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Entered as second-class matter Febru
ary 1, 1022, at the Post Office at
McGrat , Alaska, under the
Act of March .'1, 1870.
McGrath, alaska. few 21. 1.022
Seattle Alaska Letter
(Publicity Department, Seattle Cham
ber of Commerce.
Seattle, Jan. 1!) —An appeal for Se
as lie people to protect Alaskans from
'•a horde of wildcatters who will get
get into the stock-selling game as soon
as the Standard Oil and well financed
'companies bring in oil in Alaska,” was
made by Capt. J. F. Pratt, retired, who
began surveying the waters of the Ter
ritory thirty-five years ago. Captain
f’ratt was a speaker at a dinner of the
Alaska committee of the Chamber, with
•Joshua Green as host. He made his
statement after telling of the oil seep
ages which have been known to exist
In Alaska for many years, and showed
'photographs of trees coated with oii in
the Icy. Bay district.
Captain Pratt said: “Oil drilling
•operations in Alaska require tremen
dous outlays, and also the transporta
t ion problems loom so big that no coin
pan.v which does not have millions at
its disposal can hope to operate iu that
field. Tt is Seattle's duty to uphold
Alaska’s hand in ridding this section of
the boomer, the fakir and the wild
<catter, who is already laying his lines
for a cleanup on the basis of the lure of
Alaska oil.”
Captain Pratt urged more adequate
• appropriations for coast and geodetic
-survey, and said that the coasts of Cali
fornia and Washington were only half
surveyed, and Oregon only one-third.
He urged better charting of outside
waters iu Alaska and stressed the need
■ot an adequate lighthouse at Cape
Spencer. '
Capt. J. E. Dodge, of the coast guard,
who visited the^Vlaska seal haunts 35
years ago, gave a history of the growth
ot that industry and predicted tnat it
•can be made even more profitable for
•the Government.
According to figures furnished by
Alaskan Geologist Alfred H. Brooks,
’the value of the mineral output of
Alaska in 1922 was: Gold, $7,720,000;
copper, $9,000,000: silver. $730,000; coal,
PROFESSIONAL
Albrecht and Taylor
LAWYERS
Iditarod, Alaska,
and at
7 05 L. C. Smith Bldg., Seattle, Wash
Practice in“all Courts.
Dr. W. F. Green
McGrath, {Alaska
; $450,000. The total *value, including:
j that of lead, platinum, petroleum and
1 gypsum, was $18,230,000, compared
with $17,000,000, the value of the out
! put m 1021.
.1. W. McCord, general manager of
the Westward Development Company,
who is in Seattle, says drilling by the
■Standard Oil Company began three
; weeks ago in the Cold Hay district and
results should he known in a short
time. The Associated and General Pe
! 11oleum Company are also prep-ring to
begin drilling at an early date. The
j three companies are preparing to ex
, pend nine million dollars to test the
new field. The three big oil companies
have pooled interests to the extent of
constructing jmntlp a road from Kana
; tak to Pearl caeek, where the first
wells are being sbnk. More than a
thousand tons of Standard Oil equip
ment, including drilling machinery,
reached Kun itak from Seattle last Oc
tober. Mr. McCord advised against (
the stock promoters who aro selling
stock iu companies organized only on
paper. He said only po- erfu! financial
companies can get oil to market.
‘Suggestion’ Healer
Tells of His Methods
Boston.—“I am uot a healer. I am
not a miracle worker. [ am not pos- '
sessed of any supernatural powers. II
merely put people who think they are!
sick on the right track, and then they \
cure themselves.”
Thus declared Prof. Emile Coue, ,
“suggestion healer,” now visiting in
this city,
“My plan is quite simple—it is just
the same as Christ’s,” he said. “Christ
possessed the gift of planting tremen- j
dous faith in sick people. When he
said, ‘Arise, you are cured,5 the patient,
was cured because he believed what
Christ told him.
“My plan transfers this splendid
faith in the patients themselves. In
stead of having faith in me, they dis
cover faith in their own powers. No
sickness is proof against a determined
effort of the will power.”
Prof. Coue will not acoept money for
his lectures or cures. Lieferriug to the
report that physicians scoff at his;
treatment, Prof. Coue said:
“On the contrary, the most promt- j
nent doctors of Paris and London are
my finest friends. The only opposition |
comes from a small group of homeo-;
paths.
“My methods are indorsed by the i
French Academy of Medicine. Every- j
one acknowledges the truth of the
adage, ‘A man is as old as he feels.’ 1 !
have only amended it to, ‘A man is only
ill in so far as he wants to believe he
is ill.”
PRESS SQUIBS.
Mr. Heartt and Seuator Hi Johnson i
will never fergive Japan forgiving back
Shantung.
“No strings on the snip subsidy.1’
What it neels is a cable and a few
anchors.
In the future Greece will probably
have to conscript her cabinet members.
—New York Tribune.
Europe will do better by paying off
her old debts than by paying oil' her
old scores.—Washington Post.
Minnesota has sent a poet to Con
gress. That probably completes the as
sortment.—Pittsburgh Gazette-Time .
An observer likens the Lausanne
conference to a poker game—and the
Turks are overplaying their straits.—
Washington Post.
We can hardly discharge Europe’s
war debt until Europe discharges a few
of her war vets.—Norfolk Virginian
Pilot.
Claim that> “some of our best people11
vmlat.£k t ha nna1, lhi t ir\jn In tar rloimn/ln
■ H.I.—
wholly on the meaning given to the
‘•best.”- Pittsburgh Gazette-Tiroes.
.Still, if we should lock up all the
feeble-minded, who would write our
sodg hit»?— Hackensack :Reeord.
We are now so well nreteeted from
cheap foreign labor that it, can’t even
buy high- priced American goods.—
Richmond News-trader.
i.ach American farmer, says a farm
ers’ bureau, will earn $465 this year.
Rut will he get it?- New York Trib
une.
In the old days a ford was the place
where you crossed the river. Now it’s
everv place you try to cross the street.
—Lincoln Star.
European nations may bury the
hatchet, but they seem to retain plenty
of axes to grind.—Brooklyn Eagle.
We may need a larger navy and a
bigger army, but we can't support
them on tax-exempt securities and
stock dividends —Columbus Dispatch.
Eugene Debs says that sovietism was
the only good thing that came out.oj
the war, which is the most crushing
indictment of the war we.1 have yet
heard.—-Nashville Southern, Lumber
man.
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Napamute, Alaska
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