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GROWTH OF DOMESTIC BI'SINKSS
Tbe improvement in general business conditions domestically, however,
continues to be reassuring. For the last reported week car loadings were
968,000, a figure not far below the record level. Cotton has now gone
well for thee December future which is itself a high record on this move*
ment. while wheat has continued Its steady advance to a figure around
$1.12. The effect is to put an unusual amount of purchasing power into
the hands of agriculture communities. Railroad earnings although low
for the country as a whole owing to strike expenses have shown up very
satisfactorily in Indi idual cases. Apparently well founded rumors of in
creased dividends are ;n circulation with respect to a number (if railroad is
sues and consolidation prospects are again more positive. Tbe Southern
Pacific Company 1 as asked authority of the Interstate Commerce Commis
sion to retain control of Central Pacific and November 17 has been set by
the Commission for a hearing on the proposed consolidation of Northern
Pacific, Great Northern and C. B. & Q. All this is preliminary to tile plan
already devised for consolidating the railroads of the country into i few
great systems. Strength in copper shares reflects improved demaud tor
that metal, which is now confidently expected, with probably future ad
vance in prices, since the available supplies are now almost down to a min
imum. The like is true of rubber and rubber shares. The principal steel
plants have continued to increase in the scope of thir business, and are to
day at the highest level of operations reached for a good while. Coal pro
duction aad distribution continues to improve, and in nearly all industries
the is a shortage of labor.—Henry Clews & Co.
AX OLD LESSON COMES HOME
According to an Investigation whose results have just been published
by the New York World, Americans have invested since the war the stu
pendous sum of J960.000.000 in Herman paper money, which now is prac
tically worthless. That is another way of saying that the people of this
country have turned over to Germany nearly a billion dollars in good yel
low gold, which leads the World to remark that defeated Germany has col
lected from this country a sum practically equivalent to the indemnity
which victorious Germany wrested from France in 1S71. In addition.
British losses In speculation in German marks are placed at $672,000,000,
or about two-tbirds as much as ours.
Along in the early days of the war. Germany had something to say
about scraps of paper, but it was an unprofitable statement, for it turned
the sympathies of the neutral world against her. Her later experience was
more profitable, for In return for bits of paper upon which German printers
had Inscribed an unsecured promise to pay she took from Britain and Amer
ica alone—not to mention other countries—more than a billion and a half
dollars In gold.
But even Germany, according to the World, failed to profit in the
lor.g run from these transactions in fiat money. It is true the gold receiv
ed from Britain and America In return for worthless paper marks bolstered
up her finances for a year or two and enabled her to postpone the crash
longer than would otherwise have been possible, but because of this post
ponement the inevitable crash has been worse than it would have been if
it had not been staved off so long.
So once again we have brought home to us the old. old lesson that it
is never possible to get something for nothing. It is a lesson that is par
ticularly valuable just now, for on every hand these are nit-wits who are
preaching that by some simple short cut we can get around stern economic
law and make ourselves rich and h"*ppy without effort. It can't be done.
—Eugene Register.
Funds Prorated
Among 28 States
Alaska will receive this year $ 18.
010.19 from the tales ot- timber on
foTesr lands for roads and trails and
schools Of this sum. S11.435.S5 will
be remitted direct to the Territorial
government by the federal service
for building trails within the nation
al torests in Alaska.
A bulletin just issued by the
department of agriculture shows the
total funds going to the states fron:
timber sales, etc.. and the method
of allotment. It follows:
The governors of twenty-eight
states have just been notified that
25 per cent of the IS,421.531 receiv
ed from timber sales, grazing per
mits and other sources of national
forest revenue for the- past fiscal
year will be distributed by the forest
service, U. S. department of agricul
ture. These moneys are returned to
states in which national forests are
loccted for expenditure upon schools
and roads.
in additional 1 per cent, of the
1 total receipts is transferred to the
forest service for tne construction
of roads and trails within the for
ests and this sum for the present
year amounts to $33S.5"6.
Total Exceeds ?1,000,0<H) I
The total, which aggregates over
J 1.000.000 will be prorated amon^
the twenty-eight states in propor
tion to the recoipts from the nation
al forests within their borders. Since
the establishing of the national for
ests the sums returned to thes'
states have steadily increased and
today amouut to almost $14,000,000.
which has been directly contributed
to the development of the states by
the national forests within their
borders.
YUKON IS LATE IX
CLOSING THIS YKAI!
The first slush Ice In the Klondike
river appeared this morning, says
the Dawson News on Oct. 24th. It
was barely heavy enough tq hold to
gether, and practically colorless, but
nevertheless was tne simon pure
congealed element which presages
the freezeup. A slight trace of shore
fee also was reported along the main \
river, and the colder nights are
taken as ap Indication that the old
Yitkon will be making Ice to beat
the ice trust within a few days.
Lust year the first slush Ice from
the Klondike first apepared, accord
ing to reports in the hands of Do
minion Weather Observer John R
F rater, on October 19; and ice from
up the Yukon on October 22; while
on October 23 the Yukon river was
about a quarter full of ice at Daw
son.
CHEAP FUEL
IS PROMISED
Cheap fuel for Fairbnnks Is the
message brought back by Capt. A. E.
Lathrop, who has just returned from
a visit to the mine of toe Healy Riv
er Coal Corporation, of which he is
one of ibe principal stockholders. Ef
fective December 1, he says, mino
run coal, 70 per cent lump, will sell
f. o. h. Fairbanks at $4.50 the long
ton tu carload lots. Steam coal will
sell for even less.
The mine, Capt. Lathrop found,
is ready to ship, and the four and
one-half mile spur is nearlng com
pletion. The grade work on the
spur Is finished, ana the bridge will
be ready in a few days. The steel
will arrive on the 20th.
The grade from the mine to the
main line is less than one per cent,
und is therefore not as heavy as on
many stretches along the through
roadbed. With the consequent
easy haul and with the ne wloading
equipment being installed at the
mine, it will be possible to bring
out a full train load. Two hundred
tons a day can be landed here wi en
the through service Is established.
George W. Evans, coal mining
expert, has been at the Healy River
mine several days, and Mine In
spector Stewart will arrive there
Friday.
Town Is Given Xnnie.
Suntana. the name given the vast
coal deposit 'bv the Indians of the
district, has been given the town
which is now well established at
the mine. When It was learned that
a name was In order for the fast
forming coal metropolis, a search
was made for one that would be
suitable. The quest was carried to
oldtimers of the district, the In
dians and also records obtainable
Yesterday Capt. Lathrop was in
formed by wire that Suntana. by
which the big vein had been known
to the Indians through traditlou, had
been found in an early record and
had been decided upon.
In the hunt for a name an Inter
esting tradition was brot out. Ac
cording to the Indians the present
site of the mine had once been a
big lake. The lake, the tradition
goes, was filled with dense vege
tation. The water disappeared, and
through the action of the sun the
growth died and turned to Its pres
ent form, coal.
Alaska News Letter
of Importance
Value of merchandise shipped from
Alaska to the United States during;
September was $11,295,755. accord-]
ing to figures compiled by the Chain-1
her of Commerce from the report
of John C. McBride, collector for
the Customs District of Alaska. The
principal products shipped out from
the territory were fertilizer, $33,
332; herring, $484,730: fr<-sh fish
other than salmon. $33,395; dried,
smoked or cured fish, $35,552; can
ned salmon. $S, 962,642; gypsum.]
$11,100; furs, $98,091; animal, j
fish and other oils, $31,,033; copper.'
$689,702.
The Alaska Steamship Company]
has awarded a contract for a million I
dollar passenger line for the Alas-|
ka service, to the Todd Dry Dock & ]
Construction Company of Tacoma.
The ship is to be a twin screw liner |
to make 16 knots and will have ac
commodations for 235 first cabin
passengers. The ship is expected I
to be ready for business early next ]
summer.
The steamer Brookdale, arriving
on the Sound, Oct. 20th, brought
$1,060,000 worth of seal skins from I
the Pribilof Islands—the first ship
ment of seal skins this season.
The Seward Peninsula Railroad j
has been formally transferred to the
Territory of Alaska by the Pioneer
Mining Company, according to ii
statement by Col. Jas. G. Steese. pre
sident of the Alaska Railroad Com1
mission.
Several hundred thousand feet of!
limber have been secured by the Al
aska Road Commission from the for
mer army post at St. Michael and
will be used In putting the road in
operating shape.
The Treadwell Mining Company
has bonded three gold quartz claims
on Muddy River, where development
work will be done In the near fu
ture.
The Hammond Consolidated Gold
Fields, under process of incorpora
tion, has acquired property of the
Pioneer Mining & Ditch Company
and other desirable properties near
Nome.
With a large seaplcne as part of
the equipment ,the Mattingly Pic
tures, INC., of Los Angeles, are pre
paring to send a company to Kodiak
to film a seven reel Alaska feature,
"The Arctic Phantom."
The Alaska Department of the
Chamber is advised that the U. S.
Engineer at Juneau desires the views
of persons Interested In the Improve
ment of the Tolovana River, under
the act of Congress, providing for
preliminary examination. The same
applies to the authorized prelimin
ary examination of English Bay, St.
Paul Island.
The October moiifh of the Pacific
Mining News of t!'e Engineering &
Mining Journal-Press contains an
exhaustive article regarding the Cold
Bay Oil Fields of Alaska oy Leroy A.
Palmer, giving history, location,
transportation facilities, geology and
development possibilities. The field
is fifty miles long and twenty-five
miles wide, extending from the up
per end of Cold Bay to the lower end
of "Wide Bay, opposite Kodiak Island.
Heavy road work Is necessary to
reach the best drilling sites. Abun
dant fuel is at hand in the shape of
oil soaked peat In the vicinity of oil
seepages. Nearly every acre of the
cil fields as described and much out
side has been located. —
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CITATION
IN THE PROBATE COURT FOR
THE TERRITORY OF ALASKA,
DIVISION NO. 1, AT HAINES BE
FORE SOL. RIPINSKY, U. S.
COMMISSIONER .AND .EX-OFFI
CIO PROBATE JUDGE
In the matter of tbe estate of
Mary A. McEIravy deceased.
It appearing to this court, by tbe
petition of A. F. McLean the admin
istrator of the estate of .Mary A. Mc
EIravy deceased, duly presented and
filed, that it is necessary, in order to
comply with, the provisions of the
last will and teatlment of; the said
Mary A. McEIravy tnat alt of the real
property belonging to said estate be
sold, and applied toward the pay
ment of claims against the estate and
for distribution;
It is therefore ordered by this
court, that all persona Interested in
said estate, of said deceased, to ap
pear before the said probate court,
on the 25 th day of November, A D.
1922, at the hour of two o'clock In
the afternoon of said day, at the
court room of the said court In the
town of Haines, Alaska, and show
cause if any exists why an order
should not be granted to said admin
istrator, to sell Lots, four (4), ten
(10), and eleven (11), in block alne
(9), of the said town of Haines be
longing to said estate.
It is further ordered, that this ci
tation be published in .the Dally Al
askan, once a week for four (4) con
secutive weeks, and that copies be
posted in three of the most public
places in Haines Precinct.
Dated this 23rd day of October,
1922.
SOL RIPINSKT
U. S. Commissioner and Ex-officlo
Probate Judge.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
U. S. Lund Office at
Juneau, Alaska, Sept. 18, 1922.
NOTICE is hereby given that John
William Combs, of Haines, Alaska,
who, on Sept. 18, 1922, made home
stead entry. No 05302, for lot 4, sec
tion 26 and lOt 6, faction 27, Town
ship 30 S., Range 5J E., Copper Riv
er Meridian, has fned notice of in
tention to make u>ree year llnal
Proof, to establish claim to the land
above described, lefore John J.
Schlitz, Notary public at Delaao, Cal
ifornia; and testimony oI witnesses
before R. M. Odell, at Haines, Alas
ka, on the 4th-day of November,
1922.
Claimant names as witnesses:
Carl Bjornstad, of Haines, Alaska.
H. 0. Banta, of Haines, Alaska.
E. D. Wood, of Haines, Alaska.
Erik Oslund, of Hames, Alaska.
FRANK A. BOYLE,
Register.
First Publication, Sept. 21, 1922.
Final Publication, Nov. 18, 1)22.
DEPARTMENT OP THE ISTBHIOR
U. S. I>und Office at
Juneau, Alaska, Sept. 18, 1922.
NOTICE is hereby given that Mae
Ragan, widow of Stephen Ragan, de
ceased, of Haines, Alaska, who, on
September. 18, 1922, made home
stead entry. No. 05505, for NW%
XWU and lot 1 section 28; NB.14
NE',1 and lot 6, Section 29, Town
ship 30 S, Range 59 E, Copper Riv
er Meridian, has filed notice of In
tention to make taree year final
Proof, to establish claim to the land
above described, berore R. M. Odell,
at Haines, Alaska, on the 4th day of
November, 1922.
Claimant names ts Witnesses:
Ida Mae Vogel, of Haines. Alaska.
Elizabeth Barneite, of Hainai, Alas
ka.
J. J. Rath, of Haines, A^ska.
N. G. Hanson, of Haines, Alaska.
FRAf'K A. BOYLE
s Register.
First Publication, Sept. 21, 1922.
Final-publication, Nor. 18, 1922.
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