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Optirnivali Is the Prevailing Note. --.-Stages of Development---.
Silver -lead Production.
Although in Ottawa, which isle eon- ton This means that only the higher
*alit teurh with . the outposts
Domin4o*t "n.rmatio•p is always avail -
.able, through the North West Terri-
tariea OLIO i ukon Branch of. the De-
partment a the Interior, of that most
distant field, Yukon, the presence at
the capital on official busdnese of Mr.
George P. MacKenzie,, the Gold Com-
missioner, attracts to the territory, and
its affairs more than usual interest
Mr. MacKenzie is the chief executive
officer of the Department of the In- summer by steamboat and during win-
te�rlor in the territory and is in touch ter by stage from Whitehouse. The
With all its activities. country affords sufficient lumber for
Great Natured Resources. general mining operations and it is i
also most fortunate in its power poten-
Yukon has great natural resources tialities, Fraser Falls, on the Stewart T"!-
in her game and: fur, 'and in recent River, the Canyon on Mayo River, and
years the agricultural development has Janet Creek,.all quite close to the oper
been very marked. Fur farming is ating properties, can be developed to i t `
also becoming' an important industry„ produce ample power for all purposes,
These, however, are secondary or sub- including the electrical. reduction of
sddiary to the metal • mining industry, the ores. It also feasible to use the
which ariginally attracted the atten- power already developed on the Kion-
" lion of the world to the territory, and dike. This could be done by the con- .�.
rvhiclh.now shows every promise of re- struction of something less than 100
hewed activity. miles of transmission lines.
Yukon Territory is now a recd-gnezed The views of the residents of the
producer of gold, silver, lead, and cop- territory and all those interested in
• per. .• The total output of the territory its mineral resources and production
to date may conservatively be given as are now most optimistic. The life of
folio -Ws: Gold, ; $200,000,000;'silver, 3,- the placer fields is anything but over,
500,000 ounces, valued at.$2,100,000; and no
it appears certain that a
lead, 3,500 tons,: valued at $400,000; period during which the silver -lead
'and copper, 12,000,000 pounds, valued areas of the territory will equal or ex -
at $2,700,000. cel the gold fields in the production
of the grades of; ore can he handled at pre-
sent, , but the active properties'' are
blocking out much milling ore which it ,
is hoped to either concentrate and
Ship, or alternately, reduce in a local
smelter.
The; camd w
p is already serveith
ro
good winter • ads which can by a
moderate expenditure be improved for.
summer use for all oiasses of tralile.
The camp is ea/elle accessible during
t
The principal placer field, the area of wealth has just been entered upon,
within fifty miles of Dawson, has been
intensively operated during the past
twenty-flve years. The life of the
camp during that time may be divided
into three phases in so far as the meth -
while further gold, silver, and copper 1
deposits may be said to be held in re-
serve awaiting the day when the world
market calls them.
ods employed ;to recover the gold are
concerned:. (1) "the primitive," cover -
beg the period of wood fires and small
open cuts; (2) "the mechanical," when
although the operations were still con-'
ducted by individual operators, steam
power was used operating certain
types of" machinery, the greater part
of wbech'was,evolved in the territoryl
to meet local conditions, and (3) what'
may be termed "the corporatiop"
period, which entailed the formation.
of holdings extensive enough to war-
rant a very considerable capital ex-
penditure on account of plant, by
means of which results could be ob-
tained ,much 'inore efficiently and much
Story of the Typewriter.
It Is almost impossible to point •to
an invention which has been -of great-
er use in the business world than the
typewriter.
Christopher Latham Reales was the
father of the typewriter, for it was in
1867 that he produced the first crude
machine. Sholes, a native of Milwau-
kee, was a man of considerable -abili-
ties, and had won fame with; a number
of inventions before he evolved the
typewriter. At various times he had
been printer, editor, newspaper pub-
lisher, postmaster, and a member of
the Legieiature.
more eooncmlcalle. Shales edited a newspaper ,e o •
asses within the Klondike and
:ether .'telegraph o day
to the telegraph office •and asked the
d" ' tillbe
f rotor f r .. f
chic o k�
pe
was' above the Milwaukee.
f doh
s
ive
Roe a wit
e
erten
cit
e are
While Cher q � ffiee. One he wen; In -
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Stories About Well -Known Pimple
Cheap at Any Price, Bridges, .the Governor of ,focus Ai*
There is a story going round about tuella, for this astonishing story
'Lord Balfour dis'cusgin8 the advise- I was in Tiflis In 1919," said the
bility of a tax on bachelors• 'with Sir , 151oVethe antrol"and g t Eltelegr the cap
Robert Ir poe.
The .proposal put forw•ard was that tat of Armenia, in sig+krt of Mount �,rb,W
the tax should increase proportionate- rat, Flaying war Ib:ad broken oat be-
ly for .every ten years of unmarried tween Georgia and Armenia for the.
life,possession of a large tract 01 rich
"'Y'es," remarked the chaneellor of oountrY that belonged to neither of
the exchequer, with that canny smile.. them°
of his, "in your case you would have ""I asked who the Control Ofdeer
to pay about £ 40 a year," : , was, and they said he was only a
• Leri Jealfone was' quiet for a mo- schoolboy who had just come from
ment, and then replied; "I think it's England, where he lead been in the
worth it."' cricket eleven at Eton and Sandhurst.
Woman Ship's Engineer. "I decided to give him a chance, and
sent him a telegram to stop
ship's eugineer, Mise Victoria Drum- alone tlhiere, with his servant and an
mond,/ recently completed a voyage
from England to Australia and back,
with the proud record of having miss-
ed only me wat?dJ. The Anchises, Miss
Drummond's ship, encountered rough
weather, but the woman engineer car-
ried on as efficiently asp her male col-
leagues. She kept watch from four to
eight every -•morning and afternoon.
j Down below she wore the usual
' overalls 'and messed with the other
..opt, ti to dote mechan eat .methods yPaper
fie `ds of � In those days car'boil papery''vPas
bei i i iii` X
., �. "hat he'tyyantea;:it for . Scholes r'elrlied.:.
w reit: the• larger. �,
y �- ;-ions "Come `to my"'niiYce :ion
The. ay,ppo.
i di t ly surrounding
ng, a tployed, the r e acs unoeity and whenttlieoperatoraske
%idhual Y: is i depends
keit
1a `ts , 'ths ' hiyater lY
,ilii 4 drrow' at noon and xll show: ,
. consdder'ad tela.. tJlie ..�! � at
herefore„ext'd thea ` o nted time,
places a>± av , mme a e the' tel ,_- raph operator,. went upstairs,,
Dawson Have p&Saed through file 'first �
a
,
RadiomTelephones and Aeroplane
Patrols
The use of the aeroplane to assist
in the work of detecting and reporting
forest fires, and in some cases even in
the transportation of men and sup-
plies to the scene of the fire continues
to develop new possibilities. Aero-
planes have been used for the past.
two seasons by the Forestry Branch
of the Department of the Interior• irn,
the provinces of Manitoba, Alberta,
and British Columbia, as well as by
various provincial services. I;;
The Air Board of Canada recentI
conducted at IRockcliffe; near Ottav!i�"
an interesting demonstration of, t
possibilities` 'of the -aeroplane, e
p
in fa
with radio -telephone, .
'
ed
.. An
'e u
pprotection. aeroplane,
ro
t
' • less �' transmitter, we
'"
with ,wire ,
over. the city, and vicinity
up to 5.500 feet, the
times ; ► '
d.'
two phases • . A part of this 'field has
Alio .. received its; -final Crean -up under
the third and last phase of mining ac-
tivity, but there 'still remains an area
which will keep the available plants.,
both dredging and hydraulicking, oc-
cupied for many years to come.. It is
not easy to,,forecast the life and gross
results of these operations, but it is
safe to say that they will continue for
twenty years and should maintain or
exceed the present annual output of
something over one million dolpars• per
year.
- The copper mem' of the Territory
,have not, during the past year, been
active. This is due not only to the
copper market but even more tothe
fact that these deposits have hereto-
fore been operated entirely as "high
,grades," no capital expenditure 'which
Might put them in the market as
standard producers-, having been made.
There' he found Sliolas displaying' a
;strange contrivance, ,which comprised
pieces of pine board, an old telegraph
key, a sheet of glass, and other odds
and ends.
• Taking his borrowed sheet of car-
bon and a thin sheet of wihete Pape'
Sholes' slipped them into the machine
against the piece of glass. Moving the
paper slowly with one hand, dile tapped
the telegraph key with the other. On
the.end of the telegraph key was the
letter "w" cut in brass.
Sholes's• device was. a "writing ma-
chine," It wrote only the one letter
over and over again, but the inventor
was on the right track. After some
months of experimenting be produced
the first typewriter. On'this• machine
the keyboard was like that of a piano,
but otherwise it bore a close resiemb-
lanoe to the typewriters of to -day,
c
'apparatus 'wer = .0
'was; the regular recestsKf
;station., The other was a ;-s I.=
ceiving apparatusset up in•,.,, oY he daysof
wire "uerial'.'sus a operation would, be the sounding of a- or Tim, but it also revived the .love I of writing in use in. t i
with a single p
poles. • B , the r,.klaxon by the observer in the plane) drink in him. Not long after life" Ptolemy. The third form le in •the,
between two light;p y it o
of either,the Hien on the ground coin • This type of service can be installed dent he was dead drunk and re Greek language.
at all times hear every word of the very cheaply, headquarters would
observer in the plane, as he: described:! ; The Principalq
what he could see and noted the loca .be equipped:with a large set of.op-
tion of imaginary forest fires. Mes- paratus for both receiving and send -
sages, can thus be. sent by the wireless ing, and by this orders could be sent
for distances up to fifty miles, and to all the rangers at stated hours.
ithe war
The first woman to go to sea as a and delimit a neutral zone: He was
interpreter, and I •afterwards learned
that, riding a mule and accompanied
by an. interpreter and hie servant bear-
ing a Union Jack, he visite[. the appos`
ing armies and in the name of tho Bri-
tish Empire ordered them to cease fir-
ing.
"He then ordered both armies back
ten miles, summoned Their chiefs, and
delimited a zone about the size of
Yorkshire, over which he made 'him -
1 engineers. Off duty she wore a navy self Governor. He enlisted police, ap-
blue skirt and packet and a peaked pointed officials, and ran a first-class
cap. Miss Drummond has bad several' State for about six months, and only
years' experience on shore, and is a when we round that he was revising
graduate of the Institute of Marine ! the marriage laws did we send an of -
sea she hopes to get her certificate. boy was Captain Archibald Sholto
Boy Who Stopped the War. Douglas, of the Rifle Brigade, who is
The world is indebted to Sir Tom , now twenty-six.
even, under favorable circumstances,
of one hundred and fifty miles. Thus
news of a -forest fire, with its exact
location, approximate size, and the
number. of men required to fight it can
be sent to a ranger immediately on its
detection, and measures started to
fight it at once.
Method of Operating.
According' to a plan outlined for
the equipment of a forest -fire -protec-
tion staff, the rangers would each be
equipped with one of the light receiv-
ing';sets, which could be sealed"to
revolt any interference. The ranger
bald thus not -he „able to .use his set
'server
in
" the
ob
ieate w
ith
un
' comm
0
e 'plane, but would: be. provided ,With
Flet which could. be used to give.
••' a flier. ':"For instance,; the
to th
'reedit ; h'is' -sheet ;o the
.g p
ii*y' to the ;teen' in,the
Tim O'Brien..
If the worst of sinners should end
his life with a great and noble deed,
will the Almighty forgive him? That
was the theme of conversation of two
old men who had just discussed the
A Secret for Centuries.
The repent discoveries at Luxor Y s-
call the story of the Rosetta Stone.
More than two thousand years ago
Ptolemy V. was ruler of Egypt. His
acts included the abolition of many
story of Tim O'Brien. taxes, and lbe made gifts of money and
Many years ago Tim settled with his enid'owments to the temples„ When
little family in a log cabin in the Egyptian priests assembled et Mem-
southern part of Ohio. Soon after- phis to celebrate the aniversary of
wards he got work in a distillery—an Ptolemy's ooa'onatipn, they passed a
decree which provided for special fes-
tivals to be held in his honor. Finally
it said, "A basalt slab on which a copy
of this decree is cut shall be net up in,.
until his little family in the log cabin, the temples."
half starved, halfclothed and freezing, To -day, visitors to the British Mus
gave way to a prevailing epidemic and sum can see an irregularly shaped slab
were carried off one- by one. Tim was : of black basalt on which an Insorip-
the only member left. tion of the priests' decree was cut
The poor fellow had learned hie les -1 twenty-one centuries ago. It is the
son. He left the neighborhood of the famous Itosetto Stone.
distillery and went to a little village' It was found near the mouth of the
Ohio where whiskey was Nile, not fantrom the town of Raschid,
s ice. There elf or. Rosetta, as:: it is now called. eThte
iced trims
he apprenticed. ent
P
scarce.
P
scar•
to a blacksmith His genial nature dis.cavery was made by. an officer aL
and ready joke soon made hi many Napoleons army, Noticingthe strange
d: en the stone. -
he started his own •eharre.ctera . inscribed friends, his.nd p was might be writing, the
',: " 'the:. most ,:p Pular which, he thought g
e hop . ••
stone. -
forge"
destruction.
. t from-
_ er saved i
offic ,
fpr •miles.: round.. , , . for ss
One day'ae. the was shoeing a v. eious• + The le cription. is in three m ,
d insensible. `• Tho t First, it is cu:t in hieroglyphics, the,
Boise he was• kicks used bythe
of the animal hurriedly fetched weird picture -writing
owner
the doctor, who administered a dose priests of- ancient.Egypt. Then it is
hisl;The fiery stuff revived. carved in Demotic characters•, a form.;
w:ey: y
unfortunate thing, for love of strong
drink was Tim's weak point. So it
was not long before he was discharged.
Then matters went from bad to worse
Silver -Lead Ores.
Of the total silver output quoted
above, over 2,000 00 :minces have been
secured by a by-product fn the refining
of placer gold. During'tlro year 1914-
15, some 1,500 tons of silver -lead ores
were shipped from the Mayo district.
The property supplying this • then stop-
ped production and it was not until the
discovery o1 new leads' on Keno Hill in
the same district that shipments were
resumed. During 1921-22, about 5,000
tons of ore were shipped, yielding
Some 200 ounces per ton in silver and
10 per cent. of lead; -
During the coming season not less;
than 7,000 tons of ore of as good or
better grade than the above will be
produced, Up to the present, by far
the greater part of the territorial in-
oome has been derived from pliacer
gold operations, and while there is no
reason why; these' should fall below
their average of recent years, there is
very little doubt that the silver -lead
areas will shortly develop the more
important industry. •
d3 teereceive yries
ie has 'received 'the nibs,
e - takes • up the sheet; if he
es it repeated; he unrolls the sheet
ain. and so on. The - preliminary
Good for Trade.
Applicant—"I'mp. an experienced bar-
ber, and I should like a Job in your
•shop,,,
Barber—"You? You'd never do with
that bald head. A customer would
laugh if you asked him to buy a bot-
tle of our celebrated magic Nair re-
storer." ,
Applicant.—"Yes, but I'd be the man
who used the hair restorer that Jones
sells in the shop round the corner."
Barber—"I never thought of that;
you can start.'
No Longer Handicapped.
James and Harry, the twins, were
exactly the . same size, and looked
alike. They were often stopped by
strangers, and spoken to about their
striking similarity,
It so happened that James grew
much taller than his brother.
One day a man met them and, rath-
er :puzzled, asked: "Are you boys
twins," -
"Not any more, I 'outgrew the twin=
near," proudly explained James.
The Mayo District.
The Mayo district now appears to
have all the factors that are necessary
to the . development of a fhb grkfde
sliver camp. Already over 1,500 claims
have been taken up, many of which
show well defined outcroppings of sli-
ver lead ores. `Upon three groups a
,considerable amount of development
kiss been done and two of these are
shipping high grade ore with ever•Y
'prospect of increasing their output to
the capacity of the transportation sys-
tan1$ At present, the ore is hauled
some forty miles, by either Horses or
gesoline tractors, to the bank of the
Stewart lliv:er,. from wlii.ch It is' ship-
ped by river and ocean boat via the
mouth of tho Yul[ou Ttiver, to Pacific
coast smelters. Under present condi-
ticris, tho cosi of production, shipment
and trentrnent is slightly over $100 per
Day After Day.
Little Willie was of an inquiring
turn of mind. He was asking ques-
tions,.
"Daddy," he asked one day, "is to-
day to -morrow?" ,
"No, my son-, of course it isn't to-
morrow," was the reply.
"But you said it was," rmurmured
Willie.
"When did I say to -day was to -mor-
row?" asked father.
"Yesterday," answered Willie.
"Well, it was. To -day was to -mor•
row yesterday but to -day is to -day, just
as yesterday was to -day yesterday but
is yesterday to -day, and to -moan ow will
be today to -morrow, which makes to-
day yesterday and to -morrow all at
once, Now, run along and play."
An Early Migrant from the Soeth.
First Bird --"Didn't you come north
unusually soon?"
Second Bird---"ye5, I ,heard nests
are going to be awful scarce.
The greatest shops in the world are
to be found in Chicago, Philadelphia,
and Toronto, according to a London%
expert,
}
Pa's Joke.
Teacher—"William, can you tell me
what make sthe Tower of Pisa lean?"
Willie—"I asked pa that and he said
it was probably built during the fam-
ine."
acct
rained so far more than a weak. Wlb;en the stone was. disoovered, the•.
The following Sunday he walked, not various, writings carved on the relics
too steadily, toward the little village ' of . ancient Egypt were unsolved rid,
church, which was also the school- I dles-. But it was realized that a trans-
house. Dog days had almost passed, ! lotion of the Greek text cut on the
but the weather was hot and sultry; • stone would provide a. clue to thea
all the windows were flung wide open meaning of the hieroglyphic charac-j-
—the door had long before fallen from' ters.
its rusty hinges. While the preacher { The honor of making the first de=
droned out his sermon certain vag- II ciphermemt belongs to Champoilion, ai
rants of the feathered tribe walked' famous French scholar, who, in 1822,
aimlesly in and out of the doorway, ' announced that he had lifted the veil
pecked at the button of the people's which for centuries. had enshrouded
shoes•, held tournaments in the eisles the life and history of Egypt.
and even stood on the window sill and
crowed. Tim stumbled into the room
and seated himself on a back bench.
He • had almost fallen asleep when
a wild cry sounded outside. He sprang
to his feet. Not two hundred feet
away and running straight for the door
come a large mastiff, mad! White
froth was streaming from its mouth,
and its bloodshot, bulging eyes were
glaring. Frantic dries rose in the
church.
"Keep Quiet!" roared Tim. "I'll take
care of the dog!"
Then he rushed at the brute. Over
and over the two rolled, and for five
awful minutes no one could toll which
was winning. Then Tim rose; his neck
and face were lacerated and his
clothes were in raga, But the dog that
might have caused the death of many
lay dead.
Tim, spent that night in forging a
great chain, with which he 'fastened
himself to his anvil. He suffered un-
told tortures' before death took him,
but to -day the old people love to talk
cf his courage.
__.--.—
'Summer was once the season of
sickness, in comparison with which
winter was healthful; but of late
years June, July and August have
been among the most healthful
months, and the great flood d sick-
ness has come in midwinter. A great
deal of it begins with a "common
cold," which most .persons regard too
lightly: they do not realize the danger
to themselves of the likelihood of
their passing the infection on to
others.
Fret Not Thyself
(Paraphrase of the 37th Psalm)
By J. Lewis Milligan
Fret not thyself, O. troubled soul,
Because some men of guile succeed;
Nor envy those who gain' control
By cringing wile and crafty deed:
They shall be cut down like the grass,
And as the stubble they shall pass,
Trust thou the promise of the Lord,
Nor in His righteous service tire;
He -will not fail to keep His word,
He shall give thee thy heart's desire;
'Commit thy ways unto His will
And He shall all thy dreams fulfil. •
God is the final judge of inert,
And He shall bring the truth to light i
Go thou thy way in patience, then,
And still be true to what is right:
The Lord shall yet thy worth proclaim
And put thy enemies to shame,
Fret not, 0 tired and troubled soul•,
Nor envy mein of craft and guile;
Hold thou thine anger in control,
They flourish but ti' little W. chile;
Yea, thou shalt look for them xn vain.
The righteous only shall' iretxtain.
Tho Still Country
Slue—"The still condition of • the
country r.an be felt."
He (sniffing air)—"The still cons!
tion of the country can be smelt. I'm'
sure of that!"
Women Outriumber Men.
On the whole continent of Europe,;
according to the latest statistics, wo-,
Hien outnumber the men by some 25,-
000,000.
Every square oftl a ocean has
a population of 120,000,000 fish.
AI;A1i »1s? WHY, I HAVEN'T PINISH'eo, DESTROYING YET.
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