CLOSES AFTER
GREATSUCCESS
BUSINESSMEN, WOMEN AND
FARMERS ARE GIVEN
CREDIT FOR RESULT.
CARNIVAL ENDS FESTIVITIES.
City Was Given Over to Fun Last j
Night After Exhibits Were De- j
serted—Committee Chairmen Will
Have Meeting Tomorrow.
Successful in every particular, the
first Annual Agricultural - Industrial
Fair closed here last night. To the
business men of Anchorage must be
accorded great credit for the signal
achievement, but without the as
sistance and untiring efforts of the
women the exposition would have
fallen far short of the standard it
attained. Citizens of neighboring j
communities all did their part, and
to them the people of Anchorage
are thankful and grateful. On every
hand, are heard words of gratifica
tion over the result of the enter- i
prise.
The finale of the fair came last I
night when the carnival spirit reign
ed supreme. Large crowds were ;
present in the exhibition hall, at the j
“Diggings”, and both the dance halls j
in the city were taxed to their ca
pacities.
Motion Pictures Taken
Both the Mutual and the Universal
film companies have representatives;
here and motion pictures were taken
yesterday of exhibitors and their j
prize-winning exhibits. These pic-,
tures will be shown throughout the j
United States.
That this region possesses bound
less resources was evidnced by the;
remarkable variety of exhibits, j
which included mineral, agricultural,
fishing, lumber, fur and other pro- J
ducts.
Beginning last Monday the fair
ran three days. From the com-i
mencement to the end the manage- j
ment was excellent.
It meant a great deal of work to ,
get everything in shape to press the
button; it meant more work to ar
range and carry out the details, but i
in both those in charge of the expo- j
sition acquitted themselves admir- j
ably.
The exhibition of curios and anti
quities in the Masonic building was
crowded from the first to the last
day and this exhibit was unquestion
ably one of the best of the fair.
Prize winners in this department
will be announced later. The awards
for agricultural and horteultural ex
hibits were completed late yesterday
and appear on page 8 of this issue 01
the Daily Times.
Executive Committee Grateful
The executive committee of the fair ]
is especially grateful to the telegraph !
and telephone department of the Alas
kan Engineering Commission for its
splendid work in connection with the
exposition. The beautiful electric sign
of the Stars and Stripes placed over
the picture of Secretary Seward, was
the artistic work of this department.
The Anchorage Woman’s club had a
booth beautifully arranged with a
children’s garden display which was a
veritable bower of beauty. It repre
sented untiring effort.
The work of clearing the municipal
block of the exposition tents began
today.
The chairmen of all fair committees
are requested to meet at the Frisco
Cafe tomorrow at 12:30 o’clock. They
are asked to bring with them all bills
in connection with the fair.
FOOD CONTROL DOES
NOT REDUCE PRICE
SENATOR SHERMAN DECLARES
LEGISLATION HAS NOT RE
DUCED COST OF LIVING.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 8.—
Failure of the federal food adminis
tration to reduce retail prices was
charged in debate of the war revenue
bill in the senate today by Senator
Lawrence Y. Sherman, republican, of
Illinois, who called attention to the
price of eggs, 60 cents, in Washing
ton city, and to the fact that there
had been no reduction in the price of
bread.
“Boiled Beef” Murphy and George
Doolittle, well-known old-timers re
cently left Nenana for Seward, via
Broad Pass, but were compelled to
return to their starting point at Ne
nana on account of high water on the
upper Nenan river, which is swol
len by heavy rains.
EXHIBIT ENTERED BY JAMES N.
M’CAIN IS ADJUDGED TO
BE BEST OF ALL.
MATANUSKAN CLOSE SECOND
Ross Hickey Takes Award With Sec
ond Best Showing—Rudolph Weiss
Shows Blue Ribbon Grains—Many
Districts Are Represented.
Anchorage grown agricultural pro
ducts triumphed over the exhibits
from the farming districts surround
ing •when the display of James N. Mc
Cain, owner of the McCain studio, of
Anchorage, received the first grand
prize of $50 for the best general in
dividual agricultural exhibit in the
afir. Matanuska gave the Anchor
age products a close run for honors,
however, Ross Hickey, of Matanuska
winning second honors, of $25, after
careful weighing of points by the
judges. Both exhibits were highly
creditable and attracted much favor
able comment.
To the North Matanuska district,
however, went the grand blue ribbon
for the best district exhibit. The Mat
anuskans maintained a standard of
excellence in their display which
neither Anchorage nor Hope and Sun
rise, their closests competitors, could
approach. Anchorage was awarded
the red ribbon for second prize and
the district, including Hope and Sun
rise, was given an honorable mention
for third prize.
Silver Leads Anchorage District.
Ray Silver carried away first prize
$25, for the best individual
agricultural exhibit in the Anchorage
district, while second prize, $10 went
to Bud Whitney. Honorable mention
was given ihe exhibits of Kulin an 1
Bystedt.
Rcss Hickey’s display took fir. :
pr'ze for the bes: agricultural
exhibit in the North Matanuska dis
trict, $25. Second prize in this dis
trict went to Mrs. Gus Haller, $10;
third, C. W. Wagner; Fourth, Vir
ginia Moore; fifth, William G. Stev
ens and son, and sixth, Winchester
and Higgens. Each of the awards
after and including :hj th'rd awavd
cat i >ed a orize of $5.
Jibn Beigmar. enter’d the best
agricultural exhibit from
South Matanuska district and receiv
ed $25. W. B. Elliott had second best
and received $10.
The entry of I. Clark carried first
pr zc money r> the Sus:tn t district
and H. Hoppel’s took second. Honor
able mention was given the display
of E. E. Leebknecht.
E. E. Carson furnished the prize
winning products G-om the Hope and
Sunrise district and was awarded $25.
Mrs. Oscar Plowman took second
prize and honorable mention was
given H. H. Clark.
Deputy Marshal Good Farmer.
Deputy Marshal Harry R. Brown
proved the best farmer in the Knik
district and took $10 as first prize.
Charles Ulanky was awarded second
prize, $5.
Rudolph Weiss’ display of grains
took first prize, $40; Arthur Brown,
second, $20, and George Nylen, third,
$10. All are from Matanuska. Hon
orable mention was given the grain
exhibits of Ross Hickey, William G.
Stevens and son, and George Gren
on.
McCain Wins Special Prizes.
The Brown and Hawkins special
prize of $50 for the best individual
display from all districts was award
’d James N. McCain, of Anchorage.
Mr. McCain also took the $10 prize
offered by the Lilly Seed company in
this competition.
J. Casey McDannel’s $25 prize for
the best ten pounds of potatoes went
to August Swanson, of Matanuska.
lrs. A. Church took the Jacob Kauf
man prize of $5 for the best cabbage
display.
Special Prize Winners.
Deputy Marshal Frank Hoffman’s
$20 prize for the best agricultural
exhibit from the Matanuska districts
went to Ross Hickey.
James N. McCain’s prize of one
sack of Wilgrow fertilizer for the
best dispaly of berries was taken by
E. E. Carson.
Rudolph \\ < isr won a Lange range
f'• j his disolay of gr .:nand the
prize tomatoes, displayed by Harry
Harmon, of Matanuska, took a special
prize of $5.
! he judges of the vegetable ex
h i bits were Judge Leopold David,
Frank Cannon and J. J. Haffner.
The grain exhibits were judged by
Capt. A. E. Lathrop, Frank Cannon
and Carl Sinclair.
Anchorage Daily Times, “The
Newspaper of Alaska.”
AGRICULTURISTS BORROW
NEARLY $1,000,000 DAILY
FROM UNITED STATES.
GRAND TOTAL IS $40,000,000.
System Is in Complete Operaton in
Every State in Union Although it
Was Founded Only Litle More Than
One Year Ago.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 10.—Accord
ing to a statement made by the Fed
eral Farm Loan board, farmers filed
applications for 5 per cent long-time
loans during July amounting to $34,
310,652, or more than a millon dollars
per day. During the same month the
board approved loans amounting to
$16,016,853.
The board has just completed its
first year of service, the members hav
ing been sworn in August 7, 1916.
During the year the co-operative
banking system for farmers, estab
lished under the federal farm loan act,
has been put into complete operation
in every state and loans to farmers
are now being approved at the rate of
nearly one million dollars a day.
About 25 farm loan associations are
being chartered daily, each association
representing nearly $50,000 of loans.
Total of $40,000,000 Loans.
The greater part of the year of or
ganization has been consumed with
the task of dividing the country into
12 fedei'al land bank districts accord
ing to the farm loan needs of the vaii
ous sections; the location of the fed
eral land banks; the sale of the capi
tal stock of the banks; the selection of
bank directors and officers; the selec
tion of federal land bank appraisers,
i and the establishment of a fiat inter
est rate of five per cent on farm mort
gages in all parts of the United
I States. The federal land banks began
lending money late in the spring and
in the two and a half months just
closed more than 800 farm loan asso
; ciations have been chartered, repre
j senting total loans of approximately
i $40,000,000. The average number of
| farmer-borrowers in each association
; chartered is 18 and the loans average
i about $2,300 in size. Additional farm
loan asociations now being organized
i throughout the country will run the
total of loans applied for this year far
beyond the $100,000,000 mark.
Loans Are Appraised.
After farm loan associations are
i chartered it is necessary for the lands
! of their members to be appraised and
| abstracts of title provided. More than
200 federal farm loan appraisers are
in the field placing valuations on the
| lands as rapidly as they can get to
them. Approximately $5,000,000 of
loans have already been closed and the
money actually delivered to the farm
ers.
It is expected that the five per cent
capital thus p-avi.ied will prove ot
material assistance in aiding the farm
ers of the United States to meet the
increased demands for food occasioned
by the world war. Before another
crop is planted the federal farm loan
system will have been completely or
ganized in every state of the union
and its services made available to all
the farmers of the country.
According to testimony compiled rt
the time of the consideration of the
federal farm loan act in congress, the
total volume of farm mortgages in the
United States is nearly four billion
dollars, and the average interest rate
7.4 per cent. If all of these mort
gages are transferred to the federal
farm loan system at 5 per cent, the re
sult will be an annual saving in inter
est charges to the farmer of nearly
$100,000,000 annually.
Privileges of Farmers.
Under the act farmers are permit
ted to borrow for the purpose of land
purchase; refunding existing indebted
ness; live stock purchase; clearing and
draining land; constructions of im
provements and the purchase of ferti
lizer and any equipment necessary in
the cultivation of the land. The loans
are limited to 50 per cent of the ap
praised value of the land, plus 20 per
cent of the appraised value of the per
manent insured improvements.
All mortgages under this act are
made on the amortization plan and
run generally for 36 years. The farm
ers make annual payments equal to 6
per cent, 5 per cent paying interest
and 1 per cent being applied to the
principal. The 1 per cent applied on
the principal annually wipes it out at
the end of 36 years. The borrower
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^ANCH
5S3S0i58s!tf
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE WILL
EXPLOIT MATANUSKA PRO
DUCT IN COAST TOWNS.
LOCAL DEMAND BELOW SUPPLY
Sales of Tubers in Other Cities Will
Not Only Help Farmers 'But Will
Result in Desirable Publicity for
This Section of Country.
From the fact that the prolific po
tato crop will exceed local demands an
effort will be made by the Chamber of
i Commerce to introduce the famous:
, Matanuska tuber to the neighboring
coast towns. There is no reason why
the local product cannot compete with
the outside potato and the applicatior
of a small amount of energy would
undoubtedly bring about the required
result.
By creating a market in the neigh
boring towns the two-folds benefit of
advertising Anchorage and assisting
the farmer would be accomplished.
FOUND IN INDIANA
COLUMBUS, Ind., Sept. 10.—Bar
tholomew county boasts a model farm
hand in the person of Jesse Cochrane,
30 years old, who has worked seven
seasons for the same farmer, raising
for him 15,000 bushels of corn and 10,
000 bushels of wheat, besides doing
other general work.
He has never missed a day or been
late at his work; has never been in a
saloon; never played cards or “shot
craps”; does not use tobacco in any
form and does not use profanity. He
is a regular attendant at church and
Sunday-school.
I
Peter Burzio, the miner who was
killed at the Dougherty mine last
I week appears to have been suffocated
by poison gas instead of heart trouble
accoi’ding to the investigating com
1 mittee which has requested an in
; quest. Several important witnesses
! and mine officials were summoned.
Oliver Prange and the Juneau Cold
Storage plant received the news that
their fish trap at Lincoln island had
been carried out by the extremely high
1 tide, causing quite a loss, as the fish
now taken would have been clear mon
ey for the company.
has the right to pay all or any part
of the mortgage after it has run five
J years.
Farmers and prospective farmers
may borrow. Land leased to tenants
can not be mortgaged under this act.
i This cheap capital can not be used for
| land speculation and land monopoly
I because loans are limited to $10,000
each.
Capital Raised by Bonds.
This great volume of capital which
j is being loaned to fanners is procured
i by the sale of bonds to investors. As
( banks lend money and take farm
J mortgages in return they issue bonds
| against the mortgages and sell the
| bonds to investors. These bonds bea1*
; 4*2 per cent and are free of all tax
j ation, being declared by the law “in
| strumentalities of the government.”
! The bonds of any one federal land
bank are indorsed by all of the banks
and consequently all bonds issued have
behind them the resources of all of the
12 federal land bank and all of the
mortgages representing land apprais
ed at twice the amount of the obliga
tion against it.
These bonds are being disposed of
rapidly at 101%. It is expected that
the issue of these bonds within a year
will exceed $100,000,000 and may
reach $150,000,000.
The margin between the 4% per
cent which the bonds yield and the 5
per cent paid by the farmer is used to
defray the expenses of the federal
land banks. The law permits 1 pe’
cent to be employed for this purpose,
but the federal farm board believes
they can be operated on half that
amount.
The loans being made by the fed
eral farm loan system are very evenly
distributed throughout the nation.
Farmers in states of high land values
where interest rates have been low in
the past are making use of the new
system to an extent greater than was
expected.
IT Fill HE
N. P. SHULER DISPLAYS SKINS
THAT ARE OF THE ESTI
MATED VALUE OF $10,000.
TAKEN FROM FARM ANIMALS
Owner Goes to States Every Year for !
Purpose of Marketing Pelts and His
Clients Include Wealthy Residents
of Large Eastern Cities.
Five sets of rare black and silver i
fox furs, worth $10,000, were among |
exhibits at the industrial and agricul
tural fair which closed here last night.
The furs were a few samples of those
bred on the two fox farms operated
by N. P. Shuler near Anchor Point and
Kachemack bay on Cook Inlet.
Mr. Shuler has been in the fox breed
ing business in this section for five
years and is rapidly attaining a repu
tation as a Burbank in fox furs. He |
makes a specialty of breeding the rar
er shades of furs and by careful selec- j
tion and crossing he has attained four
varieties, which command high prices ,
in the states. He specializes in black
and silver fox and obtains black, three-1
quarters black, half black and three
quarter silver furs.
Forty-two Pairs of Breeders.
There are forty-two pairs of breed
ers on the two farms operated by Mr.
Shular and none of these are killed for
their fur except when they can be re
placed by animals showing better qual
ities. Apart from the breeders, are
the killers, and this year’s crop, num
bering sixty, is the largest he has yet
produced. The killers are primed un
til shortly before Christmas and the j
skins are then prepared for market.
Mr. Shuler makes an annual trip to
the states about Christmas to dispose
of his season’s fur output and he will
begin preparations shortly for this
year’s journey. He acts as his own
salesman and disposes of his skins di
rect to the consumer. He has clients
among the wealthiest persons in New’
York, Washington, Detroit, Chicago,
Milwaukee and other large eastern
cities.
Animals Caretuly Selected.
“My endeavor is to cultivate perma
nently what have heretofore been
freak varieties of furs,” Mr. Shuler
said today. “By careful selection of;
animals with the most desirable breed
ing qualities, best disposition and the
proper fur it is possible to continue
the rare species. So far I have been
very successful in breeding the desired
animals.”
Two assistants are regularly em
ployed on the farms and in busy times
more men are obtained when possible.
The finding of men who can handle the
fur breeding business satisfactorily is
difficult, Mr. Shuler says.
The location of the farms is excel
lent for all purposes, according to Mr.
Shular, for the bay is always open and
the clmatic conditions are right for the
development of fine furs. Quite an in- i
dustry is growing on these two farms,
the outputs of which in fur skins runs
into thousands of dollars annually.
Additional Prize Winners.
Owing to an oversight on the part
of the award committee of the fair the
following names were left off the list
of prize winners in the agricultural
and horticultural department: Kulin
and Bystedt, red ribbon for best dis
play of lettuce; J. D. McLeod, red rib
bon for grain; L. B. Anderson, red rib
bon for display of rye, and Peter Mur
ray, red ribbon for genertl display of
grain.
AMERICAN WHEAT
WILL GO ABROAD
ESTIMATE OF SUPPLY SHOWS
100,000,000 BUSHELS AVAIL
ABLE FOR SHIPMENT.
_ !
CHICAGO, Sept. 8.—The best es- j
timate of the supply of wheat in the !
United States, including the carry
ver from last year, shows that Am
erica will have 100,000,000 bushels
availabls for export this year.
WHEAT IGNORED
BY SPECULATORS
CHICAGO, 111., Sept. 6. — Wheat
is now completely ingnored by
brokers and traders in the Chicago
wheat pit. The government by fix
ing a price os this year’s crop, has
robbed the cereal of all its specula
tive interest.
Job work at The Times office.
Job printing at The Times office.
PREnr RELICS
DISPLAY IN LAURENCE STUDIO
INCLUDED COLONIAL GOWNS
AND ARABIAN RIFLES.
SPECIMENS OF FANCY WORK
No Cash Prizes, Except in Very Few
Instances for Furs, Were Made to
Exhibitors, But Diplomas and Rib
bons Were Awarded.
The department of furs, curios and
antiques, all displayed in the Laurence
Studio room, was one of the most in
teresting and popular exhibits of the
recent fair. Displayed there, like vis
ions emerging from the past, were
such things as a Parisian gown worn
by a lady at colonial balls, when she
danced with the Marquis de Lafayette;
a neckerchief of the time of the
Franco-Prussian war, with German
inscriptions and martial scenes; quilts
done in the early 1800’s entirely by
hand, some woven thread by thread,
and some applqued; a mosaic of
Christopher Columbus, smiling serene
ly from out of the pulsating past upon
our mariners of today; an Arab rifle
nearly six feet long, of the popular
cap and ball model of ancient days,
without shoulder stock, which was
held with both hands and fired while
the turbaned horseman galloped at
full speed; a fragile and weblike fab
ric of rose-point lace with which a
Civil war bride bid adieu to her de
parting husband; wooden images,
carved true to life by the natives of
the upper Amazon, and a pottery head
of pre-Inca origin, washed from a bed
of gravel 200 feet in depth in a placer
mine in South America.
Head of Giant Moose.
In the front window of the studio, '
the head of a giant moose thrust it
self through the evergreen boughs,
while ermine, squirrels and Alaska
birds were arranged in natural posi
tions in the forest setting. The ex
hibit of furs ranged from the beauti
ful white ermine to the king of Alaska
beasts, the Kodiak brown bear.
Surrounded by treasures from the
old world and the new, the judges
found the^tasks of awarding diplomas
an exceedingly difficult one. The
judges decided that the most inter
esting native curio displayed was the
medicine doll of the Knik tribe; the
most interesting exhibit of Alaskan
pioneer days to be the first issue of
the Klondike News, and the most an
cient curio of Alaskan history to be a
fine specimen of mastodon ivory, and
the most ancient curio exhibited from
other lands to be a pre-Inca pottery
head. A wonderfully well mounted
eagle, which stood in the front win
dow, holding in his bill a flag emblaz
oned with the words, “State of Alas
ka,” was awarded the blue ribbon for
mounted birds.
Relic of Colonial Days.
The most interesting relic of Co
lonial days was, perhaps, the George
Washington dog irons, accompanied
by an authenticated history of their
descent from father to son until they
were exhibited at the first annual
Alaska agricultural industrial fair.
A dainty embroidered empire gown,
worn by a Kentucky belle in 1792, re
ceived, perhaps, the most attention. It
is the treasured possession of an An
chorage girl and takes its place in
memories beside that of the Civil
war’s bride handkerchief, owned by
by one of the older matrons here. A
fine old Tarah brooch, made in Ireland
over 200 years ago, attracted a great
deal of attention.
There were no cash prizes in this de
partment, except a very few on raw
furs. Diplomas with red and blue rib
bons were awarded the best exhibits.
The judges were Mrs. Edes, Mrs. Bar
ry, Mrs. Anderson, Dr. Boyle, Z. J.
Loussac and Dr. Kyvig.
Blue Ribbon Awards.
The blue ribbon awards follow:
Native curio—Medicine Doll—Mrs.
Kincaid.
Ancient fire arm—Arabian Rifle—
Mrs. Viola Murphy.
Alaskan handwork—T. P. Howard.
Russian teapots—Indian Mary.
Copper kettles—Mrs. Schaleben.
Attu basket—Mrs. Schaleben.
Fur parkey—Miss Ora Clark.
Indian bead work—Walter Howard.
Ancient ivory—Mrs. Schaleben.
Old English plate—Mrs. Huff.
Fossil curios—John Stahl.
Satsuma vase—Mrs. Culbertson.
Ancient piece fine needlework—Mrs.
Watson.
Old Royal Worchester vase—Mrs. J.
Thompson.
Antique mosaic picture—Mrs. Viola
Murphy.
Tapestry tray—Mrs. Mason.
Oriental curios—Mrs. Jaffe.
Moose head—Mr. Wandiing.
Large Attu basket—Mrs. T. M. *
Odale.
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