THE NOME DAILY NUGGET j
GEO. S. MAYNARD, Editor
RUSSELL G MAYNARD, Manager.
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THE TINKER
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Forty-eight hours to Christmas
and Ethel Whitney has no end of
things to do. Marjorie, her
daughter, will be home for lunch
and she has lunch to get and all
her presents to wrap in the mean
time. Yet in the face of all that
a most important letter comes
from Uncle Tobias’ lawyer in
Seattle saying their uncle's will
is on the way to them. At least
$200,000 will soon be theirs' and
every member of the family ex
cept David Whitney quickly plans
to spend it.
Amid all this excitement The
Tinker labors at the old broken
down clock and tinkers with brok
en hearts as well.
Be sure to see “THE TINKER",
Monday evening, December 13th,
at 8 o’clock. Presented by the
Drama Club at the Federated
hurch. Tickets 35cts. and 50 cts.
‘THE TINKER", a 3-act comedy
by Fred Eastman, is produced by
special arrangement with the Wal
ter H. Baker Company, cf Boston,
Mass. Following is the Cast of
Characters:
(Cast in Order of Appearance)
Jack Whitney, a typical high
School boy, Bobby Scott
David Whitney, a harassed busi
ness man..Leonard Krohlow
Ethel Whitney, him managing
wife, .Pearl Woodfin
The Tinker, a queer kindly soul,
.-...Wilbur Arnold
Marjorie Whitney, the vivacious
daughter,.Esther Thune
Jane Seymour, her pretty college
chum,.Retta Armstrong
Jeremy Whitney, David’s Dissi
pated brother, Everett Fisher
Time: The present just before
Christmas.
Place: The living room of the
Whitney home in Southern New
England.
Director: Lennie Mae Nelson.
PIONEER ROOF GARDEN
TO BE THE BIGGEST
EVENT OF THE SEASON
Judging from the enthusiasm
shown by the activities of the
different committees and the
whole-hearted support of Nome
merchants and business houses
in gen ral. the 33rd annual Roof
Garden of the Pioneer will go
down in history as the biggest
event of the year.
The officially printed program
which will be on the street the
early part of the week will show
a large number of entertaining
and enjoyable features. The com
mittee deserves a good deal of
credit, and the entertainers, the
thanks and appreciation of the
public for their willingness to
assist the Pioneers of Alaska to
put over their great annual event.
The general committee will
meet again Sunday, (tomorrow),
at 1 P.M., at Odd Fellows Hall to
receive reports and make further
plans to meet the new demands.
Weather Today
(U. S. Weather Bureau)
Low pressure of diminishing
intensity overlies the North Paci
fic ocean, causing snow, rain, sleet
and fog from the Aleutians thru
southeastern Alaska thence rain
and fog thru southern California.
High pressure predominates over
northern Alaska and the interior
of Canada with resulting fair and
colder weather in those regions.
The highest Nome temperature
during the past twenty four hours
up to 1 p.m. today was 18 and the
lowiest during the same period
was 6 degrees above.
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MATERIAL STOCKED: SHAFTING, STEEL, BRONZE,
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Prompt Attention to Local and Out of Town Work
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Builders of Gold Dredges, Prospecting Drills,
and Other Placer Mining Equipment
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“The Crucible” ,
Unofficial bulletin for the
Nc'iij Headquarters of the
Territorial Department cf
Mines
Assayed by Aben Shallit j
14th Pouring
Apreliminary report of the
mining situation of Seward Pen
insula goes ot headquarters next
week. Most of the larger outfits
have been contacted and a list
of the smaller operators and pro
spectors has been assembled thru
various sources. This preliminary
record should be as complete as
possible, even though a detailed
study of mining here will be sub
mitted later. If you know of any
outfits or prospectors in out-of-the
-way places who may have been
overlooked, if you stop into the as
say office with this information
it will help complete the record.
This office is a convenient place
for the average miner or prospect
or to look up information on this
locality. No geological or other
maps or bulletins of this district
are now available in either Jun
eau or Washington. If any of you
have maps or bulletins of the Sew
ard Peninsula, Nome, Grand
Central, Solomon, Casa de Paga.
Kougarok Council, Etc., districts
and would care to give or loan
them to this office, they will be
made available to the general pub
lie.
Assays for gold and silver, or
for testing the fineness of mater
ial will be made as the specimens
are received. Tb? determination
of the base metals tin, antimony,
tungsten, copper, etc., requires
the preparation of chemical solu
tions which loose their accuracy
in a f:w weeks. For this reason
the samples of base metals are
allowed accumulate until there
are a sufficient number to war
rant the preparation of solutions.
If you have any of these metals
to be assayed bring them in as
soon as possible inorder to get
early returns.
Age before beauty and baseball
before mining is the schedule this
year. The University of Alaska
will give its mining extension
course right after the “Federal®”
take the series. To be saf. let’3
change that to—“after the last
game”. A collection of mineral
and rock specimens, as well ai
addiitonal laboratory equipment,
has be:n received. The schedule
will be arranged to accomodate
the largest number of those desir
ing to take the course.
The metal market last month
was considerably disturbed by
the sharp decline in securities.
Producers moved to restrict pro
duction, but comparatively little
metal was sold. Copper, lead,
zinc, tin, quicksilver and platin
um were lover; tungsten and tn
imony remained about the same.
As an example tin dropped from
58.975 cents per pound in Octo
ber to 51.654 cents last month.
Last year at the same time it
was 44.975. The Tin, Committee
announced, that unless conditions
improve, production for the first
quarter of 1938 would be reduc
ed twenty five percent.
Although metal prices have
dropped, activity in the base met
al industry of the Philippines
has been increased considerably;
this is due to the hosilities be
tween Japan and China. The pro
duction of coper, lead, chrome,
and iron ores has been increased,
wiht Japan contra,ting for a good
share of the output
It should be of interest to pro
spectors to note that the last ap
propriation act for the navy auth
orized the purchase of strategic
minerals, as a military reserve.
Apparently them most of the mon
ey allocated for building up these
REDUCED PRICES 0N ALL LIQUORS
AT THE NOME LIQUOR STORE H. Greenberg:
Prop.
supplies will be spent for man
ganese ore. Manganese ores are
distinctive and easily rrcognized
—Just a hint for prospectors to
keep their eyes open for possible
deposits.
If you’re feeling a bit pessimist!
ic about the price of metals, if
you’re worried that the rising
prices of commodities will off-set
the $35 paid for an ounce of gold,
then try and find some radium.
The price for this element is now
only $40 p:r milligram, which,!
is, roughly speaking. $36,288,000.
000.00 per ton. Now let us suppose
we put up a 100 ton mill which
wall handle 35,500 tons a year.
If this is run for only 10 years,
it will handle 3,550.000 tons. As
suming the price of radium re
mains unchanged, there is a gross
of $12,882,240,000,000,000.00 (twel-.
ve thousand eight hundred eighty
two trillion, two hundred forty
billion dollars—very roughly
speaking). Now either it's worth
taking a chance prospecting for
such returns or there is something
wrong with these figures.
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