The Nome Nugget from Nome, Alaska • 4

LOMEN COMMERCIAL CO. 1 f. STANDING FOR A GREATER NOME! 7i -0 We Wish To Congratulate -0The Nome Nugget, the Nome merchants, and the Citizens of Nome on their fine spirit and fortitude during our recent conflagration and their energy and courage in rehabilitating our Town. -o We have taken the Alaska agency sectional buildings and will be pleased to submit quotations for any requirement from a small cabin to largest buildV construction is Soundproof, Fireproof, and insulated against heat or cold. Three inches of Cork is equivalent to four feet of concrete as protection against cold and in retaining construction is cheaper and better.

'y -oi LOMEN COMMERCIAL CO. LOCAL NEWS P.A.A. MAIL PLANE COMES THRU TOUGH WEATHER TO NOME Pilot Robbins flying the Fleetster plane of the Pacific Alaska Airways arrived Nome early this afternoon from Fairbanks with a large consignment of mail, on regular mail schedule. The-'Nome weather was not favorable for flying but up the Yukon river, there was clear visibility. Pilot Robbins made the flight in three hours and forty minutes flying time stopping several places with the mail enroute.

Several passengers were carried to down river pojhts from Fairbanks and Tanana. A strong easterly wind added to the speed of the plane brought him into Nome; about one p. after leaving Fairbanks about 9 a.m. Weather permitting, the mail plane will return to Fairbanks tomorrow morning. FERA WORK STILL CONTINUES HERE ARE DIGGING DRAIN The Nome Committee of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration is still carrying on work in Nome.

About ten men are at work constructing a main drain from First Avenue on the corner by the Office of Indian Affairs north to the corner by the U. S. Weather Bureau blocks away. At present the men are digging a ditch for the placing of the drain which is made of wood. A steam boiler is being used to thaw frozen ground.

This work is being carried on now and upon completion will remove in the spring, much of the stagnant water that gathers when the snow melts in these localities. A gravel truck is filling in a large hole on the corner of Front Street and Street, so as to make it safe for vehicles rounding that comer. Outside of these activities no other labor is being carried on outside of administrative work. NEW MAN CHARGE U. S.

WEATHER STA. AT NOME, ALASKA -I An item in the Juneau Empire told of the departure from there of Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Prucha and daughter DeVee for Seattle aboard the S. S.

Aleutian, bound for Nome. They were accompanied to Seattle by Mrs. sister, Ruth Mason The Pruchas connected with the liner Victoria of the Alaska Line and came to Nome on the last boat. Mr. Prucha is in charge of the U.

S. Weather Bureau at Nome, taking the place formerly occupied by C. J. McGregor, who left here aboard the last Vic for Seattle. At the time the last boat arrived at Nome the Nome Nugget was not in circulation and a belated welcome is offered the new citizens of Nome.

WEATHER HOLDS LOCAL PLANES ON FIELD AT NOME Hie Roust Airways plane was pected to fly to Nome today but the weather will probably prevent this plane from arriving here. The Northern Air Transport have scheduled several plane flights around the Seward Peninsula, down along Norton Sound, and a plane to Fairbanks, but schedules will have to wait on weather now. The Mirow Air Service, which has several flights scheduled for northern points, is held on the ground today by adverse weather. SUBSCRIPTION RATES NOME DAILY NUGGET Subscription rates to The Nome Daily Nugget will remain the same as before the fire. $2.00 per month delivered by carrier, and per month delivered by mail.

Those subscribers in the outlying section who received the paper before the fire, will confer a favor if they will write in to the office stating they Would like to continue their subscriptions, as the entire list of subscribers in the outlying sections was completely destroyed in the fire. i RADIO STATION AT MCGRATH IS IMPORTANT ONE New radiophone equipment has just been installed at McGrath The station can now transmit oq three frequencies. This is expected to improve communications between McGrath and Anchorage. The new equipment was installed by William J. Wagner, radio technician for the U.

S. Signed Corps Service, who went to McGrath from Anchorage. Mr. Wagner says that while the new equipment is expected to improve the communication with the station at Anchorage, it is his opinion higher power equipment really is desirable at McGrath. The McGrath station is one of several the Northern Com ercial Com pany took over from the Signal Corps last winter.

The communication from that point by radiophone never has been satisfactory, and the company has had much difficulty trying to make it satisfactory with the old equipment. McGrath is the chief radio center of the Kuskokwim Valley and it is highly desireable that the station be made one of the best. Mr. Wagner returned to Anchorage last month from a visit to Nome where he gave the radio-telegraph station at that point its first thorough overhauling in several years, and fortunately got the power of the station stepped up to a far great er degree than it ever had been before, completing the work before the fire, and making it possible to handle the enormous business due to the fire with speed and clarity that otherwise would have been impossible. No doubt this improvement in the station has been a great factor in averting what otherwise would have been a congestion of the traffic between that point and the major station at Anchorage dur ing the emergency.

FOB SALE Two Corner Lots located at First and Also two Lots located at first and Streets. Make offer. Inquire at Nome Nugget Office for The Nome Daily Nugget is prepar ed to do your job printing. former nomeite dead Bill McPhee, one of the most famous of Forty-mile, Klondikef Fairbanks and Nome pioneers is dead. News of Mr.

death was re in a letter to John L. McGinn, lawyer, who is in Fairbanks. Mr. McPhee, who was 84 years old passed away in San Francisco, where he had lived of late years. Mr.

McPhee was one of the early residents of Circle City and FortyMile and also among the first stamp eders to Dawson, Y. T. He left Daw son for Nome soon after the discov ery of gold on Anvil CreeK. He was a member of first city council. He came to Fairbanks in the early days of the city and for years was engaged in business here.

As Bill McPhee he was known all over the Territory. Big and powerful, good-natured and generous, he was one of the outstanding characters of the Northland. BEACH MINING IS PAYING ON COOK INLET Beach mining along the shores of Cook Inlet from Happy Valley to Homer is proving to be a lucrative pastime for those who have the time to engage in the work. Miners are reported cleaning up an average of $2 and $3 a day. Some interiorites are among the campers, while there are some who have come from the Middle West and East purposely to see what is going on.

Among the Sewardites with some outstanding success is Knute Armstrong, of Ninilchik, canneryman, who has not been active in fish operations the past few seasons, and is now turning his hand to the line of work that originally brought him to Alaska. He is concentrating his explorations about Happy Valley, it is reported, and appears to be well satisfied with returns to date. Gus Norden, well knonw pioneer miner of Nome and other Alaska camps, arrived at Anchorage by plane from Nelchina, where he was engaged in placer mining for the season with his brother Knute, and others. He plans to return to Nelchina to engage in trapping this season with Andy Christofferson on Creek, 20 miles from their summer camp. BULB DAY THURSDAY WE WILL PUCE ON SALE OUR i BULB STOCK ON THURSDAY MORNING AT 11 A.

M. NO RESERVATIONS COME EARLY A.POLET.