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Tin In Alaska
What about tin in Alaska? Is
there a chance that the deposits
here in the North might be of
some importance to the nation in
its national defense effort of mak
ing itself self-sufficient within
the Western Hemisphere, or is
the Alaska tin story just talk?
Territorial Commissioner of
Mines B. D, Stewart threw a good
deal of light on the subject in a
talk at a recent Juneau Rotary
Club luncheon. Tin was discov
ered in Alaska by a Geoogical
Survey party in 1903 at Cape
York near the w'stern tip of Se
ward Peninsula, and though con
siderable feverish exploration
and development work took
place immediately after the dis
covery, the total production of
Alaska tin from that day to this
has amounted to only $1,600,000.
Last year Alaska produced only
46 tons of tin, infinitesimal in
comparison with the nation’s con
sumption in the same year, 68,000
tons.
After the First World War the
nation realized it would suffer in
any future conflict from a par
ticular deficiency in tin. The bulk
of our supply had been coming,
and still comes, from the Malay
Peninsula, where annual produc
tion is 47,000 tons. The ony smelt
ers available for reduction of the
ore are located at Singapore and
Liverpool, so even the smal1
amount of tin which is mined in
America has to be sent broad for
smelting.
Construction of a tin smelter
in the United States was advo
cated by Jesse Jones. Chairman
of the Reconstruction Finance
Corporation. Such a smelt r
wou’d be used to reduce a great
bulk of ore from Bolivia and at
the same time to encourage the:
mining of a domestic supply..
Commissioner Stewart pointed
out a fact which is little known,
that tin occurs in many of our
Stat s as well as in ALiJca. It
has never been developed com
mercially, except on a very smal’.,
sea e here in the North, because!
wn V";- cheap r tg .gv l it from
X where the s ’nnif rs wer~'
located. Now. under war pressure i
the United States must think o'
tin from the military necessity1
standpoint rath r from the pure
ly conunci'Cal one-. It Would be
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cheaper in terms of national de
fense to mine American tin at ten
times the cost than it would be
to remain depend-nt. on a far
distant supply in wartime.
That tin is a wartime necessity
was established beyond doubt
when a recent survey showed the
material to have 36 absolut ly es
sential uses for the Army and
Navy. A plastic has been devel
oped which to a certain extent
can take the place of tin in com
mercial containers, but for our
'shells and ordnance we can’t get
aiong without tin. If our supply
should be cut off, the U. S. mili
tary machine would be paralyz
ed.
Tin occurs most notably in A’
aska between the limestones of
Seward Peninsula and the gran
itic mass of Cape Mountain. The
only production so far has been
; from alluvial d posits. Tin of an
entirely different charac.er i s
found at Hot Springs, just east
of the junction of the Tanana
and Yukon Rivers. This tin is of a
very high grade, one ore ship
ment to Singapore running 70
percent pure tin, tb richest or
over smelted there. Tin concen
trates have al-o been o ff eett d
in the neighborhood of Fairbank
and occurrene s have been noted
elsewhere in Alaska, though so
far these have been only of ac
ademic interest.
A few days ago, Commissioner
Stewart revea d a little poke of
tin concentrate was received in
his office here. It was said tc
came from Southeast Alaska.
The Dcpartnii-nt is checking on
this find and hopes to •establish
the occurrence of tin in^comm.cr
cial quantities in this area. Clear
ly, tin frofn Southeast A'aska
would be of greater value to 'h"
m i in than tin from Seward Pen
n-ula, due to the short r haul
and tee inside route which cou’d
b given ironclad protection from
raiders in wartime.
The nation needs to know a
good deal more about tin in Als
aska. To this end Delegat. Di
mond has introduced in Congress
a ’oil' asking the appropriation of
$2,000,000 for a thorough ar.d
complete tin exploration in Alas
’ a. The sum asked would not be
a drob jn the nationa' defense
hu.ye; it might m an tnoro'
to the defense of the United Stat
than any number of planes, l
mips, fft'hks or trained men.
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EXECUTIVE, ’45 INAUGURATION
By JACK STINNETT
WASHINGTON, Feb.— Now it
can be told:
With th. possible exception of
the visit of the King and Queen
of England, there never have
been such elaborate precautions
here as were tak n to guard
President Roosevelt at his Inaug
ural. .
Under the direction of Co'onel
Edmund W. Starling, who has
been chief of the Secret S rvice
White House details for many
years, everything that has been
learned in all the Inaugurals
since 1789 was put into practice.
A most 3,000 extra men were
brought into Washington to
guard against any eventuality.
Working with the District of Col
umbia Metropolitan police under
Major Ernest W. Brown, super
intendent, these men ranged
from crack traffic squads of a
s re of cities to details from the
United States Marine and agents
of the Federal Bureau of Investi
gation.
There were hundreds of fire
men, about 500 Marines, 350 of
ee t st plainclothes men from
v y key city in the country.
:d at least 1.600 uniformed po
ice officers.
NO PARKING”
Even with the experience of
the visit of the King and Que.-n
to draw on. Colonel Star.ing and
is staff worked for more than a
month on the minutely-detailed
plan of operation. First the traf
fic lanes into the Cupitoi, White
House and one-mile parad. zones
were taken care of. A parking
blackout about four blocks wide
and more than a mile-and-a-half
ong was ordered from midnight
to midnight on Inaugural day.
Lines of police, firemen ar.d Mar
ines at hardly more than arms'
ngth apart were formed from
end to end of th.. parade route
_n both sides of the street.
Back of them, apparently wan
dering about through the crowds
but actually walking a “beat”
that took them not more than a
few yards in ach direction were:
he hundreds of detectives, Se
cret Service men and FBI agents.
They reporied at regular, fre
qu. nt intervals to lieutenants.
The lieutenants kept in constant
teach with four captains in
charge of the zones from Capitol
to 160Q Pennsylvania Av-[
enue. }
■p'.YVof of the effectiveness of
iiiis minute attention to detail
was that th re was not one civ
lian report of any suspicious in
cident which the guard had not
already taken care of.
A nu n with a gun was arrested
in the Court of Freedom. Colonel
Starling afterwards described
him to me as a “harm ess indiv
idual who had no other thought
than h lping to guard the Presi
dent. but we have to preserve
our pi Sessional standing, you
know.”
A 71-year-old Spanish Ameri
c. n War veteran who went about
fiercely brand-hing a sword wa
also taken into custody. A -cu
another and younger man who
ran about beating his bn as: like
Tarzsn and shouting “Presid.nt
Roosevelt spends too much mon
ey” was hauled off to the hoese
gow.
Not one of thc'e men was tak
en at a! seriously by the arrest
i ’ »ff. 3 rs ard the fact that
their infringements of the peace
were so minor is an illustration
f hew much attention was given
to the most minute occurence.
“NICE CAMERA. MISTER"
How the detectvcs worked may
be demortrated by repeating an
incident that occurred to a friend
of mine on the Capitol Plaza in
front of the Inaugural stand. He’s
a camera fan and was in his seat
before 11 o'clock to be sure that
lie had his candid camera sights
No one had arrived yet in his
row, but he had hardly gotten
located before a man slipped into
the seat next to him, showed a
fri ndly interest in his camera<
and discussed photography with,
him—incidentally making an off
hand inspection of his camera.
“It wasn’t until after the show
started,” says his friend, “that I
realized the person sitting next'
to me wasn’t my photographic
friend at ali and then it dawned
od me. ... I had b en investi
gated.”
I told the story later to Co!-;
onel Starling. He jus. smiled and
said: ‘The boys didn’t overlook
much — but that’s what it takes.”.
And he was off to his reports.
“I’ll be working on them for a
month or two,” he explained.
“Then, are a lot of little kinks j
we want to work out before j
1915.”
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