The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-03-02
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| The mail, all second class except some first class way matter, ar rived yesterday afternoon. The Teller and Kougarok mails loft yesterday.
 A number of prospectors sent out fits out to Dexter yesterday. Harry Bloomfield was an arrival yesterday from Solomon. MT. Wheeler the proprietor of the Iron Creek Roadhouse is a visitor to the Seward Peninsula metropolis. Henry Weber and Frank Preston left on Tuesday to inspect the Sea Wolf at Safety.
 The cold weather is booming coal again.
 Walter Shields after inspecting the Council reindeer herd will leave for his annual trip of inspection north. He is travelling by reindeer team all the way.
 The funeral of Leo Watkin was held yesterday afternoon, the Catho- lie burial service being read in st.. Joscph's Church. Quite a large number of friends and acquaintanccs of the deceased followed the re- mains of the unfortunate victim of an industrial accident to the ceme- tery.
 It is estimated by an officer of the Chamber of Commerce, taking into the consideration the total monies expended in Alaska from a remote period by the Federal government to the present day, the Second Division did not get one per cent of tho total and the Industrial Worker suggests that if the salaries are docked from those appropriations, it will be found that the Second Division ac- tually did not have spent on it's roads, buildings, etc. seventy-five per cent of that one per cont. As far as appropriations are concerned, no one can accuse the Second Division of digging deep into the Pork Bar rel, and the chunks obtained there from were neither luscious nor bulky nor savory.
 Reports brought back by hand,- cap racers state that the mining on the new paystreak off Solomon river and unquestionably an old creek channel, is showing up very well in- deed and quite bit of money will be even taken out this winter. Old man Superstition, who has re- sided on Chicagoff Island, Alaska, ever since that place of mountainous land was first discovered by Russian freebooters has received another jolt, says the Seattle Times. Copper has been discovered on the West coast of Il e island by E. E. Hem ming and Arthur Whitehead, both formerly of Nome. Furthermore. they shipped $1O,OOO worth of min ing equipment and supplies to the scene of their discovery, It was still a generally accepted theory that there was no copper or other metal on the island After the discovery of the Chichaoff veins search was made for gold-bearine rocks but nobody thought of looking for copper. Everybody agreed there was none. It was not a copper country All the copper was over in the Prince William Sound region. Why waste time looking for it on the Island?
 But Flemming and Whitehead have kicked hole in this theory. They found some tremendous chunks of copper orc on the beech, fourteen miles from the Chichagoff .mine. Somo of the pieces of ore had barn- acles on them. They searched around and discovered the ledge ot copper ore from which they were shed. It runs out under the sea, much the same as the Ellamar mine. The ore can be loaded from the vein into barge, and deep water ships can be anchored 2,OOO feet distant.
 The outfit shipped includes an air compressor, boiler and full mining, loou;pmont hip crnw 0f mon will