Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, June 30, 1916, Page 9

e 7 : | - 7/ g - _Faced by demands from the conductors, engineers, firemen - and - Would impose on the country an additional burden in transportation costs of/$100 8 year, the railroads propose that this wage problem be scttled by referenceito an impartial Federal tribunal. With these employes, whose efficient service is acknowledged, the railroads. have o differences that could not be cansidered fairls and decided instlv by such a public body. ~ Railroads Urge Public Inquiry and Arbitration = The fiormal proposal of the railroads to the employes for the settlement of the controversy is as follows: e ‘ % - “Our conferences have demonstrated that we cannot harmonize our differences of opinion; ::t:d that ev:ine:xdl matters in mnerovt;::y must: be* pa:lsed up&n by other mdfd sinter- agen we propose that your proposals and the proposition of the rail- ways be disposed of by one or tge other of-the following methods: by . A P bly by submission to- the Interstate Commerce ; Commission, the only tribunal which, by reasen of its accumulated (information bearing on “railway condltionsoang its ‘;:n- trol of the revenue of the railways, is in a position to consider and protect the rights and equities of all the interests affected, and to provide additional revenue necessary to meet the ded cost of operation in case your proposals are found by the Commission to be just and reasonable; or, in the event the Interstate Commerce Commission cannot, under existing lfll,’ :ctul the premises, tha¢ we jointly request Congress to take such action as may be involved: :: the Commission to consider and promptly dispose of the questions e 2. By arbitration in accordance with the provisions of the Federal law” (The Newlands Act), Leaders Refuse Offer and Take Strike Vote Leaders of the train service er;thcxhoods, at the joint conference held in New York) June 1-15, refused the offer of the railroads to submit the issue to arbitration or Fedc:;fi review, and the employes- are-now'voting on the question whether authority sh given these leaders to-dcclire—a.’mfiqn:wide siithe. hether authority shall be The Interstate Commerce Commission is proposed by the railroads as th i body to.which this issue ought to be referred for these reasons: a g an ot amen - No other body with mhb an intimate directly to thi ¥ 1 ch y to the 1 as s and th knowledge of railroad conditions has such money to pay inflmflpmon:: fr:m: an unquestioned position. in the public con- no btiet source than the rates paid by the fidence. ¥ & public. d 'b'}.‘hefneu the- railroads-may charge the ~ ic for ortation are now 1 g:ed by this?én.povmmcnt board. i _The Interstate Commerce Commission, with its control over rates, is in a position to make a complete investigation and render such decision as would protgct theinterests of the railroad employes, the owners of the railroads, and the puglic. Rt A Question For the Public to Decide .. The railroads feel that they have no right to grant a wage preferment of $100,000,000 2 ycinr to thc;c empl:lyes, nowdlngh:y paid ana constituting only one-fifth of all the employes, without a clear mandate from a public tribunal that shall d i merits of the case after a review of all the facts. ; e e The single issue before the ;'ountry is-whether Government inquiry or by industrial warfare. Out of every dollar received by the rail- roads from the public nearly onc-:yalf is paid this controversy s to be settled by an impartial . National Conference Committee of the Railways ELISHA LEE, Chairman PR ALBRI y . | GHT, Gt 3 G. 1. BMERSON, Con't Menaser N. D MARER, Vies Presidss, " - L W, BAI Gen'l Managor. C. H. EWING, Go" 115 aoas l‘""m....."" 5 3 s 3, Gow't Masagor, JAMES RUSSE! X of Railway. Filiadeas & i & he Greog alanase: g - e Ip! Reading Railway. Deéaver & Rio Railroad. % ..i.-oo#-, ‘o Hevo s Hurttord Railrond. Ghcvapeats & Bhie My B R AN, Vies- Presidest, A. 8, GREIG, Asst. 1o R - Vice-Preaidost, Bonthens Bk, =T | e oy el e i Ade'Li : lw:onfig:'m-‘- C- W. KOUNS, Gow'l Maactm, A3 STONE, ViewPresidst. & CrowL H. . MOMASTER, Gonl Monagr, G.S. WAID, Vics-Pres. & Gon'l Mg, THE SOUTHERNMOST CITY OF THE WORLD. Punta Arenas Has a Population of - 13,000 and ls a Big Wool Exporting article by Edward ‘Albes in the cur- rent number of the Bulletin of the Pcm American Union, Wrshington, D. Plymouth, a man of low condition, but a skillful seaman and a valiant pirate” —is the way, according to this article coast of South America from:-: the 4 e in beca: inhabited by civilized 1t asked to fame the city closest to | LOrtusuese navigator, Fernando de| depredations of this marauding Drac’ e 1 v P Magalhaes, in 1520, (e writer tells of simmlar piratically inclined gon- o = the South Pole doubtless many people | the practical abandorment of the E,, dete:—;r\:n:d to fcuga a ntllerfii:t T in the United States—and elsewhere|route by the Spaniards until 1578, | which at the same time would G a school hy or an atlas before | S2iled through its treacherous ghan-!yenient point on the strait. An e answering. yet, it is one of the|neis and pursued his way on up the greatest wool exporting ports in the|CO2St of the Americas even as far as|jeadership of the Spanish navigator world, located on the Strait of Magel- | California. It this feat that lan, and is comparatively well known | Feally caused the first atempt to the name of Punta Arenas. How |found a colony in this bleak and in- came to found a set- | hospitable region. tlement in this remote section of the| “Peru was at peace, when for our world, how it passed out of existence, |sins some English pirates pressed bow it was d in the mineteenih | hrough the Strait of the Mother of <Chileans, and how it|God, formerly called the Strait of jpered and grown rich | Magellan, into the South Sea, under by e thrived, then, brought out in an|comand of Fra: native of sines Keenkutter and imperial SCYTHES $1.00 Each © Fully Warranted 'ND LEQQ’ POULTRYPANACEA B “Ess JINSTANT LOUSE KILLER . ROUP REMEDY The superdreadnaught biggest of the world's was recently turned over to the gov- érnment. Duting her l'p‘e‘n‘ trials recently the Pen o eXe ceéeded all requirements She will be- come the flagship of the Atlantic fleet. She has cost the government abouit $13,000,000. Her a nt ‘is 81,- ¢ 000 tons and her OV HOUSEHOLD | 5iiy water line is 60 feet, length 608 feet. Her armament consists of a min battery of twelve £ inch 45 calibre breechloading Pedro Sarmiento, the first colony was established not far from thc present that the old’ Bpamiard chroniClor It |t Tatinmn co and waivatin, e ¥ A ndians, col n, the i (ucing the dark ooa sentic [t and “Wherefors Spain, it order to Titie setioment was 800h Wived out of the Stral lan from | pro k the time of its discovery by the £amous | moar @ of Somig parts on the Pacific|existence and the shores of the Strait ment| o 1543 tho Republic of Chile estad- for that mefser—would need to consult| When the intrepid Sir Francis Drake|ah a protecting fortress, at s0me coni- | site. wiiion. aboat 8. years later sas completely burned down by the pris- pedition was fitted out and under the | oners, who mutinied . and. kiled governor, guards, and many foreigners. Found In the Chisana-Whits River Distriot, Alaska. The discovery of gold in stream gravels on sevéral of the headwater Alaska, :o‘?“ufln of ma River, to a stampede prospsctors into this aistrict in 1913 that recalled to old-timers the early days of placer mining in the Territory. This district is described by Stephen R. Cepps in T.. Geological Survey Bulletin 630. Upper White River valley was first brought to the attention of mining people by the discovery of native cop- per on Kletsan Creek, and it was not until gold was found on Bonanza Creek, in 1013, that the district began to be thought of as a source of gold rather than copper, though gold qGuartz veins had been staked in this very locality at least six years before 1913. When, late in the summer, the imen who found the gold on Bonanza Creek returned to Dawson for supplies their discovery leaked out, and sev- eral thousand gold seekers rushed into the country, many of them without equipment or provisions and unaccus- tomed to the rigors of an Alaskan winter. The =mall supplies of food then in the region were soon ex- hausted, prices rose to prohib figures, and sufficient provisions werc not available even for those who could afford to buy them. Fortunately the district was well supplied with game. <0 that for weeks many lived on a diet of rabbits and ptarmigan. In 1814 {mest of those svho had beeén disa pointed in staking valuable clai gusted with their experiences left district, and (.e real business of ning began. The récks of the Chisana-White dis- t are of many types. The moun- lt ns of the Wrangell and St. Elias jénges, on the west and south, are composed dominantly of igneous rocks, but the Nutzotin Range, in which the | gola-bearing gravéls were found, is composed primarily of _sedimentary bafs which are cut by dikes and in- ed by large masses of crystalline and contain also some The whole area is strongly glaciated. 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Ask bim for the Crookes Glass Booklets It will tell you witally important troths about your eyes. { This rebellion was quelled a few | months later, and the town rebuilt ‘on | its present site and given the name of | Punta Argnas (Spanish ‘for Sandy | Point). 1t would seem that sheep raising is the foundation upon which the little city’s growth and prosperity depends to a great extent, and in this | connection the writer states: “The <old climate of Tierra del ego and the strait region generally s peculiarly adapted to sheeép rals- In order to protect iem from F f i Its special qualitiés are that delicate dyes exceptionally well. s Punta Arenas has become one ¢ the great wool-exporting ports of = world, something over 20,900,000 E s being shipped from there an- ly. It is estimated that there are 2,000,000 sheep in the -territory re 35 years ago there were but 85 head all teld. At the time of the writer’s visit there was one company, capitalized at $7,300,000, which owned over 1,800,000 acres of land on which were maintained 1,253,000 sheep, 25,000 head of cattle and 9,183 horses. For one year the production of this com- pany amounted to ly 9,500,000 pounds of wool, shorn from 1,190,683 sheep, thus averaging 7. wool per animel ‘The little city boasts of about 13,000 inhabitants, and their prosperity is in- dicated when an examination the redit Information books of the banks reveals the fact that among ‘them there are 79 fortunes that $100,000; 64 fortunes of more $200,000: 81 of more than $400,000; and there are several that range from $1,000,000 to $5,000,000. Tdcidentally the reports of ihe banks also show that there are 2,300 accounts in_the savings departments that exceed $200, a remarkable showing for a town of 13,000 people—s Showing that per- haps few small cities in the Unfted But States or Europe -can equal. that's the kind' of a town Punta Are- World.” pas is—the “Southernmost City in the = T 3 S = light and mediam. _We have the BSIR WILLIAM CROOKES Lens in the two shades, the melting ice left m. the eea they were folded and tipped ou hrroughout the distric end and worn down by nature’s forces posits of outwash gray to a gentle surface across which Dela. down and ars still accumulating . in|ware River flowed to the sea. Th¢ the valleys of the glacier-fed streams.|top of Kittatinny Range was then par( Talus, peat, muck, and some volcanic|of this surface and the adjacent area ash, as well as normal stream depos- | that is now lowlands stood nearly at its, make up the postgiacial materials |the same level. Elevation of the land in the areas that are not now receiv- | caused the Delaware and its tributaries ing glacial and glacio-fluvial deposits.|to wear away the softer rbcks. and The productive gold placer gravels|leave the harder rocks standing in of the Chisana district are found with- | relief as ridges. The hard rocks that in a small area, nearly all the gravels|compose Kittatinny Range formed that have been profitably mined 1ving|rapids in the,Delaware whiere it crosw- within a circle 5 miles in: diameter.|ed them but the river gradually cut Bonanza, Little Bldorado, and Skoo- | this barrier away. kum creeks have produced most of| It is easy to believe that streams can the gold mined.” The short mining|remove soft shale and limestone in season, comprising only 90 to 100 days, | their course, but it may seem at first and the remotencss of ihe district|thought impossible that water alone from lines of transportation combine|can cut away hard rock. The water, to make mining expensive. Gold hasihowever, is only a medium, for the been mined actively, however, and the | cutting is done by the sand gravel and total production of the district up to|bowlders carried by the stream, just and including the year 1914, was prob- | as emery fed to a saw cuts through gbly not far short of $300,000 the hardest rock or steel. Large round fioles that were lgrou?ed hibn‘to hard rocks by the churning of pebbles at the Delaware Water Gap Cut by Nature’s |10¢(cm" of smal falls have been left Whip Saw. as “potholes” on the Sides of gorges as Delaware Water Gap is_a vertical- | the evidence of such stream cutting. walled trench, 1,200 feet deep, in the|So the Delaware copcentrating ite narrow ridge of Kittatinny Mountain|power on a small section of the hard through which Delaware River flows.|rock of Kittatinny Range was able, 1 pounds of | Did the river find this gateway ready- | during a long period, to cut the gap made through the mounminrt‘;r did it|through the rocky barrier. ; cut its way through the hard moun- e s tain ledges, and if so how could it ac- The Added R. complish its mighty task? The four things whichyare interest- By the study of the geology of the |ing the collegé vndergraduvates in region_the foliowing history has been |these preparedness days are reading, worked out. 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