THE GREAT VALUE
OF ALASKA
The general public ignorance of
the enermous value of Alaska to
the United States is nothing short
of amazing. Alaska, with its
599.466 square miles is nearly
three times as lage as Germany,
one-fifth the size of the United
States proper, 470 times as large
as Rhode Island, 14 times the size
of New York State, and larger
than all the states north of Ohio
and Potomac rivers and east of the
Mississippi.
Alaska today is the richest of the
world’s undeveloped regions.
It was purchased from Russia in
1867, at the insistence of Secretary
of State Steward. The American
public hooted the purchase as a
bad investment, called it “Stew
ard’s ice box,” and yet—
£ M’e paid Russia only $7,200,000
for Alaska. It lias paid for itself
20 times over in fish alone. It
has returned its purchase price 25
times over in gold and silver.
And this was Steward’s “bad in
vestment” — which cost the Uni
ted states less than two cents an
acre!
Alaska has more gold than Cali
fornia, more coal than Pennsyl
vania, the greatest fishing waters
in the world, more copper than
Michigan and Arizona, the great
est cattle and sheep ranges under
the American flag, and the only
tin mines in the United States.
Some of the best mining engin
eers claim that Alaska has as much
coail as all the United States.
And remember that we got all
this for less than two cnts an
Many people who know all a
bout Alaska’s natural resources
still frown on rt in the belief that
it is one vast glacier.
W This belief is still another rea
son for the “See America First”
movement.
Alaska is in the same latitude as
Sweden, Norway and Finland, has
a much better climate, more arable
ground, and, by the way, is much
larger than all three of these coun
tries —which have a total popu
lation of over 10 million people.
The souhern part of Alaska,
westward to Cook Inlet, has a
climate similar to that of the
northwest coast of the United
States, while to the westward and
northward of this region, the win
ters are longer and more severe.
The southern sectiou, better
known’ as the Panhandle, has a
mean annual temperature of
around 55 degrees; winter sets in
about the first of December and
snow is gone by the first of May,
except in the mountains. It is
rarely below zero in the Panhan
dle, with wet autumns and win
ters and rather dry summers.
f estward, toward the Aleutian
lands, the temperature is a trifle
lower.
A peculiar climatic condition is
that up near the Klondike, along
the Yukon at the international
boundary (halfway across Alas
ka going north) ,the mean tem
perature of the warmest month is
higher than Sitka, 500 miles to the
south. Here in the upper valley,
summer averages from 60 to < 0
degrees.
Obviousness, Alaska has its cold
regions; there are many glaciers,
„ the most notable being the Mala
spina with its georgous extent of
1,500 square miles. There are
many such glaciers, and when you
climb the 20,000 feet of Mt. Mc-
Kinley, loftiest peak in North
America, take your furs. On the
other hand, Alaska has over a
dozen active volcanoes.
was glad to get rid of
Alaska back in 1867. even though
it brought less than two cents an
acre.
It was too far from Russia’s
seat of government, and in those
days there were no railroads in
Siberia. Then, also, the Russians
knew no more of Alaska’s hidden
natural resources than did the
Americans who derided Stewart’s
purchase. It is even suspected
that Stewart himself did not know
exactly what he was getting— pos
sibly had a private opinion that
Alaska was a great white elephant
and the real reason for the pur
chase of Alaska was to reward
Russia for her friendship for us
during the Civil War.
“Alaska” is a corruption of a
native word meaning “peninsula”
or “mainland.”
It was known in the early days
as Russian America.
Russia claimed it by right of
discovery in 1741, by right of ex
ploration, and by a settlement in
I*B4.
Tbe Russian exploration in 1741
was by Captain Vitus Bering,
whose name has endured on the
Bering Sea; they explored the
coast only.
Their expedition was followed
by hosts of private vessels manned
by trappers and traders. Russian
companies built up a huge business
shipyards, foundries, machine
shops and a naval station was
constructed along tire coast.
Ocean ’rode was established
from Alaska with the Mexicans
along Mexico’s west coast aud in
California.
When gold was discovered in
California in 1 fe4B, tiie people of
Alaska sold huge stocks of sup
plies to the boomers who centered
in San Francisco.
An interesting venture of those
days, and about which no details
can be secured after the flight of
years, is that in 1854 a California
company imported ice from Alas
ka.
Ten years later, an enterprising
American company aeoured a
grant from the Russian govern
ment to build an overland tele
graph line from the Amur river
in Siberia to Bering Strait, and
through Alaska to British Colum
bia. Messages would have been
sent across Bering Strait by boat
or over the ice. In this way, it
was hoped, America could have
telegraphic connection with Eu
rope and Asia. The success of the
Atlantic cable stopped this Siber
ian telegraph before it was well
under way.
It was the people of Oregon
aud California who first saw' tbe
great value of Alaska’s fisheries
and mineral products and began
to urge its purchase.
When the Russians first explor
ed tbe coast of Alaska, Spain
power and in 1774-1775 Spanish
expeditions made trips to Alaska
southeastern coast, but Spinnever
got a foothold on “Stewasd’s ice
box” —which, as was stated be
fore but is well worth repeating,
cost us less than two cents an
acre.
In order to “open up” Alaska
building a railroad through Stew
ard to Fairbanks, through Jiroad
Pass in Alaska range close to Mt.
McKinley—a total of 1,000 miles
of tract which, it is estimated,
will cost $26,800 a mile. This road,
part of which was taken over
from a piivate railroad company,
will open up many new coal and
gold fields, bring the fur industry
in much closer touch with tlia
market, and enable a compar
atively poor man to try his luk
Previous to August, 1900,
when the White Pass and Yukon
Railroad from Skagway to White
Horse, Canada, (110 miles of
track), was opened, Alaska had no
railroads. All transportation to
the interior had been by mac and
pack animals. The road through
White Pass decreased carriage
charges 90 per cent.
Railroads open the arteries of
commerce.
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Letters.
It Is estimated that about two^Wrd#
rt nil the letters carried by the postal
terviee of the world are written, sent
o nnd read by English-speaking peo
ple.
THE BARROW TIMES. WINDER. GEORGIA’
SNAP SHOTS
By W. H. Faust.
Speaking of flu remedies, tbe
average fellow doesn’t care to in
vestigate any mor after whiskey
is mentioned.
Winder needs some paved side
walks now to go with her streets.
The doctor makes you show him
your tongue and it costs you $3;
the poker player forces you to
show your hand and it costs you
25 bucks.
The younger children in the fam
ily are generally less trouble, be
cause the mother’s theories have
about given out.
If all the crazy folks were in the
asylum, Milledgeville would have
a bigger population than Atlanta.
A pessimist is the fellow who
has never kissed a girl with her
eyes shut.
Talking hard times incessantly
is worth about as much as a glass
eye at a knot hole.
When a one armed man can
wind a wrist watch and girls cease
to love the boys; then cotton will
go back to forty five cents per
pound.
Some people have worlds of
money and do not enjoy life half
as much as the poor folks who are
barely able to get a week’s rations
ahead.
The queen of hearts, the queen
of diamonds, the queen of En
gland and the “Georgia peach’
make a worth while quartette.
Valentines, vamps and vanities
keep the world going during Feb
ruary.. V
The dry' days have caused some
few Americans to wonder if the
declaration of independence is
really time.
A fellow in a winter resort hotel
feels about as much out of place
as a man in a room full of corsets.
The fellow who doesn’t read
his county paper is as far behind
the times as the one who thought
sugar was still selling 3 pounds
for the dollar.
THE NEED OF TRAINED SUN
DAY SCHOOL TEACHERS
Our Sunday school work is suc
ceeding and failing. The Sunday
school has succeeded and is suc
ceeding in doing a great work,
hut only in a measure has it done
the work that it ought to do, and
that it is possible for it to do.
We are not surprised at the fail
ure of the Sunday school, we are
surprised at the success she has
had, when we consider her equip
ment and her teachers. While it
is true that many of them are pre
pared and are doing splendidly;
yet great many of them have
very little general preparation;
and the same is true of their spe
cific preparation.
The world is concerned about
prepared men for every line of
work. The church has been some
what concerned about a prepar
ed ministry—she was wise in this
regard. But why has the church
been so little concerned about hav
ing prepared men and women to
do that work of the chnreh that is
second only to the ministry?
When Uncle Sam heard the cry
of the Allies, come over and help
us, the call chme to the youth of
our land, to go, No, to prepare.
Months and months our sons were
prepared. And when one day
this mighty army of trained men
were on the firing line in Europe
victory came.
And victory will come to the
church, when once we have a
mighty army of prepared men and
women, prepared in head and
heart for the for the great task.
The task of the church is more
titanic than that of the Allied
Powers. Our conquering armies
have subdued an evil that the
church must uproot. The work
of the church is to detroy the
thing that has destroyed, to ruin
the thing that has ruined. For
this superhuman task we need the
help that may come through hu
man channels, but above all we
need the help that comes from
above.
So far this school of the church,
let me repeat, we need men and
women prepared in head and
heart.
The state says to those who
would instruct the minds of our
youth, you must be prepared be
fore you can do it. If it is nec
essary to have prepared teachers
to train the bodies and minds of
our children, is it more neeessry to
have prepared teachers to teach
them morals and religion?
Christian training has much to
do with the salvation of ?man.
Christ valued one soul more than
a world. Itis time we were put
ting more value on the souls of
men.
In the first place a teacher
should have a general prepara
tion for his work. This prepara
tion should be as follows:
1. A general knowledge of the
whole bible. A teacher who has
a parcel knowledge of the whole
truth is likely to teach that which
leads to misconception of the real
truth. Since no passage of scrip
ture is of private interpretation,,
a knowledge of the whole bible is
prerequisite to an accurate know
ledge of any portion. If the con
text is not known the text will not
he known.
2. A knowledge of some of the
best books on child nature and
child nurture. A real teacher
should he able to live in a childs’
world, to hear through a child’s
ears and see through a child’s eyes
3. Every school should have a
class. The books that are recom
mended by the Sundy school hoard
should be used or the Internation
al Sunday School Association.
4. They should have a love for
the work. Success is never pos
sible to the man whose heart b not
in his work. Love for the work
on the part of the teaeher will be
get the same in the lives of others.
5. They should have a passion
for souls. Salvation of souls is
the mission of the school.
In the second place th teacher
should make specific prepartiona.
First. The work for each quarter
should be planned.
Second. - Each lesson should be
studied at least one week befort it
is taught. Then some study
should be given to the lesson each
day, using such helps as may be
had. A good literary teacher will
prepare each lesson before teach
ing it; certainly a Sunday school
teacher could not afford to do less.
The Sunday school should more
and more possess our time, our
thought, our interest and our
prayers. Because it is the church
at work, carrying out the great
commission of our Lord, “Go ye
therefore and teach.”—J. B.
Gresham.
THE RED CROSS MOTOR
CORPS
No business is too urgent for us
to stop and attend to, when one of
our own children, or a member of
our family, is sick or in need of
medical attention. It is with
this same loving spirit that the la
dies of the motor corps are an
swering the call of duty towards
the sick and suffering of our
County by their prompt response
to their calls to take Mrs. Wor
sham (our Red Cross nurse) to the
homes needing her attention.
The Motor Corps was organized
on the 19th of January, and dur
ing the month ending the 19th of
February, this is the list of our
members who have served.
Mesdame Robert Camp, 11. A.
Carithers, Lee Delaperriere, 11. T.
Flanigan, Ilorton, Guy Jackson
and Misses Ora Lee Camp and
Willie Mae Eavensom.
Lets all work towards Winder,
and Harrow County, haring a Red
Cross nurse in our midst always,
as it may be you next w T ho needs a
nurse hurriedly and she is right
here to go to you at once.
Any others earing to join the
Motor Corps, please hand names
to Mrs. Robert Camp.
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SOME STARTLING PRICES FOR THE WEEK
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Tomatoes, 1 lb. 3 oz. cans, 3 for 25c <
Libby’s I*4 lb. can Extra grated Pinapple, can 34c i
Bakers Coconut, per can 15c
50c bottle Pickles for 30c *
35c Bottle pickles for 25c 1
20c Bottle Pickles for 13c *
3V6 oz. bottles peanut butter, 2 cans for 25c <
6Va oz. bottles Vancamp’s peanut butter, per can 20c ,
Tomato Catsup, per bottle 13c ,
Horsford’s Baking Powders 18c
Calumet Baking Powders, per can 28c
Spaghetti, per package 8c '
Macaroni, per package, 8c '
libhy’s Tripe, lVa lb. can 34c 1
Bex Roast Beef, per can 25c .
Bert Alaska I*ink Salmon, 15c ,
Grape Fruit, each 8c
Oranges, nice, large, one dozen 45c
Oranges, not so large, per dozen 20c and 25c '
Fine Sweet Potatoes, per pk., 45c
Nice Onions, per lb 5c
Onion sets, quart 10c —per gal 32c ,
Lima Beans, per lb 10c
California Peaches, per pound, 18c
Dried Apples, per pound, 15c
Maxwell House Coffee, 3 lb. can $1.20
Maxwell House Coffee, 1 lb. can 40c
Pilot Knob Coffee, 4 lb. bucket $1.15
Still selling any 30c plug tobacco for 25c ,
Pare Cuba Molasses, gal SI.OO ,
5 gallons Kerosine oil $1.15
11 11)8. Sugar SI.OO
Best full Pat.. Flour * $11.75
Best Good Pat. Flour $ll.OO
Snow Drift Lard, 8 lb. bucket $1.65 1
Best Pure Lard, per lb 22c .
Snow White Lard, 81b. bucket $1.60 ,
1 pint can Weston Cooking Oil 29c
I want to buy your country produce and chickens and
eggs. Highest market price paid. Don’t forget we have
the best varities seed Irish Potatoes at 60c per peck.
Fresh Lettuce, Celery and Tomatoes.
1 still want to buy your peas.
Bairds Cash Store
OPRA HOUSE BUILDING BROAD STREET
Watson & Glover
HEADQUARTERS
FOR FRESH MEATS
FANCY AND HEAVY GROCERIES
FRESH FISH AND OYSTERS EVERY FRIDAY AND
SATURDAY.
We carry the best brands flour, oats, hay, meal and hulls.
We try to feed the children and the whole family with the
best the market affords and will also feed your mules and
cows if you will let us.
Don’t forget whenever you have barter of any kind and
Iwine cured meats that we pay you the highest market price.
Watson & Glover
THURSDAY FEB. 24, 19921.
HEAVY SNOWFALL IN FOUR
STATES REPORTED FRIDAY
Memphis, Tenn., February 18.—•
From 5 to 7 inches of snow fell
during the day in west Tennessee,
Arkansas and north Mississippi,
the local weather bureau an
nounced tonight. Much of the
fruit in this section was in bud,
and will be damaged to some ex
tent, it was stated.
Oklahoma City, Okla., February
18.—A blanket of snow varying in
depth from two to six inches cov
ers Oklahoma tonight. With the
storm continuing, a record snow
fall may he registered hv morning,
according to the local weather bu
reau.
Question of Price.
gay there’s a price on her
lead?” "I should say so. That hat
die’s pot on mtiv have cost $40.”
