THE NOME DAILY NUGGET
GEO. S. MAYNARD, Editor
RUSSELL G. MAYNARD, Manager.
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ALASKA VERSUS STRICKEN AREAS
Press messages the last few days tell of dust storms
ranging over various western states, choking cattle, and in
some instances causing deaths of individuals.
Recent arrivals in Anchorage from those states confirm
the frightful condition due to such storms. One man now
residing here lost a child in one of those storms—choked by
the dust.
Such storms have swept many wide areas so violenth
they have denuded the region of all soil—rendered it a vir
tual desert. Cattle starve and crops are impossible in such
areas.
In the several northern states ot the midwest last year
vast areas suffered from drought. Two-thirds of some of
those states were forced to go on relief. Thousands of cat
tle were starved or died from want of water—likewise thou
sands of sheep. A blight seemed upon the land. The gov
ernment has been called upon to go to the rescue of many
of those families.
It has been decided to bring some of the families from
those stricken areas to Alaska. The criticism is made in
some quarters that Alaska cannot be made a successful farm
region—that no human ingenuity can find markets—that
crops here will only go to waste. And yet the Alaska farm
lands are an Eden compared to those blighted and stricken
areas.
The truth is, this country will appear as a paradise com
pared to the regions the government is taking the colonists
from—and by proper management, markets will be found
for the Alaska products. With creameries, canneries, pro
per freight rates and as much efFort to preserve and place the
crops as is exercised in other lands, the Alaska farmers will
succeed.
Alaska is in the same parallel as northern European
countries where millions of people thrive and annually pro
duce hundreds of millions of wealth from farms and allied
industries. Why cannot Alaska be brought to the same con
dition by all round intensive production and marketing.
Alaska imports $40,000,000 worth of supplies annually
—and millions of that sum are represented in foodstuffs. Al
aska farm lands in time will displace millions of imported
goods. The only way to bring about that displacement and
to get started on the new era is to start. And now is the time
Uncle Sam is putting his hand to the plow and pushing
ahead. Every keen Alaskan will bend every ounce of effort
MUSICAL STRINGS
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This is no time to turn back—push on and victory is
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■‘Eskimo” Filmed At
Nome And Teller
!>e Shown at Dream
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erous desires of a white captain of
a whaling ship, an antagonism which
ultimately culminates in a murder.
A few statistics on the prepara
tions and accomplishments of the
trip made to film this remarkable
picture arc enough to stagger the
imagination. The journey covered
more than 13,000 miles from Holly
wood to Teller, Alaska and return.
The company boarded the whaling
schooner “Manuk" at Nome, proceed
ed to Teller where the boat was
frozen in for the winter, and later
returned with the breaking up of
the ice in the spring.
They carried more than thirty-live
members in the company, not includ
ing guides and Eskimos picked up
enroute. Dog sleds were used for
land work and living quarters were
in the ship or ashore in igloo camps.
Fifty Tons of Food
They took with them some fifty
tons of food, sleds, dog harnesses,
furs, medical stores and trade goods
f r paying off the Eskimos. Captain
Peter Freuchen, author of the book,
also served as guide and technical
expert with Col. Van Dyke directing
Edward Hearn was assistant direct
or and the camermen were Clyde De
Vinna, Josiah Roberts, and George
Nogle, who were Van Dyke's cam
eramen in “Trader Horn” and
White Shadows of the South Seas”.
The ship carried everything from
photographic laboratory to an office.
Incidentally there were no rubber
fountain pens in that office. Cold
cracks rubber. Special vulcanite
pens were made.
Complete Electric Plant
.Among the foodstuffs were many
pounds of pemmican, dried beef,
canned goods of all kinds from fruits
to beef stew, special dried fish for
dog rations for the sled dogs (they
live on fish in the Arctic, a complete
electric plant for heat and light, a
generator truck for photograph, skis
to fit under camera tripods and oth
er essentials.
Among breath-taking spectacles
obtained by the expedition are scen
es of caribou herds on stampede,
walrus hunts with natives risking
their lives in small boats; whaling
expeditions; the terrific roaring and
crashing of million of tons of ice,
and other thrills of the Far North -
Publicity.
Pres. Birthday
Ball Finances
A final accounting of the funds
taken in by the President's Birthday
Ball Committee in Nome of which
Judge J If S Morison was the offic
ial head, and which took place Jan
uary 30th. reveals that more than a
hundred dollars was sent to the na
tional committee to be used in fin
ancing scientific research into infan
tile paralysis.
Two hundred and ninctyeip:ht)
dollars was taken in at Nome by the
amateur night program. Expenses
here were $-17.50 leaving two hun
dred and fifty dollars and fifty cents
net proceeds in Nome.
St. Michael contributed twenty-five
dollars; Fortuna Ledge thirty-five
dollars; Candle fifty-five dollars and
fifty cents; and Kotzebue fifteen dol
lars.
A grand total of three hundred
and eighty-one dollars was contrib
uted of which seventy percent re
mains in Nome for relief of infantile
paralysis sufferers in the Second
Division. Thirty percent of the
amount was sent to the national
committee for research. $266.70 re
mained in Nome and $114.30 was
sent to the committee.
HATS, COSTUME JEWELRY
FOUNDATION GARMENTS
AND COTTON BLOUSES
JUST ARRIVED BY PLANE
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H E REIMER
BUILDING CONTRACTOR
E ST., NOME, ALASKA
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