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A STEADY GROWTH
In the history of mining in Alaska, there is no prece
dent for the position occupied by Hot Springs district.
Last spring a year ago gold was discovered in» quanti
ties on Sullivan creek that bid fair to put that stream well
at the head of the big producers in Alaska. Previous to
that hundreds of men had been working on surrounding
creeks, all making good money and paying fair wages.
But unlike other districts, when the news of the big strike
on Sullivan creek was made known, it was taken as a mat
ser of course, no big stampede from other districts was oc
casioned, and men went to work much the same as on all
the older creeks.
Last week pay was found on Killarney creek, which,
if discovered in the Innoko or some other localities far re
moved from the centers of population, would have occa
sioned a big stampede, such as occurred last spring.
And that is the secret of Hot Springs’ success. There
was no stampede, there will be no stampede. The growth
of this city and district is the steady growth in keeping
with the steadily increasing output of the creeks. There is
Nothing here that in the least resembles the wild, unthink
ing rush of the Alaskan stampede to new diggings.
The producing district surrounding Hot Springs at
present will easily support a town of 500 people, and with
the discovery of new paystreaks sure to be found this win
ter, should be able to provide for at least 500 more. But
' these will not come with a rush, but will drop in a few al
a time, each man coming for a definite purpose, and not
with the idea of getting rich by staking town lots or with
the expectation of immediately staking a rich claim.
It is the earnest hope of all concerned in the growth
and prosperity of Hot Springs that the past record will b<
kept up. There has been no big stampede, and we want
none. In a big rush, no matter how well justified, mort
are disappointed than satisfied, and the disappointed ones
always talk the loudest; the result of which is to instill iu
others a distrust of an otherwise good district.
If the Hot Springs district will maintain the even tenoi
it has assumed, refrain from extravagant boasts, and jus1
keep on “sawing wood,” the result will be that in a shorl
time this city will have a population in keeping with it*
production, and one that is uniformly satisfied and pros
perous. _
The New York Press recently published a letter whiel]
it claimed had been written by the late Grover Cleveland
strongly indorsing the candidacy of Judge Taft, the Repub
lican nominee for president. The authenticity of the lettei
is vigorously denied by the widow of the former president.
There can be no mistake in pronouncing it base forgery.
Mr. Cleveland had his faults, but a lack of nerve to publish
his views on national questions during his lifetime was no1
one of them, as the people of the United States well know.
According to the telegraph dispatches Taft, P. I., was
destroyed by a typhoon last week. Many people are now
predicting that Taft, of U. S. A., is liable to be struck in
the caboose by a cyclone about November 3rd.
The Post is fnclined to coincide with the opinion oi
Henry Wasterson, that the present campaign is much like
a row between two families. All the news received over the
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wire by the press of Alaska refers only to attacks made on
the records and characters of men taking active parts in the
campaign. We receive no inkling of the good things to be
accomplished if either of the great parties are successful,
but only the heinous crimes of their leaders are wired to us.
ROAD IS NECESSARY
The proposition now being considered by the citizens
of this city to build a permanent highway from here to the
nearest point on the Tanana river is one that should re
ceive earnest consideration.
Prompt action is necessary if a good road is to be built
this year, aB it is much easier to cut the trees and brush
and level the niggerheads before the snow becomes too deep
to permit this being properly done.
There is no question as to the advisabilty of establish
ing a landing place at this point, as there will always be
plenty of water for the boats to deliver the goods on the
shore, and thus avoid the extra trouble and expense in
curred, as was experienced this year, on account of the low
water and bars at the mouth of the slough.
A big fall of snow is the blessing that is now being
looked for by the merchant, miner and freighter. With
six inches of snow the government road will be in first-class
condition, which will mean an immediate increase in busi
ness, and make it possible to move heavy machinery on the
creeks. _
The winter mail service is now in operation, and from
this time till the opening of navigation next spring Hot
Springs may expect its mail regularly once a week.
It begins to look now as if the Tanana river was going
to dry up this year instead of freezing.
THE LAUGHTER CF A CHILD
L;ke the purling of the cuder.ce of a spring beneath the elm,
Like the chimes that fairies tinkle in the dryads’ leafy realm,
Like the coo of fragrant zephyrs born of southern breezes mild,
Like the harmonies of twilight, flows the laughter of a ehild !
Glad as silver rivers running over shells of sunset hue,
Sweet as honeyed nectar dripping from the flowers wet with dew,
Pure as limpid, smiling waters over mossy beds beguiled,
Comes the babbling of a baby, comes the laughter of a child !
'Tis the crooning of the'forest; ’tis the chanting of the sea;
’Tis the thrilling of the mock-bird and the sea-shells’ ecstasy;
’Tis the murmur of the breezes kissing beds of clover wild,
Blended into rhythmic meter ! Ah, the laughter of a child!
It is rhapsody of heaven, diapason of the sky,
Reeded music of the angels as they waft in ether by—
It is earth and sky and heaven, hope and love and faith compiled,
For the God of Music triumphed in the laughter of a child!
Where it ripples there is gladness, where it lilts woe will not stay;
Love is ever clinging ’round it, crooning with it all the day—
I am straining all my senses and my heart is beating wild,
Just to hear the tinkling ripple of the laughter of a child!
—Byron Williams.
About the Mail-Order Habit
One of our legacies of the nineteenth !
century is the mail-order house—an in
stitution that draws largely from nearly
every community throughout the land
for the benefit of large department
stores in big centers of trade; an instit
ution noted for the inferior quality of
its wares and the extreme low wages
paid its hundreds of young women and
children employes. Money forwarded
to such a concern is entirely lost to the
sender’s immediate vicinity. These
stores contribute not a single penny to
local revenues for license, taxes or
donations to worthy causes, as do the
all local merchants. Does the patron
of a mail-order think for a moment that
a request for a donation to a local
improvement addressed to Shears, Saw
buck & Co. or Wardgomery Mont
would receive as cheerful and substan
tial assistance as the one presented to
the most humble dealer of your own
town—the man you “pass up” when
mail-ordering goods? We trow nit.
o o o
The inauguration of the winter mail
service at the present reminds The
Post of last year’s beginning of the
same. Several tons of mail quickly ac
cummulated at Valdez early last fall.
The regular mail currier, whose con
tract only called for a certain amount
each week, was unable to handle it.
Newspapers and magazines from the
outside bad failed of delivery for weeks
—a dearth of reading matter was felt
throughout the land. Finally freight
ers were employed to haul the stuff to
Fairbanks — the people meanwhile
awaiting its arrival by that very slow
method of mail transportation. It
finally arrived. Great and gleeful was
the surprise of many when the sacks
were opened and were handed their
quota of the contents; they received not
the “old home newspapers” and maga
zines teeming with wholesome reading
matter, but great bundles of catalogues
from far-away mail-order houses—hun
dreds of pounds of them. The reading
matter came along afterward. Had the
“whole cheese” been forever drowned
in one of the treacherous streams along
the trail every community in Alaska
would have been thousands of dollars
to the good thereby. The money they,
extracted from dur people would have
been spent at home—with local mer
chants—at the place, Mr. Mair-order
house-patron, where you earned your
money.
o o o
The Hot Springs Post looks upon
mail-order concerns in the same light
as did ex-U. S. Senator Tabor of Colo
rado upon the painting of William
Shakespeare (now deceased). After
the completion of the magnificent
Tabor Grand opera house in Denver,
the Senator, so the story goes, espied
for the first time the likeness of the
“immortal bard” on the drop curtain;
he was unacquainted with William’s
features—had never heard tell of him,
much less having “prospected” with
him—and hurriedly summoning the
theater manager, wanted to know
“whose ‘mug’ that was up there?”
When informed that it was Shake
speare, the greatest of playwrights,
Tabor blurted out: “What t’ hell did
Shakespeare ever do for Denver? Teal*
it down, and put my pictur’ up thar’l”
o o o
Two miners in the Fortymile country
some years ago decided to “save a little
money” by patronizing one of those far
away catalogue houses. One of them
ordered a mackinaw coat. It finally
reached him—that is, part of it. A
mail package is limited to four pounds.
This miner got his mackinaw in the
Ach, Louiel
„ Don’t forget to remember while
you are visiting in Fairbanks
that the
FRACTION
IS ALWAYS THE
ATTRACTION
The “little presents” (costing but
25c) we have in great variety and
are of the best quality obtainable.
Just the things for proper “interior
decorations.”
LOUIS smz, poop! FAIRMWtS, JUU
F. G. MANLEY PROP,
The Only First-Class Health Resort in Alaska
VISITED YEARLY BY HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE
IN SEARCH OF REST AND RECREATION
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THE HOTEL
Is built in close proximity to the famous Hot Springs, and
the natural warm water is piped throughout the entire
hotel building., The entire hostelry is heated by steam
and lighted by electricity.
THE NATATORIUM
Will compare favorably with any in the world. No arti
cial heat is used—the water being turned into the plunges
and bathtubs at its natural temperature. Two large hot
plunges and an immense concrete swimming tank add to
luxury of the equipment.
THE DINING ROOM
In connection with the hotel is the Best in Alaska.
Fresh Vegetables from our gardens during the entire year.
Tomatoes, Cucumbers, Green Onions, etc., served without
extra charge. Fresh Milk in abundance from our Dairy.
Our service is unexcelled, and the comfort of our guests
always the aim of our employes.
LUMBER
All Kinds of Rough and Dressed LumSsr
on Hand at All Times.
Orders from the Creeks receive our prompt attention.
Slui
Lumber
SPECIALTY
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fall, just at the closing of navigation,
but it was minus one sleeve—that mem
ber having been amputated on account
of over-weight. In the following
spring when the steamboats were again
running, seven months later, and all
classes of mail were being forwarded,
the missing coatsleeve turned up, and
with it was a nice bright needle al
ready threaded with just enough spool
cotton to sew the sleeve in its place.
That needle and thread are the only
articles we ever heard of a mail-order
house giving up voluntarily.
o o o
The other miner, living on a claim a
short distance from the mackinaw-coat
buyer, sent for a pair of gum boots.
The boots, on account of weight, were
mailed separately. One boot reached
Fortymile in late September, the other
slept peacefully in the Seattle post
office until the following merry month
of May.
o o o
Spend what money is necessary to
you to expend with the local merchant
—it will do the most good—he is the
boy who’s always foremost in every
movement for the good of the commun
ity- ___
8eldom Used
The health officer appeared to vacci
nate an old Atchison colored woman.
She said she had no time to stop and
be sick with vaccination, and, besides,
could not spare one of her arms; that
the children would starve and freeze if
she could not do her laundry work.
Then the doctor said: ‘.‘Well, auntie, I
will vaccinate you on one of your lower
limbs."
“No, siree," said the auntie, “I can’t
spare one of my legs, either.”
Then the doctor said kindly: “Well,
what spot could you spare, because you
must be vaccinated."
The old colored woman thought and
thought, and finally said slowly: “Well,
Lord knows I don’t never get no chance
to set down.”—Montour Press.
From the time she gets up in the
morning till she goes to bed at night
everyone in the family from the hus
band to the washerwoman takes a com
plaint to Mother %nd drops it on her
shoulders. If ever we have time to be
come a statistician, says the Atchison
Globe, and get paid for figuring, we in
tend to find out how many complaints
a woman hears from the day she enters
her home in a shower of rice till the
day she leaves it feet foremost in a box
covered with roses._
The mills of God are grinding with
exactness at the end of the long lane
that has no turning.
Our Guarantee
There is nothin#, however small, which goes from this house but what
carries our stamp of satisfaction with ii —not only representing our guaran
tee for the rjghtness of the goods, hut for the uniform fairness of our prices.
We count this guarantee ot absolute satisfaction, and the confidence it
begets, as the basis of our success.
Crockery, Hardware,
Bar Class 'wshtb i stoves and reuses i
GUNS, AMMUNITION,
Victor Phonographs and Victor Records
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Sentl in Yonr Orders.
Wert Promptly Attended To.
G. IV.' Pask, Hot Springs
Cloth Posters
We Print Big nod Smell Signs on Good Muslin.
Just the Thing for Out-Door Advertising.
THEY LAST FOR YEARS