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A READY ANSWER.
The following editorial from the November 2nd, 1934,
issue of the Alaska Weekly carries a suggestion, which, if
carefully, and methodically carried out, undoubtedly would
develop some of the great mineralized areas, which today
have hardly been scratched in Alaska.
Here is one way of relieving unemployment in Alaska,
and at the same time, develop it. It is true that millions
have been spent in ascertaining geological reports on min
ing ground. Why shouldn’t the government assist in the
matter of producing new gold ? If there are such mineral
ized areas in Alaska which have not been mined, and which
contain enough gold for profitable operation, why not help
develop those areas ? A plan of outfitting prospectors to
go into these districts and develop them, could be easily
financed, considering the millions now being spent for un
employment which does not replenish the treasury, later
or at any time. Send real, experienced, prospectors into
the hills. That is one answer to advancement, undeniably
relieving employment and developing the country.
“GOLD IS THE ANSWER”
“Your attention is invited to the following item from a
British Columbia daily newspaper: “Implementing its pro
mise to send prospectors into the hills the Provisional Gov
ernment this year, through its relief department, has given
out close to 800 monthly grubstakes to relief applicants who
wished to go out and search for gold.
“We know our Alaska too well to have the slightest
desire to send a host of inexperienced men into the hills un
less they were sent under the supervision of capable old
timers and engineers. The fact remains that there are
large numbers of men who have prospected and who know
something of geology and mineralogy who are unable to get
into the hills and who are forced to accept some form of
relief or emergency work of highly doubtful values. Many
of these men are costing the government a much larger sum
of money than it would cost to outfit them and transport
them to known mineralized areas of the north and this
money is being expended in a manner which precludes any
possibility of its finding its way back to government coffers.
“An oldtime Alaskan prospector has estimated that
$300 would supply a man with tent, rifle, sleeping bag, tools
and sufficient supplies to last through the average Alaskan
prospecting season providing he was well enough versed in
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the lore of the hills to supplement his grub cache with the
game, fish and berries with which Alaska abounds. Trans
portation for our prospector and his supplies would prob
ably cost another $200 since the airplane has cut the cost
of reaching distant fields in Alaska. Thus for a total cost
of $500 capable men could be put into those sections of Al
aska in which millions have already been expended in geo
logic surveys proving their mineral value.
“In a cryptic paragraph in one of his recent columns
Brisbane said: .
“This country produces fifty million dollars in gold a
year and has a national debt of 27,000 millions. Russia
produces 150 millions a year in gold now, three times as
much as the United States, and the debt that Russia recog
nizes amounts to only 200 million dollars. Those that call
! Russia ‘bankrupt’ should improve their arithmetic.”
“Strange is it not that among all the schemes for meet
ing the tremendous demands on the Federal treasury no
one seems to have thought of producing gold rather than
merely raiding the wealth already produced ? Our an
nual governmental interest bill is now far more than our
entire cost of government totalled but a few short years
ago. We may repudiate, which is unthinkable to every
right minded American, or we may inflate gold to much
higher levels, which is fraught with grave danger, or we
may do the simple and apparently obvious thing, give gen
uine governmental aid to miners and prospectors in the pro
duction of new gold. There is unquestionably gold enough
in Alaska which may be profitably extracted to relieve the
strain on the Federal budget very quickly and at the same
time furnish employment to large numbers of our citizens.”
Business concerns that advertise their merchandise in
this newspaper believe that the best is none too good for
their customers.
Some people spend too much time thinking of their own
importance and greatness with the result that they create
wrinkles on their foreheads and start getting old too soon.
It is a grim fact that those cities who want prosperity in
full measure must work hard to bring it back. The era of
artificiality is past.
It is said that a new era of common sense will soon
be ushered in. However, much sanity and calm thinking is
needed before that happy day arrives.
The greatest need of any city is for its citizens to get
together, think together and work together to make a better,
busier city.
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