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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1919
OUTPUT CLAIMS
We note with interest, writes a
resident of Iditarod in a communica
tion addressed to the Iditarod Pioneer,
the estimate of the production of gold
for 1919 in Interior Alaska, published
in the Dawson Daily News recently,
in which Fairbanks leads without mak
ing use of the output of the surround
ing camps, although attention is called
to the fact that they are entitled to
include all camps within a radius of
sixty miles. We are reconciled to the
fact that, no matter what our produc
tion, we could not be first; but what
occasions surprise is the fact that
such an article could be published in
which we are given credit for our pro
duction without a denial from Fair
banks newspapers. Surely they do
not realize that for once they stand
alone, and their neighbors are actu
ally credited with their outputs. The
actual production of the Iditarod dis
trict will be over $800,000 this season,
but even then we can not head the list
while Fairbanks reserves and claims
the right to reach out sixty miles for
its total. It seems that the smaller
they grow in population the wider
their limits extend in producing terri
tory.
It was once our fond conceit that
an inland empire was growing here
amongst the moss and niggerheads,
but we must in all fairness admit that
as empire builders we are a fizzle.
We have used the wrong tactios. We
have endeavored to let the showing
we have made speak for us, while Fair
banks has taken both her own produc
tion and that of her neighbors to use
for herself, and in calling attention
to her greatness, modesty has not been
the cardinal virtue of the “metropolis
of the Interior.”
Wp have attempted to follow the
old axiom that actions speak louder
than words, hut we are thoroughly
convinced that there is something
wrong somewhere. We have produced
over one-third as much gold as l*'air
banks, and still when an appropriation
is to be divided we are not invited
to attend. Fairbanks gets it. They
advertise they have the largest num
ber of automobiles in Alaska, which is
sure proof of good roads, while we
still buy boots when we attempt to
get over our little seven-mile stretch
of road.
We received letters and telegrams
from Fairbanks asking us to report
to them promptly all our Red Cross
collections: They telegraphed here
and appointed speakers for our Lib
erty loan campaigns.
Our mail is now routed through
Fairbanks. Our mail route was one
of the last and only things that be
longed to us. Surely they didn’t need
even that to add to their greatness.
They boast now in their latest papers
that all the mail for the Interior now
• comes through Fairbanks. Our Sew
ard route—hundreds of miles shorter
—kept the country open between here
and the coast, and caused some travel.
We were successful in getting a sep
arate chapter for ourselves in the
Red Cross, and also in being able to
remit direct and obtain credit for the
$800,000 in Liberty bonds which were
sold here.
Now the mail route is no more, the
Liberty loans are of the past, and we
have only our Red Cross chapter left
Take it, Fairbanks. It is all we
have, but we give it to you freely.
Make what use of it you will.
When the next appropriation is an
nounced, tell them of your greatness,
am? show them that Alaska is Fair
banks.
We freely admit your superiority.
You are great.
GIVES ACCOUNT
OF CONDITION
OF COUNTRY
(Continued from Page One)
pound sterling $3.65. Foreign coun
tries can not afford to send their
money over here at such a heavy dis
count to purchase our supplies of raw
materials, and this condition will ex
ist until a change is brought about.
It is hoped that the corporation
credits bill, passed just as congress
'took its recess, will bring about that
chaifge. If it does, conditions will im
prove in the States, but at present
they are very bad. One is much bet
ter off in every way in Alaska, unless
he has a group of Texas oil wells.
“If the peace treaty were submitted
to a vote of the people just as it came
from Versailles it would be defeated,
but if it were modified so as not to
do away with parts of our constitu
tion and the Monroe doctrine it would
carry by a large majority. Everyone
is crying for peace, but they want it
on proper terms.
“Congress is expected to pass the
oil leasing bill when it convenes in
January,” Mr. Hazelet said, “and
while the measure is not all that
could be (jesired and will not attract
large capital, it is better than noth
ing and is a start. If it passes we
expect to extend our operations in
the Katalla field. There is nothing
new to say about the Bering River
coal. Development will continue un
til it is known whether the building
of a railroad is justified or not.
“Just now any Republican could be
elected President, and if no grave mis
takes are made between now and next
November the next President will be
a Republican. I would say candidates
line up in the following order of pref
erence, judging trom what one hears
on the trains and in the hotel lobbies:
Wood. Lowden, Coolidge and Hard
ing. Poindexter will get the vote of
Washington state as long as he can
use it, and I judge some other states.
Johnson may get California, but just
now there does not seem to be much
enthusiasm for him in any other state.
Of course I could only judge from
what I heard in traveling and in con
versation with the people I met.
“The Democrats seem to be talking
no one but Wilson. McAdoo seemed
j to drop out of sight with his own
party after he jumped into the coal
strike. However, six or seven months
my change the whole face of things,
and yet I think it .would tie very safe
to lay a little wager on the next Presi
dent being a Republican.
“J. R. Heckman of Ketchikan, as
you know, has filed for Republican na
tional committeeman for Alaska. It
is generally understood that Charles
Herron and Milo Kelly will each file.
Heckman, I believe, has the indorse
ment of the .entire First division, as
well as part of this and other divi
sions. No matter who is elected na
tional committeeman, it should be the
aim of. the Republicans of the terri
tory to get together and act in unison.
Ten years is a long time to be split,
up in all sorts of factions. It should
be our aim to work for the election of
a g<*pd Republican legislative ticket
an.i insist upon the appointment of
the best men to fill the territorial of
fices when a Republican President is
elected. To my mind the legislature
is the important issue just now. A
few more legislatures like the last
two or three will put the territory on
the toboggan.”
In speaking of his trip Mr. Hazelet
said that he did not expect to go be
yond Juneau, hence his visit to the
States was a surprise; but that he
enjoyed it just the same. He saw his
son Craig in Detroit, where he is
working on the construction of a steel
plant for Henry Ford, who proposes
to make his own steel and iron. Mr.
Hazelet says Detroit is a booming
city with a population of more than
one million people.
FOUR CONVICTS BREAK
OUT OF TOLEDO JAIL
TOLEDO, Ohio, Dec. 26 (by Associ
ated Press).—Four men with national
police records escaped from jail here
yesterday during an attack by six men
who were visiting the jail, who tired
upon the deputies, wounding jne, and
attacking the guards and locking them
in a cell.
Mrs. Dunham’s home-made mince
meat at Finkelstein & Sapiro’s. 10-tf
Scarborough Pictures that please at
prices that are right Over Cordova
drug store. Phone 140—3 rings.
CLOWN PRINCE GETS
XMAS GIFT FROM PAPA
AMORENGEN, Dec. 26 (by Associ
ated Press).—The former German
crown prince spent Christmas with
his parents at Bentnick castle. A
great banquet was given, and the
former kaiser distributed gifts from
a Christmas tree.
GENERAL PERSHING WILL
SOON VISIT SEATTLE
SEATTLE, Dec. 26 (by Associated
Press).—General Pershing will spend
January 19, 20 and 21 in and around
Seattle, inspecting Camp Lewis and
the forts of Puget sound.
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NOTICE OF FORFEITURE I
To e. M. Gage, Peter Conaton, Wlll-I
lam Farrell, Jack Ryan, Morries
O'Donnell, Ell McQuade and George
Dempsey:
You and each of you are hereby no
tified that I have performed the an
nual assessment labor required
by law for the years 1912, 1913, 1914,
1915 and 1916, upon the following
described placer claims on Young
creek, a tributary to Nlzlna river, sit
uated in the Chitina mining and re
cording district, Territory of Alaska,
United States of America, to-wlt:
(1) Boston Association Placer
Claim, recorded in 1911, and
(2) The New York Association
Placer Claim, recorded in 1911,
and that unless within the time
prescribed by law you pay your pro
portionate amount of said expendi
ture. your interest In said claims and
each of them will be forfeited to me
under the provisions of the statutes
of the United States relating to In
terest in mining claims for failure
to contribute their proportionate
share of the expenditures required
by law for such annual work.
DEXTER CAYOUETTE.
City of Seattle, State of Washington,
United States of America—ss.
Personally appeared before me, a
Notary Public in and for the State
of Washington, Dexter Cayouette, of
Dan creek, Alaska, who deposes and
says that the statements in the above
notice are true, and that the said par
ties have not contributed any money
as labor towards the assessment work
on the mentioned claims for the
period stated.
DEXTER CAYOUETTE.
Subscribed and sworn to before me
this twenty-fifth day of September,
1919.
(Seal) FORD O. EDVEDGE,
Notary Public for the State of Wash
ington.
My commission expires July 29, 1923.
“Day’s Work for Day’s Pay,” Is Simple
Panacea for Spirit of Labor Unrest
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By CHARLES M. SCHWAB
When we get back to the practice of giving an
honest day’s work for an honest day’s pay, all such
theoretical questions as the high cost of living will
automatically disappear.
The engineers of this country have placed this
great country of ours in a pre-eminent position with
everything pertaining to manufacture, matallurgy, and
kindred arts. We are second to none in the work. We
have a great country, which God has endowed with such
riches in coal and natural resources as no other country
in the world; but rich as these are viewed by you, the
engineers in the country, there is one thing greater than these resources,
and that is the sturdy character, energy, and integrity of its people, which
will make these great resources of influence in the world’s development.
Great as these resources and the energy and integrity df our people
there is one problem of our engineering that 1 term today human en
gineering that is of far more importance than the creation of machines
and methods with which you have been so successful in the past. Of what
value is the skillfully devised machinery, the complex process, unless
manned and operated by people whose heart and soul is in sympathy with
the work which they are doing and who have before them the giving of
a complete day’s work for a day’s pay?
I am not all in favor of artificial methods to reduce the high cost of
living. There is but one way to do it and that is by economy and secondly
by industry and efficiency, and when we get this throughout our establish
ments, the high cost of living will by the natural laws of industry adjust
itself to its proper place. #
We have won the greatest war, and we must not lose advantage of the
lesson that we have learned by reason of the war; and that lesson is,
broadly, one that the president proclaimed as the lesson of democracy in
the ordinary sense of the term, but a democracy that will teach us all that
men are men for what they arc.
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