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NEW HELLO GIRL
FOR NENANA IS
Miss Constance Peterson, of Fair
banks, is due to arrive in Nenana
when the steamer Alaska returns
from Fairbanks. She has accepted
a position on the local telephone
staff and will probably take up her
new duties immediately... after ar
rival.
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She displaces Miss Lucille Dive!'.,
who is to be transferred to the
store department as clerk.
Miss Peterson is one of the popu
lar members of the Fairbanks
younger set and counts many friends
in Nenana also, where she is sure
to be very warmly welcomed. She
is a sister of Mrs. Robert E. Burns
of this city.
Engineer in Charge Fred'k D.
Browne, who has been in Fairbanks
during the past several days, :s
planning to return to Nenana on
the return trip of the Alaska.
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Water Pipes and
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Bath Fixtures
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LABOR SITUATION IN THE
WESTERN STATES AS SEEN
BY EMPLOYMENT CHIEES
IV.—ARIZONA
PHOENIX, Ariz.—There is less
unemployment in Arizona than in
any state in the union, and there is
a greater demand for ski'ted labor
in this state than for many months
past.
The above information was given
to The Associated Press recently by
a responsible official, who has made
an exhaustive study of labor em
ployment and living conditions, not
only in Arizona, but throughout the
country.
Despite the fact that from 7,500
to 10,000 men have been thrown
out of employment in the state since
the copper companies commenced
curtailing production, following the
signing of the armistice, there is
still a demand for skilled mine work
ers. It is further stated that this
demand is slightly greater than the
supply.
The explanation given is that the
men who left, foreseeing a cut in
the mine forces, or who were dis
charged, all had been earning high
wages throughout the war period and
now are taking vacations either on
the coast or elsewhere beyond the
boundaries of Arizona.
The copper companies, it is said,
which are estimated to represent
from 65 to 70 per cent of the as
sessed valuation of the state, gradu
ally are becoming readjusted to post
war conditions. The pendulum of
employment, which swung to the ex
treme minimum with the signing of
the armistice, is stated to be slowly
coming back and this, in part, is
held responsible for the demand for
skilled help. Of common labor there
1 is reported to be a supply equal
to, if not greater than, the demand.
In the cotton fields of the Salt
River valley, where a crop conserva
tively estimated at $14,000,000, is
said to have been raised last season,
a grave labor shortage is declared
to be in prospect when the demand
reaches its peak next Sepember.
For this condition a curious ex
planation is given.
Heretofore, Arizona cotton fields
have drawn heavily on Texas foi
labor, and have been fairly well sup
plied from that state, particularly
when a drought cut down the de
mand there. This year, however,
Texas is said to be expecting to
garner a bumper cotton crop and :t
is feared that the Lone Star state,
not only will use its own hands, but
reach into Arizona for more.
The statement has been made by
men closely identified with the Sait
River valley cotton industry that,
unless conditions change, next Sep
tember will find the cotton fields
facing a shortage of labor runninp
from 3,000 hands upward.
In every other branch of agri
culture the same thing is found am
farmers daily are calling in vain or
the government and other employ
ment bureaus for help.
In the northern portion of th(
state, the seat of Arizona’s lumbei
industry, there is reported a stead;
demand for help, which is meeting
with a fair supply.
The building trades, electricians
engineers and other branches o
skilled labor all tell of fair condi
jtions with considerable work on ham
and more in prospect.
Living costs throughout the stat<
are asserted to be 75 per cent highei
[than before the outbreak of hostili
ties in Europe. Figures taken fron
a survey in July, 1918, shoiy that a
.that time the necessities of life ha(
jumped 62% to 65 per cent abovi
normal pre-war prices. Since July
1918, they are said to have gom
from 10 to 12% per cent higher.
Comparison of the prices in thi
mining district stores and those o
other Arizona communities shov
prices to be about equal.
Rent rates are said to vary it
different communities. There is sai<
to be no increase shown in rent
in any of the mining districts sinci
the outbreak of hostilities. In othe
communities rents are show*n to hav<
increased.
WEEKLY FORCE REPORT.
For the week ending June 14t
there were 497 employes on th
payrolls of the Alaskan Engineeri.i
Commission, showing an increas
of 59 employes as against the nun'
her employed during the precedin
week. There were also 193 station
men or contractors, and 49 station
men laborers, showing an increase o
2 stationmen and 4 stationmen la
borers for the period under review.
The forces of the A. E C. wer
distributed as follows:
Camp 1, general . 5
Camp 1, electric .. 1
Camp 1, corral .
Camp 1, construction .. 4
Camp 1, store . 2
Hospital . 1
Townsite ....
Section 1 .....
Sections 2 and 3 . 1
Section 4 .
Sections 5 and 6 . 1
Surfacing camp No. 1 . 8
Surfacing camp No. 2 . 7
Camp 415 1
Road gang (wagon) . 1
Track gang
Camp 423 .
Camp 432 .
Camp 440
Camp 449 ...•.. 1
Camp 454 . 1
Nenana total ..45
Fairbanks office . 1
Tanana Valley R. R. 3
Fairbanks totjil ... 4i
Total for division .49'
The distribution of the forces fo
the entire division is as follows:
Supervision .
Engineering forces . 2:
Telephone operators . .
Hospital staff .. !
Superintendence . '
Power plant force . 1
Foremen and sub-foremen..,.. g;
Clerical force . 3!
Blacksmiths ... <
Carpenters . 1 <
j Hostlers and pumpmen . i;
j Cookhouse help . 3.
1 Teamsters, packers . i:
-Linemen . 1
- Laborers .jq.
- , Machinists, mechanics . i;
■jCrane and piledriver crews. ‘
? | Locomotive crews . ;
• Conductors, brakemen . I.'
- Janitors, watchmen . 1 •
f; Steamshovel and dragline.. -
1 Total . .45]
BOIL YOUR DRINKING WATER
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1 * PERSONAL
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• Mrs. Chas. Beam, who has beer
'j visiting in Nenana during the pasi
| j several days, the guest of .Mrs
_i*L T. Oldfield, is planning to returr
*|to her home in the upper town to
‘ \ morrow.
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1 j The Fairbanks fire departmen
was called out this week to cool ar
1 overheated chimney at the residence
* of Representative E. B. Collins, a'
* the corner of Fifth and Nobh
* streets. No damage resulted,
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> RELIEF CABINS WILL
BE BUILT ON TRAILS
_
Robert Sheldon, chairman of the
Territorial Road commission, re
j ceived a wire from Governor Riggs
J yesterday, informing him that the
. sum of $1000 has been allotted to
the Fourth division for the purpose
. | of constructing relief cabins where
; they would do the most good.
Mr. Sheldon stated that one cabin
: will be built at a convenient spot
! on the Koyukuk trail and another
! j on the trail between Cripple creek
i 1 and Lone Mountain.
1! Two men froze to death on the
: latter trail last winter, and it is
’ believed that this would not have
! occurred had there been a relief
: cabin handy, where they might have
1 taken refuge and weathered the
I storm.
ICE CREAM
AND
SOFT DRINKS
(INCLUDING THE WAR TAX)
| THE PORTLAND
JACKSON & EKELAND, Prop..
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CAUSING ILLNESS
Several cases of gastro-intestina
disorders have occurred recently ir
Nenana among the Commission em
ployes and townspeople, and it h
thought that impurities in the watei
may have been the contributor)
cause.
Dr. David More, health officei
of this town and district, statec
that the cases that have come undei
his observation so far have beet
mild attacks of stomach troubles
due to either improper food o:
drink. In view of the fact tha
these attacks first made their ap
pearance almost immediately aftei
the recent rains and high wate;
in the river, the doctor is incliner
to the belief that the source o'
the trouble can be traced to th<
water supply of the town.
He thinks that the surface watei
is finding its way into the severa
wells in town and contaminates
them, and that if the people woult
boil the water, as he cautioned then
to do just as soon as the river be
gan to rise and other condition:
threatened well contamination, tht
trouble complained of would nevei
have occurred.
The seepage of the w-ater frorr
the river to the wells in town wii
not contaminate them, he thinks
as in the seepage it traverses a large
body of gravel, which would mosi
effectively remove all impurities.
The real source of danger lies ir
the surface water reaching the wells
and he strongly urges on all citizen;
to boil the water used for drinking
purposes, until dry weather sets ir
and conditions return to normal.
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DAWSON, Y. T.—Since 1885 Yu
kon territory has shipped to the
j outside world $200,000,000 in vir
jgin gold, according to records of
the royalty collector of the Do
minion government here.
The Klondike sent to the great
war 600 of its stalwart sons.
Stress of high cost of equipment
and supplies, due to the war, slowed
down gold production during the
years from 1914 to the end of 1918,
jbut with the coming of peace, large
I dredges which have been idle are
expected to revive their operations,
and the estimated forty-eight miles
i of placer creeks of proved values
; within a few miles of Dawsonf
: miners say, soon will hum with re
newed activity.
The greatest year's gold produc
tion of the Klondike was during
1900, when $22,275,000 worth of
virgin gold was shipped. In 1918,
i the last year of the war, recorded
production fell to $1,935,820.
BOIL YOUR DRINKING WATER!
LAUNCH VICTORY IS
DUE THIS EVENING
The launch Victory is reported
to have left Fairbanks at 1 o'clock
this afternoon and should arrive
in Nenana at about 5 this evening.
She is bringing L. W. Hill, Her
man Rosburg, Ed Williams, Hans
Madson, Frank Taylor and Jack
Lucy and J. H. Russell for Nenana.
She had Mrs. H. O. Beldon on board
as a passenger as far as Chena.
j Genuine Buhach at Fowler &
' Morri*.
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