The Nome nugget., 1931-03-28
LEGISLATIVE NEEDS SECOND DIVISION

ior ;he development 't t4oss. two .ytSt named creek uks t0 the rl@r1-s Of Thoma- < tr4nley, who was instrumental n obtaining five
 thousand dollars laa- summer thru
 Jh+ Territorial Road Engineer ;o
 start this much needed road. TAi> , read al the present time has been isJ.4!te'd and We urgently reque-t
 that at least it be continued as l far as sunset this coming sumner, land further if possible, Last sum
 mer at Sunset creek considerable
 preliminary work was done com l mensurate to getting the property i, in shape to mine it inteliigently and there is no doubt that con sjdeTa ble work will he done on | this property this coming season. ConseQ enly yru zee the urgen: and immediate need of this DIT: of tbs road.
 Thft an additional wagon road
 Of a; least 20 mi.es be added tp the Nbme-GlI.!t rod to eE4elu 1t further up into Snake RiFr" and Stewart River regions. as
 there are thousands of acres Of
 dredging ground awaiting traue- creeks were worked by hand met
 hods in the early days and paid dividends, but It ca1no now b. worked proftably except by tho small dred ging process The price of fre'@ht to th's se-':o1 at ,Ne present time is prohibitive, con-e- cuently there are no chances of
 drtSlGcs being transported unless 3 road is built to minimize freigh' rates. This road will also serve
 transportation for four difeTen quartz prospects of which good
 a>- y9 have been obeaiEed on al! af t!!eT.. We feel sure that ii ti'- rad $ cOnStructed that the owners Of these quartz properties will have lirtle trpuble in obtain ing interested rapftal tp continu" their prospecting
 Starting from a point about q mile and a half or two miles be low Fort Davis on the Nome-Solo-
 mon road. sHmeW here near the Old Chicken Ranch. We advise that ;t raad be run directly north 70 con meet with q road on Osborn creek This passes over a number of creeks ntmely. Irene. Sweepstakes Moss Gul"h. Stevens, Laredo and i Washington creeks, all of which in ] the earlier day.. pradueed consider able money with tho crude hand methods then in u>re Last sum mer one mining outfit onerated lon one of thos4 creeks and pro- Iduced considerable money. but was verv much handicapped by the lack If importation This win fer there has been uoro pros9ert- ing going on in and ,oHnd these IcrefES and in 0ur opinion has
 been carried on iu all other of lour adiacent crenks This would { Ne inc frst log of ro1d which j"veutually will be wendell rurth-
 "~ i0'o th" in.aGio~ t0 open up F''G"'hfa". Ed ado. H"rver and ! DonauZa -iv+r sections wHfrh arc
 s'i' unprosp"cted, and in time this road will "0nHcnr with the
 Solomon River-t!2so d. paea road land thence to Council hv Niutluk i River. This lqs- r9mad section
 contains thousand1+ "f 9rreS If low grade dretgeahle gr uad
 | That the road from Cape Nome ito Bonanza Ferry be abandoned and that d substitute road be con-
 struoted north of the lagoon to Bonanza Ferry The ground in this section is of such nature that q road could be constructed very cheaply on the north side of ! the lagoon. This will eliminate the expense of maintaining two ferries, as bridges will be huil. taef@Ss Bonanza and Solomon Riv- CTS Our ppiniou is that tbts road will pay for itself in q very few years. ellrnir3r.ng rh4 expense of
 maIh@atning the ferries above mrn-
 t"1ed. as at various times travel cannot ha accomod>red on acrounr .of the elements of weather and
 wN er conditions at those ferries.
 Besides it will he q safe condition
 Tor travel at all times of the sear.
 Al'" eltmtnatinq the cot 0f main
 tPnance of the present road on
 inc beach between Bonanza and
 Cane Nome
 Thai the work of rehabilitatin
 tine old Solomon River railroad
 into 8 wagon road be continued until over the Ruby Divide and then the road be continued down along the Casa de Paga River. Last summer dredge was insfali- ed on Ruby Creek. coming into the Casa jmst where the wagon read comes down the Ruby hill and strikes Casa River. and there IS considerable mention of orhar dredges To be installed farther down the main Ca.sa Tho Rnh.