will endorse the protest or re
gister one of its own. And while
doing so bearing in mind that
the Indians of Alaska want no
special privilege of any kind blit
they do want every right and
privilege and obligation of A
mcriean citizenship.
ALASKA PRODUCKS FEWER
MINERALS THAN
WASHINGTON
Seattle has been a Boswell so
long, singing the greatness of
Alaska, that it is going to be
something of a surprise to learn
that the mineral production of
the State of Washington, ac
cording to the last governmental
reports, is greater than that of
the territorial empire to the
north.
Tlie fact of the Evergreen
State’s mineral supremacy over
Alaska was brought out at the
onening session of the fourth
annual Mining Institute at the
College of Mines, University of
Washington, recently when Prof.
Joseph Daniels of the College of
Mines noted that the last official
report from the national capital
showed Washington’s annual
production of minerals was valu
ed at $22,119,541 while for the
same period Alaska’s production
amounted to $14,024439.
’30 Almost as Great.
This was for the year 1928;
the reports for 1929 and 1930
were not available at this time.
However, estimated productions
of the earth’s yield in this state
and throughout the Northwest
indicated that while the 1930
tonnage production was almost
as great as that of 1928 the value
of the product, because of lower
prices for minerals, was mucn
less in 1930. However, mining
companies kept their plants, in
the main, in operation all last
year.
In the Northwest, Montana led
in mineral production with a
year’s output valued at $74,752.
309. Others followed with Brit
ish Cohmihia. $65,372,583: Idaho,
$28,589,221: then Washington
and Alaska and finally Oregon
with $6,086,988.
Pi c lessor Daniels observed
that a good sand and gravel pit
in this state was potentially big
ger than a gold mine.
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JOK INSURANCE
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Unemployment insurance was
picked as the first of a number
of remedies to be studied as a
means of meeting periods of
economic depression at the
close of the conference recently
in Albany, New York, of govern
ors or representatives of the sev
en major industrial states of
the northeast.
A group of experts was asked
to prepare date on unemploy
ment insurance as effective un
der the voluntary and compul
sory plans in Europe on the
basis of a model unemployment
insurance program which will be
submitted to the executives of
the states represented in the
conference.
THE ALASKA FISHERMAN
Louis F. Paul, Editor
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