The Nome daily nugget., 1913-03-15
ALASKA
 NOTES

Commenting on the showing in
 Governor Clark's report, that Alaska
 has suffered an actual loss of popula
 tion during the past two years, the
 Washington Herald remarks:
 "Considering the success of the
 American administration in the Phil
 ippines, Porto Rico, the Hawaiian isl-
 ands and other insular possessions,
 the failure in Alaska is all the more
 inexplicable, unless the long and to
 some considered dreadful Alaska win
 ter and it's attendant discomforts are
 taken to be the main cause of the aversion to settlement there."
 According to the Juneau Empire the court of appeals at San Francisco has handed down a decision in the Haines townsite case, by which Col. Sol Ripinsky loses all his holdings ex- cept the ground occupied by his house and garden. The colonel is entitled to sympathy, because he held large part of what is now the town of Haines long before it was a town, and held it in good faith until the squat ters came. Now it appears that the purchase of the land and the years of patient occupancy count for nothing.
 o. P Gaustad, of Cleary, Alaska, plans installing hydro electric plant near the mouth of Pilot creek for the purpose of supplying quartz proper ties with current for power. A dam and ditch Il miles long will be in- cluded in the proposed improvement.
 The treasury department has ac- cepted the bid for the Alaska Junk Company-$S, ,5O0-for the former rev. enue cutter Rush. When taken out of commission some months ago the vessel was stripped of all her navigat- ing and department furnishings, leav- ing only the hull and machinery.
 The news comes from Fairbanks that the ledge of the News Boy mine at the. 315 foot level is looking very good. being two and a half feet wide and carrying values equal to any thing found on the property Men are now working on the three levels, 150. 315 and 315, each level carrying good ore.
 The loss of the steamer Workman off Columbia bar last week with 9O,- 900 cases of finest red Alaska salmon for export to Liverpool and London | has withdrawn a large portion of the ! best fish, as announced by leading salmon brokers, and that it will have the effect of strengthening the mar ket was the assertion of those who l have been watching the conditions. ! says the Seattle P.-I. The pack of 1 red Alaskans this season was none too large for the possible consump- ton, including the export trade, and an advance in price Is within the range of immediate possibilities.
 One of the reasons that the inte- rior department has given for the re- fusal to issue coal patents to the claimants is because mo mine has been opened up" And yet the gov- ernment sends party of forty men to the Boring river fields and in a l few weeks they mine s55 tons of coal I from tunnels driven on claims where l Commissioner Dennett has said there was no mine. Surely the rulings of l the interior department passeth all understanding.-Cord Alaskan.
 From the columns of the new pa- per published in that town, we learn l that Petersburg now has bank, sev- eral general merchandise stores, | among which is that of Messrs. Stoft l & Refing former residents of Douglas, | two wharves. a meat market, hotels, l restaurants, theater, skating rink, be- sides several places where the thirsty may be refreshed.