ALASKA COAL LANDS
OPEN TO LESSEES
Another progressive step in the devel
opment and advancement of the material
interests of the territory of Alaska comes
with the official announcement by Sec
retary Lane of the Interior department,
that regulations have been Issued under
which private Individuals and corpora
tions may without further delay begin
the leasing and operating of the vast
coal fields of the northland. No longer
ure the extensive anthracite and bitum
inous resources of Alaska to be closed
to American capital and enterprise.
Ten years have eiapsed since the Al
skan coal fields were withdrawn from
private entry and development. Tho
regulations are accompanied by maps
and Important general information re
garding the lands in question. Copies
may be secured on application to the
commission of the general land office.
The issuance of these regulations limy
be said to mark an epoch in the history
of Alasku. for Secretary Lane's an
nouncement means that about 33,379
ucres of coal bearing lands in the Be
ring river country, anti about 13.909 aon *
in the Matanuska section are restored
to entry. Small areas in each of the
.-Ids have been reserved as required by
iff, and all the rest ol' the coal lands
polled to private lease in amounts not
(feeding ,560 acres to any one person of
orporatlon.
Areas of leasing units vary in size
from 330 to 1,200 acres in the Bering
river section, which begins about thirty
miles from the Copper Kiver & North
western railroad. The .datanuska fields
are less than 200 miles from Seward, and
the government's railroad is now under
construction to that point. Coal from
Matanuska can be brought to tidewater
at the new town of Ancuorage, about
seventy miles southerly. There are nine
teen leasing units in all In the Matanuska
and sixty leasing units In the Bering
river districts. Both regions contain high
grade bituminous and anthracite coal.
Leases will be granted for a period of 1
fifty year9. The government exacts a
royalty of two cents a ton the first five,
and five cents a ton for the succeeding
twenty years. After this period of twen
ly-flve years, it Is provided that the
royalty shall not exceed five per cent of
the selling price of the coal. The royalty
exacted Is considered small but reasona
ble in view of all the conditions, and
was admittedly made low for the purpose
of encouraging the leasing and also the
development ol' local markets. The open
ing of these fields will mean early cheap
er coal for mining, manufacturing and
other purpose, not only in the territory
but along the Pacific coast generally. It
is expected that it will also prove a de-j
cided Incentive among prospectors.
The government's plan is to receive
proposal for leases witnout delay. Pref
erence will be given, it is said, to those |
who will make the largest investments
and the earliest development of the coal
fields for commercial purposes.
The form of lease is similar in larg<
I part to the private leases obtaining in
the West Virginia eoal fields and lias
been passed upon by a in,uni of practical
coal operators wito nave approved it as
u workable lease.
WHITE RAGE BACK
TO TROPICS
W« are going buck jo the tropics. We
pegan there In the beginning, unci it was
tt mighty good place to migrate from.
'I'hose of us who have remained in the
topics have remained savage, stupid,
half civilized, because we wore billet*
and bosseu by insects, align anil worms,
and infected with all sorts of disease.
Now we are going back to reoeeupy
and reconquer for the white race those
great fertile stretches of country it*
which we originally grew up.
iiithercto our success has depended
largely upon the degree to which we
have separated ourselves from tluit dis
trict. We have a more or less natural]
self-acting protection against many of
the tropical diseases. Hook-worm we
tlnd to be one of the ordinary appen- j
dages of humanity in the 30 degrees of
latitude north and south o. the equator.
That belt entirely uround the earth is
infested witli hook-worm and humans
just about in equal proportions, forming
about one-third of the human race. The
study of the American hook-worm him
revealed it to be one of the most curi
ously fascinating fruits of justice of I lie
crimes of man. Strange as it may bo,
us soon as it was thoroughly described,
it was found to be identical with the
necator African, brought here with the
African slaves, and it nas remained to
bo n scourge to Hie man who captured
them.
The best protection against hook-worm
is good shoe leather. It Is a barefoot
disease, and I have a strong suspicion
lhat some of our feeling ns to the dlsre*
spectablllty of going barefoot is a rein
I
j nnnt of some ancestral feeling of this
' sort. Against plague also \vi Jinvc n
I protection and against typhus fever—and
that is a clean undershirt. The tind-T
shirt should he changed several times
a month, with profuse bathing A eh an
undershirt is the best Health protector
i that we have invented and will protect
us from more evils than any known
! weapon.—Dr. Wods Hutchinson.
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WAGES INCREASE
THROUGHE COUNTRY
WASHINGTON—The government otil
clttlly announced today mat tin investi
j gation of the industries of the United
I States had disclosed the fact that the j
employers were spending from twenty
to sixty per cent more for wages today
than they were a year ago. A large
part of tliia increase m wage expenditure
is due 10 the increase in the number of
employes, but considerable of it is ac
counted for also by increased wages. The
workers are in the best condition finan
cially that they have enjoyed for many
years, j his fortunate state of affairs is j
general throughout the whole country, |
and is not confined as would he sup- !
posed to those workers engaged in the j
munition factories, but is common to all j
classes of labor, both skilled and un
skilled.
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SAX FUANUISCO— Anticipating I I'll
nadlan embargo on asbestos imports into
tlic United States, the official mineral
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gation of the asbestos deposits of tho
state to be made, it Is a well known
fuel that asbestos exists, but heretofore
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hast year the asbestos imports of the
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