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Depository for
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Pacific 6roccrp Co.
WHOLESALE
Our Goods will Be Found Reliable
Anchorage
Alaska
The Herning Family
Continue to Dispense
General Merchandise
At the Old Stand in Knik
Whatever You Want We Have
< Whatever We Have You Want
>Knik Trading Com’y
0. G. Herning. Manager
Nu Bone Corset
Shop
MRS. T. R. NEEDHAM
General Representative
for Alaska
LADIES
I would bo pleased to have you
call and examine these Corsets
FIFTH STREET NEAR H
ANCHORAGE
Fifth Ave. near H St.
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Pacific Alaska Navigation Co.
“ TI I K ADMIRAL l.ITSK”
Steamers sail from .Seattle on the 5th, 15th anti 25th,
at 5 o’clock p. m.
Steamers sail from Anchorage on or about the 3rd. 13th
and 23rd for Seattle, Tacoma, Seward, Prince William Sound
Ports and Juneau.
CALIFORNIA—Steamers leave Seattle Wednesdays and
Sundays for San Francisco and Southern California ports.
Right reserved to change sailings without notice.
P. J. Ringwood, Chas. S. Black,
Manager. Agent
PIONEER HOTEL
F. B. Cannon, Propr.
NO BAR
Accommodations for Ninety Guests
Large General Lobby. Pri
vate Lobby for Ladies
Be^VRates Best Treatment
Best Accommodations
KN IK’S
Leadin g
Hotel
EUROPEAN
PLAN
CRAWFORD & BUSH
Contractors and Builders
Dealers In
BUILDING MATERIAL
A
Anchorage, Alaska
ANCHORAGE—A PREDICTION
Now that the government sale
of lots is practically over, and
the many new buildings are go
ing up in the new townsite and
business places starting, the
question is too often asked: Will
the town make good in a big
way?
And to properly answer this
question, one must briefly review
what brought this town into be
ing and what in the natural
course of events can the place
depend on for its future mainte
nance and prosperity. Right here
we might say that one of the
very greatest assets any town
can have is the faith and opti
mism of its inhabitants. If every
one here starts with the idea
that the town is a morning glory,
and continually talk and act to
that end. Providence will in all
probability accommodate them
and they can at some future day
say with the nee’r do’ well phi
losopher: “I told you so.”
But on the other hand, if the
big majority of the people say
that we’ve got the best located
town, the best climate and the
best possibilities of any town in
Alaska, or anywhere else, then
in all probability, the future
will prove the correctness of
their prognostications, and a
booster is many times more com
panionable than a knocker, and
everybody likes good company.
And when anyone considers
the geographical location, the
townsite’s natural advantages,
and the climatic perfection of
Anchorage, in conjunction with
the ideal and magnitude of the
government railway project, and
the proven and potential possi
bilities of the country that road
will traverse and open up, you’ve
either got to acknowledge your
self a booster or a bone head.
In the first place this town is
happily located: by that we mean
that its prosperity means in a
lessening degree the prosperity
of every place on the Alaska map.
Next, we have the ever pres
ent large amount of government
money that must be expended
herein buildingof the road which
will help out until such time as
the resources of the tributary
country have a chance to be
healthily exploited.
Then comes the future as a
port and supply point. Every
one who is familiar with condi
tions in the interior fully realize
that as soon as the road is com
pleted to Fairbanks, the mercan
tile and shipping business of that
portion of Alaska will be revolu
tionized. Instead of 75'/< of all
goods being shipped in the last
50 days of river navigation and
its concomitant warehousing,and
waste of working capital, goods
will be arriving daily, thereby
not only saving freight, but also
handling and unearning capital.
Next, our fisheries and small
coastwise and river trading.
Ketchikan, one of the largest and
best business towns in the terri
tory, depends almost wholly on
Streets Will
Be Improved
Contracts will be awarded im
mediately for street improve
ment work which comprehends
the placing of a layer of gravel
for a width of fifteen feet, from
B street along Fourth avenue as
far as K street, and from B street
along Fifth avenue as far as K
street. The work will be done
under the auspices of the town
site manager and under the im
mediate direction of the town
engineer.
The work of building sidewalks
along Fourth and Fifth avenues
will start as soon as the lumber
arrives from the outside. None
of the kind required for the pur
pose could be obtained here.
The permanent water supply
system will likewise be installed
as soon as the necessary material
arrives.
The lighting and power system
and the local telephone system
are matters that are as yet un
determined, but it is quite possi
ble that an early solution of these
problems will be found.
Sunny Knik is h beautiful place in
which to spend a few days and when
there, the Pioneer is a nice comforta
ble hotel in which to stop. Frank
Cannon, proprietor.
MRS. ASHTON
Fouth ave., between H ank I sts.
its fisheries, and yet it is a well
known fact that for variety,quan
tity and quality, the fisheries of
Cook Inlet are the greatest in
Alaska, if not on earth. That
industry as well as supplying the
small towns in the inlet and coun
try to the westward as well as
the river points on the Susitna,
Yeatna and Squentna rivers that
now are and the many more that
are sure to come, are bound to
center in this place and add to
its future prosperity.
Next we have our agricultural
resources. Any one who doubts
these should take a trip up the
Matanuska and Knik and see the
fields of vegetables, the ripening
and harvested grain, the large
quantity of native hay in stack
and standing uncut; you will
come back convinced that agri
cultural prosperity i« not only a
sure future prospect, but that it
has already arrived, and the fu
ture extent of same, and the pop
ulation it will support are beyond
the bounds of present estimation.
And again, the Matanuska coal
fields. Geological surveys and
naval tests have satisfied a dis
criminating congress as to the
extent atul quality.
To state now the extent of this
future industry would be egotis
tical, but we do know about
Pennsylvania with its Pittsburg,
Wales with its Cardiff, and the
value of the coal lands of France
and Belgium.
The free gold lode mines of
ahe Willow creek and Arch An
gel country, almost at our door,
are away past the experimental
stage.
Now tbe present working
mines, for profit in working and
richness in ores, would give a
Nevada mining promoter nervous
prostration. And to this kind of
mining property adjacent to An
chorage, one can add the Little
Susitna river, the Peters creek
region, Knik river and this side
of Knik arm.
This year has seen the ship
ment to this locality of two dred
gers one forTurnagain arm,the
other for the Cache creek coun
try. These are but a starter.
You can gamble that both places
are dredging fields and placer
gold will be produced in them
for years and years to come.
Next, the base ores of Moose
creek at our very door and the
Broad Pass country, connected in
the future by rail transportation.
These places have already shown
enough merit to gain the atten
tion of the greatest mining men
on earth, and practically every
mining man that visits them pre
dicts their future importance.
Any of the resources stated
would alone make a very good
town out of Anchorage; combine
them and think of Pittsburg,
Chicago, Denver, Butte and Se
attle. Think of the big whole
sale houses, blast furnaces,smelt
ers, big docks, government build
ings, navy yards, schools and
universities, and the future.
For Sale—Brand new Eastman au
tographic kodak, $18. Inquire at the
postoflfice. x
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
In the United States Commissioners’
Court, Third Division, Territory of
Alaska, Knik Precinct, in Probate be
fore Hon. Leopold David, Probate
Judge.
In the matter of the estate of Frank
Amestoy, deceased.
Notice is hereby given that the un
dersigned, Peter Amestoy, has been
duly appointed administrator of the es
tate of Frank Amestoy, deceased. All
persons having claims against said
estate are hereby required to present
the same, with the proper vouchers, to
the said administrator at Anchorage,
Alaska, within six months of the date
of this notice PETER AMESTOY.
Administrator of the estate of Frank
Amestoy, deceased.
Date of first publication July 31, 1915
The
Pioneer Office
for
Job Work of
ALL KINDS
A GOOD PLACE
TO TRADE
Newt. W. Pilger
Near Corner 4th and H streets
Ship Creek Meat Co.
Anderson A- Jensen, I’roprs.
Fresh Meats and Provisions
Wholesale and Retail
Cold Storage Plant in Connection
Special Attention Given to Restaurant, Mine and Camp Trade
Riverside, Anchorage
Anchorege
Sash and Door Co.
Dealers in All Kinds of
GLASS
PLATE GLASS MASS GLASS
SHEET GLASS MIRRORS WIRE GLASS
Fifth and K sts.RAY C. LARSON, Mgr.
Northern Drug Company, Inc.
Cordova and Anchorage, Alaska
Drugs, Chemicals,
Cigars and Tobaccos,
Confectionery and Stationery,
Talking Machines,
Photo Supplies, Etc.
Cor. 4th and H sts. Anchorage
CARROL & CO.
Men’s Outfitters
Main Store: Seattle
BRANCHES; SEWARD AND ANCHORAGE
Price & Bennett
SHEET METAL
WORKL (i
PLUM HI XL
BLACKSMITH1XG
Try us for oour Safety Flues,
Sheet Iron Stoves, Roofing
or Horseshoeing
THE CRESCENT
F. W. REDWOOD 8 CO., Proprs.
Clean Private Rooms. Comfort
able Beds. Moderate Rates.
Bathroom in Connection.
Cor. Fourth and C. Anchorage
We design and build
HOUSES or BOATS
Consult with us.
NEKLASON BROS.
Carpenters and Architects
Wasilla Ranch
Matanuska, - Alaska
FOR SALE Fine robe,
quire this office.
In
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Choice (Confections
Cigars and Tobaccos
Soft Drinks
Ice Cream
Etc., Etc.. Etc.
KNIK. - - ALASKA
Inlet Soda Co.
Diedrick & Taylor, Proprietors
\V. A. Taylor, Manager
Manufacturers of all kinds of
Mineral Water
Soda, Cider
Syrups
Agents for Gr pe Juice
Anchorage, - - Alaska
Frank Korth
Sheet Metal Works
Tinsmith
Fourth avenue and K street