| Summary: | Nome Dealers Not Profiteers: No Evidence Of Crooked Work Is Found – Fuel Is At High Mark. NOME DEALERS NOT PROFITEERS No Evidence of Crooked Work Is Found—Fuel Is at High Mark. NOME. Alaska, Aug:. 29.—(By Mall.) —No evidence of commercial profiteering among dealers in Nome was found, according to the report of the citizens' committee named to make an investigation. High prices of necessities of life here, it was said, were due to high prices in the States, combined with high freight rates to Nome. Of interest in connection with prices of necessary commodities is the cost of coal. In 1902 a good grade of coal gold in Nome for $14. Several years later the price was $17. Now a grade of coal said to be inferior sells at $36 in the yard. Transportation rates on coal during hat interim have risen from $6 per ton to $20 on carload lots, or $23 on less than carload lots.
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