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¥ ' THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, SEPT. 29, 1931 Daily Aiaiha Empire ] JOHN W. TROY - - - EDITOR AND MANAGER | Publishe® every evening except Sunday by the 4 EMPI PRINTING COMPANY at Second and Mair Streets, Juneau laska. Bntered in the Post Office in Juncau as Second Claer mniter SUBSCRIPTION RATES, Dellvered by carrier in Juneau, Dougla, Thane for $1.25 per mon Treadwell anc By mall, postage paid, at the following rates: One year, in advance, $12.00; six months, in advance $6.00; one month, in adva § Subscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly notify the Bukiness Office of any fallure or irregularity in the delivery of thelr papers. Telephone for E jal and Business Offices, 374, MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRE®S. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited in this paper and also th lceal news published herein ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION prodice; ness and natural consequence. men to his f the 400 would consent to a ten per cent ion of wages. follow add that wage increases would He said he would red ABOUT UNWILLI} Gi()TER.\H Gov. Roosevelt, in an authorized interview searing in Good Housekeeping magazine, vomen to vote, refers without hos! that™ profits ‘would again appear in busi- as a forty payroll which now contains 400 names uc- ap- urging if not with sulting engineer, in addition to oth- er prominent engineers. ‘The Colorado river aqueduct pro- jeet first came into existence in vnTE Is TAK |1923 when the natural growth of California demanded more water. IN cALIFORNIA‘ Officials of the various cities l.md citizens held innumerable meet- 1$220,000,000 Bond Issue ings and finally the Metropolitan | Water district was incorporated. Plans Completed Since the district was formed, engineers have brought the proj- wctual approval, to proposed legislation in France Up for Decision at ect plans to such perfection that hich would impose fines on voters for not casting| approval of the bond issue is all sallots at elections. President Coolidg> frequently Polls Today that remains. spoke with favor upon some similar schemes to force United Sta af abi slectors to go to the polls in the Many other men in h places and finest ‘motives, hava voting With all these men, great and good ees men The Em tes. Nty often urged fines to compel pire If a person does not take enough interest A city-like headquarters to house the 10,000 laborers would be cre- ated at the intake, near Parker, California. Specifications call for a 12 mile tunnel through the Coxcomb moun- tain range, another nine miles long through the San Jacinto range. tunnel would be LOS ANGELES, Cal, Sept. 29— The latchstrings that would open } 2 $220,000,000 water aqueduct proj- |~ct and give 10,060 men employ- | ment lie ih“the hands of voters in a group of southern California cit- ies, including Los Angeles. For the newspaper next few days baseb: dominion. Floods ess of nations great an way for the feats, notable and of diamond strategy, will match w and Cardina oble to get into the parks. But small part of the larger audience the game In hundreds of other block str as they watch from the game a boards and otherwi ranks fans from Point Barrow to Hawaii, the Philippines foregather, will take their of their favorite newspapers. game The Empire, in accord with its usual custom, and men of Connie Mack and Gabby Street. for the second succ2ssive year, these two masters | are pitted in balldom’s great classic rotrayed on bulletin boards, play- And the millions who can't contact with these facilities, numbering in their | .y will make a return trip to Alaska. and wherever ay ciently seriously to call out his much experienced | National Guard will rule the famines, the d small. perennial all crowded into the “innards’ of newspapers to make received whil> in Fairbanks, and they wished to otherwise, of the thank the citizel Thursday, Continuing, thi s as the Athletics | serene. She stand and d In St. Loui where the series opens, and Phila- ruthless with deiphia, hundreds of thousands of fans will jam grandstands and bleachers and possibly as many My first vi more, desiring to witness the games, will not be ral resou these are only a na which will attend cities crowds will points of vantage to vote in t We sincerely the Canal Zone, Americans from the pages may Legislators Will Help Alaska. (Fairbanks. News-Miner.) Glorious Alaska, unfathomable wilderness, unconquerable empire, her outlook is clear, and thus upset nature's balance. awe at her beauty and the wealth of her turn, to get better acquainted, to know her well enough that I may act with sympathy, intelligence and foresight whenever called on affecting Alaska's future. will all bz welcome. | | | This Settles It. 1 i (Ketchikan Chronicle.) to be desired that Gov. “Alfalfa | miles. not take his Presidential boom | TO pay for the aqueduct, consid- ered the world's longest man-made | water course, the 1567796 register- | ed voters in the Metropolitan Wat- | er district comprising the cities to {be supplied, are voting today on | the $220,000,000 bond issue, payable within 50 years. Noted Engineers Plan Project to further it. s Tammany's New York bailiwick,| A letter received by the News-Miner from United | doings of those about to be Reno-vated, gang- States Senator Frederic C. Walcott, who ® other du‘zair?i:lec::sag?g:xow:f/;rtthf ;g‘[’;' sters battles, Prohibition, and even politics which Legislators visited Alaska this summer, said me\‘;cm' California SeRLAE ram}né the is baseball's greatest rival for public intersst, will be would never forget the royal treatment the par"‘”&{mropoli:an Water district fc;rmed |in 1927, summoned Frank E. Wey- mouth, former chief of the United | States reclamation service. Weymouth selected a noted staff ns sincerely. e Senator said: : o i |to conduct surveys and assemble \\elcomgs lhose. “h? 111111 P‘; specifications for the giant under- DEBIIPE IS e Rae W = taking. He called in Thaddeus Mer- those who waste Her treasure | oo o o e New York ‘Board of Water Supply; A. J. Wil- ey, consulting engineer for the | United States government on the | Hoover Dam, and Richard R. Ly- | man, Salt Lake City, Utah, con- isit to Alaska inspires me with rces. I am determined to re- | e e he Senate upon any question hope Sepator Walcott and others They “BETTY BAXLEY” HOUSE [ | will have a full descriptive account of each game MF Eiyde b Shb ety for Netignlbure, has told and a detailed. play by | story for local fans. i L B g Ry FROCKS St SR oy ] o e each one i the Chamber of Commerce that there will be no| e o o mmiohied by the Asso. change in the wild fow! hunting season. He said | B g9 LSS NP o ' by the ASSO”ipat the order limiting the season in Alaska to] Néw: Shaptient ciated Press which covers the series with a corps of |gntomier was designed for.. thejigreatest good. of | 0.1 Shiper experienced and highly efficient sports writers. It yyo majority of XKlaskans. ' That, - according “ to fe . ] A, » Tost Received will be adequately and impar bias or prejudice since the Ass lly covered, without gportsmen, automatically eéliminafed the Ketchikan fated Press plays district no favorites in baseball or anything else. May it Here, indeed, be a real series, and the best team win! 'might well have of the people of ION FOR CURING ! UNEMPLOYMENT. | A Scattle employer ing unemployme the employers and employers increase by ten per cent sugge: employees. I That, and onal cost. h unemployment to consumption and make the depression less burden- | the number of and that the employees agree to a ¢ : . L » | can offer no suggestion. Legislation, prosecution and z suggestion cannot put brains into the heads of the American people—(Atchison, Kan., Globe.) wages to take care of the larger part he suggests, Jimmy Walker |going to hurt s a method of reliev- walking out when the bartender shakes up a round| He urges co-operation among of drinks.—(Macon, Ga., Telegraph.) suggests that ! their employees ie | mobile accidents. would would soon add It seems the the people could be Set|{money changers in the temple while that great scme. He believes if al to work in some such way as this there would moral drive was soon be a demand for all th CONDITIONS IN ‘ MINING FIELDS DECLARED GOOD (Continuwa from Page One) “ pany with five large modern new | dredges on Cleary and Goldstream creeks, and three smaller dredges owned by other companies. The | big company the extensive and cold water reducing the cost of mining. The' company is said to have at least 25 years of work on these streams and likely will bring several other creeks into the range of profitable operation by the end of that period greatly “Similar conditions exist in the Dawson area, where the Yukon Consolidated Gold Mining Com- pany, organized by A. N. C. Tread- gold, has five big dredges digging and also is pping and thawing Vi ydraulics and the cold water process. Klondike Yield $750,000 “The Klondike dredges are ex- pected to yield three quarters of a million in gold season, and to have 25 rs work on the Klondike v Dominion Creek and Sulphur (r’wk, th possibility of extending t! life of the camp anothe: years as the methods of operations improve The Dawson camp now has a pay- roll of $50,000 monthly, with that in the Fairbanks camp much larg- er, and both towns feel the thrill of this life blood pouring into all channels each month “Proportionately good results are felt in the smaller camps, but the mistake should not be made by _outsiders that there is any de- mand in those districts for more labor. All necessary help is now engaged by the big companies, and many men who went there this | season seeking work either had to or go into the quartz or ‘placer prospecting on their owm F3sources, 474 £ i working people could | —(Dayton, Ninety-five persons are killed every day in auto- Ohio, % | was a prohibiting order that| been revised to the better interest | Southeast Alaska. But it wasn't. In Prints and Broadcloth FEESES - T E A SO e S T is one visiting Mayor who is not | anybody's feeling in Europe by We deplore that condition, but matters to cast his ballot he is not the| The project which would give the| A shorter 5 ort of a citizen that ought to run the country.|10.000 laborers the opportunity to|quired through the Whipple moun- The ballot of one who votes to escape a fine is(€arn $100,000.000 in salaries within | ‘ains. Engineers hav.e estimated ; " S8 DEuTpies 408 iter an|ciSht vears is the 265 mile long [there would be 57 miles of open g il 2 e Colorado river aqueduct. . ganal and 96 miles of covered con- | and patriotic idea or impulse. It would bring the cities, which|duit. | ’ . lie from Long Beach in the south| Forty-one million pounds of ox- | Bears and .a cougar have recently been S€€N|., puihank in the north, water|plosives. engineers say, would be | the limits of the City of Seati Ug- | from the Colorado river, 150 miles|necessary to blast the aqueduct | gest to the Seattle Times to reassure S| below the Hoover Dam. The water |route. that bears, cougars and such are not the only wild wouid travel over three mountain| Other specifications are: tunnel life in Seattle. |ranges and through three tunnels,|timber, 4425000 board feet, con- | the longest of which would be 12| crete, 4920,000 cubic yards; 25440,- 000 sacks of cement for concrete and 46,000,000 pounds of steel and copper. s Bigger Soybean Yield Caused by Fertilizing 133 of soybean hay are secured sometimes without fertilizer, but more profitable crops result from the use of plant food mixtures. It is a mistake, says Enos C Blair, Extension Agronomist at North Carolina State College, to plant soybeans without fertilizer. “For instance,” he said, Thomas of Moore County made a | vield of 4,567 pounds of hay to the \acre by applying 400 pounds of an 8-3-3 fertilizer, and an application of the same amount of 8-2-4 fer- tilizer incerased the yield 70 per cent at a Rocky Mount experiment station.” | et FOR RANGES 1" HEATERS AND * FIREPLACES ‘ HEMLOCK | 'WOOD ' lephone 92 or 95 and { eave your order yith '4 GEORGE BROTHERS {{ Full Half Cord, $4.25 g \ Chester Barneson ————J DRACULA Will Get You If You Don’t Watch Outl re must have been quite a few being conducted against Al Smith. News.) “It does one good to see l’-‘;ur-lto be marketable at the present banks and Dawson manifesting this new life. Fairbanks has practically no vacant buildings and some new large ones, including one or two concrete structures are under con- struction, and the town has hun- eds of automobiles in service. It is a common sight to see the cars lined up or parked near thé show centers for a block or two, and stages coming and going at all hours tem of government highways of some one thousand miles of mod- ern roadways that now radiate from that interior metropolis. Three airway lines serving a radius of hundreds of miles also augment Fairbanks' activity, reaching all interior and coast points. A plane may be seen in the air there near- ly any hour on real business trips to various camps. “Old Dawson, while rapidly knocking down unneeded old struc- es of the boom days, is getting e new spirit and thus reflects the note of confidence and assurance of a long life. Geclogists Report Prospects Government geologists engaged during the summer in investiga- tions of the area tributary to the Alaska Railway reported numerous gold lode perties near Fair banks deserving attention of op- erators mills of 50 tons or| more capacity per day, and some of the properties possibly warrant- | ing operations on A larger scale. The Ryan gold lode and othe g the Esther Dome, it is said. may soon receive the attention of some of the larger mining compan- ies who appear interested. “In the Mayo silver-lead fields, which are now recognized as among running over the ‘fine sys-| low price of metals at a gross val- ue even exceeding the combined output of the year of the Fairbanks and Dawson gold fields, or approx- imately $3,000,000. Two thousand teews of similar high grade ore is being held on the river banks at Mayo this season for shipment lat- er, and the Treadwell Yukon com- pany has its mill operating on the |Lucky Queen and has others of its mines in reserve, where exten- sive development has been done | The company this year built a wide roadbed on level grade between its Where ladies will find perfect for consultation. Telephone 39 1921 Graduate of Cosm VALENTINE BUILDING beautification, in a pleasant atmosphere. ALSIE ]. The American Beauty Parlor satisfaction in their search for There is no charge 7 for an appointment. etology and Hairdressing WILSON TELEPHONE 397 Silver King and Elsa mines on | Galena Hill, three miles, and erect- |ed a large, new warehouse at the :Sllvcx' King. Others Are Holding “The Guggenheim subsidiary, known as the Keno Hill, Limited, keeps its engineer in the field, with | headquarters at Keno City, near | where it is holding valuable prop- Telephone 183 EMPLOYMENT OFFICE Pioneer Pool Hall | POOL—BILLIARDS Chas. Miller, Prop. lerties; while the Consolidated Min- [ing and Smelting company ha: been diamond drilling properties in the Beaver area, 50 miles be- ;yond Keno. The Marcus Daly in- terests known as the Reserve Min- |ing companies, also holds its prop- |ertiés in the camp, and individual owners still own some 90 percent |of the hundreds of quartz claims lin the Mayo district Many of these independent owners have op- ened rich new veins and are hold- ing their. properties pending bet+ |ter market conditions. They are | confident of readjusted financial | conditions, touching gold and silver, |and other economic factors will bring silver and lead into their own again in good time, and that the Mayo district will then get away on —Jonx opportunity came big. BE PREPARED “Real Opportunty Comes Only to the Man With Ready Money.” T Mr. Rockefellor small way and was prepared when small things of life that lead to the D. ROCKEFELLER. began life in a > his way. It is the RALEIGH, N. C., Sept. 20.—Good | | “M. C.| {a rapid and substantial develop- the best of the new lead fields ment that will make the camp anywhere and possessing a silver jone of the outstanding contribu- content seldom excelled in any|tions to prosperity of the North. camp, operations have been slowed |The Mayo camp already has pro- down by the low price of the met-|duced some 60,000 tons of high (&ls. Despite this fact the Mayo grade silver-lead ores, including jcamp this year shipped five thou- crude ores and concentrates, esti- sand tons of concentrates from the mated to have been marketed for Start your savings account today no matter how small. The B. M. Behrends Bank OLDEST BANK IN ALASKA JLuck_v Queen mine, which are said |approximately $20000,000." | EEsssssssses: ntin, e PINE, TAR and HONEY with Cod Liver Extract and Eucalyptus For relief of coughs, colds and loss of voice 50 cents ]'uneau Drug | Company Free Delivery Phone 88 Post Office Substation Ne. 1 “We Never Close” SERVICE MOTOR CO. “Jim” and “Marvan” THIRD and MAIN STS. | W. P. Johiison | FRIGIDAIRE DELCO LIGHT PRODUCTS || MAYTAG WASHING | MACHINES GENERAL MOTORS RADIOS Phone 17 kront Street Juueaw e You Can Save Money at Our Store SEE US FIRST i Harris Hardware Co. ‘ Lower Front Street —c L edl o S — AND , Not Only Cheaper but Better RICE & AHLERS CO. 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