• CORDOVA
The seaport through which all the copper and gold
^ ore deposits of interior Alaska must pass to reach the
markets of the world.
The largest salmon canning center in Southwestern
Alaska, with five salmon canneries in operation.
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The natural outlet for the coal of the Bering river
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coal fields; where the copper ore of the interior and of
Prince William Sound points will be reduced when the
coal is made available.
The nearest practicable harbor to the oil fields of
Katalla.
The seat of the only clam canning industry in
Alaska. | v
Cordova has no indebtedness, and the lowest tax rate
of any city in the territory.
COR DOVA
Has the best harbor north of Puget Sound; ideally
created topographically for a naval station.
Has more natural beauty in its location and sur
roundings than any other city in Alaska.
Has doubled its population the past year through an
influx of permanent residents, brought here by the estab
lishment of new industries.
Has a modern, broad-gague railroad tapping the rich
copper deposits of the Kotsina-Chitina copper belt.
Has the largest dock in Alaska, taxed to its capacity
to handle the millions of pounds of copper and thousands
of cases of canned fish being shipped from here monthly.
Has seven passenger and six freight steamships
making regular trips between it and Puget Sound points,
besides numerous tramp vessels.
Has the best lighted streets in Alaska, lined with
modern business blocks.
Has two navy wireless stations, one of which is equal
ii; power to any in the United States, and cable connection
tTiitli CfnnHlo
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Has every line of business and profession well repre
sented. - , / jj £3
Has a $10,000 school building, where high school
grades are taught; four churches, four modern hotels,
good restaurants, telephone, electric lights, waterworks
and sewers.
Has splendid facilities for the sportsman; wild fowl
and game fish are abundant, while a short trip on the
railroad brings the hunter within easy reach of bear,
mountain goat and sheep, moose and caribou.
Has for the sightseer and tourist the greatest natu
ral wonders in the world, the Childs and Miles glaciers.
Cordova today is on a more permanent basis than
any other city in Alaska; is assured of continued prosper
ity and a steady growth, due to the progressive develop
ment which its natural resources are now undergoing.
When the coal of the Bering river fields, now but 25
miles from the present railroad, becomes available, smelt
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ers will be erected here, and Cordova will become the
Butte of the North.
For more particular information regarding the in
dustries and resources of Cordova and vicinity, the oppor
tunity for investment and employment here, and descrip
tive literature, write
Cordova Chamber of Commerce
Cordova, Alaska
The magazine section of the Nei
; York World of August 6 contains th
| fellowing interesting account of a
I mountain climbing marathon race, th
! hero and intrepid lady both being we!
known in Cordova:
“Married in McCarthy. Alaska, Jul
8, and will permanently reside there,
is really much more romantic than i
sounds. The place is in the midst o
Alaska's mighty "play grounds of th
gods,” beneath the shadow of tow'ei
ing Mount Blackburn, whither mor
adventurers have gone than ever hav
returned. McCarthy is a mining towi
s five miles from the terminus of tli
Copper River railway at Kennecott
the site of the now famous Bonanz;
j copper mine.
The ascent of Mount Blackburn wa
j accomplished under conditions unlik
j and far more arduous than of the Al
[ pine Matterhorn and Mont Blanc
| which Miss Keen had previously pu
j to her credit. It took nearly a montl
i to conquer the Alaskan peak. It re
j quired six days to raise a ton of out
| fit 3,500 feet, in traversing thirty-om
| miles. Then they were only at th>
! foot of Mount Blackburn, and ther
! was nothing but treacherous snow ti
! camp on. When after twenty-sevei
j days the summit was reached by Mis:
' Keen and Mr. Handy alone, they hat
, the satisfaction of knowing that thei:
j expedition was the first to succeet
] on the avalanche-swept southeast sld<
nf t hn tiwmntnin tint) thn mil i iuinnrt
ant Alaska ascent In which a woniat
had taken part.
It was a May day. back in 1912. Higt
up on the dizzy slopes of Mount Black
burn, that most inaccessible of al
Alaskan peaks, three living things, i
man, a woman and a dog, were strug
gling upward through the awful soli
tilde. In all that vast white alien
landscape, where for half a hundrei
miles there is only crag piled on eras
and pinnacle on rocky pinnacle, am
everywhere the eternal ice and snow
they were the only things that moved
Suddenly the dog whimpered am
shrank close to the rough wall of tlx
precipice whose base they skirted
With an intuition (piick as the brute'i
the man shot out a hand and graBpec
the woman. There was a thin hisi
in the air, a rising spume of snow, anf
In an instant the spot where the worn
ail's feet had been planted was empti
air.
The man had saved her from i
snowslide.
Bight there and then, it may be
was horn the romance this stor:
chronicles.
Love Among the Avalanches.
If romance, to your mind, Is a mat
ter of youth and kittenish charm, o
| physical attractiveness and femlnim
| wiles, then read no further. For thi
| Is a strenuous, grown up romance. Tin
j heroine of it admits that she is 4
I years old. The hero Is a few year
older still. And there is no ballroon
scene in their story, no subtle frap
ranees and no soft, sweet music. Thei
love meeting took place in the wilder
ness, within sound of rending ice am
i crashing avalanches, amid the snow
I drifts, with death close al hand. Am
they had come from the ends of th
| earth to stand there together.
Miss Dora Keen is a Philadelphiar
| and when she climbed Mount Black
burn four years ago and reached it
summit, 1C. 140 feet above sea leve
one man reached it with her. Th
two had been climbing for a montl
There had been six other men wit
them, hut five had dropped o\i
! through loss of nervo and the sixt
i fell from exhaustion 500 feet shot
j of his goal.
The man who lasted through wa
I iteorge W. Handy, and now. four year
later, he and Dora Keen have becom
! husband and wife.
Brisk Life for a Philadelphian.
Philadelphia had never eoupled Mis
j Keen with romance. Daughter of D
! W. W. Keen, the eminent surgeon an
rich in her own right, she had neve
| taken much part in the usual activity
of her social sot. Where others wet
I to the seaside to dress and dance sh
I preferred an expedition to the Alp
a horseback trip across Paraguay, t
; a hunting trip in the wilds of Afric
1 Whore others filled their winters wil
I dinners and cards, theatre and oper
j she was immersed in work for tl
i Society for the Prevention of Oruell
to Children, or the American Socle'
for Labor Legislation, or tlie Social
I for Organizing Charity, or in suffr
j gtst circles.
Bound to Conquer Mt. Blackburn.
It was in August, 1911, that Mi
Keen went to Alaska, with the avowi
purpose of scaling Mount Blaokbur
i She had already topped Mount Blai
and the Matterhorn. But in AUsI
not a native could she find to act i
her guide Many had gone to lilac
! burn, few had retuhied. Finally John
E. Barrett, the only man who had ever
Bcaled the peak, consented to join her.
A party of four they set out, got close
to the top, were overtaken by a storm
and forced to return without accom
plishing their purpose.
Aliss Keen is not the sort of person
who gives up an undertaking. The
following Alay found her ready to
start again. But her former escorts
1 were not to be found.
'■ As she was casting about for others
a man whom she had met once and
* casually, volunteered to join the party.
I “With some mistrust of my own
judgment,” records Miss Keen, ”1
II brought a German from Cordova, Mr.
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G. W. Handy, to be one of the expe
1 dition."
^ So much for the discernment of the
5 intuitive sex!
How Handy Made Good.
George W. Handy is the son of a
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German army officer, and a natural
ized citizen of the United States.
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Trained iu a German technical school,
seasoned as a soldier in German
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Southwest Africa, twenty odd years
ago he left his country for good. After
that he was in turn cowboy in Texas,
miner in South America, trader and
traveler in Mexico and California. Fin
' ally arriving iu Alaska, he settled
down there as a mining engineer.
Such was the man who was, with
misgivings as to his fitness, accepted
as a member of the Mount Blackburn
expedition.
As it went on, he proved his worth.
It was Handy who encouraged the
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i when they faltered on their upward
^ road. It was Handy who, when they
were forced to sleep in the snow huts
I with the thermometer at sixteen below
zero was always cheerful and seem
ingly untired. It was Handy who, as
food grew scarcer and storms fiercer
was merely inspired to greater dar
ing and determination.
One by one the other six men lost
their courage or their strength, and
had to be left behind, till at last Dora
Keen and Handy and the dog were
left alone. They plodded on, in con
stant imminent danger from ava
j lanches and crevasses.
| There came the time when the man
| saved the woman from destruction in
| the snow-slide. They waited then to
j breathe a moment and to steady their
shaken nerves, then resumed the
' climb.
At last they stood together on the
summit, where no two human beings
had ever stood before.
The Story’s Surprising Sequel.
They came down- again. Handy
went hack to his mining work. Miss
Keen returned to Philadelphia and
wrote the story of her climb. It is
, a long, bare, unadorned account, a
simple statement of facts. If, in her
heart, the woman was making the
. man the hero of it, no one had dis
cernment enough to read as much be
tween the lines.
Pour years went by. Society had
[ I forgotten the Mount Hlackbur i ex
, | pcdltton. And then, this June. Ml;-s
. \ Keen set out once more for Alaska.
. j taking her sister Florence along w ’.th
; her.
, A few weeks later society was Mir
, prised. Miss Florence Keen had gone
. I along to be a bridesmaid!
. I In McCarthy, Alaska, w ithin sight
of the plnnuele of Blackburn, where
I their middle-aged romance began so
strenuously, Dora Keen anu tleorge
I \V. Handy were married.
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11. M. Arbuckle, founder, ptoprie
- tor and editor of the Iditarod Pioneer,
- was struck on the ankle by a gang
4 plank on the steamer at Huby, which
. resulted in his being confined In the
* hospital for two weeks after his ar
rival at Iditarod.
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Hot and Cold Water, Electric Bells, Electric
Lights, Steam Heat, Suites With Bath.
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CORDOVA, .... ALASKA
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Sixty Steam Heated Rooms Eletrie Lighted
Hot and Cold Water in Every Room
With or Without Bath.
Cordova House
H. C. ROSS, Proprietor.
Headquarters for Railroad and Mining Men
Satisfaction Guranteed
Rates Reasonable
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The Lang Stove, horn in Alaska.
Is the Stove for Alaskans.
Body made of Armeo Rust Resist
ing iron.
Polished Cooking Surface.
Will hold fire overnight with wood
or coal.
Will burn green wood.
Ask your dealer for a Pang Stove.
If he cannot supply you write us.
Our line is complete from the
smallest camp stove to the larg
est hotel range.
Any sourdough will tn{| yon about tho
Lang Stove. They all know It.
F. S. LANG MFG. CO.
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sic h us brushes of all kinds, eomhs.
nail polishers ami manicure mauls of
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ter what you liu> here and how little
you pay for it, you can rest assured
that no better article is to lie had
anywhere at any price.
Northern Drug Co.
MAIL ORDERS GIVEN PROMPT ATTENTION.
1 Foos Gas Engines
4 to 510 Horse Power
General Electric Motors
Roebling Tramways
Felton Water Wheels
Chicago Oil Engines and Compressors
Regal Boat Engines
I Harmon MachineryCo Inc
Oxy-Acetylene Welding
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