1925 BIG YEAR
AT SALT CHUCK
REPORT SHOWS
NEARLY HALF MILLION DOLLARS
IN ORE TAKEN OUT OF
KASAAN PROPEiRTY
With the installation of new ma
chinery materially increasing the pro
duction, the Alaska Palladium mines
at Saltchuck have completed another
prosperous year, according to figures
submitted to B. D. Stewart, super
vising mining engineer for the Ter
ritory of Alaska in a statement to
the Ketchikan Chronicle recently.
“Nearly all of the profits which
have accrued from the operatio of
the mine in 1925 have been used for
the purchase of new machinery with
which to increase production and to
lessen the present expense with the
result that we expect 1926 to be the
most prosperous year on record for
the mine,” said J. E. Chilberg, presi
dent of the Alasa Palladium Corpora
tion today.
“In the month of June we install
ed new machinery which doubted the
production and we expect to ap
proach the million dollar mark with
our efforts during the coming year,
providing of course that no serious
breakdown to machinery is experienc
ed. There is plenty of ore in sight
and our only problem is to mine it
at an economical figure. On January
1 we commenced reworking the old
tailings pile as under the old system
nearly half the values were lost. To
gether with the new ore mined we
expect to keep busy with a fair pro
fit throughout th year. In volume
of ore produced we believe that no
mine in Southeastern Alaska, with
the possible exception of one other
company, has produced the quantity
of ore taken out of the Alaska Pal
ladium and we hope to make our
mine th elargest producer in the dis
trict.”
A total of 73,287 tons of ore were
mined in 1925, according to the state
ment submitted to Mr. Stewart. The
metals produced and their values are
given as follows.
Copper, 1,016,311 pounds; value,
$132,120.43; gold, 1,585.65 ounces; val
ue $31,713. Silver, 6,550 ounces; val
ue $4,585. Palladium, 3,759.62 oun
ces, value $300,769.60. Total value
of all miners produced; $469,188.03.
SUBSTITUTES FOR ENGLISH
TENNIS TERMS CRITIZED
PARIS, Jan. 19. (IP)—“Lob,”
“smash” and “drive,” as applied to
tennis are three words the transla
tion of which int oFrench has stump
ed the French sporting writers in a
campaign to eliminate the English
i vocabulary from their articles on
sport events.
The best they have been able to
find is “chandelle” for lob, “coup de
Longueur” for drive and “coup
ecrase” for smash*.
Jean Samazeuilh, former champion
of France at tennis, takes exception
to the accuracy and practicability
of the translation and in an article
in a sports weekly, asks the players
to ignore the scribes, and especially
to execute the shots well on the
courts, let the writers call them what
they wish.
DEATH KNELL SOUNDED FOR
BELL HANGING PROFESSION
NEW YORK, Jan. 19. (JP)—Modern
scientific inventions, which have
spelled the ash heap ;for Old-ifashioned
usages, have sounded the death knell
for another once respected and pros
perous vocation—bell hanging.
Like the makers of clipper ships,
hooip skirts and the sundry pther
developments of the past which have
come and gone, struck down by the
march of progress and fashion, the
bell hanger of today—and his class
is a handful—is a man virtually with
out a job.
NEYETONt VIEW CO.. NEW VONK
SENT BY LEAGUE TO BAN
PERSIAN OPIUM
Frederick Adrian Delano, of Chi
cago, an American R. R. man, was
appointed on a committee of the
League of Nations "with instructions
to proceed to Presia to study the
economic, financial and social phases
of opium production and with a view
to assist Teheran to abclish the
poppy crop. One of the chief prob
lems will be to determine whether
the removal of customs restrictions
imposed by treaty upon Persia will
remedy the situation.
This city, which is less than thirty
yeans ago required the constant at
tention of hundreds of bell-hangers,
now finds use for less than half-a
score. Electric doorbells areb lamed
for the passing of bell-hanging art
ists.
P. Werner, owner of a tiny West
Side shop, outside of which hangs
the same sign he placed there years
ago when he first opened for busi
ness, is one of the few surviving
members of the rear guard of bell
hangers. A few ancient homes, cling
ing to relics of the past, still claim
his services. But electricity, he said,
has ruined his business.
When Werner, then a young man,
first started hanging door-bells, the
trade was then in its heyday. Father
Knickerbocker, tired of thunderous
knockers then in vogue, demanded a
new method of announcement and
bells—operated by the pulling of a
lever outside, which set bells in the
home a-jingling—came into being.
For a brief few decades, the jang
ling bells were pre-eminent. Bell
hangers were proud of their art. For
years their ingenious arrangements,
elaborate or simple, according to the
householder’s taste, announced the
visitor. Some even played music.
Then oame electricity. The public
took up the new wrinkle of science,
and electric door-bells, operated by
the 'mere pushing of a button, rude
ly ousted their clumsier predecessor.
“What will be next?” soliloquized
Werner. “I don’t know. Scientists
can do anything. Perhaps, wireless
door-bells. Or telepathy?”
The United States government col
lected $134,010,696 in tobacco taxes in
North Carolina alone during the first
ten months of 1925.
Paupers living in almshouses of* the
United States have been reduced from
91 per 100,000 of population ten years
ago to 71 at present.
Photo Albums, $1 to $9—Alaska
Shop. tt
Great prosperity was enjoyed by the
glass industry during 1925 more than
105,000,000 square feet having been
produced.
It is estimated that the farmers of
the United States realized about five
per cent on their capital investment
for their 1925 crops.
Vancouver’s first annual fox show,
which was also the first held in Brit
ish Columbia, was a great success.
Chinese school boys are discarding
the wearing of long garments and long
finger nails.
The Paris fire department is con
sidered one of the most efficient in
the world, with 2,200 firemen.
XCY*TON£ VlEYCCO.^NiwlYOBKj
NEXT KING OF NORWAY TO
MARRY.
The twenty-two-year-old Crown
Prince Olaf, of Norway, wfiom ru
mor has it will soon wed Princess
Astrid, niece of King Gustav, of Swe
den. He is a broad shouldered, clear
eyed young man, who has been too
busy getting an education to figure
yet in the World’s politics. He has
had both Navy and Army training
and studied in Balliol College, Ox
ford, England, it will be recalled
that his mother was Princess Maud
of England.
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