BETTER TIMES
LOOKED FOR
IN COLORADO
DENVER, June 16 (by Associated
Press).—Colorado is beginning the re
construction period following the war
in a manner which promises greater
wealth and better empolyment than be
fore the . war, according to statistics
available at the office of the state
immigration commissioner. Bank bal
ances are higher than before the war,
unemployment has almost ceased to
be a problem, agriculture is flourish
ing, a higher silver price and lower
cost of powder and other mining
materials give promise of renewed ac
tivity in the field.
The cost of living in Colorado, how
ever, has shown virtually no tendency
to seek a lower level. In every city of
any size there is a scarcity of home
residences. Building operations sus
pended during the war and the coming
* to Colorado of large numbers of
health seekers is said to be responsible
for the shortage of homes and high
rents which have driven many families
to hotels or furnished room house
keeping.
Another factor which has brought a
problem to the cities is the fact that
a large number of returning soldiers
and sailors who entered .the military
or naval service from the farm have
no desire to return to rural life. They
are turning to the cities and while
there is a farm labor shortage of ten
per cent, the cities are unable to em
ploy all the men from the farms. In
spite of this, it is said, the emloy
ment problem is not serious.
Bank deposits have increased from
$228,154,528.14 in 1916 to $255,887,
431.82. The assessed valuation of the
state has increased from $1,211,697,278
in 1916 to $1,424,811,288 in 1918. The
cost of farm labor has increased from
$35 and $40 in .1916 to $60 and the
price of farm land has increased from
ten to 100 per cent.
The increasing importance of farm
industry is indicated in returns to the
immigration office showing an in
crease in the number of farms from
46,000 in 1910 to 60,000 in 1919. Last
year the sales of farm property reach
ed the highest total in the history of
the state.
In manufactures Colorado’s output
increased from $136,830,332 in 1914 to
$210,000,000 in 1918.
Contrary to general belief the min
ing industry as a whole obtained no
great material benefit from high prices
during the war. Lead and copper min
ing resumed a new importance, but the
fixed price of silver and unchanged
price of gold with extreme high prices
of materials for mining tended to de
crease the output of the rarer metals
almost in proportion with the increase
in the more common metals. The pro
duction in 1918 was less than during
the year previous. The gold production
was five million dollars below the aver
age. Coal mining reached the huge
proportions of 12/658,055 tons, the
largest output in the states history.
The 1919 coal output will be much
smaller, according to indications.
Reports to the immigration bureau
since removal of the silver price re-,
striction indicates a great revival in
silver mining. Some properties which
have not been opened for years are
about to be operated. Lower cost of
materials also will help the gold min
ing industry the principal operations
being in the Cripple creek district.
Agriculturally, present forecasts are
that the winter wheat crop will equal
the record combined winter and spring
wheat crop. The total acreage under
cultivation is the largest in the his
tory of the state. Rye is said to he
in a condition above normal. Increased
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av,i cag,c ivii outjui —
in the acreage planted to beans and
potatoes have been reported and the
condition ot fruit is reported as good.
In a live stock way Colorado will
fare well in 1919, despite severe
losses because (of heavy snow in the
grazing communities and a shortage
of winter hay. The price of hay at
tained unheard of proportions during
the winter when $40 a ton was,paid in
some communities. Colorado has
1.361.000 head of stock cattle at an
estimated value of $74,038,000, an in
crease of one-third since 1916. There
are 264000 milk cows and 406,000
hogs, the latter’s value having in*
creased enoromusly since 1916 when
320.000 hogs were estimated worth
$2,624,000. The 1919 valuation for
406.000 is $8,932,000.
Fairbanks papers are advertising
that there are plenty of empty post
office boxes to rent at the postoffice.
Leather is coming down, so Is shoe
repairing with up-to-date machines at
Steve Oros. 14-6t
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Mine operators in the vicinity of
Juneau are complaining of a shortage
of experienced miners in that district.
Special dinner served from 11:30
o’clock every day at the City Bakery.
The anglers all say our fishing
tackle gets the hig ones. So line up
at the Northwestern Hardware Com
pany. 7-tf
NOTICE
1 Notice is hereby given that, pur
suant to an act of the territorial leg
islature, there is hereby made, im
posed and levied upon each male per
son, except soldiers, sailors in the
navy or revenue cutter service, volun
teer firemen, paupers, insane persons,
or territorial charges, within the Ter
ritory of Alaska or the waters thereof,
over the age of twenty-one years and
under the age of fifty years, an annual
tax in the sum of five ($5.00) dollars,
to be paid and collected in the manner
provided by law, and deposited by the
treasurer of the Territory of Alaska
in a separate fund called the “school
fund,” and used for no other than
school purposes.
Said tax is now due and payable
and becomes delinquent on the first
Monday in the month of August cf
each year.
All persons subject to this tax are
hereby notified to pay said tax to the
school tax collector, and in case of
failure to do so the penalties provided
in Section 6 of Chapter 29 of the ses
sion laws of Alaska will be imposed.
K. G. ROBINSON,
School Tax Collector.
DIMON N1CKOLOFF
•HOE REPAIRING
Red Cabin (Ocean Dock)
Men's Shoes half-soled and
heels sewed and nailed.$1.76
Rubber heels and seles. 1.76
Ladles' Shoes half-soled.1.0V
Heels, rubber and leather.76
Men’s haf-soles . 1.16
Children’s Shoes, heels and
soles . 1.60
Harness Repairing; Automobile
Tires Vulcanised
Rubber Boots Repaired,.
Hand and Machine Work
Few Jews Will Emigrate to Palestine
From America and Great Britain
By OSCAR S. STRAUS, New York Banker
I am not a Zionist, but I am in hearty sympathy
with Zionism’s idealistic enterprise. Nevertheless I am
convinced that the number of Jews who will emigrate
to Palestine from, let us say, Great Britain or the
Udited States is infinitesimal.
Jews in Britain and America have become pros
perous and patriotic citizens and in numerous cases
prominent figures in the life of those countries. Mil
lions of them, thopgh Jewish by faith and ancestry, are
native-born citizens and feel themselves, as they are
entitled to do, full-fledged Britons or Americans, as
the case may be. I think events of the past four years amply demon
strated that their claims in this respect are justified. The Jewish war
record in the United States, I am proud to say, was a splendid one. I am
sure it was equally creditable in Great Britain.
Jews are domiciled in large numbers in the two great English
speaking countries and become integral parts of them because of the
opportunities for spiritual freedom which they have so long offered. Why
should Jews desert such an environment? I cannot conceive any circum
stances under which considerable numbers of Jews will ever leave British
or American shores.
I am told that anti-Zionists frequently suggest that, with the estab
lishment of a special Jewish state, Jewish citizens of other countries might
some day find themselves political outcasts and be told to “go back to
your own country.”
Nonsense! Stuff and nonsense! To suggest such a thing is to erect
a ridiculous bogey. To carry out such a suggestion would be to set back
the wheels of liberty which the war we have fought and won have set
so far ahead.
We rejoice in New Palestine’s foundation. We believe in its legiti
macy. We are confident that sooner or later its mission will be accom
plished—namely, to afford a comfortable, happy, prosperous national
home for the oppressed Jews of all lands. It is because British and
American Jews are not oppressed Jews that they will not go to Palestine
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS
SUMMONS
In the District Court for the Territory
of Alaska, Third Division.—Cor
dova Abstract & Realty Company,
a corporation, plaintiff, vs. George
D. Reid, defendant.
The President of the United States
of America, greeting, to George D.
Reid, the above-named defendant.
You are hereby required to appear
in the district court for the territory
of Alaska, Third division, within
thirty days from the completion of
the publication of this summons, to
wit, within thirty days after the 25th
day of June, 1919, and answer the
complaint of Cordova Abstract &
Realty Company, a corporation, the
above-named plaintiff In the above
entitled cause, which cause is an ac
tion on a contract wherein the plain
tiff prays judgment for the sum of
three hundred and eighty-nine and
67-100 ($389.67) dollars, and for its
costs and disbursements in the ac
tion, and for such other and further
relief as to the court may seem right
and proper in the premises. And you
are hereby notified that if you fail to
appear and answer said complaint as
herein required, that the said plaintiff
will take judgment against you for
want thereof, and will apply to the
court for the relief demanded in its
complaint, as hereinbefore set out.
The order for the publication of this
summons was duly made and entered
on the 7th day of May, 1919.
Witness the Honorable Fred M.
Brown, Judge of said Court, and the
seal thereof, this 7th day of May, in
the year of Our Lord the one thou
sand nine hundred and nineteenth,
and of our independence the one hun
dred and forty-third.
(Seal) ARTHUR LANG,
Clerk District Court, Third Division,
Territory of Alaska.
May 13, 19, 26. June 2, 9, 16, 25.
The best and quickest route to Fair
banks and interior points. Burgess
Karstens Auto Line, Chitina, Alaska.
Bulgarian and sweet butermilk. Call
Northwest Soda Works. Phone 187.
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Phone Orders To
CITY DAIRY
Opposite Modern Laundry. Phone No. 187
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it. Then you plan your day as
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about what daddy is to have for lunch. In
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isfaction of knowing they are handled in a
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to tear or destroy the fibre. Neither do
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scientific, yet harmless way that adds life
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Big Variety of Pastries and Cakes, Always Fresh
Sanitary Machinery of Latest Model. Patent Brick Oven. Best Ma
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