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VOL. 38 - No. 187 NOME. ALASKA. TUESDAY JUNE 15, 1937. Per Copy lOcts
Pacific Coast Unions Are Voting
SOVIET FLIER RETURNED MOSCOW TODAY
Bill Proposes Deep Sea Harbor 26 Miles W. Nome
ROPER ADDRESSES AP MEETING
Secretary oi Commerce uan.ei C. Koper tngut/, «vuo u.< . .
members of The Associated Press at their annual lunclieou. i
shown at the meeting with Frank U. Noyes, publisher ol Tin
Washington Star and president of The Associated Press.
TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, June 15, — The policy of disclos
ing the names of alleged tax dodgers received the whole
hearted approval of Chairman Harrison of the senate
and chairman Dou^hton of the house, today.
“Why not let the country know,” asked Harrison.
Morgenthau will probably be the first witness before
the joint committee tomorrow, it was made known.
MOSCOW, June 15, — Chief Pilot F. B. Fahrig
eturned here today completing the first winter flight
over the entire trans-Arctic route, almost to Alaska.
He left Moscow February 9lh with a crew of five
and three passengers, in a huge plane, and flew nearly
fifteen thousand miles.
The object of the flight was to test the plane un
der severe weather conditions, and to inspect winter
settlements in the Arctic regions. While on the flight
he delivered mail and supplies to countless villages.
Wed In Fairbanks
Mr. and Mrs. John Cross today
announced their marriage, after
it had been kept semi-secret for
the past week. The announcement
of their wedding came as they
were preparing to get into a plane
bound for a round trip to Fortuna
Ledge on the Yukon River. The
plane is expected to return this
evening.
Mrs. Cross is the former Mrs.
Bess Chamberlin, associated with
Boris Magids in the trading store
business in Kotzebue Sound dis
trict. John Cross is pilot for the
Wien Alaska Airlines, based out
of Nome. They departed in the
WAA pontoon plane this morning
for Marshall with Pilot Cross at
the controls.
Their marriage took place at
Fairbanks, available reports de
clared, June 7th. On June 8th
they returned to Nome and Mrs.
Cross immediatley went north to
Deering to take care of business.
Mr. Cross has been busy flying
out of Nopie since then, and at
4 a.m. he returned from a flight
to the-north with his bride.
Battleship Stuck
(By The Associated Press)
SAN FRANCISCO, June 13—
The battleship Tennessee remain
ed fast aground on the Alameda
mudflats last night despite the
efforts of eleven tugs and coast
guard cutters to free her. The
warship drifted aground shortly
after dropping anchor in Man-O
War Row. The shoal is covered
by thirty feet of water at high
tide but the Tennessee draws 32
feet. Renewed attempts to free
I her will be made again at the
next high tide.
Thirty-eight years have gone by
since gold was first discovered in
paying quantities in and around
Nome, many mi lions of dollars
in gold bullion has been taken
from the bowels of mother earth,
more millions are being extracted
each and every year, and more
millions will continue to be min
ed as each succeeding year comes
around—yet only the richest if
the pay-streaks have really be.--n
mined
I Every year somebody invent^
some-new contraption that dobs
away with obsolete mechanical
or hand methods ot operation &
I as a result, modern machinery is
i installed that makes not only
more profits. but makes it possi
ble in this day- and age to work
gold bearing ground that a few
years ago was considered too low
grade to be mined at a profit.
To one who has watched the
1 mining of gold in its different
‘stages throughout these 37 years,
on the Seward Peninsula, from
the days of the pick and shovel
methods to the present modern
way, with modern equipment,
one cannot disbelieve the state
; ment made some 30 years ago by
that famed and well known geo
logist, Alfred H. Brooks, now de
} ceased, when he went on record
j as saying that the Seward Pen
: insula was one of the world’s
| greatest alluvial gold deposits
j known of, and that the tundra
iand low lands from the beach of
| Bering Sea from Cape Nome to |
I Cape Rodney and back to the
i foot hills, would someday be
■ mined by modern machinery and
| more modern equipment, still to'
be invented, which will make it
possible to work even lower grade}
values.
Rich and Valuable Minerals 26
Miles West of Nome
And yet, after all these years
of mining there lies dormant,
within 27 miles of Nome, to the
westward, what is known as the
Sinrock River area, rich, not onlyj
in gold, but copper, lead cinnabar
and iron ore and coal'—awaiting
roads, a harbor, and other means
of transportation to make it.pos
sible to mine and operate these
metals at a fair profit.
Cheaper Transportation Needed
Peter Esch, well known mining
man in, an interview with the
Nome Nugget, upon his arrival
i here from the States on the first
.-•.earner, after a winter spent in
. n the outside, it is-learned, that
before gold was struck at Nome,
.. small band of prospectors land
ed at the mouth of Sin rock River
n y 2t> miles from Nome, and
discovered gold near its mouth,
finally they went upstream and
found more gold, also other well
known metals such as lead, cop
per. coal and iron ore, but they
became discouraged in their ef
forts to develop that section clue
itc the high cost of trarumaftirnoii,
‘which cost $125.60 per K<m
supplies landed 10 miles inland,
and still today, the cost would be
practically the same because that
area has never had any roads
built to help the prospector de
velop the mines.
Four or five miles buck from
the beach there is likely dredging
property of vast area. Gold min
ing has been done to some ex
tent by the pick and shovel met
hod as far back as 15 miles in a
de^liltry manner.
There is Irish Hill, some 8 or 9
miles from the beach, where in
the early days an old channel or
payatreak was discovered, ex
tending some 400 or 500 feet ab- j
ove sea level, rich in gold depos:!
its from the grass roots down to'
a known depth of 90 feet. Num
erous shafts were sunk on this
channel which is all thawed!
ground, and was considered in j
those days of tremendous high
costs of transportation, to be a
tremendous -hydraulic proposi- j
tion. Nome mining men who
were interested in its develop-'
ment caused a survey to be made
for the construction of a big ditch
to bring water from Stewart riv- j
er to mine the ground, but due
to the excessive cost of construe-!
tion of the long ditch by the old
and crude methods used in those |
days, the project was abandoned,
and nothing has been done since |
to open this valuable piece of1
thawed ground, but lies dormant
awaiting modern transportation
and equipment.
Mr. Esch further states, that:
about 12 miles from the beach of
!
Bering Sea, there is a field of j
iron ore, in one place it is expos-:
ed 250 feet in depth by 600 feet j
in width, and has been traced j
over an area 10 miles wide by 25'
miles long. This particular iron
ore is known as “hemetite”, the1
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CALL ATTENTION TO SPRING FESTIVAL
This group of pretty Japanese girls are shown with a floral chaj
aeter. sv in fool for tiie word "Ham" meaning springtime, which they
used to call attention to a Japanese festival which was held in Los*
Angeles. Left to right: Misao Makiba, Migiwa tVaki. Yoshiko An
matsu. Sliexue Kunno and Emiko Y'amada.
Maritime Federation Pacific* Voting on
Question Bolting From A. F. of L.
(By The Associated Press)
PORTLAND, .Tune 15, —The Maritime Federation
of the Pacific, with forty thousand affiliated members,
today joined the parade of West Coast labor organi
zations holding rank and file elections on the question
of deserting the American Federation of Labor for the
Committee for Industrial Organization.
A resolution passed the convention which declar
ed that member unions ‘‘must definitely move to sup
port in every possible way, the policies and program of
the C. I. O., even to the point of direct affiliation. ’
Previously the Pacific branch of the International
Longshoremen’s Association ordered an independent
referendum of its twenty thousand workers. The Sail
ors Union of the Pacific conducted a ballot of its mem
bership which endorsed the proposed bolt from the
American Federation of Labor.
The Northwest Federation of Woodworkers, with
one hundred thousand members, is holding a similar
election.
AUGUST, Ga., June 15, —Colonel E. L. Chamber?
Sr., Director of the Police Department, today denied
demands for the enforcement of Georgia’s Bone Dry
Laws, when he declared that licensed whiskey will be
sold here “as long as I have anything to do with it. It
will merely be a liquor question of whether it is legal or
bootleg.”
LOS ANGELES, June 15, — Elaine Barrymore,
John Barrymore’s ex-wife, was ordered to show cause
why she shouldn’t be restrained from appearing in a
movie entitled “How to Undress in Front of Your Hus
band”.
The plaintiff, whose name was unknown, alleged
that the title was copyrighted. Barrymore, although not
involved, said he could not understand why Elaine
should bill herself under his name, using Elaine Barry
more. • /