THE KUSKO TIMES
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August 20th, 1923, at the postoffice
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of March 3rd, 1879.
GOLD 18 THE ANSWER
Your attention is invited to the
following item from a British Col
umbia daily newspaper: “Implement
ing its promise to send prospectors
into the hills the Provincial Govern
ment this year, through its relief
department, has given out close to
800 monthly grubstakes to relief
applicants who wished to go out and
search for gold.”
We know our Alaska too well to
have the slightest desire to send a
host of inexperienced men into the
hills unless they were sent under the
supervision of capable old timers
and engineers. The fact remains
that there are large numbers of men
who have prospected and who know
something of geology and miner
alogy who are unable to get into the
nun* tti ij wdo uiv i-.-u i'• .n_ct |>l
same toi 'u hi >■• lief oi ch eig-ncv
work of highly doubtful values.
Many of. these men are costing the
government a much larger sum of
money than it would cost to outfit
them and transport them to known
mioeiHiliZ'd ureas < i ibe north a d
this money being expended in a
manner which precludes any possi
bility of its findinng its way back to
go. ernment coffers.
An oldtim e Alaskan prospector
has estimated that $300 would sup
ply a man wih tent, rifle, sleeping
bag, tools and sufficient supplies to
last through the average Alaskan
prospecting season providing he was
well enough versed in the lore of the
hills to supplement his grub cache
with the game, fish and berries with
which Alaska abounds. Transporta
tion for our prospector and his sup
plies would „probably cost another
$200 since the airplane has cut the
cost of reaching distant fields in
Alaska. Thus for a total cost of
$500 capable men could be put into
those sections of Alaska in whic i
millions have already been expended
in geologic surveys proving their
mineral value.
in a cryptic paragraph in one of
his recent columns Brisbane said,
This country produces fifty million
dolloars in gold a year and has a
national debt of 27,000 millions.
“Russia produces 150 millions a
year in gold now, three times as
much as the United States, and the
debt that .Russia recognizes amounts
to only 200 million dollars.
“Those that call Russia bankrupt
should improve their arithmetic.”
Strange is it not that among all
the schemes for meeting the tremen
dous demands on the Federal treas
ury no one seems to have thought
of producing gold rather than mere
ly raiding the wealth already pro
duced ? Our annual governmental
interest bill is far more than our
entire cost of government totalled
but a few short years ago. We may
repudiate, which is unthinkable to
every right minded American, or we
may inflate gold to much higher
levels, which is fraught with grave
danger, or we may do the simple
and apparantly obvious thing, give
genuine governmental aid to miners
and prospectors in the production of
•:ew gold. Therte is unquestionably
void enough in Alaska which may
jf profitably extracted to relieve t’ns
train on the Federal budget very
> ckly and at the same time furnish
employment to large numbers of our
c tizens.—Alaska Weekly.
V1IEN ’TIS HARVEST TIME
IN IRELAND
:v old friend Jim and my good pal
Tim, z
Let our thoughts turn far away
autumn days in Erin’s Isle,
And the meadows of fragrant hay;
^rom old-Donegal down to sweec
Mayo, *
To the scones of our youth and
prime,
\h! those were pleasant, happy day-:
In the good old harvest time,
in those carefree days we wouid
wend our way
To the babb.ing brooks and
streams,
To the vales and dales or the moun
tain pass
And the scenes of our youthful
dreams.
n the land of the stranger here we
roam.
Love of home was our only crime,
’Tis no wonder we think of our
native land
And the grand old harvest time.
With tear-stained eyes we are forced
to fly
From those who were good and
kind;
We sigh to think of the smile and
the wink
Of those colleens we left behind.
We miss the cuckoo and the lark,
And we miss the old church bell’s
chime,
As it called us to pray we would hike
away "<■'
*111 the good old harvest time.
The robin redbreast and .the-, corn
cake.
The nightingale, linnet and thrush,
The wren and the sparrow who made
their Pests
In the little old gooseberry bush;
All those were our favorite warbling
birds,
Far above the jackdaw and crow
We sigh for the good old harvest
days z
In Donegal, Down and Mayo.
ALASKA NOTES
ANCHORAGE, Nov. 19.—Word
was received here today of the acci
dental death of Harold Ball, 18, at
Mosuito Point, which is sabout 25
miles from Kanakanak. The acci
dent occur ed when the unfortunate
youth feQ over a log the rifle dis
charging and killing him instantly.
He came to Alaska two years ago
from Aberdeen and had been living
with his mother and brother since.
DILLINGHAM, Nov. 22.—Harry
Barnes, Alaskan Pioneer, died today
$t the KanaKanaK hospital. He is
survived by a wife and three child
ren. The Pioneers will conduct the
funeral services.
Yielding to the request made by
representatives of two clubs that a
policewoman be appointed to super
vise amusement places frequented
young people and to exercise gener
al jurisdiction over the activities of
minors in public places, the Juneau
city council has voted to give the
proposal a trial.
A woman selected from recom
mendations from the women’s clubs,
will serve under the authority and
instructions of the chief of police
for a period of thirty days. —Peters
burg Press.
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WASHINGTON HEMS
Bob Bartlett
WASHINGTON, D.C.—It is the
opinion of the Rialroad Retirement
oard that the retirement act passed
y the last Congress does not apply
to the Alaska Railroad.
The Board’s interpretation of the;
applicability of the act to the gov- j
eminent owned road, which has been
a moot question since passage of the
bill » » !. ttlit- l I'C'lll. > JJ t
Dimond,
C0..V1. .I for the . Board, accordip?
to information reaching the Dele
gate, contend the interstate Cons
erve . ct does not apply to the
Alaska Railroad. This, of course.
£ cur, act means the provisions of
:.he act do not extend to that road,
since Section 1 of the law explicitly
sta.tes it applies only to carriers
subject to the Interstate Act.
The retirement act is primarily
drawn to provide a retirement sys
tem of uniformity to Tailroad em
’ dcyces.
It is conceded the ruling of the
-loard at this time may have no f nal
meaning, since in the Distr;ct Su-j
. veme Court recently the entire act
was declared unconstitutional. The
encrai expectation is that if an
appeal is taken to the Supreme
Court and the decision of the lower
court is affirmed the next Congress
will have to take up a remodeled
hi 1 framed to withstand legal as
sault.
If this is done Delegate Dimond
plans to exert every effort to have
retirement benefits extended to Al
aska Railroad Employees. The vast
major.ty of them are now without
a pension system of any sort.
It is said much more serious cons
ciderat on will be given to the ques
tion of government owned roads,
including state lines, if a new bill
is introduced.
While holding the Alaska Rair
road did not come within the mean
ing of the retirement act, the Rail
road Retirement Board -ruled that
other rail roads in Alaska do.
A resolution which would place
the American Legion on record as
favoring construction of the Inter
national highway failed of passage
at the recent Miami convention by
only two votes.
It was offered and supported vig
orously by Dr. Evan H. Holway of
Seattle. Chairman of the Alaska
Road Committee of the University
Post of the Legion, Dr. Holway has
for long been a vigorous advocate
of the highway.
Delegate Dimond is now urging
each member of the national execu
tive committee of the Legion to
consider and act favorably upon a
similiar resolution when the com
.y.ittee meets in the near future.
According to the Seward Gateway
Frank Dorbandt, ace of aces in Al
aska air corps, is getting sore!
He has been persecuted and dis
criminated against for two years
now, he says, and he is girding up
his loins to fight back.
Dorbandt, who last August was
deprived of the means of making a
livlihood when his flying and me
chanics license was revoked because
of a minor infraction, returned re
ently and left for his home in An
chorage.
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