ALASKA’S FUEL STORE
' The development of tho territory;
of Alaska is likely to bo favored byj
the fuel crisis, if it is not too soon i
over or its effects are not quickly j
forgotten.
Alaska, “the nation's treasure
house,” has coal and oil, both in
abundance, though little is being
taken out of 'ho ground. The un
covered amount is not easy to cal
culate, especially as to oil, the geo
logical signs of which require con
firmation by actual drilling.
Since the war began copper has
passed gold as the territory's most
valuable resource. The sudden need
for the former metal in vast quanti
ties had promoted mining on an
unprecedented scale. So the urg
ent call for fuel should give an im
petus to coal and oil development
The whole country, particularly,
vof course, the Pacific coast, is keen
ly interested in the Alaska prospect.
The Coast now “imports” coal from
tho East. That is expensive, and j
besides coal is drawn from the
Atlantic seaboard which might be
wanted here in a pinch, either for
local consumption or for shipping.
And, as our experience this winter
has warned us, efficient use of trans
portation facilities may he a vital
consideration. Chairman Peabody,
of the coal production committee
of the national council of defense,
told a senate committee that ship
ping coal from the West Virginia
i fields to California is “a most hor
j rible misuse of equipment."Although
' the Coast is an oil producing section,
j tho astonishing statement is made
j that the supply has been drawn
l down by the war demand so that
the.-Southern Pacific railroad, which
has long used oil burning locomo
tives, has been compelled to go back
to coal on parts of its system.
Accordingly at this time Alaska
finds outside support in appealing
to congress for legislation to pro
mote the development of these
natural resources. The Alaske bur
eau of the Seattle Chamber of Com
morso and Commercial Club has
adopted resolutions praying for the
enactment of a policy that will en
courage the prospector and invite
capital to open up the fuel regions
on a scale commensurate with the
prospect. In the East the idea pce
vails because the government Is
constructing a railroad to one of
the coal fields, that the problem i3
being solved. The government en
terprise will be useful!, so far as
it goes, but actually it does not
touch the real problem. As for oil,
Alaska imports thousands of barrels
annually for domestic consumption
an extraordinary llustration of carry
ing coals to Newcastle.
The case of Alaska reflects a
grievous national situation respecting
public lands development. Devel
opment, halted by the country-wide
uprisings in behalf of conservation
of the nation’s resources some years
'• ago, has not since been resumed
on anything approaching the former
scale. The conservatiotf laws called
for a readjustment of methods, and
the war caught us with the process
scarcely begun.
The other day the senate passed
a bill to encourage and promote
the mining of coal and oil on the
public domain. Substantially the
same bill has failed heretofre sev
eral times in the lastfew years be
cause the house and senate could
not agree on certain details. They
will now agree, because the condi
tions demand an immediate remedy.
But apparently Alaska will not re
ceive much benefit from me legis
lation. Conditions in the territory
require a specal polcy.
The difficulties and the risks of
exploitation are manifestly greator
there than in the public lands ot
the states. The government of Brit
ish Columbia, where conditions are
similar, offers inducment to the
prospector and capitalist which are
proving highly effective. The sys
J tern should have the consideration
of congress. Some such policy
might be grafted on the bill now
in course of enactment or embodied
in a special Alaska act.
—Providence (R. I.) Journal.
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We are here to please old and
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CLEANING, PRESSING,
ALTERING & REPAIRING.
First class workmanship.. Gent
lemens and Ladies Clothes.
■When in seairh of a good warm
room go to the Schneider Building.
Rooms by (lie day, week or month.
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First-class I'nalakleet dog sal
mon for sale at 12 cents a pound.
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,.I.—USING AI.ASKA PRODUCTS,
ENCOURAGES tlOMi: INDUSTRY.
—COST NO MOHR THAN POTA
TOES.
3. —ASSIST TO CONSUME THAT,
WHICH il i l.l'S TO CONSERVE
OTHER NECESSARY FOODS.
4. —SAVES TIN CANS AND
MONEY.
5. —BIG FOOD VALUE AND A
tlOOD SPRING TONIC.
16 lbs. for $1.00
Per. Sack $5.50
A. Polet
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
To O. A. Clasell, John Dahl, Wil
liam Hr.nson and John Lind
blom, your heirs, executors, as
signs, successors or personal re
presentatives.
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 of 1906, 1907,
| 1908, 1909, 1910, 1911 1912 1913
i 1914 1915 and 1916 on placer min
; ing asociation claim known as The
Lucky three Group situated on
! Dahl creek a tributary of the Ko
I buk river and recorded and more
fully described in the records of
Noatc.k-Kobuk Mining District at
the office at Klana, Second 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 la.it 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.
MICHAEL TUOHY.
Co-owner.
Date of first publ., Jan. 29, 191S.
Date of last publ., April 30, 1918.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
To Gus. Lyu-mI, your heirs, exe
cutors, assigns, or personal re
presentatives:
You are hereby aoctiicd that we
have expended in labor and im
provements the sum of one hundred
| dollars for the the year 1916 upon
:u h of the following described
placer mining claims, all situated
i in the Koyuk Recording 1‘recinct,
Territory or Alaska, to wit: The
Trr.er.a Dench fifth tier left limit of
Dime creek, the Louise Bench, fifth
tier left limit, The Last Chance,
fourth tier left limit, and tho Gold
Hill Bench, fifth tier right limit all
on Dime creek, said claims being
more fully described in the records
of said Koyuk Recording Precints,
Territory of Alaska.
The above amount has been ex
pended under the provisions of the
law concerning unnual labor upon
mining claims, being the amount
required to bold said claim.
And you are further notified that
It you fail to contribute your pro
portion of said expenditure within
ninety days after the last publica
tion of this notice, your interest in
said claim will become the property
of the undersigned, your co-owner,
under section 2324 Revised Statutes
of the United States.
HENRY SETHMAN.
CHAS. GOETZENBEUGER,
M Co-owner.
Date of first publ. Jan. 28, 1918.
Dale of last publ., April 28. 19)8.
An Entrance to Modini’s Lunch
Counter From the Street Is One of
the Latest Improvements of That
Famous Establishment.
Bring your forfeiture uotices to
the Industrial Worker.
NOTICE OK FORFEITURE
To W. W. Sale, Frank Kolash, P. H.
Watt, N. Galvin, W. D. Steward,
and W. Packwood, your heirs,
executors, assigns or personal
representatives.
You, and each of you, are hereby
notified that 1 have expended in
labor and improvements, the sura
of one hundred dollars ($100.00),
each year for the years of 1915 1910
on the Florence Association Placer
mining claim situated between Won
der and Holyoke in the Cape Nome
Recording Precinct, Alaska, note of
location of which is recorded in
Vol. 123, page 129 of said precinct
Records.
The above amount has been ex
pended in order to hold said claims
under the provisions of the law con
cerning annual labor upon mining
claims, being the amount required
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 have failed to con
tribute your portion of said expend
iture, your interest in said claim
will become the property of the
undersigned, your co-owner, under
section 2324 Revised Statutes of
the United States.
CHAS. A. VOGEL.
TT Co-owner.
Date of first publ., April 4, 1918.
Date of last publ., Jill;* 4, 1918.
We serve Hills Bros’. Coffee, Sour
dough Hotcakes, Hum mid Eggs,
Warm and Cold Lunches, and Fresh
Ice-cream Daily at
ARCTIC BAKERY
Modini’s Cafe (formerly Board of
Trade) is Now Open For Business, i
and I-. Sure the Best Appointed Cafe
in Alaska.
What you spend in buying a ticket
you get returns for, a good entertain
ment and ail the dancing you want
and besides you get a chanco to win a
Liberty Bond and you will be doing
your share toward the maintainance
of this worthy institution.
PREPARE FOR
ACTIVE WORK
AT WASH.
MANAGER McPHERSON TO VISIT
CAPITAL IN INTEREST OF
ALASKA LEGISLATION
SEATTLE, Feb. 7. (By maili —
To co-operate with the Alaska
delegation in securing legislation,
and departmental attention, on Is
sues vitally necessary to northern
development, Manager J. L. McPher
son, of the Alaska Bureau of the
Chamber of Commerce, will soon
leave for Washington.
Manager McPherson will render
1 all aid possible in putting through
| required laws to permit of utilizin
the natural resources of Alaska.
The plan was endorsed by the board
of trustees at the request of the
executve committee of the Alaska
Bureau.
Facts have been compiled by the
Alaska Bureau emphasizing the out
standing needs of the North in the
way of new legislation to prmit
proper development of Alaska's coal
and oil deposits. Help will be fur
nished in putting through Delegate
Sulzer’s measure providing a full
territorial form of government for
the North.
The improvments of Dry Strait,
and appropriations for government
work in the North, continuing rail
road construction, road building,
coast surveys, harbor improvements
and other necessary developments,
will be looked after.
Attention will be called to need
ed improvements to the mail service
on a number of Alaska routes,
regulations permitting the develop
mcn of the paper pulp industry, and
the settlement of agricultural lands
in the forest reserves.
Manager McPherson is armed with
the latest facts showing the out
standing needs of the northern dis
tricts, and will work with the Alas
ka delegation to secure necessary’
legislation, and co-operation from
tho interested departments.
Fishermen Must
Procure License
JUNEAU, Feb. 15. (By mr.il)—'
The Federal Food Administrator for
Alaska, now in Seattle, wired this,
morning that a supply of blank
forms to be filled out by all fisher
men and sent direct to the Licens
ing Division of the U. S. Food |
Administration, Washington, D. C., j
were oil the way to Ibis office and'
will be given to allapplying therefor |
and otherwise distributed. AH fish
ermen whether operating independ
ently or on shares, engaged at any
period of the year ineommercial
distribution including catching and
soiling of any and all varieties of
salt water fish and shell fish of any
kind must make application for a
license. This new regulation in
cludes any person, firm, corporation
or association engaged in the catch
ing or distribution of any forms
of sea food. Licenses must be sent
for at once. Heavy fines are im
posed Cor failure to make application
There is no feo or charge for the
license.
Wt are all interested in (he keeping
up of the Holy Cross Ho- pitr.l, a very
necessary institution. Buy a ticket.
rjKT the jvkws nicarr. head
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THE FAMILY STORE
YES, WE HAVE SOMETHING FOR EACH OF YOU—
For Mother and Daughter
rubber gloves, face powder, perfume, toilet water, candies, tooth
brushes, toilet soap, brushes, wash cloths and manicure sets.
For Dad and Son
shaving supplies, tooth brushes, pocket combs, bath brushes and
talcum powder.
iFven the Baby
nursing bottles, nipples, talcum, teething rings and rubber bath toys.
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—mad* entirely of lemon. Keeps the skin attractively clean and
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IN Ol'R WINDOW
W’e will faithfully live up to the pledge in every particular.
And take this opportunity to announce to the public, that from
now on, during the war, our prices shall be based on still smaller
profits than heretofore. We will make a reduction on several
items in our store at once.
Our country and nation first
Our own individual w el fa re next
Thorulf Lehmann
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NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR
PATENT. NO. 0331.
In the United States Land Office ai
Nome. Alaska, March 1, 1918.
NOTICE 1/3 HEREBY GIVEN,
that DAN CONNOLLY, a citizen of
the United States, whose post office
address is Nome, Alaska, has made
application for a United States Pat
ent for placer mining claim known
as No. 10 ABOVE ON DRY CREEK,
PLACER, in the Cape Nome Mining
and Recording District, Territory of
Alaska, Second Division, being Min
eral Survey No. 122G, which said pla
cer mining claim is mere fully des
cribed as to metes and bounds by the
official plat and by the field notes
of survey thereof now on file in the
office of the Register of tine United
States Land Office ,at Nome, Alaska,
with magnetic variation io deg.
00 min. to 20 deg. 10 min. E., as
follows, to-wit:
Beginning at Cor. No. 1, identical
with N. E. location corner and with
Cor. No. 4 Sur. No. 719, left fork
of Dexter creek, placer, a fir post
4 ins. sq. in earth mound, scribed
4-719 and 1-1226 10 A, whence U.
S. L. M. No. 4 bears N. 32 deg.
12 min. E. 5930 ft; thence S. 7
deg. 00 min. \V. 373.40 ft. to Cor.
No. 2, identical with location cor.
and with Cor. No. 4, Sur. No. 1214,
Last Resort Bench, placer; thence
S. 4 deg. 37 min. W. 849.40 ft. to
Cor. No. 3, identical with location
cor.; thence N. 81 deg. 48 min.
W. 485.79 ft. to Cor. No. 4; thence
N. 3 deg. 08 min. W. 1268.00 ft.
to Cor. No. 5, identical with loca
tion cor. and with Cor. No. 3 Sur.
719, No. 3 Left Fork Dexter creek;
thence S. 79 deg. 54 min. E. 674.80
ft. to Cor. No. I and place of
beginning. ToVai area No. Id above
| on Dry Creek placer, 1G.217 acres;
I area in conflict with Sur. 1214,
! Dart Iiesort Bench Placer, 0.209
acres, which is not excluded.
The foregoing vlaim is situated
•on the divide at the head of Dry
creek, about five miles Northeast
erly from the town of Nome, in the
Cape Norue Recording Precinct,
aforesaid; U. S. D. M. No. 4, to
wljieli this claim is lied is a lime
stone block about 4 x G ft. 6 ft.
! high chiseled U. S. L. M. No. 4 on
top surface with cross cut on same
and is situated on South or right
bank of Dexter creek about 140 ft.
South of same and about 1,000 ft.
Westerly from the mouth of Joe
Gulch, in Lat. 64 deg. 35 min. N.
Longitude 165 deg. 19 min. W.
The adjoining claims are, on the
North Sur. No. 719, No. 3 Left
Fork Dexter creek; on the South
No. 9 above Discovery on Dry
creek, unsurveyed; on the East Sur.
No. 1214, Danielson claiment and
other unsurveyed cliams; on the
West, unsurveyed claims, claimants
unknown. Location notice of said
claim is recorded in Volume 14,
Page 121, records of Cape Nome
Recording District, Second Division,
Alaska.
THOS. McGANN,
Register.
Date of first pub. March 9, 1918.
Date of last pub. May 9, 1918.
Please leave your order at the
Nome Tailoring Co. (next door Reg
erstrom and Hagen), for coal etc.,
to be delivered by the Pioneer Ex
press. Orders promptly attended to.
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