The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-07-26


 engaged in mining on the second beach line where he has near Hast ings extensive holdings arrived in town yesterday after supplies. | Fred Harrison, the Marshal lawyer | is here on professional business. iIe says that things are much the same on Willow creek. Some drilling is being continued by Watson and Co | on the lower end of Willow, but no one knows what are the results. As they are persisted in, it appears that they are not wholly unfavorable The first clean up had been pulled off before he left, and it amounted to $29,0G0 for that claim, which was not unfavorable.
 Take Your Lunch and Dinner at the Board of Trade iunch Counter, onl, J0r.
 It is an interesting sight to ob- serve the Nome harbor now filled with important members of the mos quito fleet and all held within the river by reason of the low water on the Snake river bar. The boats in the river at present waiting for favorable conditions of wind and | tide are the Ram, the Jewel Guatd, | the Nokatak, the Aguilett, the Be- | linda, the Se2 Lion, the Standard The latter is already laden and is waiting the first opportunity to slip off it's mooring lines and move out of the stream for the Koyuk which will be today in all probability. The channel of the river mouth is still swinging towards the city and the row of piling which formerly marked the eastern bank now lines the western bank of the stream while away out where formerly was the mouth there is now quite an ex- tensive sand spit.
 Pioneer YglOo Hotel. Rooms $2 .OO & $:}.OO per week and up. 50 cents per night. Housekeeping Apart ments.
 Some day. some magician will come along and explain the workings of a mail clerk $ mind in solving the questions Of mail routing in Alaska, but that magician has got to arrive and there's no man in Fortuna Ledge with gray matter enough to solve the problem, and they give it up as Nome did long ago. An ar rival on the Silver Wave dilates at length upon the special features of the mystery and the story is of in terest. "Theoretically we have a once a week mail service, but as it consists of about a mail sack at a time, what they do with the ba- lance we do not know. It's an A. Y. N. contract and that's too sacred for the general public to criticize anyway" said an arrival upon the Silver Wave from Marshal camp. we have a once month mail ser vice in the winter time and Christi 18th and 1st of each month with his other freighting from St. Mi chaels for $50 which We raised by voluntary subscription. The post master at St. Michaels had before that sent the mail regularly by everyone who came to Marshal and in consequence we got mail regular ly and pretty often at that. But when Christiansen showed him his contract with us he refused to turn over the mail pending orders. Ran daIl the mail clerk at Tanana was the postal genius referred to by the F. NJ. at St. Michaels and he re- piled referring the latter to section something paragraph number some thing wherein it was provided that no private contractor could compete with the government man. That killed the Christiansen contract for the time being while we referred to Washington and an order came down to send the mail by the pri- vate carrier. That was ill March however when it was too late. We had mail on 22 May and another on the 22nd of June and it con- sists since of a sack now and then It comes down, not up the river and what is done with it goodness knows. Ever heard of the man they sent out to Morningside who tried to make water run up hill? Ii was sane proposition compared tC the mail clerks action with regard