BE GUESTS CITY
The Anchorage Chamber of Com
merce has taken up the matter of
entertaining the round trip tourists
who make the steamer trip from Se
attle to Anchorage and in the case
of the excursionists on board the
steamer Mariposa have advised them
by wire that they are cordially invit.
td to spend the time the Mariposa is
in port in visiting the city as guests
of the Chamber of Commerce and ar
rangements nave been made for free
transportation from the steamer to
the dock and return. The same ac
tion will be taken with other steam
ers and Secretary Koch, who has
the matter in charge, said that it
was the idea of the chamber to do
everything possible for the entertain
ment of the visitors and that this
plan would be followed throughout
the summer.
CHESTER CREEK BRIDGE
HAS BEEN' COMPLETED
Camp 112, about two miles out of
Anchorage, is rapidly reaching prom,
inence and is the scene of considera
ble activity. There are 220 men
now located at this camp engaged in
different lines of railroad work and
Resident Engineer F. B. Standiford
says that the work on the Chester
creek bridge is about completed.
The track Is laid for the two
dinky engines on the ground and
it is expected to move the steam
shovel to this vicinity in the near
future.
LEWIS AND THEODOR RIVERS
CHASE JULY 14. 5 A. M.
Johnston’s Ferry, or on Board.
6-12-lt.
THE MODEL, 4TH, E AND F STS.
Power boat offices at The Model
for Knik and Matanuska, Kern
creek, Hope and way points.
C. F. PETERSON, Agent.
Moose meeting tonight at 8 p. m.
at Robarts’ hall. Important 7-12-lt
The Arcade
SOFT DRINKS OF ALL KINDS.
CIGARS : TOBACCOS : FRUITS
D. ZARELLI, Propr. Fourth Ave., bet. C and D
Snabdieven raznim cigari, cigarete duhanom i candy, Cdena voda
na counteru uvjek. Preporuca se slavenima.
TRY TONY’S CAFE
Opposite Empress Theatre
Open Day and Night
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MANY NEW SIDEWALKS
AWAIT ARRIVAL LUMBER
The city administration has 1JJ mi
nor improvements mapped out and
they will be started upon the arrival
of the necessary lumber. In the
main these improvements will con
sist of additional sidewalks and
Mayor Watts says that petitions
have been received calling for side
walks for 23 blocks scattered in dif
ferent parts of the city and that the
sum total of the 12 contemplated
improvements amounts to $3,000.
A FEW SPECIALS AT THE
BIG NEW MARKET
LUNCH GOODS.
Berlin Style Ham Sausage.
Pickled Lamb Tongues
Pckled Pigs’ Feet.
Summer Sausage.
Stlatian Salami.
Head Cheeee, Bologna, Weiner
wurst, etc.
Fine Picnic Hams, 15c lb.
Dry Salt Pork, 15c lb.
Butter, 35c and 40c pound.
A new shii ment of Sauer Kraut.
Pickled Pigs’ Snoots.
CARSTENS PACKING CO.
7-12tf 4th Bet. C and D Sts.
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BAXTER’S NEWS DEPOT
Fancy Box Chocolates, Fruit Tab
lets, Bon Bons, Fancy Package
Goods, “Sweets Candies of Quality.”
Moose meeting tonight at 8 p. m.
j at Robarts’ hall. Important 7-1 2-11
Educator shoes for men and boys
here now. Complete stock of ladies’
and children’s shoes on early ship
ment. Tom McLaughlin Shoe store.
4th Ave., opposite Empress theatre,
j 7-8-tf.
Fresh green goods at Sanitary
Market, one block west of postotlice.
Cotton felt matiresses, bed springs
and linoleum, at Crocker’s
THE MODEL
Has fresh stock of cigars, candies,
; photo goods, stationery, etc.
Moose meeting tonight at 8 p. m.
at Robarts’ hall. Important 7-12-lt
Here she comes. There she goes.
The yellow car. 7-3tf
Are you there? You soon will
be if you take the yellow car. 7-3tf
UNCLE SAM CLEARING
PANAMA CANAL ZONE
Would Havo Only CHizan* of United
Statam In Locality.
Uncle Sam is playing after a fashion
In the 1’anama canal zone the part that
the English played more than a cen
tury and a half ago In moving the Aca
dlans bodily from an old to a new
home. Twentieth century methods and
American liberality are important ele
ments in the present situation, how
ever, so that satisfaction reigns in
stead of the heartburnings and suffer
ings that marked the enforced mlgri*
tion of Evangeline and her people.
The United States government tie
sires to clear the canal zone of all na
! fives, and of practically all other per
i sons for that matter not employees of
! the canal or members of the United
States army. This is desirable for both
administrative and military reasons,
j The matter of buying the little plots
I of land of individual “farmers” and in
ducing them to leave the zone has been
simple enough, but the villages have
presented more serious problems. The
plan Inis been adopted of arranging
1 with the I'anama government for sites
j outside tlu- strip of territory belonging
1 to the United States, of paying the vil
! lagers liberally for their holdings and
them moving them, bag and baggage,
to the new location.
The latest procedure of this sort Is go
ing on now in the trausfer of the half
a hundred or more souls of the village
of Chagres, near the mouth of the river
of that name, to a new town site eight
i miles outside of the zone at the mouth
of another stream. The American au
thorities have even built temporary
homes for the exiles to occupy during
the period required to Invest some of
the money they have received in the
erection of permanent dwellings. The
villagers and their effects are loadtsl
on barges and towed to their new
homes. When the last of them are
| gone the old vlilage will be razed.
GRAPHITE MIMING.
One of the tunny Industries which
have felt the stimulation of war condi
tions in the United States, it has been
found by the geological survey in its
stock taking of mineral developments,
la graphite mining. While graphite is
not used itself ns an Ingredient In war
munitions, it is of great importance in
the manufacture of many munitions
and devices of war. since the melting of
metals for fine work is carried on al
most exclusively In graphite crucibles.
The unprecedented demand for the
substance has brought about the open- |
lag of mines in new locations In Ala- ;
bama and In virgin graphite territory
in central Texas. After a study of the |
situation the survey *!found that the old
established mines In a number of the ]
eastern states Increased their output
nearly 2,000,000 pounds In 1915. The '
opening of the new sources of the min
eral will bring about an even more I
marked Increase in the production the
present year, the government geologists !
predict.
ALASKA uLAC11 R RETREATS.
Fifteen years ago a member of the
United States geological survey tnap
I>ed 'the front of the Barry glacier,
which is in the northwest corner of
Prince William sound, Alaska. In 1910
it was found that the front of the gla
cier hud gone back about three miles
from the position it occupied in 1890.
B. L. Johnson of the geological sur
vey examined the front of the Barry
glacier In the fall of 1914 and deter
mined that the total retreat of the gla
cier between 1910 and 1914 appeared to
be about 8,200 feet, a retreat of four I
and one-half miles, in fifteen years. A
short account of the retreat of this
glacier by Mr. Johnson has Just been
published as professional paper 98 C.
It includes a sketch map showing the
position of the glacier front in seven
different years and several reproduc
tions of photographs of the glacier.
POTASH FROM WYOMING LAVA.
It has been known for a number of
years that a lava in the Leuclte hills,
Sweetwater county, Wyo„ is composed i
largely of leuclte, a mineral rich in
potash. This lava, called wyomingite,
is there very abundant, and the total !
quantity of potash it contains is im
mense, estimated at 200,000,000 tons.
Like the gold in sea water, however, it
has not yet been profitably extracted.
In a series of experimental studies of
the reactions of various salts on wy
omingite under certain conditions Itog
er C. Wells of the chemical laboratory
of the United States geological survey
has obtained interesting results as to
the extraction of potash from wyoming
ite, which are published in the survey’s
professional pnper 98 D. Mr. Wells’ pa
per may prove suggestive to chemists
who are studying methods of extrac
don of potash from Igneous rocks. >
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