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Show NOME, ALASKA, IS HELD PROSPEROUS FAX FRANCISCO. Feb. 5 Commercial Com-mercial and industrial condition al ' Nome, Alaska, are on a stable and permanent basts and the continued growth of the city is assured, regardless regard-less of reports to the contrary, according accord-ing to a statement pf the Northwestern Northwest-ern Alaska Chamber of Commerce. Census bureau stattstica of 1920 give , Nome a winter population of i4 and double that number during the summer sum-mer season. Last year Nome produced more gold than any other section of Alaska, according ac-cording to government reports and commercial reports show that the district dis-trict is gaining in trade each year. Although .large numbera of citizens of Nome l.tve earn fall to spend the winter in the south, each succeeding year brings most of them back. During Dur-ing the summer season the city is crowded, according to the statement. Steamer departures last fall were not greater than in former years, the statement said. |