The Nome Nugget
Geo. S. Maynard, Editor and Publisher
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NEW AIRPORT NOME NOW
IN PERFECT CONDITION
WAITING ARMY PLANKS
The new aiprort at Nome, now
under construction by the Alaska
Road Commission, is in perfect
condition foT landing and taking
off. It has been regravelled, grad
ed, dragged and rolled until It is
very nearly as smooth as pave
ment.
In a trial run in a car over the
Held .yesterday a speed of approxi
mately fifty miles an hour was
maintained over teh entire twenty
six hundred feet of its length.
A parking space for cars adja
cent to the Bessie ^iRoad on the
southwest corner of the Add has
been constructed. The parking lot
for planes on the southeast corner
I of the field was completed and
'now measures 250 feet in length
j bv about 100 feet In width.
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It is the purpose of the ARC to
porhibit automobiles from running
on the field, especially while It i*
under construction. The same
regulation was applied to the old
field out from Nome. The cars
with small wheels often times cut
up the field in such a way that If
water gathers there is no way to
drain it off because it follows the
ruts made by the cars.
At present there are ten truck*
engaged In work on the field.
Two gas shovels are supplying the
travel at the rale of about 750
cub!c yards a day. The gravel la
being dumped in piles of about
three-foot thickness on the en<l of
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the field as extension work pro
gresses rapidly. This manner ot
carrying the field on out to its
proposed length appears to he
working successfully, according to
the distance the field Is extended
each day. At present there ar*
2300 feet of field available C>r
lending and taking off. perfectly
levelled and smooth. Kach day
additional gravel deposited ex
tends the field that much farther,
and the field now stretches *p
iryixlmately 2700 feet.
With these facts as concrete evi
dence of tht progress being made
at N't me, we are in a position t->
state to th0 War Department and
the Army fliers when they come
here, that Nome will have the fin
est end laittest ay port in Alaska
j Furthermore, this airport will
|«».- the farthest west airport in the
world. No other airport can be
farther west than Nome, iu the
world, as when you go a little far
ther west you come to a point
where you are east.
A point exists where if you
stood directly on the line, if you
turned west you would be turning
east, and if you turned east yon
would be turning west. I wonder
which way you would turn?
With the Army bombing planes
now definitely on their way to
Alaska, Nome must get busy soon
and he ready for the arrival of the
planes after they get to Fair
banks. It is definitely assured the
planes will fly to Nome. In tbs
past Nome has never been found
wanting or waiting when things of |
big importance are happening. Now (
is the time to prepare for the ar
rival of the planes here; not after
they get here and are ready to
return.,
Yesterday and today comes
news of th6 departure of both
army and navy planes for Alaska.
Already submarines and survey
ships are in Alaskan waters; hard,
undisputable evidence that consid
erable Interest is manifest regard- j
lng the position which Alaska ul- j
timatcly is bound to assume in af
fairs of nations in the near future.
The Army planes are coming
to Nome; now is the time to get
in communication with the navy.
Lets get the twelve big navy
seaplanes to fly from Dutch Har
'bor to Nome. The planes which
left San Francisco yesterday ror
Alaska and Dutch Harbor are re
ported to be of the same type of
planes as those which made the
non-stop hop from Frisco to the
Hawaiian Islands last winter.
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