-• ;;r A FUTURE C0MPET1
' !? FOR WOOL A NO COTTON.
.
CYYifornians wi.i hqrvest r 40,000'
acres of “'ramie” this year, the new j
sub; titute for cotton, wool anil flax..1
Th plant new to American irni
culure, produces lone:, li»brolls
tci .a! and is ••■aid to be grown any
wh re from the tropics to the Arc-;
tic. regions. In th- long growing
sc:..- .ms cf the South, it is said iwo
or hree crops a yeai can be raised
uni r favorable conditions. ihe
pi. is grow as high as 8 to 10 f t
and produce as much as 1,500 pounds
cf fibre to the aero as against an
ave age of 200 ounds an acre ft
cot . m. Undoub dly tin claims. •'
of the producers of ramie
will need to be discounted but they
declare this fibre cm. l.e grow.1, har
vested and spun without a human
ha> ov-.ching it and that A makes;
clot • seven times as strong as wool
ant 100 times' as strong a.-5 cotton, j,
1 "h tever the truth about this new
pin ' z, its development will bear'
watching.
JQY COMES LATE
Mrs Robt. Murphy, many years a'
resident of the Relief home of Kan
sas City, died recently leaving with
the home Supt. $385 insurance which
she had carried for the purpose.
She stated that there had been
enough sorrow in. her life and dir
ected that the money be used to hire
a ten piece Irish band to play lively ;
tunes at -ie. funeral.
There we two Metals,one of; !
which is omnipotent in the Cabinet, j*
end , the other in th. Camp,—Gold:,
and Iron. He that knows how top
8PP-V them both, mac indeed attain:
toe highest station, but he niustj1
know something more o keep it. j
— Colton.
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Machines Do The
77ork of 8,000
Miners in Mont.
HELENA. Mont.— If 8,0«)0 placet
nineis were at work on the stream*
if Montana today it would approxi
mate the volume of work of the
vc. A ■ f i-.Ich boom when mil
'■on:; of dollar?, worth of gold was
.iitd from the historic placer]
ip ration? c f the Helena district. To
lay it would1 moan, a:- then, a great
'old boom. Yet as much grav A is
■icing w ■' each a: very day
is was washed in the early days by j
1,000 placer miners with hand meth-j
>ds. Modern machinery is today do I
ng the work of 8,000 placer miners |
n Montana. '
Thu latest equipment to istajri j
>peiutions is the Hansen associates j
Iry land dredge or. Indian creek
lear Townsend. Here a giant drag
ine is digging as much gravel as
..old a crew of 700 miners work
ng by hand. Whereas the han 1
niners could dig only a few feet
>f depth, the dragline is going to
wdrock, be it two feet or 30 feet
leep.
Approximately 25,000 yards of
.ravel is being washed daily on the
treams of Montana during the kn-t
ix monhs of the present year. Next
ear may see this volume doubed
f dredging projects now under way
.re consummated.?
A recent survey of placer oper
itions in Montana revealed that in
.ddition to the machines there are
cot less than S00 placer miners
cashing out gold on shallow dig
;k:gs, some of them using tractors
nd small shovels, handling many
v ies as much material as was ever
ia died by an individual miner in
he days of pick, shovel and sluic»
ox.
!$on—I didn't know where the
Yores were.
I'-rhcr—In the future, just re
b.-r where you put things.—Le
f
NUGGET ROADHOUSE
AN® BAKERY
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Everyone Welcome.
Good Dog Ba^ns.
Mrs. John Kieck
Prop.
Robert E. Lowrie - Pro;. .
Blacksmith, Machine and all kinds o. •■ Sheet !
Metal work. Stoves, Safetys, Tanks.
Drlils ad Boilers and all kinds of P: aspect- !
mg Equipment. ;
1
h, p. Gasoline Drills j
iUT I VIATIC hand drills
Light in weight an„ Hercules in strength. Oaa ce
operated by one man, if necessary, and reach bedroc. in
shallow ground and get results. 3
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POSSIBILITY OF BRIDGING THI
BERING STRAIT WIHCII WOULI
MAKE AN OVERLAND ROUTE
FROM EUROPE TO AMERICA.
The time in not far distant whei
Americans going to Europe, or Eur
opean's coming to America, maj
travel all the way by motor car 01
railroad without even seeing th<
Atlantic Ocean.
This is the promise of a group oi
Russian engineers who have beet
making a survey of the Siberian sid<
of Bering strait and who d< clare ;
bridge at the narrowest point of this
channel can be constructed withoui
great difficult:!-s, connecting Sibet^t
with Alaska
This project is not new but little
has been heard of it since the Worlc
War. Now, with nations of the
world passing thru an age of tremen
dous engineering feats, houprht im
possible prviously, it is more prob
able than ever before that this inter
com incntal bridge will be built.
Between ltK)'- and 1010 a Frer.cl
engineer named " Loik De Lobe!
spent ail of his time exploring ant
surveying both sides of Bering
strait, and selected a promising
pot for such a bridge, even draw
ing a set of plans for it which are
still in existence.
The World war which soon fol
lowed pul a end to the project
Now a countryman of De Lobei’s.
Jean Charcot, the Artie explorer,
confirms DeLohel’s report and says
construction of a bridge would be
entirely feasible there. Charcot has
found that at this particular spot
Bering str, it is only 31 miles ac
ross with a small island right in
the middle of the- channel i, amp
lify buildings of a bridge. The
findings of Charcot arid the Russian
engineers agree with each other in
this respec .
What such a connecting link be
tween the two continents would
mean can hardly be guessed at. Its
construction should be justified
ah ne as means of travel between
the Old World and the new, avoiding
the ocean voyage dreaded by so
many persons.
It is a project, mige enough and
with enough far-reaching possibil
ities to challenge tne. imagination of
President Roosevelt who has been
rained the “Great American Pro
jector.”
Caller—Does you> amid try to
; lake the food go as far as possible?
Mistress—-Oh, yes; a - fot of it
goes at least a mile—from our. house
to hers.—Pathfinder.
Smile that way again.”
Sh- birthed and dimpled.
“Just as I thought-—you look like
a chipmunk.”—Old Line.”
“There will be a dumb little blond
beauty at the party to-night who’s
fipsh from the country. What do
you say to the two of u» teaching
her the difference between -ight
and wrong?”
“Okey, pal. fou can teach her
tvhat’s right.”-U. S. S. Arkansas
Arklite.
“What’s the noise?”
“John, the barber, is shaving him
cdf.”
“What’s the conversation about?”
“He’s trying- to persuade himself
;o have a shampoo.” —Globe (To
•onto).
Frank J, Guskey
Notary Pubjfk
Takotna, Alaska.
INGERSOLL’S CREED
During the depression of the ’9<5s
a reporter interviewed Robert G.
Ingersoll, the agnostic. In the course
of their conversation Ingersoll men
tioned something about his creed.
Urged to give his creed, Ingersoll
agreed on a promise that the report
er would not have it printed and
' ot ■ the following with pencil and
paper:
Happiness is the unl; (bid.
The time to be happy is now.
The place to be happy is here.
The way to be happy is to make
others happy.
I
The paper on which the creed was
■ written was framed and retained by
j the reporter. it was recently pur
chased by an antiquarian for S100.
ORIGIN OF THE GUILLOTINE.
The guillotine was devised by Dr.
Louis, a French surgeon, or adapted
J>y him from instruments already
known, and the original model was
constructed after his directions by
Schmitt a German harpiscord manu
facturer.
The idea whs suggested by man
aja, a rougher sort of guillotine,
which had been used in Italy for
centuries.
Dr. Joseph Guillotine, who had
instituted a crusade against the rope,
the wheel and the stake, constantly
spoke with such enthusiasm of Dr.
Louis’s apparatus that the people
ended by giving his name to it and
crediting to him the invention.
During the Reign of Terror this
instrument cut off the heads of no
less than 8,000 victims, while other
guillotines in other cities were also
kept busy.
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TRAIL TO McGRATH*. We have Shoes for all ages and sizes.
We specialize in Children's Clothing Everything to wear and
good things to eat. Wt .will |>c glad to see you. Mail orders
given special attention.
Mrs. Thomas If. McLean
McGRATH, ALASKA
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for the sake of your credit and your peace of mind,
Needless to say this insurance should be of the very
highest quality.
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