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The Nome nugget., 1929-08-17
ALASKA ROAD COMMISSION
 ACTIVITIES

(Continued from page Two) nak, is progressing very smooth ly.
 The work on the Nome harbor is now directed toward repairing he East jetty.
 The dredge crew of the Nome Lighterage and Commercial C0m- nany has completed about six hur- dred and fifty feet of dredging in the Noma Harbor, the work be- ing about half through with.
 Superintendent Ross J. Kinnay completed he inspection of the landing feldj at Teller. Kiwalik, Deering, ko;2ebue and Candle, and road work at Teller, Deering Can dle. and Dime Creek. A survey was made from Candle to Haycock fer a new proposed telephone line, conditions beilg found very favor able for same. At Haycock, site w;.s located for new landing field and contract let for the construction of it. Another field was located at the mouth of the koyuk River, which, when con- structed, can be used as an cln- ergency field
 MT. Kinney. after commenting C., h. bilities of a field at Bluff, sailed on board the motorship Bozo for Teller where he will continue on to Wales to construct another landing field. thence returning to Lost River where ground will be cleared for still another field. Up- on completion of the above two fields. work will start on the ex- tension and new cross runway of the landing field at Unalakleet.
 This completes Q rapid survey of the activities of the Alaska Road Commission throughout Seward Peninsula. showing that great am- ount of work being accomplished and the many new efforts being advanced for better facilities and | development of this section of Alaska Much could be done if inc appropriation vere larger and very great deal is being accom- ~lisAed with the limited resources offered for the Commission to work with
The Nome nugget., 1929-08-17
ALASKA SALMON PACK
 TO BE SATISFACTORY

JUNEAU. Aug. 17,lP)-Tht 1e-9 Alaska salmon pack wilt pro- ,ably aggregate between 4,-C".- ooo and 5,0oo,OOO cases # all grades of fish. said Fisheries Corl- missioner Henry o'Malley This, he added, while not large pack, is highly satisfactory, following the dismal failure of 1927, when the Bureau of Fisheries was forc- ed to close up commercial fisheries considerably ahead of the original closing date.
The Nome nugget., 1929-08-17

terr purposes to serve. If they knew anything about metals they must know that all business, that all industry, and that all human progress depends on the mines.
 "The wealth from the mines from the dawn of time is the epic of human advancement-of mans heroic march along the paths of progress.
 Show me people without mines, and l will show you people deep in the mire of poverty and a thousand years behind the procession of civilization.
 It was the mines that made the greatness of the past; that made ancient civilization that Egg ypt great; that made Greece great; that made Rome great; and in modern times the mines have made Spain and England and the United States rich beyond the dreams of avarice.
 Mining is essential to the pro grass of civilization. Mining has done more for the human raca than all other agencies combin d Mining has made more poor men miliionaires than all other things put together.
 More real profit has been made by investors in mining securitie, during the past century than any other industry.
 Strike down the miner, shackle mining, throttle the mining in- Gustry and poverty and tiviiiza- ten will sink back to mire ana stagnation.
 "The great benefactor O n" haman race has been the pr spec ter. T e r'st beneficient mer Of oll time ..tr the far-seeing meh whose rrains and brawn dArelIp he earih's natural resources--t muu whc p'ured the gold stream of mineral wealth into the i9p D: civilization; into the channel: of trade: into the avenues of com nerce; and into the homes O happiness.
 "All honor t. the miner! All hail to the prospector! In every land monument should be built to them for all that they have done to bless humanity"
 Now still further, when the miners and prospeotors who have mined and developed this country for the past quarter of a century or more have advised us that they are unable to proceed further un' less they have roads for trans portation. what are we going to do Will We sit around and look indifferently upon their efforts, Probably some of us may say that the country is worked out. we don't need any more roads; but such is absolutely not the case. and l believe that we should all get busy and do our utmost toward assisting these miners. We would advise that every person on Sew ard Peninsula get busy and flood our Senators and Congressmen at Washington with personal letters telling them of our vastly miner- alized country which is still await ing development, and which will surely come if we get the roads If you are not personally acquaint- cd with any of the Congressmen or Senators in Washington, write 10 someof their friends, but any
The Nome nugget., 1929-08-17

with dispatch, and I believe that you are the proper man to go after this program, as you are quite familiar with the various committees, and your past know ledge will be of material benefit IE this case as you have been in the field before.
 Wishing you and the other Senators and Representatives the very best of luck, and hoping that you will do your utmost to get us our much needed roads, thank ing you for your indulgence, and also to demonstrate this vital nec- essity will give you meagre out ne of how reads are progressing in the states.
 In 1912, during one of my vis- ifs to the states, l happened to be a guest If a Colonel Sawyer ia Seattle, xro had just eomplet- d { rans-rontinentai ::lp from n. cast by lnu!e tea T in the interest, construction aai promui- gation of the Lincoln Highway clonel Sawyer advised me that people in the United States were just commencing to realize the great importance that good roads are in the development and open ing-up of the country, and par ticularly the remote sections.
 Just recently representatives of the United States Department of Commerce and State. and the Aut- omotive Division of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commer- ce completed a survey from which it is possible to quote a few com- parative and Illuminating figures Included in part of this is a to- tai road mileage of the United States and it's possessions. which is 3,O19,035 miles, or over 13,- 900 miles more than the total in Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia. New Zealand, and the islands of the Pacific combined. It also says we are passing through a period of such rapid development that ev- en level headed business men feel compelled to hang onto their hats, so to speak. Through it all rings one dominant note-the import ance of transporta tion. Most sig nificant of all these transporta- tion. Most significant of all these transportation changes has been ale co-ordina tion of passenger service by rail-, highway and air.
 In addition to to this enormous mileage. road programs are still going on with the same amount of vim. At the last election four states, Louisiana, Iowa, Missouri, and West Virginia, have authoriz- ed bond issues for 240,000.O00. 10 be spent on more roads The state of Georgia, alone, has just completed road paving program of 1,6S6 miles, and expects within the next two years to increase this amount to three thousand miles of paved roads.
 Alabama in 1928 spent twenty million dollars on roads and brid- ges, besides the other roads built by convict labor. and exnects to .spend like amount in 1929
 The Arizona Highway Commis, sion just provided a budget for sS.2o0. 100000 for the coming year of 1929. In 1928 they built 100 miles of surfaced road, 239 mil es of graded and drained road, 13 and half miles of pavement and 4.0oO linear feet of bridges.
 Colorado has measure coming up at their next election authoriz> ing bond issues for s60,0OO,0 O,000. for a. road program to be spent at the rate of ten million dollars per year.
 In 1928 Connecticut constructed 1S0 and half miles of roads, and expects to do the same in 1929.
 In 1928 Idaho built 225 miles of roads surfaced with crushed
The Nome nugget., 1929-08-17

LOST-A silver mounted Wat ermans Fountain Pen, return to Stanley Whistler or Nugget office.
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hundreds of road programs which are now in action, and the many others being contemplated. l Herein is an approximate cost l of roads per mile, just simply to 1 show the enormous amount of money that is being spent by the United States for roads at the present time:
 Ordinary earth roads cost ss, 75O per mile;
 Ordinary gravel roads cost ST. $50 per mile;
 IS inch concrete roads cost S26, 700 per mile;
 9 inch concrete roads cost S13, 1850 per mile;
 IS inch brick cost S39,OOO per mile;
 9 inch brick cost s19,5oO per mile;
 inch concrete and inch gray el combined costs S17,1OO per mile Taking the amount of road mile age owned by the United States today, and according to compila tion, over 30 percent of the same are hard surfaced roads, So by a little multiplication and 'addi- ton one can readily see the en- l of bac been spent in the United States for roads, and We are still forg- ing ahead
 Now, notwithstanding all the enormous roads programs that are | being carried on in the United States, the miners and prospectors are only asking for an insignificant program of 200 miles of dirt road for the whole of Seward Penin- sula (the cheapest road construc- tion in existence today). Your local road board has been recom- mending this; the Chamber of Commerce of Seward Peninsula | has been urging it; the Alaska Road Commission have been re- l questing more money in order I that they can build us more roads. , Our Governor. Delegate, Attor- ney-General and others connected With the reins of government are l interesting themselves and doing 1 their utmost in our behalf, as are also other organiza tions. and we sincerely hope that our Sena- i tors and Representative will also do their utmost too by memorializing l Congress or any other way that { they see in order to raise the necessary funds for the much need cd roads.
 Quoting Vim. sultzer, former Governor of New York, in con sideration of the prospector, min 1 CT, and mining in general: , Political economists tell us that mining, neXt to agriculture. is the greatest industry in our | country This is true from the viewpoint, that if our soil were un, gilled famine would stalk the land.
 Prom a monetary standpoint, however, the mining industry i: ! the greatest industry in the world. The truth of this assertit becomes apparent when it is visualize that mining gives us the standard of value by which the price of everything produced by the brain and brawn of men is measured. Abandon mining and the value of every commodity would be in significant, humanity would sink back to the barter and exchange age. and financial paralysis would lock in it's vice-like grip the in dustries of mankind. It would be the greatest calamity that ev- | CT befell the human race, and in less than a century civilization would revert to barba rism, when the primitive man knew nothing about copper, gold, silver, iron, steel, lead, zinc and the mineral resources of mother earth. l Those who decry mining are 1 ignorant of history, or have ul-
New Britain herald., 1929-08-31
HOOVER CAREFUL
 0N WORLD COURT
Will Move Slowly in Asking Senate to Approve Joining

Washington, Aug. 31 N;-PrcGi- dent Hoover is expected by political and diplomatic circles here to ap- proach the submission 10 the Scn- ate of the question of American ad- herence 10 the world court with caution and after careful con:idcra- ton.
 Word from Geneva that the qucs- tion of the accession of the United States to the world court had been placd on the agcnda of the session of the council was received with in tercst in Washington, but there are TO indications that President Hoover contcmplates any immediate acton on the matter so far as the senate is concerned Political circles gen. orally expressed the opinion that the Root formula, designed to find a way around the fifth reservation attacked by the Genate 10 American adherence, would bc placed before the senate for advice and consent either in the winter or next spring.
 The stumbling block in American participation in the world court re lated to advisory opinions, by which, in accordance with senate quallfica- tions to adherence of the United States, the Washington goverpment refused to be bound, except condi tionally. In an effort to overcome the objections of most of the ad- herring powers to the conditions of the senate a committee of jurists, including Elihu Root, former sec retary of state devised a formula to pave the way for American partici- patton.
 An opportunity to discuss with the league council any American objec- tons to proposed advisory opin- ion is given the Uited States by the formula before the council votes, If the American government prefers an exchange of views after the re- | quest has reached the court, they will take place and the court must stay all proceedings pending the negotiations. The United States also ! has the right to resign from the 1 court if it feels it cannot abandon l It's objections to request for an | advisory opinion on a question poa- sessing an interest to the United States. The new protocol replaces enc dealing with American rcscrva- tions found unsatisfactory by the 1 United States.
 Objections of Europe
 Objections were raised by the sig
New Britain herald., 1929-08-31
LONGER SKIRTS ARE FASHIONS .ED!CT
Coming Winter Will Witness
 Changes in Styles

Paris, Aug. 31.-Winter skirts as shown here are longer, but how much longer is a question every woman will have to decide for her self, taking the time and place into consideration.
 Evening styles at the majority of the big houses of design feature skirts that touch the floor in back or even trail from six to IS inches. Some designers have heightened skirts in front as well as back and show indoor froclis that just clear the toes.
 Daytime clothes are another thing. Skirts remain about the same length for sport wear, with an inch or so added by some houses. Street cos tunes are from one to six inches longer but the average costume will probably not be longer than the top of the calf of the leg.
 Afternoon dresses follow their own sweet lines and may be medium length, with even hemlines, or NItiiJoi 'st'Iy IT I b uiii ttliu etiiiiS'C 'N'' long as evening dresses.
 Skirts lengths must be considered in relation to the new silhouettes or general outline of dresses.
 These are of two general types princess frocks with the waistline problem solved by an indeterminate joining of skirt and bodice, and the tube or sheath frock with a belt at the normal waistline.
 In both types dresses are tightly fitted to point close to the knee and then flare and develop into longer panels or points. Sometimes the flares are as long in front as they are in back, but the general rule for evening is frocks that are heel length in back and clear the floor two to IS inches in front. Belted frocks nearly all show nor nal waistlines but one or two i'm | portant designers retain the mod | flied waistline which is raised only an inch or so above the top of the | hips, where is was last season.
New Britain herald., 1929-08-31
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New Britain herald., 1929-08-31

ratores to the following part of reservation five of the senate:
 Nor shall it (the court without the consent of the United States en- certain any requests for any advisory opinion touching any dispute or question in which the United States has or claims an interest,"
 The question of entrance into the world court is considered by politi- cal circles in Washington to be one Of the most delicate with which the Hoover administration is faced, particularly since q large section of the senate has been opposed to American participation in the tri- bunal. Most circles consider it un- likely that the president will bring the matter before the senate before more immediate issues such as the tariff are disposed Of.
New Britain herald., 1929-08-31
MANY ACRES ARE INVOLVED IN PLAN
Public Lands Amount to Nearly
 Two Hundred Million
BY R. S. PlCKENS

Associated Press Staff Writer)
 Washington, Aug. 3l P-If Presi- !. dent Hoover's plan for transferring public lands to the states meets the approval of the commission he will 190,031,722 acres of land VIII be placed in the hands of the states. The greater portion of the area is In states west of the eastern Colo rado and Wyoming border. Nevada, where 53,41O,93S acres or II per cent of the entire state is in public domain, will be most greatly af- fected
 Utah. with 25.147.S67 acres of it's area in public domain, is the second largest public land state in the union. California, with 20,209,421 acres, ranks third.
 The income from the public lands Of the country last year was S6,193,- 966, which includes money received for the sale of land. Of this amount 10 per cent went into the general fund of the federal treasury. 52R per cent to the reclamation fund, all of which is spent in western or public land states, and 37l4 per cent went back into public land states for schools and roads.
 More than half of the amount re- ceived came from bonuses, royalties and leases of mineral rights. The amount received from that source was S3.926,15O. The sale of public land brought s312,144 The sale of revested timber and railroad lands in the northwest netted 0- s6S401S and power site lease fees totatled s12,302
 The remainder of the money came from widely scattered sources. The only eastern state with any appreciable area in public lands is Florida, with 13, 1855 acres. largely in swamp land in the center of the Everglades.
 There are scattered parcels of ground belonging 10 the government in Alabama Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Oklahoma and Wisconsin.
 Acreage of public land in other states follows:
 Arizona, 16,911.3G7; Arkansas D 25,933; Colorado. S,21S,S75; Idaho, 10,734,420; Minnesota. 1896 i; Montana, 6,900,144; Nebraska. 2S,- S60; New Mexxico, 16.2S2,5S2; North Dakota. 52.113: Oregon. l3.227,- Al: South Dakota, 4O2,67O Wash ington, 951.903; Wyoming. 17O35,- 537.
New Britain herald., 1929-08-31

Labor member Arthur Henderson, ly announced that Lloyd had re- signed his job. In reply to excited questions from the Tories, Tender son admitted the resignation prac- tically came as the result of a re- quest.
 Provoked Tempest
 For two days the Tories in both houses of Parliament ragged and stormed. It was hinted the Labor government had carried on negotia- tions behind Lloyd's back; that they had arranged a new pact with the Ehedive; that they had done all sort of terrible things.
 Part of the press worked itself up into a fervor of excitement about this threat to the safety of the Suez Canal, one of the very keys to the safety of the empire. Then Tender son took all the wind out of their sales by revealing that no pact of any kind had been made with Egyp- ton rulers. Furthermore, he showed that Lord Lloyd had had all sorts of disagreem ents with the Labor governments Tory predecessors. He had been all for the strong hand, Whereas Sir Austin Chamberlain. then Foreign Secretary, had in most cases been in favor of more liberal treatment of the Egyptian aspira- tions.
 But in the meantime, Lord Lloyd's name had been on everybody's lips and he had been the nine days sen sation.
New Britain herald., 1929-08-31

the President conceived the idea of closer cooperation between the na- tional and the senatorial and con- gressional campaign committees, and he selected Charles A. Dawson. former member of congress, 10 act as liasion officer between these three organizations.
 That means the creation of new post in the national committee; that of executive secretary. Daw- son will have that job. When he first was selected there was bit of mystery surrounding the subject due to a disinclination of party leaders to make any formal an- nouncement pending the formal election of Dr. Works successor.
 While the President is likely to adopt a neutral attitude in the party primary contests for senators and representative next spring and summer. some of those in hls eounsels look for him to throw the weight of his influence in certain states where republican candidates, especially for the senate. find them selves in a close fight with the dem- ocrats.
 What particular means he will find to accomplish that will depend upon circumstances during the campaign, but undoubtedly the means will come to hand, as the President naturally is interested in maintaining a working majority of his party in congress.
New Britain herald., 1929-08-31
MACDONALD DEPARTS
 FOR LEAGUE SESSION
British Premier Easy Till Last Eo' r3Clt in Formulating D.sarn-
 amcnt Negotiations.
amcnt Negotiations.

London, Aug. 3l tP = Premier Macdonald, his daughter Ishbel, and N.scount Cecil of Chelwood left Eere today for Geneva to attend the League of Nations assembly conven- ing there Monday.
 The prime minister said he was busy almost to the last moment of his departure in shaping up the naval disarmament negotiations Yesterday he said, he worked with his naval experts from Il a. m. to II D. m.
 "I was busy up until ? a. m. clear ing up the debris and sorting out the dead bodies from the living" he added.
 The premier expected to return to England Sunday night. He said he would call upon Premier Briand. former Premier Poincare, and for mer Premier Herriot in Paris this evening.
New Britain herald., 1929-08-31

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