The Nome daily nugget., 1915-08-02

statesman (Salem, Oregon) from the pen of the Rev. Dr. Bauer late of our city, will furnish interesting reading:
 This is Nome, Alaska, June 11th, 1915. According to the miniature almanac published in this mornings paper the sun rises :21 a. m. and sets at 10: A p. m. Most of our days now have long golden hours of sunshine and short slvery twilight, but no darkness. The tundra grass every where is showing a decided green and the lettuce and radishes are peeping through the upper coating of creek sand on my little garden. Our long winter has, like the Arab folded it's tent and quietly stolen away.
 And how glad We are. Down in the northern states it is a season of re- joicing when the snow goes and the radiant life of spring manfests itself; how much greater the occasion for re- joicing up here!
 Out in the ofiing lie the steamships Victoria and Senator. To and from these boats tugs are lodging in and out among the ice foes, bringing to shore wellloaded lighters of fresh meat, eggs, vegetables and fruit. Bows and girls, men and women, and some of the Eskimos are celebrating the oc- casion by eating oranges and bananas ilnmannerly right out in the main street of the town. That all these fresh things are unusually delectable can only be appreciated by those who have for six or seven months been de- nfed them. Our little gardens have just started, but here by the aid of the steamships We have entered into the gardens and orchards of others. And it affords us great pleasure that we can now can the can, after so many months of canned stuff.
 TWO weeks ago the revenue cutter Bear, bucking through many miles of ice in Bering Sea, brought us over 400
 
 was an occasion of much rejoicing. With the postofice clerical force more than doubled. it took more than four days for the distribution of this mail. First we received our letters, and had a merry time renewing acquaintances with our correspondents. After the Hrst n1 tZl.
 bags of letters. came the great bulk of the other classes. which had been ac- cumulating at Seattle during the win ter; for only small part of the heavy mail can he sent overland by the dog teams, costing about two dollars per pound. What n mixture II was! There were many Christmas presents. parcel post hats which are now probably out of date. tons of mail order house cata- losues, armloads of weekly and month ly papers. and even dailies, and circu- lars and advertisements galore. Each man having a box was urged to come often and clear out his box in order to relieve the congestion of the office
 It is delightful experience to get so much mail at once. but we regret that so much of this mail was ancient. We think that Uncle Sam did well to bring to us by dog team over 1900 miles of Alaskan trails about 1000 pounds of mail each week, beginning January 1st and continuing till April 1st. We think that good Judgment was used in pro- viding us with a few magazines and papers, and we did all We could to pass them around But we wish that some cheaper method of transportation might be found so that we could enjoy all that is coming to us, even though it is two months old when it arrives.
 During the long trying winter we have had two outstanding events of noteworthy importance. Most every day this Northland has it's romance, it's unusual features it's worthiness of being chronicled in our diaries, but these two big events are mountain peaks in the high range of the events of this mining camp.
 In Nome the dog is king. He singeth all night long his song. which at first seems doleful but soon becomes a real classic dog -paean, and We like it. He lies In the middle of our streets and We always respect his slumbers or rest by going around him. In wild packs he has killed some of our children: now we keep the children off the street But he has earned the prevalent re- spect paid to him. He is faithful ser want more obedient than the horse and faster over the long snowy trail. His loyalty to his master is unequaled by any dumb brute.
 For a number of years owners here have been breeding for speed and en- durance, so 1t follows as the day and night that they must try out these