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THURSDAY, JANUARY 29, 1920
THE POOR MAN’S “MECCA”
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Reports coming from the States tell
•f the scarcity of jobs and the com
paratively low wages paid to the cost
of living there. The scarcity of work
is largely due to the closing of the
shipyards and other war industries.
Did you ever stop to think how fortu
nate we in Alaska are compared with
other places? Here we have no prob
l«m of war industries to convert to
peace-time needs and requiremnts,
with their attendant curtailment of
manufacture and labor resulting in the
hardship of enforced idleness. In
these days of high prices every day of
idleness is a real tragedy to the la
borer and his dependents. Here in
Alaska work is plentiful and a great
many of our workers make enough
money in the summer and fall to ob
viate the necessity of their working in
the winter. There are jobs for all
who wish to work, and the job hunt
ing, so baneful to the laborer in the
States, is absent here. In Alaska the
job usually seeks the man. To the
progressive fellow with a few dollars
to invest there js always opportunity
here at home, where a few spare dol
lars can be made to net handsome re
herns on the investment, with the
deubtful speculative feature so preva
lent in other places entirely elimi
nated. Alaska is truly the poor man’s
*1iecca.”—Ketchikan Times.
THE PREMIER MINE
Reports in circulation during the
•arly fall were that the Guggenheims
had purchased the Premier mine, at
Hyder, or the controlling interest in
it, for a figure variously estimated at
from $5,000,000 to $35,000,000. It was
hard to believe. The Guggenheims
have been too long in the mining game
to pay outright that sum fbr any mine
Bot fully developed, putting up the
hard cash for it. The history, of their
operations has been such that it was
hard to believe, and now comes what
is alleged to be the truth regarding
the deal.
In a recent issue of the Mining and
Engineering Record the following ac
•ount of the transaction is given:
The deal for the Premier mine, at
Stewart, has been the subject for the
Btost wonderful fairy tales. The facts
are: During the summer the property
was examined by engineers represent
in gthe American Smelting and Refin
ing Company. As a result, R. K. Neill,
under whose direction the property
had been successfully developed, was
requested to go to New York and meet
the heads of the company. He did so,
with the result that it was agreed on
behalf of himself and associates to
turn over control and operation of the
property to the company on a basis of
$900,000 and $120,000 working capital,
to be repaid from the first profits of
the operation, the A. S. and R. Co.
to receive 51 per cent interest and the
late owmers to retain 49 per ce^it; the
profits of future operations to be di
vided pro rata after the second divi
dend, which goes to the vendors. This
is a very different story from the
$5,000,000 fable. When will the press
realize that mining is a strictly busi
ness enterprise, in which sensational
ism and senseless boosting are out of
place?”
VOICE OF THE ALASKA PRESS
The city of Omaha has found that
advertising pays the city so well that
another appropriation of $20,000 has
been made to boost the town and se
cure industries. Valdez has started
a persistent line of advertising the
past few months, and is already reap
ing the benefits by increasing inquir
ies regarding the locality.—Valdez
Miner.
Letters from Delegate George
Grigsby and from Judge James Wick
ershani agree that the contest is
likely to be definitely decided in April
Writing friends, each predicts that he
will be successful. One of them has
the wrong hunch.—Ketchikan Chron
icle.
GREETINGS^ TO
ALASKA FROM
SEC. F. K. LANE
At the annual meeting and dinner
of the Alaska bureau of the Seattle
Chamber of Commerce, recently held,
the following virile message of en
couragement sent by Secretary of the
Interior Franklin K. Lane was read by
Chairman S. H. Hedges, who presided:
“I wish very much that it would be
possible for me to meet with your bu
reau at your annual meeting, espe
cially as you are to have with you our
friends, Governor Riggs and Bishop
Rowe, and other distinguished Alas
kans. I would like to be able to say
that I appreciate the energy and ac
tivity of the Seattle people with re
spect to Alaska, and particularly that
of Mr. McPherson.
“It can not be expected now, of
course, that there would be any great
immediate movement toward Alaska,
because of the unprecedented demand
for labor here, but before many years
we will see Alaska fill a large place in
the eye of the country, for it is the
largest unit of undeveloped country
this United States holds. It needs bet
ter steamship lines, more railroads,
more wagon roads and less red tape
The government should pifhpr ho nrp.
pared to act paternalistically in the
development of this domain, which it
owns, or it should make it easier for
the people to develop it themselves.
“It is not necessary to give away its
resources in order to secure this de
velopment. The first step should be
concentration of governmental author
ity in a single board resident in
Alaska, which would have authority
broad enough to permit it to develop
Alaska along pioneer lines, making
the rewards ample for those who do
the developing, but insuring against
long speculative holding. The north
ern regions of Alaska should be filled
with reindeer and musk ox, a herd of
the latter being brought over from
northern Canada. They can feed with
the reindeer upon the grasses, which
the reindeer do not eat, and these
animals could supply the whole Pa
cific coast with meat.
“Industries should be found to sup
port permanent coast fishing villages
throughout the winter. The growth of
agriculture in Alaska must depend
largely upon the growth of mining,
and with our new railroad, which con
gress has now insured, I look for a re
birth of the mining industry. We
have not yet begun to know what is
in Alaska. Its islands should be
leased on twenty or thirty-year terms
as great herding grounds for hardy
cattle, and the ridiculous laws pro
tecting predatory animals should be
repealed, so as make the herds safe.
The new oil leasing bill, which I ex
pect soon to pass, will make possible
oil exploration and production. It is
a great land, which needs but to be
known to be loved for its beauty, its
grandeur and its assurance that it will
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be the home of many hundreds of
thousands of stalwart Americans.
(Signed) “FRANKLIN K. LANE.”
ROBBED BY BANDITS,
THEN SHOT, BULLET HAS
JUST BEEN EXTRACTED
NOGALES, Ariz., Jan. 29 (by Asso
ciated Press).—One of the most re
markable cases handled by local sur
geons in recent years is that of Pedro
Jamit, a Syrian merchant of Tuxpan,
Nayarit, Mexico. A bullet that had
been lodged in Jamit’s back for. sev
eral months was removed recently at
a hospital here.
Jamit was held up and robbed of
$1,800 by bandits. He was shot
through the head, in the hip and in
the stomach. The first two bullets
came out of their own accord, while
the one that entered the stomach was
removed by the surgeons.
After being wounded Jamit was re
moved to the mountains by the ban
dits. During the sixteen days that he
remained there he received no med
ical treatment, his wounds being
washed with cold water by an aged
Mexican nurse. Through the aid of
a Mexican woman the Syrian escaped
and made his way to the border.
Last year Jamit was robbed of $5,000
by bandits.
If you change your address, do not S,
notify the carrier boy—report your S
new address to the office.
CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING
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| light housekeeping. Phone 128.
I WANTED—Woman for general house
work. Apply Lakeview. 26-tf
FOR SALE—Bed spring and mattress
two small tables, four dining room
chairs, cot, sanitary couch, cook
stove, tub and ironing board, elec
tric iron and mirror, 2x2 feet, Ap
ply to J. J. Goodro, opposite school
house or Phone 100. 24-2t
FOR RENT—Cabin in Oldtown. In
j quire of Paul Bloedhorn. 23-tf
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i FOR RENT—Housekeeping rooms. In
! quire Room 6, Mickelson & Currier
! building. 22-6t
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| FOR RENT—Furnished cabin. See
Ed Lee or phone 61—2 rings. 21 tf
! LOST—Purse containing currency.
Reward if returned to Osborne
Bros. 19-tf
j FOR SALE—Speed boat. Apply Gus
! Cozokas. 19-tf
FOR RENT—Furnished apartment.,
Call 104. 17-tf
FOR RENT—An apartment. Apply to
C. J. Goodall. 15-tf
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WANTED—To buy or rent one female
| canary for breeding. Call 29-2. 10-tf
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WANTED—feather couch, in good
i condition. Apply Times office. 8-tf
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; FOR SALE—L. C. Smith typewriter;
first-class condition, $40. See Cor
dova Adjustment Co. 27tf
LOST—A monogram watch fob, with
two small diamonds in setting. Re
turn to Times office and receive re
ward. 8-tf
FOR RENT—Furnished cabins. See
Dooley.
WANTED—Two tiemakers; good tim
ber; 40 to 45c; ties to be put in
bunches not less than three in a
bunch; parties will batch. Apply
Harry Christie, Mile 19.
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DEALER IN
RAW FURS
SEATTLE NEW YORK
Alaska Building » 127 W. 27th St.
Ship direct to New York for highest prices paid for Raw
Furs. Your shipments are handled by expert graders and New York
market prices are paid on correct grading the day received. If de
sired, your shipments will be kept separate, in order that our prices
may be approved by you. Providing that our valuation does not prove
satisfactory, the Furs will be returned to you, transportation charges
prepaid. Ship by Insured Parcel Post or Express. Ship in a dry
condition. Always inclose an itemized list of contents with name and
address. All payments are ipade by check on the Seattle National
Bank, or in any other manner desired., Special instructions, if any, to
accompany shipment.
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POOL
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IS NOW ON
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After the Show
Jerry Perry
vs.
Harry Porter
THREE PRIZES
FIRST—SUIT OF CLOTHES
SECOND—PAIR OF SHOES
THIRD—STETSON HAT
A New Shipment of
FRIESHER’S
BLACK
KNITTING I
YARN
Just Received at
Aunty Keating’s
Wee Shop
Socks, Sweaters and Caps Made
to Order
THE TAILOR
Opposite Kenny
Holden’s
Phone 188
SHOE REPAIRING
DIMON NICKALOFF
Currier Building,
C Street. P. 0. Box 986.
Keist Furniture
Company ,
Is the Place to Buy
New and Second-Hand
Household Goods
OUR PRICES ARE RIGHT
We Sell Goods on Commission
Next door to Alaska S. S. Office
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LIVE CHICKENS
Good Roasters
JOE FREY
Phone 22