The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-02-17

is there for tangled titles and dis. putcd claims
 i The assurance of protection which satisfactory record arrangements af- ford the average prospector Is one matter which rebounds not little to the development of a camp. The little conveniences of life such as al post office, a record office and the like add not a little to the confident development of the resources of any district. This has boon always recognizen as an essential in every mining camp, and Dime is no exception. 1
 It is not a fortunate stato of af- fairs that men should in ordor to avoid the expensive trip to Council be compelled to re-stake and re- locate the claims timo after time when the limits expire, and thus avoid if not the letter, yet the spirit of the mining laws.
 1 It is reported that tho receipts of the Council precinct are small enough now for any commissioner and altogether too small to be divid- ed. From the viewpoint of. an of
 ficial only who considers the public serving his convenience, and not hls duty being to serve the public, that argument can stand. It is not one
 that can possibly be used in opening
 up a new country, for it leaves
 Council no worse off than before
 the activities which have arisen in the Koyuk country and which now cry for the appointment of Re corder. The Industrial Worker has re- ceived a dozen communications from miners who state the need for Recorder to be appointed. Those letters contained many arguments for such an appointment. Up to this | none has been put forward which , would show that the appointment | is undesirable.
 It has been hinted that all kinds of strings are being pulled by var ious claimants for the office. That is quite possible. But that is not the point The point is, here is new camp developing into consider able importance opening up new country bound to grow in import ance sooner or later, already pro | ductive of an independent gold out put, the center of active mining ope- rations, the scene of investment for thousands of dollars and the labor of hundreds, camp which contri- buted in no small degree to the ac- tivity of Nomc as distributing point last fall when thousands worth of merchandise, material and ma chinery. were bought and shipped to the Koyuk-here is a camp without any proper recording office for tie convenience of those miners who at great risk to themseves, at great | expense and enormous labor ana much sacrifice are building tho fu- ture for a country that will make for the territory's future prosperity in no small degree, but where no such small conveniences as they ask for are easily accorded thcm Alaska's whole importance at the present time has developed absolute ly and wholly upon such prospectors as a are making camp in the Ko- yuk It is the stampeder and the prospector who take all the chances who opened up Nome, Fairbanks, Ruby, the Iditarod. They have made Alaska household word throughout the United States and one of the most important adjuncts of the governments administration The government certainly owes it to such. men that their needs be satisfied. especially when they are so easily and inexpensively and simply satisfied as in the case of a resident recorder in the Koyvk coun try.