THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
Application made April 1, 1918, at the postoffice at Nenana, Alaska,
for entry as second class mail matter, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
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THE VIRGIN ISLANDS
The results of a census of the
Virgin Islands (formerly the Dan
ish West Indies) has just been
published in an octavo volume of
174 pages. The inventory was made
at the request of the secretary of
the navy, by the Bureau of the Cen
sus of the Department of Commerce
under the supervision of Mr. Eugene
F. Hartley, chief statistician for
manufactures of the Census Bureau.
The report shows that by this
latest territorial acquisition the
area of the United States was in
creased slightly more than 132
square miles; this aera being prac
tically that of the three principal
islands, St. Croix (Santa Cruz),
St. John, and St. Thomas. There
are in addition about 50 small is
lands or cays, the largest about
one mile square.
Interesting and significant is the
fact that while the United States
acquired title to the Virgin Islands;
by treaty with Denmark, on August j
4, 1916, after negotiations of more;
than half a century, the language of
the people is English, though the
islands were under the Danish flag
for 245 years.
jn liti/ tne value of the exports
from the United States to the is-'
lands was §1,416,342. and of the'
imports from the islands $1,259,607
The population as of November
1. 1917, was 26,051, and comparison1
with earlier censuses shows the pop
ulation has steadily decreased, from
43,178 in 1835 to 26,051 in 1917.
Of the total persons in 1917, 1.922
were white, 19 523 wer negro, and
4,606 mixed. The sex distribution
was 11,999 males and 14,052 fe
males. The returns showed 5,281
persons, or 24.9 per cent of the
population 10 years of age or over
to be illiterate. The population of
each of the three principal islands
in 191/ was as follows: St. Croix'
14,901. St. Thomas 10,191, and St
John 959. The islands contain three
cities: Charlotte Amalie, on the is
land of St. Thomas, with a popu- J
lation of 7,747; and Christiansted:
and Frederiksted, on the island of
St. Croix, with population of 4,-1
574 and 3,144 respectively.
Agriculture and animal husbandry
engaged 6,084 of the total popula-j
tion as owners, managers, or ten-1
ants, on the 430 farms or “estates”:
on the islands. These farms em
braced 69,892 acres of the 84,781
acres included in the total area of
the islands. Of the 430 farms re
7-r
; ported, 102 were operated by white
j farmers as owners, managers, or
tenants; 270 by negroes, and 58
by mixed blood farmers. The aver
age size of farms is 162.5 acres,
of which an average of 91.7 acres
was reported as improved and 70.8
acres as unimproved. The total
value of farm property is given as
$3,706,911. The number of farms
reporting live stock was 381. the
value of which was given as $582,
921. The total value of all crops
for the year ending October 31,
1917, was given as $522,606, sugar
cane contributing $442,120 and hay
and forage $67,589.
The number of manufacturing es
tablishments in the islands was 84,
of which 65 were located on St.
Croix, 3 on St. Joohn, and 16 on
St. Thomas. The number of per
sons engaged in manufactures wasi
842, of whom 686 were wage earn-i
ers. The capital invested was $1,
429,524; the value of materials used
$781,417; and the value of products
$1,292,247. Of the total value of
products, cane sugar contributed
$978,188; bread and other bakery
products, $192,544; and bay rum
$38,745. The manufacture of sugar:
from came employed 62 per ctnt of j
the wage earners, 76 per cent of j
the capital, and produced 80 per1
cent of the total value of the pro
ducts of manufactures. Distribu
tion and hours of labor of the gain-1
fully employed, by sex and age, are
interesting features of the popula-!
tion and manufactures’ statistics of
the report.
The census of the fisheries of the '
islands, the first ever taken, shows;
a total of 380 persons engaged in ’
the industry, with capital invested:
of $11,002 and a total catch for the
year valued at $44,436.
In addition to the sections de-!
voted to statistics of population, ag
riculture, mannufactures, and fish-1
eries, an introductory chapter of the
report gives much interesting infor
mation of the geography, history,
climate, etc., of the islands and
maps and illustrations are interest
ing features of the publication.
Two thousand barrels of salmon
have been packed to date by the ;
Ohm Fish and Packing company, ’
situated near Cordova, and com- '
posed of local Valdez and Cordova
men. It is asserted that 500 more
barrels will be packed before the 1
season ends. The company is also '
making arrangements to pack salt
herring.
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PHONOGRAPH RECORDS
ALL THE LATEST POPULAR SONG HITS
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UNCLE SAM IS
LIMAN ON
IMMENSE SCALE
DOUGLAS.—Fred Henson, for
several years steward at the Tread
well mess house, iic v a sucecessful
merchant at Port Angeles, Wash.,
in a letter to his father, United
States Commissioner Joh.i Henson,
at this place, tells jf what said
to be the most gigantic undertaking
•by the government in the line of
aeroplane lumber production in the
United States.
At a point fortv miles back from
Port Angeles, on Lake Crescent and
toward the Olympic mountains, the
government is erecting what will be
when completed, the largest sawmill
in the world, which will 1 .• used
exclusively for the purpose *of cat
ting spruce for aeroplane construc
tion for use in the ozone and azure
that intervenes between Germany
and the firmament of Heaven.
The vast prairie country contigu
ous to the foothills of thj Olympic
mountains contains billions cf Get
of the finest spruce in America,
and Mr. Henson writes his father
that 2,000 experienced woodsmen
are now engaged in cutting it down
and getting out logs for the big
sawmill which is being rushed to
completion as rapidly as possible, j
and which will have a capacity of
over one million feet of lumber j
daily.
A railroad 42 miles in length, a I
branch of the Chicago, Milwaukee!
& St. Paul, is being constructed to!
the new mill and a system of feeder |
tracks will be built throughout the j
timbered region to facilitate the \
work of getting logs to the mill. |
The United States government is I
in charge of the mammoth under
taking and will conduct it until the '
end of the war, when the industry
will be taken over by a private cor
poration, presumably the Chicago,
Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad com
pany, which is known to own much
of the timber land in that section.
The fact that the government is
Itoing so extensively into the spruce '
lumber business bears out the be-1
lief that reports to the effect that'
future warfare on Germany will be j
made mostly from the air are true. I
Also, one million feet of lumber j
daily will permit of the construction
of a fleet or flock of airplanes
within a short time that will almost
shut off the sunlight from the land
of the Hun.
MANY JAPS RESIDE
ON HAWAIIAN ISLE
HONOLULU.—The territory of
Hawaii has an estimated population
)f 250,180, according to the an
iual report of the territorial board
)f health, submitted to Governor C.
L McCarthy.
Honolulu’s population is placed
it about 75,000 with 41,500 for the
•est of the Island of Oahu. The city
>f Hilo has 10,550 residents and the
>utlying districts of the Island of
Hawaii have 58,950. The islands
>f Mau and Kauai have 38-500 and
11,000 respectively.
Japanese in the territory number
06,800, native Hawaiian 22,850,
ind whites 30,400. No figures are
riven for Chinese, Koreans, Filipinos
ind other Oriental races.
Nellie Neal and Mrs. Al. Roberts
if Mile 45 out from Seward, were
based by a big brown bear while
rathering berries recently. The two
tomen ran across a railway trestle
nd the bear abandoned the pursuit.
LABOR ASSURED
WAR WILL SHOW
WORiHV EFFORT
CLE\ ELAND.—“When the bat
j ties have been won labor organiza
i tions will have the satisfaction of
knowing that they did their full part
' toward making the world safe for
| the people who inhabit it,” declared
| W. G. Lee, president of the Broth
erhood of Railroad Trainmen, in a
Labor Day message to members of
the Brotherhood at San Bernard
ino, Cal.
‘*At no time in the world’s his
tory has the value of responsible
labor organization been recognized
to a greater degree,” the message
says. “Efficiency and co-ordina
tion as exemplified by collective
bargaining are accepted by the gov
ernment itself as the most effective
means whereby the greatest results
are to be achieved. The entire
foundation of responsible labor or
ganization is the basis on which the
nation has placed its faith for in
tensive production and distribution
in carrying on the war.
“With close to 14,000 of our boys
actively engaged in war service and
with 170,000 others carrying on the
transportation work at home, the
Brotherhood can feel that we are
taking care of the work assigned to
us and giving every ounce of energy
that the end may speedily be ac
complished. i
“This is no time to waste in lam
entation over what we may not ap
prove. If we ever needed to buck
up and shove out a determined chin
it is right now.
“American labor at heart is
sound; it has little sympathy with
the pretender and the small minority
that attempts to distract attention
from the main issue by its whining
over supposed errors in administra
tion. and its demands for revolution
do not deserve serious consideration
when the millions of loyal workmen
are remembered.
“We are with the President, the
Administration. We are not wast
ing much effort or energy over what
we will revolutionize during the war.
We are pulling with the President
to win this fight and will take our
chances in the reorganization of
business and industry after we win
the war.
It is with the greatest pleasure
of all my experience that I extend
to the members of the Brotherhood,
and all others whose belief in a
democratic form of government
lends their aid to the great endeavor
in which we are engaged, my sin
cere good wishes ^or their future
and the continued welfare of our
labor organizations that stand in
line with our boys ‘over there’ a
veritable bulwark of the nation.”
BUYER SAYS FURS
SCARCE IN ALASKA
The present fur season has been
the poorest that Alaska has seen for j
many years, according to a state
ment made by H. S. Tristan, a fur
buyer for Griffin & Co., of Van
couver, B. C., who has been in the
Interior during the summer and is
now on his way to Vancouver. Furs,
he says, are incredibly scarce.
Where last year a trapper would
have had 100 or more skins, this
year can only show a dozen or so.
The universal belief is that the
shortage is caused by the absence
of rabbits ptarmigan and mice on I
which the animals, particularly the
lynxes live. In the case of the
lynx, old trappers say that wheni
these animals cannot obtain suffi-;
:ient food they kill their young, and
this belief is borne out by the fact
that all lynx received this year are.
arge ones. Mr. Tristan says that
le saw one lone rabbit on his trip
this year.
John Niven, one of the pioneers
>f the Klondike, passed away in the J
lospital in Skagway recently. He :j
lad lived for some time at Gold J
Bottom and was brought into the t
lospital from that district. He was i
12 years old and a native of Scot- jj
and. 9
J. E. Luttrell of Anchorage le
j turned recently from the bioad
i Pass district where 1% has quartz
i holdings in the vieinty of where
I the Ohio empties in the Chulirna
I river. The holdings consist of eight
: claims of sulphide and cl.nlcopyrite
ore showing assays ranging in value
from to $100 per ton. Several
| ledges have been opened up showing
(good values and it is reported that
' there are several thousand tons of
ore on the dumps and in sight.
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LOST—I.arpe red baseball sweater
with prey stripes on arm Finder
please return to News office.
| FOR SALE—Panoramic views of
the town of Nenana in 1916 and
1917;, taken by Johnson, of Fair
banks, from hill overlooking the
town. Apply at News office.
FOR SALE-—Steamer trunks, trav
eling bags, suit cases A large
variety to choose from. Simson’s.
FOR SALE. CHEAP—Large tank
heater and pipe drum; flush toilet,
good as new; also sink. Inquire
Simson’s.
FOR SALE.—Mrs. W. F. Lyons is
leaving for the Outside soon and
offers shop, fixtures and business
in cleaning; and pressing clothes,
for sale. N'o reasonable offer re
fused Shop is on A street, near
blacksmith shop.
FOR REN'T—Upstairs residence,
four rooms furnished. See Slippern
FOR SALE AT A BARGAIN—Sew
ing machine, phonograph, launch
Bunny, with 2 hi h. p. Ferro en
gine, shot gun, rifle, etc. Inquire
of J. A. Slippern.
FOR SALE—Beaver Board, in plain
and oak finish. Doors and win
dows, sash stock and mouldings
Inquire Simson’s.
FOR RENT—LTpstairs residence,
four rooms furnished. See Slippern
PIANOS For Rent and Sale. Sim
son’s.
FOR SALE CHEAP—Cook stove in
good condition. Inquire News
office.
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