The Nome daily nugget., 1936-01-17
NOME WILL COME BACK, ALRIGHT!

recent issue of the Seattle Star carried an extre- mey Illuminating" editorial describing Nome a de- cided has- been that it coming back and that only few hundred people live here Other diScrep- ancies easily noted, testifying to the unruh of the sources from which the information was obtained. At- tempts at retrospection the history of Nome leave distinctly bad taste Even the Wind-up of the e1itor ial is weak attempt at sentimentalsm.
 We suggest that in the future more dependable of information be quoted. Nome does not have to live by the memory of it's past it is stepping ahead in a quick eager stride, wel-knowing that in the mmed- fate days to mining and other industries of this section being opened up with increased capital and investment.
 The Seattle Star editorial is reprinted to show the deprecating influences which sometimes put-over, and which do an injustice to the city referred to-
 COME BACK, NOME
 Nome the famed gold town bleak Norton Sound not coming back from the fire that swept few months say people Only inhabitants
 Tn Nome lumber for rebuilding s1Oo housand reindeer 20 cents pound coal $2O and 60 gallons for sl. Other necessities high in proportion.
 There something sad about the passing romantic city city that roaring way, making money shouting its defiance to the heavens Thyve Nome that of town Many westerner remembers it's heydayhe heyday of eggs pokes full
 
 dance halls
 There legend the got because early noting it's position eered in (Nme? the map Somebody for
 Every every old will hope Noms eclipse just temporary and that the old the golden beach will back There's still gold them hll-Seate
 We refer the writer to the amount of gold shipped from Nome and outlying sections during the of 1885, by eXpress-$2,10O .310.59-(a half million more than the preceding year); people are living in Nome this winter than for many years-esmated to be about 500 During 1881, 15 dredges were in opera ton in the Seward Peninsula and yet the Seattle Star says There is something sad about the passing of a romantic city"
 Nome has more able future than at any time dur ing its career As evidences that Nome is not slipping backward but is really, Honest to God "comng back" point to the $10000O PWA loan and grant obtained by Nome in 1885 $65 900 new school building to be constructed this spring the present favorable consider ation of PWA project for the construction of $400 000.00 Federal Court House at Nome; the proposed construction of $9000O 00 U S. Coast Guard Station here.
 And, speaking again of the referred-to eclipse and and those hoping it will be only temporary, have only to sayf this be eclipse, and added dread signs of such-Gve us Eclipse
 If data and facts desired by people in Seattle refer those people the steamship companies whose vessels carry thousands of tons of mining machinery and general freight this city yearly to chambers of commerce who possess detailed information on Nomes standing Seattle receives thousands of dollars in business yearly from Nome and the Seward Peninsula mining camps, and this is example of what it gets for that buSinesS-damagng criticism; unjus nsnua tons and total lack of knowledge concerning this inn portant mining section in Alaska.