The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-10-10
10. THE STAMPEDEHS:

 strike on a creek in tho Good News Bay country may or may not ma ierialize But in any event some strike of dimensions is aHnut due. Alaska cannot get On without strike that will occasion stam- peGe and it is so lcng now ilce there has occurred such a one that many even of the sourdoughs are losing the habit.
 Those were good o1d days waen the miner dropped eVrrJtfl'.,5 and loaded up for some new strike where riches, beyond the idle dreams of solitary winter sleep were supposed to be hidden fo' the seeking. The excitnrlent Of trAlN and camp--the struggle to stake and to jump. the etjort ta get T.: on the ground floor that might sc cure one for ever and day against the present time damnation of ac- tual poverty.
  seldom realized their hearts desire. 1t is true that man% blanks ana 10 prizes were secretod m the draw ing that Fate had ordained. but the excitement was thrilling ahd the fever of the hopes aroused hN the prospects ahead were sur>ulat- ing enough to make the miners want more of it.
 The great days of early l<londike ,1r early Nome, who tha has been thru them will forget thcm' Even thc trials. troubles and tribulations that were encountered. very real and very severe thrn, are now sub laCts of pleasing memory and occa- sion for rejoicing.
 These were indeed the initiatory procedures through which prospect ors went in attaining that standard of sourdoughdom that gave men standing in the community. These were indeed the obstacles that had to be overcome before the mer could clairI of right their heritage of the NOrthland.
 Since these days men have come to regard the wonderful past of tho Yukon and of the beach digging: As a dream: a nightmare through which the sourdoughs had passed and through which the" would have their title to honOrs ftiv ar'"ated.
 Today Alaska is settling down t( more sober times. The stampede i' regarded with misgiving a gamble The stampeder own brother 70 th' tramp. being belonging 10 th' genus pariah with no place to cal home and none whcreon to lay hi head.
 The gold stampede is withal on of the most interesting facts Il connection with the settlement o new countries It has been char acteristic of all pioneering. It ha been with us since the days whe human beings were nomadic in the' in their habits and sought fires fields and pastures new for thei fiocks And just as dessicatio drought, aridness drove communi mites of nomads from place t place, so can the economic urge b traced, in all these apparentl futile wanderings of humanlt from pillar to post in search C riches and betterment
 The same instinct, reason, intell gence which guided the Arabs fold their tents and steal away another oasis where their tiocks an themselves could have plenty is { the back of the rash of humanit for the spells everywhere.
 Alaskans may indeed glcaa oVt .hc real purport of these wande ,ngs. these stampcdings, but it is u ,eagcrness to acquire wealth, ina pondence and to rid oneself of il pressing economic necessity, th; drive people to Alaska and hith' and thither in their search for sol
 We may turn to any new coul try where gold has been found { other wealth in land and minera and we will see exactly the san phenomena In Australia the mi CTS Hooked to Ballarat, to Bendig 90 Mount Morgan, to CoClgardi