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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1915.
IMMIGRATION.
While hundreds of thousands of
homes are being ruined in the Euro
pean war, and people are fleeing from
Belgium and other localities different
views exist as to the future move
ment of peoples from the war zone.
A great number of men below forty
five years of age, those best adapted
to building up new countries, will be
killed or wounded in the war, and
cannot be counted on as possible im
migrants. Older men will not prove
so desirable, and the boys will be
a long time coming into the pro
ductive period.
Some of the nations not engaged
in the war thought there would be
a heavy exodus to their shores, but
it seems migration to such places
has dropped, and it is predicted by
the American immigration experts at
Ellis Island that fewer men will come
after the war than formerly. He be
lieves those remaining alive after the
conflict will be required in rebuild
ing the countries, and will find many
more opportunities at home. The
British people will have every oppor
tunity, if they desire to expand, to
go into British territory. Defeated
countries will have less inducement
to go into their own realms, and will
hesitate to allow any of their deci
mated force to leave for a long time
to help open other lands.
Canada, being a grain-producing
country and having such a vast area
of virgin lands, may expect many to
turn to the rural districts to help
produce supplies to meet the great
demand incidental to the war. And
among those who will go will be a
share of the new arrivals from across
the waters.
The migration from Europe to
America has been falling off the last
few years. Poland and Russia fur
nished many, largely because of po
litical dissatisfaction. If a new Po
land be established, emigration from
that quarter will be reduced, if not
stopped, and Russia may bar the ex
odus from her lands effectually.—Ex.
OUR SILVER COINS.
The Lincoln cent, the buffalo nickel,
the $2.50 and $5 gold pieces with
their accurate aborigines, the eagle
and the double eagle with their strik
ing and original designs, are all de
partures from the old ideas of what
coins should be. Each of these coins
is unconventional in design. Each
aims to be artistic, and certainly ev
en the least artistic of them is an
improvement over its predecessor.
But the silver coinage remains true
to the traditions of ugliness. On one
side is the chubby face of an unat
tractive female, on the other side an
ornithological monstrosity supposed
to be an eagle. Both the woman and
ih-> eagle are familiar figures in ev
eryday life; they are so familiarthat
tlheir general lack of beauty or ap
propriateness is not frequently con
sidered. They compare very unfavor
ably with the bright and handsome
damsel who adorns the $10 piece and
the husky and vigorous bird which
holds its place on the $5 coin.
The New York Numismatic club
has adopted a resolution strongly con
demning the present silver coinage
of the United States. The resolu
tion is justifiable, but not needed.
As soon as a change can be made
in the silver coins they will doubt
less be improved as the gold, nickel
and copper have been. The tendency
is strongly away from ugliness and
conventionalism In coinage.
There can be no question of {he
value of artistic coins. They are,
more or less, in everyone’s pocket.
The recent coins of Prance are a de
light to the eye. They should have
a small though definite influence in
strengthening the artistic sense of
the people. And it costs no more to
make an artistic and unconventional
coin than to make an ugly and con
ventional one.—Ex.
ir yon want all the news all the
time read the Dally Prospector.
Animated Weekly and orchestra at
the Orpheum tonight
BELIEVE BBVT WILL
BUY AUSKA B. B.
(Continued from page 1.)
the commission, but that was a mis
quotation. Had the commission the
figures in its possession. Secretary
Lane would have been talking terms
with Mr. Morgan before this.
“The secretary’s remarks on this
score Indicate that the work of the
Alaska engineering commission is not
to be considered complete with the
making of its report about Feb. 1.
It is to have another season in Alas
ka. If it goes north to value the
Copper River & Northwestern, it
probably also will go to direct what
ever construction work Is to be un
dertaken.
Alaska Northern Different.
"But the situation as to the Alas
ka Northern is quite different.
“Secretary Lane is much less com
municative in regard to the Seward
road than in regard to the Cordova
road. Everything points to the fact
that he has been reading David Ha
rum and applying some of the lessons
to be found therein to his dickering
with the Canadian bondholders who
are making the offers.
"It appears that when the Cana
dians talk to him about the advantag
es of the Alaska Northern to the
government, he begins to talk about
the magnificent opportunity to get
short mileage from the Matanuska
coal field by building from Portage
bay. And yet it is believed that he
wants the Alaska Northern, but on
ly if he can get it cheap. Also he is
said to be relying much on that
clause in the railroad law which pro
vides that the government may con
demn existing railroads.
Stand On Legal Advice.
"The Alaska Northern people, how
ever, have received legal advice to
the effect that the clause is a dead
letter. This advice is that if the
government sought to condemn mere
ly for military purposes, such as haul
ing out coal for naval use, there
could be no question as to its right
to condemn, but when it seeks to
condemn a common carrier merely
to make it a common carrier under
government ownership, then (it runs
counter to the constitution, as set
■forth in numerous decisions on the
point.
"Moreover, so lawyers say, if the
government created a rival line that
destroyed the possible business of a
privately-owned common carrier, that
act also, as demonstrated by numer
ous decisions of the court of claims,
would constitute a taking of private
property for public use without due
compensation having been made, as
provided in the fifth amendment to
the constitution.
“So the game between the . Secre
tary of the Interior and the Cana
dian bondholders progresses.
“But meantime Secretary Lane is
having facts marshalled in the com
ing report of the Alaskan engineer
ing commission to demonstrate that
tlie government can in a measure be
independent of the Alaska Northern.
Portage bay is one of his best argu
ments. It is reported that he has
estimates that the tunnel from Port
age bay could be constructed at a
cost of not to exceed $2,000,000, and
be completed within two years’ time,
bringing the road but at the base of
Kenai peninsula at a point which re
quired seventy-two miles of construc
tion on the Alaska Northern to reach.
“If terms are not made soon with
the Alaska Northern—and it looks
very much as If the situation was to
be permitted to drag—there is a
strong possibility that the summer’s
activity in the western part of the
territory will be confined to one and
possibly two things.
The First Step.
“The first of these Is the construc
tion of the government’s own new
line from Ship creek, to the Matanus
ka coal field. It is calculated that
Cook Inlet, by which Shipr creek is
reached, is ice free and open to navi
gation at least six months a year,
and possibly eight months. The lat
‘er figure has been given to the sec
retary. Reports only a few days old
from Cook Inlet are that the inlet
has been open so far this winter, and
free to navigation, but it is admitted
that this is an unusually mild win
ter.
"Six months’ operation, It 1b cal
culated, would haul out a lot of Mat
anuska coal.
“Moreover, the work would not be
dead work In any event. Every mile
of it would be used when the Suslt
na trunk is built, whether that trunk
starts from Seward or Portage bay.
"The second possible activity is
construction work on the Portage bay
terminal.
"To return to the more eastern
system; no one here seems to en
tertain any thought that the Copper
River &• Northwestern will not be
acquired in some manner.
“For one thing, stress is being laid
on "he tonnage possibilities of that
road, it being argued thlt better op
eration and an extension of that line
will do more to promote the speedy
industrial and mining development
of the territory than could be secur
ed anywhere else.
i "It is expected that the report of
the commission also will show that
the richer agricultural regions of the
Tanana can be reached sooner and
cheaper by building up the Copper
and down the Tanana than in any
other way.
“From facts which have leaked out
It Is believed that the report on the
agricultural resources of the Susit
na valley, to be contained in the re
port of the Alaska engineering com
mission, will not be flattering.
“The full report Is rapidly taking
form. Before it is quite finished
there will be another conference at
the White House when the whole sit
uation will be gone over again with
the president and then the document
will be sent to the printer. Even af
ter that no speedy announcement may
be expected as to the executive decis
ion.
“Meantime the engineering com
mission, in a body and individually,
is having many conferences with Sec
retary Lane. He has absorbed a vast
amount of information on the whole
subject and can talk as glibly as any
Alaska engineer on tonnage, grades,
eccentricities of glaciers and the
like.”
BREAK TRAIL TO
GLACIER MINE
s
Wilson, the Freighter, Taking Sea
son’s Supplies to Rutherford
Ramsay Property.
Jim Wilson has started the work of
delivering the fifty tons of freight for
the Rutherford-Ramsay Mining com
pany, which is operating seven miles
from town near the Valdez glacier.
The trail has been broken for bobs
from town to the foot of the glacier
and the big rigs are now hauling the
lumber, coal and supplies to the
cache from the foot of the glacier to
the mine and double-enders will be
used. The trail to the mine has not
been broken as yet.
The work of developing the mine
has continued all through the sum
mer and much ore has been blocked
out. Contractors are now at work
driving a 700-foot working tunnel and
in the spring the mine will be in full
operation.
ALAMEDA SAILS
FROM SEATTLE
SEATTLE, Feb. 2.—The steamer
Alameda sailed from here last night
for Valdez and other Alaska ports.
The following passengers sailed for
Valdez: Hiss Ashworth, S. Porter,
W. Soule and wife, August Johnson
and two second-class.
ADMIRAL EVANS
S0UTHT0M0RR0W
The steamer Admiral Evans reach
ed Seward this evening at 5 o’clock
and is expected to reach Valdez to
morrow morning at 9 or 10, as the
Seattle office has wired the cap
tain of the boat not to go west of
Seward. It was planned to go as
far as Seldovia but the schedule has
been changed.
WHEAT IS NOW
$1.651 BUSHEL
CHICAGO, Feb. 2.—The price of
wheat has jumped to $1.66 a bushel
and is at the highest point since 1909,
when Patton the speculator and wheal
gambler tried to corner the supply
and lost many millions of dollars
In the vain attempt to do so.
Cable Office Hours.
Week days 9 a. m. to » p. in.
Sundays and holidays 9 to 10 a. nt
and 6 to 6 p. m.
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INVASION OF EAST
PRUSSIACHECKED
(Continued from page 1.)
and the compiling of documentary evi
dence that the transfer of the steam
er Dacia from the Hamburg-American
line to Edward W. Breitung was bona
fide, Secretary McAdoo issued a pol
icy covering the cargo of the ship
at the rate of 4*4 per cent.
It is, however, stated that the gov
ernment refused to grant a policy on
the ship. The owner has sought in
surance from the government besides
that carried in private companies.
The State Department did not ad
vise the owners of the ship to make
the trip, as has been repeatedly stat
ed, but assured the owners that after
an investigation the department was
convinced that they would have a
good case before a prize court as the
department was convinced of the
genuineness of the transfer. Secre
tary of State Bryan also informed
the owners that the British govern
ment had issued a statement to the
effect that it would not recognize the
transfer and would seize the ship.
This statement was given so that the
owners might follow their best judg
ment
Charivari for Damons.
A number of the friends of Mr.
and Mrs. William Damon gave them
a charivaria last night, waking up the
entire town with the noise of the
guns and tin cans. Many society
leaders, attracted by the noise, wan
dered out to the Dieringer house on
Hobart street to see the fun. If pos
sible the future charivaring should be
done in the day time, as the noise
of the shooting caused some uneasi
ness <in parts of the town and dis
turbed the rest of the hard-working
editor.
TIDE TABLE8 PORT OF VALDEZ.
Compiled from the official tide t« ■
bles issued by the Coast and Geodet
ic Survey. The time for high and
low water is for the Port of Valdez
and is Valdez time. Immediately fol
lowing the time of high and low wa
ter is given the height of the (tide
in feet and tenths:
Tuesday, February 2.
High tide 1:48 a. m., 11.3; 1:31 p.
m„ 12.5.
Low tide 7:26 a. m., 1.4; 7:57 p.
m„ 0.8.
Wednesday, February 3
High tide 2:18 a. m., 11.7; 2:01 p.
m., 11.9.
Low tide 8:11 a. m., 1.0; 8:29 p.
m., 0.3.
Thursday, February 4.
High tide 2:52 a. m„ 12.0; 2:68 p.
m„ 11.1.
Low tide 8:59 a. m., 0.8; 9:03 p.
m., 0.4.
Friday, February 5.
High tide 3:28 a. m.. 12.2; 3:50 p.
m., 10.1.
Low tide 9:53 a. m., 0.7; 9:40 p.
m., 1.2.
Saturday, February 6.
High tide 4:10 a. m., 12.3; 4:55 p.
m., 9.1.
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WEATHER BULLETIN.
Valdez, Alaska, Feb. 2, 1315.
STATION Above Below, Snow In. WEATHKK CONDITIONS
Donnelly . 14 6 Cloudy, calm, trail fair.
Pazson’s . 10 ’ 17 Cloudy, calm, trail fair.
Hogan . 3 17 Cloudy, calm, trail fair.
Gulkana . 5 14 Cloudy, calm, trail good.
Copper Center _ 2 10 Clear, calm, trail good.
'Tonslna . 2 24 .Cloudy, calm, trail good.
Telkhell . 5 27 Cloudy, calm, trail good.
Beaver Dam . 2 39 CUoudy. calm, trail heavy.
Summit .. 10 50 Cllear, calm, trail drifted.
Wortman’s . 22 42 Clear, calm .trail fair.