The Nome nugget., 1939-06-07

oiit toiiSA4ii5 N''~'C eAACStAN' @~'@ increase the production.
 The Territorial Assay Office es tablished by the last Legislature has proved of immeasurable value and would recon mend that the Legislature appropriate larger amount to provide for Nome a field man to aid in the inveStiga- ton of mineral resources. This coming season will witness the first gold production from quartz in the Second Division.
 I would like to impress upon you the necessity of an inventory of the industry and survey of its pressing economic problems. There is a great need for a sur vey of the entire region with the view of providing employment for residents during periods of the year in which it is not pos sible for the placer miners to op- crate.
 It is further recommended that the Federal Government be urg- ed to appropriate more adequate funds to the Geological Survey 10 carry out it's program and to aid the Territorial organizations in the assistance of disseminating information to the prospector.
 Reindeer
 The second largest industry of the Second Division is the rein deer industry, l refer in this re- spect to the general report of the National Resources Commit tee and Alaska Planning Council, and wish to support these reports in every detail. But l wish to emphasize stronyly the necessity of close herding and closer con- tact with the herd. This alone would produce in revenue almost enough to pay for herding. The amound of reindeer slaughtered unlaWfully is astounding when compared with the total annual increase.
 l would suggest that all the 1 herds should be administered as soon as practicable as one unit and marketing should be done with the purpose in view of pro- fitting from the reindeer by-pro- ducts.
 It is granted that the by-pno- ducts of any industry is the pro- fit. At present the greater part is entirely wasted. No compre- hensive or effective system can be devised unless it be by con- centration of the slaughtering of marketable reindeer and assem- bling of the by-products in ad- vantageous points.
 Mining furnishes a market for labor during part of the sea son. The treatment and produc- tion from the by-productS should furnish to the ever increasing de imand for local labor means of balancing the annual labor dol lar.
 Seward Peninsula offers unus- ual opportunities for this purpose
 The situation of the herds are almost fan-like ftom the rail road. A retaining area could be established somewhere near Sal mon Lake to which portions al- lotted annually from the several herds could be driven to and in due time from this area to the slaughtering corrals as the de mands of the market and the ship ping facilities permit.
 The Slaughtering yards should be established at some point near Nome River Valley, close to the railroad, water supply, and feed ing grounds, with the purpose of erecting living quarters factories, etc. The meat should be sold to local dealers or transported to a comparatively owned cold storage plant on Snake River Harbor with handy facilities to load light CTS for outgoing vessels at as low cost as possible. These facil- ities would also serve the meat and by-products from herds not within driving distances of the main area.
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