The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-05

Was the Se1lnS OF enough tickets 10
provide, by means of rebates, or what
IN the world of finance would be call
ed rake-Offs, considerable perquisites
TO the organizers of these banquets.
Something like this always happens
during political campaigns. Clubs
are organized purporting to have been
created in the interest of this or that
candidate; frequently they are COM
posed of men who are citizens by
adoption and they take the name of
their fatherland, but the chief pur-
pose is to obtain a handsome compen-
sation from the candidate or from his
friende.
Not until it was too late did Mr.
Carnegie realize that the recent peace
dinner was not as spontaneous an UNI
dertaking as was announced, and there
is strong reason for suspecting that
President Taft s good nature was re-
lied upon to persuade him to accept an
invita- ton to this feast The president
went back to Washington a little wiser
than he was when he came. and not
again Will he accept an invitation to
a banquet in New York. or in any 9TH
er large city until careful inquiry
shows him that the function conceals
no unsupported purpose, especially
commercial.
From Alaska First.
The first practically completed sta
tistics that tell of the wealth produced
in any district of the United states re-
port in dollars what the production OF
Alaska in the year 1911 was IheSe
early statistics. however, are explained
by the fact that it is easy to keep
fairly accurate tab on the products
that go out of Alaska The gold pro-
fees and the minis of our Pacific
coast and much OF it Immediately
passes into circulation through the eN-
change OF the bullion or gold dust
after assay for gold certificates.
So. also. it is easy to keep record
of the output of the salmon cannerles
and Of the exports of other fisheries
Therefore, it may be assumed that the
statement which shows that Alaska
produced in the year 1911 wealth APP
proximating SO million dollars is fair
~ accurate statement OF this the
Alaska gOldheIds produced approx
mately 20 million dollars. And the fact
that the gold production there is now
increasing gradually each year justifies
the opinion of some of the ablest eX-
perts that with good transportation and
adequate mining facilities Alaska /
should produce an increasing amount !
of gold year after year, for many years
to come. Former United States Senator /
John 2. Jones. who for 80 years repre- /
scented Nevada in the United States /
senate. is convinced that prospecting |
and exploration will by and by show /
that the true mother lode of gold along |
our western coast is in Alaska
The Alaskan fisheries have created /
new wealth aggregating about is mil
lion dollars. With figures of this mag
nitude it is expected that congress viii Il
be prevailed upon to perfect legisla-
ton which will. without sacrificing any
rights of the public nevertheless tend
greatly to stimulate the investment of
capital especially for transportation
purposes in that great peninsula
Alaska and the Rest Of the World.
Apparently Alaska is to wrest the
prestige which California has 50 long
!
from that commonwealth. The records
seem to show that California in the
year 1911 mined a little over 20 millions
in gold. while Colorado mined about 10
in gold.
Most of the experts are confident that
has reached the high-water
mark of gold production The state
will be for many years a great gold
producer. and yet the money value of
its citrus products for the year 1911 is
estimated to be greater by Is millions
than the value of its gold expressed in
dollars.
Apparently the United States is not
to touch the sentimental or high-Water
mark for gold production. which has
been arbitrarily fixed at 100 millions a
year. unless California. Colorado and
other of the western states maintain
their present production while Alaska
S vet increasing her output. The
authorities report that the
value in dollars of gold produced in the
United States in the year 1911 is a little
over IS million dollars
Their Prediction Justified.
Some years ago mining engineers Wis
ted the United States for the purpose anr
occurring mining apparatus with which to | ]
perate in Africa and especially the | /
'ransvaal gold field. These engineers
eported that the mastery of what IS t
allied the cyanide process for treating :
ow grade ores by the great miners Of
outh Africa justified the ablest of ex-
erts in predicting that within few
ears South Africa would be producing l
aeh month about twelve million dollars e
q gold They also made a computation 8
hat within ten wears South Africa would S