Ogden Evening Standard | 1912-01-13 | Page 1 | Nome in Danger of Coal Famine

NOME IN DANGER OF COAL FAMINE Nome, Alaska, Jan 13 There Is a coal shortage here and a meat short-ago short-ago is threatened. Coal dealers say I the supph of fuel will last only two I months and new supplies of coal and I beef cannot bo brought from Seattle until the opening of mitigation In Bering sea in Juno. Most of the gold mines havo shut down for lack of coal. Some of the larger companies mo installing oil burncis, there being a plentiful supply sup-ply of fuel oil. All saloons and the govcrnmont buildings are using oil and have given giv-en their coal to the cltv for distribution distribu-tion among the pconlc to warm their homes. The cold has not been sc-tere, sc-tere, the ralulmum temporaturo last night being 2 degrees above zero