The Alaska citizen., 1911-02-20
Phone 262 Phone
QUARTZ WEEK.
Quartz is king this week

Quartz is king this week.
 Let Us be his willing subjects. laying aside for the time being our democratic principles and constitu- tional prerogatives.
 For in the course of the next six days it is 10 be demonstrated whether there is enough public spirit in Fairbanks to put through a prop osition of which the merit is un- questioned and the necessity em- phatic With united effort the diff culties ill the way of the directors of the Development company will disappear and the question which interests all of Us vitally will soon be answered A all will share in the benefits aCcruing from the devel- opment of quartz none but pikers will refuse 10 help as far as they are able
 It should have been impressed on all by this time that the future prosperity of the camp is entirely dependent on the discovery of con tinuing quartz lodges With as good prospects as ever have been located anywhere il seems unbelievable that so small an amount as is necessary cannot easily be secured. And there is less excuse for such a condition existing when il is considered that the prospects for large returns on the expenditure are probable. There is every reason to believe that De velopment company certificates are a prudent and excellent investment In direct and indirect returns they probably will pay many fold
 In tackling this development com pany proposition Fairbanks people have put their shoulders to work that should find its reCompense in more ways than one. Apart from the actual benefits to be derived from the quartz mines. if they are developed. there will have been laid the foundations of a Fairbanks spirit that should in the future prove Of incalculable benefit to the city. The success of the initial experiment will encourage united effort in the future along the line of the general welfare. and this indubitably means greater and better Fairbanks.
 The directors of the company, handling its affairs without compen. sation. have devised means to se- cure the balance of the money that is required. Their plan is one in telligently conceived and promising of satisfactory results, but in it's eX- ecution the help of all is asked-and confidently expected. Fairbanks cit izens have shown what they can do when their pride is appealed to on more occasions than one. The re- ception rendered last fall to the cabinet ministers was an instance Of what can be accomplished when the effort 10 pull together is made, and every man. woman and child went home that night proud of the great little burg We are living in. The Fairbanks Spirit was conceived on that occasion Let us this week prove that it has thrived since and is now in a fair way to acquire TO- bust strength.
 The opportunity is afforded to every man, woman and child to help. This, estimated correctly, is priv iege. It means that each is grant ed an equal share in a creative work, and a wise Providence has ordained that mans supreme satisfaction em- anates from his powers of creation. Making two blades of grass where one grew before is one of the nob- lest, as we'll as one of the most remunerative, works of man. Wheth- CT Fairbanks shall become an inn portant city, the interior metropolis of the greater Alaska that is to be, depends, it appears at this time, to a very great extent on the almost immaculate ueNelOpIueut Ol qudllL here. And under existing circum- stances the development company is the one lest means at hand to de- termine that question.
 Five years, in retrospect, is very short space of time, but in the course of the next half decade there is likely to be wondrous change effected in the vicinity of Fairbanks. With our quartz devel- oped we are likely to see many large mines being worked and thousand stamps crushing the ore that will make our country richer by many millions of dollars. Surely there will be large recompense to those who help now in being able to say they had a part in the transforming of busy city from a declining min ing camp.