The Cordova daily times., 1921-12-30
IS IGNORANCE BLISS WHEN
 EXPENSIVE?

Ilivin' in the neighborhood of most thous- and people and every one to neighbor with and one you want to know, with the winds and the rains tempered to the houses you live in and the clothes you wear; with the place to make an easy living located in your own back yard; with week or more $ easy Twin from days return for days work; with the winter act ing as the Great Scavanger and purifying everything and everybody, and nothing vile save the Government which fails to give us what we want, whatever complexion that Gov ernment may wear politically, isn't it entirely logical that our perspective and our brains are ingrowing! We have nothing to worry, but are we doing the best for ourselves and our families when we blind ourselves to the possi- bilitics of our comtry-to the known wealth of our couutry-and allow the Chcechaco to come on in this spring and pick up easy and big wealth from right under our moses
 What is there which is desirable in this world that we haven't? Our surrounding coun- try will grow EVERYTHING We need; our for ests are flooded with live meat, our streams filled with fish, our climate the most perfect of all the world, our surroundings entirely pleas ant. We have our own floHring miIl the mill which means doubling the acreage of wheat grown annually, and the foundation of a great wheat raising country, from which will be pro duccd the best wheat raised anywhere. If we wish wealth and wish it hard enough to work for it and take d chance on big things, in sight of town, almost, are coal oil and minerals richer than a world ransom. Two big coal mines now developed are guarantees of cheap coal supply and the country is full of coal de- posty which Ev"ryman may locate upon if he oo desires \ partIy-dcvropcd coal mine k ad- vcrtiscd for sale at a dollar an acre, and one who doesn't care to pay the dollar can locate one for nothing. WE KNOW that the richest mineral land in the world is within day or two's travel from here, simply waiting to be filed upon and worked, and we are not doing it. "" know that watcrpowcr is within our reach as the basis of power plant which will land light and power and heat in Our Town at less than 10 cents per kiowatt, and we are not reaching for it-paying go cents and kick ing about it. We are paying $1.10 a gallon for gasoline, when we should be producing gaso- line for a fraction of that, and we are getting nowhere worth while because for political or personal reasons no two men will stand to- gcther on any proposition. However, maybe that is the fault of the men, and maybe the camp ldS goH" dS ldI dS tue pClSoh'IIlF 'i the men in it would allow it to.
 Be that as it may, we know that the men who will go after these riches will be here in force this year. For the past fifteen years each year experts have come to this camp and examined and prospectcd wealth they had heard of, and which was theirs for a song. They have this camp chartcd from soda to hoe, and now that they can ride all the way to us without chang ing ears they will not rest upon the order of their coming The New Dawn is almost upon us and we are purely local-not even local. for therr isn't accommodations, eating or sIccping-in Our Tov'n today for the bunch of people who will be with us come spring. We are not even alive to our opportunities to that extent. In fact, it doesn't look as though, be yond tmouth bet'' to that extent We even know that we HAVE opportunities.
 What a field for few Give ones" k here, my Masters!-Fairbanks News Miner.