The Nome Nugget
Geo. S. Maynard, Editor and Publisher
Published every evening except Sunday by the NOME PVB
LISHING COMPANY, Front Street Nome, Alaska.
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Delivered by carrier in Nome, Little Creek, and Sunset Creek,
lor $2.00 per month. r,
By mail postage paid outside of Nome and vicinity, $1.50
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Subscribers will confer a .favor if they will promptly notify
the Office of any failure or ’rregularity in the delivery of their
papers. '
Entered in the Post Office In Nome as Second Class matter.
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On another page of this issue
will be found an article relating
to the airmail situation as it ex
ists today in Nome. The Postal
Department, which cut the rate of
pay for carriers from fifty to
twenty-five cents has made no
allowances to date, and the new
rate exists. Under the new rate
the airplane carriers in Nome de
cline to burden themselves with
an expense which they state they
cannot afford, in carrying the
mail at the sacrafice of other
freight business which pays fifty
cents per pound.
A movement is under way, in
stigated by the Northwestern Al
aska Chamber of Commerce, . to
acquaint the people of Nome and
northwestern Alaska with the con
ditions which now exist. Unless
some method of paying the air
plane companies is devised the
mail will not more, either from
Fairbanks to Nome or from Nome
to Fairbanks," by airplane. The
Chamber of Commerce has a pro
gram which calls for the un’ted
support of the public. They are
promoting a plan, drawing its fin
ancial support from popular sub
scription, to have the mail car
ried during the months of August
and September by airplane, paying
the airplane companies fifty cents
per nd freight rate in order
that the business people will have
that opportunity of getting their
orders outside in time to catch
the last boats of the season, nd
also receive their mall from the
states In as rapid a time as la
possible.
During (hose two months a
great quantity of business and
mall is carried by tlw plat.:.j and
It is believed that this year will
again see a like quantity of ir.a'l
transported both ways between
Fairbanks and Nome.
It Is a serious question wh'ch
should occupy the minds of every
citizen, young or old. The Cham
ber of Commerce has appealed to
the citizens of Nome to subscribe
enough money to guarantee the
payments^’ according to the exist
ing freight rates to teh airplane
companies who haul the mail dur
ing these two months, two of the
most important months of the
year.
This appeal should receive the
(wholehearted support of every res
ident. The airplane companies re
fuse to carry the mail at twenty
five cents per pound. You may
find out why by digesting ,jUj,e art
icle which appears elsewhere in
the paper. If we want the mail
carried by plane during.these two
months we will have to subscribe
enough money to pay for it. Do
yot^ think it Is important enough
to support? Several people out
side say that the mail service
down the Yukon, which takes
about four weeks, is ample and
sufficient for Nome. Do you think
it is? We do not. Our business
requires during those months men
tioned. a close contact with their
supply houses. The volume of'
mall carried la high. ^11 of which
testifies to the importance of an
airplane mail service.
If we do not do something at
once the mall which arrives at
Fairbanks on the train from south
eastern Alaska and Seattle wP.l
be routed down the Yukon river.
We must subscribe at once to a
fund to pay lor the transporting
,of mail by plane from Fairbanks
I
It Is imperative that the postal
authorities in Fairbanks and An
lehorage be notified , that the mail
wil be brought to Nome by plane,
; otherwise they will re-route the
I mall via the River, and we will
not get it for another month.
| This question Is vitally concern
ed with our lives In this section.
[We cannot hope to Carry on busi
ness and business relationships un
less we have the contact throngn
a rapid mail service, with the out
side. Give this your undivided at
tention and as a citizen your duty
will stand clearly before you—
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we must have the mail come thru.
Therefore subscribe.
Taking advantage of the high
tides of the last two days, Jack
Hammer of the Lomen Commer
cial Company succeeded in pulling
the M. S. Donaldson from the wat
er up to Belmont Point yester
day. The Donaldson formerly
carried freight and passengers on
the coast from St. Michael to Kot
ezhue.
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torney, l,sas—, Deeds, esc., mm
sal* at the Nngget Offce.
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