The Ketchikan miner., 1908-05-09
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tahSt HAitctHi Nho AIAN@ " r sssss.s oi boosting anything they imagine ta he popular. He hss been iad like popular songs and Teddy bears, and when the wind of pretense escapes from the punctured air bag he will tiatten out like any other toy balloon. Valdez Prospectro.
 Whatever else may be truthfully said, of the attempt of the 'Frenzied Financier," Reynolds, to corral the business industries of Valdez, it must be conceded that the result has been to give that enterprising town one of the most vigorous and best edited newspapers in all Alaska. The Pros pector does not carry the name Of its editor at it's masthead, but. whoever he is, he is making of it a publication of which the town and district it rep resents are to be congratulated Con- corning the political mix-up at Fair banks, the Prospector remarks: 1.-The republican party of Fairbanks has al ways been split into factions and now one of the factions has sub-diN i'd d it. self This looks as if the factions are busting up into vulgar fractions and the fuss may soon reach decimation.
 1t appears that there will be con- testing delegations from both Nome and Fairbanks at the coming Repuh- lican Territorial Convention which is to meet here in Ketchkan on the l2th inst. It appears that the first Fairbanks primary was held on the 10th of March and elected an anti Wickersham delegation and that sub sequently, a week or two later, sec ond primary was held in the Wicker sham interest and at which Postmast- CT Cum sought an endorsement of his candidacy as delegate to Congress, which he failed to get. It follows, as a matter of course that, Nome having gone through the form of selecting two sets of delegates, that the re- doubtable Dick Ryan will bob up at the convention with a pocket full of proxies and will probably have to be sat down upon. Altogether, the pro- ceedings of the convention do not bid fair to be characterized by a degree of harmony that will be altogether satisfactory and pleasing to the fac tions.
 The Fairbanks News asserts that the new city council, on taking charge of the municipal affairs of that town
 last month. faced an indebtedness of nearly, if not quite, S40, GOO, ali of which is a charge against the taxes ol the present year. The old council must have been going it some during it's incumbency, and it is little won- der that it was voted out by sub- stantial majority at the last election.
 The Katalla Herald claims the doubtful credit for the authorship of q S22. 0J0, GOO worth of copper ore in sight at the Bonanza copper mines, in the Copper River country, and how much uoie e there is which is pot in sight would be hard to determine. " | This statement the Herald asserts to have been stolen from it by the Seat tie spirit, and has been going the rounds of the newspapers. The Her. aid editor should be content to allow the spirit to enjoy the credit. with the certainty that no newspaper with he least sanding as mining publ- cation would ever think for moment of publishing statement so wholly absurd and impossible of verilicatiou. | When one of the Bonapza mines have had a deposit opened up to an appre- ciable depth and the ore absolutely blocked out by shafts, drifts and tun- nels, 1t will then be none too soon to venture even a guess at the amount Of ore actually in sight.
 -Katalla does not seem to be who'll ly dead, judging from the fact that it now has newly organized chamber of commerce, embracing goooly mem bership.
 As an oil producing port of un- usual promise, Kataila stands out pre- eminently, and ''coal, oil and copper make T strong combination. So they do and The Miner hopes, ultimately for something more than mere prom ise in the case of Katala, which can only he made good by the actual per formance limited at as likely to be realized in the more or less distant future.
 Concerning the Bering lake coal ID ines, hack of Katala, the Herald says that t.e Mcdonald mine is in line shape and could easily ship 100 5ons daily, and, in another month, with the same progress in develop ment work, will be able to increase it's daily product to 250 tons daily. However. no coal is being taken out except that encountered In driving the tunnel which is now in over 600 feet. The coal is clean and of excel tent quality and rattles in a sack like ,u n ,r1ntc in o bau Tbapa iv m doubt