The Nome nugget., 1903-08-15
Nome is a Cosmopolitan
 Town
ITS FUTURE ASSURED
NOme'S Prospects and Future as Expressed in One of the Papers
 of the States.

hurrdn TOT the nOrJn pOie IS the
 way one of the Ohio passengers greeted the only city of it's kind on earth
 Nome, Alaska. It did indeed seem
 like saluting a section of the north
 pole-not that Nome is especially icy
 in her reception of the "cheechacos" as the tenderfoot is called-or that the
 ways of the city are always formal and distant. Far from it indeed. The city is simply situated in the north land and
 is icy and chilly only because the action of dame nature makes her so. Just now we are enjoying the balmy summer breezes off the Pacific. A fire nights and mornings is not out of place. but most of the time is an unnecessary lux ury. The fact is that the climate here is vile when it is that way and simply elegant when the sun shines.
 Still it gave most of us peculiar feel ing in and about the heart when at five o'clock in the morning we got our first glimpse of the great city of Nome Scattered over two or three miles of beach we could see houses, tents and people--lots of them. We kept looking at the prospect until nearly II a. m.
 when we were taken upon the lighters and started for shore. It rained d little and attended strictly to that bus mess for three CT four days. It was an elegant chance to get cold feet and start back for the states. The editor however, found friends and began to look after the business that brought him north and by so keeping his good nature at the front he managed to sur vive the attack of "blues." As soon as the sun came out, however, it was all off for the 'blues."
 Speaking of business Nome is cer- tainly all right. Think of the car loads and ship loads of people that are dropped ut this harbor every season. At least score of large ocean freight CTS run between Nome and Seattle and San Francisco, bring freight and pas sengers. the most of them for this port, and Nome is city of only about 25OO people during the winter, with sum- mer population of 10000 during the season. These figures show conclus- lively that Nome is summer resort of the first class, and does business for at least six months of the year, and lots of it.
 One of the most cosmopolitan towns in the country is Nome. All nationalities, conditions and styles are here, and in every stage of develop ment. There are lots of people who come here to punish booze" and who can get more to drink here than else where because they can earn at least five dollars q day when they work. The result is that money is quickly earned with them and much more quickly spent. The man who would make a fool of himself down below would do so much quicker in Nome and oo hC VIII PAoOuDiy oC DCtlCI OI WllH his friends.
 This is a great country of vast poss- Utilities. Gold, gold, gold and strikes is about all that man hears. The first bloom" days everybody found gold, almost for the picking up. Now mining has to- be done on more scientific basis with modern machinery. The result is that this safer day for investment than were the 'boom" days. There are but few legitimate that will not pay in this Ispeak not as mining en- but Il careful investigation. There is plenty of gold here and it needs only legitimate and sensible methods to get ahold of it, but of fcourse it takes money to make money. It may be of interest to the readers of the Press to know that the properties in which Waukesha people are interested which I have had an opportunity to investigate, look good. - Waukssha Press, July 29. 1903.