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Show Fuel Scarce at JNome. There is plenty of food in Nome tc last through the winter and until the first steamers arrive there next summer. sum-mer. The only scarce article there is wood, which is selling at 865 per cord. The supply of wood along the beach has been consumed for a distance of ten miles p and down from Nome City, and the prospects are for a practica-famine practica-famine in this fuel before spring. The coal price for sale is 7 cents a pound, though there is little of it on hand and it is being refused to buyers. The large transportation companies, however, have enough coal on hand to last them. |