The Nome daily nugget., 1911-07-31
SEEN AND HEARD

steady rain like the one for the past week recalls the instructions in Biblical history where: "It rained for forty days and forty nights" The length of a rainsy season, after it once starts up here is of sufficient duration to have justified the Eskimo in claim ing to have found Noah's Ark few years ago mp near the head of the Koyukuk River. After the simple mind ed people had been told of the won derrul flood of Biblical days where il raincd for forty days and forty nights, with a lone Ark floating on the bosom of the waters. they started after that Ark and found il. located n on" of the wetest places in Alaska.
 The Road Commission is having the tall evergreen stakes for winter trails strengthened I'D and placed in good shape again. The man doing the work reports that the stakes which are well planted have green branches at the top. while those which gre leaning over and are not firmly placed in the soil are dead. It is his opinion and many other mushers that if small evergreen trees are planted in the fall. they will take root and grow the following spring. thereby making permanent stakes for the winter traveller.
 About the only invention yet con- pounding of the storm in Bering Sea along the beach is the caisson of the ]. J. Sesnon Company It requires a solid pier. well weighted down with thousands of tons of rocks to make a pier hold on and then that is located beyond the real breakers, where the constant shifting of the bottom is going on.
 The gasoline launches have proved they can go out to the vessels in pretty rough water Both the Beach Boat House launch and the one owned by Tom Ross are constructed along the lines of the U. $ Life Saving boats and the sea they cannot live in would just about swamp a large ocean going steamer
 The manner in which these launches scoot out of the river, taken on a load of passengers then making q flying dash into the mouth of the river while the breakers are rolling up high behind them is productive of much comment on the part of the people who will stand and watch them do the trick. even to running the ris!; of getting soaked to the skin by the downpour of rain.
 night the Eskirnos were patrolling the beach in search of driftwood that a southeaster always brings from ovei toward the tibmer country and the trees and logs which find their way into the Boring Sea from the mighty Yukon and the Kuslokwim rivers.
 lHt natives were ftNdTNtl TOT they secured quite little bunch of fin, wood in the past farty-eight hours The white man allows them the tree, and regular drift. but should n fin, piece of timber come ashore. there is generally a white man handy to claim ii. even though they do not happen tC be present when it Is cast upon tn, beach by the waves.
 It has been hard work on the part of the operators to hear the Senator dur ing the present trip. for her wireless operator. or his apparatus has been rather weak in sending and receiving We wonder how the operator comes up to the requirements of the law which went into effect July 1st
 The glass appears to be a poor indi- cator to go by these days. and the captain of the Belvedere will be guided by other indica tions during the storm and not trust too much to the rising and falling of the barometer