The Ketchikan miner., 1908-09-26
FROM ALL OVER ALASKA.


 every country from the beginning has reached the normal. From almost absolute chaos, order is being slowly but surely evolved, and from an al distinguished the ''every- man. for-h him. self period the country is coming to a sense of the necessity for the orga- niEation which every collection of people everywhere has found to be so- cially. politically and economically ex- pedient if not indispensable. If our manner in demanding what we believe We ought 10 have is sometimes a little blatant it cannot be helped. as only those whose position is assured can afford to be very conservative. There are times. DO doubt, that We look like the kid in the cradle who throws away the sucking bottle and "hollersn for a smoke of the old mans pipe. But we are changing ali that. and as we proceed across the desert towards the Promised Land. we are obtaining a better knowledge of ourselves and each other, and the differences of opinion are commencing to be only controversies between friends whose reltions towards each other are too we'll established to be threatened ny superficial disturbances. As times advance, the order of march will un- .dergo changes and those who may be separate today will step together to- morrow.-Nome Nugget.
 \ cable dispatch to the Juneau Re cord from Nome says: Lined up on the beach in the east end of the city. stretched out for mile, are the twen- ty long toms that are working the beach sands at large profit, some of the operators making as much as twenty-five dollars in single day. William Nabbicor is the first man to start the work, his operations begin ming last Thursday. The reports oJ the rich sands spreading, many other miners followed in the footsteps of Nabbicor, and today there is typical scene.familiar to the pioneer days of Nome when hundreds of miners were taking out small fortunes on the beach for miles east and west. One interest ing feature of the mining is that the gold bearing sand is found on the sur faa. ir-- oaI of tho hanrnol formerly the case. The miners are all taking their dirt from the top Of the ground about fifteen or twenty feet from the waters edge.
 In spite of the most serious handicap that. has ever been imposed upon Fair banks mining development, the long continued drought of this year, it is shown in the records of gold dust re- ceipts of local banks that the produc- tion for the same length of time this year is greater than the total for the corresponding period of 1907 by a handsome margin. This act is the basis of the certain assurance of local bankers that the 1908 yield will be considerably greater than the SS, 000,- DO output ot last year.
 The Northwestern Development Company has been reorgsnized and half million dollar bond issue placed in Europe to extend the line of the Seward Peninsula Railway and to de- velop the properties of the company near Nome. This railroad is a narrow gauge road which is 15 miles long, connecting Nome with the Kogarok.
 Talking of the protection of the seal, an exchange says if Congress will ab- soluetly prohibit the killing of seal on shore in their breeding grounds. then this country can come with clean hands and ask other nations to unite 1 aith it in making regulations cover 1 ing pelsgic sealing, which will help l to preserve the diminishing seal herd. So long as the only purpose of the | American laws is to preserve well | paying private monopoly there will be little interest taken in the matter. l
 The business of recording the q l ground that was gone over 50 buried y in the boom days has begun in the ! Yukon. One man is said to have taken l out sJ0. OOO from a plat the size of a | .ity lot, on the famous old 2 Eidora d1.
 Some of the Indians who have a poor | understanding of the English language l do not talk much, and when they are | in store and see anything that they | want. they pick it up and pay for It. One day certain woman came into certain store in Douglas and picked up q can Of garnish and paid for It. 4 few weeks later the same woman vas in the store again and the clerk asked her if she wanted another can. ''No,' she said, i've couldn't eat the one we got n'-DoUglas Island News. Juneau is proud of it's concrete build ing, erec.ed there by the Carstens sicat Company.
 The mayor of Skagway issued declaring September