The daily Nome industrial worker. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 19??-1918, 1913-08-16
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Shushana we make no apologies for
again buttin' in without as much as
by your leave.
The Industrial Worker believes
that the Shushana strike is a good
one the facts are that pay has been
foud over quite an extensive area
but it will cost a considerable sum
to get in, and it will cost still more
to live when one gets in.
Next summer there will be lots OF
work there, but in the meantime
there is the long winter to be passed
through when there is no mining
and even now it is dollars to dough-
nuts there are men enough on the
way or actually in the camp to do
the work which will be required in
the way of establishing towns, etc.
For this reason the Shushana at this
stage of the game will be good
place to stay away from for the wage
worker until next spring, when it is
likely that things will hum as they
have not been humming in any of
the older camps for some time in
Alaska. To this end there fore there
is no reason for any precipitous rush
to the new camp, and taking every
thing into consideration none will
lose and all will gain somewhat by
biding their time a wee bit until
definite reliable and non-con1icting
reports arrive. 1t is a positive GER
tainty that good and rich strike
has been made but it is also a posi-
tive certainty that mining will not
get under weigh for a considerable
time, and that that same meantime
will be interspersed with all kinds
of trouble which will end in litiga-
ton gun play and worse if all ac-
counts as to claim jumping and re-
stalking by power of attorney are
correct.
can afford to lay up a stock of lp-
plies for the winter and take chances
in getting work but at the same
time being able to do without it if
necessary, can with advantage to
himself go there, but as the vast ma
jority who are close to the diggings
along the coast and the interior
points have already stampeded or
will later stampede it is good
policy for the man who has but
scanty savings to hang on to his wad
and wait until the following year
before venturing there.
We want it distinctly understood
that the Industrial Worker is not
fearful that this camp will be de-
populated. There are too many here
who have interests which attach
them to this camp and will attach
them here for some time for such a
fear to be anything but absurd. The
majority of those who are going out
side would go outside in any event
and to be guilty of trying to keep
any of those who would do better by
going outside and trying their for
tunes elsewhere is far from the
policy of this paper. The advice
here rendered is advice that is
founded upon the personal expert
ence of the writer who has witness
ed the consequences of premature
stampeding too often not to. be pre-
pared to warn against any such a
foolish act.
This stampeding business is more
or less of a gamble anyhow. 1t is
likely that some will profit from
their trip to Shushana but it is al
most a positive certainty that there
will be far more who will have moth
ing but disappointment for their
pains. Over the hills the land is
bright said the poet, and he is
merely voicing the sentiment that
each and every stampeder clings to
as he mushes to the latest Ell Dorado
Yet an arrival there unfortunately
but very naturally brings with it
merely the realization that many in
deed are called but few are chosen
by fate to carry the prizes which are
as few as far between 1t would
be poor old world if there were for
all this no adventurous spirits who
would dare luck and danger in going
hither or thither as the call Of the
wild seized their hearts. And there
is something fascinating in the des-
perate game for the desperate stakes
that every stampeder plays. Few
can resist 1t, and II the truth has to
be confessed even those who can
fifty realize that it is a folly, often
times get the grip of the wanderlust
strongest upon their minds.