ARIZONA MINES
*ARE UP AGAINST
BIG INCREASES
BTSBEE, Ariz., Sept. 1 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Little prospect for a
lower cost of copper production in the
Warren district is held out in a re
cent survey which shows a continu
ing ascendancy in cost of everything
going into production of copper,, which
already has reached an increase of
25 to 500 per cent since 1914. With
the exception of cement, which has
increased only slightly, everything
which enters into the industry has
increased.
Fuel oil, of which nine carloads a
day are used, has advanced 90 per
cent. Coal has increased 100 to 300
per cent. Coke has gone up 75 per
cent. Dynamite and powder are 65
per cent higher than in 1914, although
at one time during the war the in
creased cost was 130 per cent. One
of the large companies uses 125,000
pounds of dynamite a month.
Timber is costing twice what it did
in 1914 and five to six million feet is
the monthly requirement. Steel is
up 200 per cent. Mining tools are
costing from 100 to 200 per cent more,
and electricital machinery i up 300 to
500 per cent. Freight rates have
gone up 25 per cent.
WHALING OPERATIONS !
OFF ALASKA COAST
The steam whaler Star No. 2 is
in harbor and is lying at the city
dock. The reason for the call is
to secure men for the crew.
The ship belongs to the United
States Whaling Company and oper
ates out of the station of Port Arm
strong. It is one of a fleet of
three similar vessels operating out
of that port.
The company of which the United
States Whaling Company is a
branch is the largest whaling con
cern in the world and has altogether
a fleet of about thirty whalers and
it has stations all the way from
Tasmania to the Arctic. The head
offices are at Christiania, Norway.
The whales are secured by means
of a harpoon gun mounted on the
bow of the boats. The power be
hind the harpoon is black powder
which is the quickest firing kind.
In the head of the harpoon is a
bomb which explodes when it hits
the whale. The first charge sel
dom kills the animal but as the
harpoon carries a heavy line the
boat crew has something to hold
him with. It is often necessary to
discharge several bombs into the
body of the whale before he dies and
sometimes it is necessary to put out
in a small boat and use a long lance
to do the killing.
The crew of the boat, with the
exception of the officers, work on
salary and shares. The shares de
pend on the number and kind of 6
whales killed. The man who oper
ates the harpon is one who has put
in his life in the business, and
come out each year from Norway for
the work, going back in the fall about
the first of October, when the season
is over.
Recently the boat that is now in
the harbor fastened to a large whale
and the whale towed the boat at a
speed of ten knots for a long distance,
despite the fact that the engines were
backing up slowly. This same boat
on its last trip out ran into a schol
of fifty big sperm whales. Three of
them were secured and towed into port
hwile it was necessary to let the rest
go as the boat could not handle a
greater number.
Owing to the fact that this is a
poor fish year in Alaska the whaling
season has not been of the very best
as the whales follow the fish inshore
to feed off them. The less fish, the
less whales.
Although not as many whales
have been caught as in some previous
years, fertilizer and oil, the products
of the whales, commands a high
price on the market so that the com
pany will not lose money.—Juneau
Empire.
Niagara Falls, Out.—John Muneho
mer, nineteen years old, was taken
from a freight car after being locked
in it for three days. Munchomer
crept into the car in Harrisburg, Pa.,
hoping to be carried to Buffalo. The
youth was without food and wafer un
til rescued. The car was being shunt
ed in the Grand Trunk yard'1 when
Muncliomer’s knoekings on tin' door
were hon~d. He was deported by Cana
dian offi
The Rainier Products Company relieves retailers and consumers of the nec
essity of paying Revenue Taxes on Rainier Beverages by paying all taxes
thereon direct to the Government.
Northwest Soda Works, Distributors
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Unseen Foes
of Good Health
lurk all about us—in the air, on
our clothes. We know that
clothes that merely look clean
may be highly impure. To be
truly clean, clothes must be ster
ilized.
7 hat is but one of the many
reasons why our laundry service
should appeal to you. When you
send them to us your bed linen,
garments and household things
are more than washed—they are
purified.
We are able to do this be
cause we change from nine to
twelve times the waters in
- which we wash your clothes.
Dr. H. G. Ellidge of the Millon Institute of Industrial Re
search, who has investigated laundry methods, says:
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