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"To secure to each laborer the whole product of his labor, or as
•early as possible. Is a worthy object of any good government."—
Abraham Lincoln
Addr ss all Communications to Dally Nome Industrial Worker,
Dos 210 Nome, Alaska. Phone, Black 184.
Nome, Alaska. •famiaiy
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Tin activities of the many men j
who have set themselves out to re- 1
Teem Noun- from the slough or :
despond no doubt are entitled to j
credit, if they are intelligently j
condui ted.
\ survey of the present situation:
reveals ihe fart that Nome has
just now some considerable number
of business houses. In no line does
if lack a surfeit. How they all make
a living may be a mystery, but in
(hat they exist is proof enough
that they do. Certainly then, if we
look around the present industrial
prospect, we discover the very in*
teresting fact that there Is not
enough industrial activity going
on to keep a tithe of the business
houses supported.
Yet not only are these houses aide
to “make out", but such Nomeites
on the side have time for an abund
ance of pleasurt and dam-":', soci
al.,. ni.i.sk l'.n i s. carnivals and all
ofts of i tin- a ili: ' devil < * to
’speed Time' ring on pleasures
wa . " (as lIoL'.i.i >ay..' have been
happily devi.-ed and sueeossiully as
well.
Nome is now luting the profits of
the summer, or more correctly the
wages of the summer industry for it
is < ssentially a summer camp. Be
aus,. tlM^wns considerable mining
going on, and because some ol those
who mined and labored remained
in the camp, the gity is now annex
ing the wages by a slow process,
which slow as it is, keeps the camp
going.
In addition of course there is the
fort, there is also the federal wage
or -aiari d list, but important as
(lies ma; lie. they are insufficient to
Keep the highly commercialized or
ganism: n of tliis community go
ing. |i is the miner or Other
choi providi ,
, H ..t, din ■ ft; or indirectly to*!hat
end.
Consentient :\ we know that pro*
in*, , along any line which would
redound to the b nefit of Nome
business is to secure profitable em
ployment for those who live here,
and to develop if po • ibb r puid pro
<lUO ttmOBR the In 'll tit m
selves.
Speaking from a business point
of view, us this article is very
frankly, we have to say that when
tin commercial interests ot Nome
ar seeking fefi* the advent of fresh
capital to Hu '" fields, they might
.ludicious.y remember that unless
that is paid in proportlcn to the
local workers and ad Nome wages,
the camp is not going to benefit at
all.
More »vi r, it i a mr.r! anm ing
■i,I *;11 !i :.i i .,■ r bn ’Mi * ■ nil n
ion. •’
vi shipment year after year send
or i of gi for j ort onal
cor sanipt ion from mail order hou
...... Y*-ar u ter year the mail of
multitudinous Nome business men
clogged with mail ord r catalogs
from tin • houses frotu which they
have incident'!llj be.-n supplied, and
it is an irtspirng fe. ling to get a bill
from a Nome businics house that
for 1 devi 1< pm< 11 a nd
op-builditig of ! < al prosperity,
ivhii'h lu . 1" on printed a id w dollars
cheaper in some outside printing
o!l'n ■!
There an many firms which
send outside for their printing and
they rejoice at this excellent stroke
nf business. Tin re arc many dry
goods and wet goods emporiums
which get their groceries and so
forth in from outside hous s. Yet
further there are grocers who have
outside mail order goods shipped
in by the packing case. This is
Nome, us it is, without boosting
and as the truth has it.
Now the advent of Nomeites into
the field for outside capital to come
and to exploit the riches of this
locality may he excellent. But what
outside capital does come
in should, if it is to bene
fit this community. not be j
used for the purpose of reducing i
ivages and creating an Alaskan j
peonism.
As far as we see it, we see no
reason why the workers themselves [
who have to live and mine here, who j
receive no attention and get no j
work in the summer time, should
not protect themselves as they talk
of protecting themselves for the
winter. And if it is profitable for j
business men to make it a prac- !
tice to patronize outside houses for !
everything they want outside their
own ' particular line, they tire cer
tainly driving to such a condition
when there will be only one com
pany store here or there will be a
co-operative store, neither of which
they will regard as very pleasant
possibilities.
The Industrial Worker does not
depreciate in any way the fact that ^
there arc gn at resources in this j
section of Alaska. There is quite a
lot of drivel spoken and written
upon the subject, but there is a ker
nel of fact in it all. Now what the
Worker would point out is that
there lias never been any serious
attempt mad" to rid the camp of
wild cat promoters. The dredging
companies and others which have
beaten workers out of a season's
wages tire legion. Vet they came
here with a flourish of trumpets j
and under salvos they started into
dig. More dredges have failed than
succeeded because many dredges
were simply wild cal companies
rather than anything else.
Some years ago the town went
into hysterical celebration of the
, rrivnl of a customs stamp mill
wln rc th(‘ poor prospector could get
his ore ground and tested. We
draw a veil over its present where
abouts and the pathetic -innocuous
desuetude’ into which it lias been
abandoned.
Capital may be going about like a
roaring lion seeking what it may
devour, but capital is not swimming
around like a sucker looking for a
bait to swallow. Vet that ingenuous
i notion seems to obtain in some
quarters that till that they have to
do is whistle, twirl thumbs and the
' golden shower falls into the wait
I ing poke.
How many business men will go
down in their jeans and with hard
■ ash keep prospectors in grub
j stakes while they seek to develop a
I likely property. There are some
1 hut they are. in this fair city of
homes, mighty few.
Titer.- is lots of low grade ground
around Nome. Lots of it, and. the
only pintt apparently suggests itself
I I<) !)| exploiters is to lower wages
. ml to work the profits out of the
■ hid - of labor. Hut, try as they may,
sc;, still cannot make .t stick, and
, Ilio question arises what are yon
: going to do about it? The time is
i last coming when the prospector
..ill have tliis camp. lie lias to.
Hi lias In .11 a very decent kind of a
fellow. He has put what he (anted
into coal and grub and groceries
and supplies of one sort or another
a ad hi- dump was at the disposal of
tin merchants in the spring. Labor
has lai n reduced to the very limit.
The same pay is now being given
as was . iven when prices were sixty
per cent less in Nome titan they are
today. The pun basing power of
wages lias fallen by that amount,
and the actual value of Hie day’s
pay is therefore that much less. So
labor lias reached bed rock, and as
far as exploiting the low grade
ground by that means, you are up
against it. It is true that now and
then a poor shrivelled-minded scab
herder may take advantage of some
starved out black jacl; or booze fiend
and set him to work for his hoard.
Ilut industry and tlie camp cannot
he maintained that way, at least not
for any length of time,
i You have to consider other costs
1 of operations: fuel and supplies
ind the like and see what can be
lone.
As it is now every fall sees a eer
:ain number of men with a summer’s
stake in their pockets. Some of them
stay in, but most go outside. Why
should they stay? What induce
ments has Ihe camp to offer? They
will be without work, or if they
work themselves what they have got
usually goes to pay for supplies.
Moreover, by staying here, it is dol
lars to dough nuts they will get no
work in the spring and they go out
to get their jobs in Nome!
That is what they are up against
and they know that SI Is a condition
has been helped along by the busi
ness men locally’ themselves.
Talk about capital coming here.
Look at the output of this camp in
globular millions. Where does
that go? It certainly slips through
the fingers of the commercial orga
nization if this community, try they
ever so hard. They pay tribute to
outside capital always, and at ail
times, and in all lines. We all know
that and knowing it. why shouldn’t
there be a reasonable effort made to
hold a larger portion of that here.
I Vi I ' II wov
inis, iraiiKiy is wmicn
businessmen who are threatening
themselves \vitii rupture of the larg
er intestine in an effort to boost old
N'ome. Nome can stand a whole
lot of that, but it can stand a lot
of it at home without trying to sap
its slender enough vitality with the
advice similar to that which the
farmer in the winter gave his horse
“Live horse, and you will get grass”.
Charity and boosting and a lot of
other things can appropriately be
gi, at home, and before we think
so much about spreading our ef
forts afar and afield, may be, it
might tie wisdom to concentrate
some fleeting attention right here.
We repeat this is not meant in
knocking the camp. Nome has re
sources, but they are resources
which admit of development only
with intelligence and local effort
just as much as outside capital.
The fishing industry has a great
future. Many poor men with
knowledge and brains have entered
tin field; how many of them lo
cally received help. How many
have aided Ren Nygren and his
partner in the white whale fishing
industry and regarded it as anything
else but a freak venture? How
many have grasped the work of the
herring industry and did anything
else but throw obstacles in the
path of the hardy men who ventured
their wages in that field?
In mining the prospector has had
the same experience. Men with good
propositions to open have had
trouble with a grubstake. That
should not be the case but it is
and more than all. the man that
sourdoughs it in Nome is likely to
sit on his haunches in the summer
for the job that never comes. The
chechaco hired for lower pay in
Seattle gets it. And as Mr. Dooley
says, “there y'are”.
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NOTICE OK APPLICATION KOR
PATENT.
; In the United States Land Office at
! Nome, Alaska, December 1G, 191G.
_
Notice is hereby given, that Isaac
L. Osgood, Estate (Heirs, Cora and
; Elmer Osgood and Mrs. Mamie Os
good) By w. P. Bell and Seattl.
National Bank, Trustees and Floyd
W. Osgood, By Fred. R. Cowden j
their Attorney in Fact, whose Post {
Office address is Nome, Alaska, and J
on behalf of Co-Owner Ellis E. j
Powell, has made application before G
the United States Land Office at §
Nome, Alaska, for a United States I
Patent for Discovery Claim and No. 2
1 Above Discovery on Lake Creek |
in the Cape Nome Recording Dis- |
trict, Alaska, being Mineral Survey £
No. 1175, said claims being more t
particularly described in the field [
notes and plat of the official survey $
thereof now on file in said Land j)
Office at Nome, Alaska, as follows, jl
to-wit: 5
DISCOVERY CLAIM.
Beginning at Cor. 1 identical with S
S. W. Loc. Cor. with Cor. 4 of No. jj
2 below on Saturday Creek, Sur. 3
G95, a fir post 4 ins. sq. 2 ft. above 5
ground in earth mond scribed 1-747, n
4-095, 1-1175, D. U. S. L. M. No.
11 bears S. 14 deg. 05 mill. E. ;
4110.0 ft. thence N. 20 deg. 10 min. (
\V. Var. 19 deg. 00 min. E. 005.00 ]
ft. to Cor. No. 2; thence N. 9 deg. j
I 57 mill. E. Var. 19 deg. 15 mill. E. j
1209.40 ft. to Cor. No. 3; thence N. j
CO (leg. 45 nun. E. \ ar. la cieg. iu
min. E. 670.00 ft. to Cor. No. 4;
thence S. 3 deg. 2S min. E. Var.
19 deg. 15 min. E. 317.40 ft. to
Cor. No. 5; thence S. G4 deg. 4 3
min. W. Var. 19 deg. 15 min. E.
386.SO ft. to Cor. No. 6; thence S.
45 deg. 53 min. W. Var. 19 deg. 25
min. E. 273.SO ft.; thence S. 13
deg. 25 min. E. Var. 19 deg. 05 min. j
E. 400.SO ft. to place of begining, ]
containing 5.90S acres.
NO. ONE ABOVE DISCOVERY. _
Beginning at ('or. No. 1 identical
with loc. cor. on line 1-6 of Sur. No.
7 47 No. 1 Above Discovery on
Wonder Creek and with Cor. No. 2
Discovery claim this survey, previ
ously "described, U. S. L. M. No. 11
bears S. 14 deg. 57 min. E. 4771.60
ft.; thence N. 20 deg. 16 min. W.
Var. 19 deg. 15 min. E. 960.50 ft
to Cor. No. 2; thence S. 4 8 deg. 26
min. W. Var. 19 deg. 15 min. E.
225.20 ft. to Cor. No. 3; thence N.
31 deg. 20 min. E. Var. 19 deg. 00
min. E. 2G9.40 ft. to Cor. No. 4;
thence S. 36 deg. 42 min. E \ ar. 19
dig. 10 min. E. 647.00 ft. to Cor No.
5; thence S. 31 deg. 00 min. E.
Var. 19 deg. 30 mill. E. 12 40.00 ft.
to Cor. No. 6; thence S. 69 deg. 45
min. W. Var. 19 deg. 15 min. E.
670.00 ft. to Cor. No. 7; thence S.
9 deg. 57 min. W. Var. 19 deg. 10
min. E. 209.4 0 ft. to place of be
ginning, containing 16.656 acres.
Said claims are situated on un
surveyed ground on Lake Creek
about 4.5 miles north of the Town
of Nome, in the Cape Nome Record
ing District, Alaska.
U. S. Location Monument No. 11
to which said claims are tied, is a
fir post 6 ins. sq. 5 ft. above ground
in stone mound 3 ft. high 6 ft. base
I scribed U. S. L. M. No. 11, is situat
! ed about 2.75 miles Northeasterly
1 from mouth of Snake River and
I about 7 0 ft. east of the Bessie road.
; Is in Latitude 64 deg. 32 min. North
Longitude 165 deg. 22 min. West.
Original locations recorded in Vol.
{ 09 Page 4 45 and 16 Page 116 and
Amended locations recorded in Voi.
1165 Page 225 and Vol. 199 Page
) S5, Records of Cape Nome llecord
: ing District, Alaska.
! The adjoining claims are: On the
North No. 2 Above on Lake Creek,
Survey No. 698 and Gold Bug Claim
Survey No. 434; on the East un
surveyed; on the South No. 1
Below on Saturday Creek Sur. No.
| 1117 and No. 2 Below on Saturday
("reek, Sur. No. 695; on the West,
j No. 1 Above on Wonder Creek Sur.
J No. 747. There are no conflicting
| claims.
G. A. ADAMS.
Itegister.
i Date of first publ., Dec. 20, 1916.
j Date of last publ.. Feb. 21, 1917.
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HOT TAMALES
The Rose Candy Store And
Arctic Bakery
Commencing .Monday, Jan. 22, we will have a guessing
contest. (Juess liow many Candies the jar ocntain and win a
pretty leather sewing box filled with Chocolates.
One guess for everybody. Closes Jan. 31st at 12 P. M.
GOAL
for the
COMMERCIAL CONGRESS
Jan. 20th, 1917.
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MACKINAWS, -OIIEGOX CITY MILLS. PANTS.. HEAVY WOOL
MIDLICOTT UNDERWEAR.
SWEATERS, LIGHT OR HEAVY.
FUR ROBES
PARKAS, MITTS, GLOVES & CAPS.
MURPHY HAS THE GOODS
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Mens Women’s Children’s
Since tlie opening of N'n\ igation we have rec ylved 3270 pairs
of SHOES and IClliliKH FOOTWEAR. Every boat brings more.
“There is a reason”. Our prices are right and our business lias
been built by satisfactory service to our patrons.
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