The Ketchikan miner., 1907-09-14
FUN WITH THE BOYS

FUN WITH THE BOYS
 The Seward Gateway doesn't think the appointment of delegates to the republican district convention to be fair one. All the same. the cOnven- tion will not be likely to do much harm to the cause the Gateway advo- cates if it's friends will but avail them, selves of the privilege of the represen. tation accorded them by sending full delegations to represent them instead of relying on a representation by proxy.
 The "Diamond Drill" is the title of second weekly publication hail. ing from Katalla. A man in the newspaper business ascribed his fail ure as the result of trying to publish a nonpareil paper in a long-primel town. In this case, the failure, should there be one, will be the result of try. ing to make long-primer newspaper fit into non-pareil town. However, the Diamond Drill is fairly we'll edit ed and, on the whole rather interest ing sheet--but it's clothes are too bi 2 for it-that's all.
 They have had it bad up atValdez- the joint stock organization fever, we mean-with doctor intent upor spreading rather than trying to allay the infectious contagion. In addition tC home railway company this doctor o1 corporations has organized or been in strdmental in organizing fifty or sixty other companies to take over and monopolize every branch of business usually found in new town or an old one either for that matter. Assuming that they will all be successful it is difficult to see what the inducement will be to take people to that town, unless it be that they are controlled by an insane desire to become hewers of wood and drawers of water for the Reynolds octopus. A town wholly monopolized will be no better than one own completelyawalled up and tightly sealed against an influx of either capi- tai or labor. Oh, what fall there will be my countrymen, in the not far away bye and bye.
 Henry Bratnober, one of the heav- est mine owners of Nome wants it dis tinctively understood that he is not in favor of territorial form of government for Alaska, and that men of his dist rict who have invested large sums of money in the territory are of the same opinion. -Cordova Alaskan. Yes? A most estimable gentleman, in social way, is Mr. Bratuober, but where is his residence in Alaska? As well and with equal propriety might thousands of others who have invested in mining ventures in Alaska without making it their home be consulted as to what form of government the territory shall or shall not have.
 From Washington, report hGJ just been issued by the geological de- partment which shows that the pro- duction of copper has doubled each season for the past two years. The prophecy is made that from now on phenomenal increases will result from the greater number of mines that are being opened up, and the fact that many which have been blocked out will, with the installation of heavy machinery, become big producers Alaska is declared to be the district which in few years will control the copper markets of the world. A feat ure of the report is the thorough man. ner in which the Copper river country and the islands of the Alaskan coast are illustrated by colored maps show ing the extent of the copper bearing areas.
 Paper manufacturers tell the pub lie that the cause of tho advance in the price of paper is that wood for making pulp, has played out. What bosh! Within twenty miles of Wran- gell is frst-cass pulp material that would supply the paper mills of the world for a hundred years. Sentinel. That would be all right enough if a gov ernment forest reserve was not alto gether likely to strike that. Immediate section and tie the timber up within impregnable walls.