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
i a ikes Care of tike
Laundry
Famply Wasli
F. H. FOSTER
ATTORNEY
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Kotary Public Real Pstatt
Transaction!' of all Kii cis
Legally arrarged
Cordova,
Alaska
ASA C. BALDWIN
U. S. Mineral Surveyur
SEATTLE, WASH
r» 12 Hoge Building
M cCarthy
A la ska
“The McCarthy Club”
On Second Si reel
CARD TABLES
CIGARETTES, CIGARS
TODACCO and SOFT DRINKS
Neat—Clean—Newly Furnished— Rooms
For All Guests. Charley Chong Prop
McCarthy Stage
WINTER SCHEDULE
Leaves McCarthy For Kermecott
Daily at 4 P.M.
Returns From Kermecott to
McCarthy at 6. 80 P.M.
Leaves McCarthy for Kermecott
11 P.M.
-leturns from Kermecott to Mc
Carthy at 12 midnight.
Sunday & Wednesday even
ings stage leaves McCarthy for
Kennecott at 7 and returns at
10:30 P: M.
Bill Berry Props Henry Olsen
A STEP IN THE
RIGHT DIRECTION
(Communicated)
Editor McCarthy Weekly News,
My dear sir:
Now that the town
is awakening from the lethargy
in which it has been sunk for the
last few years, some good sug
gestions for broadcasting know
ledge about McCarthy and its
possibilities have been present
ed by various persons interested
If we Don’t Suit
Tell US
“The Silver Dollar”
Cigars & Tobacco Sof Drinks
Card Tables
Messenger and Annunciator Service
i
in the growth of our town and the
development of Alaska.
The one that seems to the wri
ter to be the most logical is that
suggested by Capt. Hub rick, sec
retary of the chamber of com ,
merce. It is to put out a small
, , i'
pamphlet or folder, containing
write-ups on the scenery, occu- J ]
pitions and vocational opportu. ;
nities of this corner of Alaska |
McCarthy could put out a most j
attractive booklet as we have a
photographer whose pictures of
Alaska are recognized as among i
the best ever sent out of the Ter j
ritory. At a comparatively small j
cost to each businessman there l
could be sent to cities outside }
a breezy bit of advertising that (
would speedily take McCarthy j
out of. the class of ’has beens’;
and [>ut her on the map in her j..
true position as the only town in j i
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Alaska with mountains of copper i ^
to insure her permanence as a
second Butte.
a
Advertising built every city
and enterprise in the United Sta
tes. When Los Angeles set out
to rival San Francisco all she had
was climate. But she had lots of
that, and so alluringly was it ad
vertised that farmers, miners bu
sinessand professionalmen flock
ed there, a c .r i the belief that
all they needed to make their
troubles vanish was to journey
to Los Angeles and bask in the
golden sunshine.
The result is that those who
came found it to their liking and
stayed and in 1920the population
exceeded that of San Francisco
by 70,000. And advertising did it.
Coming closer to home, we
have Anchorage. Tho not buiit by
advertising, it is today the lar
gest city in southwestern Alas
because it was the best adverti
sed. There were those who pro
phesied that the completion of
the railroad would be the death
knell for Anchorage. But the
Chamber of Commerce decreed
o\ herwise. And they proceeded
to advertise. They advertised ev
erything she had and a few
she didn’t have. People coming
to Alaska felt that Opportunity
had taken her abode in Anchor
age alone. The result is that all
kinds of industries are spring
ing up. The town is there to stay
And advertising put it there.
If Los Angeles had nothing
but climate to keep her from dy
ing, and Anchorage, nothing but
nerve, what a chance McCarthy
has! It will stay and grow as
long as copper is mined. But we
can make it grow because, not
i’n spite of, us. We can help it
grow by lending our financial
support to this advertising
project. Then we shall all reap
the reward ot added prosperity
and civic pride.
— A Booster
Local Happenings
(Continued from Page Col 3)
Mrs. Underwood entertained
at cards last Saturday evening,
after which a delightful lunch
was served.
Andrew Carlson, track walker
at mile 158, was in towm a few
hours Thursday.
JoeBorger, who has been em
ployed on the section, left today
for Chitina where he will work
for the Road Commission.
Klaus Alihern spent a few
days in town this week from the
Mother Lode.
O. W, Birch, of Kennecott was
a local visitor this week'
Vic Long came down from the
Glacier City for a brief visit.