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SATURDAY, JANUARY 24, 1920 .
PAPER MAKERS LOOK TO ALASKA
The district forester at Portland,
Oregon, who has jurisdiction over the
National Forest of Oregon, Washing
ton, and Alaska, reports that the in
quiries being received at his office
concerning the possibilities of paper
pulp manufacture in southeastern
Alaska presage the extension of this
important industry to this new field
in the near future.
The constantly rising pulpwood cost
to mills in the United States, as the
source of raw material gets more re
mote from the present pulp manufac
turing centers, are responsible in part
for the increasing price of paper
which has reached such a point that
it has been the subject of a number
of congressional investigations. An
abundant supply of cheap paper is of
great importance to the United States,
and if this is to be assured in the face
of the increasing demand it will be
necessary for the industry to devel
op in connection with cheap water
power.
The District Forester recently stat
ed: “The immense timber and power
resources of southeastern Alaska are
well adapted to the needs of the pap
er industry, and the Forest Service
is anxious to see them brought into
use for this purpose. It is furnishing
inquirers with all available informa
tion concerning possibilities there in
an effort to encourage their interest
in this new field whose development
will be of great benefit to the Na
tion as a whole as well as to Alaska.”
THE POOR GOLD MINER
Consider the poor gold miner! He
. is the only man in the world who has
not been able to raise his prices. The
stigma of nrofiteering can never smear
his soul, because, work as he will, he
never can get more than a dollar for
23.22 grains of gold. So he is going
out of business. For him there is no
such thing as the lure of gold. All
fiction is. reversed, romance is dead;
turn down the pages of “Treasure
Island”; drop a tear for old Mr. Midas,
and boy, page Captain Kidd and tell
him pieces of eight are not worth the
risk of losing one’s reputation,
Gold being the world’s standard of
value, its price does not vary. The
gold miner digs from the earth 23.22
grains of pure gold, and that means
be has a dollar. He can’t sell it for
any more; all he can do is to lake it
to the mint afid get 100 cen&. Cut
the price of machinery has loubled
and trebled and so has the price of
labor, and so has the price of pork
chops. The machinery man and the
laborer and the pork chop man can
demand more because of the high cost
»f everything, but not the gold miner.
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So he—or most of him—has decided
to quit.
In 1910, when a dollar meant s <me
thing, the gold production of the Unit
ed States mounted to about $101,000,
•60. This year it has amounted to
about half of that. The reduction is
due to no no lack of gold to mined,
but merely that it isn’t worth mining
It’s too hard and costly a job digging
cut 23.22 grains of gold just for a dol
lar. The miners are probably go'ng
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Into the coal business, or selling gro
ceries or cigars or some other line
where prices can be boosted on ac
count of the war, or the wet weather,
cr something like that.
Prices and wages have soared so
high there is no longer any profit in
mining gold. Billions of dollars in
gold have poured into the United
States as a result of the war. On
this gold, used as treasury and bank
reserve, our inflated credits have been
based. The gold holdings of the Fed
eral Reserve banks in 1915 amounted
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to $315,977,000. This year they total
something like $2,119,315,000. Now
when Europe gets back to work, which
everybody hopes will be soon, this sur
plus gold will start pouring back from
whence it came, our reserve will drqp,
credit will have to tighten, and prices
will drop—maybe*
But meanwhile the gold miner
stands unique, a lone figure in a prof
iteering world. A stratum of gold
means nothing to him if he can only
strike a vein of ham sandwiches.—
Marquette, Mich., Mining Journal.
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OF EXPERIENCE
WHILE ABROAD
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Dan J. McKenzie, a young Cordova
man who left to join the navy when
war broke out, writes to a friend here
■ a very interesting letter dated “At
Sea, December 14,” and reading in
part as follows:
“I am on my way to France again;
expect to arrive in Bordeaux about
the 22d. We have been out ten days.
“We spent about three weeks in
New York. I took in nearly all the
big show's, including the New York
Hippodrome, thte Winter Garden, the
New Capital theater (handsomest one
in Ne,w York now), and Walter Pryor’s
band. I also saw the prince of Wales.
Quite a lot for an old stiff like me in
so short a time!
“On my last trip to Europe I w'ent
to Paris, London, Rheims, Chateau
Thierry and Belleau Wood. I saw
where the Hindenburg line held forth,
also the ‘Big Bertha’ and the grave of
Quentin Roosevelt, in Belleau Wood
I saw a soldier’s grave marked ‘War
ren Taylor.’ I have never heard
w'hether Warren Taylor wms lost or
not.. Was he? I looked for Johnny
Jones’ grave, but could not find it.
Was he at Chateau-Thierry or the Ar
gonne Woods? It was a very sad
sight to see so many of our boys
graves over there. There is a small
army of men over in France fixing up
the cemeteries and reburying our
boys. I saw two cemeteries, one at
Belleau Wood and another near Fere
-en-Tardenois, only a short distance
from Quentin Roosevelt’s grave. They
are kept very nice and neat, and are
on a little bluff overlooking the battle
grounds. All there is so far to mark
the grave of a French soldier is a
crude cross with the name and a small
disc with a flag painted on it. Some
of them have a wrreath or t\$o that
their friends or relatives have left.
“The city Rheims has about 150,000
people—or rather, did have before the
war—but there were only seventy
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after block was nothing but ruins,
and we were told that there were not
over 300 people there now. I saw the
ruins of the great cathedral, also of
St. Anthony’s church, which, I waft
told, was built about nine hundred
years ago. Pretty old! I didn’t get
to see much of Rheims, as I rode
through the town in an auto, but what
I saw was enough to show me why
the Yanks fought so desperately. It
would make a fellow’s blood boil to
see the destruction the Germans
caused—for no reason that anyone
knows of. The churches were shot
all to pieces. We spent one night in
Rheims, and the room we stayed in
was shot full of machine gun holes.
“Last time I went back from France
we had a dreadful time getting across
the Atlantic. That was why I tried
to make up for lost time while I was
in New York. We were thirty days
getting across the pond. We hit
storm after storm, and finally we ran
out of fuel oil. Then we drifted for
three days before we were finally
picked up by another ship and towed
into Boston, Mass. Yet I like this
ship so well I may stay on her for the
winter. On this trip we broke a pro
peller blade four days out from New
York, and so far have hit three
! storms. Yesterday we had waves so
i large that they washed clear over our
j ship. We lost our dinner yesterday
noon, as it was washed overboard just
as we were sitting down to eat.
“At present we are just passing the
Azores isuands, about 1,950 miles
from New York. Tell all my friends
hello for me.”
MULE^IESAFTER
FORTY YEARS’ SERVICE
BIG TIMBER, Mont., Jan 24.—What
the Kent ranch, near here, claims is
the oldest mule in this state, died re
cently. It was “broken” 40 years
ago and it was three years of age at
that time. It did good service last
year.
MISSING GIRLS
CAUSE ALARM
IN LOS ANGELES
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 24 (by Associ
ated Press).—Two hundred and twen
ty-eight girls disappeared in Los An
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geles in 1919, according to records of
the police department, just made pub
lic. Officers believe some will be
found, but that the majority never will
be. This belief has crystallized in an
effort to establish here a bureau of
missing girls, with a number of police
women detailed to do nothing but
search for the missing.
Leo Marden, police sergeant, who
prepared the report, said nine out of '
ten of the missing girls were of the
“butterfly” or “rattlebrained” type,
“crazy for the attention of men.”
Judge Sidney Reeve of the juvenile
court said many girls ran away from
home because of lack of parental con
trol. He said:
“The modern home seems to be la«x
in the control of children. The good
old days when girls were not allowed
out without a chaperone seem to be
gone. Parents of today are so en
grossed in the rush of modern life
that they have not the time nor the
inclination to provide the proper home
entertainment for their children. And
the result? They do not realize their
mistake until a daughter disappears,
perhaps never to be found.”
Sergeant Marden added:
“The motion pictures lure many
girls from home. The girls seem to
resent parental discipline and long
for the glow and glamor of a film
star. The film folks are working with
us in preventing this evil, and many;
a director has notified us of a run
away girl. Sometimes we get them
before it is too late. Sometimes not.”
Sergeant Marden said many of the
girls were traced to Tia Juana and
Mexicali. Lower California border
towns, where they were in “white
slavery,” but few would return be-!
cause of the disgrace.
COLUMBUS, Ohio., Jan. 24.—Gro
ver Hartley, who managed the Col
umbus club of the American associa
tion a part of last season, will not be
with the club this season. Hartley
wrote President Tinker that in view ofj
the fact that “Bill” Clymer has been
appointed manager for 1920 he pre
ferred to be traded.
Fresh Ever-Ready Flashlight Bat
teries, all sizes. Blum-O’Neill Co. 3-tf
Job printing at Daily Times office.
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 SALE—Victrola and 18 records.
No. 3 Pioneer cottages. 24-2t
FOR SALE—Wash tub and board,
shoe pacs, size eight. Reception. Apt.
3. Call evenings. 24-2t
FOR RENT—Cabin in Oldtown. In
quire of Paul BlQedhorn. 23-tf
FOR RENT—Housekeeping rooms. In
quire Room 6, Mickelson & Currier
building. 22-6t |
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
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
WANTED—To buy or rent one female
canary for breeding. Call 29-2. 10-tf
WANTED—Leather couch, in good
condition. Apply Times office. 8-tf
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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POOL
TOURNAMENT
IS NOW ON
tonIght
After the Show
Charles Matthews
vs.
Clarence Johansen
THREE PRIZES
FIRST—SUIT OF CLOTHES
SECOND—PAIR OF SHOES
THIRD—STETSON HAT
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A New Shipment of
FRIESHER’S
! BLACK
KNITTING
YARN
Just Received at
Aunty Keating’s
Wee Shop
Socks, Sweaters and Caps Made
to Order
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PEYSER”
THE TAILOR
Opposite Kenny
Holden’s
Phone 188
SHOE REPAIRING
DIMON NICKALOFF
Currier Building,
C Street. P. O. Box 985.
Keist Furniture
Company
Is the Place to Buy
New and Second-Hand
Household Goods
OUR PRICES ARE RIGHT
We Sell Goods on Commission
v Next door to Alaska S. 8. Office
LAUNCHES
PIONEER AND SWAN
Wm. J. Crooker, Owner and Master
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REGULAR TRIPS TO KATALLA
FREIGHTING AND TOWING
To All Parts of the Sound
Phone 57—2 Rings ^
TRY THE
Windsor!
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