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AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER
DEMOCRATIC PARTY
RECOGNITION OF
MINING IMPORTANT
Recognition of the mining in
dustry by the Democratic nat
ional convention denotes that
the great importance of the in
dustry in our industrial and
economic life is at last becom
ing more appreciated than ev
er before in our history.
Despite the fact that the min
ing industry is the primary
basis of our tremendous in
dustrial growth during the past
twenty-five years, it has never
before been accorded even
slight recognition by any of the
great political parties in con
vention.
Throughout the years the
dominant parties in con
vention assembled have rec
onized and endorsed about
everything under the sun in
their platforms, but never the
industry, which more than al.
others has made the United
States the greatest manufact
uring nation the world has
ever seen.
Just why this has been the
case is difficult to fathom. To
our view it appears that such
an attitude can scarcely be at
tributed to oversight or lack
of recognition of the import
ance mining has played in the
nation’s development. What
ever the reason, it must be
looked upon as one of the
rankest cases of discrimination
and injustice ever displayed in
our political history. That the
Democrats have recognized
the fact is amply indicated by
the terms of the platform
adopted by the Houston con
vention, reading as follows:
"Mining is one of the basic
industries of this country. We
produce more coal .iron and
copper than any other country.
The value of our mineral pro
duction is second only to agri
culture. Mining has suffered
like agriculture and from simi
lar causes. It is the duty of
our government to foster this
industry and to remove the re
strictions that destroy its pros
perity.”
THE CHAIN IDEA
IN MINING
(Mining Truth)
Several corporations recently
organized have adopted the
“law of averages” as a basis
for mineral development. This
is a logical outgrowth of fi
nancing, and it is somewhat
strange that the mining indust
ry has been so many years
later than the mercantile, pub
lishing, banking and public
service worlds in making use
of it. Probably the recent
growth in America of “invest
ment trusts” had something to
do with the application of the
idea, to mining. Britain has
long had the “investment
trust,” and also antedated the
United States in expansion of
chain mining and banking en
terprises.
The theory simply is that
several mines are safer than
i single mine. The Newmont
company of William Boyce
Thompson is known to have
made considerable profits out
of investments in Noranda,
Flin Flon, Texas Gulf Sulphur
and other operations. Large
corporations such as the Ana
conda, Kennecott, Consolidat
ed, Bunker Hill, Hecla, Fed
eral, etc., have consistently fol
lowed the practice of placing
part of their profits in new de
velopment enterprises. Several
smaller companies, such as
Montana-Idaho, Lucky Five,
Rainbow, Boundary Consoli
dated, Dakota-Montana, etc.,
have evolved into owners of
more than one property.
Within the past few years
: he principle has been applied
to groups of partly developed
or undeveloped mines, and
concerns have been organized
like Associated Metals, Fed
earted Metals, Canadian Mines
Merger, Diversified Mines,
Chain of Mines, Western Con
solidated Mines. Now comes
announcement from Denver of
the organization of a Delaware
corporation called Speculative i
Mineral Shares Company. Min
ing Truth knows nothing about
the company itself. It is quite
likely that the new tendency
ivill bring out some concerns .
of a questionable nature—
probably half,of the so-called
“investment trusts" are really
not investments. The develop
ment is important, however,
and it may bring the solution
of the problem of the small
mine which needs compara
tively small capital, not enough
to interest the ordinary pro
motion or financing house.
NO SHORT CUTS
TO SUCCESS.
Lillian Gish, famous screen
actress, recently remarked
that it takes ten years of hard
work to build up a large fol
lowing and to make people de
mand a name or face in the
films; She speaks from person
d 1 experience and from a
knowledge of the experience
of other screen folk.
Here is a riluation not limit
ed alone t > movie stars. Doc
tors and lawyers frequently
justify their ices by the years
they spent n. study and in
building up a paying practice.
It is not ; illy in fiction and
the movies that young artists
starve in attics. Henry Ford
struggled along for years be
fore Dame Fortune favored
him. And his experience has
been that of the founders of
most of the country’s great
industries.
Successful merchants often at
tribute their business achieve
ments to early years of strug
gle just one jump ahead of
the sheriff. Their businesses
rest on solid foundations usual
ly laid by years of hard work
and extensive advertising.
Stores and other business ent
erprises do not win public con
fidence and widespread pa
tronage by lottery.
The larger rewards of screen
stars, professional men and
successful business men are
vindicated by the years of
self-sacrificing toil expended
in winning them. Part of their
income is back-pay. Many in
dividuals and business enter
prises fail today because they
are unwilling to pass through
that formative period of hard
knocks and hard work. The
world wasn’t built in a day,
and great careers and monu
mental commercial enterprises
are not produced by the wave
of a wand.
Just for Fun
The fellow who is content
with little usually gets less.
A physician says that most of
the world’s work is done by
morons. We did not realize be
fore that they were such use
ful members of society.
After a wedding in New
York we are told that a “res
olution followed at the home
of the bride’s parents.” Doubt
less a resolution on the part
of the bride to be the boss.
“Smoke is waste,” says an ap
peal for smokeless cities. It
ivill be if science succeeds in
extracting the nicotine from
tobacco.
Lodger (shaking the door) —
How long are you going to be
n that bathroom?
Man Inside—Oh, about five
’eet nine.
Mother (to small daughter
lust home from a visit): “I am
eorry to say your aunt gives' a
very poor account of you:
‘Naughty, untidy, unpunctual,
untruthful, inclined to imp—’”
Daughter: "Did auntie really
write all that?”
Mother: “Yes.’ *
Daughter, sadly: “What a
thing to say to a child’s own
mother!”—Ex.
I
Judge—“Have you ever been
up before me?’’
Accused—“I don’t know.
What time do you get up?”
“I’ve never kissed a girl in
all my life,” remarked the
painfully proper young man.
“Well, don’t come buzzing
around me,” announced the
little flapper. “I’m not run
ning a prep school.”
Nowadays V(hen a girl gets
her neck broken in an auto
mobile we don’t know whether
the car was wrecked or not.
She: “Whose little boy are
you?”
Sophisticated Willie: “Be
yerself; whose sweet mama
are you?”
He: “You must economize!
Think of the future. If I were
to die, where would you be?”
She: “I should be here all
right. The question is—where
would you be?”
Sunday school teacher: “And
so the angel with the flaming
sword drove Adam and Eve
out of the garden.”
Little Andock: “What kind of
a car did he have?”
“Is this the Weather Bureau?
How about a shower tonight?”
“How should I know? Go
ahead and take one if you need
it. ”
Bandit (to bank teller): And
get a move on you! Don’t you
know I can only park my car
out there for fifteen min
utes?”—Ex.
I shall die,” moaned the
suitor, “unless you marry me.”
"I fim sorry, but I must re
fuse,” and then to make his
vow true, he died—sixty-three
years, five months and ten
days later.
Teacher: “In which of his
battles was King Gustavus
Adolphus of Sweden slain?"
Pupil: “I’m pretty sure it was
the last one."
“How does it feel to be mar
rying an heiress?”
“Great! Every time I kiss her
I feel as if I were clipping the
coupon off a government
bond.”
Heard on the Side—He: “Be
fore we get married I must
tell you that I am a somnambu
list.”
She: "That’s all right—you
can go to your church and I’ll
go to mine.”
“He put on speed, thinking
he could beat the train to it.”
“Did he get across?”
“He will as soon as the tomb
stone maker has it finish
ed.”—Ex.
Professor: “Can you give me
an example of a commercial
appliance used in ancient
times?”
Student: “Yes. sir,; the loose
leaf system used in the Garden
of Eden.”
Judge—“I fine you $1.10 for
beating your wife.”
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PORTLAND CANAL LODGE
1218
LOYAL ORDER OF MOOSE
Meets Second and Fourth
Thursdays
Second Thursday in Hyder
Fourth Thursday in Stewart
GEORGE 6. GRIGSGY
Attorney - at - Law
KETCHIKAN. ALASKA
Prisoner—“I don’t object to
the dollar, but what’s the ten
cents for?”
Judge—“That’s the federal
tax on amusements.”
Housewife: “We are going to
get an electric washer, so we
won’t need you any more.”
Laundress: “All right, lady,
but an electric washer don’t
give you no gossip.”
Stockings made from hand
made Belgian lace are said to
be worth $500 a pair—and
stockins are going still higher.
“Need any more talent for
your moving picture dramas?”
“We might use you. Had any
experience at acting without
audiences?”
“Acting without audiences is
what brought me here.”
PROFESSIONAL
JAMES ROBINSON, M. D.
Honor Graduate University of Manitoba
Office at Stewart, B. C.
Over Burns Meat Market
Phone. 14
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FRANK A. METCALF
CIVIL & MINING ENGINEER
U. S. MINERAL SURVEYOR
JUNEAU ALASKA
John Hovland
MINING
Hyder, Alaska
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NOTARY PUBLIC
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