The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-07-20
ALASKA NEWS ITEMS
 AND TOWN TOPICS

Autoists are making frequent
 trips to the hills whSre they are | robbing the scenery of the beauti- | full wild flowers for transplanting
 in Nome gardens. A number of flower enthusiasts have greatly i'm
 proved their premises by this
 means and genuine Alaska flowers
 which can be relied upon to bloom
 haze been t-ansplante,l from the
 t'ndra to the city garIens.
 Neil M'Nab, wearing mosquito net as protection against the pests of the North, was an arrival on the
 Nokatak from Dime creek. He has
 been sojourning there quite a while but has not made up his mind
 whether or not to return. There i5
 very little work now in Dime | creek. small crew is being em- ployed by Olson in ditch construc-
 tion and that is about all. Carl
 Rylander has finished up his drift
 ing and hoisting. It was reported
 that he had run out of pay, for
 there as elsewhere the creek iS
 spotted There was little doing
 cutting wood as the mosquitoes
 barred any from doing much among
 the timber. There would be re
 newed activity later on and mean
 time the summer work would be | abandoned for winter hoisting.
 The wood shortage had by no
 means in any way been relieved.
 For the first time in many
 years there has been absolutely no
 trading with the Siberian natives
 this year. Not one boat has been
 outfitted to start on such a trip.
 The merchants and others appear
 to be uneasy lest the unsettled state
 of thing anticipated over there
 might result in the confiscation of the ship and it's trading cargo as
 happened to the Diamond l. some
 time ago There is hardly any such
 danger and it was stated here on
 authority that any person who got
 license from the Russian revenue
 cutter there could trade to his
 hearts content along the Siberian
 coast. There is one outfit here
 which arrived from the outside and
 which made inquiries looking to-
 wards securing a schooner or other
 boat to take three men and pros , pecting equipment over to Siberia, This expedition was being equipped and financed by a Californian fin
 ancier but whether he made con
 nections with a shipping man will ing to take over the party is not known. As far as can be known he did not. Moreover it is not known by what right any American can go to Anadir and prospect or } whether the older system which was l in vogue under the empire still pre-
 vails under the republic. There is l very considerable wealth in the tri-
 butaries of Anadir, a short distance
 up this great navigable stream is bountiful supply of coal and many of the creeks have already l, been proved to be rich, quite a 3 large quantity having actually been taken out of there, it would thus s seem that all that is needed is for t the Siberian authorities to give the = word and there will be brand new l town springing up in Anadir Bay . where English will be the predC- s minant language and Americans the 0 principle race of people who will 2 settle there. If the Chamber oi = Commerce only knew it, by sccur- e ing from PetrOgrad the proper
 forms for stalking and settling CT
 ground in Siberia they could star k old Nome booming this fall as the supply point of a stampede sucf
 as has never been before in all 1t!
 history As it is, il is un0erstOot ;, quite number are HOW seeking l. information for themselves on this