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COOK
AND KNIK NEWS
VOL. 1
Anchorage, Alaska, Saturday, August 14, 1915
NO. 10
Fine Buildings
Adorn New Town
The new town has a record of
achievement toward building
progress that has never
before been attained in an Alaska
town. The permanent townsite
has been open to settlement but
a month, and yet along Fourth
and Fifth avenues and on side
streets substantial, well built
business houses adorn the town,
indicating the faith of the inhab
itants in the future of Anchorage.
Captain Austen Lathrop en
joys the distinction of erecting
the most commodious building in
the new town. It is located at
the corner of Fourth avenue and
H street and contains five fine,
roomy store spaces, already leased
for various businesses. The build
ing is substantially made. The
floor is the best ever placed in an
Alaska building.
Finkeistein & Sapiro have
about completed the erection of
a handsome, roomy store.
Carroll & Co. are erecting a
fine store building which will be
a credit to the town. The entire
50-foot frontage will be plate
glass. The owners will occupy a
part of the building and Sydney
Laurence will occupy the remain
ing part as a photograph gallery.
McGown, Raich, Rasevich are
erecting another fine, big busi
nee block. The corner will be oc
cupied by a restaurant; the cen
ter will be a pool hall.
C. C. Bush has a neat, com
fortable business place.
The Montana Pool Room is an
other swell structure which adds
to the town’s improvement.
Mike Reilly’s restaurant is a
place that would adorn any com
munity and will be the subject of
extended mention in a later issue
of this newspaper. W. L. Balch
was the builder.
J. A. Hillman is also erecting
swell quarters for restaurant pur
poses.
Good hotel accommodations will
be supplied by substantial build
ings being erected by F. W. Red
wood, Mrs. Martha White, Geo.
Crist, E. Richter, the Riverside
and others.
Nearing completion are the
splendid struc:ures of Carl W.
Bolte, the hardware merchant;
C. W. Johnson, the tent and awn
ing man; McCullough & Carl
son’s store and the Ship Creek
Meat Co’s building.
Polley Brothers are already oc
cupying a well appointed, roomy
store adjoining Reilly’s restau
rant.
The McCain studio has a swell
location and a fine structure in
course of building.
Ground is being broke for the
Knik Hardware Co’s store, which
is to be another substantial, neat
building.
The postoffice is’doing business
in a nifty, well constructed build
ing suited to the purpose.
Deputy Marshal Warded ex
pects to commence building the
local bastile within a short time.
He has several large piles of logs
in the rear of his prospective
building, which look threatening
to wrong doers.
The bank to be established here
will build on lot 6, block 41.
Brown & Hawkins have erect
ed a massive warehouse on the
waterfront on Ship creek and con
template the erection of a big
store building on the corner of
Fourth avenue and E street.
L. 0. Nyberg, who bought the
first lot offered for sale in new
town, is erecting a substantial
building with a 50-foot frontage
on Fourth avenue.
Wiseman & Finley have nearly
completed a neat store building
24x50.
The following have applied for
building permits from the town
site manager. In most cases the
buildings are under construction:
Biock 3
Lot 1 Robert Small and C. P.
Peterson, blacksmith shop.
Block 5
Lot 1—Brown & Hawkins,
frame and corrugated iron ware
house, 50x100.
Block 22
Lots 4. 5 and 6 Plant of the
Alaska Cement Brick and Block
Company.
Block 23
Lot 8—Geo. Geleff, barber shop.
Lot 12—C. V. Cox, furniture
store, floored tent; expects to
build permanently within 60 days.
Lot 12—A. J. Walters, retail
grocery, 24x30 frame.
Block 24
Lot 7—Robert Solga, restaur
ant, 18x30 frame.
Lot 7—R. Fairbanks, pool hall,
28x70 frame.
Lot 11—John A. Curley and
Alex. McKenzie, restaurant, store
and bunkhouse; two buildings
joined into one 44x46.
Block 25
Lot 8—Montana pool room; 30
x76 frame.
Lot 9—Mike Reilly, restaurant;
20x60 frame.
Lot 10—Polley Bro’s, general
merchandise; 30x54 frame.
Continued on page 2
Wafer System
for New Town
Is Planned
A permanent water supply for
the new townsite comprehends
the installation of a steam pump
ing plant at some point on Ship
creek, not yet definitely deter
mined. The water will be pump
ed to a steel tank and tower, 80
feet in height, placed on concrete
abuttments. The tank will have
a storage capacity of 100,000 gal
lons. A 5-inch pipe line will con
vey the water from the pumping
station to the tower.
The tank will be located on the
east end of the town and a 6-inch
main underground will be laid
from thence down the alley be
tween Fourth and Fifth avenues
as far as K street, on the west
end of town. Lateral lines will
reach out from the main at every
other cross street, ending on the
opposite sides of Fourth and Fifth
avenues, for accommodat' , o'
persons living on Third and Sixth,
as well as those in the immediate
vicinity.
The proposed system will place
water within easy reach of most
of the inhabitants, but it is
planned to make further exten
sions of the system should the
funds permit at this time. It is
figured, and the figuring has been
liberal, that the proposed system
will cost $15,000. Should this
amount prove more than required
for the system planned, then, as
stated before, further extensions
will be made.
The townsite manager andthose
in authority have taken this pro
position up with the people, as
represented by the local chamber
of commerce, and the plan has
been heartily endorsed. Of course
the property owners will have to
pay for installation, but the
system of payments will extend
over a period of five years, so that
the assessments will not prove
burdensome.
The proposed system, work on
which work on which will begin
as soon as material now ordered
arrives, is the first unit of a much
greater water system, should the
requirements of the town justify
surther expenditures 'along this
line.
Commissioner Mears announces
the appointment of Dr. H. W.
Stoughton as health officer, with
jurisdiction over the new town
site, who will have charge of all
health and sanitation matters.
FOR SALE Team of horses,
new Weber wagon and new har
ness. Inquire Crescent, corner
Fourth and C streets.
Railroad Work
Moves Along
With Precision
Work on the big government
railway project is moving along
smoothly and good progress is
being made. The steamer Ala
meda brought a new Rogers yard
engine, manufactured in the east
and the steaming up of this ad
dition to the railway’s equipment
was the occasion for a general
turnout of inhabitants. The big
ship bearing additional equip
ment from the canal zone arrived
here early this morning, and to
make yardage room for the vast
tonnage coming, inhabitants of
the old town are moving to new
locations in the new towm.
The Commission is installing a
city dock at the foot of E street,
to accommodate passenger and
freight traffic for the new town.
It will be completed Tuesday.
Thomas H. Riggs, Jr., a mem
ber of the Commissi; ' who is in
immediate charge <a the Fair
banks end of the railway work,
was a visitor to Anchorage last
week. While no active construc
tion is in progress at the proposed
interior terminus, there is con
siderable preliminary work neces
sary, getting ready for next
year’s prospective operations.
Mr. Riggs achieved a high repu
tation and acquired a wide ac
quaintanceship in Alaska as the
engineer in charge of the Alaska
Canadian boundary survey.
B. H. Barndollar, examiner of
accounts for tbe Alaskan Eng
ineering Commission, came over
from Seward on the Evans, in
connection with the duties of his
important position.
New Contracts
The following contracts were let by
the Alaskan Engineering Commission
tween Aug. 1st and 12th:
O. Sundberg & Co., grading, stations
4972x80 to 4990.
Tom Brock, Joe Willis & Co. and J.J.
Sherlock, grubbing Anchorage town
site.
Walter Sahlstrom, 5000 ties, Peters
creek.
Martinovich & Co., grading, stations
227 to 236.
Emil Nelson, culverts, 3980 to 4440.
Pete Nelson & Co., clearing firebreak.
Nick Sakish & Co., 1000 ties, Ship
creek.
E. Anderson & Co., grading 4499x50
to 4530.
Tonv Pappas & Co., grading 4360 to
4390. *
Geo. Crist & Co., 5000 ties, Knik
river.
Tom Stankovich & Co., 2000 ties.
Ship creek.
G. B. Abraham & Co., sewer trench.
Swan Swanberg & Co., clearing 4821
to 4884.
Chas. David, 8000 ties, 3657 to 3743.
Christ Argiros & Co., 2000 ties, Peters
creek. __
FOR SALE—Fine robe. In
quire this office.