The Alaska prospector. [volume], January 17, 1907, Image 2

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People Burning Furniture, Sheds and
Intdrise Gold
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0
Seattle, -Ian. 15—The Goal fam
ine has roached a stage now where
money cannot buy fuel and the
wealthy people are breaking up
thoir furniture to keep the tires go
ing. Sheds and fences in all parts
of the city are being burned, and
unless relief is secured soon the
suffering will be terrible. The
thermometer is eight above zero
this morning, which is the coldest,
m'cr known on Puget sound.
West Seattle, Jan. 15—The in- j
tense cold weather has frozen the
water mains and the citizens are
forced to melt snow for water. No
coal ia available and men are out
in everv direction cutting down
trees to burn.
Vancouver, Jan. 15—The ther
mometer is down to zero t-liia morn
ing. The coal shortage has reached
Vancouver island and the price
has advanced to $8 per ton.
DISASTROUS TYPHOON
Kills Hundreds and De
stroys American
Barracks
Manila, Jan, 16—A typhoon
-wept the island of Leyte on Jan.
10th, in which hundreds of lives
were lost. The barracks of the
American soldiers on the east aide
of Samar were destroyed and Leyte
and Samar have been cut off from
the outside for six days. Details
received so far have been very
meagre.
Senators Elected
Boise, Jan. 16—Win. PL Borah
has been elected to the Senate from
Idaho by the House.
Helena, Jan. 17—Senator Clark
will be replaced by present Con
gressman Dixon, who was elected
by the legislature yesterday.
Lincoln, Jan. 16—Morris Brown,
r epublican, lias been elected to go
to the Senate from this state.
Shorten Session
Olympia, Jan. 16—The senate
lias adopted a resolution ending
this session on Feb. 25th, making
forty instead of sixty days session.
This action was taken on account
of the saving of expense by short
ening the time. The House is ex
pected to concur in the resolution.
The time of employees has been
curtailed to thirty days. The
House is debating the increasing
of salaries of employees, but tha
senate will oppose any such meas
ure.
Ifi {Standard Oil Maw.
It became known on December
14 that the Standard Oil combina
tion had widened its grip on the
! copper production of the continent
i by absorbing the Greene Consoli
dated Copper Mines of Mexico.
The capital stock of the Green
Copper is $12,()00,000. The Butte
Coalition Company of Montana,
which took over the Heinze min
ing properties in behalf of tin
Amalgamated and Standard Oil, is
capitalized at $15,000,000. Thomas
F. Cole is president, of the Butte
Coalition Company. John D.
Ryan is general manager of th<
Butte and Boston, another Stan
dard Oil Copper Company. Wil
liarr G. Rockefeller is secretary
and treasurer of that corporation,
which is capitalized at $2,000,000. i
i With the Amalgamated, capitalized
i at $155,000,000, the Standard Oil
! now controls about $200,000,000 of
i
| copper properties.
I
! The wires between here and
.
Fairbanks have been down for a
week. This morning they were lip
as far as Tanana crossing and are
expected to he in shape to Fair
i ^
hanks in a day or so. At present j
there is a fierce blizzard raging in
the Tanana country, which delays
repairs.
I*. \
Figuring copper at an average
i price, throughout the globe, of 2(M
! cents per pound, which is a trifle
i below the average quotations, the
mines of the world are making
copper at the rate of exactly a mil
lion dollars per day, for every day
in the year, including Sundays and
holidays.
*
WONT RAISE SALARIES j
I
Viee President and Cabi
net Get No Higher
Pay* |
Washington, Jan, 15-—That por
tion oi the executi’ e appropriation
hill which provided for raises in
the salaries of the vice president,
speaker of the House and the
metnbprs of the cabinet, has been
stricken oilt by the Senate.
Karltik Swept By Sea.
Afognak, Dec. 28—Daring the
last new moon tho tides reached
an unusually high stage at Karluk
and did considerable damage t<
the canning interests there. A
hard northeasterly gal© caused the
extra raise in the water, and before
it subsided, tho spit at Karluk was
entirely covered, the ©wells tearing
down buildings and displacing the
machinery. The bunkhouses of
the canneries were swept away as
well as the whole supply of coa
which was in warehouses on th<
wharf. A. F.
So groat has been the growth o*
the copper industry, and so rapit
the increase in price of the metal,
that the production of three coun
ties of the single state of Michigai
is as great in value as tho entin
copper production of tho Unite*
States as recently as 1897—onh
nine years ago—and double th*
value of the entire copper outpli
of the United States in a year a?
comparatively recent as 1889.
The Juneau Transcript says:
“Court today announced a probe
hie vacation after Jan. 1st; that
Judge Wickersham would he hen
and stay until he finished the cal
ender. On March 1st fudge Gun
nison expects to start from V^hh .
for Fairbanks, where he will hob
court until navigation open.
Judge Gunnison vviil decide a'
cases no.v under advisement befon
he leaves on his vacation.”
In New York City it is made :
misdemeanor to use or have in one’
possession a snapping match, corn
tnonl}T known as a “parlor match”
COPPER CENTER CLUB
C. B. OvERHiafER Prop.
Fine Wines, Liquors and Cigars
Everything First Class ?
and Up-to-Date.
COPPER CENTER, ALASKA.
THE MAKING OF LENSES
Gian la Had* Principally in Eur»
paan Countries and Shipped
In Small Slabs.
T
When a popular camera *n
first under consideration, it bt
came necessary to secure a gooj
lens at a popular price. This wai
possible only by the devising ani
making of special machinery ani
tools, and by buying the raw glasi
and manufacturing in large qua*
tities, writes W. B. Ashley, in Out
ing. Lens glass, as all the worli
knows, or will after this story i
published, is made principally ii
Germany, France and England
Brought to the manufacturer i|
small slabs, it is cut by revolving
saws into the different sizes ani
then subjected to a series of grind
ings and polishings that mus
eventually enable the tester to I
the lens over an absolute form*
the shape and size required, so pe
fectly that a deviation of one tw
millionth of an inch is instantl
detected. The cement iised fo
building up lenses from kingl
'enses is a preparation sodelirat
that it cannot alter this perfectio
The making of lenses for phot
graphic work has now become*
immense industry, and in man
rases the shutters are also mad
in conjunction. Highest skill i
employed to perfect this first n
quisite of the apparatus, but ran
ful as t^liese makers are to proi
their work, the lenses are alsoa
ways thoroughly tested by th
camera experts. Tins does no
mean that they are subjected I
anything like the different test
the amateur will apply later 01
but finish, focus and mount, an
the focal scale is tested by ohjpf
at the stated distances; the ficdi
is brought into alignment, no
then the camera needs only tl
final touching up of rubbed spo
to be readv for the market.
Effects of Bight-Eyednes3.
The majority of men and woj
en, according to Dr. George
Gould, are not only right-haw!*’
but right-eyed; that is, the rig
eye sees better than the lei
From this flow some curious f
suits. For instance, right erf
ness explains why, in the devoid
ment of violin-playing, the d’flkt
and rapid fingering was a!left!
to the less expert left hand, whi
the easy bowing fell to the
trous right hand. The reason, i
Dr. Gould thinks, is becacsot
ordinary' position of the violin
siich that the right eve most re*
tly sees the motions and positio
of the fingers on the strinr'?•
a similar way the right eye r,>i
pels the more awkward left Itf
to direct the gun barrel, while!
right has simply hold thetfl
ger. In chopping, the weaker '*
arm has to direct and enforce t
blow, while the stronger nfi
plays a subordinate part for1
convenience of the right eye.
ence.