THE NOME DAILY NUGGET
GF.O. S. MAYNARD, Editor
RUSSELL G. MAYNARD, Manager.
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PLENTY OF ROOM AT THE TOP.
One-third larger than the Atlantic States from Maine
to Florida, with a longer coastline than the United States
itself, its westernmost point in the same longitude as New
Zealand (in summer the sun is just setting in Attu, the last
of the Aleutians, when it is rising in Maine), Alaska contains
something like 30,000 square miles of arable land; as much
as the agricultural lands of Finland, a country that not only
supports a population of about three million but exports
millions of pounds of butter every year and is admired for
paying its debts.
In Alaska all the hardier vegetables and the cereals ex
cept corn thrive in a short growing season with extraordi
narily long days. In the regions accessible to the Govern
ment Railroad more than a million acres are suitable for
farming. Some authorities say there are 65,000,000 acres
suitable for grazing.
Still there is no rush of population, unemployed or oth
erwise. upon the virgin soil of Alaska. There are only five
hundred farms in the whole Territory, according to the 1930
census, which gives the entire population as 59.000, or less
than half that of Yonkers, N. Y.
Alaska’s population is so small, in fact, that it will be
increased almost 2 per cent next May when the Federal
Government will send 200 families (representing about 1,000
persons) now on relief in Michigan, Minnesota and Wiscon
sin to homestead in the fertile Matanuska Valley, in South
central Alaska; prospective homesteaders each of whom will
be provided with forty acres of improved land, with a house
fully equipped and necessary farm accessories at a cost of
about $3,000 to the Government, but who are evidently
hardier than those on relief who turned up their noses re
cently at offers of a measure of security on farms nearer
home from readers of “The Rural New-Yorker. ’
These latter-day pioneers are going to have their land
cleared for them and "improved” by ablebodied woodsmen,
but they are going to consent to live in tents until log houses
are built. Furthermore, there will be no baths in the log
houses—running water, but no baths. Wood-burning sto
ves will have to do for heating and cooking, and kerosene
lamps for light. Substantial Government aid will be given
them, but no luxuries—unless it is the moral luxury of win
ning by hard work forty acres of good land, comfortable
shelter, a living and a sense of having met the challenge of
adversity more than half way.—Exchange.
Big business, as a rule, wants government out of busi
ness until it hears that there are favors to boost profits and
then you can’t beat them out of the trough with a pole.
Let no one be deceived; no nation is able to live entirely to
itself.
The world is jammed with moralists and reformers
ready to regulate somebody else.
Pearl Buck, novelist: “I learned to talk and to think
in Chinese and even now I compose my thoughts in that
language and translate them before I write them.”
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The Washington
News-Letter
OFFICE OF A. J. DIMOND
Delegate from Alaska
(By J. J. ECKLES)
July 13, 1935
Miss Alice Palmer, of Anchorage
and Miss Mabel Monson of Juneau,
arrived in Washington, July 12th for
a visit to the nation’s Capitol. The
Misses Palmer and Monson have
been enjoying a vacation trip that
has taken them down the Pacific
Coast to Los Angeles, then by wat
er through the Panama Canal to
New York, and they are now on
their return to Alaska, expecting
to leave Seattle about the middle
of August.
The bill providing for the trans
fer of certain land in Nome to the
city of Nome in exchange for oth
er lands to the government passed
the House July 11th and has been
sent to the President for approval.
A grant of $25,515 for the construc
tion of an impounding reservoir and
water system for the city of Doug
in. has been approved by the Na
t >nal Emergency Council. This is
in connection with the Act author
izing Douglas to issue bonds for
the construction of a water system
approved during the 73rd Congress.
July 8th Delegate Dirnond intro
duced a bill, H. R. 8766, to author
ize municipal corporations in the
Territory of Alaska to incur bond
ed indebtedness and repealing all
Acts or parts of Acts in conflict
with that purpose to the extent of
the conflicting parts. When enact
ed, this bill will permit any incor
porated town in Alaska to issue
bonds not to exceed ten per centum
of the taxable value of the real and
; personal property of the town when
i the issue is approved by G5 per cent
| uni of the qualified electors of the
i town whose names appear on the
last tax assessment record of the
town.
At the present time the issuance
of bonds by an Alaska town is
greatly impeded by existing law tiiat
' requires an Act of Congress approv
| ing the issue before incurring the
j indebtedness. The proposed legis
lation is intended to expedite the
progress of proposed municipal pub
lic works in Alaska, and is another
step toward the self government in
Alaska that the Delegate is constant
ly working for.
The Delegate has introduced a bill
to authorize the use of funds coll
ected for services of the Washing
ton-Alaska Military Cable and Teie
graph System, and for other purpos
es. It is believed that the enactment
of this legislation will greatly stren
gthen the position of the System in
Alaska and remove the causes that
make its future uncertain at period
ic intervals, by showing that the
system is not the expense to the ar
my that the figures would indicate.
The System has always been op
erated on a basis whereby the ex
pense was covered by appropriu
made to the Army for that purpose
and the revenues were credited in
to the Treasury without being shown
as a credit or deduction from the
operating expense. Thus, in a year
when the expense of operation would
be approximately a half million dol
ars and the revenues would amount
to approximately one-fourth million
dollars, which was recovered by the
Treasury, the report would show the
gross expense as the cost of the Sys
tem to the Government, making no
allowance for the fact that half the
amount was returned. Nor would
credit show for the service given
free by the system to the various
government agencies which would
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NEW COAL PRICES
IN YARD
LADYSMITH LUMP.$ 23.00 Per Ton
LADYSMITH NUT.23.00 Per Ton
UTAH LUMP.24.00 Per Ton
UTAH NUT.24.00 Per Ton
ANTHRACITE.32.00 Per Ton
INDIAN STOKER COAL.18.75 Per Ton
BRIQUETS.27.50 Per Ton
BLACKSMITH COAL.2.50 Per Sack
ORDER FROM
POLET’S STORE
Nome Harbor Lighterage Co.
Phone “NOHALICO”
Distributed By
Bon Marche Stores
Greenberg & Lewis
J. Lepri
Alaska Liquor Store
I)r. L. W. Fromm
Dentist
Office—West of Nome Liquor
Store
Front St., Nome.
The Mode of The Moment In
Women's, Misses’ and Child
rens Apparrel at Sensible
Prices—Always—At
MILDREDS
SHOPPE
Nome Laundry
Joe Amarok, Prop.
DRY CLEANING AND
PRESSING SUITS
PHONE MAIN 29
East of Catholic Church
Nome, Alaska.
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CARS FOR KOUGAROK
3 ROUND TRIPS A WEEK
All Kinds of Freight And
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Dieticians contend that fresh milk
contains more nourishment than any
other known food, It has no sub
stitute.
Our cows are selected from the
best dairy stock on the Pacific Coast
—tubercular tested and approved be
fore being shipped.
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—or store; in quarts—pints—or half
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Just Received
SHOES
FOR MEN, WOMEN,
ANI) CHILDREN
JACK
SE1DENVERC
Cavey’s Bakery
OPEN FROM 6 A.M. TO 1 A.M.
GOOD CUP OF COFFEE
BEST PASTRY IN NOME
Good Meals
CITY LAUNDRY
Harry Saito, Prop.
Opposite The Bank
Clothing Pressed And
Cleaned
Laundry Work At
Reasonable Prices
TUB BATHS DAILY
10 A.M. TO 10 P.M.
PIONEER DRUG STORE
(Nome’s New and Modern Drug Store)
AGENTS For McKesson-Stewart & Holmes,
Rexall and Eastman Kodak Company
BRING US YOUR KODAK WORK
Mail Orders Given Prompt Attention
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TIIE MOST PRACTICAL FINISH FOR ALL WALL BOARDS
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Makes old walls new and new walls more durable and
beautiful. One pound of Laux Blue I.able wall texture will
cover from 8 to 12 square feet—easy to apply, dries in about
8 hours, and is economical. To see applied samples of diff
erent colors on both Insulite and Plywood, also to receive
descriptive literature, Call on The
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MINERS AND MERCHANTS BANK
OF ALASKA
NOME, ALASKA.
Has established temporary quarters in
the former office of W. J. Rowe Transfer, and is
carrying on its business as usual.
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