The Nome nugget., 1923-02-17
ENTHUSIASTIC CHAMBER
 OF COMMERCE. MEETING
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I the people to enable it to get back Of every proper effort for the bet terment and advancement Of every ! activity in our section.
 How we'll we have lived up to our principles and how successfully we have carried out the wishes of our citizens can be better told by enum- erating the numerous activities of the past year briefly and point or the work and program laid ahead. | ,lst.-Purdhas of Nome Kou- gafrok Railroad. The consumation oi this deal. without dispute. is the most important action taken and | successfully carried out after much la Dor and considerable expense. To go into the history of this move ment would be too long and tire smoe for you to listen to. as we have on file hundreds of telegrams and dozens of reports many of them voluminous. but will content myself by calling to your attention that we must keep in touch with the same and see that the work of rehabilita- ton of the railroad commences when the season opens up. When the work is we'll under way we should endeavor to have the same extended and feeder wagon roads
 built. This trunk line should b'. added to year after year until a system of roads is built touching ! every center and outlet of our Pen insula and then and then only we can say that the real development of our section has begun.
 2nd.-While we are on the sub ject of Roads I am glad to report that while during the last year no new large project was started, we l can safely hope as almost all the big projects are well under close proximity of completion, that with
 the present we'll organized Road Commission and the several new avenues open for funds we enter active work diseminating our Road needs and cooperate with our Dele gate and Road Commission we vii be able to accomplish more in year from now than we have bee
 able to put over in the past in sev- eral years.
 |. 3rd Nome Harbor-In this we anxously have waited it's compile tion and last season the dredging of very limited amount of mater ial contract was let and completed, but the results were disappoint- ment to all that have ardously work ed for it's completion. The low water in the fall demonstrated that the original amount of material, as ! was provided in the first dredging contract, must still be removed in order to make this enterprise use | full
 The Department of U. s. Engi- neers, through the Juneau office,
 have demanded of our City Council the payment of the $250O.00, the amount agreed upon in the year of
 1916, almost seven years ago, being
 the city share of the expense of
 maintenance after completion. At
 a meeting held recently between
 the City officials and the Board of Directors of our Chamber 1t was
 decided to back the city in their
 contention and stand firm upon the fact that the city Is only too will iLg to cooperate and contribute It's
 share of expense in the maintenance
 in accordance with the written az.
 grements entered into.
 It Is therefore evident that our
 organization must still be in active
 agitation to have this work ordered
 and done and this must be entered
 into immediately.
 In the matter of the cfty's share
 of Harbor expense 1t ifs the opinion
 of many that the City should be re-
 lieved of paying this amount an
 rually until the city win erect suit
 able docks and warehouses and the
 revenue of same applied thereon,
 but until then the city cannot both
 build docks and maintain its pro-
 portion of expense as we all know
 that the taxable property in the
 city is very limited and now much over valued and taxed the limit al
 lowed by law. suggest that our
 delegation in Juneau be instructed
 to see that an appropriation be
 made for Nome or a portion of the
 Road fund be used for same as Hn kI-~