The daily Nome industrial worker., 1918-04-13
NEWS ITEMS FROM VARIOUS
 SECTIONS 2ND, DIVISION

place on April 3. The ladies were out making trial runs every day and as much interest was taken in the coming race as of the Sweep stakes. There is some talk of try ing to get the Sweepstakes race run to Dime creek next year. An effort will be made to get a government wireless station established in the camp, to which Dime is surely en- titled. Next winter all mail for Dime, Candle, the Kobuk and points to the northward will be sent direct from Unalaklcet by way of Dime. The route is an ideal one, since there is only two low divides between the coast and Candle, and these northern points will get their mail as quickly as Nome. We were shown the greatest hospitality while in Dime, and our only regret was that we could not stay indefinately. We had invitations to visit every camp on the creek, and availed ourselves of the opportunity to partake of the good eats provided by tho famous chefs of Dime. There seem to be no lack of food in the camps, al- though the stores are running short on several staples. Eight or ten native teams are engaged hauling supplies from Candle and Deering to Dime, adding from to cents extra for every pound laid down at Dime.
 "We left Dime, March 27, and made the run to Candle, 62 miles, in 91a hours. This trail is an ideal one, and after going over the low divide from Sweepstakes to the Kiwalik, it is down grade and level the whole way. Tom Thompson, who had a contract for stacking the trail for the Divisional Road Com mission from Dime to Snyder's, 43 miles, where it connects with the trail from Council to Candle, made an excellent job of it. From Dime the trail goes over to Peace river, up Moon creek, down Sweepstakes and over the divide to the head of the Kiwalik river. and then down the Kiwalik valley. It is a regular boulevard, and one constantly meets dog teams freighting or travelling be- tween Dime and Candle. The Ter ritorial Shelter Cabin erected on Quartz creek, 34 miles from Dime, is in constant use by mushers. It is warm and comfortable and the fire is hardly ever out. When we stopped there for lunch, no less than four teams were there ahead of us.
 Candle is very quiet this winter and but little prospecting is going on up the creek. There are about 125 people in Candle and the country adjacent to it. Candle has two stores, one hotel and one restaurant running, a hospital, moving picture show and two candidates for polite al honors. Deering is also quiet, but most of the old timers are up the river prospecting or mining. Tracy Swanson and Dick Hammond have found some pay which is just a wages proposition. The COrdovado outfit is working with about six men and by the way, is observing the S-hour law, although they are only paying $500 per day.
 Coming back to Candle, we took the Candle Council trail and were three days making Council There is very little travel over this route any more, and it was a case of of the way from Snyders to Boston cabin, where we met the mail team from Council. The weather was glorious, however, and even the famed Death Valley lay bathed in sunshine as we crossed it. There are no people at any of the cabins on this route, and a person has to take along enough grub for the trip. There are cabins as Snyder's, First Chance, Haven Telephone and Bos- ton.
 After staying a day and meeting the people of Council, we made the run to Nome iii two drives, stcpnirg at Solomon over night. At timber, on the Klokerblok river, VIC inspected the Shelter Cabin built by, Duffy O'Conner for the Divisional Road Commission. The cabin, built of logs, is put up in splendid manner and is about es comfortable a cabin as enc would run across in many days travel and does the builder