The Nome daily nugget., 1915-11-10


 ne money for the preliminary work among themselves. Had the citizens of Nome but a trifie of the enterprise of the people of Fairbanks wno have Just finished the construction of a atry mile road to the new Tolovana district at cost of five thousand dol lars, every cent of which was provided out of their own pockets, the great nougarok district, with it's immense stores of mineral wealth. would not nave been left practically undeveloped up to the present day. Had our people been less strangely constituted. push and business enterprise would long ago have opened a highway to thai proven field of wealth, simply because of the prospect that it would be good investment for themselves through bringing a large and wealthy territory into closer communication with the principal distributing market. True it is that Nome controls that trade already and practically every thing in the way of supplies Is derived rom the Nome markets, but that is not the idea. We have the market but this should make us all the reader to
 assist and promote its growth for the reason that the greater the growth the greater will be the sales of the sup plies we are here to furnish. The peo- pie of Nome, however, seem to care not
 a hang about these things and, If the | indications of years may be accepted
 as marks of the spirit, are quite content
 to wait with Micawberian patience for some one to come and hand them
 something. The sooner Nome gets over | this idea the better it will be for everyone, high and low. Development will never progress unless we, the peo-
 pie who are primarily interested, are
 willing to get in and assist by some other measures than talk. The greatest knock the country could have is the well established fact that the people Of the territory are the most indlfter- | ent as to it's resources and possibili-
 ties and lend not an effort to assist
 n its deyeopment. The sooner we come to realize that success lies in endeavor alone, the sooner will we come | to perceive that we VII never accom- ,Jlish anything by standing around and waiting for some one to do something. if We want to go ahead; if we care 70 share in the full richness of this wonderful land which lies just beyond our back doors, we must change our tactics. The country won't develop itself and few people would be willing 70 interest themselves in a country do anything for their own profit. If we -are for progress, if we want to in- crest capital, we have to get in and demonstrate faith in the possibilities we wish to exploit by doing something ourselves beside merely talking. We want roads, probably more than any thing else except capital and the only way to get them is to get in and assist in their establishments even though it costs us something in the way of money and endeavor. The people of Fair banks did not wait for the government or any one else in the matter of build .ng their road to the Tolovana for, un- like ourselves, they realized that it would probably be many years before anything was to be expected from that direction. They wasted no time in vain speculation or innocuous waiting and today they have their road and l their commercial intercourse with the new district. But the result was achieved by putting their hands into ! their own pockets, and not by sitting around and waiting for someone else to do something as We have done for the past fifteen years. All about us l Ire numberless opportunities and pos abilities off growth and expansion which must remain an heritage for others unless we make up our minds to help a little in their development our selves. The proposed road is one of
 he finest opportunities so far present ed to show our faith in the country and | assist in it's development and progress. |