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NOME, ALASKA, MAY 18, 1817.
"BACK TO THE SOIL" FOR YOU
OLD TIMER!
Experience and necessity ar the
Simon pure school teachers. However,
they are never popular with the
scholars; that’s why we all ran away
from school and came here, "beach
combing” for easy money and easy
times and an easy life free from care.
Comes a time, however, when "school
is out” everywhere and a whole world
is temporarily demoralized, whereupon
the sehoolma’ms, necessity and exper
ience, conclude to take a tourist-tteket
and see America first. They arrived
in Fairbanks this morning, and are
here to stay for a year or more. Much
as we may hate the formality, we
must this evening introduce you to
one of them. Gentlemen and lad'ies,
allow us to introduce you to Miss
Necessity!
In the markets of Fairbanks meat
advanced 5 cents a pound this morn
ing to big users of meats, such as
the restaurants. What the rise Is to
the general public we do not know,
but it is probably the same. We cant'
blame the meat dealers for this; we
are not sure that the meats they buy
have not increased in price on the
outside far more than 5 cents a pound
during the past year—we know that
meats have advanced in price, and
we have every reason to believe that
they will advance in price by leaps
and bounds from this time on, until
the close of the war. What they have
done elsewhere during war times they
will do in the United States, and
"meat day,” when an entire popula
tion abstains from the use of meat for
that day is an institution in some
warring countries today, while meat
eating is being rut out to a great
extent throughout the warring world.
Our old friend, "Bob” Lavery, Is said
by returning Fairbanksons to be
walking the streets of San Franicsco
pulling his hair and worrying about
the grocery and provision future in
Fairbanks—prices on everything in
Professional Cards
Or. A. F. Heimlich
OVER HILL’S DRUG STORE.
Hours 2 to 5 and 7 to 8 p. m.
Phono Main 7
' his line have gone up so high that
■ he cannot himself believe that the
people of Fairbanks, his friends, will
be aide or wll'ing to pay the price that
groceries and provisions will have to
be sold at In Fairbanks this year in
order to allow the store to survive
the year. Wheat closed at $2.12 a
bushel on the outside Saturday night
and it will be strange if it doesn’t- go
higher. All necessities are climbing
and all luxuries beating necessities
■J to it. Before tlie end of the year we
may reasonably expect to be up
against the prices of the early Klon
dike days for everything we have to
buy, while the easy-producing of the
Klondike days is absent.
Today you can buy anything you
need to eat, drink and wear for less
than you will be able to buy them
here two months from now—the moral
mid seem to be ’’shop early!” Also,
it has been demonstrated a thousand
times that a man can live on a hun
dred foot lot and raise thereon every
thing he needs in the way of vegeta
bles and eggs duringhis idle hours—
the moral would seem to be "start
your garden early.” As demand Axes
the price of supply, and as the de
mands of the day exceed the supplies
of the day the higher prices are nat
ural; it would occur to us that the
first committee named by the Alaska
Loyal League for war purposes should
i tie the subsistence committee, com
posed of local farmers, which will
organize the farmers of this vicin'i
ty and get them to cultivate more
I ground this year and raise larger
crops than ever before, for the ship
i ment ^>f goods this year will not be
I northward, but .in other directions.
I Northern shippers will not only be
greeted with higher price but they
must also face shortages in supplies
and must more and more depend upon
the local farmers for supplies. Home
raised produce will he cheaper by fall
than foreign-grown produce—horse
| men had best keep their eyes peeled
I for native hayflelds this season, for
| hay and grain wil be so high next u
ter that it will tie an expensive lux
ury to support a horse in Fairbanks.
Better do a little thanking and a lot
of planting—whether yon think or
not, it will pay you to sow and plant.—
; News Miner, Fairbanks.
| WATER RESOURCES OF ALASKA.
j The streams of Alaska have been
Important factors in its industrial
growth. The success of the work on thr
placer deposits in northern and cen
tral Alaska has depended primarily on
the water available for hyldaullcktng
and dreilg'ing. and water power has
long been used by mines, canneries,
sawmills and other Industries in south
eastern Alaska. The future develop
mcnt of mining and lumbering plants,
fisheries and the manufacture of wood
pulp and electro-chemical products is
contingent on the water supply.
Since 1906 the United States geolog
ies I survey has made systematic
studies of the water resources of Al
aska. Investigations with special ref
erence to placer mining have been
made in Seward peninsula and the
Yukon and Tanana regions, and recon
naissance surveys for water powers
have been made about Prince William
sound, Copper river, Kenal peninsula,
and in other parts of the south-central
and southeastern Alaska. During the
last few years some large water power
plants have been installed near Ju
neau, and attention has been called to
the feasibility of several large projects
in this region. The geological survey,
in co-operation with the forest ser
vice, is now making detailed Investi
gations in order to obtain more pre
cise data on the power sites of south
eastern Alaska. It is generally as
sumed that water power is abundant
in this part of the territory, but ex
pensive development should not be
undertaken without complete data for
careful study of the many conditions
that determine the feasibility of a
power site.
As the quantity of water that will
probably be available in any stream
! can be predicted only from records of
j
' its flow in the i»ast, observations of
the various conditions of flow to
which a stream is subject must be
continued for several years.—Ex.
THE AMBASSADOR CAN BEAR IT.
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I t>n the whole, we think Ambassador
Gerard can read the comments on his
i departure printed in the I.okal An
zeigor without pain even though they
may not have been Intended to he en
tirely friendly.
The Anzdiger declares that he was
no outspoken friend of Germany, and,
in effect, says that he might have kept
Germany in a pleasanter state if
tie had had more symapthy with the
German position. But the Anzelger is
equally clear that Mr. Gerard was no
friend of Great Britain, either.
Whether or not this German aulhor
ity thinks the ambassador was fa'ith
ful to his duty toward his own coun
try and protected its rights as a
loyal American should do we do not
know, but at least he Is not charged
with any unfaithfulness in this, his
most important relation.
Therefore, the complaint boils down
to th'is: that the ambassador kept his
head, repressed whatever symapthy
I he may have had for any country but
his own, and did not become a Ger
nianophile at a time when his country
was vigorously asserting Its rights
against Germany.
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pairing for ladies and gentlemen.
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method and prompt service.
We appreciate your patronage.
Yours to please.
NOME TAILORING CO,.
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COMPARATIVE
TEMPERATURES
Following are tne lowest recorded
temperatures for tliis year and Iasi
bn the days leeiguated. The minus
sign before a number moans below
sero.
1). S. Weather Bureau.
1916 1917
May 1 . 23 22
May 2 . 28 30
May 3 . 23 22
May 4 . 16 6
May 5 . 18 4
May 6 . 8 8
May 7.14 12
May 8 .6 12
May 9.12 14
May 10.21 20
May 11 .32 28
May 13. 28 32
May 12 . 32 2S
May 14.28 28
I May 15. 25 33
| May 16 .. 20 31
May 17 . 35 84
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