Show I THE CITY OF NOME Ii The City of Nome itself might prop crly he termed a model of product Ion Before the end of June 1S01 I there was I practically nothing on Its present site In early July It was still a Liars of tents but by the middle of September I It had blossomed out into a construcled town of 3000 to 1000 Inhabitants mere than half of whom ero properly housed In wellbuilt cabins the lumber for which was In part brought from a I distance of 000 miles and none of it from less I than 100 miles Xumcrom stoics and saloons hnd arranged themselves them-selves on both sides i of a welldelliu steel which was here and then t < 11 tially Interiupted by building tuin greSBlons the familiar signs of dancing and boxing I hunts were 1 displayed In I front of more than comfortably JlIlcI l faro and roulnilc estibllshments and in a general way the site wore the asp < 11 of riding a boom swell And Indeed I there was plenty of actlvUy for the final weeks of tine weather warned of the Impending wintry snows ard blasts and much had to be done Individually to shield one from these and other discomforts dis-comforts From the Gold Sands oi Cape Nome by Prof Angelo Jlellpiin In Appletons Popular Science Monthly for April |