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YIKOX l'L.\( Ki; KING
In an interesting review of "Metal in Can ida" in the January number
of the Canadian Mining Journal. Thomas W Gibbons gives the total gold
production In the Dominion from the beginning of the mining industry In
the nation until the present as $+45,617,000. Of that sum he credits Yu
kon with a total of I172.5J4.000, all from placers, and British Columbia
with $75,944,000. from pincers.
With the placer industry still being carr ed on extensively in the vicin
ity of Dawson, and with a prospective life of twenty years on the dredge
ab'.e auriferous gravels of this vicinity. It is likely that Yukon will contin
ue to hold first place as a producer of placer gold. Other portions of this
vast territory also may devel<y> gold producing areas.
British Columbia and Yukon are the only producers of placer gold in
Canada worth mentioning. It is estimated that 87 per cent, of the world's
gold has come from placers. Such being the fact, the encouragement of
the placer mining industry on the part of the federal government deserves
the most serious consideration. The Dominion and the Kmpire owe a great
deal of the Stability of " r finances and trade to the gold yield of the Do
minion. Little argumeui ..touid lie required to impress the fact that thin
territory's great placer fields are invaluable, and that the territory should
receive the most favorable con <! ration at the hands of the federal gov
ernment.
Yukon's placer yield has generally be^n understood here to have ex
ceeded $200,000,000, or considerably more than Mr. Gibbons' figures In
dicate. In any event, the remaining virgin placer fields of Yukon and her
other rich mineral areas are among the great assets of Canada, and the
Dominion cannot afford to permit them to lie dormant and unproductive.
—Dawson News.
\VH XT AI1.S ALASKA?
President Harding is to visit Alaska, it is announced, an honor to the :
Territory without precendent. Praises be if the announcement serves to
awaken interest in the region and stimulate concern in Congress over the I
proposed legislation for administrative reforms.
Alaska, admitted to be the most je;t!ou.-iy cherished, and assertedly the j
most sadly ueglected possession of t e ;■ ople of the I'nlted States, is by j
way of coming into its own. according to Scott C. Bone, the lately appoint- 1
ed governor, who. after six months' experience in office, has returned to '
\\ ashingtou on ofiic al busim -- lie is bringing to Pres.dent Harding and
to the committees on territories of the house and senate, as well as to Sec
letary Fall of the interior dep. rtr ent. a fund of information and sugges- ]
tiou. the result of observation, which should be valuable. Alaska has lost
iO.OOO population in a decade, but the future is brighter. This year will
witness the opening of the ra.lroud from the coast to the interior.
What ails Alaska? Governor Bone asserts that the most urgent need
is a "co-ordinated and simplified >ys:eni of administration" to replace the
bureaucratic government The governor asks for centralization of author
ity and responsibility. He maintains tiiat the bureaucratic government,
long fastened upon tiie territory, has -polled delay, decay and lost popula
tion.
Fortunately, the territory has friends in high places at Washington,
from President Harding. Secretary Fall, Senator New, chairman of the sen- ,
ate committee on territories: Hepresentut.ve Curry, chairman of the house
committee, and down the line of executive, legislative and administrative
authority.
Governor Bone is on the spot, the will in congress to do Is existent. The
friends of Alaska throughout the country tan reasonably expect prompt ac- j
tiou from cougress.—Washington Post.
SPEEDING l"l» PUITKKSQI'E ALASKA
Scott C Bone, governor of Alaska, in his first annual report shows faith
in the richness of his territory if Washington will take the proper steps to
relieve its splendid Isolation. At present Coveinor Bone seems to feel like
Robinson Crusoe marooned with a bureaucrat c Swiss Family Robinson.
The bureaus speak for themselves and their Robinsonian activities in
the governor's report. The bureau of agriculture asserts that its yak, ob
tained from the Canadian government, has had a good year and is in fine
condition. The bureau has completed a first-class hoghouse at Matanuska
station and is pigging away at the rest of its program. The biological sur
vey wants to catch some bull caribou to improve the reindeer which it has
Inherited from the bureau of education. The fur-seal service is weeding
out the white foxes on Pribilof Islands in order that its blue-fox herds may i
be kept true blue.
The experiment work of the bureaus in Alaska has a charming pictur- '
esqueness, and practical results are by no means lacking. But Governor
Bone among the bureaus, like Capf. Keece. commander of the good ship
Mantlepiece, feels the lack of unified effort under centralized control. Pic
turesque Alaska Is all very well, but the governor, not satisfied with still
life jn a picture country, actually hopes to start the picture moving.—Chi
cago News. ■
The Voice
of the Pack
By Edison Marshall
(Copyright, 1990. Little, Brown A Com pun j)
l.ptinm probed nack into trie years
for n Rlnele Instant, straightened out
all the kinks of his memory In less
time than the wind straightens out
the folds of a flag. and turned a most
Interested face. "Uemember him !" he
exclaimed. "1 should say 1 do." The
middle-aged man half-closed his pierc
ing, (tray eyes.
Listen. Steele," he said, "1 saw Dan
Falling make a bet once I whs Just
a kid, but I wake up In my sleep to
marvel at It. We had a full long
glimpse of a black-tall bounding tip a
long slope. It was Just a spike-buck,
and Dan Falling said he could lake
the left-hand spike off with one shot
from his old Sharpe's. Three of us
bet him—the whole thing In less than
two seconds. With the next shot
he'd get the deer. He won the het.
find now If I ever forget Dan Falling
I want to die."
"You're Just the man I'm looking
for. then. You're not goluj; out till the
Ih.v after tomorrow?"
"No."
"On the limited hitting here tomor
row morning, there's a grandson or
Dan Falling. His t.sme Is D'in Fati
ng, loo and he want# to go up to you,
place to hunt. Stn« all summer and
nay board."
Lennox's eye* said thai be couldn't
believe If was true After n while his I
tongue spoke, too "flood Lord." he j
salt!. "I used to f.-'ler Dan aronnd
Mkt> old S!ia? hefot- he died followed*)
Snowlord. (if course he can come
Hut he enn't pay hoard."
It was rather characteristic of the
nniinfaln mm—thm the grandson nt
Pun Knlllng con'i.Vt possibly put
board Bui Steele vnew the ways of
i*lties and of men. and he only smiled
"He won't come, then," he explained.
"Anyway, have that oat with lilm at '
the end of his stay. Re wants fish- |
ing. and you've got that In the North j
fork. Moreover, you're u thousand I
tulles hack—"
"Only one hundred. If you niu-'t i
know. I'.ut Steele—do you suppose ,
he's the tuan his grandfather was l>e- j
fore him—that all the Fulling* huve ]
been since the first days of the Ore- j
gou trail? If he Is—well, my hat's
off to bini before he steps off the j
train."
The mountaineer's bron7ed race was
earnest and Intent In the bright lights :
of the club. Steele thought !ip hud j
known his breed. Now he betrnn to |
have doubts of his own knowledge j
"He won't be; don't count on It." he :
said humbly. "The Fallings have done
much for this region, und I'm glad |
enough to do n little to pay It hack ,
but don't count much on this eastern j
boy. lie's lived In cities: besides, he's j
o sick man. He said so til his wire
You ought to know It before you taki j
him in."
The bronzed face changed; possibly |
t shadow of disappointment came In :
to his eyes. "A lun«er. eh?" Lennox '
repented. "Yes—It's true that If he'd
been like the other Fallings, he'd never
have been that. Why. Steele, you I
couldn't have given that old man a j
cold if you'd tied him in the Home ]
river overnight. Of course you couldn't
count on the line keepine up forever.
But ril take him. for the memory of
bis grandfather."
"You're not afraid to?"
"Afraid. h—I! He can'r'lnfect those
two strapping children of ndne. Snow- '
bird weighs one hundred nnd twenty I
pounds and Is hard as steel. Never [
knew a sick day In her life. And you
know Rill, of course."
Yes. Steele knew Bill. Bill welched
two hundred pounds, anil he would
choose the blirgest of the steers he !
drove down to the lower levels In the I
winter and. twisting Its horns, would I
make It lay over on Its side. Besides,
both of the men ossumed that Pan '
must be only In the first stages of bis i
malady.
And even as the men tnlked. the
train thai bore Pan Falling to the
home of his ancestors was entering
for the first time tne dark forests of i
pine and fir thai make the eternal
background of the Northwest. He was
wholly unable to understand the
stranee feellne of familiarity that he
had with them, a sensation that in
his dreams he had known them al
ways. and that he must never go out 1
of the ranre of them neain.
Dan didn't see tits host fit first. For
thp first Instant he was entirely en
grossed hy n surging sense of disap
pointment—n feeling that hp hnd been
tricked nnd hnd only come to another
city after nil. Re got down onto rlie
(Travel of the station yard, nnd out on ,
the gray street pavement he hoard
the elanc of a trolley car. Many an
tomohilps were parked Just beside the
station, some of them foreltm cars of
expensive makes, such as he supposed
would he wholly unknown on thp I
frontier. A man In golf clothe? '
brushed his shonlder.
Pan looked up to the hills, and he
felt better. He couldn't see them plain
ly. The faint smoke of a distant for
«wt five balf obscured ihem. Yei he
'
saw rr>r<r on fold of rhfges of a rather
peculiar blue In color nnd oven bin
untrained pyes eonld see (lint they
wpre clothed In forests of evergreen.
Over flip hen (Is of the preen hills Pan
could see n few prent peaks; Mc
Laughlin, pven nnd regular lis n paint
p<1 mountain; Wagner. wish queer
white gushes where the snow still lay
In Its ravlres. nnd to the soniheast !
the misty range of snow-covpre<l hills i
thnt were the Slckeyous. I!e felt de- '
cidedly better. Ami when he saw old
Sllsi-s I.ennox .waiting patiently beside l
the stiitJon. he te't he had come to
the right place.
It would be Interesting to explain ]
why P«n at once recognised the older .
man for the breed hp was. SIlis Len- j
nox was not dressed In a way that '
would distinguish him. It was true '
that b<* wore a fennel shirt, riding
trousers nnd rnther heavy, leathern
boots. Bui sportsmen all over the 1
face of the earth « enr this costume «t I
sundry times. Mountain men have a
peculiar stride by which experienced I
persons can occasionally recognize I
tliero; but Sllns Lennox was standing '
still when Pan goi bis first gllmpsp of |
him. The case resolves Itself Info a
simple matter of the things that could
be read In Lennox's facp.
Pan disbelieved wholly In a hook |
that told how to read characters at I
sight. Yet at the first glance of the
lean, bronzed face his heart gave a I
curious little bound. A pair of gray i
eyes met his—two line black points In
n rnthor hard gray 'rls They didn't j
look prist h!'n or a> either side of likin.
or at his chin or bis forehead. They
looked right at his own eyes. The skin I
around the eves was bunted brown by •
the sun and the flesh was so lean thnt I
the cheekbones showed plainly. The
mouth was straight: lint yet It was
neither savage nor cruel. It was sim
ply determined.
l.ennox (ir p m« nun a iisnt. «siif»nt
rrciifi mill extended lils hand. "Toti're '
Duii Falling's irrai• 'sort. aren't you?" |
lip asked. "I'm Silns Lennox. who
used to know Mm when he lived on
tin- Divide Von arc coinlm: to spenn
i1k> summer nn<1 fall on my ranch." I
The Immediate result of these
words, besides rpllpf. wits to -pi Pan |
woiiil' ilnc how the old t'lontitflltippr
hart reposiM/crt him. Hp wondered If
hp had any physlcit resemblance to
liK crandfather !• ill this lm|ip was j
shot to earth at once. His telesrani
hart pxplalned ahont his malady, and 1
of course the nioiinialitppr hart picked .
tiltt) out simply h' cause hp hart the |
mark of thp disease on his f,° CP. As
he shook hands, he tried his tiest to I
read the mountaineer's explosion. It
was all too pi In: un undeniable look j
of disappointment.
The truth was that even In spltp of j
all li e t'hatnhero;' t'oiiilncrcp lie d had
told hint. Lennox hud still hoped to
tind some image of ll e elder Han
Falllni.' In the face and hody of his |
grandson, llccnusc of the thick
classes. I.ennox could not see the
young man's eyes: hut he didn't think
It likely thej were ai all I ke thp eyes i
with which the elder railing saw Ids j
way through thp wilderness at night. I
I
"You're Dan Failing's Grandson, Aren't i
You?"
Of course he was tall, Just as the fa
mous frontiersman had been, but ,
while the elder weighed one hundred
nnd ninety pounds. bone and muscle,
this man did not touch one hundred
and thirty. Evidently the years had
brought degeneracy to the Fnlllns clan. ,
Lennox was d<sola'ed by the thought.
He helped Pan wltli h's bag to a lit
tle wiry automobile that waited he
side the station. They sot Into the :
two front seats, and a moment later I
were sinning tip the long, curved .
road that led to the Divide.
During the hour that they were :
crossing over the foothills, on :be way '
to the hie titnher. Silas Lennox talked
a great deal about the frontiersman
that had been Pan's grandfather. A
mountain man does not use profuse |
adjectives. He talks very simply and
very straight, and often there are long ,
silences between his sentences. Yet
lie conveys his Ideas wUh entire clear
ness.
Dan realized at one® that If he 1
could he. In Lennox's eyes, one-flftb i
of the man his grandfather hart been,
he would never have to fear again the i
look of disappointment with which his •
host had greeted him at the station. .
But instead of reaching that high
place, he had only—death. He knew
what his destiny was In these jntet
lulls. And il jvui true U'Ja lie buttO 1
to hnvp secret regrets that hp hart
romp. Bin It wasn't that hp dis
appointed In thp land thnt was open
ing up before him. It fulfilled every
promise. His sole reason for regrets
lay In the fact that now the whole
mountain world would know of the
decny thnt had roine upon his-people.
Perhaps It would have been better to
have left theiu to their traditions.
He hnd never dreamed that the
fame of his grandfather had spread
so far. For the first ten miles Dan
listened to stories—legends of a cold
nerve that simply could not he shaken :
of a powerful, tireless physique; of
moral and physical strength that was
seemingly without limit. Then, as
thp foothills liegan to give way to the
lileher rldeps. and the shadow of the
deeper forests fell upon the narrow, j
hrmvn road, there began to he long
gaps In the talk. And soon they rode
in utter silence, evidently both of
them absorbed In their own thoughts.
Dan did not feel oppressed at all. j
He merely seemed to fall Into the
spirit of the woods, and no words
came to his Hps, Every mile was an
added delight to hltn. Not even wine
could have brought a hrlebrer sparkle
to his eyes. He had begun to experi
ence a vague sort of excitement, an I
pmotlon that was almost kin to ex i
tiltatioti, over the constant srlr and
movement of the forest life. On'-e. as
they stopped the cnr to refill tbe ra
diator from a mountain stream. Ix>n
nox looked at him with sudden curi
osity. "You are getting a thrill out
of this, aren't you?" he asked wonder- I
ingly.
II was n curious tone remaps it
mhk a hopeful tone. ton. Fie spoke
ir If h«* hardly undprstond.
"A thrill!" Pun pchood. Hp spokp
as a nmn speaks in the prespucp nf j
sonip crp.it wonder. "flood Heavens.
I npvpr saw anything llkp It In my !
life."
"In thlf> very stream." thp mountain '
eer told him joyously. "you m - ocea
slonnlly patch trout that weigh tlirpp i
pounds."
Hut as hp cot hapk Into thp oar the |
look of Interest dl-d out of l.onnox's !
eyes. <>f course .my man would hp
somewhat pTcltpd h\ his fl*st glimpsi
of thp wilderness. It was not that hp I
had Inherited any < f thp traits of his
grandfather. It was absurd to hope |
that he had Ann h" would soon gei
tired of the Klleie-^s and want f« ce
hapk to his cities. i'e told Ills thoucln
—that It would all soon grow old to j
him: nnd Pan turret! almost in anger ,
"Yon don't know." he said. "I
didn't know tnvself. how 1 would fee' ]
■fhom It. t'm never going to leave the i
hills n pi In "
"You don't mean that."
"Bui I do." He iri<"d to speak fur
ther hut he coughed Instead. "But I j
couldn'l if I wanted to. That cough |
tells you why. I guess."
"You moan to say—" Silas I.ennoi j
turned in amazement. "You mean that
you're a—a goner? That you've given j
up hope of recovering?"
"That's the impression I meant to
convey. I've got a little over four i
months—though I don't see that I'm
any weaker than I was when the doc- j
lor said I had six months. Those |
four will take me all through the lull
and the early winter. And 1 hope you ;
won't feel that you've been Imposed |
upon—to have a dying man on your 1
hands."
(Continued on Saturday)
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