Appeal for further co-operation be
tween the department of the interior
and the mining prospector for the de
velopment of the enormous mineral
resources of the United States is made
by H. N. Lawrie, director of the Ore
gon bureau of mines and geology, in
an article in the current number of
the Mining Press. Mr. Lawrie asserts
that the administration is already do
ing much to encourage prospecting
and pays a tribute to Secretary of the
Interior Franklin K. Lane. The article
follows:
“The fact is patent, without refer
ring to statistics, that the prospector
finds a more attractive field for his
endeavor in Canada and other foreign
countries than in his old stamping
ground, the United States and Alaska.
Since the prospector is thw fundamen
tal operator of the mining industry,
his important relation should be care
fully analyzed and the conditions un
der which he operates well estab
lished. The activity of the prospector
in the field is a well know-n index to
the activity of mining and any inter
ference with his freedom or opera
tion is directly reflected in the retar
dation of the industry.
Government Has Important Study.
"The federal government through
Its bureau of mines, can do nothing
more useful than study the reasons
for the rapid migration of the pros
pector to foreign fields and remove the
causes of it by recommending to con
gress. Pursuant to a better under
standing of this subject, it is well to
cite a number of the reasons that are
most destructive to the occuption of
the prospector in the United States
and Alaska, as the prospector sees
them.
“The inborn patriotism of the Am
erican is so strong that it is a hard
ship for him to leave this country for
any economic reason, but when he
does goes into foreign parts he feels
that his own government should care
for his welfare at least as much as
the government of the country to
which he goes. His position in this
matter is sane. Often the United
States, for lack of a system of aid to
the prospector, not only loses the re
sult of individual enterprise, but also
a citizen.
Prospector is Being Hampered.
“To trace this feeling generally that
the government is not protecting but
rather hampering the prospector's ef-1
forts, it is necessary to go back to
1906-1907, when the land fraud cases
in the Northwest and Alaska forced
the president to withdraw thousands
of acres of public land and place it
in reserve to await more specific clas
sifications before reopening it for en
try. At about the same time the con
servation idea was sown broadcast
without qualification. Like most re
forms, the conservation movement was
born in theory and since has been de
veloping to meet more practical de
mands. The theoretical stage was
marked by the grossest economic
waste of our natural resources, while
the more recent constructive conser
vation recognizes the necessity for de
veloping and using our natural re
sources.
While this movement in the United
States started because of high handed
and dishonest land and timber locat
ors, the Alaskan withdrawals result
ed from fraudulent coal locations. To
the prospector a speculative element
was introduced into the title of his
holdings. The capitalist backing the
prospector soon withdrew his aid on
the ground that the title in fee might
not be forthcoming, aB security for his
investment. It remained for the de
partment of the interior to dispel this
idea of uncertainty. The constructive
work of the department of the Inter
ior began to be felt through the expen
diture of titles (by clipping much red
tape) and through legislation.
Reopening Land Forward Step.
The reopening of vast areas in the
United States and Alaska to entry,
the passage of the Alaska railroad
and coal leasing bills, marked the first
steps in permitting the development
of our natural resources after a period
of lethargy during which thousands
of prospectors were forced to change
their field of operation.
"The United States geological sur
vey has won the public confidence in
matters pertaining to land classifica
tion. This is largely due to the fact
that most capable geologists are se
leeted to advise in such Important
business. The classification of the
natural resources on the public do
main which responsibility congress
long since called upon the geologica
survey to assume, should be rigorous
ly sustained by the Issuance of the cor
responding land titles by the United
States land office. Inasmuch as the
funds available are not sufficient t(
enable the United States geologica
survey to keep pare with the pubiii
land classification, congress shoulc
recognize the need for increasing thii
appropriation to an amount common
Burate with the public demands, ii
order not to further block the devel
opment of our natural resources. Thi
prospector is vitally concerned in thl
matter of land classifications, and uti
less the classification keeps pace wit!
his activities, a delay Is Introduce
that Is inimical to his best interests
Foreign Countries Aid Prospectors.
“Many foreign countries have foi
some time been extending aid to tht
prospector, both educational and per
sonai. Therefore, In order to complete
any system for the help of the pros
pector. It will be necessary to estab
llsh this personal relationship between
the prospector and the government.
"From the successful experience ol
the bureau of mines in educating the
coal miner in matters of safety, the
inference may be drawn that no less
success would be attained In extend
ing personal aid to th° prospector, but
with a different purpose. This favor
able result emphasizes the fact that
the most successful government is the
one which anticipates the needs of
those upon whom it depends for sup
port.
"The personal aid from a govern
ment to the prospector can no better
be illustrated than by recounting an
experience on the Queen Charlotte is
lands, off the coast of British Colum
bia, in 1908. In the month of Feb
ruary I landed at Jedway, on Moresby
island, amid the excitement of a cop
per discovery. On the same boat was
shipped by the government a port
able house for the mining recorder,
a complete set of record books, etc.,
a portable prison, a mining recorder
and a force of men to build trails,
fully equipped and provisioned. While
many prospectors went in, there was
no confusion; individual rights were
clearly defined and protected; and the
prospectors had every opportunity to
devote their time to prospecting rath
er than to building trails. Shortly
after came the technical branch of the
government service to counsel and ad
vise the prospector and to publish
authentic reports, which were follow
ed by the capitalists’ engineer, and
the financial assistance to the pros
pector who had developed a likely
prospect. The mining industry based
upon so sound a promise of federal
action is bound to be progressive and
flourish to the utmost. This is an
excellent investment of public funds,
judging from the results. One should
not wonder why so many prospectors
go to Canada when they know that
this vital assistance will be rendered.
Practical Lectures in Winter.
"Ouring the winter months a course
of practical lectures is given for the
benefit of the Canadian prospector.
From these lectures on the mineral
ogy. methods of mining and milling,
and the interpreation of mining law,
the prospector gains a grasp of the
larger problems of the Industry in
which he is engaged. He is also bet
ter able to estimate his position with
respect to capital when he is about to
close a deal for his prospect.
"The United States bureau of mines
is naturally adapted and organized to
assume these functions of personal
aid to the prospector. There is no
need more pressing than this construc
tive program. Congress must fully
recognize the responsibility of our
government to control the future of
a great industry by creating a sound
foundation for further progress. It
will not require a big appropriation
because the means of accomplishment
have been partly provided in the es
tablishment of experiment stations
throughout the United States and
Alaska. In fact, to expand the activi
ties of the bureau of mines so as to
include the personal service would be
to return more dividends from an In
vestment already made.
“Now that the general activity of
mining is so much improved over past
years, there would Beem to be a most
favorable opportunity to start this
work. For the same reason there also
appears a still greater need for direct
ing and conserving the efforts of the
prospector.”
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SPORTS
Gosdp About Event* of National
Importance and the Person*
Who Are In the Head
Liner Classes.
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 11. — Fred
Felly, the famous Pacific ooast track
athlete, is done with the game, as far
as intercollegiate competition is con
cerned, according to all reports.
Kelly has left the University of
Southern California for business. He
has accepted a position with an auto
mobile concern in the capacity of
bookkeeper... He will not return to
the Trojan school to finish his school
career.
Kelly's career as a Wesleyan ath
lete ended in a blaze of glory. He
starred during the last football sea
son, and many are of the opinion that
if he had another year to play inter
collegiate football he would have been
one of the sensations of the Pacific
coast. Kelly's best game of football
was played on Thanksgiving day when
his work resulted in the touchdowr
scored by the Wesleyans.
Kelly won more than 400 points foi
the Trojans on the track. He wai
one of the most consistent college ath
letes in the country while attendini
U. S. C. He rirsi gained fame in thi
Olympic games of 1912, when, un
known only to local fans, he won thi
110-ureter high hurdle race. Sine
then he won international fame.
He will wear the colors of the Lsr
i Angeles Athletic Club in the variou
i meets this spring. He will participat
- in the meets staged in the east durtn
i the summer.
1 It is possible that Kelly will pla
football with the l,os Angeles Athletic
Club next fall.
Approximately eighty basketball
teams will compete here In the 1’. A
A. championship tournament, which
will open here about the middle ol
next month, barge entries from the
San Juan valley, Tonopah, Reno, Los
Angeles and San Diego have been re
ceived by the registration committee.
It has not yet been decided where
the games in San Francisco are to be
played, but an effort will be made to
obtain the Exposition auditorium. The
games in Oakland will be played in
the Oakland Municipal auditorium,
while places are still to be selected
for the tournaments to be played in
Big Pines, Tonopah and bos Angeles.
The teams will play in five weight
divisions, consisting of 110, 120, 130
and 145 pounds, and unlimited weight.
Strict precautions will be taken by
various committees who have been
appointed to see that the teams do not
train down out of their own weight
division, which would necessitate at
weighing time the serving of refresh
ments, or other methods to put the
team back at proper weight which, as
a result in most cases, would make
them unfit for the rival players.
The army and navy teams have al
ready signed their entry blanks and
will be among the first teams to set
tle their differences. The tournament
probably will come to a close some
time In the middle of February, the
winners being presented with the
championship and gold medals.
An athlete who permits any one to
make arrangements for his appear
ance at any of the games will be dis
qualified from participation. This
means that members of all basketball
teams must register in order to re
tain their amateur standing. Mem
bers of teams failing to do so or com
peting ugainst teams whose members
are not registered are liable to be
barred from competition in the tour
nament, or any sport under the juris
diction of the A. A. U., including
track, swimming and boxing.
Facilities for the Pacific coast golf
er grow apace. According to a Port
land newspaper, when the improve
ments at the Portland Golf Club and
the Taulatin Country Club are com
pleted Portland will be able to boast
of three, and perhaps, four, of the
finest and most picturesque golf links
in the west. At present the VVaverly
Country Club Is the only 18-hole
course.
Work of enlarging from 9 holes to 18
already Is underway, both at the Tau
latin and at the Portland Club, and
hopes for the new municipal course
have by no means been abandoned.
Plans are all drawn and actual work
is being done at the Portland links.
Plans also have been prepared by the
Taulatin officials, and these are now
being gone over by Chandler Egan,
of Medford.
The new Taulatin course will be
approximately 5,294 yards long, or
nearly 100 yards longer than Waver
ly. The first nine will be 3,204 yards
and will embrace only the first four
holes of the present course. After
fourth hole the course will swing off
to the west into the wood and skirt
the Taulatin river.
The first nine will finish with a
short mashle pitch of 140 yards over
a water hazard onto a terraced green
just to the northwest of the club
house.
The second nine holes will likewise
be carved out of the woods, but will
swing Into the present course at the
fifth hole, finishing on the present
ninth.
Sixteen professional hunters in the
federal service have started to work
in the Yakima river valley, in Wash
ington, to exterminate coyotes which
are believed to be responsible for the
existing epidemic of rabies In the
eastern part of the state The hunt
ers are working under the Instructions
of the state board of agriculture.
The hunters were brought in from
California and Oregon, where they had
been doing similar work for the fed
eral government. Two members of
the state agricultural department are
in the valley studying the coyote situ
ation and supervising the work of the
professional hunters.
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The case of Nick Demer vs. Alas
ka Gastineau Mining Company for per
sonal damages in the sum of $3,6<K
for injuries sustained while working
in the mine of the company was re
cently completed at Juneau. The jury
returned a verdict for the plaintiff it
the sum of $240 and as the company
had already paid him the sum of $213.
50, he will receive us a result of th<
verdict $26.50.
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John Itawson has .emoved his bar
gain store to the Northern block, op
posite the Cordova House.
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Indies' and gent’s shoes oiled am
shined. Alaskan Hotel barber shop
Prompt delivery.
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TOWN OF CORDOVA.
Municipal Taxes.
Town taxes are now due and pay
* able to the town treasurer, H.
i O'Neill, at his office.
Said taxes will be delinquent o
i the second Monday In February, 191'
« at the hour of 6 o'clock p. m. Upo
s all unpaid taxes after that time a pei
5 alty of five per cent will ve collectet
H. I. O'NEILL,
i Town Treasurer.
NOTICE.
All creditors of the Cordova pad
ing Company, who have not hereh
fore presented their claims to A
Brock, at the Blum, O'Neill store, ar
requested to do so at once.
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Big assortment of ladies umbra
dered handkerchiefs just rec<M ,.q 8
Clayson's. Drop In and see th;
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Be a Daily Times reader.
A Penny Saved
Is a Penny
Gained.
By BREEN.
The wise housewife
saves many a penny read
ing the newspapers.
If there is a bargain
advertised she’ll not miss
it. She constantly is
looking for it.
It is up to the mer
chant. Keep the house
wife posted. Let her
know through the news
paper what you have to
offer. Incidentally men
today ransack the new
papers for bargains is
assiduously as do women.
If you want to sell
your wares advc-; im*.
Advertise in the best
medium, the newsprr r.
Also if you want to ry
successfully read the 1
vertisements.
Sheldon
AUTO STACE LINE
Giving an all-year nun.
vice between Chitina and i r
hanks, Alaska.
Enquire about them at Chitina
Hotel. Chitina, Alaska, before
making reaervatlonn rasev here.
M. C. Thompaon H C Murphy
The MECCA
Thompson & Murphy, Prcrps
Dealers in
WINES, LIQUORS AND
CIGARS
Fhona 107.
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I $4J00,000,000 [
Is the total amount which the savings depositors have t<> their
credit in the various banks throughout the country. These de
positors represent 10,686,000 people, and receive over $141,000,
000 in interest every year, and never have to worry about their
money.
These staggering figures furnish conclusive proof what
the spirit of thrift will accomplish.
These people started with a smull amount, and by con
sistent saving have gradually built up savings accounts which
make them financially comfortable.
Are you one of these T
If not, join this army of savers and share their benefits.
You can start an account from one dollar up.
THE FIRST BANK OF CORDOVA
United States Depository for Postal Savings Funds.
Territorial Depository. Government Inspected.
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. Where We Can Always Kind Our
Friends.
I Finest Billiard and Pool Table* In
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BEST GRADES OF STANDARD
BRANDS OF CIQARS.
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| 4 to S ,0 Horse Power
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Gen-ral Electric Motors |
Robbing Tramways
Pelt n Water Wheels
Chicago Oi igines and Compressors
Re^al Boat Engines
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| Oxv Acetylene Welding.
CORDOVA, ALASKA
When Ordering Beer
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Sixty Steam Heated Rooms Eletric Lighted
i Hot and Cold Water in Every Room
With or Without Bath.
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Satisfaction Guranteed
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R. W. FERRELL, Prop.
Electric Lighted. Hot Water. Turkish and Tub
Baths.
OPPOSITE CORDOVA GRILL, CORDOVA, ALASKA.
PHONE 99
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| Alaskan Hotel
the house of comfort
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| BAR AND BARBER SHOP IN CONNECTION
Hot and Cold Water, Electric Bells, Electric
Lights, Steam Heat, Suites With Bath.
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| CORDOVA, .... ALASKA |
ALL THE LIGHT ON THE BOOK,
and none in the eyes is what makes
the electric light so superior for night
reading. And its brilliancy brings out
the type with the utmost distinctive
ness so that reading is accompanied
by no strain on the eyes whatever.
Have you electricity in your hornet
Cordova Power
Company
LIGHTS WATER PHONES POWER
Office: FIRST STREET.
I Copper River & |
1 Northwestern Ry. |
EFFECTIVE MAY 1, 1916.
^ Three Trains Weekly Between Cordova and Chitina.
gj Four Train* Weekly Between Chitina and Kennecott. 4.
'4 Leave Cordova, Second Street Depot, on Mondays, Thur*- jg
jji; days and Saturdays.
H Leave Chitina for Cordova Sundays, Tuesdays and jg
| jg Fridays.
jg Leave Chitina for Kennecott Sundays, Tuesdays, Thur*- jjjj
days and Fridays.
gj Leave Kennecott for Chitina Mondays, Wednesdays, |j
j| Thursdays and Saturdays.
The above schedule subject to change without notice, jg
Dining Car In Connection With all Regular Peaacnger Tralna IW- gj
:>• tween Cordova and Chitina.
13 jg
Freight received from 9 A. M. to 5 I1. M.
Tickets on sale at Depot or up town office, A las Ira jg
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