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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A WANING RESOURCE.
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Alaska's dwindling silver horde
mast be built up at once if the
salmon industry of the North Pacific
is to continue, according to Dr. C.1
H. Gilbert, zoology professor of
Stanford university, who has long j
been recognized as a world authori
tv on the salmon. Dr. Gilbert re- ’
centlv returned to the States from
the North, where, as a special as- *
sistant in the United States bureau j
of fisheries, he spent the summer
studying conditions. ,
Silver wanderers of the sea. the |
sockeve, the king, ar.d the other
salmon, are simply being fished out, i
Dr. Gilbert reports. "With every
canner eager to prevent the fish'
from returning to their fresh water
spawning ground and fishermen and ,
giil-netters catching tons of salmon
trout, which are only half-grown
salmon, the salmon simply hasn't a ]
chance for survival,” he asserted !
ir. a statement made in Seattle.
Stringent protection laws are
needed, Dr. Gilbert believes. Mat |
destroyed the salmon horde, ar.d it
will be for man to build it up again !
if the salmon industry is to con-!
tinue. he said. “Only strict legis-;
iatior. that will close the principal \
fishing grounds to trapmer, and nets
for years to come will prevent the
extinction of the salmon. Today
rivers that only supplied the largest
number of fish furnish but a hand
ful compared with their former
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amounts.
"There is nothing that car. take
the place of the salmon. This sum
mer in many places I saw only thou
sands of fish where years ago mill
ions used to swarm.
“It’s all an old. old story. We
have preached our tale for years,
and we cannot convince these men
who make money enough in the big
years to afford to lose in the lean
ones that they are killing the goose
and that the golden eggs will short
ly cease to be,”
MINERAL PRODUCTION.
The Department of the Interior
has just issued a preliminary report
on the mineral production of the
United States in 1918 for the pur
pose of making public as soon as
possible the statistics collected by
the U. S. geological survey for that
year. The statistics given for most
commodities are final; those for a
few are only estimates based on in
complete returns; but on the whole
the report gives a fairly complete
record of the mineral output of the
country during the year.
The total value of the minerals
produced was about *5,526,000,000,
more than half a billion dollars in
excess of the value recorded for
1917, but the total quantity pro
duced was less. The output of fuels
was greater than in 1917, though
somewhat less anthracite coal was
marketed. The increase in the quan
tity of coal marketed was about 5'
percent, but the increase in value,
cue to higher prices, was more than
17 percent. It is significant that,;
though the increase in the quantity!
of petroleum marketed was only a
little more than 4 percent, the in- j
crease in value was over 2 percent, j
The value of the metals produced (
■was about 3 percent greater in 1918
| than in 1917. The figures show that
I less iron ore and steel were pro
duced. but here again values were
higher. A little more pig iron was
made, though the quantity shipped
was less. Copper and zinc not only
in themselves but as the components
;
of brass are perhaps next in im
portance to iron in the world’s in
dustry today, and in 1918 they f
stood high on the list of war met- ’
als. A little more copper but less
zinc was produced, the values of,
both were lower, that of zinc fall-'
ing about 25 percent. The output
of the war metals manganese and
chromite, used in hardening steel. .
was greater than in any preceding i
year. Chromite increased 88 per
cent in quantity and 275 percent
in value over 1917, and the in-;
creases in manganese ore were 136
and 100 percent, respectively. Less
gold and silver were mined than j
for many years. Though the price !
of silver rose from 81 cents an |
ounce in 1917 nearly to 97 cents]
in 1918, the increase was not enough
to cover the increased cost of min-;
ing.
The output of building material—
clay products, building stone, ce-1
ment. lime, gypsum—showed a great
decline.
The domestic production of pot-1
ash in 1918 was 34.000 tons, an
increase of 68 percent over the out
put for 1917.
A copy of the report may be ob
tained by application to the Direc
tor. U. S. Geological Survey, Wash
ington, D. C
TAKE CARE OF THEIR OWN.
Sixty-six percent of registered
soldier and sailor applicants for jobs
were placed by the various govern
mental and volunteer employment
services during five weeks ending
June 28 .according to figures made
public recently by Colonel Arthur
; Woods, assistant to the secretary of
war and head of the Government’s
organization for the re-employment
;of sendee men.
The 77 cities in the survey arc
divided into five groups, according to
population, and represent every sec
tion of the country. The cities over
200.000 placed 63 percent of their
enrolled men; the next group, con
sisting of cities from 100,000 to
200,000. 76 percent; the 50.000 to
100.000 group, 81 percent, and the
“little cities,” or those under 50,
000, 71 percent.
GERMAN FOOD CONTROL
SOCIETIES DISBANDING
BERLIN'.—Five of the twenty-sev
en societies formed to control Ger
manvs' food supply have already
been disbanded, and it is announced
that others will follow in the near
future. The central purchasing com
pany. which superintended the buy
ing of all Germany’s war food, is
1 now being used as an employment
bureau.
Intermittent.
Lady (to applicant for position
as gardener): You are, of course,
strictly sober?
Applicant: Yes, mum, often.—
^ Punch.
BRITISH OFFICER
! MARES REPLY 10
FOLK'S CHARGES
WASHINGTON, D. C. — Ronald
.Lindsay, charge d'affaires of the
British embassy, has made public a
letter to Grover C. Hall, associate
editor of the Montgomery Adver
tiser, Montgomery, Alabama, in re
; ply to an inquiry by Mr. Hall as to
“how many Egyptian soldiers fought
, under the British flag during the
war and what was the number of
casualties suffered by them"”
i The inquiry, it is said, was
prompted by the brief recently pre
jsented by Joseph W. Folk, former
governor of Missouri, to the foreign
relations committee of the United
States senate, in which Mr. Folk
called attention “to the fact that
1,000,000 Egyptian troops fought on
the side of the Allies."
“The British government," wrote
Mr. Lindsay, who was in Egypt all
through the war. “has carefully
avoided destroying Egyptian sover
eignty. Egyptian soldiers always
serve under the Egyptian and not
under the British flag. The Union
Jack does not fly in Egypt except
over the British military establish
ments in the country: elsewhere the
distinctive Egyptian flag is displayed.
To answer your question literally,
no Egyptian soldier joined the Brit
ish colors.
“Of course, this is only a partial
statement. In February. 1915, when
the Turkish army attacked Egypt, a
battery of Egyptian artillery joined
the British force defending the line
of the Suez canal. The enemy's at
tack developed just opposite this
battery, the members of which man
aged their guns in an able manner
and assisted in the repulse of the
enemy. I believe they lost two
killed and half a dozen wounded.
“No other Egyptian armed forces
were in action during the recent
war. but later on, three or four
Egyptian battalions guarded lines of
communication in Sinai while Gen
eral Allenby was conducting his
campaign in Syria, and an Egyptian
detachment was at one time in the
Hadjaz. Neither of these forces was
ever under fire.
“In addition to this, large num
bers of Egyptians were enrolled in
labor and transport corps auxiliary
to the British forces. These men
were enlisted for short terms of
three to six months and did the
manual and unskilled labor for Gen
era! Allenby’s foiyes. As such their
services were of high value, and
they released for the fighting line
man who, otherwise, would have
been engaged in the rear.
“How many of these men passed
through the labor corps cannot be
stated, but the total enlistments at
one moment amounted to between
80,000 and 90,000. Of the labor
corps men, some came under fire
while digging trenches and trans
mitting stores and ammunition near
the front, and casualties were suf
fered. I cannot give the figures
authoritatively, but I believe there
were altogether about 1,500 killed
and wounded during the four years
of the war.”
SPANIARDS PLAN STRONG
BANK IN MEXICO CITY
MEXICO CITY.—A Spanish-Mex
ican bank with a subscribed capital
of ten million pesos and headquar
ters in Mexico City, is planned by
members of the Spanish colony
here. The purpose of the institu
tion is to aid in the development
of Mexican resources and to in
crease commercial activity between
this country and Spain. Representa
tives of the bank will have offices
in Havana, N'ew York, and several
European cities.
Where Pluck It Needed.
There are few persons with cour
age enough to admit that they
haven’t got it.—Life.
WANT ADS
FOR SALE—Lady's pony fur coat
and muff. Apply Mrs. R. S. Mc
Donald.
FOR SALE—Furnished house, four
rooms, with summer kitchen, at
tic, large basement and winter
cellar for vegetables. Heated by
furnace. Winter supply of veg
etables Full corner lot. One of
the most desirable parts of town.
Inquire at News office.
BUNCH OF KEYS found. Owner
can recover by calling at News
office and paying for this adver
tisement.
FOR SALE — Showcase. 5S feet
long. Practically new. Cheap.
Inquire Mrs. Herman Rosburg.
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ALEX FOWLER M V. TYLER,
Secretary Dictator.
Department of the Interior
Alaskan Engineering Commission
NOTICE
Passengers leaving on the train h
for any point on the line sooth of
town are required to purchase
tickets before entering the train.
Tickets can be purchased from
the station agent, whose office is
in the employment office, on the
ground floor of the general office
Building, Alaskan Engineering com
mission.
Tickets will be on sale at any
time during office hours, and can
be purchased in sufficient time be
fore the departure of the trains.
P.egular trains leave the foot of
•A street on Wednesdays and Satur
| days at 8 a. m. *
On and after july loth the freight
i on the North side of the river at
Camp 415 dock will be shipped out
Tuesday and Friday of each week,
: leaving at 8 a. m.. until further
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