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The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-07

To the west of Broad pass discover ies of large low grade quartz gold are reported. The gold is of a refractory character, running from $1 to s8 per ton It will probably develop consid- erable traffic. Further over in the foothills of Mount Mckinley is the Kantishna mining district, which has gold, antimony and other metals. There are sixty odd miners and trappers there now, and some of them are doing quite well. One company has taken out 1000 tons of antimony, which will be sent out as soon as navigation is opened. The war has made that metal exceed ingly valuable
 Another mineral which is now being mined in Alaska may be found in that same region. It is known to exist near Fairbanks, where they are mining it and shipping the concentrates by bar eel post. This mineral is sheelite, high grade tungsten used for making ammunition. The concentrates sell for $3500 ton.
 Going further along the railroad you reach the Nenana coal fields and then come to the Tolovana gold region, which lies not far from the route between Nenana and Fairbanks. This is a new
 
 are now prospecting. They took out $60,0OO worth of gold last summer and the possibilities are promising.
 But most important of all the mining regions so far discovered is that of Fairbanks itself The whole country about that city carries gold. As much as so, ,009,000 worth has already been washed out of the creeks and valleys nearby, and the production last year was s3,5Oo,- 000. The most of this comes from plae- CTS, quartz mining is a comparatively new industry and it has produced only about $s00,00O.
 The Alaskan mining regions will profit exceedingly by the cheap fuel that will come from the railroads. Those of the Kenai peninsula, the Matanuska valley and all south of Broad pass will have cheap coal from the Chickaloon coal fields, whereas those on the northern side of the pass and in the Panama valley will be supplied by the great coal deposits of the Nenana region. The Chickaloon coal is from the Matanuska fields. It is said to be equal to the Pocahontas The government has mined and tested 800 tons of it on the vessels of the navy and it is found to be ex- cellent It can be used for coking and it will be the first Alaskan coal of com. merce.
 The Nenana fields are of vast extent. The railroad passes through them, and it is down grade all the way from there to Fairbanks. The coal deposits run from the railroad eastward for dis tance of perhaps 100 miles The black strata can be seen standing out in the cliffs. and in places the veins are 40 feet thick. The coal is high grade
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-07

gang, who contract to build 1t according to the specifications. They go in together as partners, and have an equal share in the work. The cost is estimated by the cubic yard, and the pay is on that basis. The government sees that the men have fair treatment. It has timelSeepers who go over the work and keep track of just what each man does, so that on the com pletfon of the job the account shows the efficiency of every man on it. There is nothing of the peonage system connected with these arrangements. There is no one who employs all the hands and gets a rake-off. The government sees that the arrangement is on partnership basis, and that each man gets his individual check for his share. The great advan- tage of this method is that it eliminates all questions as to hours and conditions of work. Uncle Sam pays for results only and that within a fixed time.
 I have asked the officials as to the wages prevailing in the other branches of the construction MT. Edes tells me they are higher than those paid for simi- lar work in the western parts of the United States, although they are much below those of interior Alaska The men here are now getting from 371a cents an hour upward. Some of the skilled labor CTS are paid 50 cents an hour, and some 75. This is without board, but the latter is furnished at the government mess- house at B Is cents meal. The time is eight hours where the men work by the day, and this makes the wages range from 8 to S6. The men have the right to buy their personal supplies and other things of the government commissary, where goods are sold for their wholesale cost, plus a small percentage for hand ling the business. This gives them the goods at about 40 per cent under the ordi- nary prices and enables the poorest of them to clear as much as g per day. Medical and hospital charges are free.
 So far there has been plenty of labor The United States has large class of professional railroad builders who move from job to job. There are also many who prefer to work on the frontier, and 1t is this class that is now doing the greater part of the construction The men are of all nationalities and the greater proportion are foreigners. In addition are a few men from Alaska. The engineers tell me it's difficult to get Americans to do the rough work. They all want to be foremen, bosses or timekeepers. They will work hard as prospectors and min CTS, but they will not continue for any length of time to handle the pick and the shovel at so much per day. The Alaskans are doing much of the clear ing, and they have taken many con tracts for ties They object to the low wages of the government. which are far under those which have prevailed throughout the interior, where $5 day and board is still paid
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-07

ANCE1ORAGE, AiaSka.
 T@ HAVE just returned from a lWt ride along the line of Uncle =@ Sams railway. The new con lSsgsEJ struction begins here at the
 mouth of Ship creek, where the ocean steamers land their supplies in the summer and the roadbed has been graded about 40 miles. Twenty miles of track have been already laid and everything is in preparation for rapid work as soon as Congress passes the bill supplying the money. The work has been so pushed that by last Noyem Der the engineers had done what it was supposed would require tho whole win ter. They have made careful surveys of the route from, here to Fairbanks, and have covered the branch line which goes from Matanuska Junction to the Chickaloon coal fields. They have gone over the Alaska Northern railway, which Uncle sam bought last year at a cost of $1,500,000. and have put 35 miles Of that road in running condition. They have laid out the eX- tension of the Alaska Northern to An chorage, and, in short, have now plan ned the whole railway. They have made careful estimates of the cost Of every tnlnS connected With II, ana nave constructed contour maps showing the country on the scale of one inch to the mile They know just what they 2 have to expect, and from now on the road can be pushed as rapidly as Con- gress will furnish the money.
 Y The act providing for government railroads in Alaska was passed March 12, 1914. It authorized the operation and building of railroads here to an extent not to exceed 1000 miles and at a cost of not more than $35,000,0OO It was on this authorization that the President bought the Alaska Northern railway and decided to extend it to Fairbanks a distance of 472 miles at a cost of something like $27000, 900. f But Congress will have to appropriate the money as needed and the progress of the work is dependent upon the two houses at Washington. In 1914 the Appropriations amounted to about $1,- 10000 900. Something like $2,000,000 was appropriated last year and the engi- hneers have asked for $10,0O0,0O0 to be tspent in 1916. If that is granted the road to the Matanuska coal fields can be completed and the lower portion of the extension to Fairbanks put into cperation this year. The road can also be built from the Nenana coal fields to the Fairbanks gold mines, giving that rich territory the cheap fuel it so greatly needs.
 The total length of the government railway will be under 800 miles, and the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-07
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FEW YORK, May 6.-It makes lit tie difference whether one is a suffragist or reactionary,l if
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Ou0 llNcS III INeW IOrk ClIY,. IL is impossible to escape the fact of the established standing of woman, her increasing importance and ever larger booming prominence.
 \ We have had one or two parades this month in which discontented labor peace fully proclaimed it's adiscomfited state of mind, and in these sparades woman was b most important factor. In one of them she was in a vast majority, and in the great preparedness parade of May IS. she will appear 20,000 strong.
 It was while watching the May parade Df the hat trimmers that, woman's march Of progress was impressed upon me. Near by stood an old M woman whose Slaughter was in line. She was talking ko another woman no longer young and she said, .I've been watching parades a tong time. I remember when just a few of us used to meet in some out of the lway place and discuss our grievances where the police couldn't interfere with ps-we didn't dare parade them. Now aust look at that parade--women by far Ehe most important feature of it, and |khey are not afraid to assert their rights !hny more, and they are not locked up For asserting them, either.'
 Al Of course, most people realize that |kince the days when girl babies were Killed, woman, or femininity, has made |Ronderful strides, but here in New York |Pne realizes her importance as nowhere &1ne. it seems.
 |Itln many cases-one would hardly say a ||pajority as yet-whcn something has gone
 (rong which affects great many people,
 is a woman who dares first to make
 &mplaint. And she often gets quick ac-
 n as result thereof. Take her here
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-07

I wish I could show you the roadbed and track far constructed. The new railway looks as though 1t might form runs through the woods. but the land on both sides has been cleared and ditches drain away every bit of the water A smooth bed of gravel, 10 or more feet in height, has been made through the valley of Ship creek and this is of the requisite width for the track. I have never seen a better look ing roadbed anywhere, and now at it's beginning it compares favorably in ap- pearance with that of the Pennsylvania or the New York Central.
 The engineers have the advantage here of building along hills made of gravel. They are composed of pebbles ranging from the size of my fist to that of pea, and all that has been necessary to get the material for the fills has been to drive cuts into the hills at the side of tno track. These cuts are then roofed over and the cars are run into the bank and loaded by gravity. I understand that gravel can be easily gotten along the greater part of the route between here and Fairbanks, and that much of the track will be permanent and easily re- paired.
 My trip over the new roadbed was made iE company with J. E. OReilly, the superintendent of the railway construc- tion MT. O'Relly has the mana agement of the work and the men under the di- rection of Lieutenant Mears, one of the engineer commissioners. He is well fitted for the job. He has had long experi- ence in Alaska, where he has been en- gagged not only in mining, but as one of the builders of the Alaska Northern road. which forms a part of this government line. He has also been connected with railroad construction in our western states. He, therefore, has a thorough understanding of the country and how to handle the workmen who are building the road.
 We started at the harbor and crossed the railroad yards about which the terminals are to be built. These yards have an area of 500 or 500 acres and the ground is as flat as floor. It was originally covered with forest, but the trees and stumps have been cleared away and now it looks like an Iowa corn field just plowed. A number Of tracks already have been laid upon it, and here and there are other tracks building. Scattered about are rail- road supplies of all kinds. There are locomotives and boilers from Panama; there are fireboxes and steel rails, and machines of all kinds On one side of the yards are millions of feet of pine lumber from the Puget Sound. and on the other are great piles of ties that were cut in the forests of the Kenai peninsula and shipped here via Turna- gain Arm.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-07

off his left Sam resinted this fowl attackt and butted Ham amidships like switch engine hitting furniture car; at that moment the cop arrived the sceen and took both Ham and Sam into port just about to issue declarrasion of newtrality. lii the meanwhile thurd admirer of Esmerelda hove into site sailed away with the dress goods. much to the disgust of the belligerrents.
 Heer was reel fite ovver burning issue that enny man could understand-a reel honest to good contest about perfectly plain and understand abull mattur-nobuddy knows what the war in Urope is about, but enny nut could understand the motive for hosities the part of Ham and Sam and yet millyun spectaturs kept theere eyes glued that baseball game and gave not the slitest heed the human interest story rite under theere noses And yet evvery now and then you'll meet guy who will inform you that interest in baseball in this country is the blink. Maybe it is, but so far as this neck of the woods is construed, it's not so as you tell it. and frum the papers the must be trew of Birmingham. Yours trooly
 BILL VINES. Washington, D. c.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-07
l :ALASKAS NEW GOVERNMENT RAILWAY

engineers tell me it can be constructed at an average cost of about $50,000 per mile In some places the cost will run to s9O,OO0 per mile, but in others it will be $20,oOO or under The road will cost about the same as the western end of the Grand Trunk Pacific railway and 1t will be more expensive than the Northern Pa cific or the Puget Sound division of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul. The track is to be of the standard gauge, with rails of 70 pounds to the yard. It will be substantially built and of the most modern construction.
 like the way our government engi- neers are handling their job. There is no red tape here at Anchorage and so far fuss and feathers are absent. The three engineer commissioners are as plain as pipe stems, and they tramp about with the men and go over the job on foot and on horseback. Nevertheless. William c. Edes the chairman of the commission, has built some of the great roads of the west. Lieut. Frederick Mears was super intendent of the railway at Panama, and Thomas Riggs, Jr., was at the time of his selection chief of the boundary sur Ney. They are all men of practical ex- perience and are especially fitted for life and work on the frontier
 I have already written of the headquart- CTS of the engineer commission. The two- story house put up for them here at Anchorage would not rent for more than $15 a month in the states. The most of the clerks are doing their work in tents or log cabins, and the forestry depart ment of the government is a two-room shack with folding cots. on which the clerks sleep at night. The commissary building is of logs, and the stables nearby, where from 50 to 100 horses are kept, are of canvas. The hotel or messroom for the men and government employees is of logs, and three meals there are given for $1 a day. So far I have to meet an official who puts on any airs. Most of boots and the clothes worn by the engi- neer commissioners would hardly bring the value of the wool in them at a sec ond hand store
 Everything is business. The work be- gan 16 days after the President decided the route. and it has gone on steadily as long as the money has lasted. Fifteen hundred men have been at work the past year, and something less than thousand are now on the job. MT w. c. Edes, the chief engineer, has had large experience in constructing railways in our Rocky mountain highlands and throughout the west, and he is using the same methods of employment which have proved most economical and most efficient in Oregon, California, Washington and Canada
 The construction and grading are after system known as station work A cer- tain section of the road or station is given out to number of men called
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-07

@ISTUR EDDITUR Who it that sed, I'M Baseball is on the blink in this country?"
 g1W4 I wot not-but whoevver he was he had &szR8 picked up the rong dope When the base
 ball seesun opened heer, theere weer sevven milyun and few odd thousand frantick fans-incud- ing the President of the United States-seeking ad mission to the ball park at one-half bone per seek, In order to witness the slaughter of the New York teem at the hands of Washingtuns pennint winners. Washington has he'd, evvery knows, permit winning teem-in April-for menny yeers. With charming regularity the Senators win the pennint evvery yeer, beginning in April and winning it rite along up about the 4th of July, and then they get tired of cnch and remember sumthing they have forgottun and start back aftur it.
 Along about August the Senators air feeding the leegue-if they would turn it around-and hold that posision manfully for the remaindur of the seesun The Senators go like house on fire after long drouth till the voluntary fire department arrives on the sceen and puts them outpertcuery at the start of the seesun. They get away frum the post like
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-07
The Bush Leaguer

From Judge.
 Enter the bush leaguer. the raw recruit Big, clumsy, raw, full of rank errors and ranlSer disputation. contentious. opinion ated and proud, he hasn't learned that basebal-good baseball-is played largely with brains, and that brins work better with the mouth closed He is now get ting his chance in the big leagues, but if the boss and the veterans can't convince him of the superior advantages of the noseless noodle, they will, nine times out of ten. turn him loose again in the bushes.
 In the grand old American game of pub lie opinion, however. bush league tactics seem to prevail all the way through. We are prone to incorporate the antics of the bush leaguer into much of our political thinking and acting Glaring errors of judgment. painfully slow reasoning. per sstent bear-baiting, and poor team work mark our politics from the village crack CT box symposium to the marble table gatherings in the District cf Columbia
 America can never hope to stick in the big league unless she suddenly evidences considerably more team work and consid- orally less noise.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-07
No Wonder!

FIOIH JuuEe. 7777 T-77TT
 she says her husband can't even keep her in pin moneyr'
 ' know. but she buys diamond pans!''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-07
By FRANK G. CARPENTER (Copyrighted, 1916, by Frank G. Car
 penter)
ANCHORAGE, Alaska.

ANCHORAGE. Alaska.
 HAVE just returned from a ride along the line of Uncle Sam's railway. The new con struction begins here at the mouth of Ship creek, where
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1916-05-30
BATHING GIRLS TRAP MAN
They Brave Cold Night Winds. Rush,
ing From Natatorum and Warn
ing the Police.

A half dozen young women were en-.
joying swim in the natatorium pool
at Pittsburgh when one OF the party
climbed out OF the pool and looked
out OF window.
'Oh, girls, | believe see a burglar
creeping along the alley below herel"
she shouted In a moment curiosity
had the better of them, and they hur
ried to the window Stealthily man
crept toward the store OF the Army
and Navy Goods company Sixth
street
The girls ran from the natatorium,
and. despite the cold winds, ran to q
corner near by and shrieked for po-
liceman. Officer William II. Larkin
soon arrived and arrested in the store
room man who gave his name as
John Plower.
oh. we weren't cold, the excite
ment kept us warm" the girls said on
their return to the pool.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1916-05-30
HOW THE GRIPPE is SPREAD
Gathering Of Large Crowds In Badly
Ventilated Places Is One Of the
Chief Causes.

II may be interesting to consider
the handy term, ia grippe" which is
quite as expressive il deprived Of the
ia" and reduced to four letters, comes
to us fvpm the French verb 'gripper,
meaning to seize, clutch or nab, and all
three of these terms in English are
required fully to express the condition
Of the victim of the dread visitation.
Even among physicians there is ten.
dency to indefiniteness in naming dis
eases OF the naso-p pharyngeal organs,
nearly every kind of severe cold, in
nuanza, coryza or catarrh being called
grippe. DR. Charles Halpin Nammack
visiting physician of Bellevue hospital
says, in the New York Medical Record,
that the present epidemic, which is a
national affair, has depended for its
spread and success on three main fac
tors: The tremendous variation in
climatic conditions; the crowding to
gether of great masses of people in
badly ventilated cars. moving picture
shoNS anu Olicr MANS, anu tnc Noh'
taminatiOn OF the air which they have
been obliged to breathe. by the cough
Ing, sneezing and splitting of those al
ready suffering from some form of re-
spiratory Infection usually of the com
mon cold type. Under direction of the
New York board of health the police OF
that city arrested IN one week more
than 1900 persons for expectorating in
public places. OF these, 1,400 suffered
conviction and fines. It is noted that
epidemics of grippe as clinical entity
have been recognized for almost hun.
dred years, but it was not until 1892
that the bacilli were discovered in the
sputtum Of the sufferer.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1916-05-30
AvoIn sPRlNe coLps

Sudden changes, nigh winds, shift
ing seasons cause colds and grippe,
and these spring colds are annoying
and dangerous. aud are likely to turn
into chronic summer cough. In
such cases take treatment of Or.
Kings New Discovery. pleasant
Laxative Tar Syrup. Il soothes the
cough. checks the cold and helps
break up an attack of grippe. It's al
ready prepared, no mixing or fussing.
just ask your druggist for bottle
OF Or. Kings New Discovery. Tested
and tried for over 40 years.-Adv DIV
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1916-05-30
LOOK FOR THE WORD
!. X OF Y
HSPELLS GOOD SHOW |


some show for your thin dime"
The Yitagraph Broadway Star Film
Go. present Mary Anderson in
MISS ADVENTURE
3-ReeIs--3
dandy Vitagraph comedy drama.
Wish every lady in town could see
Mary Anderson in this happy-go-lucky
role. Its rich. know you will like
n. as it is different from the ordinary
DhotopIays
ACROSS THE DEsERf
A powerful Edison Western drama
featuring Bessie Learn and George
Wright.
SKIRTS AND CINDERS"
A Lubin comedy
VAUDEVILLE
Curtis and Rpbel" in comedy sing
ing and talking act Clean; no rough
stuff.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1916-05-30
A sYMsoL OF HEALTH

The Pythagorians OF Ancient Greece
ate simple food practiced temperance
and purity. AS badge they used the
five pointed star which they regard
cd as a symbol OF health a red five
pointed star appears on each package
OF Chamborlain's Tablets and still
fulflls It's ancient mission as a symbol
OF health. II you are troubled with
indigestion. biliousness or constipa-
ton. get a package OF these tablets
from your druggist You viii be sur
prised at the quick relief which they
afford. Obtainable everywhere.s
Adv d&w
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1916-05-30

WEDNESDAY, Destruction VIII
liam Fox production, starring Theda
Bars This photoplay was written by
NixoIa Daniels
THrRSDAT Temptation Fea-
turing Geraldine Farrar in another
photopIay production.
Very sorry TO disappoint my patrons
on the picture Cheat yesterday, but
assure YOU Il was no fault OF mine 1t
was a mistake in the exhibitor before
sending TO me.
To-Day / viii have a picture that will
make up for the one we missed A
Triangle feature with Bessie Barris.
Gale featuring In this wonderful pro
ductlon.
tworeei Keystone comedy. Gin.
dcrs Of Love" Enough said when
have Keystone.
Matinee open to p. m.
The coolest place in town. The best
music . Wurltzer 25-piecc orchestra.
Don't fail TO see the keystone comedy.