Baily Name Industrial Morken
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SO, Nome Mine Workers’ Union. No. 240. Western Federation of Miners
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Entered as second class matter March 1, 1911, a, the post oBlce at
Home, Alaska, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
Nome. Alaska. December 24, 1915.
The lack of employment in this
camp during almost two-thirds ol
tho year finds itself reflected in bus
iness circles Business depends al
most entirely on the pay roll a3
businessmen are willing enough to
admit when the pay roll has become
a vanishing or vanished quantity.
And even now when the mining
activity that does proceed is de
pendent upon the prospecting which
former wage workers are carrying
on. no less does the well being of
the camp depend upon the then who
stay with the country winter and
summer being employed when em
ployment is to be offered.
It may well occur then to those
who are ostentatiously or otherwise
interested in the camps develop
ment, to reconsider that line along
which they have been so ardently
travelling.
Can any form of development
which takes stock only of three or
four months activity, and discards
the activity possible during the
other seven or eight months of win
ter, be really considered beneficial
even to the business man? It is
quite clear that this Seward Penin
sula, if its resources are so inex
haustible as is claimed, should be
developed along lines which would
assure a permanent population gen
eral employment.
Now no such thing is the case,
and as far as the Industrial Worker
is concerned we have never been
able to observe that the business
men have troubled very much
whether such a year-round develop
ment has ever been possible and if
so whether it would not be well to
strive aiong those lines.
And right here we may say that
this camp's welfare depends upon
first of all the workers living here
being employed at remunerative
wages summer or winter, and while
it is admitted that work has fallen
otf to a practical zero during the
winter time, the only way in which
•conditions can he restored is by em
ploying those who live in Alaska,
first of all. all the year round.
In almost, all activities during the
sunnier, nevertheless, we see the
mining companies give preference
to those who go outside in the fall
aud return in the summer with the
first or second li.c'. Xo ctocU is
taken of the fact that in -Nome and
in Seward Peninsula are numbers
of men equally capable and equally
efficient who are looking for work
and cannot find it. Wo find Nome
merchants and Seward Peninsula
business men aiding those who stay
here in no way to obtain preferen
tial employment, but we do know
many business men rustling up help
from the chechacoes who will re
turn outside with their wad, and
very wisely we have to say, to the
warmer and more equable climates
outside.
Moreover, this condition has tend
ed to drive many workers to adopt
the custom of coming and going
each spring and each fall for they
were not long realising that in this
way, they were surer of employ
ment.
Winter is the best time here for
prospecting. At any rate whether If
is or not, practically all the discov
cries that resulted in permanent
importance were the work of men
who dug deep during the winter.
It is possible such prospecting
offers but little hope for the future
and the country has been too well
run over to make it very probable
that another strike of the richness
of the third beach line will ever be
■discovered. On the other hand
there are many who boast of the
richness of the quartz here, and this
is a line of prospect!!ng which *ar
be carried on in winter with just
as much success as during the sum
mer.
• But neither placer nor quart;
prospecting winter or summer cai
be carried on without a grub stake
and it is the men who work foi
wages who have been and are th<
back bone of all prospecting whict
has been carried on here. Has any
thing been done to encourage them?
Not, as we have been able to see.
the slightest. On the contrary In
order to be sure of work in Alaska
many have got to go outside each
fall and return each spring for ihey
instinctively feel from many winters
hard experience, that If they re
main bere they will not get work
during the summer and that the
only time there is a chance to get
work.
While no doubt Quartz cannot oe
carried on successfully under the
present system without capital, any
one who thinks that capital is any
thing other than timid and cautious
in its investments in new fields,
have another think coming. Labor
has first to show the way, and la
bor has to shoulder the real open
ing-up work always. Capital is
Missourian and has to be shown.
To hear some of the businessmen
unfold their schemes for the camp’s
development, they would imagine
that those who have money for in
vestment were suckers around a
shell game waiting to be roped In.
Anytime that a miner or prospec
tor can show capital that he has
property worth developing, ha
opened it up so that capital take
but little chance, they will be ready
and willing to invest and not before
The days when the wise guy £
gift to peddle effectively oi
bull could entangle the mone;
sharks of the east with the network
of his hypnotizing eloquence ar
long gone. Capital plays today <
sure thing game, everywhere, anc
it is not taking chances. They ar
hanging on to the birds in the hand
i and dont care three cents for tin
birds in the bush, until they ari
j safely limed by labor and ready tc
I be turned over a gift.
So the entire future prosperity de
pends upon labor in the present a
it has in the past. Labor is tin
goose that lays the golden eggs
even if capital loves to hatch them
Nome's prosperity cannot be main
tained when men who prospectec
their all during the winter are let
stranded every summer without i
job, and they have to play the par
i of the stick-around kids in the sum
mer, while their chechacoe friend;
j got the work.
Every single wage worker wht
! has the price on this condition on
taining much further prevalence
will eventually if he has the prici
not waste it in the winter in A1
aska, but husband it outside where
he can get employment outside o:
do something for himself wortl
while. He is not going to stay hen
to eat snowballs or to swallow hi:
blankets for the simple pleasure o
fighting mosquitoes chasing a sum
mer’s job that never comes. Ant
that's all that the winter residen
workers in this community have fo
the most part been able to do. Ap
parently to the businessmen who re
gister later complaints when the pa;
roll disappears, they can go as fa:
as.they like in this. And they dis
cover that the workers dont car
very much about going too far.
There hasn't been a general ex
odus up .to this, not because tin
workers haven’t got their bellyful o
idleness during Seward Peninsul;
winters and summers, but bccaun
it has been dull outside and ther
has been little work on the coas
or elsewhere. But industrial condi
tions are building up outside and i
is certain that if the workers un
derstand that they can get employ
ment outside they are not going t
remain here to turn over their Uttl
savings to Nome business men.
It is up to this community to se
that the wage workers who sta
here get employment when the
need employment; they should nc
be subjected to the summertime dls
crimination generally practiced. 1
’ they are employed in the summe
i they will take care of the winte
without any trouble.
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NOTICE OF APPLICATION.
NO. 0146.
In the united States Land Office a
, Nome. Alaska, December 2, 1915.
1 Notice is hereby given tha
) Charles McIntosh, of Nome, Alaska
• as successor in interest of E. L
, West, who on the 30th day o
July, 1907, filed In this office Coa
Land Declaratory Statement No. 4
- for the E. L. West Coal Claim, ha
t. filed in this office his application t
. purchase said land under the Act o
Congress, approved April 28tfc
1904, amendatory to the Act o
1 June 6th, 1900, extending the coa
? land laws to the District of Alaskt
said coal claim being in the Noatak
Kobuk Recording Precinct, Alaskt
a and designated as U. S. Survey N<
453, and more particularly dt
1 scribed In the field notes and pla
y now on file in this office, as follows
Beginning at Corner No. 1, lder
1 tlcal with N. W. loc. cor. on face c
- bluff on shore of tho Arctic Ocean
t said corner being impracticable t
maintain because of danger from lc
r and snow id wlhterr, a witnee
corner 4s established 10.08 ch:
south from same on lino l-(
whence U. 8. L. M. No. 1 bears i
15 deg. 32 min. W. 9.96- chs;
thence ea3t, var. 22 deg. 45 min
E. 40 chs. to Cor. No. 2, identica
with N. E. loc. cor., a fir post 4 in
sq. 4 ft. long, in earth and stons
mound, scribed E. L. W. Cor. 2
on S. W. face; tlicncc South, Var
22 deg. 30 min. E. 40 chs. to Cor
No. 3, identical with S. E. loc. cor
a fir post 4 in. sq. 4 ft. long, ir
earth mound, scribed Cor. 3, E. L
W. on N. W. face; thenco West, Var
22 deg. 30 min. E. 40 chs. to Cor
No. 4, identical with S. W. loc. cor.
on line 1-2 Gertrude West Coa
Claim a sand stone 2 4x12x5 inches
chiseled cross on top surface foi
true point, and Cor. 4 E. L. W.
on N. E. face, earth mound on N
side of fame; thence North, Var
22. deg.. 45. min.. E. 29.92 chs
Witness Cor. to Cor. No. 1, a sand
stone 2 8x12x4 inches, 14 inches ir
ground, cross chiseled on top foi
true point and W. C. Cor. 1, E. L
W. on N. face, with rtone mound 3(
inch base, 18 inches high alonf
side, 4 0 chs. to Cor. No. 1 an;
place of beginning; containing at
area of 160 acres.
Any and all persons claiming ad
versely the land described, or de
siring to object for any reason fo:
the entry thereof by applicant
should file their affidavits of pro
test in this office r. or before si)
months after the expiration of th<
period of publication of this notice
G. A. ADAMS.
Register U. S. Land Office.
Date of first publ., Dec. 4, 1915.
Date cf last publ., Feb 5, 1916.
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOI
PATENT NO. 0264.
In the United States Land Office a
Nome, Alaska, October 23, 1915
Notice is hereby given that Frani
Dolan, a citizen of the Unltei
States, over the age of 21 years
whose poet office address is Nom<
Alaska, has made application be
j fore the United States Land Offic
i at Nome, Alaska, for a Unite
States Patent for the Kathlee
Placer Cf aim in the Cape Nom
. Mining District, Alaska, being Mir
eral Survey No. 1157; said claii
being more particularly describe
in the field notes and plat of th
official survey thereof now on fil
in said Land Office at Nome, Alai
ka, as follows, to-wit:
Beginning at Cor. No. 1, ident
cal with N. E. Cor. of locatloi
with Cor. No. 2 Sur. No. 478, Bell
Fraction Placer and with Cor. Ni
14 Sur. No. 418, No. 13 Dextt
Creek Placer, being a flr post
iins. sq. 2 ft. above ground, i
I mound of earth, scribed 2 478
F, 4 418; 1, 1157 K. for Cor. Ni
1 of this survey, whence U. S. Lo
Mon. No. 4 bears N. 78 deg. 56 mi
30 sec. E. 5467.50 ft. U. S. Geoloi
ical Sur. Mon. on King Mt., beai
N. 26 deg. 29 min. E about 1
miles; thence S. 35 deg. 41 mi:
|W. (Var. 18 deg. 37 min. E
653.00 ft. to Cor. No. 2, a fir po;
3.5 ft. long 4 ins. sq. set 21 ins. i
ground scribed 2 1157 K, wil
mound of earth 2 4 ins. base, 1
ins. high around same; thence
83 deg. 40 min. W. (Var. 19 de
00 min. E) 788.00 ft. to Cor. N
3, a schist stone 24x12x3 ins. si
12 ins. in the ground, chiseled
1 I 1157 K, with crocs (x) cn, top su
' face for true point, with moun
I of earth 24 ins. base, 16 ins. hig
north side of same; thenco 1
0 deg. 33 min. W. (Var. 19 de
25 min. E) 558.30 ft. to Cor. N
4, a schist rtone 24x12)
ins. set 12 ins. in the
ground, chiseled 4 1157 1
with cross (x) cut >.n tep for tri
point with mound of earth 2 4 in
base 16 ins. high, north side i
same; thence N. 87 deg 04 mi
E. (Var. 19 deg. 00 min. £
1171.00 ft. to Cor No. 1, plrce ■
beginning, containing an area i
11.8 84 acres.
Said claim is situated on unsu
veyed ground on the divide betwee
Grass Gulch and Specimen Gulc
about 5.7 5 miles N. 13 deg. E. fro
|the town of Nome, in the Cai
Nome Recording Precinct, Alask
Is in Latitude 64 deg. 34 min. L
sec. North and Longitude 165 de
21 min. 00 sec. West.
U. S. L. M. No. 4 to which sa
claim is tied is a limestone bloc
about 4x6 ft. 6 ft. high, chiselc
U. S. L. M. No.4 on top surfai
with mound of sto.ne cn same,
situated on the south or right bar
of Dexter Creek, about 140 ft. sou:
of same and about 1000 ft. Wester
from mouth of Joo Gulch, in La
64 deg. 35 min. N. and Long. 1(
deg. 19 min. W. in Cape Nome R
cording Precinct, Alaska.
The original location notice
said claim is recorded in Vel. It
Page 282, records of said distrit
The adjoining claims are, on tl
North Summit Bench Placer, u
surveyed, cn the Eos*, South at
West, unsurveyed claims, ciaiman
unknown.
Any arid all persons claiming a
versely said mining ground or at
part th reof, are hereby required
(lie their adverse cl lims, aacordit
,to law, in said United States Lai
Office at Nomo, Alaska, within tl
time prescribed by law.
G. A. ADAMS.
Register.
Date cf first publ., Oct. 25, 191
Date of last publ.,: Dec. 26, 1915.
ORGANIZED LABOR.
CARPENTERS AND JOINERS.
Local' Union 1789, Carpenters at
titters of America, meets every Fi
ay at AI Or land’s shop Front S
Carpenter’s Headquarters, Fedc
t Labor Hall.
st 8 p. m.
FEDERAL LABOR UNION.
No. 12131, American Federatl
f Labor, meets every Monday
tSO p. m. in the F. L. U. Hall.
A. DOOSE, Pres.
JEN8 OLSEN, Sec’y.-Treas.
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