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Entered as secona-cihss matter Au
5ust 29th, 1923, at the postolfice at
okotna, Alaska, under the Act of
March 3, 1879.
A NEW HORIZON LOOMS.
(Fairbanks News-Miner.)
President Roosevelt’s order liting
the embargo against the shipment of
newly mined gold marks a definite
epoch in the gold mining industry.
When the President placed an em
bargo on gold shipments last April it
forced the miner to sell his gold to
the United States Mint at the price
of |20.67, and this in a depreciated
currency, although prior to that time
he was entitled to gold if he so de
sired.
This order was followed by another,
which required all newly mined gold
to be sold at the Mint, although the
world market paid a far higher price.
The gold mining industry was being
penalized the difference between
per ounce paid by the United States
and the price of approximately $30
per ounce paid in the world market.
The existence and prosperity of the j
gold mining industry depends upon
the margin between cost of produc-'
tion and the price received for the
gold. Because of the rising cost of
food and supplies generally, brought
about by the inflation of the gold dol
lar and the employment codes, the
mining industry was fast approach
ing the position it occupied during the
years immediately following the
World War, when high cost of produc
tion caused a shut-down of many gold
producing properties in the States
and Alaska, and the discontinuance
of mining development from which.
Interior Alaska has been but slowly
emerging during the last few years.
In the face of rising prices, .short
ened hours, and the announced deter
mination of the President to restore
1926 prices, it was inevitable that, if
the mining industry was not tod he
be throttled, the embargo must be
lifted.
This has been done. P rasper it ty is
! now at hand for the. gold mining in
dustry and, as a consequence, for this
community. To what heights it will
soar it is difficult to visualize. A new
horizon looms, staggering in its po
tentialities. Of this be assured, that
it means the improvement of the con
. dition of our courageous and hard
working prospectors, miners and busi
ness men; the continued operation of
the gold properties now being mined,
and a stimulus and incentive to pros
pecting and mining that will result in
new discoveries and rentwed develop
ments.
Gold mining is coming into its own.
The “New Deal” has given the mining
industry a square deal, which will re
dound to the general economic advan
tage of the entire United States.
EARLY MAN.
(Detroit Free Press.)
Sir Arthur Smith Woodward, a
1 Briish anthropologist, gives a new
| new twist to the perennial .specula
i tion about man’s origin when he stat
ed to the international Geological
Congress at Washington a few days
ago his belief that the original Gar
den of Eden lay in Africa. The basis
for Sir Arthur’s conversion from the
standard supposition that mankind
developed somewhere north or west
of the Himalayas was the evidence
turned up by Dr. L. S. £. Leakey in
East Africa within the past decade.
Dr. Leakey has found relics of
Homo Sapiens in the Eic valley of
Africa lying in earth and nock de
posits much older than the geological
formations in which specimens of
creatures similar to man had been
found previously in Java, China, Eng
and and Germany. Although the Af
rican inhabitant Jived long before
these other ancestors of mankind, he
appears to be related much more
closely to man as we know him today.
Sir Arthur .explains this by suppos
ing that all .the early forms of man
kind successively developed in .a par
ticular locality, and spread out from
that Icality in a series of migrations.
At any one period, the highest devel
opment of man-like creatures would
have been found at the .home, or head
quarters, of mankind, .and earlier and
ruder examples of that type at vari
ous distances.
One weakness of this theory is that
the age of the African Homo Sapiens
remains has been determined from
fossils of extinct animals with 'which
they were mixed. It is possible that
these animals may shave lingered
longer in Africa than had been sup
posed, instead of man appearing .there
earlier than elsewhere.
Assuming that not to be .true, as
Sir Arthur does, the .conclusion is
forced that man as we know him
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began to deveop much onger ago than
had been suspected, perhaps as ong
ago as the Miocene Age (.19 million
to 7 million years ago). He lived,.ac
cording to the new evidence, in an
advanced state during the Pliocene
Aga (7 million to 1 million years
ago), while the earliest relics outside
of Africa do not appear until the
Pleistocene Age, which succeeded
that.
THE NEW DEAL.
!' a! !: ■ mer. #
Mr. C. J. Todd, of Vald«z, was .a
candidate for the office of United
States Marsha! of the Third division.
He had the endorsement of the Demo
ratic divisional commitee, of the
Territorial committee, of Governor,
Troy, of the National committeeman,
of Delegate Dimond and of every bus
iness man in Valdez. His appoint
ment appeared certain, but it was far ;
from it. The Department was sorry,
but Mr. Todd’s age was against him.
No question as to his integrity, no
question as to his qualifications, just
his age proved a bar, and he could
not be appointed. And this in the
face of the fact that but a few days
before a man older than Mr. Todd
had been appointed to at similar posi
tion in the Territory.
Mr. Todd was not too to do effect
ive work for the party during the last
campaign and for twenty years previ
ously. He was not too old to be one
of the first to insist that the delegate
from Alaska to the Democratic na
tional convention be instructed for
Franklin D. Roosevelt for President
and to fight until that object had been
accomplished. His age proved no bar
to the acceptance of his contributions
to the Democratic campaign fund, but
when the vicory was won he was too
old to participate in the fruits there
of. If that is the “new deal” we were
to get, it looks to us like it is about
time for a new deck.
WHY PEOPLE SMILE.
Nonchalance.
A small boy was asked to. dine at
the home of a distinguished professor.
His mother questioned him on his re
turn, ‘You are sure you didn’t do any
thing that was not perfectly polite
and gentlemanly?”
“Why, no, nothing to speak of.”
“Then something did happen. Tell
me at once," she demanded.
"Wei), vwhile ,1, was trying to cut the
meat it slipped ^off on the floor- Hut
J made it,all rgfcbt," said the boy.
“Whatdidyou.de?”
■‘♦Oh, I Just said carelessly, “That’s
always the way with tough, meat.”—
Ashington Colleries Magazine.
Bad lartfc.
A minister discovered .two men
playing cards on Sunday—r^and far
money.
“Rastus,” said the mwwter. -donY
you know it’s wrong to; play sards w
de Sabbath?”
"Yes, pas son,” mm is < inf ~ HmMm.
ruefully. “But, believe me, Ah's pay
in’ fob mah sins.”—Montreal Qazette.
Before T. M. Garland, United States
Commissioner and er-oSeio Pro
bate Judge, Otter Prrtinrt, Fourth
Division, Territory of A lash a
In the matter of the estate of Rster
Claustrup, deceased.
To All Persons to wheat these
presents shall come, greeting:
Know Ye that it appearing to T.
M. Garland, U. S. Commissioner for
the aforesaid precinct. Hint T. 11
Garland, the former adminiatontor of
the aforesaid estate, has resigned, and
I find it necessary to jy point .another
administrator, the said Petordano
trup leaving at the time af'Sria iwrth
property in this precinct, jand that
said Commissioner has duly sjipnirated
Harry Donnelley iHirVirf*™*-? far
the estate of Peter <£Samtemi de
ceased.
In testimony wlkemdfir"tent here
unto set my hand and ■ffirrd myseal
this 3rd day of September, HH1.
(Seal) T-ltdlLiaD,
PrAoti) Judge.
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