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COLONY IN PICTURES
The “Pioneers of 1935”, building a city in Alaska’s
*‘Hnppy Valley" make up an attractive rotogravure
page in the New York Times of April 19. There is a
fine view of Palmer, and below that interior scenes of
colonist homes, showing the comfortable furnishings;
customers in the store selecting goods from well-stock
ed shelves.
A battery of caterpillar tractors with crews shows
that work is going on, and what must be good news, if
rather surprising to Anchorageites, is the statement
that Palmer is 35 miles from Anchorage, “port and
railroad terminus.”
The page will go a long way toward visualizing to
the Outside public the actual working of the coloniza
tion plan, described under the picture of Palmer as
“the first fruits of a ‘planned economy’ in government
colonization.” —Seward Gateway.
WOMAN'S BOON TO MINING
The year 1936 marks the golden anniversary of
the celebrated Everson Flotation Patent. Fifty years
ago Carrie J. Everson, a Colorado school teacher, made
a scientific discovery that has brought a new epoch to
ore reduction in the world.
Carrie Everson was washing some ore sacks be
longing to her brother when she saw a miracle perform
ed before her eyes. The soap suds, slightly impregnat
ed with oil from the oily ore sacks, was carrying oft met
al particles over the edge of the tub. These ore partic
les were riding on the bubbles. The gangue or worth
less rock particles were falling to the bottom of the
tub. The law of gravity was being reversed and this
school teacher saw what was transpiring. Now the
entire scienitfic world is aware of this affinity describ
ed by Carrie J. Everson in United States Patent, Serial
No. 175,665 dated Aug. 24, 1886. and filed in the United
States Patent Office at Washington, D. C.
Carrie Everson made a valiant fight to transform
her discovery into a practical ore treatment process.
More powerful interests with the money to carryon
extensive experiment developed the Carrie Everson
discovery and brought it into general use. The odds
were all against her; she was a woman, her ideals seem
ed absurd even to the scientific men of 50 years ago.
She had little knowledge of chemistry and her labora
tory faciiit es were pathetically inadequate. She had
no fmacial backing and it is small wonder, therefore,
that her efforts proved inconclusive. Powerful inter
ests developed what she had discovered and today
these interest are taking down fat royalties from com
panies all over the world using oil flotation in concen
tration.
in a recent year a total of 201,71 1,790 pounds of
various reagents were used in treating 50,889,254 tons
of ore by flotation in the United States. From this ore
a recovery of 3.353,120 tons of concentrate were made
Showing concentration in the ratio of slightly more than
15 to 1. Of the American ores treated by flotation dur
ing that year a little more than 70 percent were copper
ores and about 15 percent zinc-lead ores.
Normally the flotation process in the United States is
responsible for the metallurgical treatment of 55,000,
000 tons of ore annually, the product being extremely
diversified and including copper, lead, zinc, silver, moly
bdenum and graphite.—Denver Mining Record.
Haile Selassie (addressing his umbrella)—Well,
you weren’t much protection but you were better than
the League of Nations.—New York Sun.
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MANY AIRPLANE ACCIDENTS DEMAND
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Since last September no fewer than 160 accidents
have occured to planes landing and taking off on Alas
kan airfields. Not one of that number, according to
official reports, was due to pilots’ errors, but entirely to
poor field conditions.
Here is a glaring fact that should make every offi
cial and legislator and executive of the territory sit up
and take notice. The situation brooks no delay in the
effort to make those fields safe.
The people should get behind the movement for
better fields and bring pressure to bear until the fields
are made safe.
It has been said that the people of Alaska do not
need to be exhorted to become airminded but rather to
be restrained from taking unnecessary risks. They
will go by plane at any odds rather than spend weeks
taking to the old land trails—and where there are such
Notice Payment
Of School Tax
fs Delinquent
To All Whom This May Concern
In accord with Chapter 29 Ses
sion Laws of Alaska, 1919, and
amendments thereto, all male
persons between the ages of 21
and 50 years who are not “sail
ors in the United States Navy or
Revenue Cutter Service, volun
teer firemen, pauper or insane
pe.sons,” are required to pay an
annual School Tax of Five Dol
lars ($5,00.)
This tax is due and payable af
ter the first Monday in the month
of April and shall be paid before
the first day of May, providing
you are in the Territory of Al
aska on said first date: if not,
the tax is due within thirty days
after your arrival in Alaska or
within ten days after written or
oral demand is made upon you
by the School Tax Collector.
Taxes not paid in accordance
with the foregoing requirements
shall become delinquent,and each
person delinquent shall be sub
ject to a fine of Two Dollars ($2.)
All persons, firms a'nd corpora
tions employing labor in Alaska
shall furnish to collectors a list
of all employees subject to tax,
nd employers of labor as above
set out are authorized by provi
sions of said Act to deduct am
ount of the tax from the wages
of each employee who is subject
thereto. If any such employers
shall fail to report and deduct as
herein specified within the per
iod designated for payment of
said tax. the said employers of
labor shall be guilty of a misde
meanor and subject to a fine of
from $50 to $500.
All persons subject to, and re
fusing or neglecting to pay. said
tax, are subject to a fine of $25.00
or imprisonment in jail for a per
iod of one month: and all such
employers of labor as herein set
out. who neglect or refuse to col
lect such tax from employees
may be proceeded against and
shall pay the amount of each in
dividual tax, and a further pen
alty of $25 for each such tax.
The receipts will be furnished
by the tax collectors.
Dated at Nome Alaska, this
22nd day of May, 1936.
M. J. WALSH,
Duly authorized and qualified
Alaska Territorial School Tax
Collector for Nome School Dis
trict.
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handicaps and lack of highways they deserve the best
of fields.
The federal government—which is planning a sys
tem of airfield improvements and laying out of new
Holds—should not be behind in the procession. It
should lead rather than follow, especially in this region
where there are not other forms of interior travel and
where every field is the means to a greater gold pro
duction and a far greater federal revenue from every
prosperous area. The government shares this prosper
ity through the income and other taxes it gathers from
these fields.
It will be good business to step up the mining activ
ities through aid of better fields, if for no other reason,
just in order to produce this increase in revenues—but
the general situation of itself demands improvements
and more fields just as soon as they can be built. And
the time to build them is now.—Fairbanks News-Miner
VOTE FOR
ANTHONY J. DIMOND
For Re-election On Democratic Ticket
FOR DELEGATE TO CONGRESS
His W orlv For The Territory Is The
Best Argument For His Re-election
VOTE FOR
0. D. COCHRAN
DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE
For Territorial Senator
t
General Election, Tuesday, September, 8. 1936.
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