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Nome, Alaska, February 15, 1017.
’RICES.
The high cost of living is to be
probed. When the democratic ad
ministration faces an inevitable
evil, it sticks its head in the sand
and orders a probe. It has discov
ered that inaction is just as effec
tive as action, and there is nothing
very difficult about watchfully wait
ing while an investigation is in pro
gress.
Without wasting much time or,
this new system of meeting political
questions, we may roughly say that
high prices are inevitable. Tilt
prices have to overcome a good
many costs which have been artifi
cially injected into the production
and distribution of commodties, and
although it is supposed that prices
will circulate above and below the
values of the articles according as
the supply is in proportion to the
demand, the great interests in the
commercial and industrial world
have such a lead pipe cinch upon
the circulation of commodities that
the law of supply and demand is
naturally interfered with. They
use it for their own ends.
Anybody can ‘still whiskey. The
labor cost if such were allowed free
and unlicensed production would be
little over 25 cents a gallon. But
when the government steps in with
costly excise regulations, licenses
and revenues to be paid by those
g.-.lions of hootch, the manufacture
is naturally restricted. The supply
• is decreased and the demand sets up
the price. It lias no relation what
« ver to the labor values within the
gallon of hootch.
What is taking place in the indus
trial world is somewhat similar.
Croat profits are to be made; great
dividends, rents, salaries of manage
ment and so forth have to be forth
coming. Railroad rates are in
creased, transportation fees are lar
ge and above all control is cen
tralized. The natural movement of
supply is interfered with. Demand
is intensified onl up go the prices.
It is obvious to any person that
were society engaged in purely pro
ductive occupations, positively would
it be necessary for wages and lienee
values in products to equate the
price. Only in such a way would
The consuming capacity he kept
up, and only in this way would the
wealth of the country be maintained
through labor production. It would
lie from this labor of a productive
nature that the means of paying
dividends, rents, interests, profits
and all the other incidentals would
be forthcoming.
But what actually is happening
is that the country is engaged in in
dustries which are to a very great
extent strictly non-productive. They
are non-productive in the sense that
they provide neither the means, lux
urious or necessitous, of 1 lie people
feeding, clothing or sheltering them
selves. They are engaged in in
dustries as strictly non-productive
as is the war in Europe. They
build shipyards for war vessels;
they make shells, guns, armor plate
battleships, explosives, war planes
automobiles and a hundred othei
things which keep millions busy ai
strictly non-productive labor. Tht
productive workers must feed anc
clothe them; they in turn must pay
the productive workers for thai
feeding and clothing. The money
for that comes from the accumu
lated gold of Europe. That golc
while it may have been worth 2J
per cent more ten years ago, and ii
the very same gold that was ex
tractcd from mines at that time, ii
worth today exactly what the laboi
cost of gold production in the aver
age mine of today. That is to say
sum up the total gold production to
day and find its net cost per uni
of the metal, and we have the valui
of gold which will find expressioi
not in terms Of dollars and cents
-which have a gold unit of price am
it would be ridiculous to speak o
an ounce of gold being worth ai
ounce of gold, but in the other com
modifies l'or which it is exchanged.
It is manifest that labor taken
from productive operations and paid
in gold will have to pay more for
the products of the farm and field
and productive factory than other
wise. So apart altogether from
monkeying with the supply as so
many speculators and trusts un
questionably, do, all food commodi
ties on account of industrial condi
tions must show an increased price.
There is no such thing as curing
this condition. The chief reason
there is no cure for this condition
is that it is inherent in the capital
ist system. It may be improved by
| wages being raised to meet higher
< osts of living as does to some ex
1 tent actually take place. But the
' system itself responds with a general
j increase in prices which in turn is
! proportional to the increased gen
1 < ral wage increase leaving the con
• dition the same, or the standard ol
living for the workers lowered.
The values that exchange come
out of labor. They come out ol
labor in the mine in the field, in the
factory. The measure of that value
is the labor time cost of production.
To secure millions for the speculat
or and the trusts however, prices
| are increased beyond the actual va
| lues and to produce actual values
to pay for these millions, labor has
to be intensively exploited. So labor
• saving machinery does no good. La
j bor saving machinery leaves the
| workers’ pay the same, and ex
' pands the employers’ profits. Those
i profits are so huge because of an
intensively and efficient labor explo
itation. Prices are maintained that
profit: may be huger.
It is because of the wonderful
productivity of labor and especially
i labor applied to machinery, immense
I profits are possible and immense
I prices can be charged. It is alt
j actually unpaid labor in one field
1 or another. Put if the common
j w.ialth took charge of the various
I activities eliminating the necessity
j for profit, interest and rent the so
cial requirements would be satisfied
with loss labor and without waste.
Suppose the people had the cot
ton, the farming, the textile and all
other necessary industries in their
! hands tomorrow. The elimination
j of the profits of speculators, ot
i landlords, of privately owned rail
' roads, of tlie trusts, the great dis
tributors and transportation BriUb
would be assured. With the elimi
nation of these things, one human
activity would exchange with an
other at its actual value. The time
spent at one industry needed by so
ciety would be promply repaid bj
the product of the labor time ac
tually taking part in another. There
would be no idlers to be maintained
Parasitism would not add to the
cost of living. Labor of brain and
brawn would be equitably rewarded
The social leisure now impossible
in order to pay the toll of parasitic
idleness would be Immensely in
creased, and with that leisure, in
tellectual and moral progress wouh
be a certainty. Giant strides would
he a positive prediction in all lines
and sympathy and humanity wouk
be the watchword of society. There
j would be still perjfcnal grievance!
! a.nd griefs and family troubles ant
heartaches and trifles of that kind
But there would be no poverty ant
destitution and inhumanity. Then
would be no wars. There would b<
no insecurity for the future. Olt
age would not mean starvation foi
i Ihe toilers. Sickness would b<
properly and scientifically minister
i ed to. The world would become cl
' vilized. But against this stands th<
collosus of the Money Power ant
Private Property which human be
ings have erected themselves to hor
rify and terrify and to prevent rea
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Why? Because they do the bes
work, and* are the only pionee
tailors In Nome.
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NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
To G. R. Jackson, M. E. Jackson, R.
W. Jackson. W. C. Jackson, F. G.
Jackson and John Nelson, your
heirs, executors, assigns, succes
sors or personal representatives:
You and each of you are hereby
notified that the undersigned has ex
pended in labor and improvements
the sum of one hundred dollars each
year for the years 1914. 1915, 1916
on Aksala Association Placer Min
ing claim situated on Cunningham
creek and recorded and more fully
described in Yol. 190 on Page 316
in the Records of the Cape Nome
Mining and Recrding District, Se
cond Division, Territory of Alaska.
The above amount has been ex
pended under the provisions of the
laws concerning annual labor upon
mining claims, being the amount re
quired to hold said claim.
And you and each of you are
further notified that if within ninety
days after the last publication of
this notice you fail to contribute
your proportion of said expenditure
your interest in said claim will be
come the property' of the under
signed your co-owner under section
2324 Revised Statutes of the United
States.
JAMES FRAWLEY.
Co-Owner.
| Date of first publ., Feb. 1, 1917.
Date of last publ., May 3, 1917.
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR
PATENT.
Iii the United States Land Office at
.Nome, Alaska, January 25, 1917..
Notice is hereby given, that
Nicholas J. Butler, a citizen of the
United States, over the age of 21
years, whose jiost office address is
Nome, Alaska, has made application
before the U. S. Land Office at Nome
Alaska, for a Unitea States Patent
for No. 5 on Specimen Gulch Placer
Claim in the Cape Nome Recording
1 District, Alaska, being Mineral
I Survey No. 1191; said claim being
i more particularly described in the.
! field notes and plat of the official
I survey thereof now on tile in said
Land Office at Nome, Alaska, as fol
lows:
Beginning at Cor. 1, identical with
I (’or. 1 Kathleen Claim, Sur. No.
1157, Cor. 4. of No. 13 Dexter Creek
Sur. No. 41S and Cor. 2, Bella Frac
tion, Sur. 478; a fir post 4 ins. sq.
2 ft. above ground, in earth mound
scribed 1-1157 K, 4-41S, 2-47S B. F.
land 1-1191 5 S. whence U. S. L. M.
No. 4 bears N. 7S deg. 50 min. 5
E. 5467.5 ft. U. S. Geological
Monument on King Mt. bears N.
26 deg. 29 min. E. thence S. 87 deg.
04 min. W. Var. 18 deg. 35 min. E.
1171.00 ft. to Cor. No. 2; thence N.
2 deg. 11 min. E. Var. 19 deg. 15
min. E. 357.60 ft. to Cor. No. 3;
thence N. 0 deg. 02 min. E. Var. 19
deg. 15 E. 332.80 ft. to Cor. No. 4;
thence S. 89 deg. 12 min. E. Var. 19
deg. 15 min. E. 1071.00 ft. to Cor.
No. 5; thence S. 7 deg. 54 min. E.Var
19 deg. 05 min. E. 622.30 ft. to place
of beginning containing 16.767
acres. Said claim is situated upon
unsurveyed ground about 6 miles
N. N. E. from the town of Nome,
Alaska.
U. S. L. M. No. 4 is a limestone
block, about 4 ft.x6 ft.x6ft. high,
chiseled U. S. L. M. No. 4 on top
surface, with mound of earth on
same, situated on the south or right
bank of Dexter Creek about 140 ft.
south of same and 1000 ft. westerly
from mouth of Joe Gulch in Lat. 64
deg. 35 min. N. Long. 165 deg. 19
min. W. in Cape Nome Recording
District, Alaska.
The Location is recorded in Vol.
16 Page 6} of the records of said
district. The adjoining claims arc
on the north, unknown; on the
south Kathleen, Sur. 1157, Franl<
1 Dolan, claimant; on the East Bella
Fraction, Sur. 478, Pioneer Minin.f
Co. owner and on west No. 4 Spe
cimen Gulch unsurveyed, claimani
' unknown.
There are no conflicting claims.
G. A. AD.VMS.
Register.
Date of first publ, Jan. 2 7, 1917.
Date of.last publ., March 28, 1917.
No. 0308.
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR
PATENT.
In the United States Land Office at
Nome, Alaska, December 16, 1916.
Notice is hereby given, that Isaac
L. Osgood, Estate (Heirs, Cora and
Elmer Osgood and Mrs. Mamie Os
good) By W. P. Bell and Seattle
National Bank, Trustees and Floyd j
W. Osgood, By Fred. R. Cowden i
their Attorney in Fact, whose Post j
Office address is Nome, Alaska, and
on behalf of Co-Owner Ellis E.
Powell, has made application before
the United States Land Office at
Nome, Alaska, for a United Stales
Patent for Discovery Claim and No.
1 Above Discovery on Lake Creek
in the Cape Nome Recording Dis
trict, Alaska, being Mineral Survey
No. 1175, said claims being more
particularly described in the field
notes and plat of the official survey
thereof now on file in said Land
Office at Nome, Alaska, as follows,
to-wit:
DISCOVERY CLAIM.
Beginning at Cor. 1 identical with
S. W. Loc. Cor. with Cor. 4 of No.
2 below on Saturday Creek, Sur.
695, a fir post 4 ins. sq. 2 ft. above
ground in earth mond scribed 1-747,
4-695, 1-1175, D. U. S. L. M. No.
11 bears S. 14 deg. 05 min. E.
4110.0 ft. thence N. 20 deg. 16 min.
W. Var. 19 deg. 00 min. E. 665.00
ft. to Cor. No. 2; thence N. 9 deg.
57 min. E. Var. 19 deg. 15 min. E.
209.40 ft. to Cor. No. 3; thence N.
69 deg. 45 min. E. Var. 19 deg. 10
min. E. 670.00 ft. to Cor. No. 4;
thence S. 3 deg. 28 min. E. Var.
19 deg. 15 min. E. 317.40 ft. to
Cor. No. 5; thence S. 64 deg. 43
min. W. Var. 19 deg. 15 min. E.
386.SO ft. to Cor. No. 6; thence S.
45 deg. 53 min. W. Var. 19 deg. 25
min. E. 273.SO ft.; thence S. 13
deg. 25 miu. E. Var. 19 deg. 05 min.
E. 400.80 ft. to place of begining,
containing 5.908 acres.
NO.' ONE ABOVE DISCOVERY.
Beginning at Cor. No. 1 identical
with loc. cor. on line 1-6 of Sur. No.
747 No. 1 Above Discovery on
Wonder Creek and with Cor. No. 2
Discovery claim this survey, previ
ously described, U. S. L. M. No. 11
bears S. 14 deg. 57 min. E. 4771.60
ft.; thence N. 20 deg. 16 min. W.
Var. 19 deg. 15 min. E. 960.50 ft.
to Cor. No. 2; thence S. 4 8 deg. 26
min. W. Var. 19 deg. 15 min. E.
225.20 ft. to Cor. No. 3; thence N.
31 deg. 20 min. E. Var. 19 deg. 00
min. E. 269.40 ft. to Cor. No. 4;
thence S. 36 deg. 42 min. E Var. 19
deg. 10 min. E. 647.00 ft. to Cor No.
5; thence S. 31 deg. 00 min. E.
Var. 19 deg. 30 min. E. 1240.00 ft.
to Cor. No. 6; thence S. 69 deg. 4 5
jmin. W. Var. 19 deg. 15 min. E.
j 670.00 ft. to Cor. No. 7; thence S.
9 deg. 57 min. W. Var. 19 deg. 10
j min. E. 209.40 ft. to place of be
ginning, containing 16.656 acres.
Said claims are situated on un
surveyed ground on Lake Creek
about 4.5 miles north of the Town
of Nome, in the Cape Nome Record
ing District, Alaska.
U. S. Location Monument No. 11
to which said claims are tied, is a
fir post 6 ins. sq. 5 ft. above ground
in stone mound 3 ft. high 6 ft. base
scribed U. S. L. M. No. 11, is situat
ed about 2.75 miles Northeasterly
from mouth of Snake River and
about 70 ft. east of the Bessie road.
Is in Latitude 64 deg. 32 min*. North
Longitude 165 deg. 22 min. West.
Original locations recorded in Vol.
99 Page 445 and 16 Page 116 and
Amended locations recorded in Vol.
165 Page 225 and Vol. 199 rage
85, Records of Cape Nome Record
ing District, Alaska.
The adjoining claims are: On the
North No. 2 Above on Lake Creek,
Survey No. 698 and Gold Bug Claim
Survey No. 434; on the East un
surveyed; on the South No. 1
Below on Saturday Creek Sur. No.
1117 and No. 2 Below on Saturday
Creek, Sur. No. 695; on the West,
No. 1 Above on Wonder Creek Sur.
No. 747. There are no conflicting
claims.
G. A. ADAMS.
Register.
Date of first publ., Dec. 20; 1916.
Date of last publ., Feb. 21, 1917.
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