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EDITORIAL
A-\ 1 XACCITiAXE LEGEND
-hero is groing up around tlie
Guggenhemis a legend that is about
inaccurate ^ such things usual
ly are. Soma i'Qrryro of the fu
ture probably will have to dig up
facts. Due G. c. Forbes, writing
xeceatly iu Leslie's Weekly, re
corded that "".No mountaineer, no
orospector knew more hardships
tLau the Guggenheim brothers went
through. rJ. Creator, they goon
discovered, had invariably deposited
mineral wealth far from the set
tled centers oi" civilization and had
surrounded it with obstacles whicty
only the pioneer and V^ize elected
to eucounter. i>aniel Guggenheim,
with the other brothers, slept in
tents or wagons amid wild surround
as often iis uu<ier & roof."
And then some more slush. Daniel
Guggenheim >v;ts a bold aud far
seeing financier and exploiter, but
hn was not a pioneer of the type
of Mackay and Hearst, and
such intimations are probably quite
nauseating to him.
lu the early Su's, Meyer Gug
genheim, a lace manufacturer in
Philadelphia, at the instigation of
a -etlow Philadelphia^, Graham by
name, acquired a half interest in
the A. V. and .Minnie mine in Cali
lornia gulch at l*<?adville, Colo.
.The venture proved highly profit
able, the A. V. and Minnie becom
ing cue of the big mines of the dis
trict. Benjamin Guggenheim, one
of the sons of Meyer, was sent out
to the mine as accountant, and he
acquiring more or less information
concernng the smelting business, in
iluced his father and brothers to
go into it largely because of the un
favorable terms the smelters w-ere
making on the A. Y. and Minnie
ore, which gradually become more
zincy and consequently less desir
able in character, from the lead
smelters' standpoint. The Guggen
heims, in company with E. C. Hol
den [who soon retired), built the
Philadelphia, works, a large plant
at Pueblo, Colo., in 1SS9. At frrst
this venture was decidedly unsuc
cessful, but gradually coming to
• he appreciation of the necessity for
securing the best possible technical
advice and acting upon that prin
ciple, together with their own sharp
commercial acumen, they converted
into a success what promised tc be
a failure. Thus having acquired an
insight into the smelting business,
they early appreciated the great
possibilities of smelting in Mexico
when the load bearing ores of that
country were practically excluded
from the United States by the tar
iff of 1S90, and erceted works at
Monterey and Aguas Calientes. This I
expansion in business, to which the
iariff of 1S90 opened the ^"ay, was j
the real start of the business.
W hen the Philadelphia plant w-as
bail', TV iliiam and one or two other
brothers went out to join Benjamin.
In later yeaTS, when the business
had oecome big, there was a little
ritt between the brothers wh0 had
been in the field and those who had
stayed at hornet And finally, Ben
jamin (who was lost with the Ti
tanic) and William retired from
the smelting' business. •— Engineer
ing ar.d Mining Journal
TIIE REAL riOXEERS
The old prospector, the sour
dough pancake and the man who si
washed it with the mercury 70 be
Icw are gradually yielding to the
progress of civilization. Alaska will
goon know them no more. The last
iron tier will have disappeared "with
'heir going and Grape-nuts ami
Uneeda biscuit will supersede the
deadly flapjack. Could we write
an epic on, tho modern, hero, lie
would be portrayed asf a man who
had wintered on beans aud sour
dough, and maintained that lamb
like disposition so loved by the
gentler sex. But it is impossible.
Transportation is drivng all three
to oblivion, and steam care and
automobiles) have superseded the
dogsled and the mu&her. But the
memory of those hardy men, with
an iron constitution and the as
similation of an ostrich will be
written in letters of gold tn the
future history of the territory.
They were the real Alaskans. We
of the present generation are but
spirits who surmounted every ob
stacle that we might follow the
trail they blazed. They have liv
ed their day, their work has been
well done .and their reward Bhall
be great. In days to come the
man who can lay claim to being a
nioneer will have a greater claim
upon his countryman than if he had
fough* the Indians and "varmints"
of the great west. He found a
greater and worthier foe than these
la the bleak northland ,and over
come him, with little thought of the
great victory he had won. The Al
aska pioneer eclipses head and
shoulders the Boones and the Crock
ets of the Middle West. Their work
was child's play in comparison to
the trail blazseTs of the old-time
north.—Ex.
DEAD MAN
FOUND ON TRAIL
Dawson, Jan. 5—The body of a
man has been found on the trail on
the Yukon river bet-weea Ogilvie an
Stewart. The remains have not
been fully identified, but are sup
cosed to be those of Paul Lestor,
who left here about Christmas on a
prospecting trip to some tributary
of »he Yukon near or above Stew
vt.
The body was six to ten miles
below Stewart, it is understood,
and wa3 found lying in the enow
rigid in death. Nearby were found
'he man's dogs, gaunt and nearly
dead from hunger.
A Yukon sleigh to which' the dog
evidently had been hitched was
some miles below the body. The
; sleigh was loaded with provisions.
! It appeared as though the man had
unhitched the dogs and gone for
j waTd and left the sleigh.
The remains were found by a ma
named Neill, who reported the case
by wire from Stewart. Instructions
have been sent to Stewart for the
body to be taken there, and an in
vestigation will be made.
Paul Lestor, on leaving here had
'wo small dogs and a heavy load
of suoplies. He was an elderly man.
buf an experienced: frontiersman.
He mined for years on Duncan
creek and later in the Klotassin
country, and then came to Dawson,
and recently quit work here lor one
jf the companies and declared pros
ceding suited him better. It is
feared he took sick on the trail and
collapsed or was chilled and over
come while trying to make shelter
after having been caught Jn a storm
between stations during on© of
the extremely cold days.
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RAGE QUESTION IN
SOUTH AND WEST
Strong Feeing Frists In Both
of These Sections.
TALK ON IMMIGRATION BILL
Measure Brought Out Evidence of An
tagonism to Certain Races—Strong
Protest Against Increase In Second
Class Mail Rates—Everybody Should
Have Fish Hatchery, Says Austin.
By ARTHUR W. DUNN.
Washington, Dec. 23.—[Special.]—
Maybe it is a race question that is at
the bottom of tho European war; may
be that is what all this great struggle
means. Such an idea occurred to me
when the senate was discussing the
Immigration bill, and it was observed
by what twists, turns, maps and draw
ing of lines upon the globe the mem
bers of the senate sought to exclude
certain races and yet not to directly
offend great nations.
It developed that the race issue Is
still a dominating factor in the south,
that no more Africans are wanted in
that section of the country. It was
shown that the race issue is the strong
est element In the west and that no
more Chinese, Japanese nor Hindus
are wanted on the Pacific coast
Southern men made a strong effort to
secure exclusiou of Africans either
coming from Africa or the West India
isl&u4s
The New Alliance.
Some one has tried to make it appear
that the new alliance which elected
Mr. Wilson—the south and west—was
united on the race issue, both sections
being interested In the preservation of
the white race. That is scarcely tena
ble in view of the fact that about the
only action which the administration
took on the race question In the west
was antagonistic to tlie wishes of the
people of California. Said Senator
Phelan, speaking of this subject:
"When Secretary of State W. J. Bry
an came to California to plead with
the legislature we received hhn as an
emissary from Washington, although
he was interfering with a matter which
did not concern him at all and was
trespassing upon our state's jurisdic
tion."
Bryan went upon the instruction of
President Wilson.
Reed Led the Opposition.
For a long time it appeared that no
one In the senate except Senator Reed
of Missouri opposed the immigration
bill. For days he led, or, rather, was
alone, in the light against the measure.
But when the time for a vote ap
proached it was found that quite a
number of senators were very much
opposed to it. Those who represent
states with a large foreign born popu
lation were quite vigorous in their op
position.
Protests aa to Second Class.
The proposition to increase second
class mail rates at the present time is
meeting with a great deal of opposition,
and protests are coming in from pub
lishers, who say that with the present
high price of pit;>er it is Impossible to
meet the still greater burden of in
creased mail postage. Possibly the pro
posed action will be postponed, as rec
ommended b.r Postmaster General Bur
leson.
Ninety Per Cent Unmarried.
While tlie house was discussing the
proposal to raise the pay of their
clerks Congressman Stafford of Wis
consin remarked that 00 per cent of
the clerks were unmarried.
"The 00 i»er cent will remain unmar
ried ns long as salaries are only $125
per month and the cost of living is
what it is at this time," remarked Con
gressman Xeely of West Virginia.
More Fish Hatcheries Wanted.
When the fish hatchery bill was con
sidered in the house Congressman Aus
tin gave expression to views which
met with general approbation. "I wish
this bill could be opened up so we
could all get a fish hatchery," he said,
and there was applause from the listen
ing members. lie went on to say that
more fish were needed and there couid
not be too many hatcheries. "There is
no finer sport in the world than fish
ing," said Austin. "We want and need
cheap fish, and, besides, it is fine brain
food, and, according to the late elec
tion returns, we are badly in need of
brain food in this country."
Abolish State Lines?
Congressman Fess of Ohio was crit
icising the tendency of the house to
indulge In pork barrel legislation and
tho loading down of bills with amend
ments in favor of states and localities.
"Don't you think that tlie only way
we can get rid <f pork barrel legisla
tion is by the obliteration of state
lines?-' asked a western member.
"How are we to get rid of state
lines?" inquired Butler of Pennsylva
nla, who Is always practical.
Moving Swiftly.
That there will be no need of an
extra session, so far as tho supply bills
are concerned, is shown by the celerity
with which the appropriation bills are
moving. Take the Indian bill. It
usually consumes several days and
sometimes two weeks. It was passed
in less than a day and a half of dis
cussion. Congress can get along fast
when it really wants to push legisla
tion.
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A. 13. meets every sec
ond and Xouiitli' Tues
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m. sa*»rp. Visiting brothers coidi.il
]y wt'vcime. W. L. Stevenson, Arc
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