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THE REVIVAL IN GOLD MINING.
The statement ;.f Senator-elect Fred Ayer, o
Nome, that Alaska is certain to experience a sub
planital revival in the gold mining industry is basei
on'facts and is more than an uninformed guess. H<
might have added that the present year's gold outpu
bids fair to surpass that of last year by a constderr.bh
ram.
The output on Seward Peninsula, which Mr. Ayei
will represent in the upper House of the coming si's
• on cf the Territorial Legislature, will undoubtedly
be larger than for several years through the activi
ties of the liammon intesc. ts, of California, whlcl
entered that field last year through acquisition o
large holdings from the Pioneer Mining Company. 1
is constructing specially designed dredges, its owr
power plant and making adequate preparations to tie
\ slop i^ holdings- on a gigantic scale.
New dredges will operate in the lower Yukor
country. One new dredge will re-open old grount
in the Rampart district. Prospecting, carried on ovet
a large area in the Fairbanks district last summer
i raid to hav ■ resulted in decision of California in
tire. Is to install at least one big dredge there as soot
as possible and probably others will follow rapidly
Hydraulic giant will operate n full season this yeat
Its the Kantishuu district for the first time in yeurs
Last year 1,900 men were employed in Alaska placet
mines and that number will probably be exceeded bj
raveral huhdred during the coming season.
It is (significant that ttll of these new activities art
being In tine lied in old diggings. Ground herotofon
considered too low grade for profitable development
Is being worked. A sittviy carried out during tin
pact three years: by the F S Geological Survey shows
that there is appt ixitnal ly $350,000,000 in gold ii
ruc.li lew gtade placer deposits in the Territory which
can In worked under improved conditions of mining
and ti ant pc nation. Thu recovery of this gold will
extend over many years and provide employment fot
thousand!* as it progresses.
The lode mining braneh of the industry is not
ires premising. Properties are being developed it
many parts of the Territory which should reach tin
producing stage tills season. Portland Canal, Willow
Creek, Girdwood, Knnthhna. Ml. McKinley or Coppet
Mountain, Flat, Fairbanks, the Tuku, are all districts
in which promising quartz developments are r.
IKirted. Not the least among tlie factors in improver
lode mining conditions is the progress made in Liu
Alaska Juneau mine which la t year produced one
sixth of all the gold output of Alaska. While there is
nt expectation of a repetition of the boom days ol
placer bonanzas, there is every indication for health}
recuperation in the gold mining industry in all its
branches this year. |
SURE TO CAUSE A STAMPEDE.
A bill recently Introduced by Senator Spencer
Republican cf Missouri, bids fair to cause a stunv
pede among the thirty souls of the nation which wll
threw the Klondike. Fairbanks and Nome gold rusher
into the shade. The Mb-ourl colon has introduced t
megoure providing for ti e appointment of a $100,00t
beer-testing commission which will be charged witl
the responsibility, duty, pleasure or otherwise as the ensi
may be. of determining what alcoholic content oi
llquldh may be imbibed without indueng intoxication
The commisson would be com post d of seven member;
not lef3 tlian two cf wliicli would be women, will
salaries not Icks than $75h per month. The bill limits
expenses of the commission to $ inn.non.
Imagine what a rush there will be if the bil
:!ould become a law. The mass of applications would
undoubtedly force the President to put on three shin.
<f clerks to open mail, or handle the rush of ap
j.ltcunts app uring in person. The mention of salaries
in connection with membership, however, looks verj
much like a ease of waste of money, who would dr
mand pay for the opportunity to sample unlimited
quantities of ro.il beer?
GERMAN DEMAND FOR COPPER \VILL
INCREASE.
There has been a rally in the German meta
trader-. The requirements of the copper-manufactur
mg Industiits are bring filled again us manufacturer
. .’e becoming bare of metallic raw materials. Th
imports of copper into Germany are estimated
high »s 10,000 metric tons a month. T am told,” says
the German coiresponded of the Engineering aid
Mining Journal-Press of X w York, "that some from
ctedit arrangement has been made between American
capitalists and German metal consumers, partly on
the bar!* of the Edge l.aw. The metal p .Vple'herc
beltove that the big American producers will be forced
Id the long run to resume operations on the large
ceale of war lime, becrurp the increased volume of
rinoltlng and refining operations can alone warrant
the maintenance of mining with lower coats and con
frequently larger dividends for shareholders." The lu
creared output will, so It Is argued, be sent to the
.. wi. m \
j foreign countries that are by ’lalure bis foreign metal
I users, of which (Jermany is foremost,
j Amid all the crushing: difficuties of the present
'era. German metal consumption Is ait to 60 per cent.
; of the lltl 1 '■ !. and Is bound to rise further as
the supply of ■ !il motal from foreign countries dim
iinishes. Brean America is now absorbing great
iquantitiis of Iiiitis.il and other ammunition scrap, |
J little remain* to be had by Germany, so that at t lie j
I moment !o h. no avdalable brass and bronze t -j
j serve.-'. This n suits in a diminishing prqduction ofj
cathode-. which ince war days have been turned
■ out firm fiipper-zinc alloys. The Ilsenburg refinery
r.f the llir.-fh nncern, as well as some other re
fineries, have ceased to turn out cathodes, to which
wire and sheet makers were more accustomed than to
Anictlean wire bars, so cathodes are bring imported
■ in greater pre-portions than before. The same is the
.'case with line zinc that comes in from the United
Kingdom, being mostly of American origin, of which
the mantifar'urers of high-quality brass are greatly
ill need.
Arabs adrr Harvey denies that he and Secretary
Hughes have m ' disagreed on "important questions
of foreign policy Jurt what a: yet unrevealed policy
upon which ili< two statesmen have agreed not to
disagree has not been divulged.
The Buffalo woman who lost $500,000 worth of
jewels in a New York holdup got her picture and tlie
name of her husband in several hundred newspapers.
She ought to.be satisfied os space rates were not
charged.
The Hritish Burden.
i Heston News Bureau.)
What the burden of taxation, as necessitated by
war costs, has meant to the people of England is
] graphically illustrated by the publication of some of
i the figures set forth by tilie British debt commissioners.
!, England has been the one European country that has
| had the financial hardihood to levy taxes drastically:
i rite Anglo-Saxon there,—as here,—seems to stand it
better than the Latin or Teuton.
Even with the weight of taxes, direct and iu
.'direct, as thus imposed, the British revenue needs
,|aro so great that the Exchequer will probably be able
I to balance the budget—a feat quite beyond most
iother European chancellors—only by suspending pay
; nionts to the sinking fund for reduction of the public
|dfbt,—a step unprecedented in peace time. This year's
budget includes about $100,000,000 already paid us
in war debt interest. Out of these figures springs
| Hie main British argument for some relaxation of
j t he rate and maturity terms as new laid down by
I Congress
Of the total British governmental expense, no less
than 37.8 per cent, goes for debt interest and 10.2 i
per cent, for pensions, illustrating afresh the costli
ness of war And that is not all, since a considerable
part ol the 13.4 per cent, for social service—includ
ing unemployment allowances—is dcubtlevs a reflex,
of war-created conditions abroad. The lighting fores
, t iieinselves take another 10.7 per cent. Even though
j tills latter is relatively light, as against 24 per cent.
I for our similar appropriation,—our army bill was re
j ported yesterday carrying $314,000,000 it adds
materially to the military hill, as piled up on pjv t or
[piesent acocunt.
The payment fer the hill is split variously as be
tween direct and indirect levies. Tax on incomes
yields 36.1 “per cent.; excess and corporation profit
tax each about 5 per cent.; sales of war supplies al
most lo per cent., post and telegraph some 13 per
lent.; tobacco and tood taxes, euch tome 5 per cent.
And liquor, which to our national finance is a liabil
i.'ly rather than an asset, supplies no less than 17 s|
per cent.
This moans a large levy on the individual -even'
I larger than with us. The total British tax per capita
| is about $100, or nearly double the probable average
tor tic. The national lux figure there lias risen from
i,h0 equivalent of $17 in 1914 to $80 now, us against
a trifle over $40 here.
Iv pcrially on the small income earner, as com
pared with our own, is there a definite and heavy bur
d> n. with a levy of $50 on incomes of $1250, and
| of $253 on incomes of $2500. Europe starts its tax
i bracket* much lower than we.
i Tho Hritish pint of beer now costs seven cents
and pays u tax of just as much, the total of 14 cents
: contracting with six cents, before the war (Here
j home-brew is legally and therefore fiscally non-exiat
cnt.) On spirits the tax is two-thirds, on sugar one
j halt, ti e value. Tobacco imports are taxed $■’ a
pound. Beet and sugar taxes are multiplied 13 or" 14
I ti ne- over pre-war levels.
I No wonder lllat- whatever superficial issues the
politicians parade, there is an easily roused discon
;tent among voters in England and America alike
The answer as to the cause is found in the lax bill
The Interehurch Steel Report Again.
(New York Evening Post.)
A series of findings vitiated in its facts and con
clusions by radical bias each is the charge brought
against the famous Interchurnh Steel report of two
>>ars ago by u new investigator in the field. But we
cannot say that Mr. Marshall Olds's indictment, as
ummarUed in the press, is startingly convincing.
There is some point jn bringing out errors in the
evidence on conditions in the steel field adduced by
'he authors of the original report. But there is very
little point in the attack made on the radical author
ship of the report. If Greenwich Villagers had a
hand in the report, to did a bishop of the Methodist I
Church and a bishop cf the Episcopal Church; and
'it gets us nowhere to brand those bishops as also
lutlical. If you stall, out with the assumption that!
■a Steel report is radical, then obviously the bishops
i ciuccrned are alto radical, and so we have the profit
of traveling about in a circle fer our pains.
in any case the issue of radicalism docs not enter
into that part of the Interchurch report which has
nlttcn in deepest on the popular consciousness and
conscience, a feature which may be said to consti
virtually the whole or the report so far as the
! I’tfl'He lr. concerned. And that is the question of
i he twelve-hour day in the steel mills. It was brought
out in the report -and the facts have not been ques
■omd - that many years after the directors of the
t mlcd States Steel Corporation had voted in priu
■ Pie to do away with the twelve-hour day and had
1 lodged themselves to make a study of the problem, it
••as found that-more than hair of the steel workers
were till bound to the inhuman twelve-hour schedule1
What this means in the way of living conditions'
among the steel workers, of their opportunities for!
duration, of their opportunities lor being moulded'
into American citizenship, need not be rehearsed
ft i3 onhgfieccesary to state that this was the
ac upon wflThh popular sentiment concentrated
• Ian the Interchureh report was given to the world,
ml that it was an issue acknowledged as real by
Mr. Gary among others.
Whatever defects there may have been in the
1 erehurch report on minor and collateral issues
’ e can he* no minimizing the service the report
1'"loped by bringing this problem of the twelve
r day to the forefront, it is the one big problem
1 'he steal industry from the workers' point of view
i no amount of the finger pointing at radicals can
1'" cn its importance.
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ALONG LIFE’S DETOUR
By SAM HILL
Observations of Oldest Inhabitant
I kin remember when the affini
ties' "powder and shot" were as well
known as "powder ami paint" are
today.
Modern Idea
"Pa, what is domestic science?"
asked Clarence.
"It's knowing how to open a can,
cxvn," replied Ills dad as he surveyed
the salmon, and canned vegetablc
aml fruit that made up the evening
meal.
And Angels Are Mighty Scarce
A woman has to be some angel to
lie gracefully when she* remarks the
vacuum cleaner you gave her for
Christmas was "just what site want
ed” when she knows, and you know,
she was crazy for a fur coat and
would Just as toon have had a case
of smallpox as a vacuum cleaner.
They're Rare as a Day in June
(Jack Warwick in Toledo Blade.)
"No girl should ever marry a
dreamer unless she is willing lo have
the rest of her days u nightmare.—
Sam Hil, Cincinnati Enquirer.
"There is another tide to the
story. The dreamer who works to
make his dreams come true is all
right."
That’s true enough, Jack, but the
lugger! share of them never wake up
long enough to do it. They'll sleep
right on though all the alarm clocks
on earth are set off light besido
their beds.
Might Help Some
Blinks: "I see they arc trying to
find u way to make steel harder."
Jinks: "I'd rather see them find a
way to make stealing harder."
Foot Questions
D. M. asks "Do they ever arreet a
detective for running down a clue?"
Hardly ever. Hardly ever. In
999,999,989 ease-, out of a million
the clue eludes them.
Gems From Guide Book to Success
The inan who can but do that
which others have done before him
may be commended upon his indus
try and enterprise, but not upon his
initiative. The "real leaders in life
will never be found following a
blazed trail." J. E. F.
Maybe Earneit Will—and Maybe He
Won't
(Birth note In Clinton (Iowa)
Blade.)
Born to Mr. and Mrs. E. O. Work,
cf Clinton, a son. Ernest Will, last
night at Jane Lanrb Hospital.
If It Fits—
Thrift may be a very fine thing,
bul none of your friends like to see
you begin practicing around Christ
inas time.
Many a girl wishes when she
quits growing in height she also
would quit growing in breadth.
There are no supermen in the
world, but it is crowded to suffoca
tion with birds who think they are.
The only time some people take
an interest in religion is when the
preacher becomes the center of a
scandal.
it isn’t the waste that worries
most women half so much as the
waist.
It is the '‘small” people who
cause the biggest lot of trouble lit
this old world.
A man who is slow may never bo
any groat shakes as a social lion,
but a girl can go riding with him
without having to jump out' of the
niaehinq and breaking her limbs to
protect l^er honor.
A man doesutt want his wife to
leave him. but occasionally lie does
with she would leave him alone.
A fellow needs to be mighty cau
tious about the kissing he does. It is
liable to get him a wife—and it is
liable to lose him one if he is already
married.
A gill will light harder to save
her purse tliai contains a quarter in
change, a powder rag, a lipstick and
twenty sample; than a man will to
ker{) the thief from getting away
with a wallet that contains several
hundred dollars. , ^ I
A man fixes his hair the same way
.!»>;> days a year, but a woman can
find twenty different ways to fix
even bobbed hair.
I.lsten. fellows: Don't think when
you tell a girl you ure not good
enough for her she doesn’t believe
you. She does, but she may grab you
because she i afraid you will be
her last: chanee.
There’s nothing some men dread
any more than being left alone witli
their wives.
A girl can'i help it if she is ugly,'
but it is her ; wn fault if she puts'
on goggles and wears earrings. |
Daily Sentence Sermon
It takes a lot of coaxing to make
things come your way.
Old papers iur sate at Gmplta.
Wm. D. Perkins & Co.
Bankeri
211 Cherry rftT Alaska Bldg
Seattle. 1
DEAI BRS IN
Municipal Bond*
County Warrants
First Mortgages |
Safe Deposit Vault! I
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6 per cent to 8 per cent Interest !
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Pastor Left Waiting by
“Prayer Bride.”
Key. Geugo M. Lawson, of
! Orange, N. J., threatens to sue a
| comely widow Mrs:. .May Mason,
widow of a millionaire plumbing
[ supply man—for breach of prorn
i iso, because site failed to become
his “heavenly bride." As a eandi
l date for nomination to the House
| of Representatives in Boston a few
years ago, Lawson sent out pic
tures describing hintself os “The
Hero of Zebrugge." lie served in
the British army and claimed to
have been founded three times.
At Orange, N. .1 . Rev. Lawson
prayed for a bride. A moment
later Mrs. Mason is ...id to have
come forward In tears and said
she thought she could fill the bill.
Then site jilted him.
Woolen Textile Demand
Increasing in Japan
TOKIO. Jan. 24. Tile demand
for woolen textiles in Japan has
increased tremendously in recent
years due to the rapid spread of
foreign style cloth s among the peo
ple. The wearing of foreign dress
is becoming popular among children,
especially girls, and consequently the
demand for woottn textiles is des
tined to increase. The import of
wool during tile first ten months
of the year amounted to 44.300,000
yen in valtm, showing an increas •
of 10,180,000 yen over the same
period last year. The import of!
woolen yarn totaled 42.170,000 yen,
showing an incease of 33,270,000 yen
while tb ■ import of woolen textiles
amounted to 46,4,80,000 yen, showing
an increase of 19,910,000 yen. •
ANNOUNCEMENT.
To the Ladies of Juneau: Miss
Jewett, an expert rnarcelle, is now
with Mrs. Fry at the Beauty Shop.
For appointment call 47a. adv.
SAYS RED PEPPER
HEAT STOPS PAIN
IN FEW MINUTES
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Rheumatism, lumbago, neuritis,
backache, stifT neck, sore muscles,
strains, sprains, aching joints. When
you are suffering so you can hardly
get around, just try Red Pepper
Rub.
Nothing has such concentrated,
penetrating heat as red peppers, and
when heat penetrates right down
into pain and congestion relief
comes at once.
Just as soon as you apply Red
Pepper Rub you feel the tingling
heat. In three minutes the sore
spot is warmed through and through
and the torture is gone.
Ro.vles Red Pepper Rub, made
from red peppers, cost little at any
drug store. Get a jar at once. Be
sure to get the genuine, with the
name Rowles on every package,
(advertisement.)
BEST EVER
MUTUAL LIFE
INSURANCE CO.
Now offers additional attractive
Disability Benefit features.
NONE OTHER SO LIBERAL.
ALLEN SHATTUCK
INSURANCE REAL ESTATE
| ESTABLISHED 1898
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BRIQUETS
Ideal
fuel for
every
purpose
large stock* on band
Indysmith coal.
Nanaimo ooa*.
PACIFIC COAST COAL
COMPANY
flume 412.
PROFESSIONAL
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Drs. Kaser & Freeburger
DENTISTS
1 and 3 Goldstein Bldg.
PHONE C6
Hours 9 a. in. ta 8 p. m.
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Dr. Charles P. Jenne
DENTIST
j Rooms 8 and & Valentine Bid*.
Telephone 176.
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Dr. D*Vighne
Malony Building
Hours 1 to 4, 7 to 9.
Phoues: Office 104; Ree 108.
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Dr. A. W. Stewart
DENTIST
Hours, 9 A. M. to 9 P. M.
SEWARD BUILDING
Office Phone 469.
Res. Thone 276
Dr. W. A. Borland
Physician and Surgeon
Juneau Music House Bldg.
Telephone 172.
Sitka Hot Springs
Visit the Famous
Dr. F. L. Goddard's Sanitarium
Rates $3.00 Per Day and Up
Every Comfort
GEO. L. BARTON
(PALMER)
CHIROPRACTOR
291 Goldstein Bldg. Phone 269
Office Hours: 10 to 12 A. M.,
2 to 6 and 7 to 8 P. M.
Dr. H. Vance
OSTEOPATH
437 Goldstein Building
Hours: 9:30 to 12; 1 to 6;
7 to 8, or by appointment.
Licensed ostoopathic physician.
Phones: Office, 167; res., 1672.
All Alaskan Trails End at
HOTEL ATWOOD
First Ave. and Pine St., Seattle
Popular Prices. Nearest to Ev
erything. J. A. Farnham and
Ted Taylor, Props.
HOTEL SEATTLE
“Home of Alaskans”
Prices reasonable. European
plan. Seattle, Wash.
R. L. HODGDON, Manager
It’s all In knowing HOW to do
first-class cleaning ar.d dyeing.
CAPITAL DYE WORKS
C. Meldner, Professional Dyer
and Cleaner. Phone 177.
THE MAKING OF CONCRETE
is a matter of proper materials
together with engineering skill.
Botli is our assets.
CONCRETE PRODUCTS MFC.
COMPANY
| Willoughby Ave. Phone 32.
fraternal Societies
-OF
Gasiineau Channel
O . ELKS
Meeting Wednesday
Evenings at 8:00
o'clock. Elks' Hall.
ARTHUR B. COLE,
Exalted Ruler.
JOHN A. DAVIS,
Secretary.
Co-Ordinate Bodies
of Freemasonry
Scottish Rite
Regular meetings
second and fourth
Fridays each month
at 7:SO p. m. Odd
Fellows’ Hall.
WALTER B HEISEL, Secretary.
I. O. O. F.
SILVER BOW
_ LODGE NO. S A.
Meeets every Thursday at 8 P, M.,
Odd Fellows' Hall.
Charles E. Perelle, Noble Grand;
Merle P. Morgan, Secretary.
ANCE REBEKAH F
GE NO. 2A. \
ery first and third
I. O. O. F\ Hall, at I
PERSEVERANCE
LODGE
Meets every
Tuesdays In __
8 P M. FRANCES GUSTAFSON,
N. O ALPHONS1NE CARTER,
Secretary.
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MOUNT JUNEAU LODil
No. 147, F. A A. M.
Stated Comn-umJcatlon
B«cond and Fourth* Mondays
of each Month. In Odd Fellows
Hall, beginning at 7 3fl o’clock.
„TJ JOUNQ. Master.
f HAS E. NAOHEL. Secretary*
Order of the
EASTERN STAR
Second and Fourth Tuee
duye of each month.
At 8 o'clock, I. O. O. F. Hall.
AI.ICE BROWN, W. M.
LOIS NORDLING, Secretary.
KNIGHTS OF
COLUMBUS
SBGHl RS COUNCIL No.
1780. Meetings second
and last Mondays at 7:30
^ ^ p. m. Transient Broth
ers urged to attend. Council Chambers
Fifth Street. John F. Mullen, Q. K.
j. 1,. McCloskey, Secretary.
AMERICAN LEGION
Alford John Bradford
Post No. 4.
Juneau, Alaska.
Meets fourth Thursday
each month at 8 9. m.
Elks’ lx>dge Room. John F. Starr,
Post Commander, Phone 973; G. E.
Mann, Post Adjutant, Phone 196.
LOYAL ORDER 01
MOOSE.
Juneau Lodge 700
Meets every Friday
night, 8 o'clock.
Moose Hall. Thon.
b. Judson, Dictator; R. H. Stevens,
Secretary.
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WOMEN OF M00SEHEART i
LEGION
| Juneau Chapter No. 439
Meeting second and fourth
Tnosilay of each month, 8
o'clock. Moose Hall. Mrs. C. W.
Bender, Senior Regent; Mrs. A.
I F. McKinnon, Secretary.
AUXILIARY, PIONEERS OF
ALASKA, Igloo No. 8.
Meets the 2d Monday In Moom
Hall, at 8 o'clock.
ALICE LAUGHLIN, President.
LILLIE BURFORD, Secretary.
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i
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