THE NOME DAILY NUGGET
GEO. S. MAYNARD. Editor
RUSSELL G MAYNARD. Manager.
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NOME WILL COME BACK, ALRIGHT !
A recent issue of the Seattle Star carried an extre
mely “illuminating” editorial describing Nome as a de
cided “has-been“; that it is not coming back and that
only a few hundred people live here. Other discrep
ancies are easily noted, testifying to the untruth of the
sources from which the information was obtained. At
tempts at retrospection on the ITsfory of Nome leave
a distinctly bad taste. Even the wind-up of the editor
ial is a weak attempt at sentimentalism.
We suggest that in the future more dependable sour
ces of information be quoted. Nome does not haT,e to
live by the memory of its past; it is stepping ahead in
a quick eager stride, well-knowing that in the immed
iate days to come mining and other industries of this
section are being opened up with increased capital and
investment.
The Seattle Star editorial is reprinted to show the
deprecating influences which sometimes are put-over,
and which do an injustice to the city referred to.
“COME BACK. NOME !
“Nome, the famed gold rush town on bleak Norton Sound, is
not coming back from the fire that swept it a few months ago. say
people from the north. Only a few hundred inhabitants remain.
“In Name, lumber for rebuilding is $100 a thousand; reindeer
meat is 20 cents a pound; coal is $20 a ton and water 60 gallons for
$1 Other necessities are as high in proportion.
"There is something sad about the passing of a romantic city—
a city that once went roaring on its way, making money, shouting
its defiance to the heavens. Thirty-five years ago, Nome was that
sort of town. Many a westerner remembers it in its heyday—the
heyday of $1 eggs and pokes full of dust, miners fresh from the
creeks, and the blare and swirl of Tex Rickard’s Northern and other
dance halls.
“There is a legend that the town got its name because of an
early surveyor, noting its position lettered in (Name?) on the map.
Somebody misread it for Nome—and Nome it remained.
“Every westerner, every old sourdough, will hope that Nome’s
eclipse is just temporary, and that the old town on the golden beach
will come back. There's still gold in them thnr hills.—Seattle Star.”
We refer the writer to the amount of gold shipped
from Nome and outlying sections during the season of
1935, by express—$2,100.310.59—(a half million more
than the preceding year); more people are living in
Nome this winter than for many years—estimated to be
about 1.500. During 1931, 15 dredges were in opera
tion in the S ward Peninsula area, and yet the Seattle
Star savs “There is something sad about the passing of
a romantic city—.”
Nome has a more stable future than at any time dur
ing its career. As evidences that Nome is not slipping
backward, but is really, Honest to God, “coming back,”
we point to the $100,000 PWA loan and grant obtained
bv Nome in 1935; a $65,000 new school building to be
constructed this spring; the present favorable consider
ation of a PWA project for the construction of a $400,
000.00 Federal Court House at Nome; the proposed
construction of a $90,000,00 U. S. Coast Guard Station
here.
And, speaking again of the referred—to eclipse, and
and those hoping it will be only temporary, we have
only to say—if this be eclipse, and added dread signs
of such—Give us Eclipse !
If data and facts are desired by people in Seattle
we refer those people to the steamship companies whose
vessels carry thousands of tons of mining machinery
and general freight to this city yearly; to chambers of
commerce who possess detailed information on Nome’s
standing. Seattle receives thousands of dollars in
business yearly from Nome and the Seward Peninsula
mining camps, and this is an example of what it gets
for that business—damaging criticism; unjust insinua
tions and total lack of knowledge concerning this im
portant mining section in Alaska.
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NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR
PATENT TO MISSION SITE
MMneral Survey No. 2082
Nome Serial No. 0923
! IN THE UNITED STATES LAND
! OFFICE AT NOME, ALASKA.
December 20, 1935.
NOTICE is hereby given that
the CALIFORNIA' YEAR L Y
MEETING OF FRIENDS CHUR
CH, a religious corporation whose
postoffice address and principal
place of business is Whittier, Cal
ifornia, has made application in
;he United States Land Office at
Nome, Alaska, for a patent for
its mission site to be known as
the "Friends Mission Reserve” at
Kotzebue, Noatak-Kobuk Pre
cinct, Territory of Alaska, and
within the Nome Land Office Dis
1 trict, and officially designated U.
S. Survey No. 2082, the exterior
boundaries thereof being as foll
; ows, magnetic declination 22 de
grees, 30 min. E.
Beginning at Cor. 1 whence U.
: S. Location Monument No. 2082
bears N. 45 deg. 55 min. W„ 8.94
chains: thence S. 44 deg. 05 min.
W., 4.00 chains to Cor. 2; thence
S. 45 deg., 55 min. E„ 29.46 chains
to Witness Corner, and .40 chains
further in the same direction to
Cor. 3: from Cor. 3 S. 67 deg. 48
min. W., 10.60 chains to Cor. 4;
thence N. 45 deg. 55 min. W., .30
chains to Witness Corner, and
25.30 chains further in the same
direction to Cor. 5: thence S. 44
deg. 65 min. W., 13.30 chains to
Cor. 6; thence N. 45 deg. 55 min.
W„ 8.94 chains to Cor. 7: thence1
N. 44 deg. 05 min. E., 12.92 chains
to Cor. 8: thence N. 45 deg. 55
min. W.. 6.00 chains to Cor. 9;
thence N. 48 deg. 09 min. E., 14.12'
chains to Cor. 10: thence N. 45
deg. 55 min. W., 1.30 chains to
Witness Corner and .49 chains fur-!
ther in the same direction to Cor.
11: thence N. 55 deg. 35 min. E.,
3.29 chains to Cor. 12; thence S.
27 deg. 38 min. E., .68 chains to
Witness Corner and 1.31 chains
further in the same direction to
Cor. 13; thence S. 44 deg. 05 min.
W., 2.60 chains to Cor. 14; thence
S. 45 deg. 55 min. E., 2.25 chains
to Cor. 15: thence N. 44 deg. 05
min. E., 1.10 chains to Cor. 16;
the ice S. 45 deg. 55 min. E., .70
chain' to Cor. 17; thence S. 44
deg. 05 min. W., 1.10 chains to
Cor. 18; thence S. 45 deg. 55 min.
E., 1.30 chains to said U. S. Loca
t on Monument No. 2082, and S.
45 deg. 55 min. E., 3.94 chains
further in the same direction to
Cor. 1, the place of beginning;
the total area being 59.50 acres;
and excepting therefrom a tract
of 0.28 acres known as the “Ver
non tract” for a description of
which commencing at Cor. 1 of
said "Vernon tract" from whence
said U. S. Location Monument No.
2082 bears N. 55 deg. 54 min. E..
11.87 chains; thence S. 44 deg. 05
min. W., 2.00 chains to Cor. 2 of
said tract; thence N. 45 deg. 55:
min. W., 1.40 chains to Cor. 3 of,
said tract: thence N. 44 deg. 05;
min. E., 2.00 chains to Cor. 4 of|
said tract, thence S. 45 deg. 55
min. E., 1.40 chains to Cor. 1 or
the place of beginning on said
tract; leaving a net of 59.22 acres.
This mission site is on unsur- j
veved ground and is within and j
adjoining the town of Kotzebue,!
Noatak-Kobuk Precinct, Terri
tory of Alaska.
U. S. Location Monument No.
2082 to which this site or reserve
is tied is situated in Latitude 66
deg. 53 min. N., Longitude 162
deg. 38 min. 30 sec. W., in the
said town of Kotzebue.
ALMER RYDEEN,
, Register
First Publication Jan. 14, 1936.
Last Publication March 16, 1936.
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