THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
Application made April 1, 1918, at the postoffice at Nenana, Alaska,
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WESTERN LABOR CONDSTIONS
In a survey of general conditions
throughout the Twelfth Federal Re
serve district, made public several
weeks ago, the Federal Reserve bank,
of San Francisco, reports that ‘‘the
problem of unemployment is still
serious throughout the district." At
the time the survey was made there
were over 56,000 persons out of
work in the six states composing
the district, exclusive of the thous
ands who were on strike at the
time at the various shipbuilding
centers.
California reported 1 P.600 on the
idle list, in addition to 10,000 ship
ard workers. In Oregon there was
an estimated surplus of labor of
nearly 9.000; in Washington the
total number of unemployed was be
tween 10,000 and 12,000, about a
third of this number being in Seattle;
in Utah there were approximately
-5,000 looking for work; in Nevada,
about 3,500; and reports from
Arizona indicated about 7,250 out
of work in that state.
Labor conditions were improving
rapidly in Oregon and Washington
and it was expected, at the time the
survey was made, that the unem
ployed would be almost fully ab
sorbed by the first of May, due to
public improvements and increased
work on farms and in lumber camps.
The same report shows a decrease
of more than sixteen per cent in
exports from Alaska during 1918,
with a decrease of more than 7,000
in population for the year. The
number of people leaving the terri
tory in 1917 totaled 27,732, which
was 7,692 more than entered in that
period.
FORWARD, C. O. P.
“There must be no turning back
ward of the hands of the political
clock," said Raymond Benjamin,
Republican regional representative
for far western states, at a Boise
meeting of Idaho Republican leaders,
state officers and Republican mem
bers of the legislature The meet
ing was regarded as the opening gun
of the Republican campaign in Idaho
for tne national ticket in 1920.
' The party must march forward
to a victor?- in 1920 undivided with
no reference to how any man got
into the party, whether by the back
door or the front door." Benjamin
continued.
"There is today a propaganda to
overturn this government by the
Industrial Workers of the World.
One of the planks of the Republican
party’s national campaign will be a
policy to exterminate this vicious
element and its insiduous propa
ganda without the coddling of its
members which has marked the
present administration’s attitude.
The conditions which existed up to
a few weeks ago in the Northwest
due to the propensity of the red
tape ridden bureaus to “manana”
the I. W. W.’s is a most striking
example of the strength which these
American Bolsheviks have been able
to acquire through coddling.”
“The people of the United States
have looked with anxious eyes to
Seattle and the situation which de
veloped containing potentialities and
purposes for the destruction of or
ganized gdvernment. You may re
call that the other twin brother of
Bolshevists, the Hun, denied he
started the war. Give equal cred
ence to the I. W. W., who seek to
erect in the place of this govern
ment by the people, a government
by class, (whose dominant char
acteristic is discontent and dissatis
faction). Crush them under your
heel as you would a rattlesnake and
do not consider their protestations
of innocence no matter how ve
hement”
As regional director, Benjamin
represents fie Republican National
Committee in Califormnia, Washing
ton, Oregon, Nevada, Idaho and
Arizona. He is also chairman of
the California Republican State Cen
tra! Committee.
PROSPECTORS MAY
GET FEDERAL AID
The Nenaqj News, some time a go
referred to the matter of obtain
ing federal aid to prospeitors and of
steps taken at the instance of the
Alaska Chapter of the American
Mining Congress, backed -by the en
dorsment of the Nenana Commercial
club and other commercial bodies of
Interior Alaska. The matter was
taken up at a meeting of the Ne
nana Commercial club and referred
to a special committee, who re
ported that the Alaska Chapter of
the American Mining Congress was
taking action, resulting in the club
adopting a resolution endorsing that
action.
An act was drawn up by the Fair
banks Chapter of the A. M. C. and
forwarded to the territorial legis
lature at Juneau recently, with a
request for appropriate action by
that body. The legislature accord
ingly caused the act to be regularly
introduced by Representative Collins
and forwarded it to the United
States Congress, in the form of a
joint memorial.
Leaving out the preamble, the
act recommended in the Rep. Col
lins Joint Memorial for Congress
to pass, which would result in the
opening of Alaska to prospectors
reads as follows:
“An Act to promote and develop
the mining industry, stimulate the
production of gold and other pre
cious minerals in the territory of
Alaska, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the
United States of Ameriia in Con
gress assembled:
Section 1. That for the purpose
of stimulating the production of
gold and other needed minerals in
the Territory of Alaska, and for
the development of said territory
and the creation of tonnage for
the railroad now being constructed
by the government of the United
States from tidewater to the Interior
of said territory, and for other pur
poses, a fund is hereby created to
be known as the “Alaska Prospect
ing and Development Fund," and
there is hereby appropriated from
any moneys in the treasury of the
United States, not otherwise ex
pended, the sum of four hundred
thousand dollars, to be available
until expended by the Bureau o!
Mines under the direction of the
secretaray of the interior for the
promotion and development of the
mining industry and the stimulation
"&f the production of gold and othet
minerals and metals in the territory
of Alaska, as herinafter provided.
Section 2- The secretary of the
interior shall designate. appoint
and maintain in each of the four
judicial divisions of the territory
of Alaska, a competent mining en
gineer, and such technical, clerical
and other assistants as may be re
quired. under the Bureau of Mines,
having headquarters in said division
and who shall gather and collect
accurate and reliable data, not in
conflict with the work of the United
States Geological Survey, relative
to the mineral resources and possible
productivity of gold and other pre
cious metals and minerals in each of
the respective divisions, and who
shall therein, under the Bureau of
Mines, direct, supervise, control, en
courage and assist reliable and expe
rienced miners and prospectors to
explore, prospect for. and discover
valuable deposits of gold or other
precious minerals, and valuable ores
or metals upon the public domain in
the territory of Alaska.
Section 3. To carry out the pur
poses of the Act the Bureau of
Mines shall be. and it is hereby,
alloted from the funds appropriated
by this Act, for the Alaska Pros
pecting and Development Fund, the
sum of one hundred thousand dol
lars for each of the four judicial
divisions of Alaska, to be available
until expended, and may expend the
same in the respective divisions for
salaries, traveling expenses, equip
ment, supplies, and other admin
istrative expenses, and for outfitting
supplying and furnishing to reliable
prospectors desiring the benefits of
this Act, the necessary provisions,
tools and equipment, and where
necessary transportation, required
for proposed prospecting and ex
ploring and expeditions, and for
Dther purposes as may be necessary
to carry out the provisions of this
Act.
section 4. All mining claims,
whc ther placer or quartz, or oil dis
covered by any person or persons,
or association of persons, who shall
have received the benefits of this
Act. and all gold and gold dust or
other valuables or minerals produced
therefrom, shall be charged with a
lien in favor of the government of
the United States to the extent -f
five percent of the gross value of
the output therefrom until the
amount thereof equals in viiue tne
amount of value furnished or ad
vanced to the locator, or locators,
thereof under the provisions cf this
Act, or until the same shall be
otherwise paid, and thereafter to
the extent of one p;r cent of the
gross value of the output there
from; provided, however, that all
sums due from said person, or per
sons, or association of persons re
ceiving the benefit of this Act, as
in this paragraph provided, shall
be due and payable immediately af
ter any cleanup held -ipui sa'd min
ing claim if the same be placer, or
immediately after the value has been
ascertained of any such metal ot
mineral, extracted from any claim
other than a placer claim; piovided,
further, that the person or persons
receiving aid under this Act may
at any time pay :oe full amoun;
so advanced.
Section 5. All placer . laims io
cated by any person or persons, o.i
association of persons, wnoily 01
in part within a radius of fivt
miles from the discovery of any
mining claims discovered and lo
cated by any prospector, or persor
or persons, or association of persons
while receiving benefits under th<
provis'ons of this Act shall be chargee
with a lien in favor of the govern
ment of the United States to the ex
tent of one per cent of the value ol
the gross output of the minerals pro
duced therefrom, payable at the timi
and in the manner provided in Sec
tion 4 of this Act, and any • uarta
or other claims other than p acer
discovered and located by any pros
pector or person or persons, or asso
ciation of persons, receiving benefit!
under the provisions of this Act shal
likewise be charged with a lien ir
favor of the government of the
United States, to the extent of on*
per cent of the value of the gross
output of mineral or metal produced
therefrom, payable at the time and
in the manner provided in Section
4, hereof;
Provided, however, th it the pro
visions of this section shall not ap
ply to any person or persons, or
association of persons, who shell
have, or may have made a valid
location on quartz or placer or both
mining claims within the prescribed
radius, as above set forth, prior
to the date of execution of the under
taking made by the person or per
sons. or association of persons, re
ceiving benefits under the provisions
of this Act prescribed in Secton
6 hereof.
Section 6. That in the event of
a default in the payment of the sum
to the government of the United
States, as herinbefore provided, the
said Bureau of Mines shall be au
thorized to immediately make ap
plication to a court of competent
jurisdiction for the appointment of
a receiver who shall be authorized
to collect sufficient of the minerals
or metals produced from said min
ing claims, from time to time, or the
m oneys due and payable therefor,
as may be necessary to cover the
amount due to -the government, as
herein provided, together with all
expenses of said court proceedings
and receivereship.
Section 7. That the amounts due
from the locator, or locators, of
said mining claim or claims, as pro
vided in sections four and five of
this Act shall likewise be due from
the successors in interest of the
original locator or locators of said
claim and payment, as herein pro
vided. shall be made from all min
erals or metals extracted from said
ground, or moneys due and payable
therefor, until the same shall have
been fully worked out. and the liefts
hereinbefore provided for shall be
superior to, and take precedence
over, all transfers or contracts or
statutory liens upon said property.
Section 8. That before any dis
bursement shall be made under the
provisions of this Act for the benefit
of any person, op persons, or asso
ciation of persons, the said person
or persons, or association of per
sons, shall be required to execute;
an undertaking, in the form to be
prescribed by the secretary of the
interior, with one or more sureties
having the qualifications of bail in
the territroy of Alaska, and to be
approved by the engineer in charge
for the faithful compliance by the
said person, or persons, or associa
tion of persons receiving the benefit
of this Act with the provisions here
of and with such rules and regula
tions as may be promulgated by the
secretary of the interior relative to
the administration of said fund.
Section 9- That all payments re
ceived by the Bureau of Mines from
the locator, or locators of mining
claims in Alaska, as provided under
this Act, shall be covered into the
Alaska Prospecting and Develop
ment Fund for the particular judi
cial division of the territory of
Alaska from which said payments
may have been received except that
fifty per cent of the amount of all
payments so received from the lo
cator or locators of said claim or
claims, or their successors in interest,
shall be repaid to the treasurer of
the United States, at such time as
may be designated by the secretary
of the interior, until the amount
appropriated by Congress for said
fund and set aside for the use of
the judicial division of said territorv
from which said payments are re
ceived. The said Alaska Prospecting
and Development Fund shall be avail
able until expended by said Bureau
of Mines under the direction of tha
secretary of the interior within the
judicial division from which said pay
ments were received for the encour
agement of prospectors and miners
and for the development of the min
eral resources of said judicial division
and otherwise for carrying out the
purposes of this Act. as hereinbefore
provided.
Section 10. The secretary of the
interior is hereby authorized to
make all necessary rules and regu
lations for the administration of
the sa;d Alaska Prospecting and De
velopment Fund hereby created not
inconsistent with this Act and nec
essary to give the same immediate
effect, and may from time to time
alter or amend said rules as the
exigencies of the occasion may re
quire. Claims lying in two judicial
divisions of the territory shall be
governed by the division from which
aid is first received under this Act.
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