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NOME, ALASKA, OCT. 16, 1915.
The announcement from the customs
t
house that there is an excellent pros
pect that the gold production of the
season will probably equal, if not ex- ,
cell that of 1914 is gratifying news.
As stated by the customs collector, Mr.
Reed, the total shipments for the sea
son including the sum sent out on the
last trip of the Victoria, were but
little more than $175,000 behind those
of the previous year. This indicates
nothing less than that the gold pro
duction of the district is steadily in
creasing, despite all hindrances and
drawbacks. The summer of 1914, it
will be remembered, was a fair aver- I
age season with but a portion of the
unfavorable conditions that have
marked the season now drawing to a
close. There was a fair amount of
water and the period of operation was
longer continued than during the jjres
ent year which has been backward in
every degree. In addition there were
a number of dredges operating which
have been idle during the whole or
part of the present summer. The sum
mer of 1914 was more favorable in
every way and the gold product should
have greatly excelled that of the sea
son Just passed. There was more
water, more labor employed and more
extensive operations. The season of
1915 will go down In history as one
of the dullest from a mining point of
view that has occurred for several
years. Activities throughout the min
ing period were restricted by lack of
water, there was a scant field for
labor, as evidenced by more idle men
than ever before and nearly one-fourth
of the dredges, the most important
factors in gold production, were closed
down for one reason and another, dur
ing the greater part of the summer.
In view of these untoward conditions,
the prospect, amounting almost to
certainty, that the gold product will
be equal to if not greater than last
year, can be taken as positive assur
ance that the mineral output is not
only not falling off but is actually be
timing greater. The gold product for
the year 1914 was $2,662,273 tin increase
cf nearly two hundred thousand over
that of 1913 and only slightly less than
li t of 1912, which was a most favor
: ' ie season in every way with plenty
U,f water and numerous mining activi
ties.
I Considering the difficulties under
i under which the miners have labored
during the present summer, thut the
gold product should even approximate
that of the two previous years, is a
matter for congratulation as it is a
most convincing Indication that the
country is neither worked out nor on
the down grade. When the produc
tion of a very poor season approxi
mates that of a good one there is
every reason to believe that with a
resumption of normal conditions we
will witness an upward Jump in the
gold product which will astonish even
the most optimistic.
Those who are opposing all proposals
lor military preparedness and who
Idling to the fatal delusion that an army
lean be improved and soldiers trained
| after a war has broken out are making
I much of some remarks addressed by
I General Wood to the business men on
j Uie breaking up of their recent camp
at i'lattsburg. The general express
ed himself as delighted and astonish
, d at the progress which they had
I made, and went on:
You have progressed to point where,
if necessary, you could take a squad
ur company o£ men and drill them in
the school of the soldier and whip
them into shape."
if these men could be prepared for
the work of a noncommissioned officer
or a subaltern commissioned officer in
the short period of a month, why could
not an army be trained in the same
timeThere are many answers, in 1
the first piaee, the men who assem
bled at i’lattsburg were exceptional
men; men of highly trained intelli
gence of quick perceptions, trained by
nsiderable experience of various
Kinds, who had achieved sucess in
many different fields; who had great
.'acuity in acquiring and assimilating
nformation, and who hud developed
xecutive force in other pursuit,
further, they took up the work with
enthusiasm, devoted their txained fa
milies to it with concentration, and
•vere on the job ail of their waking
louts. As a result, and very much
.o . the surprise of Gen. Wood, it de
veloped that men of tills high order of
intelligence—men of affairs who had
itchieved distinction by devoting tiieir
litire attention euthusiastically to the
work for a solid mouth, had reached
the point that they would be compe
tent to train a bunch of raw recruits
in the simple elements of drill, so that
they could be taken out of the awk
ward squad and take their places in
the company line. It is a long, long
time after the recruit leaves the awk- I
ward squad before he becomes a real j
soldier. There is a long, iong interval
between the length of time which it i
would take for men like those at j
Plattsburg to learn the bare rudi
ments of soldiering and the length of
time which it would take an average
inch of raw recruits to do the same.
3,500 GERMAN HEROES
GIVEN IRON CROSS
BERLIN "As illustrating the brav
ery of the German troops in the pres
ent war," says an announcement made
by the Oversea News Agency,
the fact is noted that since the war
i egan 3,500 iron crosses of the first
■is have been distributed.
The regulations require that a sol
■'it r must have earned the cross of
- nd class before the cross of
the first class can he eonferred upon
' im.'
WILL HAVE AN INLAND
DOCK AT ANCHORAGE
A NCHORAGE—Work is under wa
n the Marine railway and drydock,
located just north of the government
warehouse. This particular kind of
i railway Is to be used In transferring
boats barges, etc., from the water tr
[the winter drydock, which will he slt
iiiiili I back from high tide some 600
fie'
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ALASKA
—
i lie Indians living at Aiinto, on the
I'aiuna river, have taken the matter
up with Delegate VVickershum to have
their tuwnaiie incorporated. The dele
gate instructed tile natives ill the
proper procedure, and promised to help
them establish their town. Aiinto is
on tue upper Tanana.
uuveruor J. P. A. Strong niaue a trip
of inspection to tile Pioneers Home at
I'Uka and reports tliat the institution
is Kept in first-ciass shape under the
management of Arthur cl. Sliuop. The
governor also reports that Sitka is
enjoying a period of prosperity from
mining and farming development.
A suggestion to Aiaskans may be
round in the following story. Simon
n.iiia, of Aiutanuska, is doing a good
businoss selling porcupine ifdills to
louiists fur toothpicks. He has a
bunch of porcupines Which he raised
and trained so that they come up and
-iioot their iiunis into a tub, where he
•an gather them easily.
Alaska at the present time is on tile
crest of an unparalleled era ui good
times, according to statistics made
public recently by the United States
customs house, and ligures show that
trade between tile territory and the I
United States and Canada will be two
and a half times greater for this year j
than last.
August Bronson, whu was sentenced '
tu serve an indefinite term in prison
for being implicated in Ute iduarod I
gold dust robbery in 1912, when $20,000 t
was stolen, has requested his Fair
banks friends to help hint get a par
don. He asserts that the persons upon
whose testimony lie was convicted
were implicated in the robbery and
that they were schooled in their testi
mony by the then district attorney, J.
J. Crossley.
Game warden report a peculiar fea
ture of moose life in the Kantishna.
They state that in that section nearly
all of the cows have two calves, while
in most other portions of Alaska, and
especially along the 'banana river they j
have but one calf. The Kantishna is
u paradise for moose and wild animals
o fall kinds for it is soldom visited b>
hunters, and the few white men and
Indians in there kill only for their j
own consumption, which hardly makes
an impression on the Immense num
bers of game animals.
The territorial revenue law is work
ing better than its authors believed
that it would, according to territorial
council J. H. Cobb. That it will pro
duce more money than the legislature
appropriated is the belief of both Mr.
Cobb and Territorial Treaurer Wal
stein G. Smith. Mr. Cobb thinks the
territorial income from taxes will
amount this year to $200,000 or $225,000
which will probably be from $50,000 to
$75,000 in excess of the expenditures
under the appropriation bills. While
Mr. Smith said that tie had made no
attempt to make any estimate, he
.ought it likely that Mr. Cobb’s fig
ures are not far out of the way.—
Juneau Empire.
Ed Webber, an old time prospector
tnd miner, who first went into the
Circle City country in 1894, and who
prospected In the vicinity of the Klon
ike in the 3ame year but with poor
success as far as finding gold was con
cerned, came out from the interior
Saturday on his way to the Pioneer
Home at Sitka. Until he reached Skag
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way, Mr. Webber had never seen an
antomoblle or entered a moving pic
ture house. Last winter he had the
I misfortune to freeze the toes of one
i„f iiis feet and lias been unable to do
[much since, which is the reaosn for his
having consented to enter the home un
til next spring, when he thinks he
will be able to take up his work again.
—Alaskan.
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