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ler Sr. , paid:$126f120.
tax of over a million.
jr. , paid $6,2r'7669 in income tax.
Secretary of Treasury Mellon paid
President Coolidge paid $14,091.
Postmaster General few says that air mail service will never pay
and chat the government will not open, any more lines. He hopes that
private concerns will take over the enterprise and carry passengers
and freight.
Eric Liddellk the famous runner from Scotland is on his way to
China to become a missionary.
Spanish warships and bombing planes are levelling the last de
fenses of the Moroccan rebels. However in Syria the Prench are meet
i n g reverses,
A nation wide tong war is in progress in the States. Many Chinese
have been killed.
MacMillan's expedition on ire way back to the south are encoun
tering serious difficulties.. Icy barriers have locked the northern
waters earlier than usual and at the last reports blinding snow
storms were raging.
nineteen sailors were left behind when the American fleet left
New Zealand.
Reports from Seward, Alaska indicate that they are on the verge
of discovering gigantic oil fields*
Alaskan enterprise is awake to the fact of the importance of
of the utility of the aeroplane, and being a territory of magnificent
distances with few modern facilities for transportation, is preparing
to install several lending fields radiating from Fairbanks the
railroad center* The government is likely to abandon the Alaskan
railroad because of the huge upkeep*
GOLD IS G7TETS YCU FIND IT.
The recent big strike at Nuka 'Bay demonstartes that geld is not
always where you look for it but is sometimes where you don't think
it is* For many years prospectors had been passing over one of the
largest mineral zones in this section to reach the hills beyond
which appeared more verdant. A lucky upheaval of the moss uncovered
a vein far beyond the dreams of the most enthusiastic gold seeker.
REFORT EY THE GHPAETEEiTT OR INTERIOR*
The mines of Alaska have produced $17, 457, 333 in 1924 of
various minerals. This was mere than 1923 hecause of the discovery
of rich lode mines in southeastern >j.laska, The total value of
the mineral output since 1880 has Teen $535, 084, 276, Gold,
silver, copper, coal, tin, lead, platinum, petroleum, marble, gyp
sum'are found in Alaska, The output of silver seems to be the
greatest value. Installation of modern machinery is helping in
mining along with the opening of new highways.