THE NOME DAILY NUGGET
GEO. S. MAYNARD, Editor.
RUSSELL MAYNARD, Manager.
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ASSESSMENT WORK MAY OPEN NEW MINE
(Denver Mining Record)
The law which exempts owners of riiining locations from
doing assessment work has friends and enemies. One reader
says he doubts very much whether the law has helped the,
bona fide prospector. He says the prospector’ without a
grubstake has all the more time to do assessment work. It
is contended that the extending of this exemption from year
to year helps no real prospector, but hinders his work. Am
ateur prospectors, or outsiders, dig, or more usually have
someone else dig 10-foot pot holes over the mountains and
hold many possible prospects for years, with no intention
of doing further work unless someone opens up ore in their
vicinity.
It is further contended by our subscribers that there
is too much promising but idle mineral land tied up with
United States patents. He further contends it is not wise
to allow even a bona fide prospector to hold claims just be
cause he dug some 10-foot holes some two qr three years
before. Even storekeepers and businessmeh hire poor
creditors to dig half a dozen pot holes, for $25 debt, and keep
as many claims idle.
Sentiment is about evenly divided in the West on the
important question of the exemption of mining locations
from assessment work. The potential bonanza must be
developed to produce. The Denver Mining Record believes
in action in the mining districts and hopes for a return of
good times so that there will be no further need for a post
ponement of this important work. The law regarding pat
ented property should be changed so that after a property
is idle for a certain number of years it should be offered at
auction by the county in which it is located. The federal
securities law has slowed up development fh mining dis
tricts. It is important that every effort be made to increase
work thru remaining channels.
PLANNED ABUNDANCE
(New York World-Telegram)
Secretary Wallace’s annual report points a course for
American agriculture into a future of “planned abundance.”
Killing little pigs and plowing under cotton, though
necessary in the recent past to wipe out price-depressing
surpluses, do not fit into the future, he describes.
He has no rigid program but a plan for a steadily ex
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panding production of “different commodities in the proper
amounts and proportions.” Mr. Wallace wants American
farmers to produce anything and everything that they can
market profitably.
The domestic market can be enlarged only to the extent
that national purchasing power is increased. It is not likely
that in the near future American consumption can be raised
to the level of American farming capacity. Hence one need
for productive restraints to keep agriculture from impover
ishing itself.
These restraints may be made less severe or even un
necessary, provided we regain our lost foreign markets.
Pending national industrial recovery to rebuild the!
farmer’s domestic market and pending negotiation of tariff
treaties to rebuild the farmer’s foreign market, Mr. Wallace!
believes it is wise for American agriculture to keep its own ■
house in order. Production control agreements provide a
democratic method for doing this, and benefit payments
make it profitable for individual farmers to cooperate.
Last summer’s terrible drought, Mr. Wallace believes,
emphasized an additional planning need. He suggests that
we establish an “ever-normal granary.” This he would do
■ by keeping off the market in good years a sizeable surplus to
insure plenty in lean years.
The Secretary’s latest suggestion should help to quiet
the critics who accuse him of planning scarcity.
DID YOU EVER STOP TO THINK? >
By Edson R. Waite
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Every citizen should boost the home city—not knock
good.
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Road hogs do not like the inside of a jail. Putting some
of them there might have some effect on others.
Newspaper advertising spreads the news of bargains
to the consumers.
Some people think that among the duties of government
is to see that nobody interferes with the rights of others.
That is something the politicians seem to forget, as illustrat
ed by their efforts to put the government into business in
direct competition with its citizens and, by so doing, take
their rights and business away from them.
When a city shows«.sigjis of progressiveness it usually
is because the city has a live Chamber of Commerce, and
not on account of its favorable location.
No business deserves more support and gets less than
the newspapers.
Clerks in stores should never forget that they should
meet courtesy with courtesy and rudeness with courtesy.
It never pays to “ball out” customers.
Some cities are going cities while others are growing
cities.
A lot of self-seekers of glory are not progressive, but
are just plain windjammers.
No cobwebs grow on the door of the merchant who is
a continuous newspaper advertiser.
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