The Alaska citizen., 1910-11-28
RET TURNING NORTHERNERS
 VERY ENTHUSIASTIC
Jafet Lindeberg, Tom Nestor and H. L. Jafe Reach Seattle and Tell of Golden Pros-
 poets of Alaska's Future

here need le no suffering for want of necessities.
 In single year the IditarOd has pass rom d formative period into an organized and prosperous mining camp We now have buildings SUI pcTi9r tc any ever constructed at Nome. and many other evidences of pCrnaneucy can be found. The Min CTS & Mlrchants' bank alone handled more than s509 900 of Iditarod treas ure. and conservative estimate of
 he entire year cannot be placed at less than $S5o.o0o II is not unprob- able that complete figures will carry he sum 10 q million
 Communication Facilities Needed.
 Lack of communication facilities alone hampers the camp from claim ing desirablity as a place of resid- ence and to transact business in The government has been appealed 70 10 install a wireless service to in clude the district. As an indication of the great need for this aid our interests were this year were com pellcd 10 charter launch for a special trip to St. Michael, where q message that could have been sent though wireless would have saved us au expense of nearly S4,- o0o With the districts gold output We feel that we have a right to gov ernmenr support"
 Mr. Nestor has adyices that the Iditarod will be given weekly mail service during the winter months. A +rail 10 be covered by dog team from Seward is being constructed The route will traverse 325 miles of difficult journeying, but with per manert features will likely become inc man artery for winter travel from the Outside to both Nome and
 Fairbanks. II is calculated that in this manner more than 200 miles of distance can be saved.
 Guecenheim Investment
 After five months travel in prac- tically all the explored sections of 1 seward Peninsula H. l.. Jaffe, of Seattle, representative in the North, ern gold field district for the Gug- eenheim interests, returned by the 1 Victoria. Tt has been a great year 1 for Alaska, and work that has been commenced this season will eyentu- ally add a huge sum to the gold production" re declares.
 l Mir. Jaffe visited the Iditarod, in. specting closely operations and claims there. He ended overland travels l covering several thousand miles by reaching Bering Sea through the Kus- kOkWim. In that district he inspect 1 ed the new camp of Georgetown. of which favorable reports have been 1 received. Mir. Jaffe states that as the l result of his visit GuGgenheim in i .erests have acquired properties at both lditarOd and in the Kuskokwim and are negotiating for others. Mir 1 Jaffe boarded the Victoria at Dutch ] Hal Dor, where the steamer called l for coal, having covered 500 miles of 1 Boring Sea in fragile boat, forced to combat the fierce gales that have recently swept the Northern waters
 s. NJ. Gaylord, a prominent dredge operator of Nome, and a veteran in that district, came to Seattle to ar.
 range for additional equipment for his workings Dredging has been shown to be the only mining method that can now cope with the situation and conditions about Nome, he
 states. The entire neighborhood is
 now dotted with the large reclaim
 ing projects, and they are meeting
 with such success that news of great