The Nome daily nugget., 1911-07-22
SEEN AND HEARD

This morning when the Nugget stan came to work they found several mem- bers of the cruiser Buffalo waiting at the door who wanted to get copies of the Wolgast- Moran championship light which took place on July 4th.
 The marines informed us they had tried to get in several times during the night for the people told them the only place to get a good account Of the fight was in the Nome Nugget We told them they had been correctly in formed and it held good not only re- garding fstic battles but all important happenings of the outside After re- ceiving copies of the fight. which we gladly donated to the marines they reported it was time to make another attempt to get aboard but the surf proved too rough and they had few more hours in which to make merry.
 The Defiance IT had a hard time of it getting out of the river last night on account Of the low water and the gravel bar formed across the mouth .of the stream. The river for the past two days has been extremely low and the mouth of the channel spread over large extent of territory
 Hardly a day passes but what sev- eral new subscriptions to the Daily Nugget are applied for What pleases us is the fact that miners are coming in and subscribing for the paper hay ing the same left in our call boxes. for we make no pretense of sending a man to cover the creeks daily which was the custom in the past when the af streak and as far as the \ station every morning The miners are taking a tumble to the fact that to get the daily news they must subscribe for the Nugget.
 The majority of the Mosquito fleet are now operating in waters to the westward of the town and up North. Large shipments of goods are being dispatched north and men are also sent to help work the mines in need of help to extract the yellow metal.
 lt commences to look good for the vast mineral belt of country to the Northwest of Nome becoming a pro duccr and having to be supplied from Nome the distributing point. it will help the miners. merchants. and all other industries for years to come.
 People returning from Yukon River way state that Nome is the best camp 10 return to after all That here is a steady reliable established city with a mineral bearing country adjacent to it that will keep it going for years and if rain will be plentiful this sum- mer We win prove there is lots of gold in the hills.
 Nome will be better next year than this and much better two years hence is the prediction of people who are in position to prOgnosticate future hap. pcnings from expenditure of large sums of money and other sure indica tions which foretcll coming conditions
 Philip Gin. worked on the local wire less station when the high tower was erected two or three seasons ago. ana he is an old timer in these parts. Many of the boys in town know him well having either worked on the same property or knew him in the earIS days of the camp.
 When it comes to pushing hand-car. over glaciers. for expert testimony and directions consult George James. tho genial proprietor of the Elite Batf House. Lars Gunderson ex-commis. si"ner Of the Kougarpk. or Joe Vint the miner and operator. They ar, right up to date on the question.
 The large 24-nunce nugget picked uI on solomon River recently by the L. < Dredging Company Is attracting con. siderable attention of late one mar offered Mir A. J. Mulack at least s5C more than the actual gold in it was worth just to get it.
 The nugget had passed on oyer th, ri1les and on to the stack pile. SO re- port has it when discovered
 This is a good sized nugget but is very small in comparison to the large nugget picked up on the Pioneer Min. ing company's claim a few years agc that was valued al considerable oveI s. GOO
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