The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-09-11

>The government on Saturday mo- tified R. W. J. Reed Collector ot | Customs that on and after midnight the stamp taxes on documents would | be removed. This will make easier the toll the government has been ex- acting on telegrams, etc
 Borden, the partner of Louis Lane in the Great Bear venture, left for the Outside on the Uma- tilla, prior to his departure he made himself solid with dog fans by do- hating a cup which will be, like the Boeschen cup, won three times in succession before it can be claimed by any victor. The winner of each individual race, will it is under stood, receive a small size replica of the Bordcn cup.r
 
 Carpets Vacuum Cleaned. See Beebe. Phone White 157.
 
 Yesterday there arrived OH. the Silver Wave from St. Michaels MT. and Mrs. CCbb MT. Cobb was form erly in char 5e of the Nugget when as editor he directed it's literary destinies. Since, then he has been travelling in Alaska and frankly to the southwestern papers is a man pers hint that MT. Cobb has mysterious mine in the interior where yearly he extracts wealth be- yond the dreams Of avarice.
 Denis Murray writing from the Kougarok to friend in Nome. says that he believed there was higher water in the river on September 4 than there had been for quite a few years. Lots of rain fell during the last week in August and on Sep tember it was still raining. Every Out Wdo WOl AIll5 diill llIC lNNllIliSl and Mathew dredges were working day and night.
 Wait for new Goods on Victoria, for they will be at Crooks, next Fire Department.
 
 Phil Corrigan who is at Pass Creek in the Sawtooth with the Stone party says that it has been raining there steadily since they ar rived. There were twenty-two or twenty-three men working survey ing and prospecting for a dam site, and it looked as if there would be a big lot of work there next sum- mer. There was abundance of water and nearly a thousand feet of fall. It was thought they would be through about November 1.
 A. H. Conlan who arrived up on personal business from Bluff yester- day, and who has been employed as night foreman for Ashby on the Da- niels creek operations, says they are working day and night with lots ot water and very satisfactory results. So far they have not mined on the Ashby property this season, working ground acquired on lease. MT. Conlan thinks that the Ashby pro- perty is one of the finest mining propositions on which he has worked in Alaska, and he has seen most of the interior mining camps and is a very experienced placer miner. He spent all last winter prospecting on some ground i'll the interior in the lower Yukon, and this winter he will return to resume his work there.
 A letter from Dime creek says Jens Madsen and partners have now completed hoisting and have out 12,OOO cars and at present were ground sluicing. The letter was written July 31. They had a fine ditch and a good fall for tailings but if the dry weather lasted they might be short of water. A new strike had just been made by Lars Gunderson at the time which was liable to be of some importance if it held out. Only one hole had been down on the second tier bench off No. l above Discovery. No drifting had been done so far. "Social activ- ities have also commenced here, for