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OSTRANDER BLDG. CORDOVA, ALASKA
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575 Town Lots in Cordova.
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THE HOTEL
CHITINA
ENLARGED AND COMPLETELY RENOVATED
SPACIOUS LOBBY —- STEAM HEATED
CAFE AND BAR
The Comfort Home of the Interior
T. W. CLONINGER A , ,
Proprietor Chitina, Alsaka
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FOR SMELTER
In a recent issue of the Seattle
Times J. J. Underwood furnishes the
following information of interest to
; Cordovans:
Construction of a big shelter at
Cordova In which the coal from the
Bering river field will be utilized, is
indicated in a dispatch from the
Times Washington correspondent this
afternoon. The message states that
the Alaska Engineering Commission
has decided to make a survey from
Mile 39 on the Copper River & North
■ western Railroad to Trout Creek and
from Controller bay to the same point.
This means that the Bering river
field will be opened to development.
In fact some claims in that region
already have been patented and appli
cations for leases of others are being
considered by the interior department.
The work of running the lines,
which have already been traversed
by Lieutenant Frederick Mears, one
of the members of the Commission,
will begin within thirty days.
Capitalists are ready to begin the
construction of a smelter at Cordova
as soon as the coal is available. The
estimated tonnage of the Copper Riv
er valley is 4,600 tons a day. Part
of this would have to be developed by
the construction of feeders to the
Copper River ft Northwestern line.
W. C. Edes, chairman of the Al
aska Engineering Commission, made
it plain at Washington today that he
has no hope of completing the con
struction from Ship Creek to the
Matanuska this year. Light trains
will be operated on the Alaska North
ern as far as Mile 45, and a small
amount of repair work will be done.
All supplies and equipment for new
construction will be landed at Ship
Creek and distributed at different
pctintB along the beach by barges.
May Cause New Naval Test
The fact that the line to the Ber
ing River field is to be surveyed is of
vital interest to Alaskans, and it may
lead to a new naval test of the coal
from this field. It is well known
that 100 tons of this coal taken out In
1908 and used by the battleship Ne
braska was pronounced by naval ex
perts as good steaming coal. When
the government expedition took out
a test supply it was turned down.
There has always been a suspicion in
the minds of Northerners that the
latter test was not a fair one, and
that a lot of rock and other waste
matter was put into the sacks with
the coal. In the event the Bering
River fiends are opened the Matanus
ka field will have a strong competi
tor, as the haulage distance favors
Bering River field by several miles,
unless the Matanuska coal is shipped
from Ship Creek.
George C. Hazelet, president of the
Cordova Chamber of Commerce, who
was well fortified with tonnage sta
tistics, last winter took up with Secre
tary Lane and President Wilson the
matter of developing the Bering River
field. Hazelet reached Seattle from
Washington this morning.
“It seems to me,” he said, “that the
place to build a railroad is to the
point where the tonnage can be ob
tained. We have a tremendous cop
per producing area behind Cordova.
Much of it is comparatively low grade, (
and will have to be smelted in Alsa
ka. It is not rich enough to stand ,
the transportation charges to Tacoma
or other smelters on the Pacific coast.
Must Be Brought Together
“If we can get the Bering River fuel
we don’t care where the railroad goes. ]
In order to get full development we ,
must bring the coal and copper to- ,
gether at some convenient point. We
cannot import the Matanuska coal io
Cordova at a profit by making two
transhipments, nor can we carry the
copper ores to the Matanuska coal.
We can, however, very profitably
bring the Bering River coal and the
copper together by short hauls. If
we can get the Bering River coal we’ll
put up a Bmelter at Cordova. If we
can't we’ll have to plug along as we
are doing now, allowing our low
grade ores to be thrown on the waste
dump.”
Navy Will Buy Alaska Coal
Ready to give an order for 510,000
tonB of coal the moment it is possi
ble to obtain delivery, the navy de
partment at Washington, according to t
a dispatch received today. Is watching
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the progress of the prijected govern
ment railroad in Alaska with the keen
est interest. The prospect of obtain
ing cheaper coal for naval vessels op
erntlng on the Pacific coast has beer
received with general acclamation bj
navy department officials.
The Interest manifested by the n»
vy department indicates that the long
promised stationing of a permanent
fleet in Pacific waters is about to b<
consummated. The department is en
thusiastlc about the quality of th<
Northern fueJ, which gave a much bet
ter steaming result than that obtained
from coal from the Pocahontas field
"The opening of the Alaska coal
field by rail transportation to tide
water," said an official announcement
“is a matter of great Importance to
the navy, which ships annually about
150,000 tons of coal from the Atlantic
to the Pacflc. The present freight
rate is from $7 to $8 a ton, but the
opening of the Alaska Railroad should
make It possible to ship coal from the
Mntanuska field at a price so much
lower as to make the annual saving
in the cost of the navy's eoal bill of
great moment.”
Competent engineers have figured
that the Alaskan coal can be landed
in Seattle at a price not to exceed $G
the ton. This Is based on a low
freight from the tidewater terminal
to Seattle. It has been pointed out
to the government that the Iron ore
carriers on the Great Lakes transport
cargoes a distance of 1,100 miles at a
rate of 70 cents the ton, and the
lakes are closed to navigation during
several months of the year. The haul
from Ship Creek or Seward to Seattle
would be between 1,500 and 1,800
miles, but as the sea is open at all
seasons of the year the saving In ov
erhead expenses would about compen
sate for the difference In distance.
Another Washington dispatch an
nounces that the Alaska Engineering
Commission has decided to extend the
proposed railroad from Nenana Cross
ing on the Tanana to Fairbanks as
soon as the route between these points
has been selected. A survey of the
several available routes will be made
this summer.
Notice also was given by the com
mission at Washington that there are
no more places to be given out. At
least 40,000 applications for Jobs un
ler the commission have been received
but all openings are filled.
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CONCRETE SIDEWALKS
BE BUILT AT SEWARD
SEWARI), April 20—The petition
which has been circulated by Ed.
Whlttemore for the grading of Fourth
avenue and the laying down of con
crete sidewalks, has been signed by
sveryone to whom it was presented,
rhe work on that street and Third
will be begun as soon as the arrange
nents have been made.
Should the government decide to
•un trains out on the Alaska Nortuern
ine this summer it can be done with
>ut bringing in new rolling stock, it
was learned today. One of the loco
notlves is In such condition that it
•ould be placed In commission within
i week and the cars could also be
uade available. Some of the ties
will need replacing and other superfic
al improvements would have to be
nade, but there is nothing that would
prevent the operation to Mile 46 tn a
.ery short time.
The Seward band has now sent out
'or the instruments required to make
ip the full number. It has also sent
>ut for music so that within a few
weeks the organization will be in full
iwing for supplying music. It is the
ntention of the bandsmen to take part
n the welcome to Secretary Lane
when he comes in July, and also to
welcome other prominent officials who
nay arrive. The Fourth of July cel
ebration will be especially prepared
'or.
The new city council is already flg
lring on purchasing a lot as a site
or the new city hall. Some mem
>ers of the council have been looking
at some lots but the matter is still
n its embryo state.
The clothes hanging in the drying
room in the basement of the Over
land hotel took fire from some un
known cause this afternoon about 8
o'clock and quite an excitement was
caused. The fire boys did good work
and the blaze was confined to a small
space.
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Decline In Sugar. $7.50 Sack at
S. Blum A Co.
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Eggs, Fresh from the Local Ranch,
at O'Neill A Slater Co's.
GERMANY CARING
BERLIN April 22—How to take care
of the hordes of Russian prisoners ol
war captured by the German armies—
food alone for each man costs 60
pfennigs (15 cents) a day—Is an in
creasing problem with which the au
thorities are wrestling.
It Is estimated that the list of pris
oners, including those captured by
(field Marshal von Hlndenberg's lat
est victory In East Prussia, now ex
ceeds 700.000 men. This involves
an expense for the mere feeding oi
the captives of about $105,000 a day.
In every available way the men are
being put to work—on farms, on the
roads, in iron works and coal mines,
and in clearing and reclaiming vast
areas of marsh and moor land, prin
cipally in the eastern part of the em
pire.
Experience thus far has convinced
the Germans that the Russians are
far more available for this manual
labor than the English and French,
none of the latter of whom lend
themselves to the hard work to which
the Russian peasants seem accustom
ed.
One of the most important pieces
of work on which the Russians are
being employed in ever larger num
bers is the reclamation of nearly
7.000 hectares of unfruitful, waste
land along the Leba river from Lauen
burg to the Seba sea, adjacent to
the bay of Danzig.
Plans to accomplish this date back
as far as the time of Frederick the
Great, but up to the present have
never progressed further than the
partial straightening of the river bed.
At the time of the outbreak of the
war some 60 hectares had been re
claimed by a force of 300 men, who
stopped work when the fighting start
eu.
Already 3,000 Russians in two
camps, are at work draining the land
and instituting improvements that in
clude irrigation, plowing and plant
ing meadows. Through these pris
oners and others who will be added
to the ranks, it is expected that the
work bo long delayed will be fin
ished in record time.
Thousands of soldiers captured In
the recent Hindenberg victory were
put to work at once clearing the roads
of snow and mud, and, so great was
the number employed that within a
short time the highways were pass
able everywhere in the rear of the
German army.
The German authorities are like
wise rapidly making coal miners of
the Russian prisoners, and by this
means are restoring the mines in up
per Silesia, Posen and other districts
to their normal productivity. The
prisoners are also being utilized in
iron works and stone quarries. They
are only put to work in such places,
however, where they do not compete
with free labor.
There are already a large number
of prisoners in the lignite mines near
Bltterfeld, and thousands are at work
constructing new chaussees, princi
pally in the east. Others are busy
on road repair work.
In the west of Germany, where the
French and English prisoners are in
predominance, various plans are un
der way for using the men in agri
cultural pursuits so that the crops
may be planted, cared for and har
vested at the earliest possible time.
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TO ESTABLISH DAIRY
IN MATANUSKA VALLEY
Among the passengers on the Evans
yesterday for the westward was H. C.
Ecklunk, who last year took up a
240-acre homestead in the Matanuska
valley, thirty miles from Ship Creek,
and located on the route of the rail
road, returning home with his wife
and children. He had four horses
aboard the Evans. On hlB arrival at
the homestead he will build barns
and other farm structures aud within
thirty days will ship from Seattle a
herd of twenty milch cows. Eckluna
plans to go Into dairying on an exten
sive scale, us he figures that he will
have a big market for fresh milk in
the adjacent mining centers ana gov
ernment railroad camps.
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tosh tor $12.50 at Flukelsteln £ Sapi
ro's.
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