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must it.' Tnagrw bringing a kM ?n>
paruwb to nosmajcy ?a ?wdled4o mining
has rssulie^ in a return of the
pendulum toward greater miatog activity
than has been experienced in
the history of ^laaka ainee the boom
day* .
While the Alaska railroad was
building It was impossible to obtain
help owing to the good wages in railroad
construction. Even now there iJ
a . general shortage of miners through
out the territory and every man of
experience who cares to is employed.
Mining take! ot1 an entirely different
complexion than of a few years
ago; attention is being given to gainftig
access to known placer deposits
suitable for hydpauhc aqd dredges,
and aside from this phaqe of th?
placer aituatiod there is little doing
save where old-timers have a little
p|ece of ground from which they may
splice out a grub Stake for the wintqpr,
and who do not-.cape to take out
a (fortune. *
The other phase of the renaissance
in mining is cpnflnqd to quartz, ana
judging by the encouraging discoveries,
the apparent permanency of ore
bodies and ability to mine economically,
the outlook ^for quartz is excellent.
Additional prospecting in the Willow
Creek district has disclosed a
more extended area, and as rapidly
as trails and roadways are extended
the prospector is bringing commercial
properties into being.
So great has become the lure of the
hills that almost all the populous
cefiters along the railroad are undergoing
a mid-summer quietude,
everyone who has a grubstake and
m#ny engaged in other lines of business
taking advantage of the ideal
conditions in the hills to combine n
pifasure trip with prospecting.
"How much does it go to the pan"
has been suplemented by "What does
it -run to the ton," and "how is tho
crep looking?"
fCven when a big cleanup comes in
there is no excitement , as these
things are becoming every-day occurrences.
Alaska at present needs more in
terest in quartz mining, especially
from outside capital, it is stated, for
local capital is carrying the peak of
development and the lack atf larger
capital is retarding rapid development.
Geological survey engineers are
now making recognizances along the
railroad belt and the result of their
findings is expected to have a tremendous
effect upon all classes of
mining, and a boom is looked for as.
soon as these report* are mad*
; VJ known.
Alaska is no place for the wijdeat?"-tier;
for the ogpnpwiities are armfid
jtgsinst spurious promotions, and alt
efforts to float such enterprises are
balked by the public and press.
As sn illustration of how the Alaskans
are progressing, a number of
business men have acquired a number
of oil leases in the Anchorage field
and hold them subject to the advent
of capital in sufficient volume to drill
one or more complete wells, the property
being turned over on a low royalty
basis, all amolument being subject
to striking oil.
Anchorage recently jointly financed
? a cannery plant by escrowing all subncrintinnn
until sufficient, ennitnl was
raised. The cannery was launched
and this season is operating successfully.
It is the policy of Alaskan capital
to pool with outside capital on al'
legitimate enterprises and in this
manner the public, as well as legitimate
developers, are protected
against buccaneers of finance.
Ordinance Adopted for
Mandated Territory
Sydney, N. S. W., Aug. 22.?Ordinances
dealing with mining, timber
and other lands in the mandated territory
of German New Guinea have
been adopted by the Commonwealth
government. Great interest has been
aroused in the ordinances which center
in the provision controlling min
ing and including the regulations'governing
prospecting for oil.
The ordinance specifically excludes
shale, petroleum and mineral oil from
private industry, the right to search
and exploit these deposits being reserved
for the government. The pro
visions regarding gold, silver and
.every kind of mineral, including opals
:and other precious stones, are framed
<on the State Mining Acts, and makes
, allowance for miners' rights, consolidated
miners' rights, gold mining
leases and mining leases.
A new principle in island legislation
is included in the land control
ordinance, a clause having been inserted
that enables the governor general
to sell land in fee simple. Agricultural,
pastoral, business and residential
leasee may be granted from
Crown lands, subjeet to improvement
conditions. The leases in most
cases will be for 99 years except in
the case of pastoral lands which are
limited.to 80 years- .
The timber ordinance confers special
rights upon the natives, and
their lands, which contain valuable
forests, are protected. Licenses are
to be issued for cutting timber on
Crown lands up to areas of 6,000
acres. The licensees must maintain
saw mills on the property and the
timber exported is liable to royaltiese
to be fixed by legislation.
In the Jewish calendar Tisri corresponds
to our September and 'October.
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Treated Canvas
Gives Double Life
Washington, Aug. 22,?(By the Associated
Press) n> Those who use
heavy canvas cmsgp to protest their
crops, machinery, materials, etc..
against the weather, can alnant
double the li?e of the fabric if they
treat them to afford protection
against light as well as moisture and
mildew,, the Department of Agriculture
declares in a recent circular.
After a series of experiments with
canvas in which waterproofing mixI
tunes were made with the addition
of earth pigments such as used in
paints, the experimenters arrived at
the conclusion that keeping out the
Ugh. from the inner fibres affords
considerable protection to the fabric.
Since several pigments are suitable,
there is more or less freedom
of choice as to color, the statement 1
continues. For a buff or khaki color,
yellow ochre can be used. For a
darker buff or light brown, raw sienna 1
is good; for dark red or reddish
brown, burnt sienna; for olive brown,
raw umoer; aqd tor dafk brown,
burnt umber is added to the mixture.
The usual formula for waterproof- 1
ing canvas may be used with the addition
of the earth pigment, using one 1
pound either dry or ground in linseed 1
oil, to each gallon of the prepared
solution. The department experts 1
have also found that a solution of 1
dark yettow petrolatum (va&linc>, '
beeswax, gasoline, and kerosene wtih 1
the desired pigment, makes a good '
waterproofing and lightproofing mix- 1
ture. Another receipt just as good '
is the same as the first, substituting
asphalt (petroleum or bermudez) foi
he beeBwax. 1
The waterproofing or lightproofing
of canvas is important for a number 1
of uses, it is explained. The intro- 1
duction of long-distance truck haul- '
ing has created a great demand for
stout wagon covers, which are widely 1
used; great quantities are used for
covers to protect grain or hay in the (
shock from the weather; the merchant
uses covers to ?protect his produce; '
contractors and builders need them to
protect machinery and materials.
The army and navy use great quantities
of canvas and the summer '
camper is another large consumer. 1
It is often posible for these users to
halve the cost of their canvas by pro
longing the life of the material.
For canvas that remains in a fixei
osition, such as permanent wagon
covers, the circular adds, boiled linseed
oil containing one pound of the -
desired pigment to each gallon may *
be used. 'lTie treatment, however, 1
stiffens the canvas and is, therefore, *
not suitable for covers that are fre- c
quently folded. Lamp black was 1
found to be one of the best protective t
pigments for use with linseed oil,
jiving the most flexible coating.
Ah?mrai>?*, bronse powder,-and, for s
white color, sine oxide, also are good, c
but the latter stiffens the canvas more o
than any othetvof" the-pigments tried. 1
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Criticises British i
Mandate Policy f
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sianey, im. s. w.,^ Aug. zv.? rne British
policy of native control in
mandated German New Guineo is f
criticised by S. Sampson, former 1
member of the Commonwealth House I
of Representatives who has just re- *
turned from a visit to the islands. 8
Mr. Sampson says the policy of the c
government is frequently one of ?
"sparing the rod and spoiling the c
child" and if continued it will make *
it impossible to work the plantations
Successfully. '
"While the German system need c
not be adopted in its entirety, an al r
teration of the present system is es- 3
sential to make it effective," he added. 1
"It would appear that if the general *
system of soldier settlement is car- c
tied out in the territories, the govern
ment will become responsible to Ger- r
many, through the. aliler for between ^
chree mililon and four million pounds r
for the purchase of plantations for r
sub-division and settlement. If the c
borrowing of this amount is regarded *
necessary for soldier land settle- s
u.4>t, the money should be expended
within Australia, through the states,
where an abundance of land is avail
able under infinitely better condi
tions than can be obtained in the
mandated territories. . t
. "We have fully 2,000,000 square i
miles of undeveloped tropical and a
semi-tropical land in Queensland, 1
Northern Territory and Northwestern t
Australia. Yet, in spite of the pres- \
/ent need for people, we are neglect- 1
ing these areas and sending to a new 1
territory hundreds of our able-bodied t
soldiers who will find it very difficult
to justify their labor or the expenditure
of the government. At the
earliest possible moment Parliament
should reconsider the whole matter >
with the view to instituting legisla- c
tion that will control the labor prob
lem efficiently, effect the disposal of 1
land to private enterprise, and wirn- <
draw the large army of public offl- i
cials to the mainland of Australia, 1
where they can be placed more profit- 1
ably." <
A great cave in Frgderikshall, Norway,
is 10,000 feet deep.
An oil well sunk 7,570 feet is probably
the" deepest in the Uiiited States.
The first ten verses of the Te Deuni
are said to date back to the second
century.
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Negroes Can Join '
As Well as Whites
The campaign for cooperative marketing
of cotton is going steadily on
in this county about ICO growers having
signed the contract within the
last ten days.
A meeting will be held at Cross
Keys tonight and at Black Rock in
the morning at 10:30 o.'clock.
D. J. MacMillun who, with the as
sistancc of W. D. Wood, county ^gen;,
and W. B. May is conducting the
campaign said today:
"We are going ahead sJgiung them
up and every nian who signs the con
tract makc3 the organisation jun
that much stronger.
A great many people seem to have
an idea that this is an organization
of men. It is not. It has long ago
been demonstrated that you could not
organize fanners as individuals. We
are organizing their commodity, dotton.
We ure not particularly interested
if a man is a landlord or tenant.
What the association wants is
to sell his cotton.
A great many people have an idea
that negro farmers cannot -join th^e
association. This is a mistake. We
ure anxious to have the negroes -cotton.
Of couise we know that in a
great many instances the white landlord
controls the negroes cotton. But
next year that same negro may be on
a landlord's farm who is not a member
of the association. In that case
the association will go to the landlord
and endeavor to secure his permission
to sail the tenant's cotton,
paying the amount of money owed by
the tenant to the landlord.
In this way we have the opportunity
to control more cotton.
After all, it is this distress cotton
which has a tendency to keep the
price of cotton down. And if we can
:ontrol even a part of t same will
help the association to get a better
urice for cotton.
Arrangements have already beet
:omplrted to handle the local cottor.
temporarily. The association will
jtart functioning within a few days,
[f the cotton farmers of this county
want to help it is up to them to sign
the contract and give their moral and
aractical support to the greatest
movement for the emancipation of
;he Southern cotton grower.
Relieve Anti-Vice
Experiment Failure
Shanghai, Aug. 22.?Shanghai's
ixpcriment, begun some two years
igo, to eliminate commercialized vice
'rom the International Settlement,
tas been occasioning widespread disussiou
in Shanghair and elsewhere
>y reason of recent official reports
hat seem to indicate the belief that
he plan adopted will not work.
The scheme was proposed by a vice
ohuniaaion. When it waa* put into
peration the 800-odd eatabliahments
if the International Settlement were
icensed and the purpose h*V been
o cancel one-fifth of the total number
?f licenses each year for a period of
ive years?with the end that places
>f the kind would be wholly elimintted
at the end of the five year period.
After the scheme has been in operation
two years its wisdom seemingly
s questioned in the course of a remit
lately issued by the Municipal
Council. This report says the evil
ind attendant evils "have in no way
lecieased but have merely spread
>ver a much wider area with conseluent
impossibility of any effective
>olice control."
This elicited a swift response from
ocal "moral welfare" forces. The
ouncil was asked if its statement
neant that the places closed opened
iguin in new quarters in the Settlenent
and operated unchecked and if
he police feel themselves unable to
ope with the situation.
Replying to these questions the Mulicipal
Council said that places of
ically closed, remain closed, but that
levertheless former occupants having
to other means of making a living
ontinue their former lives in private
louses where they are in no sense
ubject to police control.
fapaneee Taking
Up Foreign Loans
Tokio, Aug. 23.?Of the two 4 1-2
>ercent sterling loans raised by Japan
n London totalling 785,780,000 yen
ind due in 1925, only 224,000,000 yen
emains in forSign hands, Japanese
laving purchased them during the
var in large quantities. Similarly, of
:he 77,400,000 francs loan due in
1923 only 6,000,000 franes is held
ibroad.
Lake Freezes in Jane
Otaru, Japan, Aug. 28.?Asahika
va ana districts in Hokkaido suffer id
an unusual drop of temperature on
rune 24, all the lakes and streams
freezing:. Such an experience ac
;his time of the year has only been
*ecorded once before in these localises.
That was 35 years ago when
:he rivers froze on July 2nd. Serious
damage waa done to oropo.
Milk cans are giving way to iam
tank truck for dairies because of the]
ability to control the temperature of
the flukit the better ganiary methods'
and the' lower cost of the' trades over
the oans.
By means of a solar casket1, C. G.
Abbott, assistant secretary of Smithsonian
institute, war able to cook on
top of Mt. Wilson, California, without
fuel.
Mora than the whole of Europe .has
been overspread by a single storm at
one time. , ,
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Th. "WiwrS' titration
A Final Dotting May Further Pro- J
CfittJtqa flollege, -Aug. 21*?Whwi- i
ever natural-shading , is ?fcav*y and <
the-*a?uU-'in rvaqr &AtVe, htad there <
is litUe cm no. fruiting, -no. further 4
profit ?ay*e uxftdd Ma Hmatiug> <
but -whwaaaui nomfrhl. udhiMma aoniM
t ions exist and yfMk+r* ifiaanortbal 1
eheddhtf oeufca an&r cotfhto -ia - Mill
fraJting,.*n9lhe? dunting is advisable ?
in order to .give -evtijy poeatblo 'protaction
to -the bolle, said Prof. A. F. ^
Conradi, .entemolegiet, this morning jj
after the weekly conference in Direc- r
tor Long's otiice-on tha boll weevil ait- w
nation. Other facta and suggestion* tfi
developed at the conference ere given ??
belcw. ?
The weather conditions are valriaole 2
throughout the state, ranging from
OKtveme wot weather in some locaii- *4
tics tto extreme drouirht in nth* . Jr. ?
many fields- throughout the eouUal m
und southern parte ^f the sta'.e There ?
la link fruiting at -this time hvw*s<*e ^
of excessive autumn shewing com- X
hi into with weevil pwenre-t In Jry
arens in the Hiedmdnt action natural *'
shedding is very heavy, although 4*
weevil infestation lp comparatively A
light. But the failing off of fruit w I
generally attributed .'by farmers to X
the boll weevil. *
Much Crop Failure'Due to Weather, V
Not Whevil. ??<
The general weather conditions at
this time resemble those of last year,
although the same extremes do not ?
exist in the same localities in every
case. The weather damage at this
time should not be overlooked by <&l
farmers, and every effort should be
made to get most careful and impartial
estimates of thg percentage of X
their crop loss due to weevil and the J?
percentage due to natural shedding, v1
It must be remembered that, owing u> <0
heavy continuous rainfall in certain ??
sections of the state, there would ??
likely have been a crop failure re- Jk
gardless of the boll Weevil. This is $
important for people to consider so
that they may not get the idea that ^
cotton can no longer be grown suecessfully.
There wete cotton crop
failures on account* of weather long
before the boll weevil came. 1
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Mew Zealanders Meet ???
To Sins Cheerful Song* V
Welling Ion, N. Z., Aug. 22.-~Cyril
iV.ee, who trained Community songlenders
for the American troops dur- ?
i?g the war, has visited this city and i
introduced the idea of community] ?
singing. It caught oh at once. A *5*
meeting of prominent Wellington ?&
business men was held at his instigation,
the mayor presiding, and those
present formed thsnmhres into a
committee to introducwthe scheme. 1
"It met with immettate success," V
said the New Za?r ix Herald,..'^the
attendance at the firimpig number- ??i
ing about 800 and ?t tlrnMt tto fewer A
~*hnn 4,000." t. A
The sings'are held in the town hall f
from midday until 2 o'clock one day x
each week. There is a* fltieompanist ^
and a piano and a song leader who
acts as conductor. . *<
Leaflets are distributed With 12 or &
14 choruses or songs known to everybody.
The leader announces what ?
will be sung, gives thepu ? start and ^
off thev co. Th?rp is nnthincr whot. W
ever of a commercial proposition ?*i
about it. .. A
A collection is taken as the people a
pass out, and they contribute from a 4
penny to sixpence, according to the
amount oi enjoyment they got out of V
it. . A
The money is used for the hire of A
the hall, piano, advertising and print- A
ing. It is hoped soon tb get a book- ?
let printed containing 60 community ^
songs. Hymns are not sung but just V
the good old-fashioned songs that
everybody lovefc with a few tuneful, ?*i
popular choruses to help keep people A
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Georgia Wives Would V
Permit Hubby's Fishing V
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Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 24.?The penate ?
committee on wild land# of the Geor- A
gia legislature has before it a bill
introduced by Senator Dennis Flcming
of Dougherty county to mal e it j
necessary for husbands in this st>r< V
to obtain permission of their wiv-i-s
before going fishing. A
Senator Fleming, a fisherman him A
self and a married niaa, was merely
exercising his keen Irish humor when j
he introduced the measure, and had V
no idea of hearing an eeho expressed J
through the curiosity of so famous a ?
person as Hudson MSxlm, the in A
ventor and author. 1
In a letter to S. G. MeLendon, sec- i
retary of state, Mr. Maxim wrote: "I V
see by the New York Tribune that a
Will 1 L 1 -J l_ AW- Jk
uiii Hi*si uwn uitruuutcu in tiic seimir
of the state of GeorgUs by Senator <?
Dennis Fleming which contains some ?
provisions so drastic that it has oc- $
curred to me that the whole thing *4
must be a joke." ? *8
Quoting provisions of the bill as ?
described in the Tribute story, that <3
"aay and all married m.n who shall Lfl
go Ashing without the consent of thciv
.Wives shall be guilty of a felony, and f
' tidir sentence shall net be less than %
five or more than 20 years at hard !
labor," the inventor wtbte: "Is shall 14
deem the courtesy very much if you A
trill let me know whcthjhr or not such J
legislation is being ptbposed in the q
state of Georgia. As tf jim writing u
bosk on lawless legtkfntion in the ?j
United States, I am fathering any 4
stalking bits of legislami which may Lj
be'useful for mf workdj* J
Charleston, S. C.t Ms one of th.- %
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