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FRUIT AND FANCY CAKES
for all occasions
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Like Success
Our Goods are Right. Our Prices are
Right
Watch and Jewelry Repairing, Engraving
Wm. TAYLOR
Adivces received from Seattle on
yesterday's mail state that Allan
Grennan, former Nenana boy who
enlisted at Tanana and went to
Camp Dodge with a local contingent
of troops, is now in the employ of
the Sims-Carey company, a Seattle
contracting concern.
NENANA LODGE No. 1117
L. 0. 0. M.
MEETS AT MOOSE HALL
FOURTH AND B STREETS
On Second and Fou-th Tuesdays
At 8 P. M.
ALEX FOWLER
Secretary
M. V. TYLER,
Dictator.
NENANA TO TALKEETNA
DISTANCE TABLE
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Talkeetna is the end of steel on,
the coast division.
From Nenana to No. Mile? •
Nenana Crossing: (by rail l.43 ;
, Lignite . ..52 i
Riley Creek .70 i
Jack River .90 i
: Broad Pass Summit.110
Sullivan's .128;
Indian River. .... 162
Dead Horse 182
; Talkeetna .202:
j The distances given are approxi-1
. mate.
Henaaa—Tie Gateway to McJCtnlay'
’ Watlonal Park.
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At Union Hnll on Tuesday*and
Friday nights, commencing at*9:30
and ending at Midnight.
Fox Trotting a Specialty. Rates
on application at Union Hall.
Mrs. Belle Campbell
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Phone 84
Front Between C and D
Johnson’s Store
GENERAL MERCHANDISE
PRICES REASONABLE
LOUIS JOHNSON, Prop.
■
Signing of the armistice Novem
ber 11, 1918, automatically ended
the manganese industry in Montana
as it made possible the release of
shipping for the importation of this
product from Brazil and Cuba at
a lower figure per ton than it could
be produced in that state.
i “Only another war, and we hop^
■ there will never > be another one”,
j said one of the chief enigneers of
' th Anaconda Copper Mining com
pany,” can revive the industry in
' Montana. The outlook is hopeless
'although the Anaconda company,
at the urgent request of the govern
ment constructed a ferro-manganese
' plant at Great Falls at a cost of
8750,000- This plant produced
approximately 1,350 tons of man
ganese, which carried manganese
I content of 80 per cent, 10 per cent
] iron and 4 per cent of silicia. It
was especially desirable for steel
manufacturing because of its con
■ centrated manganese, but not a
pound had yet been sold when the
| armistice was signed, consequently
| we still have it on our hands."
Biazil and Cuba car. deliver on
jthe wharves of Baltimore mangan
jese for 812.50 a ton. whereas its
icost of production to Montana pro
ducers is approximately 810 a ton
■ to which must be added the freight
irate to Pittsburg of 811 a short ton.
“It is impossible to think of a ■
! tariff large enough to make profit
1 able domestic production of man
iganese", said the Anaconda engin-j
■ eer. “The only thin? which could
| revive the industry in Montana t
! would be the establishment of steel
j manufacturing in Great Fails, so as ^
to eliminate freight rates. It is
questionable if manganese produc
tion could be developed to an ex- _
Itent large enough to warrant this.” j _
i Philipsburg, which before the war
! ended, reached a maximum capacity
jof 17,000 tons monthly, at a guar-j
jantee net profit of §20 a ton, sold,
| through the government, will be (
j closed down completely except for j
I its silver activities by July 1. 1919.
[when the last of its pre-armistfoj
I contracts expire.
! The Emma mine, the largest pro-;.
; tlucer of manganese in Butte, with j
!a daily output of 400 tons, stopped j
i producing the week the armistice
| was signed. Aproximately 750
! miners were thrown out of work
| at Philipsburg, and 350 to 500 in
j Butte. In addition there was loss ,
; of employment for a hundred or
| more in the Great Falls plant, and
i several score in the Ophir mill of
j the Butte-Detroit Mining company,
! the only company in Montana which j
milled manganese. A small amount;
: of manganese also was mined as a i
: by-product by the Davis-Dalv Min-]
! ing company of Butte. The Great ]
(Falls plant had reached a capacity]
; of 9,000 tons of ferromanganese
' monthly.
WEEKLY FORCE REPORT
j For the week ending March 1
■ there were 346 employes on the;
Ipav rolls of the Alaskan Engineer-:
! , . . i
! ing commission, showing an increase ;
j of 54 employees as against the!
j number employed during the pre
ceding week. There were also 122'
(stationmen or contractors, and 39
j stationmen laborers, showing an in- j
] crease of 12 stationmen and a de
; crease of 3 stationmen laborers for
the period under review.
The forces of the A. E. C. were
destributed as follows:
Camp 1. general 41
Camp 1, electric.10
Camp 1, corral—.-.11
Camp 1, construction .78
Camp 1, store .20
Hospital 11
Townsite . -
Surfacing camp .12
Tracklaying camp . 39
Section No. 1 7
Section No. 4 . 3
Camp 373 39
Camp - 415. '
Camp 44(1 —. 9
Camp 449. 3
Ditcher camp .23
Nenana total .322
Fairbanks office . 2
Tanana Valley R. R.13
Camp 454 . 9
Fairbanks total .24
Total for division . 346
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INSURANCE ADJUSTER ' t
REACHES FAIRBANKS
One of Ed Bartlett’s rips, driven
by Charlie Creamer, who is return
ing home from service with the
colors, arrived in Fairbanks yes
terday eveninp, bringing as pass
enger A. W. Jones, the insurance
adjuster.
Mr. Jones was in Fairbanks on a
previous occasion, when he came in
to adjust an insurance claim in co •
nection with the fire at Peoples
warehouse.
Charlie Creamer stated that Joe
O’Connor, who is also returning
from Service with the colors, is
bringing in a Bartlett freight rig
and that he will probably arrive in
Fairbanks in about three days. Otto
C. Myer, of the Berry dredge at
Circle, is also a passenger on the rig
driven by Joe O’Connor.
DAYS ARE NOW GROWING
LONGER RAPIDLY “
The following is a table of sun
light for N'enana:
Feb. 15.8 hours, 18 minutes
March 1 0 hours, 5 minutes
March 21 12 hours
On March 21 the vernal equinox
is reached and it marks the be
ginning of spring. On this day the
length of the day and the night are
equal.
From this date and until the 21st
day of June the days grow longer
and the nights shorter, and in this
latitude there is no night on the
21st of June.
From June 21st the nights grow
longer and the days shorter until
September 21. when the autuma!
equinox is reached Then day
ind nisrht are equal in duration of
:ime, and the date also marks the
jepinninp of autumn. From this
iate on the niphts continue to prow
onper and the days shorter until
:he shortest day of the year, Dec
21st is reached.
L. C. ISABEL
BARBER
Shop in Portland Building
Now Open for Business with
Full Line of Requisites
COONEY MOTEL
Not Better Than the Best,
But Better than the Rest.”
NENANA ..... ALASKA
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