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NOME. ALASKA. MAY 29, 1917.
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THE ISLES OF GREECE.
It has just been announced that
England and France have taken pos
session of the island of Cerigo. at the
southeastern extremity of the Morea,
the southern peninsula of Greece,
which is, strictly speaking, no longer
a peninsula but an island, since the
cutting of the canal across the Isth
mus of Corinth. The occupation is
justified by the fact that there have
been submarine bases in this and
other islands. It further complicates
the situation of the Grecian Isles.
Corfu, one of the Ionian Islands
ceded to Greece by England when
Prince George of Denmark was made
king of Greece, has been for some time
in the hands of France, which there
fitted out the rejuvenated Serbian
army. Crete has recently declared
itself independent of Greece , after
seeking union through many turbulent
years. Imbros and Tenedos, which
the Greek fleet captured in the Balkan
war of 1912, were returned, under the
treaties of London and Athens, to Tur
key, and are now used as bases by
the allies.
The famous islands along the Asian
lonlan coast—Mitylene, Chios, Samoa,
and Bhodes—have not been greatly
affected by the war; they are still un
der Turkish severeignty. But they
belong to European, not to Asian,
history, and here, perhaps, Italy reaps
her reward for more extensive action
in the Balkans. Cerigo. by the way,
is the ancient Cvthera. from which
Aphrodite took the name of Cytherea:
oft It* *hore the Goddess of Beauty
rose from the foam of thp sea.
RIVERS OF GASOLINE.
We will consume, in this country,
this year almost 2,000,000,000 gallons
of gasoline; which is the equivalent
of a stream six feet wide and one!
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foot deep flowing at the rate of one1
mile an hour. Five years ago gaso- I
line retailed at 35 cents in England
and from 40 to 75 cents on the conti
nent, and there are those who even'
predict 40-cent gasoline here some
day. Recent improvements In refining
have considerably increased the per
centage of gisohne extracted, and in
ventors are confident of perfecting
carburetors which will use kerosene;
but for the present we are confronted
with a decrease n the gasotlne content
of the older oil wells, and an insuffi
cient capacity in the refining plants.
Our exports, however, of gasoline in
1915 were considerably less than in
1014, although more crude oil was sent
abroad. There is also a strong proba
bility that, with the reconstruction and
resumption of business abroad at the
close of the war consumption there
will be much greater than now. Horses
will be scarce and time will be every
thing, and the motor car and truck
will receve a great impetus. Just now
long the present oil wells will con
tinue to produce, or when and where
new oil fields will be discovered, no
one can say with certain}'. Before that
day arrives, however, it is fair to ex
pect that chemists will have found
some substitute, or inventors a method
of making one gallon do, the work of
more.
WOOD PULP AN EXAMPLE
In these days practically all the
23,000 tons of paper wheh we manu
facture daily, is made from wood pulp.
The writing and bond papers, and a
few other high-priced papers, contain
more or less “rag.” but the paper on
which dallies, weeklies, magazines, and
books are printed is made frwun wood.
The quality of the former is but a
drop in the bucket of the latter. The
wood is made into pulp, and the pulp
.nto paper. This pulp is selling at a
priee nearly three times that of eigh
teen months ago.
A few years ago pulp was put on
the free list, with the result that
while our population and the corre
sponding consumption of paper has
steadily Increases!, there has been very
little Increase in our pulp-mill capa
city. A pulp mill costs from one mil
lion dollars up. The war has prevent
ed the normal import of paper and
pulp from Canada,- Norway, Germany
and Russia to such an extent that the
paper used by dailies costs double
what it did two years ago. In fact
there is a good prospect that many one
cent dailies will have to charge two
cents, and some magazine publishers
are confronted with the necessity of
raising their price at least five cents
a copy. Cheaper pulp is the only so
lution, but American pulp makers dare
not put millions into pulp mills with
with the possibility of the foreign pulp
supply confornttng them.
This, is written as a statement of
conditions rather than an argument in
favor of high tariffs. The fact Is.
many commodities were too highly
protected in the past, and now some
articles are not sufficiently protected.
SALMON INFORMATION.
There wll be operated on the Alas
ka coast this year 104 salmon canner
ies. It is estimated that they trill pro
duce about five million cases of fish.
To make this pack about 30.000 men
will be employed for an average of
ninety days. It will necessitate the
taking of seventy million fish to fill
these cans. These canneries are strung
along the coast from Ketchikan to Bris
tol bay, about 2,000 miles. If evenly
divided there will be a cannery every
twenty miles, but being located in
bunches it leaves in places hundreds
of miles of the coast without a can
nery, the waters of which are now
proving to be as rueh in fish as the old
locations. In times gone by the idea
was to locate as near the mouth of a
fresh water stream as possible, in or
der to get the fish when they were
bunched and rushing to the spawning
grounds.
The government lias stopped this by
passing a law preventing anyone from
fishing within one-half mile from the
mouth of any stream, the consequence
is. canneries are being located along
the coast without regard to fresh
water steams. This has brought into
use the purse seine boat, to catch
t them as they school in the deep wa
ter. The fish caught this way have
proven to he far better for canning
purposes than those caught by the old
method. The flesh is firmer and has
not begun to deteriorate which fol
lows quickly on entering fresh water.
Alaska's easiest and quickest re
source to develop is her fish, and it
should he developed by people who
make their homes here. Every thing
j »s far us possible, from fishing to
packing and shipping, should be done
by home labor; then Alaska will be
gin to get population and prosperity.
ITALY’S EASTERN EMPIRE.
Italy’s probable intervention in
Macedonia may remind us that in re
I cent years the peninsula kingdom has
j acquired large holdings in the near
; east; holdings amounting to many
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of 110,000 square miles, with & popu
lation of 36,000,000; or in other words
with ul>out half the area of France,
stie has a population nearly equal to
that of Franco. She holds the fol
lowing dependencies: Eritrea, on the
Red sea, and taking its name from the
old Greek name of that sea, is about
equal in area to the former kingdom
of Naples, and has a coast line of
some 700 miles. Italian Samoliland
is a third larger than Italy, though
sparsely peopled. Both these colonies
are run at a loss, reaving large sub
ventions from home. The third Ital
ian possession is Lybia, (Tripoli and
Cyremrtca), taken from Turkey by the
Italians Just before the two Balkan
wars, after it had been in Turkish
hands for about two centuries. It is
between three ad four times as large
as Italy, and is also subsidized by the
home government. Much of it is fer
tile, growing both cereals and fruit,
but it has also a very important
strength of position, finking the Brit
ish-controlled region of Egypt with
the French Tunis, Algeria, and now
Morocco; so that the wnole coastline
of northern Africa is now in the hands
of these three entente powers. The
possession of Lybia makes Italy an
eastern Mediterranean power, and1
brings her directly south of Crete and '
the Grecian Isles.
NOTICE.
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inclusive are requested to present f
same for payment.
PHIL MURPHY,
City Treasurer.
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We are using Moonlight water in the
Elite Bath House.
SPRING TIME IS HERE
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LINE IN TAILORING
For the best wot it In tailoring see us.
We make alterations.
We do cleaning, pressing and re
pairing for ladles and gentlemen.
We make suits to order.
First class workmanship, modern
method and prompt service.
We appreciate your patronage.
Yours to please,
NOME TAILORING CO,.
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Baths. Phone Red 157.
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