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Entered as seconai-claas matter Au
;uijt 29th, 1923, at the postoffice at
ToljDtna* Alaska, under the Act of
JMsjsch 3, 1379.
Takotna, tlaska, August 1, 1931
ILLITERACY AND SCHOOL
ATTENDANCE. ALASKA
WASHINGTON.—The Director of
:het Census lias announced the results
of Jhe tabulation of the 1930 census
returns for.the Territory of Alaska
relative to illiteracy and school at
tendance. For the. Territory *s a
whole, the number of persons 10
years of age and. over returned. as
unable to read .^md vritp on October
I, 1929, was ''.146, as compared.with
10,874 in 1920„. The percentage of
illiteracy was 'fiA, as compared with
24.8 ten years ago. The white and
Indian rlasses of population show
•ow/er percentages of illiteracy in
1930 than in 1920, while the percent
age of illiteracy in the. other races
shows a slight increase.
The number of persons, from 5 to
20 ;years. of age attending school ijy
1939 was §,133 as compared with
6,4J5 in 1920. , Persons attending
school represented 54.2 p.er cent of
the, totul, popu'u' ipn. within the uges
specified An 1930,. as compared with
46.7, per cent in 1920. Of the total
4f7
<Jy~fiu«omfort t-> all points in
Jta in cur four-passenger
jjcabut plane. Large baggage
[compartment separate from the
icabia. Equipment for water
, landings.
[ SigT ’-seeing tripr any tint*,
$5.00 pe. paEScr^er.
For Hates to Air ~ka Points
WIRE
Robdrt H. Romig
AGENT
Anekorage, Alaska
number of children 5 years of age in1
1930, 19.8 per cent were attending
school; of the children 6 years of age,
48Jt per cent; of those 7 to 13 years
of age, 70.0 per cent; of those 14 and
IS years, 71.2 per cent; of those 16
and 17 years, 63.2 per cent; and ,of
those 18 to 20,..19.0 . per cent. In ad
dition, 255 persons ,gl .years of age
and over were reported as attending
school, as compared with 160 in 1920..
PRODUCTION OF MINERALS
IN ALASKA IN YF.AR 1930
(Continued from Page 1.)
<he, greatest amount and those in
Seward Peninsula came next- More
than 80 per cent pf the..total placer’
production of the Territory was;
mined by dredges, ;of which 27 .were
active during 1930—15 ip the. camps
in the Yukon valley, and 12 ip Sew
ard Peninsula, Together these
dredges produced gold, to the value of1
$3,912,60.0. They are estimated to;
have handled about 9,9Q6,0Q0 cubic.
yards of gravel, apd the gold recov-j
ered was worth about 39 1-2 cents a
cubic yard. No. new dredges were1
built during thev year, hut two <dd!
dredges that had been idle for: some'
time were reconstructed and again.!
active. in 1930. Five dredges <that
were active in. 1929. .were idle during !
the year.
'•' The output of copper in 193 0 was
-nearly 7,860,000 pounds less than in
1929, and its value, was nearly $2,
886,000 less than in the earlier year:
Practically the whole of the Alaska
copper epmes from ,three mines oper
ated by the Kennecot Copper Cor
poration, two of which are ip the
Copper River region and one on La
touche Island, in ,Prince, William!
Sound. , The ore fropi the properties j
in the Copper River region is largely
high-grade copper sulphide and car
bonate; that, -from La touche Island is
a low-grade copper-iron sulphide,. All
i the Alaska, copper o.re js shipped to
the States for smelting. During the?
i year work at the mine on Latouche
| Island was discontinued and.part..of
'•the plant there.dismantled.a
j None of the Alaska ores are. mined j
1 solely for their silver content,. . but,1
considerable silver is. recovered as- a ;
l minor constituent from the ..ores of i
j gold and copper. In 1930 silver, to !
|the value of $107,800 was .-.recovered.-!
from the copper , ores, $39,300 from
the gold lode ores, and $10,200. from |
the placer gold; the total was 408,570,
ounces, Laving a value of $157,000.]
This marks a very great falling off
j in value from 1929, which is attribut
: able to the lower selling price of sjl
j ver and to the greatly decreased out
, put of copper ores from which a
large part of the Alaska silver is de
rived.
The lead produced from Alaska
ores in -930 amounted to 2,730,000
pounds,, which at the average selling
price of lead for the year, was worth
$136,500. This was the largest out
put of lead in Alaska since . this
i metal was first produced in the Terris
tory, though because of the small
price paid for lead the total value
was below that of many years.. Most
of the lead was recovered, as .a- by
product in connection with. the. ,min
ly three-quarters of a million Cellars
larger than in 1929. . Hundreds of
camps contributed to the .fcptput, but
those in the Yukon bisin contributed
peo. Wf Albrecht
Manager
Chas. E. Taylor
Counsel
Alaska Insurance Agency
Every known kind of Insurance, but only
one quality—THE BEST:..
•The -cheapest possible rates consistent with absolute safety, Surety
[ and Fidelity Bonds.
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FAIRBANKS, ALASKA
Kusko Times.
ing of gold ores in Southeastern
Alaska.
Coal to the value of $631,000 was
produced in 1930 from Alaska mines,
principally in the, Matanuska and
Healy River fields. This was an. in-!
crease in value of. about .$100,000,.
and the output of. the-year* 120,100 •
tons*, has been exceeded in only one
year in the entire period that; coal
mining has beep ;,in . progress,; in
Alaska. No Alaska coatds exported, i
but 37,128 .tops were- imported from
the States, chiefly, frojiv Washington,;
and .23,892i’tons from foreign coun- -
tries, chiefly British hColtombia, so
that the total consumption of coal in
Alaska in 1930 amounted to approx'- j
mately 181,lOQ,tons* '
Among the,, products .that. entered
iess largely inr q the Alaska mineral
industry in l£3Q may, be . mentioned
tin, petroleym, platinum /netaLj,..and
limestone .-for. .cement. . Compared
with 1929, the output, of -tin, in 193Q.
showed a great .felling toff, .both An
quantity and in yalue,.,,. The,..total
value of the . othec-, , products- ;was
$157,300, or somewhat,Jess than that
of the similar group pf prqducts. in
1929.
The foregoing notes.are, taken feojn ,
st comprehensive report of the .United
States Geological _ Survey,.- entitled
“Mining Industry of Alaska ip 193Qr”
Which was prqpaqwi ,f>v _ ,Philip S.L
Smith and will form one of the series I
of similar reports that the Geologicalj
Survey, .hag,, issued to describe the
progress .of Alaska mining in each,'
year since 1904.
-.
Some one complains that . .prize ',
fighters make more money, than. San-1
ators, but this only shows you can do
better walloping a manJLpto dream
land than you can by.felking.Jym to
sleep.—Dayton (O^). ^ews..
—:--- i
We suppose in those rural, parts of
Russia where, a traveler has found
that farm produce is still, in use. as
legal tendes, .spinach would be re
garded much the same as counterfeit
money.—Detroit News*.
The statesman* by the.way, who is
in the shadow .nf the..White House in
these pre-campaign daymay,, find
later that. it’s., equally shady in the
tall timbers-rr-Boston.Herald.
■ The thepry .that <it takes,six gen-,
erations .to make.,.& gentleman has
long since beep abandoned. . Now it
takes, only, .about six^goqd, days in the.
market.—New York JEost,^. j
Scattered Dreacna. .
- Suitor—rJimmy, how \ would .you
like to earn a^ quiaftesfe ?
Jimmy—ine! How?
i Suitotr>-Give me a lock of your
sister’s hair..
Jimmy—If you’ll giye me 50 cents
I’ll get. you the whole . wig.—Hum
mel, Hamburg.
Courage Returned
Brown—Did you hear about Jones,
He left his girl as they stood before
the altar..
Smith—Did his courage leave him!
at the last moment?
Brown—No; it returned!
NOTICE OF 4JPPOINTMENT.
Estate of Joseph Lewis,* deceased. .
Mattie Crofeby has been appointed
and qualified as administratrix of the
estate of Joseph Lewis, late.of Kus
kokwim Precinct, Fourth Division,
Territory of Alaska, deceased.
Dated1 at Napamute this 6th day of
June, A. D. 1913.
GEO. W. HOFFMAN,
Probate Judge of said Precinct..-.
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