Airplane News
Nome Airport
Pilot Hall of the Mirow Air
Service arrived at Nome last ev
ening from Anchorage with Mr
and Mrs. Lundquist as passen
gers and freight. It is under
stood Mr. Lundquist is associat
ed with Mr Peterman in the con
struction of the new Nome school
building which is to be erected
here this summer.
Pilot Hans Mirow of the Mirow
Air Service hopped off today for
Candle, Kotzebue and Noorvik.
Ted Cremer and one other were
passengers to Candle, and Mrs.
Marguerite Burhker was a pass
enger to Kotzebue to assume the
duties of nurse in the Kotzebue
hospital.
Pilot Walt Hall of the Mirow
Air Service hopped off today for
Golovin and Koyuk. Passengers
to Golovin were Joe Dexter and
Mrs. Flora Anderson and baby. A
passenger will return from Koy
uk.
Pilot Hall is then scheduled to
hop off at 4 a.m. tomorrow for '
Flat with Thos. D. Jensen and El
mer Anderson for Anchorage..
—
Pilot Jack Hermann of the
Northern Air Transport made a
flight today to Shelton, picked up
two passengers there and land
ed them at Good Hope. Mr.
Baker was a passenger to Good
Hope also. The plane continued
on to Candle and Kotzebue and
was due to return tonight to
Nome.
Pilot Dan Richardson, flying a
Fairchild plane for Percy A Rob
bin, of the Arctic Exploration
Company at Candle, landed at the
Nome airport from Candle this
morning, and will transact busi
ness here before returning to
Candle.
American Tin To
Extend Workings
American Tin Fields Inc.,
which carried on mining opera
tions on Cape Creek, near Tin
City last summer, are planning
on extending their operations
with additional equipment and a
twenty-four hour shift at their
tin mines there during this seas
on. say late arrivals from the out
side.
Completing a successful tin
mining season a year ago, Am
erican Tin expects to take out
about 300 tons of tin this year,
it was stated. During the past
couple of years, interest in tin
deposits on the North American
continent has been greatly in
creased. Here, at Cape Prince
of Wales, are found rich deposits
of tin and, informants declare,
tin mining operations in that
section will receive their greatest
impetus of recent years.
Lucas Bros. Will
Work Iron Creek
The Lucas Bros, who have op
erated from time to time in the
Iron Creek section, and who are
aboard the S S Victoria of the
Alaska Line, now bound for this
mining camp, are understood to
be taking a hydraulic outfit into i
the Iron Creek section this spring
and will carry on operations
there during the balance of the
summer.
ALASKA STEAMSHIP
COMPANY
BERING SEA ROUTE
1936 SAILING SCHEDULE
Leave Seattle
S S LATOUCH (Nome Only) May 27
S S VICTORIA June 3
S S TANANA June 3
S S BALDWIN (Teller & Kotzebue Sound) June 10
S S DELLWOOD July 1
S S DERBLAY Aug. 12
S S DELLWOOD Sept. 9
SS VICTORIA Oct. 7
NOTE: All sailings subject to change
without notice. For complete details,
see Agent. Room 1 at the Nevada.
JOE HARNISH, Agent
!
LOCAL ITEMS
The Nome Motor Company re
ported the sale of two Chevro
let pickup trucks and one cano
pe-express. The pickups were
purchased by the Hammon Com
pany and the canope express by
the Mirow Air Service. They also
made it known that several new
cars are to be shipped in to
Nome buyers this summer.
Late arrivals from the States
by plane tell of plans of Bill Al
len, associated several years ago
with high-line operations in the
Nome district, commercially, of
installing a hydraulic plant at
Swede Creek in the Bluff section,
and of extensive operations this
summer. He and his associates
are expected in Nome on the fir
st boats.
Gordon C. Smith and wife who
are passengers aboard the S. S.
Victoria will be associated with
the life at Nome, it was learn
ed today. It is understood Mr.
Smith will relieve Victor Page
of the Nome radio station of the
U. S Signal Corps, and Mr Page
in turn will relieve Leon F Har
per, as Officer in Charge at Nome
Mr Harper being transferred to
the Seattle office.
Gravel trucks completed last
night and today, the hauling of
dirt to certain sections of the site
for the new school building.
The trucks were then put to !
work filling in with dirt, the lots
on D Street and second avenue,
for which plans have been made
by the Office of Indian Affairs,
to install playground equipment
thereon.
Mrs. Charles Code assisted by
Mrs. John Cornwall are hostesses
to the Ladies Aid of the Federat
ed Church, Friday, June 5, at 2
PM., at the home of Mrs. Code.
All women interested in the
work of the church are most
cordially invited.
The Boats WiB
Soon Be Here !
LET US TAKE CARE
OF YOUR TRANS
PORTATION PROB
LEMS.
Help Build Your Community
By Patronizing An Established
Business.
NOME
MOTOR CO.
LOMEN COMMERCIAL CO.
LIGHTERAGE
AND TOWING
LOCAL AND COASTWISE
LOMEN COMMERCIAL CO.
Cutter Northland
150 Miles North
Dutch Har. 2 A.M.
The U. S. Weather Bureau Offi
ce at Nome. Alaska, received the
location and weather data of the
U. S. C. G. Northland at 2 a.m.
today; position: 55 degrees, 48
minutes N latitude, and 166 de
grees and 10 minutes W Longi
tude (approximately 150 miles
north of Dutch Harbor). Its
weather was: cloudy overhead,
foggy. temperature 46 above,
wind direction south, velocity 6
miles an hour.
Probable arrival time at Nome,
it was said here, might be eith
er Saturday or Sunday.
Weather Today
(U. S. Weather Bureau)
Airways conditions at 11 a.m.
were as follows:
High barometric pressure ov- ]
erlies northwestern Alaska and ,
extends eastward to the Yukon ,
Territory. The highest readings
are observed at Nome and Kot
zebue Alaska. This condition is
attended by generally fair skies.
Temperatures are somewhat ab
ove the seasonal average in west
ern and central Alaska and near
normal elsewhere. Low baro
metric pressure continues south
of the Aleutian Islands.
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