NUMBER DECLINES FROM 8,017
TO 5,919 IN LAST THREE
YEARS
PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Nov. 21. (JP)
—The Bureau of Mines of the Depart
ment of Commerce has' just made pub
lic statistics showing a decline In the
last three years in the fourteen States
of Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa,
Kentucky, Maryland, Montana, New
Mexico, Washington and West Vir
ginia. By “commercial” mines is
meant mines that have produced as
much as 1,000 tons for several years
running.
The figures show a drop in the
number of commercial mines from
8,017 in 1923 to 6,414 in 1924 and to
6,919 in 1926. These 6,919 mines
produced 167,036,000 net tons in 1925.
Drunkenness in the United States
last year increased almost twice as
fast as it did in 1924 and now has
reached its pre-prohibition level, ac
cording to the Moderation league
survey of 1,500 cities.
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Alaska receives but what is her due
in the Semi-Centennial edition of the
Seattle Post Intelligencer, published
Sunday November 7, number which
arrived in Seward in the last mail.
All through the edition Alaska is men
tioned but in particular in the sec
tion “Arrival of the Gold Ship/’ A
full page colored illustration shows
a pan of gold dust being scattered
among the eager throng of people
standing on the dock. A brief fore
ward states word of the Alaska gold
rush spread immediately, firing the
imagination of adventurous men in
every corner of the country, as tales
of treasure always have done. Seattle
was soon the shipping point of a
great Alaska-bound movement and
all resources were diverted to equip
ping and furnishing transportation to
the eager goldsearchers.
Seattle admits that with the arrival
of the first gold shipment from the
Klondike the commercial aspect of
the city was changed.
Alaska since has poured millions in
to Seattle business channels, it Is
stated. Alaska gets little help from
the nation, writes Scott C. Bone, for
mer governor of the Territory, in a
special article and then goes on to
describe though Alaska has belonged
to the United States for 59 years and
fourteeen administrations have come
and gone, but intermittent attention
has been given to this remote and
still undeveloped Territory. He des
cribes interestingly “Seward’s Folly,’’
Roosevelt’s administration and Alas
ka, and the building of the Alaska
railroad under the Wilson administra
tion, the Harding and the present
Coolidge’s administration attitude to
ward Alaska.
The number of employes in the
coal mines of the United States has
decreased 11 per cent and production
has increased 162 per cent, according
to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Metal production in the Eastern
States increased 11 per cent during
1925 over the year 1924, gold being
valued at $50,090,000 and other metals
at $22,068,792.
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