The Nome daily nugget., 1912-12-09
WHAT 70 GOING ON
 IN The NoRrHLANo

Yukon's potato crop is being dug. It Is estimated that the Klondike district alone will produce 300 tons. Valued a, the average Dawson wholesale price for native potatoes, the Klondike pro- duct would be worth on the basis of 300 tons. the sum of $500. 900. Klondike does not raise all the "spuds' produc- ed in Yukon. The farmers at every point along the big river as far south as whitehorse and Carcross have the Klondike and many other places fine farms are being cultivated. The Yukon Gold Company has a large farm on the Klondike near Dawson.
 According to recent Vancouver paper. high officials of the Canadian Northern railroad had made the state ment to the city council of that town that Vancouver, B. C.. was to be the terminal of the Canadian Northern, while at Port Mann would be located only the shops and freight yards of the new railroad.
 The Juneau Dispatch notes the ar rival of fourteen miners headed by Paddy O'Neil to begin the big tunnel which is to connect Silver Bow basin with Sheep creek. and the crew of seventeen from Treadwell who are to tunnel the north end of Mt. Roberts for the Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Co. This looks like prosperity for the capital city.
 Central Alaska. whose area is about three quarters that of Texas. has less than 300 miles of railway. not over 600 miles of wagon road. and probably less than 1000 miles of trail: Texas has nearly l3.00O miles of railways and about i3.OOO miles of wagon road.
 Tales of a rich strike in quartz in the Iditarod country have been con- firmed. The discovery was made at the head of Flat creek by Caribou Bill Detering, who has been working that ground for placer during the past three years. There has been stam- pede to the scene of the strike and all of the hills have been staked by prospectors who hope to pick up al extension on the new find. Richard Roediger. the Dawson news paper publisher. is suing Tacoma bank on the ground of fraud in sell ing out a large block of Tacoma Trib- une stock without proper notice. The stock was held by the bank as col lateral for a loan.
 The steam trawling industry inI Southeastern Alaska and in British Columbia waters is to be investigated by a joint commission of Canadians and Americans. The charge having been repeatedly made that steam trawling was depicting the fish.
 The Ketchikan Miner claims that the women working in the fish pro- ducts company plant at that place make as high as s day filling the cans with the fish.
 One of the largest and most valua- Dle SNlpIHentS Ol aidShd iui VIII pS sent to London from Fairbanks this month. The shipments consists of five bales of matched sets of mink and marten.
 The control of the perseverance property has passed into the hands of a new company. known as the Alaska Gold Mines Company, which within the past three weeks sold in Boston and New York all the stock. This money is to be used in building a m'll at Juneau, which will at the outset have a thousand stamps; in the erec- tion of a hydro electric plant which will cost more than half million dol lars, and in the boring of II 11.000-foot tunnel through the mountain from the Silver Bow basin to the mouth of Sheep channel.
 The Ketchikan Miner says The New England Fish Company is hav- ing the largest sign in Alaska erected on their plant south of town. It is 2l0 feet in length, and the letters are close to six fee. high. The Skagway Alaskan complains