LESLIE'S TELLS
SOME FACTS
ABOUT NORTH
John A. Sleicher, editor of Leslie’s
Weekly, who made a visit to Alaska
several years ago to have a look at
the territory, and who has become one
of the North's most ardent boosters,
says, in a recent issue of Leslie’s that
Alaska i3 the most misunderstood and
misrepresented section of the United
States. People generally, and sin
cerely believe that the name Alaska
is synonymous with snow and ice and
couple it accordingly with ice cream
freezers and cold drinks. Yet the
principal cities of Alaska along its
southern coast line—Juneau, Ketchi
kan, Cordova, Valdez and Seward—dc
not average as cold in mid-winter as
New York and are seldom as cold as
Baltimore and Washington during the
cold waves.
Alaska is one-fifth the size of the
whole United States and its prodigious
area of about 600,000 square miles,
nearly three times the size of the Ger
man empire, spreads from the temper
ate zone to the Arctic circle. Not one
quarter of it is in the latter. Below
the circle lies a magnificent belt of
fertile soil. It is estimated by gov
ernment authorities that the plains.
on many of which cattle can be wint
ered without feeding aggregate 30,000
square miles, with a climate like that
oi Northern Europe—Norway, Finland
and Sweden. This land Is richer and
more productive than that of any
other country in the world, well wat
ered, fairly well timbered, and 160
acres are open free to the settler if
he wishes to take up a homestead.
In the great central valley of Alas
ka the coldest days of winter are not
as cold as reported from time to time
in the prairie states of the United
States, like Nebraska, Montana and
North Dakota. Stock raisers and
farmers are going into Alaska on
every steamer from Seattle to look
the country over.
BIG CONSIGNMENT OF
WALNUTS FOR CANDY
SANTA BARBARA, April 7.—
Thirty thousand pounds of walnut
meats were shipped recently by the
Santa Barbara Walnut Growers As
sociation in one consignment to a Mil
waukee candy concern, to be made up
into confections. This shipment, the
officials of the association say, cleans
up the nuts held in storage for the
season. The consignment was valued
at $15,000.
Nuts picked and cracked by the
growers during the season just over
brought about 76,000 pounds of meats,
valued at $40,000.
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Job printing at Dally Times office.
MINING MORE
OR LESS OF A
SPECULATION
VANCOUVER, April 7.—Is mining
“an investment, a speculation or a
gamble?” was the subject of an ad
dress made here before the Interna
tional Northwest Mining Congreses by
T. A. Rickard of San Francisco, editor
of the Mining and Scientific Record.
Even the best of mining propositions
contain a certain element of risk, ac
cording to Mr. Rickard, “but," he
added, “risk is the very essence of
mining; it is its life, and the true
miner faces the risk with cheeful con
fidence.” Certain promoters he de
scribed as men who tried “to sell noth
ing for something to a man who ex
pects something for nothing.” He said
in part:
“The use of money in mining is sel
dom an ‘investment’; usually when it
is meant to be so it affords an exam
ple of the triumph of hope over ex
perience. I admit that certain forms
of iron and coal mining on a large
scare are characterized by such secur
ity, continuity and steadiness of in
come as to be ‘investments,’ but the
mining of the so-called base metals,
in which most of you are engaged,
does not come within the category. In
metal mining the chance of a consid
erable risk and of a correspondingly
large gain is inherent. Some of you
will demur; you will point at the
Homestake, the Bunker Hill & Sulli
van or the Utah Copper as examples
of an investment, as representing a
type of security os safe as to be gilt
edged.
“But I submit that in the early
stages of development these splendid
enterprises were speculative, as is
suggested by the fact that these suc
cessful ones are a few survivors from
the much larger number that wore
started at about the same time and
proved disappointing. I may remind
you, to make my point quite clear,
that many of the famous mines of the
world ‘broke’ those who first attempted
to bring them to financial success. If
today you were to advise a widow to
put her savings in any one of the
three magnificent mines that I have
instances you would, in my opinion,
be an unwise counselor, because.,
looking forward, not backward, rb»
ten or twenty years, they would rep
resent a speculative use of the widow's
savings. You might be sagacious in
using your own money for such a pur
chase, because you could take the rel
atively small risk for the sake of the
probably large gain, but the widow
would be better advised to buy Lib
erty bonds. . i
“This investment idea, of minimiz-1
ing risks and limiting possibilities,
would soon cause mining to die for
want of breath. Before a profitable
outcome is assured every mining en
terprise must pass through several
stages of speculativeness as surely as
a child must take the chance of bumps
and bruises, of measles and mumps.
“Of well-conducted mining ventures
it can be said that they meet with a
measure of success as large as, if not
larger than, an ordinary manufactur
ing enterprise. I make no apology
for mining; it has been, and is still,
a glorious adventure for the youth of
the world, for those young in spirit
as well as in body. To mining we owe
the exploration of the far corners of
the earth and the development of its
waste places.”
NEW DISTRICT ATTORNEY
ISOL PRACTITIONER
Judge J. D. Clements of Helena,
Mont., who recently was appointed
United States attorney for the Nome
division, is 69 years of age, a good
lawyer, and was an able judge. He
is strong and vigorous and very pop
ular at Helena. He was born in Ohio
and reared in Newton, Iowa, where
he studied law and was admitted to
the bar in 1873, when he was serving
as court stenographer. He visited
Montana several times before he lo
cated in Helena permanently in 1886.
Judge Clements was elected probate
judge in 1887 on the Democratic ticket.
In 1896 he was the Democratic nomi
nee for justice of the supreme court.
He served on the bench for two terms
as judge of the district court, with
headquartrers at Helena. For the last
two years he has engaged in probate
practice.
Judge Clements is married, the
father of several sons and one daugh
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LIVE CHICKENS
Excellent Roasters
FRESH EGGS
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JOEFREY
Phone 22
Alaska
Barber
Shop
Has been removed to Kenny
Holden's pool room, where the
best of service will be given.
Two chairs, with Frank Cun
ningham and Ben Sherman,
formerly of Fairbanks, always
on the job.
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INGALLS
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and Mild-Cured
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| FOR SALE
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Pish and Clam Power Boat
Hulls now ready at shop on Sec
ond street, next to jail building.
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