The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-01-02

rOk. TO each Ot the latter places mails leaves on the first and of every month during the winter time.
 There is said to be revival of in. terest in Sandspit lots following the report that there is a likelihood ot the government constructing a jetty and harbor at Snake river mouth. Sor,e wise ones when the project was first mooted had looked into the matter of lots near the mouth of make river and t is understood ac- Guired what they could. quietly and without inflating the prices. Now, it is certain some of those lots will become more valuable by reason ot the harbOr and the owners are going to hang on to them for grim death. It is certain that there will be no hesitation in paying taxes upon some lots on the Sandspit and it would surprise no one if there was some activity in moribund real estate in that section.
 While this weather may not have been so popular With consumers of fuel owing to the high costs of that prime necessity, the fact that the weather has been what it was, is re lished by the Telephone Go. I le lack of wind and s1..w storms has result ed in less line troubles this winter than in year.. The lines have been running clear and without inter ruption now practically since the close of navigation anG even local troubles have vanished to the ire ducible minimum. This is all due of course to the exceptionally calm and cold weather that has prevailed. It is an ill wind that blows no one any good, said -he old saw. but the telephone comJl', profits by no wind at all.
 There was a hiyu skookum time yesterday afternoon among the various lodges when the members exchanged New Years greetings while they partook of the hospital ity and cheer that their hosts had provided. After two o'clock visiting lodges became one of the principal New Year activities yesterday, and wassail bowls were plentifully in evidence on that cordial occasion Among those which kept open houses were the Moose, the Eagles, the Pioneers and the Arctic Brother hood and all were we'll equipped to function as hosts to visiting frater- mites. In the evening the Moose gave a dance in the small Eagle Lodge just to wind up the days festivities and today is-the morning after.
 Not in many New Years mornings was there such an epidemic of stalk ing as very quietly seemed to take full hold of number of miners and prospectors in Nome this year of 1917. Yet there was not section of this district where they did not show up and where new owners did not locate ground, some of which has been held by others for quite a number of years. Out on Dexter al though the night was clear, lanterns might be seen guiding the hatchet and pencil men over the ground while some of the stakers studied blue prints or tried to study them by the light of the lanterns that they carried Away down on the second beach there were stakers go
 ing beyond Cunningham and other
 creeks where old claims were swap
 ped for new ones by the restless pro
 spector. And as far on the west a'
 Jess creek the midnight locator wa'
 very much in evidence. Close a
 hand on Center creek where all th'
 ground has been held for year
 some new mineral divisions of pro
 perty were made by the stakers whll
 along the third beach line some wh
 had been quietly waiting for tn
 New Year to materialize sallied fort to do their location work. It is no
 all of these may yet be recorded
 and some of these new locations ma
 not stand the test should somethin
 be found upon them. but it show
 that there are several who yet be
 lieve that over. ground which ha
 been trampled on and worked fo
 years, there is still homestake cor
 cealed which yet may be got by sin
 ing and drifting.