THE NOME DAILY NUGGET
GEO. S. MAYNARD, Editor.
RUSSELL MAYNARD, Manager. +
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GOLD AND RECOVERY
Alaska, said an experienced mining man recently, is a
mineralized area potentially the greatest the world has ever
known—and it has scarcely been scratched. It is true that
interest in increasing amounts is now being directed toward
this territory but the United States still might well take a
leaf from the page of Canada, which has now jumped ahead
of this country as a gold producer.
An army of prospectors, estimated at 18,000, has been
busy digging in the hills and creeks this season, lured by
the hope of mineral discovery. Whatever their success, it
will redound to the credit of the mining industry as the most
potent influence combating depression and aiding Canada in
her struggle for economic recovery. Why not a similar
army of prospectors for Alaska? We can think of no better
way that the government could expend a portion of its re
lief money than in backing a selected group of prospectors
and miners. The field is here and, thus escaping the possi
bility that incoming prospectors might become a burden up
on the territory, encouraging results would be inevitable.
Alaska at this time is wide open for development in all
fields, and a studied plan which included, besides placing
farmers in the fertile valleys, putting prospectors into the
hills and on creeks, would awaken Alaska from her long
doze of slow progress to an era of^alertness and super-value
to the United States. A real opening of this great frontier
would be no small step along the road to economic recovery.
If one doubts it, let him look back into his early American
history.
Since Mussolini demands military training from the
age of eight up, it won’t be long until Italian army officers
on leave will be calling at the nearest kindergarten for
“dates.”
A recent law decreeing that Persian women must no
longer wear veils ought to increase the soap business in
Persia.
“Stork to Visit Dionne Family Again.”—Headline. We
wonder if it would be unemilypostish to hope it is a one
seated stork this time?
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Interesting Items About Alaskans
Robert Barton Ellis, Premier mill
worker, was found dead near the
Premier mine, having committed
suicide by drinking cyanide of po
tassium, according to the VerdicT'of
a coroner’s inquest called by Dr. J.
W. Vos burgh of Stewart, B.C., in
his capacity of district coroner. The
poison is presumed to have been
obtained from the Premier mill,
where it is used in ore reduction.
Eye trouble and worry over finan
ces were considered the probable
motives for the rash deed, accord
ing to word from Hyder.
J. B. Harris, who was a member
of Nome’s first council and acting
mayor of the city for six months
during 1901, is now in Little Rock,
Ark. Mr. Harris went to Alaska
from Arkansas in 1897 and spent
eight years at Dawson and Nome.
After serving on the Nome council
he was elected president of the
board of education in 1903. The old
timers used to call him “Croker”
Harris, he having been given that
name by Judge J. E. Crane, well
known in the Seward metropolis.
At the present time Mr. Harris and
Billy Leake are mining for gold in
Death Valley and Phoenix, Ariz.
J. W. Peak and sister, Miss Grace
Peak, of El Paso, Texas, have re
turned from a two months’ trip
down the Yukon River and into
Kodiak and the Kenai Peninsula.
They are both great hunters and
returned with mountain goats, and
a moose with 60 inch antler spread
as trophies. The Peaks enjoyed ev
ery section of Alaska which they
visited and are already looking for
ward to another trip to the land
where they received the finest hos
pitality they have ever enjoyed in
any country in the world in which
they have travelled.
John A. McIntosh, pioneer resi
dent of Alaska, died at Fairbanks
at the age of 62. A prominent busi
ness man in Fairbanks, he owned
the Mclntosh-Kubon drug store and
was ' .interested in other business
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property there. McIntosh was a
Charter member of the Fairbanks
Igloo of Pioneers. He first came
north in 1887, stopping at Juneau
from there he went to Atlin and
Dawson. He came to Fairbanks in
1909 and established a drug store
which he had operated since. s
A former Grants Pass, Oregon
miner, now in Seward, is so enthus
iastic over Alaska, that he has sent
for his wife to come north so that
they can locate here permanently.
While in Oregon Mr. Thomas lo
cated a pocket containing 58 ounces
of gold, but due to some confusion
between the assayer and the smel
ter, settlement is still in litigation.
Upon cross-cutting a log at Pet
ersburg recently, Olaf Arness found
a shell resembling a sharpnel, im
bedded in a tree which apparently
had been lodged there for a period
from 60 to 80 years. It is not
known how this shell came there,
whether by combat or target prac
tice, so it has been sent to the Un
ited States Navy Yards at Bremer
ton to have the history traced.
Five and one-half ounces of gold
dust, which Malcolm Morrison min
ed in Alaska and brought to Seattle
a few weeks ago, were stolen, he
told police there. Morrison lost $90
in currency. He valued the gold
dust at $185. Morrison told police
he left his hotel and had a few
drinks and then woke up in a vac
ant lot, with a bump on his head
and his money gone.
A favorable mining season has
been reported at Takotna where
water has been plentiful* Four
dredges were in operation in that
area this summer, according to W.
Puntilla, two dredges on Gaines
Creek, one on Yankee and one on
Little. It is the opinion of mineral
experts that with the present price
of gold that these dredges should
continue successful work for a num
ber of years yet.
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furnished lumber and other building materials for the re
building of Nome.
.... This great shipment was in the process of loading within
36 hours after the first news of the fire reached Seattle.
Such a large variety and quantity could have been as
sembled by only the largest mills in Washington. Our pfUe
in this achievement is excelled only by our happiness by the
fact that we have been able to save thousands of dollars
for our customers in their rebuilding, on account of our ex
tremely low prices. We have furnished some materials for
nearly every building started since the fire and many their
entire requirements. It is our desire and hope to remain
permanently in Nome and this ambition can only be realised
by your orders which will be our pleasure and receive our
best attention.
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