The Alaska daily empire., 1915-07-08
SAM HIRSCH IS
SOME BOOSTER


 gle live one escape" This is not the motto of one of the beliigerents. but of the people Of Juneau, Alaska. lt is not half as bloodthirsty az lt sounds. The idea behind it :s really philan- throplc and Is founded on altrustic purposes. A live one In the ornate language of Juneau's best circle des- iguates a person who has been boun- tiiully supplied with money and en- dowed with a willingness to invest. it in mining ventures. When Tive one" ccmes to town the Juneauites Induce him to invest with the result that he increases his capital and in- cideutally works prosperity on the business people of Juneau.
 Al least that's how sam Hirsch. a Juneau business men. explains it. He has lived In Juneau for many years. watching it grow. He is registered at the Hotel Savoy. enroutc to Los Angeles. He is equipped with a bunch of statistics to back his arguments in case any question as to the purposes or integrity of the people of Juneau should arise.
 Look at the Alaska-Gastineau, for instance" he said Now there's a mine that's going to make lot of money for the people we interested in it. It had lain failow for years and years. One day a millionaire hap pened along. He was induced Go look at 1t. He put in S4.50o,00O in devei- opment work The stock was sold at S5 Q share Today you can't buy it at SsS.
 Then there's the Treadwell as an- other case in point old John Tread. well years ago happened to be in Ju- neau and he picked up that mine for a few hundred dollars It has paid more than S20.OOo.OOo in dividends It has produced about six times as much gold as was paid for the while Terri tory Of Alaska.
 , "How's business at Juneau2 was coming to that. We're growing. Less than three years ago we had about 1.5O0 people. Today we have more than 5000. and we're getting more every day Some day. within @ few years in fact, we'll have S000o, so some people say. There's the work on the Noble properties. for instance and the development carried on by the U. S. Smelling & Refining Com pany"
 He went off into another bunch of statistics, from an of which it was to be gathered thas there's going to be a lot more people at Juneau and vindicating the worthiness of Juneau's motto.
 1t mIst not be understood from his remarks. however, that Juneau is en- couraging immigration. On the con trary. it depracates 1t, unless in such exceptional cases as already indicat. ed by the motto of the community
 Plenty Of Workers
 There's plenty of laborers ip Ju- neau already" he cautioned, "and 1t  would be a crime to encourage people to come here thinking they win get a job Only skilled miners and con struction men are employed There Is no work for unskllled labor. and most of the other jobs already are filled We had a payroll of $1S0,OOo from one mine alone last month.
 "Of course 1t will be different soon. They are just beginning to in- crease the size of their plants. A biz power plant is being installed on Annex Creek and another"
 He was off again vindicating the towns motto. When he calmed down he said that the passengers on the City of eSattle. the vessel which car ried him to Seattle, were strong for Captain McGalivray and had pre- sented him with a testimonial.- (Se- attle Times)