Alaska Soda Fountain”
ALL KINDS OF MIXED DRINKS
CIGARS CIGARETTES CANDIES
BILLIARDS
Ice Cream and Ice Cream Sodas
Copper River
and Northwestern Railway
THROUGH SERVICE TO CORDOVA TWICE WEEKLY
CALEB CORSER Supt. 0. F. PUGH. Agent
Kennecott Laundry
1 ates Care of tlie iP&mily Wasii
F. H. FOSTER
ATTORNEY
Kotary Public Real LstaH
1 rarsa< ti< i s c J all 1' n
Legally arrarged
Cm cova,
Alaski
\SA C. BALDWIN
U. S. Mineral Surveyor
SEATTLE. WASH
512 Ho^e Building
A cCarthy
A ki.skfi
“The McCarthy Club”
On Second Street
CARD TABLES
CIGARETTES, CIGARS
TOBACCO and SOFT DRINKS
Neat — Clean—Newly Furnished - Rooms
For All Guests- Charley Chong Prop
ftfcCarthy Stage
WINTER SCHEDULE
Leaves M -Carthy F<u-Kennecoft
Daily ;■.» 4 L.M.
Reruns From Kennocott, to
Mcm ;•» hy ni 6. 110 P.fvL
LJ ivo > McCarthy { >.• Kenneeott
i 1 P. Vi.
Returns from Kenneeott to Me
Cuthy at 12 midnight.
Sunday & Wednesday even
ings stage leaves McCarthy for
Kenneeott at 7 and returns at
10:30 P: Ml.
Bill Berry Props Henry Olsen
Nome Dog Racers Limber Up
i Nome dog racers are out on
the trail every day,matting ready
' for the James Borden marathon
which will be run oil' in a bhort
time. Fred Ayer won the first
Boulen cup, with his famous fox
hounds. The millionare then put
up a second cup, and for this
prize McGuire and Sappala have
j one victory each to their credit
It takes three victories to win
possession of the trophy.
1 —Exchange
If we Don’t Suit
Tell US
“The Silver Dollar”
Cigars & Tobacco Sof Drinks
Card Tables
Messenger and Annunciator Service
Arctic Slope “No Good
For Prospector”, Is Latest Dope
The country north of the Ala
skan Roc Kies,the ranged mount
a ins whence the Alatna River
has its source, offers little indu
cement to the prospector, accord
ing to Gerald Fitzgerald, assist
ant to Dr. Ralph Smith, who with
a party of geologists and typog
raphers is now on his way to
the Coleville River country for
the purpose of exploring and
charting.
nizgeraiu was a mem Dei- oi
the party that penetrated the re
gion, via the northern route thru
Wain right, last summer.
“The only solid formation, I en
countered”, said Fitzgerald, be
fore departing for Nenana, to
join Dr. Smith, “ was along the
rivers. This is sandstone and
shale such as accompanies car
boniferous deposits,and nowhere
did l see auriferous gravels, or
formation indicative of being
gold bearing. There is an abund
ance of coal, and, of course, oil
structure and occurrences of oil.
“There is practically nobody in
the great barren country save a
[Ong the coast, where there eski
mos, their teachers and occasion
ly tiadersand whalers.
“The country north of the Ala
ska Rockies is a great bleak tun
dra,without timber save stunted
brush growing in the moss. We
always were able to secure brush
enough to cook with, or augment
jour supply of gasoline fuel
used in the gasboat for ascend
ing the rivers,but a man caught
away from the coal regions in
winter would have a tough time
if he escaped with his life.
The country on the south slope
of the Alaskan Rockies may con
tain gold. The rivers and streams
have an abundance of timber,such
as spruce,birch and poplar grow
ing along them,but on the other
side, where I explored L would
advise goldseekers to keep out.”
Dr. h.mitli said, before his de
parture, that he would not be au
thority for the statement there
was p'acer or quartz deposits on
the Alatna,or the tributaries near
its source, but that it offered as
much chance to the prospector
as many other regions he has
passed thru.
During his stay at Point Bar.
row’last year, Fitzgerald substi
tuted as teacher at the eskiino
school. He is not favorably im
pressed with the currilum em
ployed. He is inclined to the be
lief that too much of the white
man’s culture and too little of
the practical manual training is
given. The result is that an eski
mo may eventually explain the
deriv ation of complex theoreti
cal problems but cannot sew a
button on his kreeks.
—Anchorage Alaskan
Natural Wonders
Found In Alaska
Alaska is rich in natural his*
tory marvels. We have the web
footed cat, the ski-horned sheep
the ice worm, the porcupine owl,
fish with gizzards and the scoop
billed ptarmigan, but wonderful
as these creatures may be, they
fade to insignificance, when com
pared with the flying wolverine,
which is a habitant of the more
'!i
mountainous districts. The wol
verine, as all naturalists know,
has a prepen sity for traveling a
; straight line. Owing to the num