The Nome daily nugget., 1916-09-20
CANDLE COMMENTS

recent slight ralnfa.l has helped ma . ;,erally through it was not of suffi clcnt magnitude to afford much benefit .0 claims On the benches.
 Together with Il considerable exten- .s.oa to their ditch, built during the d,s &~ason, by the keewalik Mining Company, the recent showers have en- ;.bled the company to resume their hydraulic operations on Bull Hill. Leo wears an audible smile.
 At the mouth of Jump creek Mr. French also has been enabled to re- sume operations. Though his hydrau- lie plant is small, being necessarily commensurate with the scant water supply of Jump creek, nevertheless he has accomplished most satisfactory results.
 Freight rates being prohibitive Messrs. Hansen, Olsen and Evans have suspended operations till the freeze up and are preparing winter quarters in anticipation of a winters drifting
 The Candle creek dredge is as usual running twenty four hours a day. At present they are thawing some rather deep ground from which the overbur- den has recently been removed by ground sluicing. At this work also the boiler never ceases to boil. This company too has all season employed about a doen men ground suicing off productive points and widening the channel generally.
 AS usual the scene of greatest ac- tivity is at Patterson creek where steam scrapers are employed double shifts by Lee Bros. and Halloran on No. 19 bench, by A. A. Lundberg on No. 20, and by T. $. Kronquist on No. below Blank creek.
 On upper Patterson Nordlund Bros. have built a ditch to furnish water for Nos. T, 8, g and 10, which they are ground sluicing for next season. In addition they have done considerable hydraulicking on the right fork of Pat terson. If the weather man favors us with some rain they will doubtless have sufficient pay stripped this fall to provide them with a handsome poke next season.
 Mr. Reed, surveyor, of Nome who has been with us since last boat--and all will concede there is some time between boats-has concluded his work and is anxiously looking sea- ward and homeward.
 Our lady merchant is selling off her stock preparatory to returning to Nome on the next boat.
 So far this season we have been favored by the powers that be with four mails and we hopefully expect yet another. We wonder when the old time dog packers are. They could fur nish a better mail service.
 Petitions for permission to join in the territorial election race this fall have been freely circulated here and quite liberally signed. Obviously the prospective candidates, irrespective of thir political "credo" have the hearty permission of Candle to show their speed. So far Candle has shown no disposition to place candidate in the field for territorial honors.
 MT. Albert Coel of the Inmachuls spent few days in Candfle last week.
 We are informed that the road con- missioner has erected two stopping places on the trail between InmachulS and Dahl creek. While this should have been done long ago it is better late than never and will surely prove much appreciated boon to those go- ing out in the fall or returning north ward before the opening af navigation and will obviate the necessity of sleep ing on the soft side of niggerhead for at least two miserable nights.
 we diS pclclScu u ODSerN0 tIdC our Inmachuk friends are more generously treated by the road commission than we are in Candle. No doubt the new road up the river will greatly facili- tate and prove an incentive to, pros pecting and if this part of Seward penisula is ever to receive the pros pecting so amply justified by present results, under such adverse conditions, it is surely time the government was doing something to encourage the de- velopment of our resources.
 Last year no part of the federal ap- propriation was expended at or near Candle, and as that part of the season most propitious for road construction is already past it looks as though the road commission intended to expend as much more this year, but let us hope we are mistaken in their intentions,