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

f We have no hesitation in saying that because Judge Tucker is some what unfamiliar with conditions in new camps, and fails to realize the hardships to which the Dime creek miners are put by having no re- corder, he has not before this ap- pointed one.
 So far no arguments have been brought forward to show that there is no immediate need of a recorder That the camp is still in an uncer tain stage and may peter out to- morrow is no reason at all, even if 1t were true which it is not. The need for a recorder is existing now and in the present, and as no costs are entailed the fcilurc to appoint one means that the miners are suD- jected to great unnecessary hard ship and obstacles which have no reason at all to exist are thrown ill the way of the prospecrors.
 The Industrial Workers view of the matter is this, that every oD- stacle thrown in the way of the min CTS, hindcrs the development of the country, and nothing will so retard it's growth as that very fact tn 1t the miners in the pursuance ot their work opening up a country are compelled unnecessarily to endure hardships because someone, for some reason, thinks that it is well that they should be so subject
 Big camps Lave been opened up in Alaska by miners meetings where at a half dozen prospectors estab- lished their own precinct and their own recorder. There arc mon in Nome who have had that homo, thrust upon them in days gone by and the very locations which they thus presided over have become household words in Alaska since that day.
 Anything that favors settlement and brings with it some ease to the routine labors of the prospector is surely worth some consideration. And why it should not be is certainly not very clocr to Alas kans.
 It has been said with absolute truth that the refusal to cppoint {. recorder to young and favorable camp like Dime creek is tho first time that any such thing has oc- cured in Alaska. Never before has there been any hesitancy in favor ing the miners such a reasonable request as that. Why should there be? It costs the govrnment nothing, it cntailed no additional district labor. Even if the camp proved s fiZzle and it's existence ephemera; the offices could be closed up with out any difficulty or trouble or ex- lnese in the slightest.
 On the other hand if recorder is appointed, the miners stalking claims are subjected to no hardship. There is no uncertainty ot title. There is no inconvenience in recording deeds. No time is lost. No labor miscarri et and wasted on trail. No money is thrown away in useless trGvellins expenses that could be used in pros pocting.
 The whole theory of the Alaskan mining law is founded on the sup position that the records of any di. strict are of convenient access and can be reached with little d~lay and less cost. The regulations are founded upon that theory The sec. tions of the code are actually to be carried out only strictly on that theory
 It is not supposed that miners and prospectors are to waste half sea son on the trail or all a grub stake in roadhouse expenses. It is not supposed that the miner to record his proof of labor will have to trust . the tender mcrcies of private individual to get thcm recorded in time.
 That line in the communication certainly struck this paper "somc- one ought to be ashamed". We cer- tainly think the man or men who misrepresent conditions and customs in Alaska so to Judge Tucker, have every reason to feel that they acsedt