The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-02-29

In communication from Dime Creek, writer to the Industrial Worker after reviewing conditions. concludes:
 Try to imagine that you wantea to file a proof of labor for your claim on Dime creek and you have six weeks to do it in. There is a notary public at the mouth of tue Koyuk twenty-five miles away, and after he swears you in, you trust to some private individual to drop it into the first post office. And in the meantime your job on the windlass is waiting for you, while you are gone no money is coming out Is that fair? Now that is the fix some of us are in just now. The law al lows us ninety days, but that law was not made for miners on Dime creek.
 Someone ought to be ashamed don't you think so!''
 It is really not a question of being ashamed; it is question of troatin 5 men who arc opening up the coun- try fairly and squarely.
 Never in all the writer's experience in Alaska have we ever known the openly expressed wishes of yonng and growing camp for a recorder sn Jot before in any section of Alaska, the . Rrospectors, the mon who practically are responsible for the building up, development and welfare of thl5 country treated so unfairly.
 And what makes the case so unu- sually anomalous, one can see no good reason for this action,
 It costs the government abso- lutely not a cent It subjects the government to not particle of in convenience. It embarrasses the ad- ministration of this district in no possible way, shape or form. And il is so exceedinly unjust, unfair, ana 50 my: teriously unusual, that like most of the people in the absence ol any plain explanation that would suggest itself for the. course fol- lowed, they take it that there IS something behind the whole matter that has obtained no publicity here or in Dime creek.
 It is somewhat difficult to m. qlerstand why Wade-Hampton re- cording precinct should have been established when tho oot}ouv CT the actual development has not been nearly as advanced or hopeful as at Dime.
 The Industrial Worker is informed that one outfit alOnc on Dime thls winter will take out dump value: at about $50,O0O That is moro than the Wado-Hampton hes taken ou, since it was established. Besides the inconvenience to which the set tlcrs at Marshal wcrc subjected go- ing to St. Michaels is not 9 whit more than are the Dime creek min CTS subjected, for the difference in distance between Marshal and St Michaels and Dime and Council is very slight indeed
 Why the miners and prospectors should be left without recorder Is certainly one of those mysterious matters that cause so much irrita- ton among Alaskans, because there is no apparent reason for such an inaction.
 In the first place it suggests a lack of sympathy with the mon who are doing great work in this north ern country and enduring great sac rificos and hardships in so doing.
 The Industrial Worker says with confidence that one of the reasons why in Alaska there has been per sistent demand upon the part of the people of this territory that all off, ces be filled by Alaskans, is be- cause they instinctively feel tha! the needs of Alaskan miners and prospectors will be dealt with fairly and sympathetically that their po- sition in isolated districts will be ap- preciated and understood, so that they will get square deal directly and openly and without hesitancy or the consultation of any secono hand authority who has axes to grind and ulterior motives in doing so.