Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1900 — Few-Line Interviews. [ARTICLE]

Few-Line Interviews.

R. T. Heintzelman, a San Francisco lawyer, talking of the Alaskan gold fields: "The output of gold from Alaska for the present year will not be less than $25,000,000. and I would not be surprised to see it far in excess of those figures, \earlj every steamer now brings from a quarter to half a million in dust, and the heavy shipments have not yet begun. About one-third of the men who are returning from Alaska this year have made fortunes there, and only a few of them have Imen at a financial loss because of theii venture. The better means of transponatiou and the increased number of people there ar“ making conditions if life easier in the gold fields, and I look for even a larger number of men to try a hazard of new fortunes next year in the far north.” L. T. Marigold, a prominent lawyer of New Orleans, says that Mississippi River traffic is by no means a thing of the past: “It is true that passenger traffic is not what it used to be, although many people who are in no particular hurry still prefer to travel by the river, but the freight that annually is carried up and down the Father of Waters is something enormous. And our hew interests in the West Indian Islands will tend to greatly increase it. New Orleans will be a port of entry for a great-deal of the commerce from Cuba and Porto Rico, and much of it will l>e carried up the river to St. Louis and Chicago and other centers of population.” William F, Ansley, of Florence, Ala., to a Washington reporter: "The negroes do not want to leave the South, and the white people of the South are juat as anxious to keep them'. 1 have had a large experience with the negro, and 1’ find hiiri a necessity, it might be that after u generation of immigration and the gradual change of methods and characteristics, tlie white people would be able to perforin their labor, hut at present the negro is a necessity in the home, on the farm, ami in every branch of manual labor. In my opinion the solution Is in the hands of the people of the South.” Estell McHenry, of St. Lonis, says that the Eads jetties are ready to be taken over by the government: "The Mississippi jetties are among the most 'gigantic engineering feats of the world, costing in the neighborhood of $5,000,000; and making a 20-foot channel out of a stream where there was formerly bnt eight feet of water. This has made of New Orleans a port for the largest among ocean-going vessels, where otherwise only the smallest of craft could have crossed the bars.”