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MINING INDUSTRY IS
DISCUSSED AT CLUB
The regular weekly meeting of
the Xenana Commercial club was
held at the club chambers at the
Union Hall last night.
With about twenty members pres
ent, Chairman McDonald called the
meeting to order shortly after e
o’clock. The visitors present at the
meeting were Messrs John A
Davis, superintendent, and Pau
Hopkins, chemist, respectively, of
the Bureau of Mines.
The minutes of the previous meet
ing were read and confirmed, aftei
which the secretary read severe
communications regarding matter
of interest to the district. One of
these was a communication from
the Tanana Valley Agriculture
association, regarding the preval
ence of tuberculosis among cattle
imported into the country and meas
ures taken to arrest the spreac
of the disease in the Tanana vail;/
The secretary told of the steps hav
ing been taKen by him, on behali
of the Commercial club to supp .v
the efforts of the Tanana Valle;,
Agricultural association; and or
motion duly made and seconded
the club supported and endorse,
the secretary’s action.
The roads, mines, governmeo
aid to miners committees had noth
ing to report at the meeting. Th<
fur question which had been table,
at the last meeting was brought
and as the committee appointed tr
look into the matter was unablt
to report further progress, it wa;
decided to let the matter be i :
abeyance for the time being 11 Ieasr
The Board of Associated Chari
ties was next heard from. J A.
Slippern stated that strong opposi
tion to the activities of the board
in the matter of the ice pools was
encountered. It would appear, hi
said, that the scheme whereby th.
board proposed to appropriate half
of all moneys collected on the ice
pools, for the1 purpose of carrying
on c....:. table works, had been gen
erelly very strongly opposed, and
he thought that this mode of col
lecting funds would n>-t work, and
recommended that the matter be
dropped. Dr. Diven then told of
a committee appointed in a town
in the States he had been at some
time ago, whose duty it was to
exercise supervision over any and
all schemes set on foot for charitable
purposes. This committee did not
handle any funds, but made it their
business to see that moneys col
lected for aiding people in distress
was done in a proper manner, and
that only just sufficient for the pur
pose was so collected.
After some discussion on the suo
ject, on motion duly put through,
the representative of the Xen^ia
Commercal club on the Board of
Associated Charities was duly with
drawn, and Mr. Gilcher, the clubs’s
representative, was notified that
his activities on the board had
ceased to PYist
The question of the income tax
and its application to Alaskans on
the same basis as to the people
more favorably situated was dis
cussed at some length, but no ac
tion was deemed necessary.
The chairman next introduced
John A. Davis, superintendent -f
the Bureau of Mines, and called
upon him to address the club re
i yarding the scope, purposes and
activities of the American Mining
Congress. Mr. Davis, who is no
stranger to the membership of the
Commercial club, then very clearly
told the club all about the Ameri
can Mining Congress and the good
work it was doing for the mining
industry.
The American Mining Congress,
; he said, had its inception about
;1901, in Denver, Colorada. It has
i state chapters with its several
branches in all the important min
ing states; it counts among its
members the best and most brainy
in the mining industry, who take an
active part in the enactment of laws
both in the states and national
legislatures pertaining to the min
ing industry. It had a paid secre
tary at Washington D. C., who
keeps in close touch with the con
gress of the United States in mat
ters pertaining to mining legists
tion. State chapters at* end to ihe
making of laws tegarding the min
ing industry, in their respective
states, and when action by the na
tional lawmaking body is necessary
or desired, the matter is referred
, to the parent body, the American
Mining Congress, who see to it that
appropriate action is taken.
He gave an interesting account
of the formation of a state chapter
i of the mining congress in Alaska,
with headquarters at Fairbanks
To do this, he said, it was necessary
to send out a circular letter to each
miner and prospector, setting forth
the advantages to be derived from
having a state chapter. In response
to the invitation cor.Laired in the
circular letter, mining men of the
district, met at the given date and
organized the Tanana Valley Miners’
association. When the required
number of men eligible to member
ship in the American Mining Con
gress had been assembled, an ap
plication for a charter for a state
chapter was sent to the American
Mining Congress.
After the charter had been re
ceived and the state chapter duly or
ganized. various questions having
an important bearing on the min
ing industry were taken up and
acted upon. One of them was the
plan to obtain federal aid to en
courage prospectors, and he out
lined the methods that would be
adopted in putting this scheme into
practice as soon as the aid, which
had been applied for, was received,
and pointed out the magnitude of
the impetus that will be given the
mining industry thereby. The ap
plication to the federal authorities
for aid to prospectors took the form
of a bill which was prepared by a
specal committee appointed to look
into the matter The bill was for
warded to the national organization,
the American Mining Congress, who
will see that the bill will be properly
sponsored and introduced in the
House and Senate at Washington.
The other matter taken up was tnf
question of roads and trails, and ■ e
told of the request that had been
made to the territorial legislature
now in session at Juneau, for the
enacrme of laws to impose a poll
tax on all males in the territory.
The money derived from this tax
is to be used for the building and
betterment of the roads in the dis
trict in which the taxes are col
lected. A resume of this tax as
discussed at the meeting of the
Fairbanks Chapter of the American
Mining Congress appeared in the
News in its issue of March 15th.
The cost of collecting such taxes,
hitherto, had almost absorbed the
money collected, and to obviate
this, it was suggested that all road
overseers and other road officials be
made tax collectors. They will be
paid a small percentage of the co - j
lections.
Another proposition taken up was
the question of cheaper power, and
Mr. Davis told of the steps that had
been taken to gather data that would
j bear the severest scrutiny. This
data would be placed before Con
, press for the purpose of convincing
that body of the urgent need exist
ing for a plant such as is asked
for. The recommendations made by
the Alaska Chapter of the American
Mining Congress call for the erec
tion of a power plant of 8,000 horse
power, and capable of being in
i creased to 20,000 horsepower, at the
i Lignite coal fields. The initial cost
j of the plant is estimated at six
million dollars. The exhaustive re
port submitted by the committee
I with the endorsement of the Alaska
! chapter is to be sent to the parent
body, who will, as usual, see to it
that a bill is duly prepared and put
through the House and Senate in
due form.
Mr. Davis then very clearly gave
a synopsis of the scope and pur
poses of the American Mining Con
gress and its various subordinate
chapters, with their laterals, and
strongly urged on everybody inter
ested in mining to join the congre-s
and thereby lend their aid toward
furthering the cause of mining and
the ultimate development of Alaska
by this means.
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Paul Hopkins, chemist for the
Bureau of Mines, who is also secre
tary of the Alaska chapter of the
mining congress, expressed his will
ingness to enrol members in the
organization after the meeting, and
several members of the club availed
themselves of the privilege an j
joined the organization.
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Mr. Davis was heartily applauded
for his interesting talk and a vote
of thanks brought the proceedings
to a termination, an adjournment
being taken immedn tely afterward
The road between Petersburg and *
Scow Bay is to be finished as soon
as the snow goes off, according to
the Petersburg Report.
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