FRISCO PAPER
GIVES ALASKA
1 GOOHOOST
1 Keep your eye on Alaska!
I Peace Is going to mean a lot to that
^northern adopted child of Uncle Sam.
1 And Alaska is a laboratory of democ
racy, too—there were government
'’lowned railroads in Alaska, for in
I stance, long before the war brought
I government operation of the roads in
1 the main United States.
I The United States department of
Ithe interior, which has more to do
fwith Alaska than any other govern
Iment agency, in an official report pre
dicts a drive of settlers to Alaska. It
is expected thousands of men and
women will leave the states to take
op life in the peninsula which we
bought from Russia, and included
among them will be many soldiers,
seekers of more adventure and the
outdoor life. Speaking of these sol
diers, the interior department says:
"These men, drawn from the more
settled and staid portions of the
United States and thrown into the at
mosphere of adventure and outdoor
life will not be content to settle down
/ to their former humdrum existence in
* the factory, the office, but that they
will seek a wider horizon and greater
possibilities of new countries. A
great immigration to Alaska is looked
1 for when once the armies of the world
are disbanded.”
The annual Alaskan report just
made to congress shows wonderful
strides made by the territory. The
white population is now estimated at
30,000.
Trade with the United States during
the last fiscal year was $131,000,000,
more than the trade between the
Pnited States and the Philippines,
Porto Rico, or Hawaii.
Agriculture is flourishing; and Alas
kan farmers are reaching out into
I northern Siberia for a market for
vegetables, which will be shipped in a
dehydrated form. In the Tanana val
ley the farmers have developed a
strain of Siberian wheat which makes
fine flour, ripens quickly and can be
grown in all valleys of Alaska. By
next year, it is promised that Alaska ,
will raise all the wheat needed in the
territory for flour, and later on the ,
territory may export wheat and flour
to the United States and Asia.
There are seventy-one public
. schools, with 3,500 pupils.
( Six salmon hatcheries are operated
i by the government and four by priv
ate companies, and there is $47,000,000
invested in the salmon industry.
Fishery products totaled $51,466,980.
r While over 8,000 seal skins were
j taken, an increase of 40,000 seals is
j reported. Furs worth $1,388,600 were
k shipped out.
' V The mineral production was $40,
11700,195.
# The government railroad made good
t progress, the main line to Fairbanks
having been extended from Seward to
: Montana creek, 210 miles, and the
j branch line into the coal fields now
S runs from Matanuska Junction to
, Chickaloon, in the heart of the coal
| field. The Alaska Northern railroad
# has been overhauled and put into
I working order.
I The government suffered a loss in
I revenue of nearly $90,000 due to pro
I hibition.
I The United States paid $7,200,000
I for Alaska. Last year the minerals
shipped from Alaska to the United
States were five times greater in
value than the purchase price of the
whole peninsula; the fishery products
were seven times greater, and the
total export and import trade between
the mother country and her adopted
child was twenty times greater.
When Secretary of State Seward
bought Alaska from the Russian min
ister, congress yelled its head off.
And here is what some of the bright
and shining lights among our states
men had to say;
“Alaska is an Inhospitable, wretched
and God-forsaken region, worth noth
ing, but a positive injury and encumb
rance as a colony of the United
States,’’—Ferris of New York.
“Greenland is a better purchase
than Alaska.”—Washburne of Wiscon
Jain.
"The acquisition of this inhospit
able and barren waste would never
add one dollar to the wealth of this
country or furnish homes to our peo
ple.’’—Lyon of Missouri.
Here's one case in which history
has abundantly disproved the fore
cast of the prophets of evil.—San
Francisco News.
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YUKON OUTPUT
OF GOLD HAS
BEEN^LARGE
Yukon territory has shipped to the
outside world no less than $200,000,000
in virgin gold.
Under the stress of high cost of
equipment and supplies, due to the
war, and the difficulty imposed upon
some of the large companies in get
ing capital for purchase of ground
from individual holders during the
last your years, the gold producing in
dustry of the territory gradually has
slowed down. The longer the war
continued the more difficult production
became, as prices of supplies continu
ally were mounting, thereby reducing
the purchasing power of gold for the
time, and not warranting the opera
tion of many of the low grade prop
erties of the country.
However, it is stated by competent
authority that within a few miles of
Dawson are forty-eight miles of placer
creeks of proved values awaiting oper
ation by dredge as soon as conditions
become favorable. The reorganiza
tion of some of the large companies
now under way also will facilitate the
v/orking of many miles of the richest
dredge and hydraulic properties which
long have been tied up. A number of
large dredges in this country have
shut down awaiting the changed con
rHHnns nnrl mnrh nf thp ilrorlfTP
parts have been reduced for the time
owing to difficulty of getting such
material during the war.
The Klondike sent to the great war
600 men, many of whom were miners
engaged in individual placer opera
tions before the war. Other burdens
on the gold miner due to the war also
discouraged the operations, especially
on low-grade properties, for the time.
In Alaska it was recognized what a
burden the war was on the miner and
all assessment work was suspended
until after the war, and this caused
many miners to come to the coast to
seek other employment until after the
war, and Canada suspended necessity
3f representation or operation of all
ilaims in the Yukon owned by miners
with the colors until six months
nonths after the formal signing of
ifter the formal signing of peace. All
;liese things tended to the diminution
if the gold operations and yield for
he period of the war.
The following is a sumary of the
Klondike gold shipments to date, the
igures in recent years being from
:he records of the royalty collector of
;he Dominion government stationed
it Dawson.
Klondike’s Shipments of Virgin Gold
1885-1886 .$ 100,000
1887 . 70,000
1888 . 40,000
1889 . 715,000
1890 175,000
L891 . 40,000
1892 . 87,500
1893 . 176,000
1894 . 125,000
L895 . 250,000
1896 . 300,000
1897 . 2,500,000
1898 . 10,000,000
1899 . 16,000,000
1900 . 22,275,000
L901 . 18,000,000
1902 .. ._ 14,500,000
1903 . 12,250,000
1904 . 9,413,074
1905 . 7,162,438
.906 . 5,258,874
1907 .t.. 2,896,174
^908 . 3,282,684
1909 . 3,960,000
1910 . 4,550,000
1911 .. •. 4,634,000
1912 . 5,018,411
1913 . 5,301,497
L914 . 4,649,634
During War Stress
1915 .4,376,393
L916 . 4,042,191
1917 . .... 3,266,018
1918 . 1,935,820
Supplementary . 29,239,273
Total .8200,000,000
The total gold snlpments from
Klondike creeks and those tributary
;o Stewart river, Fortymlle river and
;he bars of those rivers and else
where In Yukon are shown in the
iccompanying table. The item <^as
ilfled at the conclusion as "Supple
nentary” is a rough balance estimat
ed to cover the gold from Stewart and
fortymlle rivers and tributaries and
:he Circle district and other places in
ihe Yukon valley in early days, and
tlso covering the unregistered and
jnchecked sums, which were smug
gled from the Klondike camp in early
lays to escape the then excessive roy
alty which was imposed before an
efficient royalty collection system was
jstabllshed.
SCHOOL CHILDREN BUY
MANY THRIFT STAMPS
LOS ANGELES, April 7.—School
children of Los Angeles purchased
817,000 thrift stamps, totaling $204,
450 maturity value, during 1918, ac
cording to a report just made hy Miss
Grace M. Mogle, in charge of war
savings work in the Los Angeles city
scheel district.
The report of the activities of the
students does not cover a period of
three monthB during which the schools
were closed on account of the epidemic
of Spanish influenza, when practically
no sales of stamps were made. Miss
Mogle said, however, that with the
new year renewed interest was taken
in the campaign.
From month to month, the report
says, 140,278 students purchased
stamps; 45,219 thrift cards were com
pleted and 30,964 students completed
cards.
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GRAVE OF RELATIVE
IS FINALLY LOCATED
GLENROCK, Wyo., April 7.—A fifty
eight-year search for the grave of A.
H. Unthank, who was a member of a
party of California gold seekers, ended
here recently when Mr. and Mrs. J.
A. Unthank of Waltliill, Neb., visited
the grave, marked by a headstone on
which the inscription, “A. H. Unthank,
Died July 2, 1850,” had almost been
obliterated by the elements.
A. H. Unthank left his home in the
East late in the year 1849 to go to
California, which was crowded with
gold seekers. As the caravan neared
what is now Glenrock he sickened and
died. The other members of the party
buried him and erected the headstone
which now marks his grave. Reach
ing California one of the party notified
his relatives of his death, but was un
able to give them the exact location
of the grave.
J. A. Unthank, a nephew, a young
man at the time of his uncle’s death,
has ever since endeavored to locate
the grave of his relative without suc
cess until his recent visit here. He
will fence the plot and erect a monu
ment in memory of his uncle.
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ELM TREE BOULEVARD
IN HONOR OF SOLDIERS
PUEBLO, Colo., April .—If plans re
cently inaugurated by the Arkansas
\ alley Chapter, D. A. R., materialize,
a section of Twenty-ninth street will
be marked with rows of elm trees on
sither side of the street and be named
Victory street, in honor of Pueblo
county soldiers. The street is one
that motor tourists use in reaching
:he city and suitable arches with ap
propriate inscriptions are planned at
cither end of the elm roms.
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BUFFALO ATTACKS TRAIN
PUEBLO, Colo., April 7.—Denver
and Rio Grande officials are wonder
ing just what a certain huge buffalo
thinks of its passenger trains. The
beast recently tried to stop a train
over La Veta pass at night, but found
the locomotive stronger than its head.
Undaunted, it came back and rammed
the train again, and a second time
rolled off into the ditch. The train
was running slowly, otherwise it is be
lieved the buffalo would have been
killed.
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