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“WHAT THE
PUBLIC WANTS’
“Daily newpapers throughout
the country have in recent
months adopted a tone much
more friendly to the mining
industry. It is true that much
of the matter they have pub
lished deals with the romantic
rather than the practical side,
but that is only natural,” says
Mining Truth.
“Because of the publicity
that attached to Weepah, al
most any mineral discovery
nowadays can get a minute on
the telegraph wires, and a
few inches of news space—
often on Page One. The daily
newspapers have handled tht
Oregon tin exiitement, the
gold rushes at Republic ana
Sprague River, the ore strikes
in a number of Northwest op
erating mines, in a manner
that could not have been hop
ed for a year ago.
“Weepah bears the earmarks
of a “manufactured boom,” tc
the extent that the space given
to it was out of all proportion
to the actual importance or
the ore discovered. But the
newspapers have learned b>
experience that having “made'
a news subject they can’t un
make it. Their readers won’t
let them.
“The newspapers “made” the
reputation of Roosevelt, ot
Billy Sunday, of BaTre Ruth, ol
Bryan and LaFollette ana
many a lesser man. They havt
created the legend of Calvn
Coolidge as a “strong, silem
man” in the White House.
Whenever they have popular
ized a individual they have,
been unable to ignore the pub
lic demand for news aboui
him.
“So with an industry. What
ever Weepah may produce ir
gold, it has produced a public
demand for news of mining—
a demand which keen nc.v
editors on the press associat
ions and the large dailies hav<
recognized, and which they
are now duty bound to satisfy.”
SOME FOOD FOR THOUGH!
William Wrigley, Jr., tickeleo
a chord with a bunch of news
paper reporters when he said.
‘’Don’t invest in mining
stocks,” and then added, “i
own stock in a number of good
mines but Ihe ordinary per
i-on should not own mining
stocks.”
| I suppose “the ordinary per
sons” should buy chewing gum
and let Wrigley buy mining
stocks and enjoy the income
for he says he owns stock in
a number of good mines.
Thi3 interview which has
been going the rounds of the
eastern newspapers in various
forms, took place at the time
200,000 people watched the
marathon swim from Wrig
ley’s Island off the coast of
California, to the mainland.
These 200,000 sightseers spen+|
more than $10 each on the
island to give Mr. Wrigle>
?2,000,000 of which he gave
away $40,000 (2 per cent) in
prize money.
The details of that swimming
■natch are immaterial, and
while the newspapers that are
lominated by the banking in
terests throughout the east
ire using it as a “knock” at
mining, there is an undercut
ent that carries much gooo
:ood for thought, when he
added, “I own stock in a num
her of good mines—but the
ordinary persons should not.’
Mow, why? For the life of me,
' can not see why the ordinary
tersons should not own stock
n good mines just as well as
Mr. Wrigley. His own stale
nent is a contradiction. Should
he “ordinary person” bu>
.hewing gum, and do as Wrig
!ey advises, or do as Wrigle>
does?
Eastern bankers, capitalists
and rich men have been so lib
eral with the free advice,
“Don’t invest in mines,” that
they have got the eastern news
paper reporters echoing it—
>arrot like. Many of the news
paper publishers in their ig
noiance of facts probably be
lieve that it is good advice.—
Laton Balliet in the Western
Miner.
Just for Fun
_
“The sins of the fathers shall
be visited upon the children
even unto the third and fourth
generations,” says the Good
Book. Ditto war taxes.
“Mary may be as pretty as
a picture said Dumbdora’s kia
brother, “but gee, what a
frame.”
Mr. Newly Wed: “I’m just
going for a swim, dear.”
Mrs. Newly Wed: “Oh, do be
careful, dear; remember we’vt
got return tickets.”
Overheard in The Townsite
‘My husband is the most unob
servant man. He can talk to a
i woman for a half hour and
\ never notice a thing she has
on.”
“Just like my husband. The
less they have on the more lie
; notices them.”
I “Want to buy a mule, Sam,”
“What ails de mule,”
“Nothing.”
“Then w'hat you sellin’ him
fo’?”
“Nothing.”
“I’ll take him.”
There’s joy a-plenty in this
world
To fill life’s silver cup,
If you’ll only keep the corners
Of your mouth turned up.
I y
“This government report
i dates that the life of a papet
dollar is only seven or eight
I months.”
1 “Well, I have never haa
j one die on my hands.”
. •
Headlines You’ll Never See
i “Sells Ford to Pay Accounts.’
‘Local Banker Makes Hole-in
! me; Keeps Fact a Secret.”
i “Man Kills Self Because Short
Skirts Are Stylish This Fall.’’
! “Taxi-cab Driver Grants Driv
;r of Private Car The Right
! of way.”
I ‘Life Insurance Companies To
I Reduce Rates in Herrin, Illi
I nois.”
Another good test of blood
pressure is to find an em
j ployee’s feet on your desk.
: Blank was a stranger in the
neighborhood and had been
brought to a dance at the lo
cal deaf-and-dumb hospital by
an old friend, the doctor.
‘How on earth can I ask a deal
and-dumb girl to dance,” he
asked, a trifle anxiously.
“Just smile and bow to her,”
replied the doctor,
j So the young man picked our
a pretty girl and bowed and
smiled, and she bowed ana
smiled and away they dancea.
They danced not only one
dance that evening, but three,
and he was on^the point of
asking her for another when
a strange man approached his
partner and said soulfully:
“I say, darling, when are we
going to have another dance.
It’s almost an hour since I had
had one with you.”
“I know, dear,” answered the
girl, ‘‘but I don’t know how to
get away from this deaf-and
dumb fellow!”
The people who never get
enough religion to hurt them
never get enough to do them
any good either.
Mere modesty will never stop
the girls from going bare leg
ged—but the idea of going
without anything expensivt
will.
Don’t complain. Every time
a sheep bleats it loses a chance
to get a mouthful of grass.
“Why is it Sam, that one nev
er hears of a negro commit
ling suicide?”
“Well, you see, its dis way.
When a white pusson has an>
trouble he sits down and gits
a-studying an’ a-studying an’
a-worryin’, an’ a-worryin’.
Then bang! he’s done killed
hisself. But when a nigger sits
down to think ’bout his
troubles, why, he jes’ nacherlj
goes to sleep.”
—
| Captain (furiously to stowa
way) : I’ve a mind to pitch you
! overboard to the sharks! Why
did you sneak on board my
1 ship?
Stowaway: Sure, sor, I want
ed to get to London to find a
i job at my business.
[ Captain: But all London’s on
I strike!
Stowaway: Yes, sor; bur
that’s me own line av work!
“Well, John,” said the great
physician to a young colleague
who had just started, “how’s
your practice?”
“Well,” replied the young
man, “in the mornings practic
ally no one comes, and in the
afternoons the rush falls off a
bit.”
Teacher: “Willie, suppose
you have five marbles, and
Sammy says: ‘I will give you
five more.’ How many will you
have then, altogether?”
Willie: “Five miss. He’d only
be kidding. You don’t know
him as well as I do.”
On the showdown, a crook is
always shown up.
Reform will continue as long
as there is money in it for re
formers.
A man entered a photograph
er’s shop the other day to
have his photograph taken.
“Mounted or otherwise?” ask
ed the photographer.
“Aye, I’ll have it taken mount
ed,” said the man, “but I don’t
know wliat Missus’ll say; she’s
never seen me on a horse be
fore!”
Happiness comes of having
pleasure and work mixed in
proper proportions.
Money will buy a lot of things
but it won’t buy spare parts
for your body that are as good
as the original ones.
■gi ir*
Chamber
oi
Commerce
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Hyder, Alaska
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Reliable Information
Relative To
PORTLAND CANAL
MINING DISTRICT
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ONE-FIFTH LEAD
FROM IDAHO
Idaho produced about one
fifth of the domestic supply
of load in 192G, according to
returns made to the bureau of
mines at Washington, and is
the third largest producer of
lead in the United States.
Idaho lead production last
year was 132,564 tons, as
compared with 123,363 tons
the year before and 123,709
tons in 1924. Missouri and
Utah produced more lead than
Idaho.
John Hovland
Assay Office
Hyder, Alaska
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