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H. G. STEEL, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
CORDOVA. ALASKA, MONDAY KVKNIXG, .ICNK lV, 1JHH.;,
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HANDWRITING ON THE WALL.
During tin* lust year we have w itnessed extraordinary rises;
in mam of tlie inetaD figures Inn ing been attained that five
\eais ago would have been charnetei iz<-il as preposterous if
anybody had talked about them. Among the major metals zinc
has been the most spectacular: among llm minor metals aliimin
um .antimony and tungsten have been the star performers. Ofi
late there lias been a sharply declining tendency in the markets
for zinc, antimony and tungsten that probably foreshadows tin*;'
return of those metals to normal levels. There is nothing mys
tenons or malevolent in the recent behavior of these markets-. <
(>n the contrary, their action is precisely what ought to be and
what has been expected all along.
The cycle is abvious. Extraordinary and insistent de
mauds elevates juice. High juice stimulates new production.
Sooner or later the time comes when the sujijily outstrips the
demand ,whereujion the juice declines .eventually reaching the
normal level at which the business may he conducted with the
ordinary jiercentage of profit. The time of such a cycle is de
termined primarily by the facility with which new jiroduction
may he organized.
In spelter the deficiency was never of ore supply, but
rather of smelting capacity. During the last year new smelting
cajiacitv lias been provided in a rapid and ev.en romantic man
ner. Similarly lias the jiroduction of antimony ore and tung
sten ore lieen stimulated in all jiarts of the world, but esjiociallv
in the I nited States. Even the old antimony mines or Arkan
sa- and tin* old tungsten mine of Connecticut have been re
opened. Declines in prices were inevitable.
The same things* will eventually hajijieu in the cases of]
cojijier, lead and aluminum. That it has not already liajijienodj
with those metals is due to the fact -that the product ion of them ,
could' ri<>t lie increased mi (prickly and, moreo\ er, t lie business in j
those metals is more concentrated and better organized than iiij
other cases, and for that reason, jiarlly, the advances in them
woe not so extravagant.
The alarming thing about the return to normal conditions
r that so many people have forgotten wliat normal conditions
air. Tungsten miners are grieving about the dejiression in
their industry arising from a decline of the juice tor ore to $<>i)
jicr unit. Previous to the war tungsten ore was worth about
$li te .+7 jier unit. In the .Joplin district there is resentment re
specting the fall in the juice of zinc ore to $8f> jier ton. Previ
ous to the war il was worth about $40 to $4.i. Both in the tung
sten and zinc districts mass-meetings are being held to consider
what stejis should he taken to relieve the suffering miners,
threats are being made to the efteot that ore will he held hack
until smelters pay what it is worth, that mines will he closed
down if necessary .that the wages for labor will hi* reduced,
that there will lie steps to secure a tariff that will keep ore
prices up to what they ought to fie, namely, the maximum at
tained' during the war period.
Those miners and smelters who started early and have
recoujied themselves will jirejiare to go out of business when
the hell rings. This will relieve the labor situation and will
»,ave the way for the reduction in wages and weeding out of
the inefficient that it inevitable. It is to be hoped that this
will come about with no great disturbance .but it will not come
about until there is a surplus of men and the good ones are
anxious to keej) their jobs. There will be, of course, a good
many miners and smelters who started late and will never re
coup their investments. This will hajijien to many who bought
properties at high juices from the far-seeing who cashed in
early. They will have to console themselves with the unsatis
factory thought that they took a chance and lost.
The recession in the metals does not indicate slackening in
business so much as it. does increased jiroduction stimulated by
the high juices. Nobody is responsible Iiji the producers them
selves. They could not eat their cake and have it too. Even (
tuallv the same thing will hajipen in copper, but that is jiro-:
•'•>l>ly still rather far ahead. The production of copper is not]
something that may be instituted quickly. The creation ot a
new jiroducer takes millions of money and years of time. This
is why copper is the strongest of the metals. There have been
no new jiroducers of great consequence since the outbreak of
the war e\ce|it lnsjiiration and I’huquicamata, which fortu
nately were just coming in at that time.—Engineering & Min
ing Journal.
Apparently the Mexicans are going to continue to cut up
until it will be imperative for t'ncle Sam to move upon them in
force. The calling out of all the militia looks as though the
administration at last has arrived at the conclusion that it is
better to be ready than to be late.
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Captain von Pupen has been sent on a mission to Holland.
American gumshoes proved too much for him ,but maybe he
will succeed better in the land of wooden shoes.
It is not to be expected that Japan will be so punctilious in
regard to the sovereignty of a neighbor ms President Wilson
has been.
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Berlin reports insist there is no race suicide at the German
capital ,but news from the war fronts daily show race murder
keeps on in a crimson grind.
WM. A. HESSE
Mining Engineer,
U. 8. Mineral Surveyor,
IT. S. Deputy Surveyor.
30X 358. CORDOVA, ALASKA.
DR. W. H. CHASE
PHYSICIAN ana SURGEON
3ffice over Cordova Drug Store.
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Alaskan Hotel
DR. W. W. COUNCIL
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inllrond Hospital; 2 to G p. m . Adams!
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E. F. MEDLEY
Attorney and Counsellor at Law
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tdarns Block CORDOVA. ALASKA
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ASA C. BALDWIN
Civil Engineer
Patent Surveys
Address: Valdez. Alaska
DR. C. L. HALE
DENTIST
Office In Adams Building
Alaskan Hotel
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Accommodations for Ladies.
Ladies' Facial Massage and
Shampooing.
Itazons Honed. Children s Hair
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EFFECTIVE MAY 1, 1916.
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