THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
Application made April 1, 1918, at the postoffice at Nenana, Alaska,
for enzry as second class mail matter, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
Published every afternoon except Sunday, by the Nenana Printing
Company, at First arid B Streets, Nenana, Alaska.
R. G. Southworth.Editor and Manager
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At no time during the war has the
importance of wheat been greater
that at this moment, we are in
formed by Territorial Food Admini
strator Gunnison. Every ounce • of
saved wheat, he reminds us, is a
contribution to our fighting forces.
Never before has it been so possible
for the civilian to lend such direct
and vital aid to his cause.
Direct orders for the family should
be formulated by every patriotic
housekeeper. In place of bread for
dinner she should demand of her
household that they eat more pota
toes, or for variety—rice, as a vege
table, or hominy grits
Breakfast should begin the nay
not by the breaking of bread but
by the serving of oatmeal, cornmeal
mush, or prepared non-wheat prod
ucts. And the housewife must serve
these breakfast cereals not apart
from eggs and coffee, but with them,
so that the lack of bread will be
met quite obviously.
At luncheon, any bread served
should be quite wheatless, and if
potatoes are served, bread can be
easily omitted.
These are only a few of the ways
that can be found by the house
keper who wants to eliminate wheat
entirely from her menu, and so
make a high contribution to cause
and country.
This is the reason the call has
come that we must save still more
wheat to give to the Allies. Instead
of reducing our wheat consumption
one-third as we have been urged to
do, we must now reduce it one-half.
This means that each person must
limit his or her consumption of
wheat products to one and one-half
pounds per week.
Now, one pound of wheat flour
should make one and three-fourths
pounds of Victory bread. Each one
may accordingly eat one and three
fourths pounds of Victory bread a.
week, or four ordinary sized slices
of Victory bread a day. This is
ample. With skillful planning, in
fact, most people should be able to
get along with half of this ration
With corn, oatmeal, or some other
wheatless hot bread for breakfast
and with plenty of rice, hominy, or
potatoes at dinner, no bread at all
need be used. This leaves four
slices of Victory bread for lunch or
supper, when most people will be
content with two.
The half pound of wheat left
after the pound of wheat flour is
taken for Victor bread will be ample
ration per person for use in cooking,
making pastry, or in macaroni or
spaghetti, both of which are wheat
produtcs.
With the realization that a wall
of wheat will stop the advance of
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the Hun through our lines we are
determined to do our all to meet the
plea, “Send wheat—and more—and
more!”
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NAIL THE RUMOR
L |
. j The Washington State Council of
; j Defense make the timely request
•! that every citizen co-operate to make
j individuals responsible for the news
l i they circulate concerning the war,
: the Red Cross, and so on. “Nail
j a rumor when you hear it,” the
• j council urges. “When you hear a
; disquieting story, ask the name of
: the man who tells it and ask him
j where he heard it. Trace it down
j and get the names of those rea’ly I
: i responsible.”
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WHY SO MUCH WHEAT ?
The increasing percentage of (
I wheat substiutes brings out the fre
quent question: why does the United
1 States send wheat to Europe and
j stint her own people?
Wheat flour is the only known
! foundation for a bakery loaf that
j will stand twenty-four hours' hand
j ling between the oven and the taol ■>.
t American women who do their own
baking can make good use of corn
meal, rice and oatmeal, but whom
ever women work in factories or
long hours in the fields, whether :n
America or Europe, bakery bread
must be within their reach.
Wheat is sent to the Allies as a
foundation for the mixed cereal
bread that they have been fating
for three and a half years, and not
to supply them with a stiaight wheat
bread. The Victory bread that
America is now using calls for only
a 25 per cent substitute, while
Europe since the outbreak of the
■vr l a.? eaten brc. 1 with 25 to 5(.
!?. r tf nt substitu:e
FISH AT TWELVE CENTS
Twelve cents a pound is the f?g
use at which the Public Safety Com
mission is furnishing fish to the
public in 120 Minnesota cities and
towns. In Minneapolis alone, 17,601
pounds have been sold. Over $6,000
I of public funds has ben invested
in boats, packing and receiving sta
tions, ice houses, docks and nets.
The purpose is to reduce consump
tion of meat.
ROLLING CANTEENS ADDED
The American Red Cross has re
cently added a new branch to its
. activities in Italy by sending two
rolling canteens to the front. A
rolling canteen is a kitchen on
wheels which furnishes hot food to
soldiers in the first line trenches.
HUNGER*
For three years America has
fought starvation in Belgium
Will you Eat less — wheat
meat — fats and sugar
that we may still send
food in ship loads ?
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fSKITKD STATS S FOOD « O MINI tTLATl ON
SENIOR WOMEN MUST TAKE
FOOD CONSERVATION COURSE
One hundred senior women at the
University of Washington have en
, rolled for a special course in food
(
conservation. All senior women are
required to take it except where
I their course makes it impossible. !
! The p-.rpose of the required course
! is to better arm for food conserva
| tion the women who leave the uni- |
! cersity in June.
j
The course is given by the de- j
partment of home economics, and is i
taken up from two aspects; first, a j
large view of the world food situ- !
1 ction and the conditions which made j
necessary the establishmene of the !
food administration; second, the ac
tual handling in laboratory work of
the foods which must be conserved
1 Substitutes for those foods most
needed by the soldiers or by war
' sufferers will receive special at
tention.
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MARKET OPENED
BY HIGH PRICES
ORE AVAILABLE
Deposits of chromite have been
j known in Alaska for a number of
| years, but they became of economic
| interest only in 1917, when the reia
! tively high price of the ore recall'- ’
■ them to the attention of the mining
men, with the result that ore is
commercially mined at one property.
The chromite deposits of present
economic interest, according to toe
United States geological survey, de
partment of the interior, are at the
| southwest end of the Kenai penin
jsula, in two areas, one along the
: north shore of Port Chatham and
, the other at Red Mountain, about
16 miles to the northeast. Both de
posits occur in bodies of altered
peridotite, and, so far as known,
| these are the only bodies of peri
! dotite in this vicinity, but exploita
’ tion farther from the coast, in the
[ mountains may reveal others,
j Pridotite of the same kind also
j occurs in large and small masses at
, several other places In the area be
j tween Yukon and Tanana rivers,
I and at Livengood, in that area, there
i is a deposit of chramite, but the ore
; in the Interior Alaska could not be
mined profitably except when prices
i are very high.
[ The chromite of southwestern Ke
1 nai peninsula occurs in lens-shaped
| bodies that range in thickness from
j a few inches to 20 feet and that lie
in attitudes ranging from horizontal
to vertical. None of the lenses ap
pear to be more than 150 feet long,
and most of them measure consider
ably less. The ore is not of uni
form grade. Some of it averages
50 per cent of chromic oxide, and
some is a mixture of chromite and
peridotite, the leanest part of which
may yield only 5 to 10 per cent of
chromic oxide. All graduations be
tween these extremes are found.
The deposit now being mined is
on a spit at the southeast end of
a peninsula known as Claim point,
which projects southeastward into
Port Chatham. This peninsula meas
ures about 4,000 feet from east to
west and about 2,200 feet from,
north to south, and is joined to th;.
mainland by a neck of land abou'
200 feet wide. The rock of Claim
point is entirely peridotite, which
crops out also on the mainland to
the north and continues southward
into Port Chatham for an unknown
distance. The known area of peri- ,
dodite here covers about thre-fifths
of a square mile.
lhe ore body is almost completely
covered by water at high tide, so
that mining must be done between
low and half tide. The deposit is
in a vertically placel lens, which has
a length of about 100 feet and
maximum width of 200 feet.
About 800 tons of ore containing
from 46 to 49 per cent of chromic
oxide was mined in 1917, and about
as much more remains in sight above
half tide- Ultimately it will be nec
essary to work from a snaft or
cofferdam and hoist ore to the sur
face, a method that will increase
materially the cost of mining.
Probably the upper half of the
deposit has been remover by erosion.
If so, and if the deposit becomes
thinner downward for 50 feet and
the ore has a specific gravity of 3.9
only 4,000 or at most 5,00 tons re
mains below the level of half tide.
At one place on the north side
of Claim point, near the crest of
the peninsula, there are four lodes
that stand vertical, and the owners
are considering the feasibility of
driving a tunnel from a lower point
on the hillside to crosscut them, j
These four bodies should produce,
when concentrated, about 3,000
tons of 50 per cent ore, but it is
likely that the tunnel contemplated
might also reveal other deposits.
There should be available at Claim
point at least 15,000 tons of chro
mite ore of a grade containing 50
per cent of chromic oxide.
The freight rate on ore from
Port Chatham to Seattle is $3.50
a ton, and from Seattle to an East
ern smelter is about $12 a ton, to
which must be added the cost of
lighterage to the steamship anchor
age in Port Chatham or lighterage
to the wharf at Port Graham.
The body of peridotite. at Red
Mountain is much larger than that
at Claim point, but is more difficult
! of access, and the grade of the ore
| there is not so well known. The
peridotite covers about three square
miles and contains many stringers
and lenses of chromite ore, of botl»
high and low grade. The larges^
deposit observed was a lenticular
body of high-grade ore not more
than 75 feet long, that had a maxi
mum thickness of eight feet at the
center and conained probably not j
over 1,000 tons. At this place there j
are many other smaller deposits and I
perhaps some as large or larger, all j
of which should yield at least as j
much chrome ore and possibly sev- j
eral times as much as the body at
Claim point. On the other hand,
these ores occur at an elevation
1 of about 3,000 feet and at a mini
mum distance of six miles from tide
i water, from which much of the route
lies through a precipitous and dense
ly vegetated country. In winter the
1 ore might be sleded out to tide
| water, but in sumer it would have
; to be carried by a tram.
Two hundred sacks of Matanuska
potatoes have been ordered by Cor
dova merchants for distribution in
that city, and if the Anchorage !
product proves satisfactory it is !
probable, according to reliable in- i
formation, that the entire surplus j
now on hand at Anchorage will be J
consumed there. One hundred j
sacks were ordered by Blum and \
company and the same amount by I
Finklestein & Sapiro.
Seward, Valdez and Cordova now j
are paying $25 per ton for the best j
Yakima spuds in Seattle. This j
makes it possible for the Matanuska
spud by aid of the $4 freight rate, :
to enter into competition with the |
Outside potato.
Farmers of the Matanuska valley,
are warned, however, that much will
depend upon this first shipment to
Cordova. Unless the potatoes sent
there are up to standard in every i
particular it is certain to create I
prejudice against the product which i
it will take years to remove.
Seward and Valdez merchants also ,
are considering ordering some of
the Matanuska potatoes, but as yet j
no orders have been received.
Ladies in the center and gents all
around—everybody up to the bar
after each dance on Saturday night.
ELSEWHEREJN AIM
The Pioneer Packing company is ^
now in full operation at Cordova. 1
The plant has been electrified and
a conveyor 170 feet long lands the j
clams from the cannery with a cap- (
acity for handling five ions an hour. I
A large force is employed by the '
company.
Father Duncan, missionary • f Met-!
lakatla recently celebrated his ©fltil j
birthday, and his 65th anniversary !
of his missionary work with the :
natives of British Columbia and ■
Metlakatla. Several books have been |
written on his life works. He left I
England 65 years ago for the nor- j
them part of British Columbia to 1
convert the Indians, who were sav-1
ages at that time. A few days ago !
he fell and injured his back, but i
is now on the road to recovery.
Joe Williams, of Thane was re
cently taken into custody on the
charge of being- mentally unbal
anced.
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A night school for Eskimos, be
lieved to be the first of its kind, is
being conducted at Shismaref, a na
tive village in Northeastern Alaska
The school is attended by older na
tives and has an enrollment of eight
een. An article describing this
school appeared in a recent edition
of the Eskimo, a magazine devoted
to the interest of the natives of the
territory bordering on the Bering
Sea. It is conducted by J. P. Jones,
and Miss Hollie Jones, teachers of
the Shismaref Indian school.
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But Better than the Rest.”
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'WAR SXrU'GS SCAUPS
ISSUED BY TKS
UNITED STATES
COVZR.MMENT
The habit that
makes men rich - - 1
Saving is a habit—the habit that makes
men rich.
While the Government needs the monev
that will be invested in the War Savings
Stamps, there are other, and simpler meth
ods that could be used to raise this two bil
lion dollars.
The greater purpose of War Savings Stamps
is to give every man, woman and child a
personal part in financing the war for free
dom and to teach the most beneficial habit
in life—the habit of thrift. So that when
the war is over the people will have saved,
out of the high wages of these days, some
part of their income, as a provision for the
future.
Look out for your personal future. Make
certain of it by buying War Savings Stamps
now, while you can. They pay 4 per cent
interest, compounded quarterly, and are
backed by the strongest treasury in the
world.
THEY EARN MONEY
THEY SAVE LIFE AT THE
FRONT, BY HELPING UNCLE
SAM WIN THE WAR.
BUI THEM AT THE
POSTOFFICE
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