SENATOR HECKMAN IS
ON WAY TO STATES
Senator and Mrs. J. R. Heckman
left Fairbanks by auto this noon,
headed for Cordova and the Out
side. They were the guests of the
upper town for more than a week,
during which time they traveled
over practically the entire district,
sizing up conditions.
The Heckmans live in Ketchikan,
DR. R. R. MYERS
DENTIST
ARCTIC HOTEL
where the senator is engaged in
the fishing and mercantile business.
Battleship O-Cedar Mops, $1.50.
Fowler & Morris.
DOG OWNERS, NOTICE!
Owing to the scarcity of fish and
the increased cost of other dog
feed, it will be necessary for me to
advance the monthly rate for feed
ing dogs from S4 to $7. Those hav
ing dogs at my place below N'enana
are hereby notified that I will not
continue to feed dogs at the old rate
after September 10. The dogs must
be either taken away by that date
or left where they are with the un
dersanding that the board there
after will be at the rate of $7 per
month per dog. N’ELS STOL.
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The greed of the big interests ,
controlling the principal food prod
ucts of the country is responsible
ifor the unsettled conditions now
prevailing throughout the United
States, according to Ben Simson.;
sourdough Xenana merchandiser, who [
has just returned from an extended!
jstay in the East. The Big Five, as
the food monopolists are known in
the States, are virtually in control
;of the country, he says, and the
opinion prevails among Outsiders
that there can be no return to nor
mal price conditions until a means
has been found to regulate the
profits of the big fellows. The cam- I
paign against profiteers, which has
been inaugurated by the Govern
jment, is a step in the right direc
tion, believes Mr. Simson, but he
j doubts if the investigation will be
| carried far enough to reach those
j really responsible for the high cost
: of living.
j Business conditions in the States,
j from the Pacific to the Atlantic, are
good, says Mr. Simson. Almost all
lines of business appear to be pros
pering, but behind it all there is
that feeling of unrest which shrouds
I the future in uncertainty. People
in the States are looking for some
thing to happen. They do not
know what, but all feel that some
i sort of upheaval is rapidly approach
ing.
“Wages in the States are higher
than they ever were before," con
tinued Mr. Simson, “and there ap
pears to be work for everyone.
But the advance in wages has not
kept pace with the advance in the
cost of living. The man who gets
j S6 a day now is not nearly so well
off as he was when he received
$2.50, particularly if he works in
a large city and does not own his
own home.
‘•One of the chief items of cost
in the large cities is rent, due to
!the increased demand for lodgings.
I There seems to have been a gen
eral movement to the cities since
i the commencement of the war, work
jers having been attracted to indus
trial centers by war activities, and
;the new ly-rich, of whom the war
i has made many thousands, having
i located permanently in the big cities,
j This has resulted in a great scarcity
of town houses and apartments
and a soaring of rents.”
Mr. Simson says that it is not
the case that extravagance among
wage earners makes it impossible
for them to lay aside savings under
the new conditions. In support of
; this statement he cites one case, of
a family he has known in New
(York for a considerable number of
years. The head of the family used
(to receive a salary of i25 weekly.
; which left a little at the end of each
week to put in the bank. This man
:now gets $50 a week and he has a
hard time of it making both ends
meet.
Seattle, in the opinion of Mr.
Simson, is the coming city of the
Pacific coast. Business is booming
there now and expanding rapidly in
all directions. The start on the
road to greatness, which dates from
jthe Klondike rush, has developed
I into a steady permanent growth
which promises to make Seattle the
metropolis of the West.
Mr. Simson did considerable buy
! ing for the Nenana store during his
stay in the East, both in the line
!of ladies’ wearables and men’s fur
i
1 nishings and clothing. He found*
! prices in all lines abnormally high,
I with no indications of lowering for
I some time to come, but by being
I on the ground he was able to get
the pick of the market, some of
the goods having been purchased at *
a cost that will permit of their sale ;
at particularly attractive prices.
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i In a letter addressed to Andy
|Hoey, of the Terminal, Billy Wat
json, former resident of Xenana, de
] dares that the greatest need of
the Tolovana district, where he is j
inow located, is a wagon road to]
; connect the camp with the railroad.
(And he believes it would be possi-j
• ble, with a little energetic work on j
ithe part of the people of Xenana,
to build up a good trade with the
; Tolovana district.
“We’ve had an unusually dry j
summer,” Watson writes, "and it
has retarded operations enormously,
but I have been fortunate enough
j to work practically all the time.
■ When one place shut down, I man
aged to get into another. I’m now :
working for Hudson, the discoverer j
of the camp. He’s got a swell!
place with 20 years’ work in sight,
and he built a camp accordingly.
“They’ve got 40 days’ work yet;
then I'm going Outside, and intend
to come back and putt in all next
summer at this place. I’ve got six
men and it pays $5. Believe me,
boy, there are not many jobs like
that left in the country. Would
like to stay in and prospect this
winter, as I have quite a little
ground staked not far from here
that has never had a pick in it.
But I’ve got my mind set on seeing
the Great White Way once again,
and I might as well get it off my
chest.
"I am enclosing $2, which please
give The News man. They all say
The News is the best paper that
comes here. I always throw my
copy in Albert Bell’s poolroom when
I read it.
“Do you know, Andy, Xenana
should reach out for Brooks’ trade.
This camp has a great future. It
ever the mossbacks in Washington
furnish the money, there is the big
gest field in Interior Alaska right
here at your door. But the trans
portation problem is what retards
development. What the Xenana
business people should do is to agi-,
tate for a wagon road to connect
the nearest point on the railroad;
also for the expenditure of a little1
money on the Tolovana river. The
idea of freight going past Xenana
to Fairbanks, loaded onto the cars,
taken to Olnes, then 54 miles across
three of the steepest divides in the
country, when a wagon road through
a good rolling countrv to a point!
!
near Xenana would advance this
camp 500 percent. Also, a little I
money expended on the Tolovana
river would mean a lot in the sum
mer.
“They are doing the preliminary ]
work this summer on a ditch from
Mike Hess river that will cost $20,- j
000, it is estimated. That is for!
LET ALBERT DO IT
Launch Margaret ready to ferry
you across or take you up or down
the river. Special rates to berry pick
ets. Leave word at Fowler & Morris.
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MRS. A. B. EASTERLY, Proprietress.
Livengood proper. Xow, here on
Olive creek they are working this
summer with ten head of horses and
a grader on a big ditch, eight feet
across at the bottom, to be 15 miles
;long, to go to the Tolovana river.
Both ditches will be finished next
summer. Hudson brothers expect
to spend $150,000 next summer on
this creek, and, as I say, Teddy
Hudson has 20 years’ work in sight.
“But there don’t seem to be any,
people over here to take the initia-1
tive. They had a mass meeting the
other night to take some steps to- j
ward looking into the high cost of j
living. After a very weighty dis- ]
cussion, they wired Attorney Gen
eral Palmer, at Washington, settimr j
forth the facts, and requested the
X. C. company to ease up. Can
you beat that? Result—wire front
Palmer, promising investigation, and '
Mr. Preston came right over and
is here yet. So is H. C. L. Butter
went up in the last week from $1
to SI.10; eggs from $30 to $32, on
Olive creek. Bacon is a dollar a
pound, and so on.
“Xow, I think if someone outside
of Fairbanks would look into this
matter, trade relations could be es
tablished between the towns of
Books and Xenana. The people over
here seem to be under the spell
of Fairbanks. It takes a letter, for
instance, one month to go to Xe
nana and back.
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good ground here myself, and I’m A
interested enough to see something
.done to relieve the situation. Under
present conditions, it’s hardly worth
while striking pay.”
Watson says that he probably will
go to the coast by way of Broad
Pass when he starts for the States
later in the season.
\ al Diebold went across the river
this morning to have a look at the
railroad work on the Nenana-Fair
;banks line.
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