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DREAD TOLL OF
Strong condemnation of the govern
ment's policy toward Alaska, which Is
held to have been one of "repression
rather than assistance.” is contained
in an article on "Marine Disasters of
(lie Alaska Route," appearing in ttie
| January issue of the Washington His
torical Quarterly, just issued from the
presses of the University of Washing
ton. The article.is from the pen of
Mr. C. L. Andrews, who for twenty
years was in the customs service in
Alaska; and it contains the fullest ac
count ever made of the multi-millions
and the many lives lost for want of
proper aids to navigation of the 1.
ooo mile long channel running north
from Seattle to Skagway.
"The government has not done, and
is not now doing, what it should do
toward the upbuilding of the terri
torv of Alaska,” Mr. Andrews writes.
“Its policy has heretofore been that
of repression, rather than assistance.
If, instead of building forts and main
taining military establishments in the
country at an immense cost, only to
be abandoned, there had been light
houses and coast protection provided,
the advancement of the land would
have been secure and property
amounting to millions of dollars would
have been saved.”
Mr. Andrews takes cognizance of
the efforts of the present and of past
administrations to aid navigation, and
remarks that “the long delayed drag
survey is at last locating the sunken
rocks that heretofore cost a ship to
find, in almost every Instance."
“Because of the lack of aids to
mariners," he says, “the marine in
surance to Alaska is greater than to
almost any part of the world. The
rate from Seattle to Skagway is as
much as the rate from Seattle to Liv
erpool, via the Panama canal, in times
of peace. The government tax on
canned salmon Is tess than 1 per cent,
while the marine insurance on this
same salmon from Bristol bay to Se
attle is 3 per cent.
"With adequate aids to navigation
along the coast the rate need not be
greater than to other parts of the civ
ilizeil world. The buoys and lights,
the fog signals and the wireless tele
graph are fast putting aside the nia
rine dangers of Alaskan waters. Some
of them are badly needed, have been
long delayed, and are warmly wel
cornea as tney arrive. niiriy-ine
years elapsed before the first light
house was built and nearly half a cen
tury has passed and not a light or
Bristol bay. a place from which there
is 1,500,000 cases of salmon shipped
each year.”
(The writer says the government has
waited for private enterprise to devel
op the territory, while it reaped the
benefit before it made an investment
In addition to pointing out the ter
ritory’s claim to further attention
Mr. Andrews tells a dramatic story ol
many of the famous and terrible dis
asters of the channel, supplementing
his article with a detailed list of all
discoverable wrecks in Alaskan wat
ers, partly supplied by the Pacific
Fisherman and partly the result of a
summer spent in investigating th#
records at Juneau in 1915. The loss
of life, which he supplies as fully as
possible, was not published in earliei
lists of disasters.
Mr. Andrews is working in the Ban
croft library at Berkeley, California
at the present time, on a book which
he intends publishing. Alaska is the
subject.
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REGISTRATION NOTICE.
Beginning February 1 the registra
tion book of the Town of Cordova
will be open at my office at the P. O
Store. Second street, Cordova, at all
hours during the day and evening. The
registration book will be closed at -I
p. m., Saturday, April 1, 1916.
CHAS. KOS8WOG, Registrar.
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Don’t send out of town for your jot
work, but patronize a home industry
that is helping to build up your town.
RADIUM MARKET
IN STATE BE
WASHINGTON. Kelt. 4 — More
than $9,000,000 a pound would he the
, price asked for radium were that
quantity of the valuable metal avail
able and for sale at one time. Gate in
1915 there was sold in this country
one and one-tenth grams of • radium
(element) at the rate $120,000 a gram,
according to a report issued today by
the United States geological survey, j
The entire output of the United States
last year, however, was only 6 grnms,
or about 1 76 of a pound avoirdupois.
The European war caused a great
slump in the production of radium, as
in 1914 there were 22.3 grams pro
duced.
“The United States has the largest
known radium producing deposits in
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'“but the market for radium is mostly
in Europe, although Americans like to
feel ttiat they are sufficiently pro
gressive to take hold of and use to
the full new discoveries, Inventions
and processes, yet the European mu
nicipalities and hospitals have been
buying and utilizing most of the ra
dium produced. When the war began,
therefore, causing European money to
flow into other channels, the demand
for radium fell off so greatly that
there was practically no market for
radium or uranium ores in the early
part of 1915, and very li tie market
during any part of the year."
As a result of the collapse of the
radium market, mining for radium
bearing ores, except for such work
as was necessary to hold claims, was
nearly stopped. Through the efforts
of the experts of the United States
bureau of mines a process has been
developed by which radium has been
produced at a cost of $37,599 a gram.
The principal fields of the radium
bearing ores are in Colorado and
Utah.
NEW LIGHT CURE
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LONDON, Feb. 4. — Experiments
with a new light cure have been car
ried out with apparent success at St.
Bartholomew’s hospital. London, and
although the doctors are cautious in
their statements, owing to the com
paratively short period of investiga
tion, they have found the rays have
produced excellent results in the treat
ment of skin diseases and have stim
ulated the repair of shrapnel wounds.
The “Simpson light,” named after
its discoverer, is based on the affin
ity of rare metals for each other. Mr.
Simpson had noted that the combus
tion of certain ores produced a light1
having a curative effect on the hands
of the workmen. He produced an elec
tric arc lamp with these ores as elec
trodes, notably tungstate of iron and
wolfram. Two kinds of rays are pro
duced, visible and invisible. The in
visible are heat rays and ultra-violet
rays, the latter differing somewhat
from ultra-violet rays hitjierto ob
tained. The Simpson ultra-violet
light is more intense than that given
by a carbon arc like the Linsen lamp.
It is, in fact, richer in ultra-violet
| waves than any other lamp.
The installation at St. Bartholo
j mew’s was made last July. The light
is said to have produced marked bene
fits in the treatment of diseases of
the nose and throat, as well as in the
case of skin diseases. The vapor from
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the lamp also seems to help asthma
A case of obstinate eczema and one
case of lupus are reported apparently
cured. But it will take time to see
whether these cures are permanent.
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NOTICE TO WATER CONSUMERS.
During the flay water will be shut
ereept between the hours of 8 and 8
a. m.
During the night the water will be
shut off, excepting between the hours
of 8 and 8 p. m.
Telephone service will be continued
during the night while the water is
shut off.
In case of fire notify central at once
and water will be turned on.
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