When one thinks of Nome, one
thinks of gold. The town has
shrunk from the roaring town of
thirty yeSrs ago, but there is still
considerable mining activity, prin
cipally dredges. The beach in
front of Nome is still being work
ed by hand. Most of them earn
about $2 a day and a couple of
them were earning as much as
$10.
Rebuilding Necessary
Even now, Nome is most inter
esting, though obviously a diffi
cult town to maintain on account
of the frost, which, each winter,
heaves the houses and buildings
around. This spring, empty budd
ings, deserted for years, lean and
twist. Floors get slanted and the
walls bulge.
While we were waiting there
the King Island Eskimos came in
for their annual summer trading,
bringing carved ivory, for muk
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luks and skins. They arrived in
their big skin boats called om
iaks. These boats are made of
walrus hide and driftwood, about
as big as a 50-foot Navy sailer.
They make a grand sight. But,
instead of being propelled by sail
as in the past, they had outboard
motors kicking at the sterns—
most incongrous.
While awaiting Mattern's arriv
al at Nome; we picked up a few
hundred dollars with two trips
for local people. One trip we
took a Chinese scientist, who had
some all the way from China to
obtain ten reindeer heads. It
teems the Chinese long have used
elk horns, when in the velvet, for
medicine. It was Dr. Chang's
intention to discover if reindeer
horns had curative effects.
