THE NOME DAILY NUGGET
GEO. S. MAYNARD, Editor.
RUSSELL MAYNARD, Manager.
Published every evening except Sunday by the NOME PUBLISHING
COMPANY, Nome, Alaska.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
Delivered by carrier in Nome, Little Creek, and Sunset Creek, for
$2.00 per month.
By mail postage paid outside of Nome and vicinity, $1.50 month.
Subscribers will confer a favor if tl. \ will promptly notify the Of
fice of any failure or irregularity i. he delivery of their papers.
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS
The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for repubUca
tit>n (>f all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in
this paper and also the local news published herein.
Entered in the Post Office in Nome as Second Class matter.
THE UNSEEN EMPIRE
The American Mining Congress has recently issued a
booklet. The Unseen Empire, published in the interests'of
mining, quarrying, their allied-industries and the rehabilita
tion of the United States Bureau of Mines. It is a terse and
dear statement of facts.
First the committee says:
1. Restore immediately, to its former extent, the work
of the Bureau of Mines in mine-safety research, and
first aid and mining-safety training. Millions of dollars
are justifiably being spent to provide for our indigent
vouth in CCC camps. Let us give thought to the wel
fare of the mine worker who stands at the foundation
of our national welfare, together with his dependents.
2. Technological efforts to promote use of domestic
deposits of essential minerals now imported in large
quantities,
3. Development of information and technological
methods to insure fullest benefits of the potentialities for
gold production in the United States.
4. Logical and needed restoration of the Bureau of
Mines, to its prime position as a clearing house of min
ing information.
o. Provision ot a national inventory of known reserv
es of essential minerals and extension of conservation
and economic use of those minerals.
6. Alleviation of concern held by the Government’s
defense agencies in connection with availability of es
sential minerals.
7. All current statistics relating to the volume of the
nation:s minerals; including mineral reserves, produc
tion. imports, exports, value, etc., should be secured by
the Bureau of Mines. Where special statistical infor
mation relating to minerals is required, the Depart
ment, Bureau or Commission requiring such, should
obtain same through the Bureau of Mines.
• Information for those who do not realize what the min
eral industries mean the booklet gives further informa
tion;
As the nation grew in numbers and wealth, our
people, following in the footsteps of all previous peo
ples, turned to the stores of mineral wealth, almost un
iversally located below that, first “surface foot” of soil.
Such as the beginning with us of miner production,
expressed in the form of surface mining, mining from
depths at times exceeding a mile, and in the case of oil
GOOD TEETH—GOOD HEALTH
DR. WESTS’S TOOTH BRUSHES
STANDARD PRICES
NOME DRUG STORE
Opposite Telephone Office
“Cappy McDougall, Proprietor Telephone Main 95
ONE SII* AND YOU'LL KNOW
CRAB ORCHARD is a genuine Kentucky Bourbon
naturally aged in charred oak and bottled straight
from the barrel.
ALASKA LIQUOR STORE
Opposite Telephone Oflice
ROUST AIRWAYS
MEMBER OF THE ALASKA AIR TRANSPORT
ASSOCIATION
When A on Travel, Fly in our New
And Comfortably Heated Cabin
Planes—For Rales, Any Place,
Any Time, Call The
ROUST AIRWAYS
BASES AT NOME AND CANDLE
and natural gas, through the medium of wells sunk in
the beginning a few feet in depth, this distance extend
ed until today drilling tools penetrate the earth a dist
ance approximating one and one-half miles. Such was
the beginning of a new form of national wealth, with
out which we would yet be little more than an agri
cultural and pastoral people, paying tribute to other
countries for each mineral item required.
Our mineral industry as expressed by years is
yet young, but tragically much of the reserves of our
most important minerals have been lost by the lack of
technological knowledge and failure to apply that which
existed. Waste, profligate waste, has occurred. It is
in order that further unnecessary waste may be stopped
that the mineral industry asks that Bureau of Mines
work be restored and even amplified to meet changing
and more complex conditions.
The Federal Coordinator asks for an adequate Bur
eau of Research for the betterment of our railroads. We
of the mineral industry seek—not something new—but
a restoration of what we once had.—Exchange
When you are served in a store by a clerk who really
seems interested in you and what you purchase, you are
pleased and go back again when you are in a buying mood.
It looks as if the small town investors are among the
forgotten men. Their submissiveness passes comprehen
sion.
New business buildings and residences are to a city
what new blood is to an emaciated person.
It is quite true that none of our leaders possess a magic
wand with which they can satisfy the needs and personal
desires of everybody.
Your town can be talked up as easily as it can be talked
down.
Lack of wisdom in taxation is most evident in the failure
to consider the effect upon the people from whom the mon
ey is taken.
A man's individual prosperity is dependent upon the
success of the industries of his community and they are
therefore deserving of his whole-hearted support and coop
eration.
We hear much about the right and left way. There is
an old Chinese saying: “In the middle way lies safety.”
A live city gets better and bbtter, while a dead city gets
deader and deader.
Human nature is pretty much the same everywhere. It
resents being driven in any way.
VOIR JOB PRINTING BUSINESS
Belongs In Nome Where It Can Be
Done Economically And With
The Highest Quality
HOUSE DRESSES AND SKIRTS
FOR WOMEN
SKIRTS FOR GIRLS
8—12 YEARS
ARRIVED BY PLANE
MILDREDS SHOPPE
NOme HArbor
Lighterage COmpanv
WE HAVE AN AMPLE SUPPLY
OF BEST GRADE
CHINESE ANTHRACITE
SHELL GASOLINE
DRY CLEANER
18 GRAVITY CRUDE OIL
KEROSENE AND GASOLINE
IN BULK AND CASES
NOHALICO
OFFICE ACROSS FROM WAREHOUSE
F’JFF introductory off
er FOR I W EEK ONLY
From Sot., Fob. 16th To Snt.. Fob. 21!rd Inclusive
TO INTRODUCE (>UR NEW
DELUXE PHOTOGRAPHIC
CABINET
WE WILL GIVE YOU FREE TWO COMPLETE
LY FINISHED PHOTOGRAPHS OF YOUR
SELF TO EVERY CUSTOMER MAKING A
CASH PURCHASE OF $1.00 OR MORE.
ITS NEW-ITS DIFFERENT
IN FIVE MINUTES YOU GET YOUR FINISH
ED PICTURE—NO DELAY—NO WAITING
NOME'S NEW AND MODERN DRUG STORE
PIONEER MUG CO.
MIROW AIR SERVICE
.Nome, Alaska.
Fast And Economical Passenger And Freight
Service To All Parts Of Alas':a
MINERS AND MERCHANTS B ANK
OF ALASKA
NOME, ALASKA.
Has established temporary quarters in
the former office of W. J. llowe Transfer, and is
carrying on its business as usual.
WE SOLICIT YOUR ACCOUNT
Northern Light & Power Co.
AND
Alaska Telephone & Telegraph Co.
Second Avenue and Lane’s Way
LIGHT, POWER AND ELECTRICAL SUPPLIES
LOCAL AND LONG DISTANCE TELEPHONE SERVICE
NOW IN SEATTLE IT S
4
HOTEL
MAYFLOWER
4th AT OLIVE
R. P. WARD, Manager
SAFETY SPEED
FLY WITH THE
NAT
MEMBER OF ALASKA AIR TRANSPORT
ASSOCIATION
Bases at Nome and Fairbanks
COURTESY COMFORT