The Nome daily nugget., 1911-08-11
Special Correspondence.)
Deering. Alaska AnR- h.


 away the tundra became as dry as punk, and although we have had con- siderable gloomy, damp and showery weather, what moisture has fallen has been absorbed by the parched vegeta- tion, leaving no surplus to run from the watersheds, and raise the low streams. While the heavens are still dark and lowering. no hope is enter tained by those desiring water that their wishes will receive fulfilment Chas. NJ. Garfield, wants water but the lack of 1t does not necessitate his shutting down Being backed by a strong company, he continues to add to his pay dump, although he may have to wait until the melting of next winters snows to enable him to make a cleanup.
 Superintendent Wentworth needs rain. He is operating a hydraulic plant on "Old Glory" and an addition to his water supply is necessary to en- able him to run full blast A dry sea- soi TUT nun VIII CuEtan ms output. Nevertheless. next fall will find his poke fairly full
 Our little friend Gympy must have a great pull with somebody. to enable him to draw down fat salary for small services rendered
 We entertained for a day, recently two of Uncle Sam.s stan of officials, Aessrs. Smith and Cookson. postoffice inspectors. Although Alaska desires home rule" gentlemen like Messrs Smith and Cookson would reconcile her to Uucle Sam.s domination for awhile longer. They are very genial gentlemen and play no favorites They believe that the permanent residents of Alaska should have the greater voice in her affairs. They mix with the miners and business men and learn their views which views they consider entitled to more weight than the views of birds of passage" the transients who arrive with the geese and depart with them. carrying away with them what little wealth or fod- der the short summer season has given them in way of wages or pckings
 The permanent resident and pros pector remains to keep up our business houses and hospitals, which eliminates hardships for the birds of passage" during their short sojourn with us We hope Uucle Sam will send more Smiths and Cooksons to visit us
 Capitalist Doc Benson is loosening up. He has given our section pretty thorough investigation and We expect soon to report promotion of his to materialize. The doctor has fat bank account of his own and repre- = sents a number of wealthy speculators on the outside. so We expect great doings in here when the Doc gets started. We will get Jimmy Black to | lasso polar bear and bring il down here for the Doc. to shoot. There is nothing we Inmachukers will not do to i prove We are the stun | Neal Hoogendorn has received letters from his brother Dick. one of our larS- est operators in here. who is now on the outside. informing him that hc will he in towards fall with plant second to none in this section. Dick has val ] uable ground in here and is one ci ou.' old standbys He has contribute I more to the development of his p ction > than any other man.
 Charley NicDi is "hoeing h.s Jwn Tow up on Cunni Ignam and We near noth- ing from him. But We ace confident he his doing good for himself We have travelled g,Ci hit in AL ssks from the Klondike tp Nome. and up here into tne Arctic. a'.i We wish [" ssS tfis of the bonIf,.r Inma:h,ksr lie is always Ameri'll, h. swears ny old glory and Abe Line 1:n. Next he is a Sectionshst: nobody can prove to him that greener fields are far away from the Inmachuk; and again he be- lieves that what wealth he gleans from mother earth~in this country should be used in propagating the species uhe American prospector.) SD he gets mar ried and starts crop of prospeetors. He will fight for Uncle Sam in gem eral scrimmage but he will fight Uncle Sam if our "uncie" ciscriminates aggainst the Inmachuk. Take il by and large there is no more loyal Am eriean than the Sourdough Inmachuker | of course We here. as elsewhere have men of no ambition; who are eOnsti- tutional wage workers; hut they are all foreigners: not cn American horn amongst them; although we have lot of foreign born Americans amongst the ambitious and loyal to tEe ila% and section.
 As an addendum to the foregoing | paragraph dilating on the loyalty and ambition of the sOurdough Inmachukerl