The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-09-20
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Victoria yesterday at the instance of Lieutenant Perrine, U. s. A. by de- putty Marshal Holland. The men | left the service at St. Michaels to | enjoy the delights of a trip outside and the fuller life which the cribbed cabined and confined existence on | the island of St. Mikes denied them.
 However their trip was nipped ill
 the bud, and they were brought
 back probably to face court martial
 for their indulgence in a temporary
 wanderlust.
 Pete Gervais returned from a trip
 of investigation in Marshal and his
 account while not depreciative is
 also not at all likely to occasion any
 wild stampede. Five claims are pay
 ing The output of the camp to
 date is not less than $250,000 and
 one man paid as much as twenty | thousand dollars for one lease. Two 1 hundred and fifty men are working
 and all active with five dollars
 day and board to their credit. The
 eight hour day is an accomplished
 fact tn re Deputy Marshal Lee has
 taken charge of the law enforcement
 functions in the camp. So far it is all summer work. There is however l aof no n low which this winter is to be drill
 led and if pay is found to warrant it, as the miners hope, they will
 prospect Al Braten returned to St.
 Mikes after some more provisions and has as much freight as he can take along. There were some sup
 plies short and these were being | asked for in St. Michals. It is as
 good a camp for it's size as in AL aska at present.
 A. Wittenberg received commit nication from Captain Leo Wltten- | berg. the Sinbad of the family, who is now en route to the Arctic to
 make the deeds of dering-do chalk ed to the credit of the Stefansson | outfit look like thirty cents on
 dark night before the lights are turned on. They made Barrow in
 fine shape without word of trouble
 among the crew and all happy ia
 milv as if were. Leo wrote when
 they were about to sail for Herschel. He said that owing to the lateness
 of the season they did not hope to
 make Victoria Land this summer,
 but would winter instead at Her
 schel island, renewing their journey the following year. Leo said that they would be out of gasoline and
 would have to have some sent up next year. They reported that Beck land traded with the Anna Olga for all her goods where he met them at Wainwright, and the Anna olga started again back to the Arctic. The letter was written ill good spl- rits and Wittenberg praises Captain
 Crawford as a Bayard of the sea, without fear and without reproacn. William Maloney, Territorial Min ing Inspector arrived over from St.
 Michaels on the steamer victoria. Mir. Maloney has made a complete inspection of all the interior camps including the Tolovana, the Kusko- kwim, Ruby and Marshal as well as
 Fairbanks and Iditarod and will now spend some time in the Second Division completing his inspection of the various mining activities. Ills opinion of Marshal is that it will be i good little camp, pay is found on five claims, and some of these are very rich. So far the country will stand a lot of development before being in the same class as Nome and
 Fairbanks. There are very many working there, and things are gen orally good with an eight hour day and a wage rate of five and board. The Tclstoi camp he did not visit. But two claims are really pro ducers, and there has to be even still more work done there and more found to place the Tolstoi section in class or placer camps The dry weather somewhat hampered operations in , the interior and it was indeed a very dry season. How long 1nspe- tor Maloney vii remain here de-
 bends upon the time his work will take in this district As with every other inspecting or travelling off cial, a good deal depends upon the connection by land or water one is