The Ketchikan miner., 1908-12-05

sought, and laboriously carved out There are natural resources, but the
 require capital to develop them. Tn
 fish in the sea are ours for the catch
 ing, and we have the cannery alread at work, and the cold storage plant o the New England Fish Company wei under way, to help bring to Ketchi kan portion of that natural wealtl and the probability that the last nam ed company will bring forty to lift. home builders to this place seem. greater. the more it is discussed With the sawmill running the resour. ces of the forest might be dismissed were it not for the fact that millions of feet of timber are wasted in the process of gathering the logs from the hill side which with proper applian- ces might be converted into paper, and a paper mill is an industry about which homes are built. It is more than possible that an establishment for extracting tanning from the hem lock bark, might do we'll and support more homes. But perhaps more than on all else we bank on the polsibili ties of our mines. Some of these while not doing much in the way oi home building, have yet been of great benefit to the town, and we pray fol the speedy development of Col. Shoen- har's property, as that will assuredly be home builder while all the others will help.
 Where there are homes. there must also be ethics. Now, ethics sometimes are good deal like the castor oil and hone tea with which our mothers used to dose us, very nauseous to take, and sometimes we may think doubt ful of prohlematical benefit. Never theless, if we must have homes, we will have to take ethics; so let us, ifw know of capital lying around waiting for investment, endeavor to induce its owners to consider the resources of this neighborhood not forgetting the ethics.
 Messrs Darwell and Lane are get ting ready to go to Thorne bay to engage in mild curing salmon. Mir. Darwell has been connected with the fishing industry at Thorne bay for several years.
 N. F. Zimmerman has the concrete foundation walls of his boiler house built, the excavation nearly completed and in reasonable time will be rev cling in warmth from his own steam heating plant.
 David Nicoll, of Kasaan, has erected ia comfortabie little cottage on the new street in Indian, town It is divided in way to make cosey indi- vidual quarters for two bachelors ant' is nearly ready for the paper hangers.
 Be sure to call on the Pocahontas girls at the dining room at Redmen' 5 hall this evening if you want to see how a little labor with few fancy 'fxins' can transform very ordi- nary room inso a veritahle fairy bower.
 (From, Thursdays Daily)
 The Princess May is due from the south tomorrow morning.
 Ed. Harlow and s. E. Strickland at the Cornell are the only new hotel guests of the day.
 The new boiler at the Stedman hotel was fired up for the first time last night.
 The launch Alert left this morning on her mid week run to Metlakahtla and Prince of Wales island points.
 j. s. Beasley, who has been work ing on the ore bunkers at the It mine, returned to town last evening on the launch Alert.
 M sdames Fisher and Myers are en- tertaining the ladies of the M. E. congregation this afternoon at the M. E. parsonage.
 The Pocahontas ladies desire tC thank the public for the liberal pat ronage their bazaar received. Theil stock was practically exhausted in a couple of hours, but they served dainty lunches until late in the even ing.
 Captain Gurney wishes the public to know that the Onward is now con. nected by telephone with Heckman's store; also that his launch may be chartered any day of the week except Tuesday, which is the day of hel regular run to Yes bay, Hot Springs and Loring.
 The Farallon. south bound, called early this morning, loaded to tnt guards. She carried 1,400 cases 0 salmon from Klawack, 4S0 barrels O oil from the whaling station at Tye' and 400 tons of marble from Calder This is the first shipment of marhl' for several months. Slle also carried few passengers from the marble quarries.
 l Manager Saylss. Of the skating rink announces that he has made arrange