The Nome daily nugget., 1910-03-17
SEATTLES HOBBY.

h recent copy of the Scaltle.I'.-I W, find an article commentmg a transportation methods promised to. this Spring on The Yukon. and among "tacr things mentioned i> t.e -I~t" mcnt that shipments for Fairbanks will be- transferred at l.abug, and winds up the pamelarh alth Iha.: This early business from Lower I.a- barge reaches Fairbanks three Hork- before tar rivol is olen for navigar,l 1t St. Michael"
 T.c people of Nome bal,. hr-om. used ro misStatenrnts eouccuL- anyt ing that mght possibly ho of ;l- t"ro~t to this region ot Alaska tH;, few 1uoic. m",. o loss. does not ,ut uuch G4ur. With ue one vaN o trc other. Every oo, knows Wh, nas ad lur experience that t.c Scat,. ,a,ra- win not publish anything lo>arab'e n seward p,niusu.l rr.n... ,ts.,..,' source II IEt\ originate. if it can Gc dl- Nrrtrd in favor of the interior of tle District Whether t.r statement coii,l Was intended Jo deceive the shipper: "i Srattl, k mot to the point. aud if i, "rr" We would not br di@plcaScd. u,lt t.v point i~ if N' admit for lac ~.th, of the argument that tine boat: cen rrac. Fairbanks three, weeks carler than tl" opening of navigation at st Michael that i they do com, down t." river from foreign territory. Hip they have to go to St. Mic arj m,l t.r same, for the reason that that point is the only port of rntty on t.c Y,a-on that can clear shipments for Fair banks, and then they must br taken back |" their destination, So that. as matter of fact FairbanhS dor~ no. make amy time by shipping il. hat way
 All this. of itself. i~ or no particular moment |" Us and "" nml.. a.-..,nt on it [" show the absolute, unta..ncsS ot thr P.I and the otlrt. iuI,.r4 nf Seattl" oS WrlI in cNcrythiug r..Ilaiu- img [" matters "t busint.~> or Iu,rrvst |" Nome Nome would not be directly interested in the rc-shipment at st Michael. hut indirectly il amounts tr quite d z 'od deal
 This k but q sampi" "p N hat t- con -tamIly being don" For instance. last Summ"l tn" papers there Mcl,. r;.,D- Iishing under HaIing h~adliur- the great exodus from Nom" giving uill apparent slco ta" number of pass, ; gers on tine overloaded hoat~ and aI.- parcntlN rry"ling in thc statement ,hat pr"pl" here Were going out earlier than usual and m much 2rc.ltrl num- bcrS. Now. the fact was tat oI th, unusual number nt passengers that went out on tn" boats from Nome last Summer. there W"l" ten persons from Fairbanks and otner points in n@t1c in terior t0 where there was on. from Nome. We state this from actual ob- srrNatinn. as the writer uf this mlur it point, t"grth"r with other Nome it"a in S"attI" hast summer. to visit the incoming boats and see for our selves. Yet the impression mace by the seattle papers Vas that all these passengers Were from. Nome. And humliating as it is, these statements or any other drr"gatnry of Nome, Wer~ always confirmed by the most of the bunch of NnmeiteS in that city who hay" made thciI fortunes her.. and s"nt there to spend them. It's d prttlv mraslry dog that won't lick the tand that feeds him. And this applies ali!: ,. to the said Nonctcs and to Sruttl, and it's newspapers.
 We are not craving any advertising. Nome anG the Seward Peninsula is in- trinsically good or bad. just according to her mineral wealth. and in that she