The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-11-20
NOTICE.
TO ALL MEMBERS NOME MINE WORKERS UNION, LOCAL 24O
 w. F. M.

Nomination of officers for the en- suing term are now open. Election will be held on Dec. 2, 1916.
 Thomas Ochman, Cap Thompson and Balser who had intended to leave for Rodney yesterday were held back by the great blizzard which blew some yesterday morning. Ochman is to work on his creek claims while Thompson and Baker will sink on the third beach line in that vicinity where beach has al- ready been located but where so far no concentrated pay has happened to make it's appearance to the searchers after the elusive in that promising section.
 The new fire house is ready for occupancy. The meeting tonight will decide when the fire department will change quarters. A test has been given the pump or gasoline en- zine it was foundS satisfactory in every way.
 There are good many dredges which are reported to be considering changing creeks. In some instances the ground where they are now To- cated is unproductive and in others the case as to some of these ma chimes which will change locations that the machines have changed hands. Among the machines which are reported to be considering nov ing their locations are the Arctic creek dredge, better known as the Servatius dredge. This machine did not work at all last season owing, it was said, 10 some differences among the variety of parties inter- ested in the company or the ground operated. It is now said to be likely that this dredge will move to Frank Halls ground on a tributary of Arc tic creek. The dredge owned by 0. H. Flowers will change from it's pre- sent location on Solomon river to MT. Flowers ground on this river several miles from it's present site. It was also stated that there is every probability that the Middaugh dredge may be moved to Dexter. There was talk of a new machine going to Dexter, and that the Union Construction Co. had leased or an option on Chase's ground and ground the property of the Pioneer Mining Go. for this purpose. The dredge which Rolando had brought in this summer and which has been in cold storage since it's arrival here will not go, it is now stated to Am erican creek, at the head of the Mi ukluk and south of the Bendeleben Mountains, but instead will be placed upon ground now held on Cripple river by other parties. Ro- lando and his packers had some diff erences on the matter of the Amer ican creek property, and the dredg- ing proposition there is said to have been dropped in favor of Cripple river. It is also said that the Welch dredge which has been working in the American river country will be moved to the Kougarok river where i ground has already been acquired for it's operation. Ben Bernard will move his dredge from York to Swanson creek also in the Port Clarence district, where drilling ope- rations have now been proceeding with successful and satisfactory results for some time. The big huh that has been on Cripple for a dredge for some time, will be acquir- ed by the Wonder dredge people
  ing broken up for lumber. Other dredges now operating are also slow ly coming to the end of their ope- rating sites and will have to be | moved. In some cases instead or moving old dredges, it is found cheaper to install new machines ow- ing to the heavy work and necessari- | ly high costs of transportation in | this roadless wilderness of the Second Division. The matter of mov- ing these machines is one that will render the roadless condition of the Seward Peninsula very acute ques- tion before many years, unless some improvements are made in this di-