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Nome, Alaska, May 2(i, 1»17.
TI1K OUTLOOK.
With the approach of the opening
of navigation, most people here be
gin to take a survey of the situa
tion. That is generaly taken from
a business point of view and a good
many are taking what ntay be term
ed a pessimistic view of things.
It has to be admitted that so un
certain lias the war made things
that it is very difficult to forecast
what will happen.
It is extremely likely that money
will be “tight-’ as far as outside
capital is concerned, because of the
demand for it in other lines which
»tre very profitable just now. On
the other hand as profits are to be
highly taxed it is quite possible
that some may desire to invest in
undertakings which presently
may not prove remunerative
but later on may be worth a
whole lot. That there are
such ventures to be floated in title
section this coming summer is not
known. with the exception of the
power project in the Sawtooth with
which Stone et al, have been con
nected.
As far as actual mining is con
cerned it is difficult to foretell any
thing. Given lots of water and a
rail y season there will be no de
■crease in thej productivity of yellow
metal minesTBut the season here !e
more or less‘;of a gamble any way
and too uncertain a factor to con
sider.
Fewer new dredges are likely to
be built, but those which will be
will be of somewhat larger capacity
than those of other years.
There is no doubt hut that there
will be considerable independenl
mining on a variety of creeks, but
this will not be very important and
as few wage workers will be em
ployed, there will be no appreciable
effect as far as f.jbis is concerned on
local conditions.
The possibility that the Snake
"River harbor will be built this sum
mer is not so remote. Hut govern
ment work is always slow in mate
rializing and it is not to be wond
ered if the preliminary surveys art
alone effected this season, even il
the harbor is approved by Congress
and the necessary appropriation
made.
Whether there will be any money
forthcoming for the Alaska Road
Commission it is impossible to say
a3 yet. The usual appropriation hav
ing been eliminated in the previ
ous sessions, and *as this session is
devoting itself more or less ex
clusively to war measures, there
may be none.
But this will be somewhat set oft
by the' territorial appropriations
available for the Divisional Road
Commission, approximately fifty
Thousand dollars. Relatively a
small amount will probably be spent
in the immediate neighborhood of
Nome, the outlying camps which
arc practically roadless, notwith
standing their growing importance,
receiving attention.
Tlie growth of Dime is to he a
great help to Nome and as the
growth of the Kovuk country is as
sured, there is no doubt that it will
take considerable supplies from
Nome upon the opening of naviga
tion as swell as throughout the open
season.
As far as Marshal is concerned
little is likely to come of it. By a)1
accounts the camp is to peter out
this summer unless something addi
tional to Willow creek is found and
In any event Nome merchants
showed so little enterprise ih
spreading out to Marshal that other
centers will get almost all the bus
iness.
Nome business men have chased
many wllF. o‘ the wisps while they
have passed over many opportuni
ties. Even yet they seem to fail to
realize that while Nome as a placer
mining camp is so ricketty as to
heed powerful stimulation In the
form of new and rich discoveries,
Nome as a distributing point is now
advancing to heightened oportun
ites.
With the development of the
Koyuk, a liberal policy upon the
part of the Nome merchants and a
policy directed towards the over
coming of tlie obstacles with which
such youthful camps have to con
tend against, tlie town of Nome
ought literally to radiate trade with
| all such young camps and be the
i great distributing center for tl\
Seward Peninsula.
Passing from this survey whirl
may not be regarded as very cheer'
ing, but which is not without cm
siderahle hope for the future, w<
may turn to a consideration of tin
labor situation.
The well being of labor in Xonn
as elsewhere is the bed rock upot
which all others fasten and fount
' their 'prosperity. With good wages
good living conditions and assurer
employment no person ever ye
failed to witness general good time
all around. But where labor i:
poorly requited and where lUini
conditions are poor and when
everyone is trying to make labo
the goat for their own get-awa:
stake, the camp is bound to be 01
the high road to disaster.
This season it is frankly ver;
hard to tell what the summer wP
be for labor. In the first place lit
war has complicated matters an*
one does not know whether the In
flux of labor here will be too muc
or too little. It is very hard to con
ceive that too few would come u
here, because so limited is the fiel
<
now open to wage workers the
there are enough on hand at 111
present writing to perform atrio;
all the work projected.
On the other hand the draft la'
j may encourage men to leave Oil
side states as they left the Suite
! for Canada to escape conscript'd
| If such did suppose that they ca
come up here to escape the draft :
I is extremely likely that they woul
; not get away with it. A man ca
lose himself in a big city and
! thicaly populated settlement j!u
I the man of military age who woul
| come to Alaska to ' Void the Ural
would be like a man leaving
trench to run across an open plai
to avoid being shot at. He get
right within the r,ange of visio
and is certain to be taken up.
It is likely then that the worker
who would escape being drafted ar
well aware of this and hence wil
avoid Alaska. But in any case till
is likely to have very little at al
to do with the number who will o
who will not come here.
The really important factor in th
labor situation is the point tha
men are now in higher demand am
| are actually paid more highly tha
; in ten years outside. Like stay in,
j here, coming up here upon the par
| of the working men is more or les
j a risky speculation. They may ge
work and they may not. The;
i may put in a full season and the;
j may not. They may he out thel
j trip money and not even make tra
j veiling and living expenses or the;
may make a fairly reasonable stak
during the short summer season
But the fact that outside they ar<
certain of lots of work: that outsld
they are certain of getting bette
wages than in ten years will mos
certainly deter quite a good male
of those others who come up her*
annually without a job certainly li
sight for them, from visitini
Nome.
Every year now for a good man;
years there has been a good dea
less employment. This is true of th
summer as well as the winter. Th'
opportunities for work which weri
ahead of a working man in this sec
tion years ago are not here now.
Kor that reason the men who havi
jobs outside and for which they an
being paid wages approxitr.atinj
some sort of satisfatory scale, wil
hardly be likely to break their necks
to come up here.
This is likely to result in no ef
fort being made even among the
worst employers to cut the wage
scale for if they did, there would be
difficulty in getting men to accept
it, for in the last analysis the real
reason why most men accept a lower
scale is because they can get no
wrork under any other conditions.
The worst thing that could hap
pen Nome would be a large numbei
of men who could get no work.
Conversely the best thing that could
happen Nome would be that every
man who is here could get work
at the standard wages and that
there would be no exces3 on the
labor market to he used as so often
they have been used to smash
wages.
Tn any event the workers can
and must look after themselves by
organization so that no matter what
may ultimately eventuate they may
be properly prepared.
On the whole this ought not to be
a bad summer. Miners will discover
that operations which are extensive
enough are planned in different
sections. A good deal of the sur
plus labor, as at present, will be
taken by the Koyuk. The Koyuk
fields are now in their infancy. Re
garded with little favor by geolog
ists. neglected by the average grub
stake prospector, these fields are be
ing opened up by the practical
working miner of Nome in other
days.
The Koyuk, the Tibuktilik and
that auriferous belt where the
colors are so plentiful and which
have just been skimmed by careless
prospecting will in a short time
come to the fore. Quartz mining
may develop under the increased
demand for certain ores. Nome is
in the gold belt, the trapping belt
and the trading belt. It ought to
obtain recognition as the trade
center for supplies and it will it
: Nome businessmen will take the
opportunities which are proferred
to them.
It is true that sitting here, Nome
: businessmen have been figuring that
they are working for the banks,
1 instead of having the banks work
! for them. They watched the bus
' iness of this camp grow smaller
■ by degrees and beautifully less, and
' all that they say to themselves is
that “the dam camp is dead’’. It’s
1 not very live surely, but that is be
cause in many way-s its business
’ men lacked vigor and vitality tliem
1 i selves.
The future is not very bright
may be, but its not by any means
as black as some disheartened ones
would paint it.
CITY BATH HOUSE
has the largest
and only 0 feet
Bath Tubs In Nome.
FEDERATED CHURCH.
At the Congregational Churcfc
Sunday the following services will
be held. Rev. John Parsons, pastor
11 A. M. Bible School ana j
childrens service. R. B. Julian,!
superintendent.
7 P. M. Christian Endeavor.
8 P. M. Worship and Sermon bf
Dr. John Parsons. Subject:
“The Soldierly Life,” a message for
Memorial Sunday.
By request the choir will repeat
Kipling’s “Recessional”, and other
special music given.
The public is more than welcomt
to all the services of the church.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
To John Reddin and John Moriarity
their heirs, executors, assigns
or personal representatives:
You and each of you are here- !
by notified that I have expended in j
labor and improvements the sum ot j
one hundred dollars each year for ]
the years of 1915 and 1916 on
Bessie Group, 60 acres off North
Home claim, 2nd Tier on left limit
Candle creek and more fully de
scribed in the records of the Fair
haven Mining and Recording Dis
trict, Second Division, Territory of
Alaska.
The above amount has been ex
pended under the provisions of the
law concerning annual labor upon
mining claims, being the amount
required to hold said claim.
And you and each of you are
further notified that if you fail to
contribute your proportion of said
expenditure within ninety days after
the last publication of this notice,
your interest in said claim will be
come the property of the under
signed, your co-owner, under sec
tion 2324 Revised Statutes of the
United States.
JOHN A. MURPHY.
Co-Owner.
Dnle of first publ., April 14, 1917.
Date of last publ., July 14, 1917.'
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