The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 30, 1929, Page 2

| ' cfir a‘fi‘”hm ma'rmssnow w show that the populations a!vlflmr Russlap eities are stead- Mhr(:{ ‘the tapital of Si- | . apd Petrozavodsk about 45 30, | 929. LIST to Choose at Th()Se Slivings 1HOOKS AND EYES in black and white 3 packages for 10 cents TOILET PINS 3 cards for 10 cents LINGERIE PINS 2 for 10 cents BOLT RIBPON ln colors, 10 cent FL 058 SILK In colors, card, 10 cents SR EY ) 5. [ L8 AR COLORED EDGINGS Card, 19 cents COLORED RICK RAC " il Card, 1P cents PIN (U IONS Each, iU cents THIMBLES Kach, 10 cents TAPE MEASURES um'h 10 cents BOBUIE PINS Card. 10 cents PLAIN WOODEN S TOCKING DARNERS 2 for 10 cents SHOE LACES Pair, 10 cents BELT BUCKLES 10 cents BOBBIE COMBS In colors, 25 cents RUBBERIZED. KRAIH ‘}fics 25 cents 5 Spools J. P. Goats 100 y SPOOL THREAD 25 cents DARNING SILK [n pulurs, 3 for 25 cents 5 and SAFETY PINS 3 for 25 cents’ COLORED YARNS In Skeins, 3 fot 25 cents COLORED YARNS In balls, eac]_: 25 ents BLACK and WHITE SNAPS 3 cards for 25 cents ‘COTTON TAPE Black and White 4 for 25 cents BLANKET BINDIN: In Pink and Blue Yard, 25 cents DARNING, COTTON In colors . 6 for 25 cents Make Out Your NOTION SHOPPING WATER WAVING COMBS 3 for 25 cents " BIAS BINDING In colors . 2 for 25 cents VANITY GOLD SAFETY PINS Per box, 25 cents RUMMAGE SALE CONTIN{ES UNTIL FEBRUARY l B. M. Behrends Co;; I Juneau’s Leading Department Store Thee seems M/'W/Wwalae/;r/m efim an W Tales From the Hills (A Series of Popular Articles on Prospecting) By J. C. COLES Asdociate - Professor of Mining Engineering, Alaska Agricultural College and Schwol of Mines. PROGRESS BEGETS NEW PROBLEMS +“What's the matter?” Jack eame jean figure how myich it has cost upright. from his bunk withs a |us per foot.” startled look on his face. . He and “Yes,” responded Larry, “how Larry had gone to bed hours be | much of those two and one-half fore. 1t must have been the mid- dle of the night but the cabin was tlooded with light. Rubbing hig|out on prospecting trips, and how eyes he saw Larry at the table, | much just plain loafing? I'll bet writing doggedly, the kerossnrwp haven't spent more than one- lamp by his elbow, xhalt of our time pounding the drill. “Pll tell you how it is, Jack|How much dynamite have we sald Larry “I've been " awake |used?” most of the night thinking about| He money. Finally I got sp mervous that 1 couldn’t stay abed: any longer. 1 had to get up and fig- yre out just where we stood. That gight. draft we got. for thé com- | ry cut him off. “Oh, I don't blame presgor and outfit yestérday Kkad|you. I'm peeved at myself. That q( wbrries me. It was ‘whag [[Prof. at the College talked about 'xpected of coursg, but: is @ |this four years ago and showed ghiock .to pay out $28G0.09"all ‘in lus how simple it was to keep fome lump. V've Just been tvonder- track of the cost. T vowed to my ing il’we've enough to keen us go- | self that I wasn’t fool enough to [ ing ‘until spring.” B slip up onm a little thing like that f ‘course,” he conflnu‘d after |but here it is. I don’t know what -|'a pause, “Bill down at .the tead- |this tunnel is costing or how fast gag post will see us through wi‘h|we are driving it, either. 1 can’t! [grun and powder especially if hé |tell where we will be hy April.” winters has been spent tunneling, how much dragging up firewood or spat the question out as though it were quinine and look- ed around at Jack as venemously as a rattlesnake; Jack started to mumble but Lar- knows something of the strike we | “Costs”” he went on, “can be di- have made, but I dén't lfke to get vided into two main classes, labor in too far. Bill§ always have to|and supplies. ~The first can be be paid. This strike wom't 4o usjtaken care of on the time book, any good unless we get a mill on|the second by means of the bills | it:80 we can get the gold ‘out.” or. invoices you get from the store « Jack, shocked into full waketul: | where you buy your goods. The ness, rubbed his heel reflectively.|secret consists in classifying your “well,” he drawled, %you sure|accounts so' that you know what woke me up. - I don't suspect 'that |is charged to each kind of work. I'can sleep agaifl tonight. ~ Wha! |For instance, we could work up a On it he seribbled for a moment and as he did so he read: seems to me there isn’t any. need lo worry, with that pay shoot go- ling - strong, - forty feet since we!l. Tunneling— Btrick it and wider than ‘ever. a. Drilling and blasting Anyway we've grub enough in the ! 1. Labor cache to last until warm weather.” 2. Supplies “Yes, I know that,” replied Lar- b. Mucking Ty, “but we'vé got to pay the 1. Labor freight on this compressor, haul it 2. Supplies up here, get timber for skids to[2. Camp work— mount it on and gas to run it a. Firewcod k { with. = The outfit will cost us 1. Labor over: $3,000.00 -cash beforé we get! b. Miscellaneous ¢ réady to run. -1t will take & 1. Labor month.of ourAlime, too. - After | 2. Supplies [that we' can start giving this ore 3. Loafing. {[ithe dickens, biit- we' bhaven't any| “we could make rome more di- mill to stamp it with. 'We haven't |yisions if .we wanted to but for > [éven planned on what'Rind of ‘an{out purpore it is better to keep it louttit we. will gbt, let alone made g5 simple as possible. I think i |any: plans as to how we are gOINg|that the two classes of work in lx.»ny tor it . the tunnel are enough.” | Jack:stoked his plps' anid reachied lqr his btegches. He had made [smithing,” said Jack. “That takes .mind ‘that. it ‘was no use{a couple of hours each day.” ramblings Ldfry was up for the| “That's s0,” said Larry, and he 6 Meanwhile, Larry was fig- {added a new heading under Tun-| his: stub ‘of a encil-serateh- | neling. 7nalsily: overthe “fough - wrap- Blacksmithing ‘paper ‘he wn using. Pre- 1. Labor 2. - Supplies & ‘e. Do .you know we' are Just{ “The thing that makes it so easy after his end of this month; tense interest, | prehension. -4 4 Wiio'é fl(' | "N ths Arierican puhhc by the pr paganda committees - frank revelations of the life personalities of ‘the: end of nineteenth century are eontal in a‘series '¢f 'unpublished lett: by Osear: Wilde written to hi most intimate friends during ami imprisonment, {will ‘be put up for sale at m, | As many of the people referred to are still living, the approachs ’l’&fl&pfl" ing sale ‘is viewed here with in- min;led with a; |plasn fools: For: the life of me I don't’ know ‘what ‘thif tunnel is costing us. Why haven't we ke v iuckz'f- Y to keep is‘those numbers. For instance, 1.8.2 means some supply used in’ breaking rock—powder, say. 1.b.1 is labor mucking out the Now ‘we could keep a time lun- beenv up here '.wo winters book like this.” 'flu amuch of this one. Roughly | darry wrote a few mlmues in how much money we've |silence and then passed the shect | The: tunnel is abhout 340 ower to Jack for inspection. This | i From that I guess wetvd' whut Jack saw: Tma BOOK ch mu, 11928 Day of Month ¥ » . Total hours reach man ! tuMnns T2 3 34 for month Yo 8988 e 33 9 98 8 3T 34 e _ - — . 3 -— perm 17 l)‘lG 16 i1 67 ) 1 L 'Hours to each Total hours for each 4. -ulass per day: Class of work for month -12 3 8 4 : 21 5 8 410 : : 27 4 2 6 7 their { Betty Jane, in Seattle, Angeles, Mr. {the office of day for Juneau. PRAGUE,' Jan WAL for the hangman, which GAINS IN POPULATION W, Jan. 30.—Latest sta- The population * has increased 72 per cent lnd with 1917, while| their Nijoi-Novgorod, Viatka, 1 Cuba. Moscow's popul-uon s TOU’!JIT GOLD | for one the Americans who now spend winters Climatic conditions and othe: %0 SHARE replies parts’ of Europe. Brice Howard, Mrs. Ho_wnrd'ln two children, Btice,’ are passengers a jthe steamer Queen. that left attle today for Juneau. After spending -the’ past mon San Francisco and . and Mrd. H. Faulkner are’ returning home on the: Admiral Line steame \quml Miss Katherine beeger.cl‘fi i the Alaska” (latie *‘—‘1—-—— Commission here, left Seattlo. f . |HUNDREDS SEDX POSE : Bk OINE AS CZECK HANGMAN{ > ‘i 30.——Two . hul dred and thirty-five persons; in< eluding ohe woman, have appli the ' Czechoslovakian ovmed” e't/maTamud ha;hamm B [na 5 @Vz IEXICO WANTS % IN U. post of ofticial became ¥acant (January 1. Johann Wohlschaiger, who has hanged 500 persons, re- |tired after 30 years' service. The Cee¢h Goveérnment had’ dif- ficulty finding a focal man as ex- ecutioner, and when it advertised came from all The name of MEXICO CITY, Jan. 30, — A[the lady who wanted the post propaganda campaign to attract|{0f hangman ' was American tourists to Mexico has Pt it was stated that she liv been launched, it being hoped to(in Amsterdam. (divert to this country many of not revealéd; .J in Florida and muflgg] mw‘ W@Y ODAY Have you ‘sent your ubfiflfl intersting phases of Mexico are tion €ards to the Chambér:iof to be brought to the attention of Commerce? 1% 18 1s 16 Ak 67 -tm a féw min | e convm-d inw dollars .at the t'lml this, I | snd of eaeh month, + Thea all of mt “better iho amonnts- under each class of work . are collected ‘togethor and fiut gives you a total ¢ of that ‘can’ measure. the distancd’ e have dvanced, -the ' tunpel and: it we of hours. b 'l shock. I thought that we were classification something like this.” . |barning up. Go ahead.with your| Larry reached to the shelf above| figuring. PIl listen although ‘it|him and dragged down 'a tablet. “You haven’t proyided for black- ! . |'olass of avork for the menthi We | W divide the money spent for each class of work by the footage ad- vanced, that will give us the cost of that class of work per foot. We can do the same thing after we jstart mining ore with the excep- tion that the unit will be {fons in- stead of feet advanced.” Jack began to laugh. “You will get a goshawful cost this month if you add in that compres- sor bill.” Larry’s face went blank, and he scratched ' his ear reflectively. “I guess 1,missed something. Seems to me that the Prof. did say some- thing about the ' money spent for equipment, but I didn’t pay much‘» attention. [ wasn’t interested. I though that keeping costs was something for the bookkeeper. The i shifter always growls about the For Sale By JUNEAU YOUNG H%RDWARE CO. e i dope that the ,r ice wants him to | get. I never thought that it would | be much good to me so when the Prof. started to talk I said to my-| self, ‘Just some hot 2 Later on it looked as though it might| be useful but I didn’t get that hm part.” “Well, that’s all right,” sa\d‘ Jack. “Let's use our common | sense. When we get that ““‘x | pressor in we can charge up th cost of running it to each month's | work: If it costs $3,000 to put it} in we can't charge that out all at once, but we can charge our- [ selves rent for it.” Jack was open-| ing his mouth to continue, but his | quuk -thinking partner beat him to lt 1 f “That's » it. It will' cost us| $2900.00 laid down at the trading| post. It will take another $100.00 | |cash to haul it up here and set it up, that is, not counting our time. If we put that in it will cost §400 more. Now we've got to got enough rent on it to repay xh;n §3400.00 by the time we are fin- ished “up here.” “Well, you must not forget that | we can sell it for something when | {we get through,” said Jack. “If/ |we' work up here five years that| outfit ought to be ‘worth one-half | of its cost.. Of course we couldn’t include the ‘cost of getting it up the hill and setting it up, ‘but 1 January 22, 1929. Mr. Radio Fans y If you are operating an old style Radio Re- cewver Set within the city limits of Juneau and Douglas, Alaska, you will probably be inter- ested to know that you can TRADE in the old Regenerative SQUEALER SET for a new up s0 date NON SQUEALER SET. We will allow you a good fat price in ex- - change for a new set and use an axe on the old set turned in for credit, Not much profit in this deal for us but we will assist in clear- ing up the AIR for the Feller who has a good set. Let’s hear from you soon, as this offer is good only 30 days from date. Jan. 20, 1929, | Yours for Less Local Radio Inter/erence; ALASKA ELECTRIC LIGHT & POWER CO. Juneau, Alaska By W. S. PULLEN, Mgr. Selling Agents: MAJESTIC--KOLSTER—ZENITH—BOSCH-— and RCA Radio Receiving Sets. mean one-half of its cost at the trading post, say $1450. Ifs cost or better than $28.00 a month. Add [ that to your $32.50 and it makes a lits cost after we are through with it.” $3400, less than will be $1950. Di- viding that. by five makes $3901}(l a year or $32.50 a month.” “One thing you've left out, Jack. If we have to borrow money it will cost us 109 interest. ~Three! hundred and forty dollars a year rental charge of $60.00 a month. That is providing we use it five years and ‘can sell it for one-half; Jack yawned. “I'm going back to ‘bed. Tomorrow we will charge our time up to ybur item No. 3. —~Loafing.”, CHAMBER WILL FOR SALE One Kolster Model 8B Cabinet Radio Set, 8 tubes. Regular price with tubes ... One Kolster DDynamic Power Speaker, floor cabinet model. Regular price with tubes $250.00 and electric power supply ... 235.00 Total Over All List Price $485.00 OUR SPECIAL PRICE for set installed . $300.00 We will guarantee this set to be worth the full list " price and guarantee this set to function perfectly whenever radio is obtainable. ALASKA ELECTRIC LIGHT & POWER CO. Juneau, Alaska Phone No. 6 — e ' DISCUSS CALL G dinis Gift Shop Meeting Thursday The question of inviting all oth- er Alaskan chambers of commerce to send reépresentatives to Ju- neau next March to discuss, and it possible to arrange for, the or- ganization of ‘an all-Alaska Cham- |ber of Commerce, will-be discussed tomorrow - by the local organiza- {tion, it was: announced today by Bargcun,s in Children’s W ear Children’s Wool Toques Children’s Woolen Gloves ... 65¢ and .75 Children’s Silk and Wool Hose ............ a5 HATS—A few felt hats remaining........ .50 Secratary ' Frank ‘A. Boyle. This |will be the feature of the Cham- iber's weekly moon luncheon meet- ing at the Arcade Cafe. In addition to. this, the newly formed Yacht Club will submit a report on its plants for promoting the 1929 Oapital to Capital Yacht tace. Other routine matters will also be discussed. = — e H STOCK QUOTATIONS E NDW YORK, Jan. 30.—Alaska ! Juncau mine stock is quoted today pE at 8%, Capadian Pacific 249%, g = £ |Local Chamber to Discuss All-Alaska Body at Chrysler 113%, Cudahy 62%, Eisen- Hlor Brothers Cigars 109, Kenne- Lcott Copper 158%, Nevada Consoli- dated 44%, Natlonal Power and Light 58%, Packard Motors 1407 {Sears, Roebuck '161%, Stewart- er -137%, U. 8. Steel 181, \Pittshurgh Coal 72, (;eneral Motors | Hew issue,’ 81%. R P A &30 e Gover ind Residerits S e you, are lnterested , fnxiwfl %become : inviiii 73 l» p Juneam, P ",berty flmws, Bidsihesé Men CITY OF JUNEAU | Juneau and its advancement you are a, Mgr of the Juneau Chamber, of Com- your cooperation and assistance in our en- ON. TO THE Gt Gift Shop RUGS AND FLOOR COVERING €205 See Our Wmdow bisplay Better yet, come in and see our stock of Furniture, etc. R R .mmlmmmulluumu|mnnumlmmnmmmnumnmumnmnmmm.