The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1910-08-09
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Especial to Silver State.)
Mining and Stock Market.

ing eworked in many cases with great
profit. The mines of California are by
no means worked out, and for centuries
to come like those of Colorado. Neva-
ia, 4 riZona and other mining states.
they will yield rich returns to capital.
This suggests that the riches of Alaska
also will continue to grow more appar-
ent year by year, as adventurous pros
pectors and more conservative capital
lists continue to exploit them If Cali
fornia, after being grubbed over for
more than half a century, is yielding
more wealth than ever, how much may
be expected from that wonderful,
scarcely known golconda which we OBJ
tanned from Russia for few paltry
millions?
The great interest which the govern
ment feels in Alaska is shown in
measure by the explorations being made
there by the geological survey, referred
to at some length recently in these let
ters and in official reports, and by the
visit to that territory of members of
the presidents official family. These
Gentlemen, it is said, are going for
recreation, but it is more than suspect
ed that they are looking into questions
which came before congress at its last
session and that they are also interest
ed in helping the navy department to
solve that great and ever present prob
lem. how to secure fuel for the Pacific
fleet. Private enterprise has shown
keener appreciation of the great coal
fields of Alaska than the government.
but at last the government is awaken
ing. The ban placed on the mining of
coal in Alaska may soon be lifted and
the people there may be permitted to
help themselves. under proper repula-
tions, to the fuel which they so great
ly need and which lies almost at their
very doors, while the government NAV
be shown how to secure the finest
steaming coal which it so greatly de-
sired and for which now we paw a vast
sum every year to the coal barons of
the Atlantic coast and to foreign shin
owners to carry it to the Pacific coast.
Undoubtedly there will be great
revival of interest in the exploitation
of the resources Of Alaska as soon as
the government adopts a more liberal
pofiey AS it is, there are as great re-
wards there for the prospector and the
miner of experience and stamina as
there ever were. And for generations
to come, Alaska will continue to be the
nation s treasure house which needs
not conservation so much as intelligent
exploitation and liberal and wise ad-
1t need not worry the public that the
stock sags and that the spectators
fume because the "investors fail to
take their bait. The prosperity of the
country has better index than the
places where "bulls' and
bears' fight for the loot the toilers
wrest from the drifts and lodes. The
street, produces nothing but poverty
and misery as the price of the luxury
enjoyed by the few who manipulate
the Market It is the workers.
those who make the wealth, that the
government is in duty bound to foster
and encourage.
immigration Statistics.
When one studies the statistics of
for the past fiscal year
one does not wonder that the south has
united in great propaganda move
ment to attract attention to her re-
sources and opportunities. The figures
show that the south attracted an al
most negligible percentage of the total
immigration, though she has millions of
unoccupied acres and the need for la
Dor is great. For the period from July,
1909 to April, 1910, both inclusive, the
number of persons coming from abroaa
to Alabama was GIL, Arkansas 329,
Florida 5,0S7, Georgia 450, Kentucky
GIG, Louisiana 1879. Maryland ABB,
Mississippi 1872, North Carolina 261,
Oklahoma SS3, South Carolina 142.
Tennessee 445, Virginia LII, West
Virginia 7,109 The latter states hav-
ing mines and manufactures naturally
attracted more immigrants. but it was
Missouri with 10,026 and Texas with
1862 immigrants added to their popu-
lation which really saved the south in
this comparison. New York is credit
ed with 217,772 and Pennsylvania with
13S,S72 immigrants, Massachusetts re-
ceived 6052S, New Jersey 1865, Con
necticut 20.637, and little Rhode Island
even added to her population 9,162
persons from abroad. In the great
corn belt Illinois got II ,709 while Tn
diana only received S,1S7 and Iowa s.
700. California, on the contrary, where
opportunity is young, counted 1852 to
her credit, Colorado 1865, Arizona g.
Alb and even Alaska 305. The total
immigration for the period stated >was
500, ,001, and for the year 1,041,5 $40
which latter figure has been exceeded
but thrice in the history of the coun
try.
Census Kickers.
For weeks past, the time stretching
now into months, there has been
received at the census Office steady
stream of kicks and protests from
enumerators who want their pay and
can't get it. Many of these enumerat-
ors have been seeking settlement for
months. Piteeus appeals come in from
them. Some of them have sickness in
their families Some of them are about
10 lose their homes unless they can get
the little sums due them. Others have
still other pressing needs. Even food
and shelter are lacking with many. Ag-
gravating these appeals are the local
troubles of the women who have been
working at tabulating in the main of
flee in Washington. They, too have
been complaining long and loud be