The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-02-16
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prospecting outfit to the Bum assc- citation about half a. mile east of Connolly's ground on Dexter.
 Arthurs and M'Curdy have an out it moved to the Gopher claim on Dexter where they will operate it pay is encountered.
 Cold 1t was yesterday and the coa. bills kept rising in inverse ratio to the temperature. Coal, did we say? Barney Coggins is now operating on one of the most extensive pay streaks has ever been worked Tn Nome during the winter time on his ground on Dexter. The paystreak Is about eighteen feet in height and there is good pay from the bed rock up to the end of the strcck.
 The Solomon Derby was set for today, but with the cold blast that kept things moving that were loose around Nome last night, it is just possible the Kennel Club may have to endure another portponement.
 Advices received from Point Hope on the last mail from there, stato that there is almost an entire ab- senco of foxes this winter and no catch 'em is the feet that the na- tives face.
 This is from tho Juneau Empire:
 George Church, a mining engineer of New York who wGs here to ex- amino mining property at Aux Bay controlled by Senator Frank A. Al drich, and who has been spending the past two weeks there. returned yesterday and registered at the Occidental. He was accompanied by Senator Aldrich. MT. Church repre- sents a group of New York capital ists who have become interested in the property through the personal efforts of Mir. Aldrich who recently made a trip to New York. MT, Church left on the Alameda last night.
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 The mail committee of the Cham ber of Commerce is supcrlatively energetic and is wiring outside to locate the mysterious mail which iS congested nowhere according to or ficial authority, but seems to have disappeared. May be they have some mysterious cold storage plant hidden in some lonely section of the route.
 The cable is still down. Whether it is being repaired or just left where it is, the Industrial Worker cannot say. To add to the convent ences of the situation the Dominion line which has been staying up quite a while this trip, went down somewhere south of Dawson yester- day.
 A very interesting meeting oT the Federated Aid Society YVES held yesterday afternoon, and there was large attendance. Plans for the patriotic festival were completec. A delicious lunch was served by Mrs. Aver and Mrs. Stevenson. Mrs. Bonnet and her helpers will deco ratc the church Thursday afternoon, and other committees will meet at the same time.
 Elmer Reed when in Teller sold at Marshals sale a drcdge which operated in that section or the couc- try and like other dredgcs failed to pay the mon who were hired. The amount paid for this machine is said. to have been about five hund- red bones, but whether that will recoup the employees who worked on the dredge or not, the Industrial Worker is not in a position to say.
 It is stated that the drodge was bought in by Hirschberg who is up there at the present time on Sunset These infant industries!
 It. is expected that the outside mail, first class included in the batch, will arrive this evening un- less the bad blizzard which blew blastingly like blazes yesterday de- lays the carrier.
 Irving Reed and Mrs. Reed ar rived yesterday evening from Solo mon with Chris Jensen's string oi