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About Southern Oregon miner. (Ashland, Or.) 1935-1946 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 2, 1935)
SOUTHERN OREGON MINER Alaskan Town Has Virginia Climate ----------- Temperature Seldom Falls Much Below Freezing. Washington.—Ketchikan, Alaska, la going Into the public utility busl nesa. The city has arranged to buy up local electric light, power, water and telephone properties. “This Is only another Indication that Ketchikan Is a strictly modem city, with very few of the charac teristics popularly attributed to Alaskan towns." says the National Geographic society. “Its popula tion of 8.S00 would scarcely rate It a metropolitan standing In the states, but in Alaska It Is second only to the capital, Juneau. «---------------------------------------- the fish are froaen before they are shipped south. “Although there are several saw mills, lumbering hits not been de veloped on a very large scale. But Ketchikan has all the potential re sources for a great pulpwood In dustry—unlimited, year round wa ter power and almost Inexhaustible timber. The forests, which are mostly spruce and hemlock, mixed with some elder, willow, and cot tonwood, are controlled by the United States forest service." London Will Curb Growth With Trees Montana May Boaat Gold-Plated Road Malta, Mont. — Recent news stories telling of the vast amount of gold that la contained In the dirt used In construction of Fort Peck dam leaves Phillips county residents unmoved. Because, If present plana are consummated, there Is a strong possibility that the county will have a gold-plated highway Hint will put the dam to shame. Estimates are that about $.1, 000,IKK) In gold will be contained In the dam—about 5 cents per cubic yard. But the contemplated highway In Phillips county would contain an estimated 30 cents per yard. ♦--------- Green Area Would Keep City Within Bounds. Millions Lost to Bondholder Ring «--------------------------------- Receiverships Said to Bring of a "national racket" through which 20.000.<MX) citizens have been Huge Returns. "Situated at the very southern affected. Nearly $8,000,000,000 of Mor* Rain Than In Panama. most tip of the long. Alaskan pan handle that reaches down the coast of British Columbia. Ketchikan Is first port of call for all steamers entering Alaska through the Inland passage. It Is (»erched on a rocky hillside that falls abruptly into the waters of Tongass Narrows. Around It rise steep, wooded hills, green the year around, for winters In Ketchikan are as nilld as In Richmond. Va. The temperature seldom drops much below freezing, and there Is practically no snow. The winding sea channels and swift, mountain streams freeze. But there is rain, plenty of It; over thirteen feet a year, which Is worse than tropical Panama. Yellow oil skins are the prevailing fashion In all seasons. “The bare, rock foundations of the city provide neither soli nor level space for roads, so the streets are built of wooden planks The business district Is set on piles, close to the long line of wharfs. Stairs and winding board roads lead up to the residential part of town. There almost every home has a bit of lawn fir garden, prob ably planted on imported earth. Is Busy Place. "Business Is good In Ketchikan. It Is a shipping center and supply base for a large district The shops and stores are stocked with foods and merchandise fresh from the states. After all, Seattle Is only 660 miles away, with regular steam er service winter and summer. Huge salmon canneries are fran tically busy during the short sea son when salmon are running. Often the little river that rushes through Ketchikan, Incidentally supplying It with electric power. Is packed solid with pink and silver fish. The Chinook, or king salmon, Is the prlnc'pal variety of the Ketchikan district Halibut fishing Is another big Industry, and there are great cold storage plants where SHIP AHOY! Washington.—Evidence disclosing the existence of so-called “chain committees" of bondholders cen tered In Chicago and New York and controlling millions of dollars' worth of defaulted realty bonds was made public by Congressman A. J. Saltath. chairman of the house committee investigating receiverships. Evidence concerning the opera lions of the committees and their affiliates Is continuing to be uncov ered with the result that proaecu- tlon may be requested for violation of a number of federal and state laws, Sahatb declared. The chain committees, he de clared, control from a few Issues up to as many as 400 Issues of realty bonds aggregating In par amount from a few million upward of $200,000.000. The chalp committees, the con gressman said, form but one aspect outstanding realty bonds are In de fault, he reported. Control or administration of the chain committees Is nationwide, the congressman reported. Sabatb said he bad found In stances where the so called "protec tlve" committee destroyed the value and Income of the property In volved to enable the house of issue to purchase hack the bonds "for a song." He added: “We have discovered Instances where committees have taken bonds sent to them and posted them as collateral for loans to pay expenses and big fees—5 per cent to the pro tective committee, 5 per cent to n management committee, 5 per cent to the lawyers, and so on down the line. “They are resourceful and deter mined to get away with everything they can." LIGHTS OF NEW YORK. Curious thlDgs happen In the City of Seven Million. For Instance, the experience of Jack Price, native- born New Yorker, newspaper man of many years’ experience and for mer head of the camera department of the World. He was walking along Lexington avenue Dear Thirty.- ninth street at 10:30 after spending the evening with friends. He beard a man shout something in a for eign language but, seeing thnt be did not know the fellow—and being a New Yorker—he paid no atten tion. The man shouted again and leaped at him. Price felt what he took to be a heavy fist blow on bls forehead. Though takeD off guard, bls training as a camera man en abled him to go Into action suddenly and be knocked the stranger down. The stranger jumped to bls feet and instead of renewing the attack, ran. see May Remove Restrictions. The I^>n<lon county council will try soon to have the • restrictive laws on building heights removed At the same time, blocks of new apartment houses, still within the 100-foot limit, are cropping up and transforming the appearance of some of London's most famous thoroughfares. The space ■ saving movement has also been prominent In the big slum-clearance schemes In some poorer districts, where huge modern flat houses are taking the place of thousands of small, tumble-down dwellings. Despite the erection of apart ment bouses In the heart of the Results of Kansas Quiz Pain Heirs of Old West Dodge City, Kan.—The heman West has come upon bad time *. In the parlance of lhe day when qulck- shootlng solved disputes and “neck lie parties" made court districts unnecessary the "gras * * root have "There are more streets In Manhat gone loco." The grandchildren of tan on which traffic may travel some of the straight-shooting per west than those on which It may * sonage who made Front street a travel east. Almost all the streets lively place are traitors to tradi are only one way with traffic mov tion. ing east on the even-numbered A general Information quiz was streets and west on the odd-num held the other day nnd "quick on bered. But moat of the streets the draw" was defined as ability where traffic may move two ways to sketch rapidly. are even-numbered and thus the The historical society whose west-bound traffic gets the breaks.” membership Includes the blood kin • • • of those roisterers of the short New York state has an Income grass who enjoyed sending bullets tax which Is almost as large as through plug hats has taken this that Imposed by the federal gov lapse to heart and will publish a ernment It Includes a 1 per cent glossary of frontier colloquialisms. emergency tax, which must be paid In full. Also, the taxpayer must Science Standardize * fork over one-half the total at the same time. That's not so good. Cooing Bird ** Sex Life But the blanks are still worse, be Minneapolis.—A University of ing even more complicated than Iowa zoologist reported that after those of the government. In desper years of experiments the love life ation, this writer appealed to a of birds has been put on a year- pleasant young womnn In the state around basis. branch here. She filled It out—and Emil Wltschl told the American omitted several Important deduc Association for the Advancement ot tions, the error not being discov Science It always has been a mys ered until entirely too late. tery why birds exhibited sex emo e • s tion only daring the mating season. Now, he sold, they can be made When a young woman employed In a dressmaking shop on the nine to bill and coo for month on month. It's done by Injecting gonado teenth floor of a Broadway build ing quit work without turning off tropic hormones, or serums ob tained from pregnant horses and an electric Iron, three fire engines, sheep. two fire patrol trucks, a battalion Female sparrows, Wltschl also chief's car and a police emergency said, are likely to lay four or five squad turned out nnd such a crowd collected that all traffic In the vi eggs and then quit. If the eggs are cinity of Thirty-seventh street wns removed as she lays them, however, she will go on laying up to fifty blocked. P. 8.—The firemen ex or more. tinguished the blaze with no diffi culty and little damage. Gold in Petrified Wood C Boll Syndicate.—WNU Service. Fallon, Nev.—Black petrified wood containing gold has been found near Big Sheep Coming Back here. Cye Cox reported that many Helena, Mont.—lloeky Mountain petrified logs have been ground In sheep, at one time nearly extinct In mortars and the gold extracted. Montana, are making a comeback, Approximately 40 sacks of the Tom Peasley, assistant state fish ground wood have yielded gold, he and game warden, reported. claimed. By L. L. STEVENSON apologized and went on. After that, the younger woman noticed that those who passed her. stared. It was not until she reached her apartment, however, that she learned why. Her expensive new spring coat had been slashed In the back, the cut extending from the collar to the hem. • • • New York's 6,000 “white wings" are soon to vanish from the metro politan picture. They will continue to wield bruahes on the streets, but after July 1 they will be "white wings" no longer. Instead of be Ing al) in white, they will wear forest green trousers though the white duck coat will be retained. All of the 10,000 employees of the sanitation department will wear the forest green. Drivers who now wear brown uniforms will be completely green clad. The change In uniform is the first made In many years. • • • Starting for the subway, Price The younger generation, who happened to notice that his band was bloody. Investigation told him drives a car and therefore should the blood came from his face. While know, just laid this on my desk: he was attempting to wipe It off with his handkerchief, another stranger, who had seen the en counter from across the street, bur ried over and took him In a nearby drug store. There It was found that be bad suffered a long and deep cut just over hli eye, a cut that took four stitches to close, In his right cheek, and a lesser cut on his left There was also a bole In bls hat brim. Price, however. Is certain that bis attacker struck him only once. The surgeon who dressed the wound held that If that were “What are you amused at in true, the assailant turned the knife Maud's letter?" as It was descending and thus the “She writes that they had foggy three wounds. weather all the way across." • • • “1 don’t see anything funny I d “Did you enjoy the concert?" that." A less spectacular Incident In “It was wonderful. I can’t tell “No; but she adds that the cap volved a young woman. She was you bow Impressed I was listening tain must have neglected to take walking along Fifth avenue. An to so much glorious music that I out his clearing papers." older woman brushed against her. couldn’t understand." tendon. — Ever expanding ton don will have to submit to rigid "slimming" treatment soon as a result of schemes to curb the city's outward growth. City planners now envisage Lon don as a city built on skyscraper lines—In moderation—to prevent II sprawling more and more over the neighboring counties. They envls age also crentlon within the next year or so of one or possibly two green belts surrounding the city as a permanent means of holding In greater London’s "waistline." The principal drawback In the past to development of skyscrapers even of modest dimensions, has been a thirty-five year-old law Urn Itlng the height of buildings In the metropolis to 100 feet. Besides, the average Briton prefers a small home and garden of his own to llv Ing In apartment houses. capital. Its suburb * are growing monthly at a prodigious rate, which even Londoners scarcely have grasped. It la estimated thnt the population of greater London Is In creasing by 70.1MM) annunlly, nnd that within a comparatively few years London nnd Its suburbs and satellite towns will house a quarter of the entire population of this country. Girdle of Open Spaces. The “green belt" scheme, just pro|M>unded by llerla-tt Morrison, Lnborlte leader of the London coun ty council, envisages preservation of a girdle of open spaces around l.opdon, between the hub and out er ring of the metropolis, to be so- cured permanently against the building tide. Mr. Morrison an nounced thnt the council wns pre pared to spend f2.OuO.OlK) ($10,000,- 000) during the next three years lu helping local authorities to pur chase green land. It Is hoped to create an Inner green belt In approximately a 13- mile radius of t'hnrlng Cross and an outer one at a distance of 20 miles. Each belt would be about half n mile wide. A survey In 1027 showed that within II miles of Charing Crou some 32,000 acres of land still re mained as suitable “lungs," or open spares. By IftflO that area had dwindled by fi SOO acres, and In 1033 only 23,fK)U acres were avail able. It Is estimated that In 20 years at that rate there will be no open spaces within 11 miles of the center of London.
