The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-28
Copper Cheap in Alaska.

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| New York Sun.
/ Copper Cheap in Alaska
Henry Bratnober, a copper expert.
| formerly with the Rothschilds' Ex-
ploration company, says that Alaska
copper VIII be produced at cents per
pound within two years by the ]. p.
Morgan and Guggenheim syndicate.
| who are now building a railroad up
the Copper river valley at a cost of
| $20.000,000. NJ ontana, Arizona, and
Lake Superior copper is now pro-
duced at from to 10 cents per
fpound.
The Morgan and Guggenheim syn
dictate. Mr.. Bratnober says. will ship
ore from its mines to the Tacoma
smelter by its own boats connecting
with its railroad at Cordova. Free
the headquarters of the Nabesna and
White rivers to be reduced at
smelters to be built at Cordova. A
copper refinery and copper wire
| smelling plant.
Mr.. Bratnober discovered in Alaska
| in the summer of 1905 what he de-
clares to be the worlds greatest cop
| per district. Much of the ore, he
says, runs 10 to. so per cent in pure
| copper. Tests carried to New York
| by John Rosen led to the formation
| Of the Morgan-Guggenhei syndicate
to build a railroad and develop the
| properties. They have acquired an
| interest in the Bonanza mines, owned
by the Havemeyers Of New York.
The railroad will reach the
Bonanza mines next year and the
Bratnober mines the year following.
Yukon river at or near Eagle. Mr..
Bratnober has acquired telephone,
| lighting and water supply franchises at
Cordova.-Tacoma dispatch to the
New York Times.
/ BY Arithmetical Progression.
When discussing the growth of
prohibition, Hoke smith. ex-governor
Of Georgia, told the following story:
you can't buy rum and rump with
| the same half dollar he remark ed.
'but you can with the same coin buy
| beef and Drawn. That's as true In the
right sense as 1t was false in the case
Of the old slave once owned by
friend of mine. The planter had lost
a pig, and accused old Sambo of ap-
propriating the same
"Sam, you stole that shoat,' he de-
| clared. 49,
"'No, I didn't Marse Ridgely.' an
| swered Sam: e deed I didn't SUM-
| "sWhy, Sam, both Tom and Syl-
vester saw you do 1t. They tell me
SO themselves
"Dey do, sub? Well. dey des
j didn't see muffin o. de kind. Case
why? Case L Q1dnt Steal yOu-all
shoat: I des TUX i'm
"I don't understand you, Sam.
There's no difference between stealing
and Just taking something that
doesn't belong to YOU :.
"oh. yes, dey is. Marse Ridgley, y,
been diff'rent, but I only ct i'm. It's
dis-a-way: OATS you-all's shoat an
I'm yo-alps niger. Well, sub, now
it's true you got less shoat, but yo'
got more niger. '-Lippincotts
Killing Rabbits in Australia.
Rabbits are the greatest pest that the
| Australian pastoralist has TO contend
| against. If these rodents are at all
numerous on station property they
summer, when any water that might
have been lying about has become
| dried up by evaporation and the grass
! has become dry, rabbits swarm toward
the tanks, dams, or other water holes
that have been sunk. Every evening,
after the cattle have taken their last
drink, strip of wire netting is run
around the tank or dam. Outside this
netting fence, holes are dug in the
1 ground and filed with poisoned water,
| and these in turn are inclosed by an
| other strand of netting, pegged down
to within a few inches of the ground,
being sheep-proof, but allowing plenty
of room for rabbits to get under. The
!
way is barred, they drink at the
poisoned holes with, to them, disas-
| trous effect. In the morning are to be
seen hundreds and thousands of dead
rabbits scattered about the surround
ing country.-Chicago News.
Milk in Siberia.
The people of Siberia buy their milk
frozen, and for convenience it is al
lowed to freeze. about stick, which
- a. MI.
nilkman leaves one chunk or two, as
the case may be, at the houses Of his
customers. The children in Irkutsk in
stead of crying for a drink of milk cry
for a bite of milk. The speople in win
ter time do not say BE careful not to
spill the milk" but BE careful not to
break the milk" Broken milk is bet
ter than spilled milk, though, because
there is an opportunity to save the
pieces. A quart of frozen milk in a
stick is a very formidable weapon in
the hand of an angry man or boy, as
1t is possible to knock a person down
with it. Irkutsk people hang their
milk on hooks, instead of putting it in
spring weather comes pans or pals
must be used. as the milk begins to
melt.-Bakers' Weekly.
Volcanic Ash in Industry.
In Japan a company is engaged in
exploiting the use of volcanic ash in
. combination with Portland cement
, mortar This com bination is said to
be particularly valuable in the con-
, struction of works submerged in salt
. water. It Is claimed that the cement
thus formed possesses greater tensile
strength and is denser than ordinary
, | Portland cement It is also more re-
, sistant to the Dercolatfon of water
. Attention is called to the fact that If
this industry expands, the Philippines
contain a great deal of volcanic ash
which might be availabIe.-Youth's
Companion.
Kipling His Own Critic.
|, at WAS sitting with Kinline in his