The Ketchikan miner., 1907-08-17

control of licenses and the granting by congress of the right to bond for lighting, water and other municipal necessities, when endorsed by vote of the taxpayers at Q special election held for that purpose. The report, as adopted, will be sent to other muni- cipaltites in Alaska for endorsement. It will then be placed in the hands of Delegate Tom Gale for presentation to congress- It is to be hoped that those Juneau statesmen may in time get tired of asking congress for the plece-meal legislation which, in every other territory tf the U. $. the people have had the right and power to enact for themselves and could have in Alaska, but for the short sighted commercialism which scares at it's own shadow.
 Juneau Record The Dispatch, in the short paragraph last evening say ing that Mir. Coutant's interests have been absobed by Capt. John Johnston in tho publication of the Record Miner, and that he would soon re- turn to Wyoming. is misleading. MT. Coutant has the same interest in the Record-Miner that he has had here- tofor. He is one of the heaviest stockholders in the company, and, mb hi In Mn bir,co1f ie, tnlx i'm, q few weeks outing with his family, Col. Coutant, his father, is busily en- gagged in his work for the paper and magazine, and will continue to do so as long as he chooses.
 The Alaska Garnet Mining com pany is the name of corporation, organized at Minneapolis, Minnesota, composed entisely Of women, and which has taken over the hornblende garnet ledge near the mouth of the Stikine river, about seven miles from Wrangell. It is the announced pur- pose of the company to mine the gar nets from this and manufacture them into jewelry at plant to be erected for that special purpose at Minneap- olis, and to which the garnets will be shipped in their native form. The garnets are claimed to be harder and susceptible of better and more last ing polish than any now on the mark ct being in hardness very little below the Kimberly diamond. Like the Sentinel, from which this information is gleaned, The Miner hopes to be able to record ere long a successful outcome of the enterprise.
 -Coutant, pere. the garrulous, has been in Ketchikan for week in the interest of the Alaska Magazine: Cou- tant, fils is of for few weeks va cation" the query naturally arises whether or not to that fact is due the pronounced editorial improvement noticeable in the columns of the Juneau Record Miner?
 In fruitless endeavor to get water, the city of Fairbanks dug a 92-toot we'll and struck gold.
 Douglas News: The same man who undertook to get drink out of a fire extinguishel on board the steamer City of Seattle, tried to see what time it was by the ships compass. He evi- dently had too much of the Seattle spirit. Juneau republicans talk of organizing a territorial gov ernment club. We knew it would take some kind of club to bring those fellows to it.
 From nowhere at all to seventh place among twenty states and ter ritories is the record which Alaska has made within the last few yers in the production of copper. It will sur- prise 9 good many people to learn that Alaska, according to the report made by the United States geological survey, produced E, Gs5, GIG fire pounds of copper last year. At the present price of copper, which has been soar ing upward for several months this product would be worth approximat- ely $2. IT 50O The Far North will probably very soon fulfill the predic- tion of Henry Bratnober that Montana and Michigan will in the near future be fairly eelipsed as producers of cop per.-ES,
 Under a "scare head9 the Juneau Dispatch says: "There is some tall of leading republicans of this cit4 organizing Q territorial form of gov ernmentaclub to advocate the selection of self-goyernment delegates for the September primaries. Those promot- ing the club complain that Juneau is being placed in false position before the rest of thel district in the matter of territorial from of government. 1t k said that over one hundred re- publicaHs have or are ready to sign the call for tue organization of the club. Tine club will, if organized, have weekly rallies and promote the general good of the party in this sect ion. 1hey will also secure hotel accommodations fer delegates to the next territorial republican convention