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HYDER, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 10,1926
FIFTY CENTS A KGMH
HUGE SURFACE TONNAGE
ON BIG MISSOURI ;
The recent discovery of an- j
other large ore body on the |
Big Missouri has again drawn :
attention to the tremendous
extent of the mineralization
known to exist on that noted
property. So vast is the scope
of the surface mineralization
alone that it is doubtful if min
ing history will reveal a group
of mineral properties which
displayed even an approximat
ion of the huge surface show
ings found on the Big Missouri
group. Conservative estimates
based upon the development
so far done by the Big Missouri
Mining Company, place the
surface tonnage on the Prov
ince claim alone as in excess
of 700,000 tons, all of which
is indicated to be of good
milling grade. Close examin
ation of the claim has reveal
ed that 1500 square feet of its
surface is practically one great
mass of ore, that is known to
range from 20 to 50 feet thick
ove r the greater part of its
area. As the property is very
favorably situated for cheap
mining, there is every expect
ation that the ore can be ex
tracted and reduced at a rela
tively low cost and at a fair
profit. Assuming that the es
timated ore tonnage, contain
in this great ore body is cor
rect this claim alone would j
provide sufficient tonnage of
ore to keep a 200-ton mill in
operation for several yeai-s,
without resource to the high
grade ores found on the E
Pluribus Unum, and other
claims included in the group,
nearly all of which display al
most equally remarkable sur- i
face deposits, which unquest-!
ionably contain many hun
dreds of thousands, of tons of
workable ore.
Advices received by Postmas
er Oren F. Hill announce that
the arrival of the Wales will
be somewhat delayed this
week. sgj$
It is believed from reports
received last week that the de
lay in the vessel’s arrival is
due to an accident to the
motorship Carmen, which has
necessitated the Wales taking
over the run of that vessel.
Advices relative to the acci
dent indicated that the disa
bility of the Carmen was due
to the shifting of a cargo of
10 tons of boiler plate while
the vessel was enroute from
Ketchikan to Craig. The dis
placement of the heavy load
of iron all but precipitated a
disaster through causing the
little vessel to heel over until
it shipped water and was in
danger of sinking.
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The Salthchuck palladium
mine near Ketchikan is pro
ducing ore at the rate of about
350 tons per day. The mine
now yields between 4,000 and
4,500 ounces of palladium per
year, valued at about $80 per
ounce. The mine is the biggest
producer of that metal on the
continent.
MINING AMENDMENT
WOULD SERIOUSLY
HANDICAP PROSPECTORS
Recent Washington reports an
nounce the proposal of a new '
amendment to the mining laws
which would impose serious
hardships on the miner and
prospector by preventing free i
use of surface rights within
the boundaries of mineral lo>
cations in national forest areas,!
I and also prohibit utterly the
use in such areas of all re- j
sources except minerals.
Full details of the proposal
are lacking. The reports state j
however, that the sponsors of j
the proposed legislation are
Secretaries Work and Jardine,
who are said to have request
ed Senator Stanfield, chair-1
man of the Public Lands Com
mittee of the Senate, to intro
duce a measure amending the
present laws in such a way
| chat, locators and owners of
mining claims in the national :
j forests can acquire no surface
rights other than a sufficient
area to work their claims or
mines, and also prohibit pros
pectors entirely from using
any resources other than the |
j minerals found on their prop-1
erties.
The object of the proposal is j
not clear. It is certain, howev- j
| er, that an enactment of this
| character can have no other ef-!
i feet than to impose hardships
of the most inhibitive charac-,
ter on the miners and pros
pectors of this and other Alas
ka mining districts situated1
within the forest areas, and
I should strenuously resisted, in
[ the event that it is actually
embodied in a legislative
measure.
The Idaho Mining Association
is reported preparing to enter j
strong protests against the
proposal.
The Senate Territorial and j
Insular Possessions Committee
has reported favorably on two
Alaska bills by Senator Willis,
of Ohio. One of the measures
would make the Governor and
Secretary of Alaska and also
the Territorial Committeeman
of the minority party members
of the Territorial Canvassing
Board. The other measure
would provide for the deposit
in th U. S. Treasury of moneys
belonging to dead, insane or
missing persons in such cases ;
as where heirs fail to make
claim thereto for a period ox
five years. The Secretary of
! the Interior would adjudge
the 'claims.
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The Sea Level mine, former
I gold producer near Ketchikan,I
| has been purchased by the
Alaska Paper Mills, Inc. which
will use its iron sulphides in
the making of chemical pulp.
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The Alaska Juneau company
has issued a report showing
an operating profit of $30,700
during January.
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Mr. and Mrs Dale. L. Pitt re
turned Thursday from a visit j
j in the south.
! TOM MARQUAM IN RACE
! FOR ALASKA DELEGATE
Thomas A. Marquam, of Fair
banks, one of Alaska’s fore
most lawyers and a resident of
the Territory for nearly 30
years, has entered the race
! for Alaska Delegate to Can*
i gress, according to a recent
announcement. Although nor
mally a regular republican
Judge Marquam, who is un
questionably one of the ablest
men in the Territory, will run
as an Independent.
Although mentioned for some
j time as a possible dark horse
i in the coming race for dele
gate, Judge Marquam’s de
cision to enter the lists is said
to have been brought about
by efforts of prominent citi
| zens of the First Division, who
formed a Citizen’s Club at
Juneau and adopted resolut
i ions requesting Mr. Marquam
to file. Among the number
j mentioned by the Juneau Em
pire as sponsoring the move
ment to induce him to make
; the race were Mayor J. J. Con
nors, foliner mayors E. E. Val
■ entine and I. Goldstream, J. F.
Mullin, vice president of the
1 B. M. Behrends Bank, F. H.
Metzgar, Guy McNaughton,
i Grover C. Winn, H. L. Faulk
; ner, Dr. J. W. Pigg, H Vander
Leest, Hector McLean, N. Ot
Hardy, R. B. Martin, A. F. Mc
j Kinnon, J. L. Gray, U. S. Pul
len, J. A. Davis, H. R. Shepard,
R. E. Robertson, H. H. Post,
B. A. Roselle and others. Fol
1 lowing the endorsement of Mr.
Marquam, steps were taken by
! the club to urge the formation
of Marquam organizations in
other centers in this division.
The Empire states that it is
the hope of the Club to bring
about a close affiliation of
cimlar organizations with a
view to agreeing on a com
plete independent ticket for
the First Division delegation
to the Legislature, to oppose
the ticket filed by the Paul
faction in the republican pri
mary.
Dr. Chas. E. Bunnell, presi
dent of the Alaska Agricultur
al College and School of Mines,
who was looked upon as a
possible candidate for the
delegateship, definitely de
clined to be a candidate when
urged to do so by the Inde
pendent Voters’ League of
Ketchikan.
Vancouver reports announce
that suit has been started In
the Supreme Court Registry
at Vancouver by H. W. M.
Rolston, of Stewart, against
the Porter Idaho Mining Co.!
on the strength of alleged vio
lation by the company of a
contract for the sale of its
stock.
According to the allegations
made by Rolston, the company
permitted sales of stock by
others in violation of an ex
clusive,.privilege held by him
, self as fiscal agent for the
company.
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| Harry Corkill, of Premier, is
back from a visit in the south.
SEATTLE TO HAVE
' WOMAN MAYOR
Radio broadcasts from Seattle
Tuesday evening announced
the election that day of Se
attle’s first woman mayor, in
the person of Mrs. Bertha
K. Landes, present member of
the Seattle City Council. Mrs.
Landes won by the substantial
majority of 5,784 votes over
her opponent, Edwin J. Brown,
present mayoralty incumbent.
The total number of votes
cast was 91,626, of which Mrs.
Landes received 48,705 votes, j
against 42,921 for Mayor j
Brown.
Wpi. Pitt Trimble and Robt. 1
Hesketh, both members of the
Council for many years, were
re-elected.
The city manager plan also
carried by a substantial ma
jority.
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Joseph Simpson, one of the
first candidates Jo file for re
publican nomination to the
House of Representatives in
the April primaries, has an-j
nounced his withdrawal, ac-!
| cording to the Juneau Empire. I
j Simpson was recently arrest-1
i ed and bound over to the j
; grand jury on a charge of at-!
tempting to bribe a juror sib- i
ting in a case in the District j,
Court and as a result has de- j
eided to retire from the race;
for legislative honors.
G. W. Metcalf has succeeded
Norman C. Stines as general
manager of the Fairbanks Ex
ploration Co., which is prepar
ing to undertake vast mining
activities in the Fairbanks
section. Stines, who has been
chiefly instrumental in bring
ing the company’s activi
ties to their present stage of
development, will remain with
the company in the capacity
of consulting engineer, but will
be assigned to exploration
work in other fields, by the
United States Smelting Com
pany, of which the Fairbanks
Exploration Co. is a subsidary.
Metcalf and Stines are slated
to arrive in Fairbanks during
the present month to enable
the former to take over the
management before the open
ing of the working season. i
The new manager has been
associated with the United
States Smelting Co. for years,
in the capacity of manager ai
Kennet, California, and has
been attached to the head ot
fice in Boston.
The program of activities at
Fairbanks is said to include
the construction of seven
dredges, the first of which is
to be in operation in 1928, in
addition to vast ditch building
activities; the erection of a big
power plaint and a system of
transmission lines, and also the
erection of quarters for em
ployees along the creeks, at,
well as the construction of a
model town, which has been
laid out on Garden Island,
across the river from Fair
banks, where the mill and
power plant will also be built.
ALDRICH DECLARES
FOR STATEHOOD
FRANK A. ALDRICH
Senator Frank A. Aldrich,
who has entered into the race
for Delegate to Congress, is to
make his fight for pi-eference
at the forthcoming primaries
squarely upon the platform of
full statehood for Alaska. In
the following declaration of
candidacy, Senator Aldrich
shows by facts and figures his
reasons for believing that the
acquisition of independent
statehood is the answer to
Alaska’s development prob
lems He says:
Entering the Primaries as a
candidate for Delegate to Con
gress on the Republican Tick
et is done with a full know
ledge of the responsibilities.
Thirty-four years a resident of
Alaska, ten years a member of
the Alaska Legislature, and
eight years Chairman of the
Finance Committee in the Ter
ritorial Senate, has given me a
complete understanding of
Alaska’s problems.
Ihe vexatious technicalities
of long distant bureaucratic
government from our National
Capitol is directly or indirect
ly responsible for most of the
problems of non-expansion.
Fourteen years ago Judge
James Wickersham, author of
the Organic Act, speaking to a
joint session of the Alaska
Legislature, at Juneau, Alas
ka, stated in almost the exact
language used by the Supreme
Court of the United States
when handing down the recent
decision on the taxation of the
Fisheries of Alaska, namely ;
The right to impose a prohibi
tory tax if they deemed it
necessary to, preserve the fish
ing industry.
This dual power vested in the
Bureau of Fisheries on the one
side and the Territory of Alas
ka on the other side is con
flicting and can be remedied in
but one way—control through
Statehood.
Alaska has 4,000 miles of
salt water frontage, and 30,
000 miles of estuaries and tide
lands which alone would sus
tain a State. This vast amount
of tidelands under State con
trol would solve the problem
of the governed by the consent
of the governed.
What the people of Alaska
want most of all are facts and
figures.
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INCOME TAX IN
A NUTSHELL
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WHO? Single persons who
I had net income of $1,500 or
more cr gross income of $5,000
or more, and married couples
who had net income of $3 500
' or more or gross income of $5 -
000 or more must file returns.
WHEN? The filing period
ends March 15, 1926.
WHERE? Collector of inter
nal revenue for the district in
which the person lives or has
liis principal place of business.
HOW? Instructions on Form
1040A and 1040; also the law
and regulations.
WHAT? One and one half
per cent normal tax on the first
| $4,000 in excess of the person
al exemptions and credits.
Three per cent normal tax on
the next $4,000. Five per cent
normal tax on the balance of
net income. Surtax on net in
come in excess of $10,000.
The exemptions under the
revenue act of 1926 are $1,5JJ
| for single persons, and $3 500
for married persons living to
gether and heads of families.
In addition a $400. credit i3
.allowed l'or each person de
pending upon and receiving
hi3 chief support from the tax
j payer, if such person is under
18 years of age or incapable
of self-support because men
! tally or physically defective.
The normal tax rate under
the revenue act of 1926 is li/o
per cent on the first $4,000 of
net income in excess of per
sonal exemptions, credit for
dependents, etc., 3 per cent
on the next $4,000 and 5 per
cent on the balance. Under
the preceding act the normal
tax rate was 2 per cent on the
first $4,000 of net income
above the exemptions and
credits; 4 per cent on the next
$4,000 and 6 per cent on the
remaining net income.
All net income up to $5,000
is considered “earned net in
come.” On this amount the
taxpayer is entitled to a credit
of 25 per cent of the amount
of the tax. ’
For example, a taxpayer un
married and with no depend
ents, whose net income for
1925 was $5,000 would pay
without this reduction a tax of
$52.50. His actual tax is $39.
37. From his net income of
$5,000, he is allowed a per
sonal exemption of $1,500; the
tax of 1 Vfe per cent on the re
maining $3,500 is $52.50. One
fourth of this amount, or $13.
13, may be deducted. For the
purpose of computing this
credit, in no case is the net in
come considered to be in ex
cess of $20,000. Under the
revenue act of 1924 the earned
net income was considered
not to be in excess of $10,000.
The term “earned net in
come” is defined as “wages,
salaries, professional fees and
other amounts received for
personal services actually
rendered.”