The Cordova Daily Times
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H. G. STEEL, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
CORDOVA, ALASKA, TUESDAY, MAY 1, 1917.
EXPLORERS TO VISIT MT. KATMAI
Inview of the extraordinary conditions found in the region
of Mt. Katmia, west of Cook Inlet, the national Geographic So
ciety has set aside $12,000 for a third expedition of areas around
the scene of the greatest volcanic eruption recorded.
The expedition will he in charge of Professor Robert F.
Griggs, of Ohio State University, leader of the expedition of
1915 and 1916.. On the latter trip he was able to reach the cen
tral crater for the first time, although the eruption occurred in |
1912. The crater is of astounding size, and Professor Griggs I
was unable to estimate its measurements during the few
glimpses lie had between the gusts of sulphurous steam of the
vitriol colored lake at the bottom with its reddish brown island
cone. lit* ventured a guess that it would be found to be at least
two miles across.
Of even greater wonder than the crater is a valley viewed
by the explorers from Katmai pass, ten miles to the westward.
The floor of this valley was so torn and rent by the violence of
th*‘ great eruption that thousands of steam jets are pouring
forth. To explore this section and pay closer attention to the
cones surrounding the great crater will be the object of the com
ing expedition.
In his previous trips Professor Griggs has established:
That explorers visiting the region just after the eruption mis
took Mt. Mageik, a lesser crater, for Katmai; that the destine
tion of vegetation from the crater to the sea, twenty-five miles
south and east, was complete; that Katmai sent forth no large
rocks as first reported, the blasts being so powerful as to blow
everything to dust and pumice; and finally, that the eruption
occurred at the point of intersection between the main earth
fault on the Alaskan peninsula along which all the major vol
canoes of the territory lie and a new fault extending toward
Bristol bay, which is responsible for the “valley of 10,000
smokes.”
It has been suggested that the party may use an aeroplane
on the expeditions to enable the explorers to cross quickly the
immense valleys and canyons still filled with pumice, which in
many places, is water soaked and almost impassable. As
everything has to be packed from the nearest port, expeditions
on foot are limited to the amount a man can carry in the way
of food, while the aeroplane could be used to bring supplies,
making trips in perhaps an hour, which would otherwise take
ten or twelve days.
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THIS NO TIME FOR FINICKY FOLK
“Don’t Ik* finicky,” says a United States department of
agriculture letter on different methods of beating the high
cost of living. “Be willing to try new foods. Remove from
your vocabulary ‘don’t like’ or ‘can’t eat.’ People too easily
get into a food rut; insist on eatinly only the food they are used
to and refuse to give a fair trial to others. This causes undue
demand for certain staples, with resulting scarcity or high
prices when crops are short. At the same time other valuable
foods may be relatively cheap and available. A striking in
stance of this failure fully to appreciate rice—a valuable source
of starch—when potatoes are scarce and high.”
Then comes the following advice to the family cook:
“Learn how to cook all kinds of staple foods and to serve
them in a variety of ways. Simple dishes well prepared are
better than expensive foods badly cooked.
“Many persons are prejudiced against certain good foods
because when first tried, the foods were improperly cooked or
prepared.
“Most individual prejudices against widely popular foods
are either imaginary or baseless.
“Try to like every simple food; give it a fair trial.
‘Demonstrate thrift in your home.
“Make saving rather than spending your social standard.”
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Mother Earth is tickled with all this agricultural activity.
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Emperor Charles, with his leaning toward peace, is a shaky
rod in the kaiser’s war machine.
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Postmasterships under the civil service are no longer
plums. They are maraschino cherries.
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The coupons on the bonds of friendship are always good,
but they are especially handy in times of need.
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Americans have always been good pinch hitters. Thomas
A. Edison is at bat “somewhere on the Atlantic coast.”
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Talk about turning swords into ploughshares. The presi
dent is reported to have discarded the golf kit for a garden hoe.
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Entry of South American nations into the war leaves
Peary’s mythical Arctic land and the fabled Atlantis the only
neutral continents.
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And just when we were going to plant that onion, up goes
the price of garden seed—an advance of 200 per cent in some
instances is reported.
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The battle of Arras may be the Gettysburg of the European
war, but it will be remembered that our conflict continued near
ly two years after Gettysburg.
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The Rheinische Westfalische Zeitung’s little flier into ra
diant optimism in predicting victory on the basis of recent
events on the western front indicates that patriotism as well as
love may be blind.
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This from a publicity circular of a staff of efficiency ex
perts is almost appalling: “Many prominent business men are
now of the opinion that if American industries are to meet war
demands they must accomplish the miraculous. Many mills
are now running at top capacity, yet in nddition to the goods
our factories are now producing they will be forced to supply
an army and navy with the materials for successfully conclud
ing the greatest of all wars, and they must do this with a labor
force depleted by perhaps 1,000,000 workers called to the colors
by the president.
MRS. V. P. ABBOTT
PUBLIC STENOGRAPHER
A/indsor Hotel • • Cordova.
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E. F. MEDLEY.
Attorney and Counsellor at Law.
Room 1
Adams Block CORDOVA, ALASKA
WM. A. HESSE
Mining Engineer,
U. 8. Mineral Surveyor,
U. S. Deputy Surveyor.
BOX 13. CORDOVA, ALASKA
DR. W. H CHASE
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON
Office over Cordova Drug 8tore.
Calls may be left at Cordova
Drug Store. Residence,
Alaskan Hotel
DR. W. W. COUNCIL
PHYSICAN AND SURGFON.
Office unii Residence: Cordova ~
General Hospital (Ostrander Build - r
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Phones—Residence 115; office 132.
DR. C. L. HALE
DENTIST
Specialty of
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Office: Over Blum, O'Neill’s Store.
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DENTAL OFFICES P
Suite 1, Northern Hotel Block.
Phone 200. Cordova,
P. O. Box 186. Alaska.
Hours: 9 a. m. to 6 p. m.
Evenings by Appointment.
ROBERT SIMPSON
JUNEAU,ALASKA
Glasses Fitted. Lenses Ground.
HUBBELL & WALLER
Civil and Mining Engineers.
U. S. Mineral and Deputy Land Sur
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1102 L. C. SMITH BLDG., SEATTLE.
PATENT SURVEYS
A. C. BALDWIN,
U. S. Mineral Surveyor.
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