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TUESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1913.
POWER WORTH MORE THAN
GOLD.
For a gold camp ’Still on the
threshold of ils 'teens, Fairbanks
may be pardoned if she betrays
a touch of boastfulness when !
speaking of her record. Many an
older camp would be proud to ad
vertise a total aggregate output
of §53,000,000 in gold dust. The
Fairbanks district has turned out
this amount of gold, despite the
fact that the cost of extracting
the gold from the ground has
been heavier here than in almost
any other camp in the past.
Nor have we reached the stage
where one indulges mainly in
reminiscence. Fairbanks has a
present and a future, as great as
the past. Just now there are 2,
000 men on the adjacent creeks,
engaged in harvesting the annual
crop of gold, which this season
should amount to $5,000,000 or
more. And in the ground of the
Fairbanks district, if we rely up
on the figures of Alfred H.
Brooks, chief of the Alaska geo
logical survey, who has hitherto
shown almost a gifl of prophecy
in Alaskan development, there re
mains $50,000,000 worth of gold
dust which may be* mined pro
fitably by the methods now in
use.
And don't go away wilh tin
idea that when this $50,000,000
has been mined, that the camp
will be all in. This $50,000,000
estimate does not take into ac
count a vast area of gold-bear
ing gravels in which there is so
much gravel mixed with I lie gold
that llu- gold cannot be extracted
profitably at the present mining
costs and by I tic present mining
methods. There is nothing by
which to estimate with any ap
proach to accuracy just how
much gold may lie in these low
grade gravels; but the ipianl ity is
known to lie immense. The prom
ise of long life for the camp is
certain.
The resources are here. Wlial
the camp needs in order jo (piiek
en development. are cheaper
transportation and cheaper pow
er. Cheaper transportation has
been coming and parts of it have
arrived, and the tonic effect up
on the mining industry has been
fell. Cheap power exists in un
limited abundance in the water
courses of the mountain range
south of Fairbanks, and in the
coal fields barely (iO miles away—
believed to be the largest coal
fields in the world. A simple
wire strung between these prim
itive sources of power and the
gold resources of the Fairbanks
district would he a greater event
than the discovery of a brand new
bonanza camp.—Fairbanks Times
The ‘•bee-hive” hat is the lat
est millinery. The head of Ihej
house is certain to in1 stung.
The minister of liuamgC in
Mexico has resigned. Probably j
got tired of working without
funds; > ;
Professor (iarrett Serviss de
clares that the sun will cool oil'
in 90,000,110(1 years. Patience,
then, is all we need to wait for
cooler weather.
The statement of the St. Louis
embezzler that his troubles start
ed when he indorsed t he note'of
a friend revives tfie question of
whether the fellow who asks you
to indorse.a note is.a friend.
Despite years of persistent
dissemination of knowledge the
American people continue to put
their valuaoles in the mails with
out return addresses. The post
officd department in /Washing
ton sold at auction the other day
the accumulation of the past
year. More than $1,000 in nick
els and dimes w?*e found in
“dead letters.” In one letter was
found $177 in bills.
NAMES OF CITIES. '
With Soma Flippant Com manta on ths
8aniora and Juniors.
One might naturally supple
that New fork, fair sp p*iiy,ye$k
the dominiipt city: of thp' 0pit$4
States, would hare epme papiesakpe
among the numerous towns which
have come into being all over the
country during the last half cen
tury, but the fact is that there is
not one town in all the United
States named for New York, the
daddy of them all, so to say.
Maybe somebody can say wuy mis
is, but I cannot, though I am sure
not a few New Yorkers have had a
hand in starting new towns in vari
ous states. Our next door neighbor,
Philadelphia, as slow as it is alleged
to be, beats us out, for there are six
Philadelphias scattered about, and
Boston, grand old Boston, has elev
en namesakes. Even Brooklyn put*
it all over New York, for there are
fifteen Brooklyns on the map, which
shows that whatever New Yorkers
may think of Brooklyn, Brooklyn
ites think more of Brooklyn than
New Yorkers think of New York
when they go away from their home
cities to start new ones.
San Francisco and New Orleans
are no better represented than New
York, while Chicago and Baltimore
have only one namesake apiece,
though to hear Chicago one would
imagine that every other new town
in the country had been named aft
er it. Chicago has nothing what
ever on St. Louis in the matter of
accumulating namesakes—one, only
one, caeli, and the only equality
that Chicago is bound to admit.
Pittsburgh has as many name
sakes as Boston, eleven, but all of
them combined haven’t as much
money as Pittsburgh, and the same
might be said of Boston’s name
sakes in regard to brains, though
far be it from me to say it. Wash
ington heads the list in the number
of namesakes, twenty-eight, but it
is not the capital so much as it is
the immortal George which carries
in this case.
Cleveland is only one short of
Washington, and why there should
be twenty-six Clevelands in this
country in addition to the one in
Ohio I don’t know. I fancy some of
them were named in honor of Presi
dent Cleveland, as every president
gets at least one or two postoflices
named after him as a reminder of
what he is to postmasters. Cincin
nati is a smoothly sibilant name,
and Cincinnati used to be quite a
place, but it has only two name
sakes, the same as Milwaukee, which
is famous in other respects than its
namesakes.—W. J. Lampton in New
York Sun.
Wellington's Black Trousers.
Knee breeches survived in fash
ionable quarters until well into the
last century. They were ultimately
displaced by trousers, but the trou
ser. on its first appearance was a
tight fitting garment—a sort of ex
tension of the breeches from the
knee to the ankle. Mr. J. C. Wright
tells us in his book, “The Good Old
Times,” that the Duke of Wel
lington was refused admission to
Almaek’s in 1814 because he wore
black tyoiisers instead of breeches
and silk stockings; but it would ap
pear from a later reference that
trousers were admitted to those
fashionable assembly rooms in King
street, St. James’, in the course of
the following year.—London Opin
ion.
Well Drugged.
A doctor was summoned to a po
lice station to examine, an uncon
scious prisiflier. The prisoner, very
muddy and disheveled, lay on the
floor of the cell. The physician
bent over and examined him, and
then, rising, said in a loud, stern
voice:
“This man’s condition is not due
to drink. He has been drugged.”
A policeman turned pale and said
in a timid, hesitating voice:
“I’m afraid ye’re right, sir, I
drugged him all the way—a matter
of a hundred yards or more.”
London Telegraph.
Mary Knew All About It.
Little Mary’s father had been
teaching her to walk ppoperly.
“Walk slowly and turn out your
toes,” lie admonished her.
While she was undergoing this
teaching she attended Sunday
school one day. The golden text
was, “Teach me to walk honestly.”
After reciting it several times the
teacher asked:
“Who knows what that means ?”
“I do,” replied little Mary. “Walk
slowly and turn out your toes.”
Couldn’t Fool Her;
Mrs. Murray. Keith, a venerable
Scotch lady, from whom Sir Walter
Scott derived many of the tradi
tions and anecdotes wrought in his
novels, taxed him one day with the
authorship, which he stoutly denied.
“What!” exclaimed the old lady.
“D’ye think 1 dinna ken my aki
groats among other folks’ kail?”
Go to the
Arcade
fqf quick,, clean tefvicf.
RAICPRY in:connEctk>n
* everything good
JACK. CALUN & CO.
CITY EXPRESS
MEETS ALL BOATS
When in e hurryrcell on me.
“QUICK ACTION”
ii my motto.
Phong 82. J. A. SPENARD, Prop.
LAUNCH BRIGHTON
CAPT. STAMEY
Leave* once a week from
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PORT WELLS and
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BARGAINS
ADLER will sell
A Bailey piano in first class
shape at a barga'n.
A Five-room house with ten
foot shed for less than lumber
cost.
When In Seward Stop at the <
COLEMAN HOUSE \
GEORGE SEXTON, PROP. <
SlRICTLY FIRST CLASS 1
Fourth Ave Seward, Alaska \
EOlt SALE—“Quick Meal” oil
stove. Suitable for camp use.
Perfect order, Inquire Mia,
Shepard.
They are all good live pictures
at the Orpheum toiiight.
Bring your job work to the
Prospector office.
Cable Office Hours.
Week days 9 a. m. to 9 p. in.
Sundays and holidays 9 to 10
.. in. and 5 to 6 p. m.
The Order of Alaskan Moose
For Sale Cheap.
Twenty-eight foot Racine mo
tor boat hull. Inquire of E. P.
Cashina.i
NOTICE OF SEIZURE.
In Hie District Court for the
Territory of Alaska, Third Di
vision.
United States of America, Lib
elant, vs. one ship’s boat, her
tackle, apparel, furniture and
equipment
Whereas a libel of informal ion
hrs been tiled in the above court
on the 4 4th day of July 191T on
behalf of the United States again
st the above mentioned ship’s
boat, her tackle, apparel, furni
ture and equipment; and where
as the substance of said libel of
information, is that the said
ship’s boat, her tackle, apparel,
furniture and equipment were
seized on the 25th day of July,
1910, and turned over to the Unit
ed States Marshal who now holds
the same at tin Port of Unalas
ka, Alaska, as forfeited to the
United States for the reason that
the same was then and there
found engaged in unlawfully kil
ling fur seals within the waters
of Alaska, and praying that the
said ship’s boat, her tackle, ap
parel, furniture and equipment
be condemned and sold for use of
the United States.
Now therefore, in pursuance
of the monition under the seal
of said Court to me directed and
delivered, 1 do hereby give public
notice to all persons claiming
the said ship’s boat, the tackle,
apparel, furniture and equipment
or in any manner interested
therein, that they, be apd^appear
before the UitiiSdjSUfcjs Dptmtj
Court for the; Q|f|kJt(jgaA
ka, Third pivision, tp be held at
Unatag&, ip $nd .fo^; \h£ said
Territory godiDivjs^o^gop the
18th day August 1913, at 10
o’clook in the. forenoon of .that
day, provided the same shall be.a
day of jurisdiction,5 otherwise cn
the next day of jurisdiction !here
after, then and there to inter
pose their claims and to make
their allegations in that behalf,
and that in event of their fail
ure so to do default, and condemt
ni.tion will be ordered.
H, P. SULLIVAN. ,
United States Marshal for the
Territory of Alaska, Third Divi
sion .
GEORGE R. WALKER.
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Windows, Doors, Moulding, Finish
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Agents for Fairbanks, Morse & Co.
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Manufacturers of
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