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Building Alaska
Youth Character
(Fairbanks News-Miner)
Once China built a wall. She
lived behind it. She laughed at
her enemies. She felt secure.
Soon an invader came from
the north. Three times China
found the enemy inside her gat
es. They did not storm the wall.
They did not go around it. They
simply bribed the gatekeepers.
Yesterday France built a wall
—the Maginot Line. Steel and
stone. She felt secure behind it.
She put her faith in it. Yet
France fell. Why?
Something was missing. There
was a gap through which an in
vader came. That gap was not
only in the wall. It was in the
spirit of the people.
Today America builds a wall—
a ring of steel. Ships and planes
and guns. But is it enough?
Does America have what
China lacked? What France lack
od? Does she have total defense?
She builds her wall. BUT . . .
does she build men of character?
Suppose it were up to you to
say how the million two hundred
thousand American boys annual
ly reaching the age of twelve
should be trained so that Democ
racy, in their hands would be
secure. Their training would
surely include these fundamen
tals:
Tolerance and reverence to
ward God . . . Loyally to flag
and country . . . Service to com
munity . . . Self reliance . . .
Strong moral qualities.
Would such fundamentals as
these underlie #cur plan of train
ing your for Democracy? They
are the fundamentals of the Boy
Scout Movement. They make up
the right kind of character.
This week interested citizens
are conducting a campaign for
funds in Fairbanks as part of the
intensification of the Boy Scout
Program in the Territory of Al
aska. When you are asked to sub
scribe, consider your financial aid
as a real investment in America’s
future, for the Boy Scout Move
ment returns tremendous divi
dends in men of character, train
ed for participating citizenship.
Funds secured wiil maintain a
strong Territorial Administra
tion of trained, professional
Scout Executives who will guide,
counsel with, and otherwise pro
vide needed training to the var
ious leaders who are carrying on
the program in Cub Packs, Scout
Troops, Sea Scout Ships, and Ex
plorer Troops.
One trained executive who has
been serving the Territory dur
ing the last four months has
ben largely responsible for a 20
percent membership gain in that
period. Still hundreds of Alas
kan boys want to join this great
American Youth Movement.
They can be invited to join only
as we have Packs, Troops, and
Ships for them to join under
trained volunteer leadership.
America must show that she
does not lack the character
which was so obviously missing
in the countries that have been
■overrun by ruthless, intolerant
invaders. Let us have men of
character to match our material
defense. Subscribe generously to
the Boy Scouts of America, and
especially to the Fairbanks Scout
(Fund. America’s future definitely
lies in its youth.
DYNAMITE GANGSTER
IS NABBED
DETROIT, Aug. — Carl Julius
Schmidt, once deported to Ger
many as a member of the Kal
tenschmidt Dynamiting Ring
that furnished Detroit’s most ex
citing sabotage trial during the
World War, has been arrested
iiere on an immigration warrant
«nd faces a new deportation.
Britain Still
Digs Gold
Economists, pseudo economists,
and so-called monetary reform
ers have had a favorite topic on
which to write pamphlets the
past few years.
Yes, of course, you’ve guessed
it, that topic has been GOLD.
Thousands of pages have been
filled with black print about the
place of the yellow metal in the
“new economy” to come.
As a result, people who under
ordinary circumstances might be
anxious to supply capital for the
development of promising ore
properties have been a bit hesi
tant. The squat shadow of Hitler
on the European horizon, the
warnings that a Nazi victory in
Europe will mean the end of the
power of gold in world econ
omics — these forbodings have
prompted the speculators to keep
their hands in their pockets in a
“we’ll wait and see what hap
pens” attitude.
The would-be economists are
apt to point to the fact that the
United States has approximately
80 percent of the world’s supply
buried in the ground at Fort
Knox and other federal deposit
ories.
“How,” they ask, “can we ex
pect the other nations to trade
with us on a gold standard bas
is, when they have practically
no gold of their own? We have
grid to offer them, but what are
we going to accept from the oth
er nations for goods we must ex
port?”
Maybe 4here are no smart ec
oiomists in the Brit sh Isles, at
any rate the British don’t seem
particularly worried about their
gold losing its value.
We hear a lot of brave stories
from Britain about “business as
usual” in the stolid British man
ner while London is bombed and
the island threatened. As a mat
ter cf fact, we know that, just
as in this country but even more
so, every ab'e bodied British citi
zen who is not holding a neces
sary position with some industry
which is vital to the welfare of
the nation or requ:red to carry
out the war, is drafted into ac
tual defense services. As never
I
before, England’s manhood is her
lifeline.
But at the same time, business
seems to be going along better
than usual in the British Trans-,
vaal, in South Africa, where re
ports tell of more gold being dugj
than ever before. In the month
of May. a total of 1,219 068 ouncj
es of gold were taken from Trans.
th’ere has been no complete re-,
port on the amount of gold being [
mined by the Soviets. It is j
known, however, that Russian I
gold operations have not been
idle.
So, maybe, after all discussions j
pro and con, we will be able to j
continue using gold-as a basis of i
exchange long after the present!
conflict is ended. At least, somej
of the major nations of the world'
besides ourselves still seem to
regard gold as being worth dig
ging for.
vaal mines to set a new high re
cord for production of the num
eral in a single month there.
This was the second new gold
production record chalked up by
the Transvaal miners since the
beginning of the war and topped
a total monhly production of
1,211,277 ounces mined in Oct
ber of last year.
Surely, with their gold produc
tion stepped up at this rate, the
sons of John Bull can not be too
concerned about the value desert
ing this yellow metal.
There’s another thing to con
sider when econmists point to
the huge percentage of the
world’s gold supply being held
in this country. To a large ex
tent, they are reckoning without
knowledge of the amount of gold
being held by the United Social
ist Soviet Republic of Russia. For
at least the past half-dozen years
Mining Hits
AH Time High
For Last Year
Mines in Alaska produced min
erals worth $28,470,000 in 1940
as against $25,296,000 in 1939,j
according to an announcement,
made by the U. S. Geological j
Survey. The amount was $812,000
more than was estimated in a
preliminary report by the Sur
vey on January 1.
Gold produced in the Territory
amounted to $26,178,000 in 1940
as compared to $23,279,000 in
1939 the report said. The gold
output was greater than in any
year, even surpassing the boom
days during the early part of the
century.
Mineral production nearly
reached the record made during
the World War when huge cop
per shipments from Kenecott
and Latouche brought produc
tion to $29,000,000.
3 Million Over 1939
The total value of the mineral
output for 1940 exceeded that of
1939 by nearly $3,174,030 or
about 12'/2 percent. The quality
of coal mined in Alaska in 1940
exceeded that of any previous
year in the entire history of the
Territory. Silver production in
creased as far as value was con
cerned although the quantity
was actually less than in 1939.
The increase was not regarded
as being due to unusually favor
able conditions that may not
soon be repeated but appears to
be a new level that can be main
tainsd or bettered under such
normal condtions as may reason
ably be expected, the Geological
Surrey said.
Gold Mostly From Lodes
The output of Alaska gold com
es from both lode (hard-rock)
.nines and p’.acer mines. In 1940
;he output from these two types
of mines was in the proportion
of about 28 to 72 — $7,326,000
from .lodes and $18,852,000 from
placers. The producing gold lodes
are widely distributed through
the Territory but about 65 per
cent of the output in 1940 came
from lodes in southeastern Alas
ka, where accessibility to deep
water routes of communication
and other favorab e conditions
have permitted the successful
mining of immense tonnage of
low-grade gold ore.
Other lode-gold producing dis
tricts of Alaska were the Willow
Creek district, in the Cook tn
et-Susitna region; the Fairbanks
and the Nabesna districts, in the
Yukon region; the area near Val
dez and adjacent parts of Prince
William Sound region; the Kenai
Peninsula district; the Nixon
Fork district, in the Kuskokwim
region; and the Bremner district,
in the Copper River region. ProS
pecting for gold lodes was in pro
gress at many other tracts in the
Territory, but at none of them
was any significant amount of
gold ore mined except such as
was taken out in the course of ]
the exploratory work.
Yukon Basin Leads
Of the hundreds of camps that
contributed to the output of
p acer geid, those in the Yukon
Basin mined the greatest amount
and those in Seward Peninsula;
came next, their production be
ing $12,727,000 and $4,470,000
respectively. Slightly more than
64‘z percent of the total placer
gold produced in the Territory |
was mined by dredges, of which
48 (not including one platinum
mining dredge in the Kusko
kwim region) were active during1
1940.
Of these, 22 were in the Yu-1
kon region, 23 in Seward Penin
sula, and three in the Kusko-i
kwim region. Together these
dredges produced gold having a
value of $12,136,000. They are es
timated to have handled about
21,820,000 cubic yards of gravel,
and the gold recovered averaged
approximately 55.8 cents a cubic
yard. The longest season report-'
rd for any of the dredges in 1940 j
was 2G9 days for dredges of the
Fairbanks Department of the
United States Smelting Refining
& Mining Co. near Fairbanks,!
and the longest season reported
for dredges in Seward Peninsula
was 193 days. One dredge min
ed in 1939 was idle in 1940 and
six dredges were in operation in
1940 that were not in operation
n L939.
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Th>-' unique and numoroua j
md typical Alaskan stationery—
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teads and Envelopes”, have beei
irought strictly uptodate, and arc
iow available at the Nugget offl
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SQUIRE OF HYDE PARK—Recent brief recess from Presidential cares found F.D.R. at
Hyde Park, N. Y., home, Mrs. Roosevelt placidly knitting at his side. They’ve been married 36 years.
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Department of Commerce Weather Bureau
FORECAST, NOME AND VICINITY
Cloudy tonight and Thursday morning becoming partly cloudy
Thursday afternoon. Not much change in temperature.
Data for 24 Hours Ending 1:00 p. m. Today
Highest temp — 51 Lowest temp — 47 Precipitation T
Total precip this month — .65 Total since Jan. 1, 1941 — 4.16
Temp. Humidity Wind Weather
12 Midnight-. 50 96 W 18 Drizzle
Bam --- - . 48 95 W 12 Drizzle
12:30 p m-- 50 91 W 12 Cloudy
Tomorrow: Sunrise 4:08 a. m. Sunset 8:01 p. m.
One Year Ago Today
Highest temp — 59 Lowest temp — 40 Precipitation — T