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Established 1924
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Nebraska Making
Notable Experiment
The results of Nebraska’s re
cent decision to abolish the
two-house legislative system
and establish a “unicameral”
legislature will be watched
with close interest by political
students throughout the nation
and may be the forerunner of
numerous similar changes in
present legislative methods, in
cluding those of the federal
government.
Suggested by Senator George
Norris, who considers it the
most important achievement oi
his long and distinguished po
litical career, the voters of Ne
braska endorsed the one-house
proposal by a majority of 85,
000 in the recent state elect
ion; wiping out the state sen
ate elf 33 members and the
house of representatives, with
100 members, and substituting
for both a single legislative
body of 50 members.
The experiment is given add.
ed interest by reason of the
fact that Senator Norris has in
timated an intention to ask
Congress to reorganize its sen
ate and house into a single
body.
Norris, whose lame-duck
amendment to the Constitution
was one of the most important
and far-reaching legislative
changes in our history, holds
under the bicameral or two
hou-e system there are actual
ly three houses, the third being
the conference committee,
which whips into final ^shape
all legislation on which there
is disagreement between the
two houses and usually in
cludes all important legisla
tion. The conference com
mittee frequently returns a
piece of legislation bearing lit
tle resemblance to that origin
ally passed and more often
than not it i? accepted without
protest by both legislative
branches.
Norris contends that the uni
cameral system will eliminate
such proceedure and make the
machinery of government more
responsive to popular will.
The Nebraska experiment
should possess particular inter
Ickes Considering Nome
Rehabilitation Needs
Recommendations 'for the re
construction of Nome, insofar
as the Public Works Adminis
tration is concerned, have been
placed on the desk of Adminis
trator Ickes by Col. Elmer W.
Clark, who recently visited the
fire-razed town, according to a
statement from the Washing
ton office of Alaska Delegate
A. J. Dimond.
Col. Clark, who is an execu
tive assistant of the PWA, be
lieves $275,000 ought to be ex
pended in the construction of
a Federal building. Estimates
are that the municipality will
require $150,000 in the form of
a loan for various projects.
Delegate Dimond is actively
cooperating with Col. Clark
and other PWA offi< ;als so
that approval of the program
may be expedited.
Not only is Mr. Dimond tak
ing an active part with respect
to securing the purely federal
allotment, but he will prepare
and hasten through Congress a
bill authorizing Nome to issue
bonds. This will be done when
the Nome city government has
decided on the exact needs.
During the course of his trip
to Alaska Col.Clark took occas
ion to make a general study of
conditions there. He is con
vinced that Territorial devel
opment will be materially hast
ened b y preparation and
adoption of a road program ex
tending over a period cif years
and airways aids.
1 Much Activity in Good
News Bay Placer Area
Platinum placers in the Good
! News Bay region near the
j mouth of the Kuskokwim river
1 were centers o'f considerable
development activity this year,
according to reports received
in Juneau.
Six outfits had men in the
| field during the past season
I and some, placers have been
; producing, at least one profit
I ably. This one was that cf the
j Northern Development Com
; pany, an Alaska-owned firm.
A drag line outfit and 15
men were employed in work
ing the ground.
! est for Alaskans owing to the
fact that one member of the
present Territorial legislature,
, Representative Joe Green, of
j H.vder, has long advocated a
similar legislative .system for
the Territory through the abo
lition o'f the senate, which he
contends is an unnecessary
legislative appendage that or
iginates little important legis
lation but habitually exercises
an unwarranted, dominating
i and frequently reactionary in
fluence over house legislation.
His views are shared by many
i others who point out that all
too often the upper house and
i its eight members have dis
j played a marked penchant for
preventing legislation unfavor
j able to powerful special inter
| ests.
Alaska Juneau Has Produced
Over SO Million Tons of Ore
During the forty years cf its
existence the great Alaska Jun
eau mine at Juneau, the largest
low grade mine in the world,
has yielded 48,627,978 tons of
ore and metal values totaling
nearly 37 million dollars ac
cording to figures presented
recently in the Juneau Alaska
Empire.
The exact value of the min
erals produced was $36,841,
856, of which gold represented
slightly over $25,000,000, the
remainder being made up of
silver and lead values.
During the first two decades
of operation both operations
and production were on a limit
ed scale, as indicated by the
fact that no more than 507,
254 ton? of ore was mined;
from which was recovered
gold to the value of $707,730
Since 1913, production has
steadily increased as the com
pany expanded its mining and
milling capacities, until the
production of ore last year
amounted to 4,102,000 tons;
from which was recovered
gold silver and lead valued at
$3,187,000.
Over the entire period of the
mine’s productive existence the
ore values have averaged only
$1 per gross ton of ore pro
duced.
The underground workings of
the mine comprise about 50 ;
miles of drifts, crosscuts, raises!
and other subterranen excava
tions. The payroll shows a per
sonnel cif 746 employees daily
and the annual local expendi-!
tures average slightly less than '
$2,000,000.
Additional ere bodies of
large extent were discovered
beneath the original ore depos
three years ago and have de
veloped commercial ere in
quantities sufficient to add
many years to the productive
life of the property. Ore is
now being produced from this
new ground and is said to av
erage considerably better per
ton than the ore worked dur
ing the past forty years.
o
Canada Yields Largs Output
Of Platinum Metals, 1933
Canada produced last year
55,795 fine ounces of platinum,
palladium and other platinum
group metal?, valued at $1,
502,633, as against 64,956 fine
ounces in 1932.
The output came almost en
tirely from the copper-nickel
ores of the Sudbury district oi
northern Ontario.
Of the platinum production I
last year, Ontario contributed ,
24,746 ounces and British Col- j
umbia 40 ounces. Ontario also |
produced 31,000 fine ounces of
palladium, rhodium and irid-1
ium.
World consumption of these
metals last year was estimated
to have been about 175,000
fine ounces.
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