While the mines at, Juneau are mak
ing preparations for an output that
will exceed the entire gold output of
any state in the Union, the showing
for the future copper output is fully
as good. While the Alaska-Gastlneai;
at Juneau has just completed the firsl
unit of its plant with a capacity ol
6,000 tons day, to be increased very
shortly to 12,000, and the Alaska
Juneau is putting the final touches or
its 6,000-ton plant, with the Treadwel
capacity at 5,000 tons daily, the Unitec
States Smelting, Refining & Minin!
Co., which has purchased the old Eb
ner properties, some of the most va!
uable in this section, and which has al
ready expended a vast amount o
money in development work, thi
Julian Alaska Mines Co. putting in s
1,000-ton capacity plant, the Kensing
ton Mining Co., the Alaska Gold Bel
Mining Co., which has set aside a quar
ter of a million for preliminary work
and several others, all of which an
put in abnormally large plants, a ful
account of which will be found in the
June and July issues of The Alaskf
and Northwest Mining Journal, i
would seem that Alaska was comini
to the front sufficiently fast, but nov
comes the report that the productioi
of copper in Alaska will be more hai
doubled during 1915, with developmen
in the big copper producers of the Cof>
per River district hardly under way
In addition to this the Kennicott Cop
per Co., through its president, Stephei
A. Birch, announces that it has no:
only the richest copper deposit in th(
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world, but that It Is making copper at
a cost of 3.65 cents, the lowest record
yet reached. This report will be found
on another page of this issue. This
only accounts for two widely separat
ed sections in Alaska, while in be
tween and on all side areas where
there are hundreds of mines, many of
which are steady shippers and are
paying regular dividends, while many
of the others are fast being brought to
that desirable stage
Juneau at present is producing $8,
000,000 in gold yearly, and with com
pletion of plants now under way will
produce $17,000,000 at a cost of ap
proximately $7,500,000.—Alaska and
Northwest Mining Journal.
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EIRE DEPARTMENT
ZURICH, Switzerland, Aug. 5—
Owing to the shortage of men in the
Tyrol the military authorities of Inns
bruck have appealed to all the Tyrol
ese communes to enroll and train wo
men and girls for fire department
service. Considerable numbers of
women are already being trained,
especially in the use of the hose and
in first aid.
In Germany, the use of women work
ers in the factories has been highly
systematized. Forty per cent of the
high-explosive makers and shell pack
ers are women; fifty per cent of the
makers of tents, haversacks and slmi
lar equipment belong to the same sex
and in the manufacture of tinned
meats and preserves 75 per cent oi
those employed are females.
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Editors as a rule are kind hearted
and liberal. An exchange tells of a
subscriber who died and left fourteen
years’ subscription unpaid. The edl
tor appeared as the lid of the coffin
was being screwed down and put in
a linen duster, a thermometer, a palm
leaf fan. and a recipe for making Ice.
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PARCEL POST IS
CAUSE OF BIG
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A Washington dispatch says al-|
| though official data is not available, it
is generally believed here that the
$8,000,000 defict In the postoffice de
partment for the first nine months of
the last lscal year was due, very large
ly, to the cost of operating the parcel
post. The official statement of the
postmaster general attributes the de
ficit to “the unprecendented conditions
which have prevailed and which could
not be forseen.”
The conditions to which the post
master general alludes, of course, are
those growing out of the war in Eu
rope. Even the government's busi
ness, it has been seen, has been in
jured by that conflict.
The closing of the stock exchanges
resulted in a marked decrease in the
amount of first class mall matter, ex
tending over a period of a number of
months, and the general closing down
of business also afTected the amount of
other kinds of mail matter. The de
partment has exercised all possible
economy, and yet the deficit for nine
months is of ths size stated.
Ab sustaining the view that the par
cel post has been responsible for a
large part of the postal deficit it is
pointed out that the express compan
ies made large profits out of the busi
#
ness of package transportation, not
withstanding their heavy expenses of
of operation, and that the government,
with its more expensive machinery,
could hardly expect to fix charges con
siderably below those fixed by the ex
! press companies, and at the same time
, make a profit.
Because the regular postal organiza
tion has been handling the parcel post
business, there has been no way to
figure out the increased cost of that
new service. But the public demand
ed the parcel post. It is pointed out,
and presumably is not disposed to
worry over a deficit. Congress will do
the worrying next winter when It tries
to once more stretch a thin and dimin
ished revenue over a rapidly expand
ing body of public expenditure.
It seems likely that the parcel post
is costing the goverpment a good deal
more than it was believed it would
cost, and that the postofflce depart
ment is not to see another surplus for
many a year, unless congress should
readjust its affairs. But like the rural
delivery, the parcel post has probably
come to stay. Its rapid growth is the
best test of what the people think of it.
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GERMANY LEVIES TAX
UPON THE UNMARRIED
DRESDEN, Germany, Aug.—The au
thorities of the lit'tle city of Reichen
bach, in the Vogtland, have decreed
that all unmarred persons, male or
female, hereafter shall pay for the
privilege of single blessedness.
Those with incomes ranging from
1400 to 2200 marks must pay 5 per
cent more than they usually do; those
whose incomes run between 2200 and
4000 marks must pay an additional in
come tax of 10 per cent ; those getting
from 4000 to 10000 marks must pay 15
per cent; and those whose Incomes are
above the 10000 mark figures must
pay 20 per cent additional tax.
The only exceptions are persons
who have relatives dependent upon
them. The authorities throw no light
| upon the ways and means by which
j female “bachelors” may remedy their
single state, and escape the new tax
i at ion.
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BERLIN, Aug. 6—The recent report
in these dispatches that Signor Ferrari
Fontana, the New York Metropolitan
Opera company tenor, was fighting
with tlie Italian army, was tn part
erroneous, as it is learned that he was
released from service after a single
week with the army, and has gone to
the United States.
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MINER BEST SOLDIER
OPINION OF OFFICER
MANCHESTER, England, Auk. 5—
roni a Manchester officer who has
been In France since the beginning
of the war, serving with the British
staff, the Manchester Guardian has
gleaned some interesting views as to
the character of the different varitiee
of Br :ish soldier in the test of war.
In the opinion of the officer, the
best soldiers Is the ex-miner. He pre
fers the miner “because he Is stronp
in the back and used to dangers and
explosions; because he can endure
cramped positions in the trenches; be
cause his ears are quick, because he is
curious about sounds, because he is
Intelligent. The miner puts two and
two together much more quickly that
any other class of men.”
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SEEK REFUGE HOLLAND
THE HAGUE, Netherlands, Aug. 5—
A steady stream of prisoners-of-war
keeps trickling out of the German em
pire and reaches the haven of Holland.
Hardly a day goes by without an Eng
lishman, Russian, Frenchman or Bel
gian making his appearance in some
Dutch frontier village to become the
object of admiration and the recipient
of enough cigars to keep in tobacco
for the rest of his natural life. As
a rule they are the most energetic
men of their company who stand de
tention no longer and who, after pass
ing through the most terrible hard
ships often tumble across the line in
a state of complete exhaustion. Many
of their fellow sufferers are shot on
their way. Often they come to the
barbed wire fence which has been
built all around the frontier to gaze
at their prospective freedom with a 1
sudden bullet in their legs or tn their ^
back.
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FRIDAY AUGUST 6, 1915.
PATHE WEEKLY NEWS No. 14.
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getting our Retail Department settled in our new location,
the Adams Corner, and are glad to be able to announce that
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We have placed our Groceries, Hardware and Men’s
Goods in the new store and all our Retail Business will be done
from the Adams Building, Phone 6.
Our Wholesale and Furniture business will be handled
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