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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19,1937
ALASKA’S NO. 1 INDUSTRY—
(Juneau Empire)
Nearly $32,000,000 worth of fish and fish products
were shipped from the Territory of Alaska last year, a
major portion of it attributable to the fact that Alaska
recked last season 80,000 cases of salmon, the largest
yield thus far to be taken from Alaskan waters in a
single seas: n. It was a banner year and as the present
season opened there was sente concern as to the outlook.
Conditions were not -overly bright There were some dif
ferences between the operators and the fishermen over
adjustment- -SI wages. The season was backward; the
runs were sate -in many planes.
But tbe'-fcsrk clouds- like all -dark clouds, has with;
time revealed its silver lifting; The differences between
the operators-and SsSSrtea were adjusted. The canner
i.s opened up, bB-iiiring vast employment to a large num
kr o: Alaska residents, not alone in the fishing industry
rself, but in the kindred industries which supply the
cannery op rations—the trap wire factories, the lumber
mills and supply houses. The season continued back
ward but the fish finally came as they invariably do. In.
seme frri.t :b y have not reached the volume of last
see. ,r hut the run is -substantial.
Erfsfol Bay. which setnr.ed to be falling down badly
at. the same rime.that it was becoming a controversial
issue as a result of the report:d Japanese invasion, fin-:
ally came through the closing days, packing 1,434,888
rases, or in excess of last year with its 1,393,808-case
rack. At prevailing prices, such a pack means, conserv
atively. $10,000,000, probably considerably more. Other
districts are shewing up fairly well, some ahead of last
season. Officials who are in close touch with the situa
tion estimate the total pack for Alaska will run between
six and seven million cases for the 1937 season.
Alaska's major industry is again proving its right
to that distinction. The fish are still with us. With
continuation of the intelligent conservation methods
which are now in practice, and protection for those val
uable fisheries as now undertaken through co-operative
efforts of the government and the industry as a whole,;
they will remain with ns. -producing vast wealth through ;
the years to come. ’•
There’3 one language all the volunteers in the Span-'
ish war can under stand-^ihe language of bullets.— j
Charleston (W. Va.) Mail.
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Those who have referred somewhat familiarly to
‘■‘Wally” will please remember that now it is the Duchess.
—-Indianapolis Star.
In this country the word lawmaker is becoming
synonymous with the word "tax-infiicter.”—Detroit Free!
Press.
Cerium aspects of the Spanish war outsmell Spanish
*nk>'ja.—Detroit Free Press.
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The loss of a battle flag should be unimportant to1
the ingenious Japanese as he can always get up another
with a bandage and some mercurockrome.—Detroit
K«wb. j
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The taxpayers paid for air-conditioning the capitol]
tl "n Congress remained in session all summer appropri
ating.—Newark Advocate.
Shoottag foreign imlilweifu n isllli one hand and
waving aside foreign intervention with the other, is
quaintly Japanese.—Chicago News.
PLACER LOCATION NOTICES now on sale at
JBSt Kuako Tbne* effiee. Set year* today. .
SIXTEEN YEARS AGO THIS WEEK
(TAKHK FROM THE FII.ES OF TUB Kl'gKO TIMES)
Curly York and Ora Earnhardt,
who arrived Sunday, -departed today
for their homes at Tulusriksak.
Owen Gray arrived last evening
from the Nixon mine to which he is
scheduled to return tomorrow.
Ira Wood, of Iditarod, enroute to
Anchorage, arrived this evening.
Charles O’HalloraU returned this
evening from a trip to Flat.
Deputy U. S. Marshal McMullen
retained today from a trip to Ophlr.
George Mutchler, from Flat, arriv
ed here last evening, and left for
Nixon this morning."
Billy Jones, who arrived Thursday
with the mail from the Yukon, de
parted yesterday for Ophlr.
Mrs. Bugge, wife of Captain
Bugge, who broke her arm a few
days ago, was able to leave for her
home at the Forks yesterday.
Tom Bare, well known Ophirite,
arrived Monday oh matters of busi
n-tss, and is scheduled to 1’ave for
home tomorrow.
Fourteen were killed and fifty in
ured at Belfast in outbreaks in Ire
land today. Many clashes have ta
ken place between Natt-naHsls and
Orangemen.
D. L. Thompson, traveling with the
mail team, left yesterday morn'nf
for the coast enroute to a visit at his
home in Oregon. He will return here '■
in April.
WASHINGTON—The fina’ Iegis-1
lative steps for outlawing beer and
wire for other than sacrament a1 pur
poses was taken today by the Stnate,
which adopted the conference report
on the bill. The bill now goes to the
Fresident, the House having acted on
the measure some time ago.
COBLENZ—Fifteen hundred jubi
lant American soldiers are leaving
Rhineland for home, today, and fif-"
teen hundred more are to -follow
early in December. The troops will
e- bark immediately at Antwerp for
New York. AH express 'themselves
as overjoyed to be homeward bound.
The I:ng wait on the Rhine, with lit
tle to do to enliven the days, has
caused an epidemic of genuine home
sickness.
Chester* Brink, with the Outside
i mail, arrived this afternoon.
The mail from Ophir arrived today
having been brought over by Com
missioner B. B. Smith.
A.- D. McDonald arrived yesterday
frjm Jones creek, and left this morn
ing for Idrtarod.
John -Griffin returned yesterday
! fr.,m Nixon and left this morn.ng
I for Takotaa.
Charles Dahl, Jack Sullivan and
t _s Wilson, -all from Marshall, on
their way to the coast, arrived here
i.oay, and are scheduled-to leave in
j .he morning.
—
Charles Brown. Sr., has been ap
; o:a*-ed special agent for the super
vision of liquor traffic among tf.e na
tives of the Second Division. Mr.
Brown is an old timer and his ap
pointment is a popular one.
William Schneiria and Mrs. W.
A. iVnal arrived Monday from Ophir.
Mr. Schneiria is on his way O-tside
n mat-ers of business, and w.ll al.o
i it at his former home, in Clinton,
Mich, during the winter. Mrs. Vjiai
s:con.panics Mr. Sthneiria £8 far as
A. rhorage, where Mr. Vinai now ie,
nr.d where they will sp.nd the winter.
O. J. Nicholson, an -oldtimer of the
C^andr’ar district, who arrived in
Nrnana recently, says there will be
between SO and 100 people in that
district the present winter. There
have been no strike? recently in the
•Chnndalar, bat new pay has been
found on the Hammond river.
What Is believed to be the largest
and must valuab’e ledge of asbestos
in Alaska has been discovered on the
ridge en the east fork of the Chulit
na river about a 'mile and a half
from the government railway at Mile
293. The discovery was made by R.
! E. Burns, of Nenana, who has sent
samples Outside."
' * Floor brushes—if they have be"
come very dirty, "can be cleaned by
f using in a tepid, soapy- lather to
which a gsnerous amount of salt has
been added, being careful to soak just
the bristles and not the blocks in
which they are set. Afterwards,
rinse in clear, tepid water and place
la the open air to dry.
Remember the Advertisers'
FIRST NATIONAL
BANK
ANCHORAGE, ALASKA
Capital and Surplus $100,000
WILL ADVANCE MONEY ON GOLD
AND
Ship Gold at Very Reasonable Rates
We are Agents for
the following lines:
STANDARD OIL COMPANY
ATLAS PRODUCTS
Explosives and Blasting Supplies
ALYS-CHALMERS TRACTORS
FORD DEALER
A. A. SHONBECK
ANCHORAGE, ALASKA
TIMELY EDITORIALS
Culled From Our Exchanges
COMPARATIVE SAFETY OF
MINING DEVELOPMENT—
(Denver ffinig Record)
The mining industry is the bright spot oci*-the be..:
1 ness horizon.
The billion dollar drop in-New York stocks this we Y
1 started a new wave of pessimism among the stock a
' fcling fraternity. Optimism has increased in we: ern
mining districts. The miner has forgotten that there
ever was a New York stock racket. He is bury mining
metals and selling at the fc Jr.wng profitable p: sc
gold, $35 an ounce;-silver (domestic), 77c an ounce -
per, 14c a peund; lead. 6.Z5 per cwt.; molybdenum, 75
a pound.' And there arc f. rtunes Zo be made in other
metals in the Rocky IIsun! alii area. Among there ace
tin, manganese, sulphur, alumina, magnesia, r.rs'n' as -
timony. tungsten, vanadium,*haryTtAn, rid--: ui ; 'c
inum. All these minerals art in Scrve-ccrra?..! arc
found in the mountains of-Col>rado.
Let’s go prospecting ar.i ir-rg ' - - re
may be a fortune waiting for c~ it 1 s ; he -
rest trail. With the prices of rr. c‘s : a
high prices, there is room in the mining ini
housands of workers, providing the fn:n irg "
assured. It takes money to develop a prospect in
mine, but every mine 'was once a prospect. After
prospector finds an outcrop of good ore, h; must get
money with which to develop the property into a shipper.
State and federal securities laws make it difficult for the
prospector to sell his discovery. Because of far to se
vere law®, there are few development companies in the
market for prospect properties.
The gover.ment has stopped imprrtent mine financ
ing through the severity ef its federal- securities law.
What the government must new d~, to encourage the de
velopment of "prospects into mines, is to provide the?"
prospects with machinery, "mills and- operating capital.
The'government is assisting 'farmers, builders, etc., in
this manner and should help the prrspectors and min'ug
developers; We weald alst- suggest that these who have
i>een living on easy money, pouring into eastern stock
exchanges, have reached the end of the trail and must
get into legitimate business. There is rem in the exten
sive mining areas cf the West for argressive operators
who want to gamble with nature." Geology marks the
cards for the prospector in the" west ; nr mining districts.
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' ’"TORTUMTIES IN ALASKA—
(Seward Gateway)
The value cf ir,ea"S, poultry, butter an# egg; shipped
to Alaska in 1936 is $35,506,781. '
This represents products which may be raised in hr
Territory, which is signally equipped for enSnal indus
try despite the wail of the killjoys' that Such things can
not be produced.
; 1 They represent an outlay only" for'- placing land into
cultivation, not on a large scale, but small areas capable
of producing hay, barley, oats and" vegetables.
Let us suppose that each small farmer maintaned
a few head of livestock, chickens, etc. Each year he has
the advantage of home-grown necessities and may turn
off a few pigs, beef and hens for the urban consumer;
likewise eggs and vegetables.
Now divide this $35,506,781 among' 1000 small farm
ers! With more than $35,000 income annually, plus 50
per cent of his food costs, produced on the land, he will
have that amount-to spend for clothing", and the multiple
things whkh enter into his tastesr Hi wS! enjoy a tariff
! of $20 per ton, represented in the freight rates between
. the States and Alaska.
Whatever may be said in support of the claim that
' industry is the chief momentum oi hfftional prosperity,
! underlying everything else is the' agriculturist. Without
I him things would come to a standstill." If Tie is prosper
: ous, there is money to buy the things industry turns out,
which gives employment to labor and- income to mar*
chants.
Once Alaska comes to produce her own foodstuffs,
and there follows in sequence small industries, she will
j he in her stride to greatness, like Ddsmark, Sweden and
Norway. All these enjoy bout the same climatic status
as Alaska.
Currently, one gets the impression ■: that Japanese
peacemakers are trying to reach> a* definite misunder
i standing with the Chinese.—Buffalo Courier-Express.
The World’s Fair, seeking thfer-bitarre in Midway st
' tractions, might look over Japan's new Premier. “I am,"
says he, "without qualifications Sen this job."_Portland
Oregonian.
There are signs in Washington of some won y over
the future. Perhaps CcnrressttOi have been t-aiirfog with *
the chaplain—Toledo Blade.