The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-05-17

season.
 ] The men who gamble in paystreaks generally lose out. But in doing so at any rate they develop the coun- try. They locate where is either dredging or hoisting pay. And if it wasn't for them half the auriferous country in the north would neve: have been explored
 Not one in a hundred mining compnies would think of sinking ou ground where pay has not been To- cated, and often enough pay has been found where no one but a luna- tic with a millionaires head and fun of pipe dreams would ever think of sinking
 ] Now the men who do this are the, men who work all summer for wages, and in the fall find a few hundred dollars jingling in their pockets; they gather up hose ana piping and stilson wrenches and in- jectors and nipples and connections and picks and shovels and boiler
 junk and with a few ton of coal, q few months provisions and an old ramshackle cabin move out to some
 place they have hazy crazy notion there may be gold. The coal mar
 gets the benefit of it, the grocer gets the benefit of it, the hardware men profit by it and there are all kinds of little side entertainments that owe their existence to him.
 It is an obvious fact that the pay roll keeps the camp agoing and it is equally obvious that if every wage worker left in the fall for the out side there would be no roof gardens, no picture shows, no annual balls, no card socials-no social functions of any kind, and the business men living upon themselves would have mighty slim picking.
 On the other hand if the wage worker remains he either stocks up his cabin or risks his little wad punching holes to gratify his hope of finding pay where no one elss would thing of looking for it. If he knows that if he remains in the country and takes it easy or takes i. hard during the winter he stands just as good show as the next man of getting a job without having to leave on the last boats to bring it in with him on the first boats in the spring, he will stay and take chances.
 And if this policy is pursued, look ing at it entirely from the business mans standpoint, every one is the better of it. The bank makes more profit than on bills of exchange, the grocery man, it stands to reason, reaps a profit from feeding and out fitting and there's marked business activity generally.
 But, as stated, that sort of thing has not prevailed. Dredgemen with their eyes open for additional ground wondered why no one prospected and discovered it for them; men who had rustled up transient work CTS for mining companies forgot all about getting the old timers a chance although they depended upon them.
 Now that there is likelihood of this condition being changed and an effort made to have residents and employed as much as possible it it good sign, first from the workers standpoint it will ensure greater probability that the standard scale will be maintained, and se- condly that they will not face starva- tiOn from an overlooked market every summer; second because it betters business men who no doubt have ther eye upon the profit factor as the main point.
 When all is said and done wit,lou. the man below, the wage worker, there is no prosperity. Business Is dull and jawbone circulates instead l of the real thing. And jawbone Is the thing that the business men most detest.
 Conditions as they now obtain | I1. ~I.A the mining and business interests themselves. It is just as we'll they realize conditions before too late, if not too late.