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Pacific Newt Service, Wash. Bureau.
WASHINGTON. Contrary to a
rather popular impression the Euro
pean war has not crowded out the
horse. Although the amount of pub
licity given the motor trucks, motor
tanks armored cars and war-motor
eylcles has given the impression that
the faithful horse is going out of
fashion, this is not the case. Care
fully gathered statistics ahow that
Europe has maintained a tremendous
1 mund for horses thorughout the
wir and that the United States army
will soon need several thousnad head
in addition to its present supply.
Military experts of all countries
cling to the idea that the mobility of
armies depensd largely upon cavalry.
Although ^hc infantry is depended
upon the do the heavy work of fight
ing, large masses of cavalry are
deemed necessary to back up the op
erations of the foot soldiers.
Since the European war broke out
the fighting nations have taken about
a million horses from the United
States and a total of two million from
all countries.
General Wood's plan for the en
laigoinent of the United States army
calls for some 800,000 horses in addi
tion to the present supply. The mil
itary officials of the government, the
experts of the department of agricul
ture’s bureau of animal industry and
noted horse breeders of the United
States have for some time been co
operating in efforts to Increase the
output of horses suitable for military
use in the United States. In addition
to the hor3us needed for the cavalry,
thousands of animals are required for |
artillery, baggage trains, pack trains,
the signal service and the ambulance
corps. Congress has made an ap
propriation of $100,000 to be expend
ed in a special study of the best
type of horses for military purposes
and largo sums have been spent by
the government for the purchase of
slilllons for breeding purposes.
Canada also is much Interested in
the horse <n(estion and has a special
bureau devoted to the study of horse 1
breeding
You should keep posted on the war
and international and local news of
the day by subscribing for the Name
NIGH GRADE ALCOHOL
DISTILLED FROM GARRAGE
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Pacific Newa Service, Wash. Bureau.
WASHINGTON. Government olli
ciuls engaged in studying new meth
ods of producing chemicals from waste
have been much interested ip ex
periments conducted ^at Columbus, O.,
which have conclusively demonstrat
ed that a very high grade of alcohol
can be distilled from ordinary kitchen
garbage. The city of Columbus has
authorized the erection of a large
reducing Jlant to liandle the city
garbage supply.
The bureau of standards, the de
parement of agirculture and other
branches of the government service
believe that the United States can
recover millions of dollars worth of
goods a year from what is commonly
regarded as waste material. Consular
advices from Germany tell of -amaz
ing discoveries of various uses of
waste materials by scientists of that
nation. Being cut off from outside
supplies of goods the Germans were
compelled to look around for new
methods of obtaining essential chem
ical and other produtcs As a re
sult of this necessity dozens of val
uable commodities have been recov
ered front matter which before the
war was allowed to go entirely to
waste.
Americans have been placed in slm
ilar circumstances us to many com
modities. With the guidance of gov
ernment scientists it is expected that
American business men soon will
he able to add a long list of Ameri
can made goods to the already heavy
total of products of the United States.
You should keep posted on tile war
and International and local news of
the day by subscribing for the Nome
Dallv Nugget, *2.00 per month.
COLORADO
IS RICH
IN OIL
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Pacific New* Service, Wash. Bureau
WASHINGTON. Colorado is prob
ably a richer storehouse of oil than
California, according to estimates of
Us crude oil content made by the
Geological Survey. There is sufficient
oil shale in the state to furnish2U,
000,000,000 barrels of crude oil—more
than has been taken from all the oil
wells of the United States, the sur
vey says.
l)ean E. Winvchester of the survey
has Just made an extensive investiga
tion which hus revealed the startling
estimate of Colorado's oil wealth. A
large part of Utah also Is underlain
by the same sort of petroleum-im
pregnated 3hale, the survey reports.
All kinds of sleigh and ski wood on
sale st Ros*’ mill and ahop. Alto
building and mining timber.
New laid eggs at Prosser’s Harness
Shop, $1.00 per dozen. Phone Black 5.
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Tor first class work and prompt de
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ple's laundry will send and get v->ur
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SALMON PACK OF
BRITISH COLUMBIA
Pacific News Service, Wash. Bureau
WASHINGTON, Official figures re
ceived at the Departmaet of Comerce
from Vancouver, British Columbia, re
port that the total salmon pack of all
British Columbia canneries for the
1916 season amounted to a little less
than 1,000,000 cases.
Less than one quarter of the pack
was composed of the famous sockeye
salmon or which there was an un
usually short run, especially on the
Fraser River. For thi3 reason the 1916
pack is ten per cent under that of 1915.
Next year however, is expected to be
a big one, as throughout the history
of the salmon fishing industry every
fourth year yields heavily. Nineteen
seventeen will be a fourth year. Ai- j
though the 1916 pack was smaller it
was worth as much as that of 1910 be
cause of the high prico received for
the fish.
The detailed figures on the 1916 pack
are as follows: sockeyes, 214,789; red
springs. 51.231; white springs, 15,495,
shunis, 240,201; pinks, 280,644; cohoes,
183,623; steel heads,9,082; or a total
of 996,065 compared with 1,110,000 for
i^lf
PROPOSED TARIFF ON
LUMBER AND SHINGLES
Pacific News Service, Wash. Bureau.
WASHINGTON, The Treasury De
partment is expected to recommend
to Congress that an import duty be
imposed on lumber, shingles and lath.
The Administration is being hard
pressed to raise revenue to keep the
machinery of the Government in mo
loin and is casting around for new ob
jects of taxation. Tea and coffee al
most certainly are to be taxed and an
import tariff on lumber is viewed
favorably. Aside from a good deal of
criticism from Republican sources,
the Democrats would get considerable
support for such tariff-raUing meas
ures. The Republicans are expected
to heckle them for deserting custom
ary low-tariff democracy and coming
over to the protection view but the
Democrats feel that they can stand
the heckling If the money is forthcom
ing.
Raw wool very likely will be taxed
also and quite possibly something may
be done about sugar. Dive animals
and binder twine and wheat also are
under consideration.
PROPOSEO RAILWAY N. Y.
TO BUENOS AYRES
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Pacific News Service, Wash. Bureau)
WASHINGTON. The proposal of
the International high commission, a
body devoted to bringing North and
South America Into closer financial,
commercial and social relationship, to j
arrange for the building of a railway
from New York City to Buenos Aires
i3 attracting widespread interest
among eastern capitalists and busi
ness men. The scheme is believed
entirely practicable Inasmuch as many
long stretches of railway already are
In existence which could be connected
up making a continuous line from the
metropolis of one continent to that of
the other.
STORMS FROM
NORTHWEST!
Pacific News Servioe, Wash. Bureau.
WASHINGTON. The Pacific north
west is being blamed for the stormiest
December In the history of the wea
there bureau. The bureau announced
that the fnontli saw more general
storms sweep over the country than
In any previous twelfth month and
that nearly all of them came from
the northwest. Rain, wind snow—
galea that blew ninety miles an hour
—were germinated in the northwest
and swept over practically the entire
country.
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