9.000.000 unemployed.
Just as unsold stocks of a commodity are usually an
indication that the price of that commodity is too high,
so an abnormal volume of unemployment, many econo
mists believe, is frequently an indication that wage
rates are already too high in relation to other condi
tions. Whether that is so or not, labor cannot afford to
forget that its real aim is not high wage rates for for
tunate individuals, but the greatest possible total of
wage payments—an aim that implies full employment
and the cost-price relationships that make full emplov
ment possible.—New York Times._
Slaying Suspect
Mrs. Marian Southern, 32-year
old nurse, was neld in the Los
Angeles county jail as a suspect
in the killing of her husband. She
is shown weeping hysterically as
she denied the charge. (Asso
ciated Press Photo)
Chas* Olson A,l<1
Mrs. G. Kaason
Arrive Nome
Charley Olson, genial road
house keeper and o'd timer of the
BiufT section, a rived today via
djg team from hi? headquarter',
down t' c coast.
Charley brought es a passenger
from Spruce Creek, Mrs. Gunnar
Kaason who for the past few
months has been assisting her
husband in prospecting their pla
cer holdings on Pine Creek.
Get After
The Business
MR. MERCHANT:
Do you know that enough business is going
out of town every month to support at least one
more store here, even larger than any doing busi
ness here today.
Every mail brings in direct mail advertising
that is taking YOUR Business awav from YOUR
Nome—You can hold most of that business here
hv telling the public what you have to offer.
And the best way to tell them is through the
adverising columns of THE NUGGET.
Call our Advertising Manager and he will be
of assistance to you in preparing your advertising
copy if you so desire.
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Phone Main 114
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The Nome Daily Nugget carries
several forms of printing blanks
or your convenience — Dredge
Logs, thawing and drill reports,
Mining Deeds, Placer and Lode
Location Notices. Vouchers.*
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NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR
UNITED STATES PATENT
Min. Sur. No. 1888
Min. Appl. No. 0926
IN T/lE UNITED STATES LANE
OFFICE, Nome, TeiTitory of Al
aska.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that R. W. SILVER, whose pest
office address is Nome, Alaska
nas made application for a pat
ent for 1454.5 linear feet cm the
Shamrock No. One lode and fo*
1500 linear feet on the Good»
lode, each bearing gold and si!
var, the same being as to th°
1 Shamrock No. One lode N. 44 deg
48 min. W. 63.5 ft. and S. 44 deg
48 min. E. 1391 ft. from the dH
rovery cut thereon, and a furth
er discovery of said Shamrw*
No. One lode being a cut the
east end of which bears S. 13
deg. 40 min. E., 255 ft. from the
west e.id of the lode line from
which Cor. No. 1 of the Shamrock
40. One lode cla m bears S. 36 deg
48 min. E.. 300 ft.; and the Goode
'ode being N. 36 deg. 47 min. W
25 ft., and S. 36 deg. 47 min. E ,
H75 ft. from the discovery’ cu
t.herean. A particular description
of th* Shamrock No. One lode
elrim bang as follows;
Begnning at Cor. No. 1. a fir
past 43 in. -long, 4 ins. sq.. 2 f*
in ground, in mound of earth ana
stone 1 ft. high. 30 in. base, am:
marked SH-1-1-1838, from write!
U. S. L. M. No. 324 beaTs S. 4t
deg. 25 min. W.. 774.7 ft., ami
from which Cor.. No. I Sur N'
224 Sunil hern Cross lode bear
N. 2 deg. 35 min. E., 204.5 ft
magnetic declination 19 deg. 1:
min. E.; Thenoe N. 36 deg. 48 mm
E., 600 ft. to Cor. No. 2. magnet
c declination 19 deg. 15 mir,
E.: Thence S. 44 deg. 48 mir
E.. 1454.5 ft. to Cor. No. 3, mag
netic declination 19 deg. 15 min
E.: Thence S. 36 deg. 48 min. W
000 ft. to Cor. No. 4. magneii
d eel. nation 19 deg. 15 min. E
Thence N. 44 deg. 48 min. W
1454.5 ft. to Cor. No. 1, and place
of beginning, containing 19.81:4
acres. Area in conflict w'Ui Goode
lode of this survey 3.493 acred
and in conflict with Sur. No. 324
Southern Cross lode 3.36 acmes
Net area of Shamrock No. Or.,
lode 12 966 acres.
And a particular description i>t
the Goode lode being a.? follows
Beginning at Cor. No. 1. which
is identical with Cor. No. 1 Sur
No. 324 Hot Air lode, a fir post
4 in. sq.. 48 in. above ground, ir
an earth mound 1 ft. high, 4 ft
oo.seir and Previousy markeo
324-No. 1, and now marked a4sc
GO-1-1888. from which U. S L
M. No. 324 bears S. 46 deg. 01
min. \V., 389.4 ft., magnetic de
clination 19 deg 45 mki. E.: Then
ce N, 36 deg. 48 min. E„ 599.2
ft. to Cor. No. 2, magnetic declin
ation 19 deg. 00 min. E.: Thence
»• 36 deg. 47 min. E„ 1500 ft
to Cor. No. 3. magnet'c deelima
tion H) deg. 30 min. E.; Thence
S. 36 deg. 48 min. W., 599.2 ft.
| to Cor No. 4, magnetic declina
!vT°nJ9Jdeg i5 min- E-: Thence
N. 36 deg. 47 min. VV.. 1500 ft
to Cor. No. 1, and place of be
ginning. containing 19.792 acres
net area, the conflict of 3.493 a«
res with the Shamrock No. One
lode claim, same survey, being
shown above and deduction made
therefor from the Shamrock No.
One lode claim. Total net area of
he Shamrock No. One and Goode
lode claims being 32.758 acres.
-r^.‘d ,2,,claims aT* located on
Inlby hill between Solomon Riv
er and Trilby Creek, in the Cape
Nome Mining and Recording dM>
net and precinct. Second Divi
sion, Territory of Alaska; the no
tice of locations being recorded
with the Recorder for the said
district and precinct for the
„ lode claim hi
SL21?’J>a*t 106- a™* for the
Goode lode claim in Vod. 214.
; page 107.
I Adjoining claims are on the
NOTth, Sur. No. 324 Southern
Cro® tode: °»» the East, Sham
rock 2 lode and Goode 1 lode,
unsiuveyed; on the West, Sur.
No. 324 Southern Cross lode and
sur-324 Hot Air lode; o<ther
adjoining claims unknown.
1 No. 324 to which
these claim* are tied is a slate
block on said Trilby hill, in lati
ude and longitude as taken from
“*e U. S. G. S. map of the Solo
m?a Quadrangle, of 64 deg. 39
mir- N-. 164 deg. 16 min. % W.
, . _ ALMER RYDEEN Register
t » 15a.tl0n April 16, 1287
Last Pub. Monday June 28, 1W7.