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THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
Application made April 1, 1918, at the postoffice at Nenana, Alaska,
for eniry as second class mail matter, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
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THE POOR GOLD MINEP..
Consider the poor gold miner! He j
is the only man in the world, says j
the Marquette (Mich.) Mining Jour-'
nal, who has not been able to raise
his prices. The stigma of profiteer
ing can never smear his soul, be
cause. 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 repu
tation.
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 he has a dollar. He can’t
sell it for any more; all he can do
is to take it to the mint and get
100 cents. But the price of ma
chinery has doubled and trebled,
and so has the price ol' labor, and
so has the price of pork chops. The
machinery’ man and the laborer and J
the pork chop man can demand j
more because of the high cost of
everything, but not the gold miner.
So he—or most of him—has decided
to quit.
T_ 101(1 ..>Unn n nnAQllf
something, the gold produtcion of j
the United States amounted to about
•■(1101,000,000. In 1919 it amounted j
to about half of that. The reduc- j
tion is due to no lack of gold to be i
mined, but merely that it isn’t worth
mining. It’s too hard and costly a
job digging out 23.22 grains of gold j
dust for a dollar. The miners are j
probably going into the coal busi-;
ness, or selling groceries or cigars!
or some other line where prices can j
be boosted on account of the war, j
or wet weather, or something like
that.
Prices and wages have soared so
high there is no longer any profit in
mining gold. Billions of dollars in j
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 j
been based. The gold holdings of
the federal reserve banks in 1915
amounted to $315,977,000. Last
year they totaled something like $2,
119,315,000. Now, when Europe
gets back to work, which everybody
hopes will be soon, this surplus gold
will start pouring back from where
it came, our reserve will drop,
credit will have to tighten, and
prices will drop—maybe.
But meanwhile the gold miner
stands unique, a lone figure in a
profiteering world. A stratum of
gold means nothing to him if he
can only strike a vein of ham sand
wiches.
THE PREMIER MINE.
Reports in circulation during the
early fall, we are reminded by the
Ketchikan Chronicle, were that the
Guggenheims had purchased the Pre
mier mine, or the controlling inter
est in it, for a figure variously es
timated from $5,000,000 to $36,
000,000. It was hard to believe.
The Guggenheims have been too '
long in the mining game to pay out
right that sum for any mine not
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 come
what are alleged to be the true
facts regarding the deal, and which
seem more likely to be true.
In a recent issue of the Mining
and Engineering Record the follow
ing account of the transaction is
given:
“The deal for the Premier mine
at Stewart has been the subject for
the most wonderful fairy tales. The
Facts are: During the summer the
property was examined by engineers
representing the American Smelting ;
6 Refining company. As a result, '
R. K. Neill, under whose direction
he property had been successfully
Jeveloped, was requested to go to
Mew York and meet the heads of 1
he company. He did so, with the 1
■esult that it was agreed on behalf 1
>f himself and associates to turn 1
>ver control and operation of the '
property to the company on a basis
>f $900,000 and • $120,000 working
:upital, to be repaid from the first
'rofits of the operation, the A. S. &
R. company to receive 51 percent 1
nterest and the late owners to re- '
ain 49 percent; the profits of fu
ture operations to be divided pro '
rata, after the second dividend, '
which goes to the vendors. This is 1
i very different story from the 1
55,000,000 fable. When will the
press realize that mining is a strict- 1
y business enterprise, in which sen
sationalism and senseless boosting
ire out of place?” , 1
HOT LUNCH FOR WORKERS.
The dinner pail is passing; from
the mills and factories of the Pitts
burgh district. Restaurants and
cafeterias are taking its place in the
more important plants, because ex
ecutives are beginning to realize
that a hot, palatable meal makes the
workman more contented and more
valuable than the cold, indigestible
food packed away in a tin bucket.
In the Homestead milLs of the i
Carnegie Steel company in Munhall,'
a few miles from Pittsburg, more I
than 11,000 men are fed in the!
cafeterias every day, and the num-!
ber is constantly growing. At the'
plant of the Westinghouse Electric
& Manufacturing company in East
Pittsburgh, also a suburb, 1,200 em
ployes get their food in the com-1
pany restaurant, and a new dining i
hall and modern kitchen is being;
erected. When it is completed, the !
company will be able to feed 3,000
of its workers at one time.
The American Sheet & Tin Plate
company has 22 cafeterias in daily
operation in its different plants. It
was one of the pioneers in the
movement.
In the Munhall works, cooked
meats and vegetables are kept hot in
steam tables, and served as the men
desire, or as the various shifts reach
tjjeir lunch or dinner hour. Pies,
cakes and coffee, in fact many des
serts of which the workmen seem
very fond, are also available at all
hours, as well as tea and milk. The
FRESH STOCK
GROCERIES, MEN’S WINTER WEAR
GENERAL OUTFITTING
JOHNSON’S STORE Front Street
COONEY HOTEL
MR. AND MRS. M. J. COONEY
Owners and Managers.
DOG KENNELS IN CONNECTION
Heated Electric Lighted Bedded Stalls
men can thus buy a hot meal for j'
25 to 35 cents.
“Our employes are delighted with
the meals served in the plant,” said •
a woman representative of the:
Westinghouse company who is in j
close contact with the work. “They
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get better food for less money than ;
they do at home, and they get it j ‘
when they need it. We lose money’
by the arrangement, because we pro-'
vide food at actual cost and give!
away the coffee, tea and milk. But • ]
it pays in the long run, for it satis-!
fies everybody.”
These workers’ dining rooms, it j ^
was explained by one company su-'
perintendent, must not be confused !
with the dining rooms which have
long been in service for office forces
and officials of manufacturing con- j
cerns.
“Providing warm food such as the
‘white-collar’ men enjoyed was a
luxury the shopmen never expected 1
to attain,” he said. “But now wre
are giving all our men who want
them warm meals, and we are glad
to do it. This plant will never go j
back to the dinner bucket system.”
AIMED AT BRITAIN.
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The apparent Bolshevik movement .
in parts of Southern Asia and the ■
East Indies is not so much genuine *
Bolshevism as it is a movement «
directed against Great Britain, ac- j
cording to a Dutch official who is ’
in constant touch with affairs in ;
the Far East. J
“We have learned,” this official ]
told an Associated Press correspond- |
ent, “that delegations from Afghan- \
istan, from British India, and from !
some other Asiatic countries, have !
been at Moscow in close touch with ,
the Soviet government. .
“It is apparent that those who ■
seek aid from the Russian Bolshe- <
viki almost invariably are those ele
ments which have fought British !
rule in India or British control in
other parts of the East. Their aim
is simply to get Russian backing
for their anti-British campaigns.”
Holland has had considerable diffi
culty with Bolshevik agitators in her
East Indian colonies, but at no time
has an actual revolt been started.
ViUBt, Wknt Mila and lhrm Meat
'Notice is hereby given that under
the act of Congress approved Oc
tober 20, 1914, 38 Stat. 714, en
titled “An Act to provide for the
leasing of coal lands in the Terri
tory of Alaska, and for other pur
poses”, and regulations thereunder
j of May 18th, 1916, 46 L. D. 113,
and amendments thereof, and pur
jsuant to public leasing offer of the
I land embraced in Block 26, of the
j Ncuana Coal Fields, Alaska, dated
January 14, 1920, an application for
lease has been filed with the Com- j
missioner of the General Land Of •
j fice for said block, with a proposed j
investment of sixty four thousand
(64000) dollars development work,
to begin during the summer of
1920. On March first, 1920, the
said application will be taken up,
and proposal considered, subject to
any better terms that may be of
fered by any other qualified appli
cant filed with the Commissioner of
the General Land Office during pub
lication hereof and prior to said
date.
(Sgd) FRANKLIN K. LANE,
Secretary of the Interior.
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NENANA LODGE No. 1193
L. 0. 0. M.
MEETS AT MOOSE HALL
Fourth and B Streets
Second and Fourth Mondays
At 8:00 P. M.
ALEX FOWLER M. V. TYLER,
Secretary Dictator.
Department of the lake rice
Alaskan Engineering Commit*tea
NOTICE
Passengers are required to pur
chase tickets before entering trains
Tickets can be purchased from
the station agent, whose office is in
the employment office, on the ground
floor of the General Office Building. **
Alaskan Engineering Commission, or
at Camp 415 (North Nenana).
Tickets will be on sale at any
time during office hours, and oun be
purchased in sufficient time before
the departure of the trains.
Regular trains for the south leave
the foot of A street on Wednesdays
and Saturdays at 8 a. m., and from
Camp 415 (North Nenana), for *
Fairbanks, Tuesdays and Fridays, at
1 p. m.
Tbe following is the schedule be
tween North Nenana and Fnirhwdir
subject to change without notice:
Leave Fairbanks at 7:00 a. a ,
arrive North Ns nano, ] 1:30 a. a.
Leave North Nenana 1M p. m
arrive Fairbanks, 6:9$ p. m.
No tiokete will be sold crooning
the river. Those intending to taav *
e) to Fairbanks must make their
own arrangements for reaching
North Nenana.
Trappers and Traders of Alaska
SELL YOUR FURS TO A HOME INDUSTRY. WE GUARANTEE
YOU HIGHER PRICES THAN OUTSIDE
CONCERNS WILL PAY.
Daring: the last season we conducted an advertising campaign
throughout the North and are prepared to send you the names of
people in all sections of Alaska and the Yukon who will verify our
statements.
Our excellent Eastern connections, and the tremendous amount
of mail order business we are receiving from all parts of the
States for furs made to order enables us to turn our stock quickly
at a reasonable profit, but we must have fur, for which we guar
antee top prices. ,
Make us a trial shipment. If our price does not suit you, the
goods will be returned chargee prepaid.
WE MAKE FURS TO ORDER
at more reasonable rates than can be obtained Outside. At present
we are working three operators, and need others. If you are an
operator and finisher, and want a good year-around job, com
municate with us.
CHAS. GOLDSTEIN & CO.
JUNEAU, ALASKA