THE AVALANCH
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OUR HOWD’Y-DO
With this, the initial number,
t he Ayalanck makes it’s bow to
the people of the Copper Rivet
Valley. Our excuse for launch
i ng this small sheet with a large
name is not political, as we are
non-partisan, but the need o:;
some periodical for the richest
mineral belt in Alaska has long
been felt and we hope to till tl e
need. AVe will try to truthfully
boost our section. We have no
enemies that we know of, no axe
to grind and no one to knoc1 .
We are going to try to run the
(-leanest and best little paper in
Alaska and we want the support
of every mac in this part of the
country. Alteady we have re
reived more advertising than we
cm a ecu mod ate and if business
keeps up ■ t the present gut we
will enl i rge the plant. AYe have
arranged to receive the associ
ated pr* ss soon. The editor of
this sheet is from Wyoming
where newspaper men are oitei
kille 1 for th >ir public utteranc. s.
Being used to this style he in
quests those aggrieved by any
thing in the personal columns’
to call Sund .ys when lie is not
busy. Ten c nits a copy, the
ushers will wait on you as you
pass oat. Thank you.
England has made public the
names of 75 Americm business
firms forbidding trade with
t hem.
A bataUion of 500 women, dril
led and disciplined, is ready in
New York for work at the front
if called to Mexico.
Some of our mail routes cost
the government $100,000 yearly
to maintain, how many aero
planes would this build?
And now they are yelling that
if Hughes is the choice of Uncle
Sammy this fall, the bloomin’
foreigners will quit kicking his
hound around.
Passenger traffic to Alaska in
Jan. 1916 was greater by 26 per
cent than for the months of Jan.
and Feb. 1915, which shows a
good share of the American peo
ple are coming north.
Equal in area to about nine
of our larger states Alaska has
about 900 miles of wagon roads
and less than 500 miles of rail
road, all gagues. Many counties
in the states can boast of great
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er mileage in either.
If asked what waters our larg
est fleet of merchant vessels ply
irg h >me waters traverse, most
Americans would name any place
but the right one. Few would
answer that we are employing
more in the Alaskan trade than
elsewhere.
A Philadelphia, Pa. man offers
to manufacture five billion in
gold bullion chirgin the govern
ment ten cents on the dollar and
then forget the formula. Well!
we cm keep on digging copper
i! some cheechako doesn’t find
some fool way to manufacture it.
When Fighting Bob Evans en
tored a fashionable church and
got into the wrong pew, a swell
guy entered and gazed at Bob
for a minute then wrote on a
c ird “I pay $2000. yearly for
nut pew.” Bob sea wind on tie
s me curd “you piy too G
D-mueh’’ and i eturned t e
card. When we bought Alas a
or two cen*s an acre Greel >y
siid something very similar to
Bob’s reply.
TUNGSTEN TEST
By a quick method is that of
W. L. Faust, of Dead wood, S. P.
He uses fusion-powder con
taining potassium chlorate, pot
assium nitrate, sodium carbon
ate and sugar. Taking about 1
gram of this powder mix with
an equal amount of crushed ore
(if the ore is low grade use pan
nings) an almost instantaneous
fusion is affected by applying a
match. The result of the fusion
is a granular mass, which is rub
bed a moment in an agate mor
tar then placed in a test tube
with hydrochloric acid and sheet
or granulated zinc. A little boil
ing will yield a blue colored sol
ution if tungsten is present.
The test is one that can easily be
made in the field; the equipment
necessary to conduct it can be
carried in a coat pocket and it
no doubt will be widely used by
prospectors.
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