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J. L. GRAEF
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Gold Output Shows
Increase Past Year;
Other Minerals Fail
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 12.—
(AP)—By Mail.Alaskan Mines pro
duced $17,670,000 worth of minerals
during 1924, as compared with $20,
330,000 during 1923, it is shown in
estimates the Geological Survey is
t preparing for publication in its annu
al report. The gold output was es
timated at $6,350,000, compared with
$5,985,314, this being the only metal
to show an increase, over the preced
ing year.
Copper production declined from
$112,630,335 in 1923 to approximately
\ $10,000,000 in 1924. Silver decreas
ed from $668,012 to $450,000 and coal
production fell off from $755,459 to
$550,000.
The total value of Alaska’s mineral
output since 1880 is $635,000,000.
The increase in the gold output was |
due mainly to activity at the lode j
mines in Southeastern Alaska, as j
there was a slight decrease in the j
amount of gold won from placers.
“The benefits to the gold-mining in-1
dustry of interior Alaska that are cer- j
tain to result from the completion of |
the Alaska railroad,” stated the sur- j
* vey’s report, “are rather slow to ap-j
pear in the figures shotting the pro I
duction of gold, for the work of test- j
ing large areas of placer ground and j
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(he engineering work needed to com
plete ditches and install dredges
or other power-driven mining ma
chinery require considerable time.
The results of operations so large
and of increased prospecting for me
tal-bearing ledges will eventually be
an increase in production. The de
crease in the total value of the min
eral output of Alaska in 1924 from
that in 1923 may be attributed al
most entirely to the smaller produc
tion of copper and the much lower
average price of that metal.”
Development work in various dis
tricts was described in detail. The
Survey said ore shoots have been
discovered in the Hyder district that
are considered sufficiently rich to
warrant the construction of a mill,
and that several other properties in
that district are likely to become
productive. It adds that prospecting
has been active throughout the Ju
neau district, and promising ore bod
ies have been disclosed on several
properties between Funter Bay and
Hawk Inlet. Other observations in
clude increased mining activity on
Chichagof island, further discoveries
of gold quartz lodes at Nuka Bay,
production of somewhat less lode
gold in the Fairbanks district, and
production of considerable gold in the
Kuskokwiin district.
The 1924 gold output of $2,750 from
20 quartz mines, an increase of more
than $400,000 over the output for
1923, came mostly from the Alaska
Juneau mine.
It was stated that although the
production of gold by dredges in 1924
was less by nearly $300,000 than in
1923, this decrease must not be taken
to indicate that dredge mining in the
Territory is declining.
“It may be predicted,” tlie Survey
continued, “that before many years
the output of gold by dredges will
exceed that made by other methods
of placer mining.”
Twenty dredges were in operation
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in Alaska in 1924 and produced $1,- ]
565,000 worth of gold, as compared
with 24 dredges in 1923 that produc- '
ed $1,848,000 worth of gold. Of these
dredges 15 were in Seward Peninsula,
three in the Fairbanks district, two
each in the Innoko and Iditarod dis
tricts, and one each in the Kusko
kwim, Circle and Yentna districts.
A decrease for 1924 in the copper
production was ascribed to an aver
age price which was considerably
below the already low average of
1923.
Oil drilling operations continued
throughout the year and the results
are awaited eagerly. “These re
sults,” said the report, “have not yet
been studied sufficiently in the office
and laboratory to warrant a statement
regarding the possibility of obtain
ing oil in the region. The work done,
however, confirms the finding of the
expedition that visited the coastal
portion of Naval Petroleum Reserve
Number Four in 1923 and reported
the occurrence of seeps of oil there.
SENATOR DECLARES
U. S. OUT - TRADED
BY GREAT BRITAIN
(By Associated Press)
MEMPHIS, Tenn., Jan. 10.—Assert
ing that British statemen, “out-trad
ed” the United States in the nego
tiations of the limitations of arms
agreement under the Harding admin
istration, Senator Kenneth D. Mc
Kellar, declared in a statement here
tonight that the American navy
should be second to none in the
world.
The Tennessee senator said the
difference in the elevation of British
and American naval guns precluded
the possibility or equality in these
forces of the two countries, which
he asserted, was “the professed pur
pose of the agreement.” Senator
McKellar declared himself in favor
of elevating guns on American bat
tleships immediately.
“Our capital ships are still com-;
paratively valueless, not being able j
! to shoot from two to five miles as
far as British naval guns aand per
haps not as far as those of Japan.”
the senator said. That President
Harding and Secretary Hughes were
out-traded by the British diplomats
is of course certain.
“We should elevate our guns and
make our havy the equal of Great
Britain’s according to the true intent
of the agreement. That would make
it almost absolutely certain that the
two countries would never go to war
and with Great Britain and America
acting in concert, no other nation
could afford to go to war without our
approval.”
A five million candlepower light
serves as a beacon for air mail flyers
near Cheyenne, Wyo.
Paris will build 60,000 cheap homes
for the poorer classes during 1925.
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CAN WE PAY THE BILL?
In an able and interesting article
in Saturday's paper Prof. Guy Barnett
of the Seward schools, points out the
needs of the city in this direction, and
says that “all enterprising citizens
will vote for the new building when
they go to the polls at the special elec
tion.” We believe that the man or
woman wrho would vote for $100,000
bonds without first considering where"
the money is to come from to pay the
bills, would be about as enterprising
as the man who bought a high priced
car without no means of paying for
it. There is no citizen who does not
know that Seward needs a better
school building, or who does not de
sire the children to have the best
obtainable in the way of equipment.
But the Professor omitted to touch
the financial side of the question in
his article. He did not tell us how
to raise the money. To our way of
thinking this is the ultima thule of
the subject; the meat in the nut.
The town has about $8,000 on hand
at the present time, with taxes for
the year 1924 paid up to a point
where the remaining sums unpaid are
being advertised as delinquent. By
fall, the council will undoubtedly be
forced to borrow again. An article in
a previous issue of the Gateway said
that interest on the bonds would be
from 4.5 to 6 per cent. The best post
ed financiers in the city claim it would
be nearer seven per cent. If this be
true $7,000 in interest and $4,000 in
principal would need to be raised by
the city, in addition to what is already
paid in. Can this be done without
causing a general increase in all ne
cessities. The consumer pays the tax
in the long run. The more our busi
ness men are taxed the higher prices
must go.
The council could place a $5 poll
tax on every man or woman of voting
age in the city, \yhich would, bring
in about §1500 of the required amount.
Taxes practically doubled the past
year in some instances. The rate re
mained the same but the valuations
were- greatly increased. A small town
cannot react from a money stringen
cy so quickly as a large one.
I believe I am as progressive as the
average citizen with no money and
unlimited ambition to go in debt, but
$100,000 would strain my credit to the
breaking point.
If Professor Barnett will show us
how to pay the bill after the goods
are delivered, I for one, will, gladly
vote for bonding. Until he does so,
I fail to see where it would be wise
to further increase our taxes, and by
this means our living expenses.
A CITIZEN.
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BERLIN, Jan. 12—Snake skin de
signs are the latest in women’s hos
iery here. They come in various
colors, but the most popular is a
sort of coffee and milk shade with
vertical stripes. Chocolate and cof
fee shades bearing blotches and spots,
patterned after the markings of the
water moccasin and other reptiles
| which do not go in for stripes, also
! are in demand.
“I HATE TO DISAPFOINT
YOU/’ IRVIN COBB WIRES
IN DENYING HIS DEATH
NEW YORK, Jan. 11.—Irvin S.
Cobb, like Mark Twain, has had the
pleasure of denying a report of his
death. Mark said the rumor about
himself was greatly exaggerated. The
latter day humorist, in a telegram
to the New York World from Padu
cah, Ky., says: “I hate to disappoint
anyone, but the Chicago report that
I am dead is, so far as I can learn,
entirely unfounded.”
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