The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-06-05

town yesterday. Most of the dumps | are now in a fair way to being put through the boxes, although the | cold if wet weather is in some in stances delaying the thawing of the muck where it is frozen hard. Gus Fegerdahl, an old timer on Seward Peninsula, and formerly in l charge of the Timber roadhouse, | passed away yesterday afternoon | from cancer of the liver. The de- ceased arrived here from Council for treatment but his case was then too far gone for any help being possible. He died in the Holy Cross Hospital.
 The Wild Goose Co.,. which has ! reboxed It's heating mains on Lanes I Way and in doing so piled a quan- | tity of overburden on the street, does not intend to leave it there for ever. The company will scrape the dirt to the north of the build ing and thus make it perform a double, function: filling a hole and keeping the cold air from circulat- ing under the tin bank.
 | FOR SALE: First class range -
 Star State. Chiffoniers, Dressers
 Wash stands. Mirrors, Tables. Iron
 Beds. Mattresses Linoleum and
 general Furnishings. For part
 apply Mrs. A. G. Oliver, 321 First
 Ave. Cali between 12 and 6 pm
 Harry Conrad. the Bangor creek miner. returned to town on Satur- day. coming in after men to in- crease his force on the hydraulic operations in that section. The water supply is good and they are ready for piping. Bruner on Pros. pect creek has opened up pit and several other outfits are getting ir the way of working.
 The Pioneer Mining Co. has now one lift going in successful opera. tion. This is much earlier than ir preceding years. Moreover the ice conditions in the pits are said to be much more favorable. being ever SC much lighter than in other years The company has almost got two weeks start on other years of active productive mining.
 The Telephone Go. which in tho vicinity of the Alaska Lighterag' Co.'S plant had doped out a fint modern plan for subterranean wire installation, has changed that ow ing to the difficulty of digging tht way for the lines. So yesterday tht poles were changed to another site and the overhead installation con tinued where it would be out of tht way.
 The Belinda when at Tishou wal informed that the Little Diomede: had captured two and the native. on the Big Diomedes captured three big whales. The taking of these bowheads would keep the natives in that section in an ample suppl, of blubber for some time to come
 Incidentally there will be lots 0 bone available for some enterpris ing trader A man who is ac quainted with the trade says tha the continuance of the war is to ex cite higher prices for whalebon which has taken an unearthly slum several years before it broke ou, , Steel substitutes are not now s
 much in vogue. and as the price !, gone away up even for steel, bon
 will have a better chance and wi be worth picking up. For the pas few years traders have been inclir ed to regard whalebone as not very desirable commodity becaus the low price made it unprofitabl owing to the lack of demand. AS a I substitutes are now away up, tn whalebone will come again into it own, for it was always just littl 2 better than the substitutes in a lines for which it was used. Ne' uses for bone are also being dis 6 covered in the form of insulatio material in electric install llations.