The Alaska citizen., 1914-10-26

Stay ! R. McGovern, one of With the well-known miners | One Camp of the North who re turned recently 10 Fair i banks. where he will spend the winter. declared the other day that stampeding is much like a gamble. ] and that 1t is safest to keep with one good camp. Mir. McGovern was recently in Chisana. and he thinks ,hat it will become good small camp in time
 In discussing the matter of stam- peding, Mir. McGoyern pointed out how few stampeders ever get rich while the man who spends his time developing a piece of property has greater chance of success.
 When I first came to Fairbanks said Mir McGovern. q could have bought the most promising property for a very little money. Experienc- ed men went away from here in dis gust. But it proved that the men who stayed here and dug for the gold found it II really don't pay to run about from one place to an other"
 Good What is believed is tho Ore On best mineral exhibit ever Display presented in Fairbanks can be seen in the win dows of the office of St. George X Cathcart It is the collection of minerals that has been secured by the Commercial club for exhibition at the San Francisco exposition next year. and until it is sent 10 tn" Outside. which will be soon after the first snow comes the collection
 1l be for public inspection in this city
 At the present time there are eN- hibits from 73 quartz claims in this district. This number will be in creased it is asserted before the exhibit is forwarded to San Francis
 The Alaska exhibit will be sup ported by the United States govern ment. and it looks now as though Interior Alaska will have as good display. both of minerals and vege- tables. as will go from any part of Alaska.
 New One Men about Fairbanks On The who have travelled some Bartender what and are familiar
 with the oddities of speech that one encounters when mixing with foreigners, will enjoy the following story. told by an American who is good at initiating pecularities in accent;
 "An English guest staying at my hotel was recently presented with a bunch of handsome roses. He took them to his apartments and found no suitable receptacle. So he placed them on the table and wrapped them in wet newspaper while waiting for the boy to answer the bell. When the youngster came the Briton said:
 "'Bring me-aw. what do I want? say, I guess I'd better have rose jah.'
 "The boy saluted and went away After a lapse of time he returned
 Beg pardon, sir, but what was it you wantedo He didn't under stand"
 "I said I wanted rose jah- law ' said the Englishman, very dis tinctly. GA rose jah-haw. Quite so'"
 "The boy went away again. In due time he returned, bearing some thing in his hand saying, The bar mine julep.'
 Volcanic Volcanic ash, that drop Ash Aids ped two years ago on Vegetation Kodiak Island has sery-
 ed the purpose of fertt lizer. and it seems that now the grass there is more vigorous than before the volcanic eruption. The following concerning the action of the ash on vegetation in Kodiak Island comes from Seward paper:
 That the grass is growing fine again on Kodiak Island and that the stock on the island is finding plenty of feed and is flourishing is the statement of Carl Armstrong who arrived this morning. When the great eruption of two years ago occurred the whole surface was GOV vered with the volcanic ash but the rains have now pressed the ash down and caused it to act so we'll as a fertilizer that the grass is sprouting