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OF SEWARD, ALASKA — Established August 19. 1904
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KNOW YOUR STUFF
There are men roaming the mountains of Alaska
who dont know silver ore from molybdenum.
One man said that he was prepared to move up and
down the coast in a motor boat for the summer but when
questioned he was not sure just how lead-silver ore dif
fered from copper ore. He might bd a total loss because it
is possible that he will walk over stretches of paying ore
and never know it.
Alaska has all the ores that are known so far. With
the Valley of the Ten Thousand Smokes it would not be
surprising that the Territory will produce precious
stones.
The Territory offers a short course in mineralogy
and no prospector is so poor that he cant well afford
three months at the Alaska College where they have as
sembled the outstanding minerals of the country^ and
where they are prepared to instruct those who would get
money out of the ground. Its not good ball play when men
just go looking for the yellow metal when they might be
walking over something more,valuable.
In this connection we wish to call attention to the
series of articles by Dr. Kuntz recently run in the Satur
day Evening Post. The doctor is the leading expert on
precious and semi-precious stones for the entire world.
He has been the main genius at the head of Tiffany’s
New York. Every prospector in Alaska should look up
that series for the good of his soul and the good of Alas
ka.
With Work and Hoover.out, Cal had better hurry
back to Washington if he wants any cabinet left.
Shocked at the clothes she was wearing, a New
Jersey mother told her daughter to go home and put on
her bathing suit.
Every prospect does not develop into a mine but it
is absolutely true that in many properties, that have done
their preliminar work, any round of shots may break in
to a bonanza.
Future Presidential timber will exclaim with pride,
“I began life riding on the spring seat of a tractor.’’
Mining societies could do the mining industry a real
service if they would study the present needs of mining
men and strive to assist them to build up a more prosper
ous mining industry.
AMSTERDAM’S CANALS FOR SHOW
The Dutch city where the Olmpic games are being
held is cut through with a series of canals. They are used
only as mirrors, but Amsterdam hesitates to fill her can
als and become a city of broad! highways. Above is the
Central Station with the harbor in the background.
SEATTLE, Aug. 13. (/P)—Horatio
Alger might well find inspiration for
an entire book in the story of Otto
Ohl'son, vetera 1 irtUi'li^oad man, par.
ticularly in. facts concerning Ohlson’s
appoinfmiant to the position of Gen.
eral Manager of the Alaska Railroad.
When the manager sailed on the
steamer Aleutian Saturday -to take
up the dutlies of his new position
some of his friends overflowed with
the secret of events ileadling up to
the appointment declaring ithe story
was too good to keep.
'Until late in July Ohlson was sup.
erintendunt of ,the Superior Division
of the Northern Pacific Railway with
headquarters in Duluth. He was out
supervising some work along the
lints, not far from Brule, Wis.
Ohlson’s work engaged the atten.
tion of a party of fishermen but Ohl.
son was a busy man and he didn’t
have any time for the fishermen save
in the light of potential passengers
for his line. But the fisher mien took
j particular note of Ohlson’s method
and one of them, a man little given
to conversation, paid particular at.
tisntion to the railroad executive.
That man was President Coolidge.
As the story goes “That man looks
to me like likely timber for the
Alaska Railroad,” said this fisher,
man with a sight down.East drawl,
“lets find cut who lie is.”
The Northern Pacific Railway’lost
a division superintendent right, there
and Uncle Sam got a mow railroad
executive.
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