The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-02-21
COMMUNICATED.
The Editor Nome Industrial

Worker:
 Dear Sir: Gazing down the valley where Dime creek winds its way, I can count the smoke from a dozen boilers ascending heavenwards de- noting by its presence that the har- dy miners are determined to find out what Mother Earth has been try ing to conceal for centuries past. Everybody here now is comfortably housed, all living in log cabins so warm that you can lie inside tand laugh to scorn Jack Frost's greatest efforts and the blizzards of the North as it roams outside is bereft of hu- man victims. There are no cooks in this camp suffering from cold feet. For boilers and home consumption wood is the fuel used and as a con- sequence the slopes of Dime creek are getting fast stripped of natures garb. When the feathery songsters of the grove return here next spring to reproduce ther kind, they will find the giants of the forest wherc- in they built their nests levelled to the ground by the ruthless hands or this advance guard of civilization, carted away to produce steam to thaw and hoist what preachers term the root of all evil,
 Judge Fuckers letter denying the men of this district the privilege ot commissioners office was very dis appointing to all of us. He said the time was not yet ripe, that there was nothing permanent in the camp, and of course like all good judges he slides into his cushioned chair. brings his judicial wisdom into play, and finally comes co the conclusion that the only way to maKe good camp out of it, is to deny the men here every privilege and put them to all the inconvenience that can poss- | ibly bc done. For instance, if a man stakes claim down here it is trip to Council, one hundred miles and one hundred miles backbone hundred dollars expenocs-and that | is not all the assessment work has | to be recorded, another 1UU miles to Council, 100 miles back, and an- other s100 expenses. Is there any l.sense or justice in a proposition of that kind? How far better it would be for the ease of mind of the man and the material development ot this part of the country if he could walk into the Recorders Office here, record his claim and take the $200 and time and energy absolute ly wasted on the trail, and go out and sink holes and determine the value of his claims. Here we are, isolated away beneath the shadow | of the Arctic Circle, astride the northern extremity of this little planet of ours, digging and delvins down into the frozen bowels or Mother Earth, trying to extract thercfrom a little of the golden fleece The man that blazed the trails to Dawson, to Fairbanks, to Nome, to the Koyuk, we have built
 up this great empire of the north. It is the duty of the government to aid these men by placing every cor lvenionce at their disposal and where a government fails to do that, 1t is not doing it's duty or performing the functions for which 1t is insti- tuted among men. The thorny path
 of the prospector is bcset with trials and obstacles enough without the powers that be throwing few more
 in. his way. Every man here is un-
 animously in favor recorders of
 flee where deeds etc can be drawn |up and work recorded without being
 compelled to. run over to Council
 under conditions which I have al-
 ready described.
 + (This Communication by MT. M. Young Is so lengthy that we ale obliged to hold over pcrticn of l.
 for tomorrow's isCue.)
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