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NOTICE OF CHANGE OF RECORDING PRECINCTS
According to a recently issued Court Order by
Judge Chas. E. Bunnell, the Nenana Mining and Re
cording District has been enlarged to take in the Bon
nifield and Totatlanika Districts.
Miners and Prospectors of these districts will be
enabled by this change to do their recording and trans
act other business at Nenana, which is within easy
reach of their mining activities.
NENANA COMMERCIAL CLUB,
R. S. McDonald, H. B. Joseph,
President. Secretary
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pression of initiative and individu
ality, and that of America on the
other, with its provision for equal
! participation by all in a common
! culture, common ideals and common
j opportunities, and for the develop
ment of individuality and initiative
j bounded by a proper regard for the
| good of the whole group.
Not only has the public obtained
a new view of the American school
and its power and value as an in
vestment, but the school has in turn
obtained a new view of its own
functions anti needs. It has realized
its weaknesses and shortcomings, but
never so concretely as now. It has
in the past made attempts to remedy
these weaknesses, but never with
such determination or a conviction
so clear cut as now; never with
such confidence that the public will
| co-operate and provide both moral
and financial support as now.
The reconstruction program of the
public schools provides for definite
work in Americanization, not onlv
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as the term applies to the proper
assimilation of our foreign popula
tion, but also as it applies to the
inculcation of real American ideals
in those of native birth who have
failed to become really American
j in thought and feeling; for the
teaching of Thrift in the broad
sense of the term which expands it
to include saving of money, the
1 proper spending of money, the wise
investment of money, the conserva
tion of health and material re
sources, and the inculcation of all
those virtues which make for a full
and wholesome existence; for the
support of the Peace Program of
the Junior Red Cross; and for in
creased attention to the physical
well-being of all the people of the
Nation.
Never before in the history of
the Nation or of the Territory of
Alaska has the educational outlook
been so bright. There is now be
fore Congress what is known as the
Smith-Towner Education Bill, which
provides for a Secretary of Edu
cation in the President’s cabinet and
tarries an annual federal appropri
ation of $100,000,000 for co-opera
tion with the states in the carrying
out of an educational program
which includes the removal of illit
: eracy, an Americanization cam
paign, better preparation of teach
ers, more adequate physical and
health education, and the equaliza
tion of educational opportunity re
gardless of whether a child lives in
a poor or a wealthy community.
Alaska is not yet included in the
benefits of the bill, although a most
determined effort is being made to
bring this about.
In so far as the Territory is con
cerned, there is an interest in educa
tion manifested by people in all
walks of life which is extremely en
couraging. The Territorial Legisla
ture at its last session was most
liberal in its appropriations for the
! cause of education. Various com
munities are also launching move
jments looking toward the better
t [ment of the material equipment of
the schools. Petersburg recently
received permission to bond the city
for $75,000 for the purpose of
erecting a modern school building
and making other city improve
ments. Federal legislation author
izing Ketchikan to bond herself for
$100,000 for the purpose of erect
ing a school building was also re
cently enacted. Fairbanks is erect
ing a large and well-equipped gym
nasium for use in carrying out a
more definite physical education pro
gram in the schools. Schools
throughout the Territory are devot
ing more attention to physical edu
cation and to the addition of voca
tional training courses to the cur
riculum. The time should soon ar
rive when no parent in any com
munity will feel that his or her
child can secure better educational
opportunities on the Outside than
in Alaska.
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.
YUKON CANNERY LOST MONEY
ON SILVER SALMON
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the surface as they near the spawn
ing grounds. The use of deeper
nets, it is contended, would have
enabled the natives along the vari
ous streams to have made larger
catches, but inasmuch as the natives
rely chiefly upon fish-wheels, which
have produced abundantly in past
years, the deep net theory will not
iessen the complaint against the
cannery.
“This has been an off season for
salmon,” said G. S. Martin, -who
reached Nenana from the lower riv
er yesterday. “All the oldtimers
claim that the run was the poorest
in years. And practically all the
king salmon which entered the
mouth of the Yukon early in the
summer were caught by the Carlisle
cutfit, very few being permitted to
get up the river.”
The cannery “day,” says Mr.
Martin, is eleven and one-half hours;
the pay So, including board. The
“day’ begins when the worker rises
at five in the morning. At 5:15 the
gong sounds for breakfast. At six
the man is ready for a day’s work.
For fear he may not hold out (?)
coffee is furnished at nine, and the
moment it is swallowed, he is back,
hard at it again.
The men are allowed half an
hour for dinner, but the whistle
blows on the 25th minute, giving
the company the benefit of the ex
tra minute, and the men do not
quit any earlier on that account.
In fact, the day—the cannery “day”
—is a day in one particular only.
The men are not through work at
six. They are offered 50 cents an
hour for all time over the cannery
“day.” Ar.d this, too, in a country
where the cannery people are tak
ing away the chief item of Alaska’s
diet.
1 Fishermen receive 30 cents apiece
^rom the cannery for kins: salmon,
j Three kings average a case. A case
iof king salmon was worth S22 in
iNenana last year, somewhat less
I than in the States. Wages and
Igiub for 50 men is what Alaska gets
’ out of it, and pays to have her own
■ product shipped out and back, if she
igets it. With certain restrictions,
| and by being properly conducted,
jsuch an industry, and many more
of them, should be operated with a
profit to the canning companies
and material help to Alaska in the
way of development.
There are about thirty canneries
! on the Columbia river, but the
| wages and hours governing Oregon
j and Washington are not to be ap
j plied successfully here, where con
ditions are different. Alaskans vot
ed for eight hours, as a working
day. Men are striking elsewhere
.for six hours. This new concern,
Jthe Carlisle Packing company, has
j established an eleven and one-half
■ hour day, and imports most of its
linen from the Outside, fljving them
|the preference, as 50 Alaskans were
[employed to 150 brought into the
[country from Seattle. The Alaskans
| were first to be laid off when work
■ slackened and towrad the end of the
season.
An improvement is needed in the
way of hatcheries. They should have
at least twice the capacity, as
corresponding with the catch. Dur
i ing the main run, or heaviest part
iof the season’s catch, there should
i be two days set aside to let the
,fish come up, so that natives and all
■settlers could get a look-in. Two
| days is the very least possible con
sideration, at that.
The Carlisle company packed
over 50,000 cases of salmon during
the season, with a benefit to Alaska
of about one-millionth percent, rep
resented by the employment of a
few men and the payment of a
shamefully small revenue to the
territory.
Merchants in Alaska cannot buy
canned salmon from the cannery.
oi' do not, at any rate. The product
of the cannery is first shipped to
’Seattle and other Outside jobbers,
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and then reshipped to the territory,
if it comes back at all. The Alaska
consumer pays the freight both
ways, a substantial profit to the
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cannery, another profit to the Out
side jobber, and still another profit
to the Alaska merchant who retails
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Electrical Goods
Stoves and Ranges
Water Pipes and
Fittings
Bath Fixtures
Sheet Metal Work of All Kinds
Tanana Sheet Metal Works
Trappers and Traders of Alaska
SELL VOUR FURS TO A HOME INDUSTRY. WE GUARANTEE
YOU HIGHER PRICES THAN OUTSIDE
CONCERNS WILL PAY.
During 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 charges 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.
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