New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-12-12
THE PASSING THRoNG.

~N~S9' "4AO hlesHeS frequent professional vfzl.a
to the metropolis. Is staying ar g.
RESULTS OF Manhattan Hotel. The rioto~,
CHICAGO conditions that attended ths &c.
CAK STRIKE strike OF the street railway -
ployes." said Mr.. Chancellor. .bav.
completely subsidized and everything Is now r1n,ir
as smoothly II there had been no consIet v--,
there was less destruction Of property than IN g.
railroad strike in 1894 the disturbance sr,brao
Of fatalities as the Cash { satss N IN, ne number
S Sa and the troops that were called into se
Strlke was tne 0attle ground for week Pol,~ss'
oughfares traversed By the car lines e tae thor
y et cars were thrown from the tracks and "a "a
ridden district Il was deplorabIs eondo5 ne S E2t
made Chicago q copper b0ttomed steel Soaas
en5Te or 9nioplsrn Inc result OF the contest va
OF the question of wages arbitration In tb on
on the question of hours making the maxiro1l1, S
ten hours and the minimum nine hours T5sV a-.
also now secured IN their positions exce1f go
they may be removed for nfraction OF the rsasoS s
when dismissed for cause are enfirie5 - 81. slI
a hearing on the merits Of the case. and n ~
dismissed must be reinstated and paid Tor Ios1
time The question OF wages Is yet to be settled
Harvey w Scott. who has been Identified with
The Portland Oregonian" for thirty-nins years
travelled across the continent a
DEVELOP distance BY the rail route OF thirty
MENT OF five hundred miles. 10 attend ira
OREGON. meeting OF the directors OF the As
ISOLATED Press. Seen at the Mur-
ray Hill. the veteran editor and publisher yielded
some "reminiscences and comparative facts. II
went with my parents said he from Peoria Ill.
% the Puget Sound country hfty-one years ago,
cam now mere Re s Sax months IN making TIE Trip that
embraced all the country west OF the main rangs
second and the forty-ninth parallels OF north aff
tqde, and included between those boundaries was
an the territory now comprised in Oregon. Wash
Ington and Idaho. and than one-third OF
now one million five hundred thousand OF this
rst saw the town. had four hundred pop Tafh
ana ana now II Is one hundred and ten thousand.
might have been hoped for in the time that has
lous section Of the United States has been the only
thing that has retarded growth. The western por-
ton OF Oregon, blessed with abundant rainfall ana
plenty of sunshine with scarcely any cold has met
tne FULLEST expectations Of those engaged IN agri-
dant ard the numbering interests are now Coming
hundred thousand sheep. and sheep and wool pro-
dgclng industries are growing while large numbers
ing some gold. The work OF irrigation is destined
70 do much for the arid lands in Eastern Oregon
Business conditions throughout Oregon are good
and the people have pulled out of debt IN the last
west Of the Misssgppi Vii beartiIv an s ne states
Velt ror the Presidential nomination"
James T. Barron who is a native OF Ohio. turned
his attention five years ago to the salmon fishing in
dustry of Southeastern Alaska Mr.
IN PRAISE Barron is staying at the Hoffman
OF PINK House THE conditions surround
SALMON. ing the salmon fishing and canning
industry OF Southwestern Alaska
said Mr.. Barron. have been far from satisfactory
The independent packers. like myself are preparing
to meet existing conditions. The Alaska Packing
controlling prices. Nor is that all for It has been
e ere ing popular prejudice against pink salmon.
OF salmon to believe that the salmon Is the pref
packs annually about 300 6 ' csS me s ss
cans each in its Western Alaska canneries. whers
about 10000 cases in its two pink salmon can
neTles In Southeastern Alaska. The price OF ths
salmon; which is relatively worth 81 a case, az
to put the pink salmon packers out OF business asf
Salmon y5bb i5 ne LaSr IS mat the pix
at IS a case, are more delicate and paIatabIs than
Alaskan waters have a wooden f'brous o1aIity TT5a
public IS educated to believe that salmon to Be
pink salmon will be appreciated It's true value
on viii dC continue 1e h6%gT T sRe pack OF pink sal
halr as large this year last and fancy II viii
neries. two Of which have sold The LAST o1s
which VIII be employed largely IN packing red
There are between thirty thousand and forty thou
the salmon fishery industry on the Alaskan coast"
Thomas D. Drew VINO has tried his luck IN nearIv
every mining camp in the United States is at the
Hoffman House He comes nom
ALASKA Pearl Harbor In Southeastern
NEEDS NO Alaska. ct was educated said
CHANGE. he "as mining engineer. and have
followed mining since 7 was SIX
teen years of age; that is over twenty-five years
ago. have never bought OF sold a share OF min
ing stock in all that time and the property, Of
which now sole owner. eleven miles from
Juneau. is my homestead. 7 would not exchange
II Tor the Ireadweu property, which IS making So
600 month. 1t comprises seventeen claims on
which operations had been in progress fer nearly
nVs years when bought it in July OF last year for
$4,000 had sold out my interests in Tonapah,
and with the proceeds bought this property.
four miles in length that reaches the harbor. and
IN other necessary improvements at the deck and
enough mined or in sight 10 run Two sets OF
t0is or ntty tons daily capacity each. for the next
Two years The ore is crushed by the rolls about
O0-mesh, and 20 to 80 per cent OF the gold DO
balance of the values up 90 per cent is secured BY
four ounces in gold I have mined coal and
have mined silver. but both must be marketed as
a coamodity. l can convert the ore from my mlns
Into bullion the property and that is real money
The chief advantage in the operations along the
Alaskan coast is found in the fact the fruits
ot the miners Industry are not eaten up in the cost
Railroad which is no miles long. charged SIS ton
cost something over s. OoOOO6 and paid for itself IN
slShteen months. The miners paid the freisnT
Alaska. Mr.. Drew said: we want no change TO
the territorial form We are doing well under ne
dlStrlct government It might please some as9s-
rants for political preferment 70 have change,
DuI Ihe supervision OF the general govsF15sTSs
population
James Casey. of Seattle Wash. who has had
nearly thirty years experience pathfinder pros
pector and miner. IS staying at the
THE OIL Imperial Most OF my time for tns
FIELDS OF last seven years." said Mr.. CassS.
ALASKA. has beer spent IN Alaska. and
am aware that the usual thing IS %
discourse upon the richness OF the country IN so@