The Nome daily nugget., 1914-03-26

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 ing uf business men. miners and op- orators. on the l4th day of March. 1914, at Nome. Alaska:
 Whereas. the wise and far seeing recommendations of his excellsncy. President Wilson. in regard to the ap' proprtatiou of sskooo.ooo for the building of railroads In Alaska have b.sn followed by congress. and
 whArsas. Congress has iset is to| the disorstion es his sxoslisncy. the president, as to the location of said reads. and
 Whereas. his sxosiiency in his wis dem desires to construct said roads where they will result ia . maximum of development and increase of the mineral production of Alaska. and
 Whereas. Seward peninsula. which has increased the worlds production of gold over ss6.ooo.ooo. is without adequate means of transportation tol the interior. through the closing down of the Seward Peninsula railroad. the onIy road to the heart of the penin- sula, and
 Whereas, 1t is impossible to mine the enormous low grade deposits of the Kougarok and interior of said peninsula without cheaper transport ntion facilities.
 Therefore. be tt resolved. by the business men, miners and operators of the Seward peninsula. that We re- spectfuliy ask his excellency. the r,l esident, to cause an investigation Of the necessity of acquiring the Sew ard Peninsula railroad and extending same to Taylor Alaska. or construct ing another railroad from some point on tide water to Taylor. which Is the center of the interior mining section of the Seward peninsula.
 Similar resolutions were passed by the Pioneers of Alaska, the Chamber u Commerce and the common coun- ell of the city of Nome.
 H. H. MOLLER.
 President of the Meeting.
 JAS. P. DAILY.
 Secretary of the Meeting.
 Statement of the mineral resources ri Seward peninsula, Alaska. and of the necessity of transportation faciii- ties to the interior.
 Mineral Rssouress.
 The gold placers of Seward benin. sula are best and most reliably de- scribed by our able and efficient corp Of geologists sent out by the United States geological survey. such men a. Collier. Hess. Smith. Brooks and many others.
 We quote these men from Bulle. tin No. BPS. 1908. of said survey. Fore ward at page 10 Is we'll worth reading| in which MT. Brooks says: "This reg ion Seward Peninsula) now increases the wealth of the world yearly byl nearly s.oO0.ooo" (since this statement vas written the production has fallen of to some considerable extent. Again at page l35. Mir Brooks estimates the auriferous gravel deposits of Seward peninsula to be about 2l0 squareI miles or 65o.4ss.ooo square yards. the depth at one yard. making s5o.4ss. 900 cubic yards of gold bearing sravels, estimated at fifty cents per yard, valued at ss25.24s.oOo.
 Again at page 136. Mir. Mont. Mir. Collier and Mir. Hess estimate the un- worked streant graveN Of Seward peninsula at 1s.l0o.ooo cubic yards. valued at ss.ss to ss.ss. based upon the production of seventeen different streams. divided by tho mined yard age.
 They wish to be conservative and estimate the unworked yardage at S2.6O or about ss0.o0o.ooo.
 At pages 1ss and 1ss. MT. Brooks says in summing up "that an estimate of s26o.ooo.ooo to ssss.ooo.ooo for the placer gold resources of Seward pom irsula is conservative and that if min ing was carried on to the limit of our water supply on Seward peninsula. itl would take 25 to 70 years to exhaust cur gold bearing gravels"
 Several members of this committee. teing practical miners and having al good knowledge of various parts of Seward Peninsula, believe tho forego- ing statement of those gentlemen toI be very conservative.
 Referring to tho map of Seward peninsula herewith attached you will note that the Kougarok mining dis trict Is in tho center or middle part. and that the proposed extension of