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SUNDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 8, 1916. 14 THE NEWS AND OBSERVER THE TRADE OF Our Icy Lands of the Sam's Investment And How Itsls JPaying; Lnormous whole sale Trade; An Eighty Thousand Dollar.Wood-Pile t -y-aa 0.-Ctoplw. -v" ntrtkCfiHt- Tk trad of Interior Alaska will U aroaUr laeroased by the aw railroad. Tkat road wUl heva Ha tcrmlaiu at TaJrbaaka, aad from ksr food will be tst eat am tka aavigabls rlrera ever IMM reriag tkeaaaad af mil fhay U1 g a tko Taaeaa river to taa Taken, aad by that (treats ail taa way ta the Canadian, boundary aad the tim. Tkey will go Bp taa tributaries at tha Yakea, laeladlag tha Poreuplae, which can ba traveled far 600 miles; tka Keyakak, which aaa rick deposit af low cad ald. ud tha laBoso, where are tka IdHared and otkar gold tampa, far a time mbi ( tka axporta wiU ba via tka Iaaaka to tha 'upper Knakotvtm reatsa. althourt tkia will invalva overland traasDortatioa. Palrbaaha ttsslf U tha chief told miming mb Mr ar ina iniennr 01 i territory. Tram It ereek nave bata taken already more tkaa t0 ,000,000 ia Veld daft mad aaggeta. aad atasnpedee ta maw eempa aaear every few weeka. Oma of laat year waa ta tka Telovaaa river, aad today there la a great deal of aattvitr ak tka Knatiahaa rlvar aad tka araaka leading Inte it. That river ha Ita eouree la Vfouat VcKlaley, arallaed. eoatalnhig antimony aad otker tMtala ia additioa ta gold. Taw amnio reallaa tka great exteat ua UHHUU1IJ l trar mmwbwm Tha commerce af thia tarrltory last Tear wai mora thaa STMWO.000. Tt ex aaadad our total commerce with China by mora thaa 13,000.000 aad waa aaa- iftk aa larc aa oar total trade with all Boath Amsrio. Tka greet Prt ot tkia waa ax porta; bat tha imports amounted to aver tweatv-twe mUlioaa, aad ia proportloa to tha white papula flaa tt waa greater tkaa that of any ether eeaatry of tha world, Tka per eapita aoamerea waa about tXJOO, with a bmlaaM af trade la favor af aaek white aiaa af over S00, Including Ua Xadiaat aad Eaklmoa, tha por eapita eomaMre waa SS10. wbila that af Great Brixala waa ealr 1133. Thia avaaaa that tka trade af Alaaka was, sa tka aver ago, fet very aiaa, woaiaa aad child, tear thaa aU tiara aa great aa that for every M-aa, woman and child ia Great Britala. If thia ia ao whea the land U a wild wast aa covered with moea aad ether wegatatlea tkat aot eaa acre la a boa frwd af H kaa yet bee proepertod. aad wham aet aaa mere la a thoneaad baa fat kaea bmwgbt lata riiltivatloa, what may we tat aspect af tha country with tha railroad aad other development of the future. ladeed, Alaaka a aaa of tha beat busl aeaa propositions, aadar TJacla Bam'i tag. Ob (i aeriat tka amanat af moaey tavaeted, aad tba.kaada employed, wa hare aothlag that prod area aaek vaet retaraa, Tha aooatry baa aew laea thaa oeveaty thenaaad people, aad of three aerkapf forty tkoaaaad are white. Thia laaladaa mea, wemaa aad tkildrea, aa tkat tka workiag foreo la eomparatlvely axaaiL Nerertheleea, fhe product la 114 told for 41.000,000. af which more tkaa elfhteem aiillioaa came oat of the talnee aad mora thaa twety-twt mil lloaa from flaherlea aad fura. During that year, the gold yield waa alaoot tit team mUlloa dollara, while that af Call forata, whaaa yapalatloa ia tblrty-aarea ticaoa aa great, waa only a little ever tweaty-eae million a, The valae of tha Alaaka tihery prod acta waa more thaa tweaty-aae tallllona, whllt that tt the atata af Waaklagtoa brought ta ever eight tailllaaa. The aopper output ia )14 wa leaa thaa three Olloae, bat tkat waa eaortaeoaly laoreaaed laat year The Exhilaration of Motoring GRANT SEC teaumaCae etam tVui hamja urn Lea. RALEIGH MOTOa CAR AND MACHINE CO, Dlatribwton PhogM 1137111 S. SallalNtfw 2L. RaWjh, N. C L. McA. Goodwrm, Mt. North Do a Big Mercliandising Business; Uncle aad wiU be doubled aad irebled la the yamr ta aeaM. yr' Aa to the whole territory, by and large, it kaa paid aa better tkaa ear ia veetaieBt tka aatioa kaa made. It eoat aa leaa thaa two aeat aa acre, aad, apreadtng war reeeipte aver tha whole area, we hare already Betted more thaa a dollar aad a half aa acre, aad that, aotwithetaadlng wa hare atratrhed the emrfaea af bat few of tta 00OXX.OOO aauara tallea. Tha fan from the laad fi-ifi have alreddy paid tka prie of the Urritorr. aad thooe from the aeala have fold for aiaa timea aa math. to tha flakariea, tkey hart yielded mora tkaa thirty tlmea the eoet of Alaaka, aad tha output of tha miara kaa been forty tbnoa ite parckaaa price. Tke moat of tkia money haa goaa awar from tka Urritorr. Alaaka kaa beea exploited largely with capital from tba outaide, aad tha eouotry eupporte a aamber af abeeuUe laadlorda. 'erer- t he leaa. tka amount apeat la the torri tary U larga aad thia will iaaraaae la tka future. Mara and mere f amlliee are eoauag hero ta make thia laad their perauarat kaa a. Tha younger gracra tioa ia praparad to etajr. and tnoueaaaa wiU coma ta ta grew up with the coua' try. I have already epokta of the enor mono per eapita aommerce. Thia will continue aad Alaaka will grow aa one of the beet mnrkete of the world. To give you eooe Idea of tha bueineoe aew doaa kere, I viaitod today the head quart era or tae nortaera jomaereiai Compaay at ralrbaaka. Thia company ia tke offrprlag af tka Alaaka Commer elal Company, wkick leaaed tha oral ialaada about a year after wa bought tka territory aad aetabliahed a general far trading baaiaeaa aometklng like tkat of tka Badeoa Bay Company. It leaaed theee ami Ialaada of tba United Btatea aad made aaek veet rami by deal ln ia aealakia that the royaltica paid ta our government were mora thaa the grot eoet of tha territory. Tka Alan a eompaay originated aad developed tha traaapertatioa of Alaaka, aad had lte atoreo and trading poet aot oaly in tha ialaada of tka aoutheast, the Aleutlana, tka aouthera eoent af tha mainland, and ia Bering aaa, but aleo at 8L Michael, at tka mouth af tha Tekoa, and all along tkat river to the boundary of Canada. Whea tka Alaaka Commercial Com paay diaeolved tke Jiorthcm commer cial Compaay took over ita bualneaa ia tatertor Alaaka, and it new baa fifteen or more atoroe la tba baala of the Yu kon aad tha Xaakokwim, covering the mining enmpe aad cjbief fur-trading polata. It auppliea many af the road konaea, and doea a wkoleeala aad retail buaineat aver a territory which ia per ka8 oae-tentk aa larga aa tka United State pro pern Tha eompaay haa a cap ital of 13,000,000, th etook being owned moetly la Saa Fraaclaea and Kagland. People wba baee their idea of Aiaa kaa trade oa the email country ator or tka mining ramp ahould go through aome of theee merraatila eetabliahmcnta of Alaaka. There are aome outaide the Northern Commercial Company that do a large bualneaa, but none tkat cover eork a great area aad hand lee every thing needed by tke people. The ea tablUkmeat here at Talrbanka, for in ataaea, eoaaiata of atorea, warehouaea aad cellar with a floor apace of tlx or eight acre. It include machiaa (hope aad louadrtea, cold etorage aad warm atoraga quart era, braache devoted to Wkoleeala aad retail, aa well aa water work, rteam heat and rlectri light planta. Tka merraatila eotabllahmeat ha now ea kaad mora thaa a million dollara' worth of groceric, proviaion aad other ia oaa'- The Bam of unrestrained power; x The feeling of UadcrtUp Tha satkf action of omy The knowledge that quickly , comes with mechanical tim pUdty - - . .The Burpriilng troth that high quality docs notnecee tarily mean high price The conviction that you have a car equal to any In H that you want in a car Those are some of the Ideal engendered by the owner ship of a GRANT SIX :teaa:and . 1 ALASKA iipplica; and ita retail branch la like a amatt departmeat jtora U. th natajkl Oooda have to ba bought la larga qua titiea, for tke country la looked ia tea for aevea moatka of tka year, during wkick time everything goo la and Out aa dog tied. la one of tha cellar, far laataaee, I a 10JXM can of eoBdeaaed milk, aoa deaed;ream and other eeaaed good, Including egg powder, from wkiek yea could make ud aa amewtt Quite road aa from raaek em. I taw thou aad af real earn tbi hU wtlak had beea packed ia tka state, goaa 100 mile ever tba eeeaa ta Bkagway, and there, rooolng tka mouatalaa, had eome down the Xakaa. X aaw aaanad potatoo aad aaa aad earn. Tka i potato ia aaa. ar eeoked whole aad pat tp la wkiek akapa tkey aall for aa aa forty ar fifty dollara a Vuxkal. Son of tka aorm la aaaaed la tka ear, aad hat ealy to ba warmed, whaa yea aaa ehtw It from tka eob ia Ue heart af th winter. Another part af tha warahaum 1 de voted ta freak fruit. Tkia aeateia ap pla aad arangwa and grapefruit, tka latter aew aalliag at 4fi aaatt a plaaa. In tka eame plaaa ar potatoo in balk. which a re bringing 7 a buahel They ar aklpped bora ia era tea tad wtU keep aU winter. At retail they aall by th pound. Ia eldaa day I am told tkat th company brought ta a much 10,000 buahel af potato la a aaa Tha import ar lea bow ea aeeoaat of th (apply that ia raiaad by th farmer of Oooda hare to ba carefully packed and put up in eneelal way for th A lack an trade. Tkey most be o treated that they will akaad tha change of all- toe Beat of tha cummer aad th cold af th winter. Periahahle prori don are coated with gelatin. Tak ham, for inataaoa. Tkey muat be co protected that tkey will aot bo ruined If lost in th (now or dropped into a river. Each ham la carefully cured, aad thaa (awed up la eaavaa, which i dip ped la a galatia that give it a glueltk eoatlag and makaa it airtight. Cha I packed tha earn way. Tha eheeee art af every variety, laoludlag cart wheel from Swltxerlaad, put upr la bote) Camaabart, la tla folL and cream eheeee from Or roe, covered ith galatia. Tka fteree earrr Boone fort, OorgoQtola and Limburgar aad other varietie of ill-raalllag dalleaoie. I waa iatratad in tha furniture aad wood ware. Tba aompaay keepe billiard laoiee ana pool table ready for ship- men, it naa wagoa and leda, aad eome of the latter will carry taa ton at a load. It kaa aleo dog tied to b uaed for th train la winter, and with them dog harneee with tog, collar and back atrap. Tha ordinary dog tied eoata 110. Another article ofmerehaa- dia la dor.feed, a great deal of which la ordinary tallow. Tba dot o th trail are fed oaea a day and that at nightfall. Their aiual meal 1 tak aad rice cooked together with tallow. Thl Arm will tell about hundred thoneaad pound of tallow next winter. Another department I devoted to mining euppliaa. Including every min ing machine and the fitting therefor. There ar great bale of wlr cable for hoiating th earth from the mln; team anginea, air eompreaeor aad ateam point for thawing the earth. There are bale of wire for ekiekea yard and fox farm. Th latter I mad of tough tel aad i atrong. There 1 wire netting for flah-wheela, and com of. Una mcch for the gold re duction planta. There ta, I venture, a half acre devoted to hardware. Thl Include all aorta of farming machinery, plow, reapera and mower, and aleo plumber' auppliea, flaa window aad porcelain bathtub. There I a warehoue devoted to hone feed alone. Thl baa now oa hand 2,000 ton of baled bay, oata and bran. The hay ell for 1100 per ton, and oat bring S or t centa a pound. Thl ertabllahmcot run a eteaia keating plant wkieh warm tba buai aea part of Fbirbank. It ha a cen tral etatioa, wttk the pipe ruanlng from It through tha chief hulldiag of th baainea aeetlon, including tha moat of thoe within eight or tea block. Th plant furnlahea beat ta it customer at o mack per month throughout tha year. It keep the ytorc aad kouae warm wha th thermometer goo down ta 00 or 70 degree below aero. Th pipe ran aid by aide with tha water pipe, aa that the latter are kept from freeaiag ia th heart of the winter. Aa Interacting thing in connection with the ateam heating plant ia that It burn wood oaly. It take 10,000 eordi ta keep the plant going during th aoa, and today there 1 a wood pil oa th edga of tko towa. large enough for next winter demand. I went out to eea H. Tka wood la out la cord wood length aad piled up to a height af eight fact. Th pU eorer twelve aerc. I walked around It and It waa alaioet a Bab bath dayi Journey. I climbed up ea top aad had a photo-' graph mad to akow tka length af th m - r - wood ai aaa it eaaraeter. Tkat wood aU var M a cord, aad tka tola ia worm mor una aaooo, , Thia wood" ia apraea, aad It la cut from goveramaat land witkta fir mile af Fnirbaaka, Tka government char gee tha wood auttera a (turn peg af tS rent a eerd. Th mea who fell tka tree aad eut them lata etteha ekarga gj par cord, aad thooe wka haul tkem into Ua aity get about 4 or mora, I know aaa aa who eaa kanl aa mack aa evea aorda at a load. H geta tU far drag ging ana two-kerae load five mile ever tke enow. It aeema rather high. It to little, however, aempared with tba eoet af tha earn wood at tka mlaea. Ia aaek aa it be t be hauled mnea farther and ever , bad raada. Tka reeutt la tka prU rlae t 13 aad fit a eerd. It taiea at Wat twe aorda, of wood to furaiah tka keat equal to tkat la aaa tea af oeal. Whan tha raUraad la aam pletad, aaal from tka Kaaaaa fialda, act far away, aheaid ba dalivarad la l"i baaka at M ar gd a tea, making tka fuel eoet about e-dfth what It dam aaw. i 1 Tka Vaatkatm Coauaaasiai OtmpMT 1MB f If II New Discovery! . Dodson's Liver Tone Acts Like Calomel But Doesn't Gripe, Salivate or Make You Sick Don't Lose a Day's WorkHarmless Uver Medicine for Men, Women, Children Read Guarantee! r Ugh l Calomel makei you tick. .It't horrible! .iakie a oeae et tlw dtngerou drug tonight and tomorrow you may low a day'i work. Calomel is mercury or quicksilver which causes necrosis of the bones. Calomel, when it comes in to contact with sour bile crashes into it, breaking it up. This is when you feel that awful nausea and cramping. If you are ' sluggish and "all kijocked out," if your liver is torpid and bowels coripatedor you have headache, dizziness, coated idnfue, if breath is bad or stomach sour, just try a poonful of harmless Dodson's Livtr Tone tonight. Here's mv guarantee Go to any drug store n get a 50 cent bottle of Dodson's Livrr Tone. Take a spoonful and if it doesn't straighten you la denounced aa a raoaopoly by aome of tha entailer merehanta of Alaaka. There 1 probably considerable truth ia the atatemat ; but any one eaa Im port good, aad thara are aeverei Arm her that are doing a very larga bull ae for tkia part af tka world. On 1 E. B. People, Incorporated, aad aa other 1 th Dominion Commercial C9m pany, both of which nave tntir aeaa quarter at ralrbaaka and do baaiae with th mining aampa for a hundred mil or o ia tha neighborhood. They ala tend good by amail atcamar far up tha tributaries of the Yukon. . Oa of their trading atatioa ia at Bottle, tka chief towa of tka Koyukuk river aad the bead of tteamahlp navigation aa tkat rtraam. Tka good go to Bet' tie aad from there arc carried aome- thing lik fifty mil acroaa eouatry to placer mine tkat ar bow doing well. Tka pay dirt ia only about four or five feet from tha gram root and ia yield lag from 11.60 to 910 to tka tquare foot of bed roea. Another trading etatioa I 'Wisconsin, about alnety mile from Bettle. It I aiaa an th Koyukuk, but th itream 1 hallow that tka good ar hauled there oa bargee drawn by hone. The might rata ia S1.40 a ton, and tha good are muck higher la oaequne. Flour a 11a at Wiiemaa for S38 a barrel, and ion bring T8 cent a pound. Th moat of th merekaadlae it paid for in gold duat A mlaar will eome ia and pay for hit purehaee eut af hi poke of gold dnrt, th storekeeper weighing out the amount needed. There are "now something like 850 miser in th Yoyu- kuk region, aad their trade 1 worth a thousand dollar par man. Th miner ill often coma la at the eloe of a cocoa and drink up all they Ears made within a few days. A miner will put kit poke of gold on tko bar of a saloon aad ak aU to drink with him-lL i Insult not to Join In, whether you know him or not. Tba man keepe up hi spree until hi money la gon and tben, like a not, geta credit for a aew aupply of good for the camp. Most of tke busineea of Alaaka ia dona upon credit and any one who would tell much ba to give time. The people here tall ma tkat tha merchant! ar liberal la their advancement to miner. 1 talked with a commercial traveler last night wha started to Fair- bank with is horses freighting goods la over tko tralL Ea got into a eold anap aa tha wfV and hia horera died of tarvatioa. Ba arrived in Falrbanka with only aaougk for a mining outfit, but tha merchants gave him eredit and ia eompaay with a partner he leaaed a claim on ana of tha creek for SS per .rent of the profit. At th nd of that year h waa tiflm in debt. Tba aext winter be aad kia partner had no money to pay wage, but by their own work tkey got out enough pay dirt to yield thorn about $S,000' when they waahed it out la tha spring. They then paid ap their debta aad within tha aext year or so cleaned up $30,000 out of the claim. (Copyrighted. 1910, by Frank O. Carpenter). ADhtrMSTKATOR-S NOTICE. Raving qaallfied as administrator of tko estate at tka late P. B. Bar bee, at Wake County, Kortk Carolina, I here by notify all pereoa Indebted to aaid atata ta make payment to ma aad all peraoaa having elaima against aaid ae tata will please present tka earn to m for paymeat aa at before tt 1st day et October, 1917, or tkia aotiee will be pleaded la bar of their recovery. Tkt Bptmber au, win. J. H. HUBST. Bouta 1. Cary. N. CL Administrator of P. B. Bar bee, deeeassd. 10-Mawow - - JULIAN S. CARR PPaSIORNT CAPITAL 5l50.0OO ant taste. GILBERT C. VsTOTE Coxuulting Engineer Daraaat, If. C WATERWORKS, LIGHT AND rowrR, nKxxri - The Newest Something Out FLORIDA GRAPE FRUIT put up In nice attractive cans. Three sizes, just the came aa the fresh ia the rind. J. R. FERRALL & CO. No, S East If artla Street. Faeaa Sanitary feature Your health protected by abeolute cleanliness , Our newly installed sterilizer and eoda fountain insure perfect sanitation. We are the only drug store in Raleigh with this mod' ern equipment. 3. CCa etftrantlej Druggist Masonic Temple ' Phone 15 . Vasekraft Pottery W Are dlsplayinkT now some new patterns In Fulpar Pottery. Flower Bowls, Insert, Twl Sticks, Vases, Mugs, Tea Pots, Jugs in many new and artistic glazes nothing more appropriate for wedding gifts. Ellington's Art Store Durham Buaineu School Aa Ideal baaiaeaa echool wkkk kaa aot only assisted all of it graduates to positions bat kaa secured employs eat for S3 per eaat more than tha anmber graduated, which fact la coavtaeiag proof of tka real aeauad for ita trained worker. For aew catalog, address -j , ,' ' MRS. WALTER LEE LED NUM. Praaldant TYPEWRITER RIBBONS Sac. Tea Cmrfeoa paper price from SI ta 8X50 par 100 sheets. All guaraatsed, Mail orders given pronjpt attention.' Writ ua for quotations oa-eeeoad-kaad ypewriter. .. kaad typewriters. w GREEN & Durham. Xsetk CaraUaa W.J. BANIC DURHAMrW.C; SURPLUS 5200.000 WE KNOW YOUR WANTS AND WANT YOUR nght trp arid make you feel fine anivieoroui I want you-w go back to the store and get your money. Drtkon's Liver Tone is destroying the sale of calomel because it is real liver medicine; entirely vegetable, therefore it can not salivate or make you sick. I guarantee that one spoonful of Dodson's Liver Tone will put your sluggish liver to work and dean your bowels of that sour bile and. constipated waste which is clogging your system and making you feel miserable. I guarantee that a bottle of Dodson s Liver Tone will keep your entire family feeling fine for months. Give it to your children It is harmless; doesn't crioe and thev like it nVa. " ' r FLORISTS Leasees pa DMtgaer Correspondence Solicited VAN L1NDLEY COMPANY osnnTSBoso, k: ct"" " SS. Raleigh, !. C Raleiak, N. C aad tl POTEAT HOLLO WAY CASMISR DEPOSITS S2.50O.00O BUSINESS r-Tiote 1 -- Brettoo Broadway, SSth to S6tk Sta. KEW TUK Between ' StfnnM Drive AWrmT nBBBxi it aai'Bj LimH Sus 2 Btf baw-464 St Sum. AT ON.THilU ULSa fWCX. ' sm wm aiiisat Bra. t a u as. anasf, me, lim . SI M Urn aaa aerai wm tm en sMaeto Nr em awtaaa, Yea, air, Jurt for air I Yoa dont kava to buy a apark plug or leave a tub to bo mend ed or buy a pint of ail because yoa need air. 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