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The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-18
THE BIRMINGHAM AGEHERALD SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 18 1917

gold fields of Nome. Neither of the three men had had much experience in gold mining. Brynteson had come from the iron mines of Michigan to Alaska to search for coal. Lindbloom had emi- grated from Sweden to San Francisco, where he had worked as a tailor He came to Alaska upon hearing of the gold discoveries at Kotzebue sound. Lindeburg had come from Norway to aid Uncle Sam's expedition which took reindeer from that country to the starving miners at Dawson. He heard of the Klondike and he took the reindeer contract to get to the gold mines. When he landed with the deer he heard that gold had been dis covered on the Seward peninsula, and then came north to St. Michael He was prospecting near there along the Fish river, when he fell in with Brynteson and Lndbloom, and the three decided to go westward and test the country about the Snake river. at the mouth of which Nome is situated They had tested a half dozen creeks that How into the river finding more or less gold, when they made their discovery on Anvil creek. That was September 20 1898. The weather was already cold, but by using hot water they were able to wash the gravel, and they took out s1S00 worth of gold within a few days. They then took up claims about their discovery, and it was these claims and others that formed the foun- dation for the Pioneer Gold Mining com pany, which will probably mine more than than $1,0o0,O00. By and by other de- posits were discovered and the region was so developed that it has already produced something like s700O0,00O worth of gold.
 In my talk with MT. Lindeberg l asked him to tell me something as to the changes in mining. Said he:
 We started by digging the earth with
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pick and shovel, and we used the old- fashioned rocker to wash out the gold. Later on, we made sluice boxes and had horses and scrapers. Then came the steam shovel, and now we are doing most of our mining with water and the hy- draulic lifts.
 There has been great change in the amount of gold saved. Ground that could not be worked at 8 profit in the old way now pays very we'll With our hydraulic sluices we are able to thaw the glacial formation down to where the gold bearing gravel lies. We can strip this off with the water, and within a month or so the air will thaw the gravel to such an extent that we can force it into the lifts and get the gold out. After the glacial earth has been removed we find that the gold bearing material runs to a depth of 40 feet or more. It varies in richness, but there is so much of it that we expect to be mining Hor an in definite period to come"
 What can the government do to help the Alaskan miner?" I asked
 Tt might do great deal,' replied MT. and I think it would pay in the increased development of the ter ritory. The government has invested large sums in irrigation work for the reclamation of the desert. Why should 1t not do the same for the vast areas of low grade mining territory here? It ought to subsdize transportation com panies, so that machinery and supplies could be brought in at moderate cost, and reduce the taxes on mining in every possible way. It might send it's expert
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-18
CREAM FOR CATARRH
 OPENS UP N0STRlLS Tells How To Get Quick Relief from Head-Colds. It's Splendid!

III one minute your ciogged nosrrils will open, the air passages of your head will clear and you can breathe freely. No more hawking, snuffling, blowing, headach. dryness No struggling for breath at night; your cold or catarrh will be gone.
 Get a small bottle of Ely's Cream Balm from your druggist now. Apply a little of this fragrant, antiseptic, healing cream in your nostrils. It pen etrates through every air passage of the head, soothes the infiamed or swollen mucous membrane and relief comes in- stantly.
 It's just fine. Don't stay stuffed up with & cold or nasty catarrh-Relief { comes so quickly.-Adv.
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produced so much of that precious metal that if it were divided equally among the people of the United States there would be SIS for every family living un- der the American flag. The product al- .feady amounts to more than 900, and that notwithstanding nine-tenths of the country has never been prospected. The greater part of Alaska is covered with moss and other vegetation that hide the rocks and earth, and the most of the gold so far won has been extracted from ice, sand and rock that were frozen solid fer thousands of years before the miners thawed the ice and recovered the gold.
 It is easy to prospect a country where the metals lie loose in the earth and where every great rain washes some of the float to the surface. It is different where the metal is held tight in the hands of Jack Frost until his fingers are burned by the fires of the miners. AL most all of the $1S5, ,0OOOOO worth of gold that has been taken from the basin of the Klondike was thawed out by fire and steam. The same is true of the SS0000,000 from Fairbanks and also of the gold now being mined in the Iditarod and at Ruby and Nome.
 What Alaska needs is more prospectors and modern machinery and cheap fuel to get the gold out of the earth. The pros pectors will come with the completion of the railroad, and with it we will have cheap coal for the camps. As to ma chinery, it is being dragged in by horse power and man power, and the railroads will put it into hundreds of places where it cannot go now.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-18
FEEL F|NE! TAKE 'CASCARETS" FOR
 LIVER, BOWELS Spend 10 cents! Don't stay bill ious, sick, headachy, con
 stipated Can't harm you! Best cathar- tic for men, women and
 children

Enjoy life! Your system is filled with an accumulation of bile and bowel poison which keeps you bilious, head achy, dizzy, tongue coated, breath bad and stomach sour-Why don't you get 10-cent box of Cascarets at the drug store and feel bully? Take Cascarets tonight and enjoy the incest, gentlest liver and bowel cleansing you ever experienced. You'll wake up with a clear head. clean tongue, lively step, rosy skin and looking and feeling fit. Mothers oan give a whole Cascaret to a sick. cross, bilious, feverish child any time-they are harmless-never gripe or sicken-Adv.
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engineers and scientists to sample min- ing claims upon order, and to determine the feasibility of mining enterprises and the investment of capital therein. Such methods would eliminate the spectators, and put mining on the basis of fixed in- dustry, rather. than the gamble which it has so largely been in the past"
 In Cuba tobacco is planted, grown and harvested in 90 days.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-18

The gold mining of today is far differ ent from that of the past. It has changed
 from a gambling to manufacturing
 proposition; from speculation to an .in-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-18
LOWGRADE GOLD ONE OF ALASKA'S GREATEST ASSETS Vast Areas of Placer and Quartz Which Will Pro-
 duce Millions NEW RAILROAD IS
 IMPORTANT FACTOR Jafet Lindeberg Tells How the Gold Fields of Nome Were Discover ered-How Government
 Can Help

By FRANK c. CARPENTER kCopyright, 1917. by Frank G. Carpenter)
 Nome. Alaska, The gold resources of Alaska are be- sond computation. The territory has
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During my stay here I Have seen much of Jafet Lindeburg, who, with John Brynteson and Erik Lindbloom, made the discovery that resulted in the great
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have been much interested in the methods of handling the gold. after it is gotten out of the earth. The ordinary placer miner puts his gold dust and mug gets in what is known as poke" This is bag made of buckskin about as big around as your arm and foot or so long. The miner may have several pokes or he may store his dust in tin cans or. other receptacles until he is ready to take it to the bank The ordinary miners cabin has no lock on the door and cans of gold dust are often left comparatively unguarded. Indeed, life aad property here are safer than in most of the cities of the United States and the miner takes risks that he would not dare to take in New York or Chicago. The most of the gold dust is sold to the banks. which assay it and reduce it to bullion. They melt it into gold bricks, in which shape it is taken by steamers to Seattle.
 Every bank has it's assayflg and melting establishment Sometimes the gold is paid for over the counter, the banker guessing at It's value, Some of the gold is not as pure as others. Some may be worth not more than $l5 an ounce, while other dust will realize $20 or more. The most common way is to take the dust and turn it into bullion. charging com mission therefor The ordinary rate is now .k per cent After the gold has
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-23

delphia. spoke in patriotic vein, and the
following letter from Colonel Roose-
welt, who was unable to be present, was
read:
81 wish ! could be present at the
patriotic meeting in Madison square
Garden, for but twice before IN GU.
history-in the days of the Revolution
and OF the Civil War have we faced a
crisis Of such great and lasting I'M
portance as at present.
"Seven weeks have gone by SINCE
Germany notified us that she lntendeu
10 renew with ruthless vigor her SUP,
marine warfare against neutrals ana
non-combatants. Having in view our
previous utterances and warnings dur
ing the last two years, this was dec
laration of war, and we ought to have
treated it as such. 1t has been fol-
lowed by repeated acts Of war. Again
and again during these seven weeks
Germany has sunk our merchant ships;
she has killed scores Of Americans, all
-combatants. including women ana
children: she has endeavOred 70 enter
into an alliance with JaDan and Mexico
TO make joint war upon US and 70 ais.
member US. These are overt acts OF
war. Just as much so as the fight az
Lexington or the bombardment OF
Sumter. The nation which tamely sub
mits to such conduct torfelts what
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-23
THE, MADISON SQUARE GARDEN MEETING

action Of the President in severing
diplomatic relations with Germany,
in deciding to arm American vessels
and in calling Congress in extra ses-
sion;
RESOLVED. That we call upon our
government for prompt, vigorous
and courageous leadership in the
immediate modifying OF the entire
naval. military and industrial
strength of the nation, including the
augmenting of our army and navy
for the effective protection OF Amer
lean rights and the faithful dis
charge Of Americas duties IN the
present crisis;
RESOLVED, That we urge upon
Congress the immediate enactment OF
universal military training Dill
providing for a permanent national
defence based on the duty OF every
ablebodied citizen to share IN the
protection Of his country and in the
maintenance of it's high ideals;
RESOLVED, That we declare our
deep conviction that the principles Of
national conduct governing Ger
many's actions in the present war are
inconsistent with the principles Of
democracy and with the purposes and
aspirations Of this republic, and we
hold that the time has now come
when il is the duty OF this nation to
take part in the common task of de-
Tending civilization and human lib
erty against German military agrees
sions; and
WHEREAS, Our government in
severing diplomatic relations with
Germany gave notice that further
overt acts Of war would be forcibly
resisted. and said overt acts have
been committed in the sinking of the
Laconia, the City Of Memphis, the
Illinois, the Vigilancia and other YES
sells. with the loss of American lives;
therefore be it
RESOLVED, That We call upon
Congress, as soon as assembled. to
declare that by the acts of Germany a
state Of war does now exist between
that country and the United States.
City Is Ready, Says Mayor
Mayor Mitchell was greeted with three
,heers. He seconded the motion by
which the resolutions were adopted and
said:
1--WE are, in effect, in state of war.
In very few days, do most sincerely
we will be in a state of war
BY formal declaration. That war, If
{ comes. will and should be no gentle
affair to be disposed Of at long range
and with more words than bullets. !
believe that. if war comes, it will be an
everlasting shame to this country, from
which in international affairs she never
,ould recover. unless we send, in the
Uniform of the United States and under
The banner of the United States. troops
% the continent Of Europe to take their
places side by side in those trenches
With the men who are fighting the bat
lie Of democracy and human liberty
Letter from Roosevelt
George Wharton Pepper, OF Phila-
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Coast Patrol Association. National As
ISOLATION for Universal Military Train
ing, National Special Aid, Naval Trsin-
ing Association, Navy League of United
States, New York Commandery Loyal
Legion. Patriotic Education Society,
Princeton Club. Rocky Mountain Club.
Sons of the American Revolution, So
cietv of Automobile Engineers, Society
of Colonial Wars. Society OF May
flower Descendants, Sons of the Rev.
olution, Staten Island Chamber Of Com
merce. st. Nicholas Club. St. Nicholas
Society. Technology Club, University
of Pennsylvania Club. Williams Club
and Vale Cub
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should be its most precious poss
its own sclf-respcct.
Must Strike Hard

should be its most precious possession
its own sclf-respcct.
Must Strike Hard
"Unless. in the words OF Abraham
Lincoln. we are degenerates, whose
manhood has run out, we shall strike
hard and effectively in response 10
these brutal and unproyoked injuries
Unless we do so we shall show our
selves unworthy to be the heirs of the
steadfast soldiers of Washington, UNI
worthy to claim kinship with the men
of high soul who, under the banners or
Grant and of Lee, proved their truth by
their endeavor.
There is no question about going TO
war We are at war now. The only
question is whether we shall make war
yaliantly or make war feebly. To sucn
a question only one answer is possible
if we are true to the nations mighty
past and true to the future that Will be
ours if we have the MANHOOD to grasp
II. We have stood for peace up to the
point-and beyond the point-where
peace parted company with fealty TO
our nationl honor and with our per-
formance of international duty.
"As things are now. any man who IS
pacifist or a pro-German is false TO the
honor and the interest OF the United
States and of mankind. Germany mas
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-23

with his voice and his effort. his sacri-
flee and his prayers, aiding the gIea'
battle of the ages"
Hibben, Pacifist. for War
Mr.. Root was followed by DR.. John
Grier Hbben, president OF princeton
University, whose announcement tnat ne
was a pacifist was received with the Ut
most confidence. DR.. Hibben promptly
showed the audience that their faith IN
his intentions was not misplaced. lie
said:
81 am here tonight as pacliSt' !
believe in peace at any price, ana the
price at the present time is war
"Are we going TO fight this hgnt OF
ours at once and by ourselves or are
we going to wait for others 70 ngh'
for us?"
Cries of "No. no. Fight Germany on
the spoil" interrupted Professor HID
ben.
"Are we relying upon the faint ana
yet fond expectation that in some way
the submarines will be driven by inc
British navy from under the seas ne
continued. "and that the French line
will strike through the German line
into Germany before we are brought
into any more danger? We have waited
long enough.
"Are we going into this war in de-
fensive way, or are we going TO strike,
when we do strike, with all the power,
moral and material, that we have IN our
American people? I believe. ladies and
gentlemen, at this time that we should
recognize a fundamental principle OF all
warfare-that the only sure defence IS
a quick, sharp offence, and that we
should go into this with all our might
and main"
American, French and English flags
were waved frantically as the audience
screamed "Yesl" when Hibben asked:
"Are we TO fight alone, or are we to
unite our cause with the Allies"
"Let us recognize our enemy. We
have been a long time finding him out,
but we know him now. | hope that the
dav will come when the Stars and
Stripes will be seen somewhere along
the Won Hindenburg line in France
Charles s. Fairchild, who was Secre-
tarv Of the Treasury under Cleveland,
voiced the demand for a leader, and
aroused tremendous enthusiasm by ref
erence to Colonel Roosevelt.
Resolutions Adopted
Franklin II. Giddings of Columbis
University read the following resolu
tions. which were adopted thunder
ously, not more than dozen dissent
ing:
WHEREAS, Germany has destroyed
our ships, murdered our citizens, re-
stricted our commerce by illegal sub
marine warfare and attempted 10 ar
raw against us the friendly powers of
Japan and Mexico in a plot to dis
member our nation; and
WHEREAS, BY these and other
hostile acts Germany Is now virtually
making war against the United
States;
RESOLVED, That we approve the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-23

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made and is making war upon u5. Let
us face this as an accomplished TACT
and by instant and effective action, by
the use of all our strength in immedi-
ate counter attack. teach those who as
sail us that they do so at their peril.
Sousa's Band furnished the music.
The singing was led BY Walter l..
Bogert.
Organizations Behind Rally
The meeting, whose watchword was
"Delay No More" was held under the
auspices of the following organiza.
tons:
Aero Club Of America. American De
fence Society American Rights League,
Army and Navy Veterans, Broadway
Association, Bronx Board of Trade
Brown University Club. Business Mems
National Service League, Columbia
University Club, Committee on De-
fence, National Civic Federation; Con-
ference Committee on National Pre-
paredness, Cornell Club. Fiske Terrace
Association of Brooklyn. Grand Army
of the Republic, Harvard Club. Home
Defence League, Manufacturers and
business Mems Association. Merchants
Association of New York, Military En-
cheering Society Of New York, Mill
tary Order of Foreign Wars, Municipal
Club of Brooklyn, National Aerial
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-23
Root Cheered AS He Calls
OnNation to Unite for War
Crowd OverAows Madison Square Garden-"omen IN
Evening Gowns Sit on Floor-lhrong Thrilled
bv Demands That u. S. Join Allies

round about. The doctrine that state
can do no wrong, the doctrine that d
state is entitled TO take what us III
terest requires with the strong arm
I'm hand. has been declared, and is
supported by one-half the niIltai
power Of the world; and il the pres
emit war in Europe ends without
victory over the nations which are dc,
claring and acting upon that natelu,
doctrine. there will be no peace anu
safety for free democracies IN tnls
world except all free countries De
turned into armed camps.
az saw one thing more about t1e
war in Europe: That if peace be mace
there and no friend Of America IN
clndes in its terms anything to pro
tect these Western continents, inc
whole force Of liberty, OF national
evolution into the territory OF others
will be directed toward the vast terri
tories. the immense wealth OF unde-
Tended America. Africa is taken up
Cites Menace of Future
"If we WELD our rights IN weak sub
mission now, will we be ready TO act
when Germany establishes naval oase
in the Caribbean; when some other
military country establishes oase IN
Southern California, commanding tne
canal and making the canal aosoiuteiy
worthless for our own protection
or we Weld in weak submission now
the Monroe Doctrine is not worth the
paper il is printed on from THIS time
forward.
81 hate war. but ! welcome the COM
ing Of the inevitable at the beginning.
| don't want to defend my house by
putting off an attack during the briei
minutes that can spend under the bed.
| saw that upon the issue OF the war IN
Europe hangs the question wheth r
America shall at the close of that war
be turned into one armed camp or
whether America shall be a subject ma
ton.
Protected by Allied Ships
"There is no nation on earth-not
England. nor France, nor Belgium, nor
Italy. nor Russia-with q greater stake
in the success of the Allies in this war
against German militarism than the
limited States. We are able to hold THIS
peaceful meeting-with few weak ex-
plosions-and why? Because we are
protected blythe navies and armies OF
the Allies.
"If we were not protected by those
armies and navies across the Atlantic
German ships would be outside OF our
harbor, for Germany never hesitates to
strike. The self-respect, the dignity
and the honor of our country require
that we shall not longer hide under the
protection Of others, but shall proceed
to protect ourselves.
zone thing more. Every American,
every true American heart should re-
spond with joy. amid its sorrow, to
the feeling that if we enter this war
TO do our part towards bringing about
the victory that is so important to US,
we shall be fighting over again the
battle Of American democracy. The
democracy of England, the democracy
of France. the democracy of Italy. and
now, God be praised. the great de
mocracy of Russia are fighting for
the principle of free self-government
against the principle of old time auto
cracy and military power, and every
American should be at heart, should be
Middletown transcript., 1917-08-11
WHY THE SPARROW THRIvES
Increase Of the Pesky English lmpor-
tatfon IL Quite Easily Ac-
counted For.

Mr.. F. L. Burns the bird census
man, has recently been taking CEN
sus Of English sparrows, and his esti-
mate is that there are ICE, 900 millions
of this interesting bird in this coun-
try. We presume that this is so, al
though we have no accurate means OF
checking off his figures, except that,
judging by the sound just outside OF
our window in the morning we should
think that possibly Mr.. Burns had un-
derestimated the total.
The English sparrow has thus In
creased, from the time he first came
over to this country, much more than
we have. We are only about lib mill
lions, and he is 10000. How can this
increase be accounted for?
Quite easily. Since he came he has
attended strictly to business. He has
not had time to pass any eugenic
laws; he has had no medical profess
sion. He is not interested in politics,
serums or motorcars. He is not high
brow. He lives in the fresh air most
of the time and does all of his own
housework. He supports no hospitals,
has developed no literature, marries
and unmarries when he feels like 1t
and, in fact, does as he d pleases.
Why should he not increase? For be-
ing what an American citizen ought to
be, he has the best Of us beaten to
fraZzle.-Life.
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Our Humorists.

All we can say Is that we hope any
given humorist of ours will live out
the greatest length Of days and not
stop joking before he dies. We need
every moment Of his three score years
and ten to keep US sane and kind, and
we cannot be satisfied with a stinted
measure Of time for him. When he
begins unsurpassably to delight the
world, our national pride as well as
our human need is bound up in his
continuance. Possibly we are going
from bad to worse as we have always
been, but we think we have been kept
from the worst by the humorist's smile,
not by the satirists frown. other
races, other lands abound in songs and
sermons, but we have sent our laugh.
ter over the world to save it alive more
than anything else could.-W. D. How
ellis, in Harper's Magazine.