THE CORDOVA DAILY TIMES
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' K. G. STEEL
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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1919.
“OPPORTUNITIES IN ALASKA."
Director of Publicity E. J. White
has been receiving a great many in
quiries, particularly from the east, as
the result of a letter he recently wrote
to the Christian Science Monitor of
Boston. The letter is entitled “Oppor
tunities in Alaska,” and the responses
to it indicate that there is a great deal
of interest in this territory through
out the country.
As a result of the letter Mr. White
has been requested to write an article
j for a New York magazine, setting
forth more in detail the opportunities
for young men in Alaska. This he
will do at once.
Mr. White’s letter which appeared
in the Christian Science Monitor is
as follows:
To the Editor of the Christian Science
Monitor:
Now that the war is over, and hun
dreds of thousands of young men are
being dismissed from military serv
ice, young men who, being imbued
with the spirit of adventure, will not
be content to return to their former
prosaic lives, a few words of what
Alaska has to offer them are not out
of place at this time.
Alaska is America’s last frontier,
and the department with which the
writer is connected le already receiv
ing many letters from soldiers and
sailors about to be discharged from
the service, and who are anxious to
acquire information about this coun
try, with the view of coming here to
make their future homes.
While Alaska has hundreds of mil
lions of acres available to settlers, the
proposition looking to “community
settlements,” which is now being
worked out by the Reclamation Serv
ive of the Department of the Interior
of the United States, is not feasible to
mia uuuuuy, uic Manic as it win utj
in many of the states in which are
vast areas of swamp land which it is .
proposed to reclaim for agricultural
purposes and for homes for returned
soldiers. The reason this system will
not succeed in Alaska is that, to make
a success of agriculture there must be
markets for the products, and the
population of Alaska is as yet too
small to constitute such market, and
the distance to cities along the Pacific
coast is so great that Alaska products
could not be shipped with success or
in competition with what those states
produce within their own confines.
Farming, therefore, in Alaska is not
an inducement to be held out to our
returned soldiers and sailors.
However, several thousand young
men can be provided for here by our
principal Industries, which are com
mercial, mining, fishing and lumber
ing, of which all but that of fishing
are steady, twelve months in the year,
and year in and year out. All of these
industries ate and have been operat
ing on short labor ever since the
United States entered the war. Also
all of these industries are now await
ing the return of those who left, as
well as the arrival of new men, in or
der that normal conditions may be re
sumed and the volume of business In
creased at the earliest possible date.
It Is conservative to state that 6000
young men can be furnished with re
munerative employment in Alaska
during the first four months of the
new year, but it Is not desired that
they- all come at once, or even In
bunches of several hundred. But by a
few arriving with every steamer from
the south, they can be absorbed and
provided for by the country without
any congestion. Also, and as soon as
normal prices obtain, a number of
low-grade mining propositions which
cannot be operated on account of the
high cost, both of material and labor,
will again become active, and at least
another 6000 men will be required.
Again, the opportunities In Alaska
for young men to get Into business for
for themselves are many and varied,
and the result is that the business in
dustries of the territory are con
stantly increasing and the scope for
the employment of labor steadily
broadening.
Alaska will welcome returned war
heroes with open arms, and will put
them in line to do something for
themselves, but they must not come
here with the idea that gold nuggets
can be clucked from trees. Robert
W. Service had the right line on Al
aska when he wrote:
“There are hardshops which nobody
reckons;
There are valleys unpeopled and still;
There is a land—oh, it beckons and
beckons,
And I want to go there^-and I will.''
(Signed) B. J. WHITE,
Chief, Alaska Bureau of Publicity.
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ALASKA PRESS COMMENTS.
SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 15, 1919.
Absolutely nothing to it; we’re talk
ing about the rumored oil strike in
the Chickaloon section. This isn’t
saying that there is no oil there, how
ever.—Anchorage Times.
The Anchorage Chamber of Com
merce is issuing a large quantity of
printed matter descriptive of the city
and surrounding district, and will send
it to Seattle and the states with the
purpose of securing a fair share of
the immigration this year. Anchor
age has a live body of men and it
realizes the value of advertising for
a section. A few thousand circulars
scattered over the states at thi3 time
would bring thousands of dollars in
return later.—Valdez Miner.
We are having a wonderful winter
so far, and the hopeful part of It all
is that the sun is now on the north- 1
ward journey again, the days are
getting longer, and very soon it will
be impossible for Jack Frost to show
even his nose, except possibly at
night. We have such a start on him '
now that he can’t do much damage in
the line of really severe cold weather 1
this winter. And in spite of the fact >
that it is not a sign of the highest 1
intellect to talk of the weather, surely
it is justifiable especially when we are 1
writing to those poor benighted souls (
Outside, who wonder how white peo- ;
pie ever manage to subsist in this
supposedly Arctic region, a land of !
perpetual snow and ice.—Fairbanks
Citizen.
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Douglas is threatened with another 1
cannery. If this latest one material- i
Izes there will'be three canneries on 1
Douglas island next summer. Let s
them come; the more the merrier and 1
the better we will like it. Although t
they do not resemble the rose in per- t
ume, their money is not a bit tainted t
md will prove a welcome addition to c
the revenues of the town in these dull .
lays—Douglas Island News. a
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Fresh shipment of Brookfield saus- I
ige arrived on this boat. Blum,
D’Neill Co. ,1
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Job printing at Daily Times office t
BOV ARRESTED
ON CHARGE OF
ROBBjNGMAH
According to the Seattle Post-Intel
linger of January 30 Claude E. Savag*
is being held in that city under $2600
bondp on the serious charge of hav
ing rifled the U. S. mail on the steam
er Victoria, which left Cordova for
the states on December 18 last, not
withstanding the fact that our con
temporary this morning published a
special dispatch under a Seattle data
line to the effect that the authorities
are still searching for Savage, who
is suspected of the crime.
Details of the robbery are now be
coming -known and General Agent
Tracy, of the Alaska Steamship Com
pany, says that in addition to some
nuggets found strews on the boat,
several gold bricks were recovered
from under a mattress where they had
been hidden, and a number of money
orders sent from here failed to reach
their destination.
The Post-Intelligencer published
the following account of the arrest of
an ex-naval reserve youth, in connec
tion with the crime, in its issue of
January 30:
^Utu6cu wilu tampering witn unit
sd States mails in transit from Alaska
to Seattle, Claude E. Savage, 17 years
aid, former member of the naval re
serve in this district, is held by gov
ernment agents under $2500 bail.
“After his discharge from the naval
•eserve, Savage took a job as fireman
m the steamer Victoria. On the re
urn trip to Seattle from Cordova fed
eral officers received a wireless mes
sage from the captain of the Victoria,
stating that seven mail pouches and
sacks on the steamer had been cut
spen and the contents rifled.
“Savage was arrested on the charge
ast Saturday and is said to have con
essed to rifling the mail and stealing
ess than $50. He was brought before
Jnited States Cominissioner R. W.
McClelland last Tuesday afternoon
ind bound over to the federal grand
ury under $2500 bonds.
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125,000,000 DOCK SCHEME
AT SWANSEA, ENGLAND.
Industrial developments estimated
o involve expenditure of £5,000,000
re about to be started at Swansea,
.ngland. All the land between Swan
ea East Dock and the Neath river
tas been taken, and steel and ore
reating works and blast furnaces are
0 be erectefT at once. A colliery en
erprise will occupy 1,500 acres, and
il refineries estimated to absorb over
1 2,000,000 will be built in the same
rea, according to information reach
:ig the United States Department of
labor.
An elaborate scheme of workers'
wellings in the neighborhood is pro
ided for, and 2,000 houses will be
uilt as a first instollment.
REGISTRATION NOTICE =
The registration book of the town
of Cordova will be open at my office,
in the corner store, Michelson & Cur
rier building, First street, Cordova,
every day from 12 o’clock noon until
8 p. m.
The registration book will be closed
at 4 o’clock p. m. Saturday, March
29, 1919.
C. H. LAMPREY, Registrar.
NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION OF
PARTNERSHIP
Notice is hereby given that the
partnership heretofore existing oe
tween William Crooker and Charles
Mathews in the operation of the
launch Wait has been dissolved. All “
accounts due will be collected and all _
bills payable will be settled by Will
iam Crooker. The operation of the
Waif hereafter will be by Mathews
& Arnold. Regular trips to Katalla
and way points.
MATHEWS & ARNOLD.
. Dated Feb. 6, 1919.
NEW NEEDLE ART SHOP 1
All kinds of Stamped Em
broidery Goods, Fancy Knitting
Yarns. Sweaters and Socks
knit to order.
Lessons Given in
EMBROIDERY, KNITTING
AND CROCHET WORK
IDA DOWALDER
C St., Adams Bldg. f
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BIG SUM TO BE SPENT
IN ROAD-BUILDING
About $300,000,000 will be put into
road building this year, according to
estimates by experts of the Depart
ment of Agiculture, submitted to the
Division of Public Works and Con
struction Development of the Depart
ment of Labor. It is estimated that
about half this amount will go to
labor.
The $300,000,000 of construction es
timated will not be sufficient to make
up deferred war construction, it is
believed, for normally the amount
spent on rbads in the United States
is not far below $300,000,000, and dur
ing war times road building came al
most to a stop in many localities.
Estimates prepared for the follow
ing states are considered accurate
within 1 or 2 per cent, according to
officials of the Department of Agricul
ture: Maine, $1,500,000; Rhode Island,
$90,000; Connecticut, $4“,000,000; New
York, $12,000,000; New Hampshire,
$175,000; Kentucky, $1,500,000; Ala
bama, $1,000,000; West Virginia, $16,
000,000; Illinois, $9,000,000; Iowa, $15,
574,00; Louisiana, $4,674,000; Texas,
$20,000,000; Nebraska, $1,657,097.07;
North Dakota, $3,000,000; Wyoming,
$653,000; Colorado, $3,900,000; Cali
fornia, $20,000,000; Arizona, $900,000;
Nevada, $1,148,849.80; Idaho, $1,000,
000.
New Jersey, Maryland, and Mon
tana are expected to make consider- j
able expenditures on roads this year, i
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“Help make the world safe for men who
are trying to make reverence for law the polit
ical religion of the nations.”
Ponder on this utterance and let it be a guide to your
action ill the reforms that should resolve from the pres
ent social unrest. B
Tb® variety of our industries insures a wonderful
handicapped^ ^ Wlth°Ut & ^ aCC°Unt y°U wiU be
Don’t be afraid to come in and talk your affairs
over, so that you can open an account now with the
BANK OF ALASKA
Capital $170,000.00
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Chitina and Fairbanks
Carrying Passengers and Freight from
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Rates and other information can be obtained
from Fred N.cholls, at Paxsons, or Oscar
_ Breedman, at Chitina
sanitation service satisfaction
Perfect The Best Guaranteed
MODERN LAUNDRY
F. A. JONES, Proprietor
PHONE 66
First Avenue, Below Alaskan Hotel
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ARE YOU GOING OUT THIS FALL?
Visit San Francisco and Stop with
Mark C. Thompson
at his new hotel in the heart of the city between
Powell and Mason Streets.
The Dale- Tallac Hotel
140 ELLIS STREET
Special Rates and Headquarters for Alaskans.
Manhattan Hotel
R. W. FERRELL, Prop.
Electric Lighted. Hot Water. Turkish and Tub
Baths.
OPPOSITE CORDOVA GRILL, CORDOVA, ALASKA.
♦ PHONE 99
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Don’t Waste Money on
“Hand-Me-Down”
Clothes
A Suit to your meas
ure for $45 or $50
looks a lot better and
feels better.
TOM HUBBERT
_ Tailor
argain Stor
A LINE OF SHIRTS, PANTS, WOOL BLANKETS
QUILTS, ETC. FROM F. A. PATRICK AND CO.
We also handle the Hirsoh-Weis and Co. “Rose City”
brand of Mackinaws, Loggers’ Shirts, Rainset and An
apelle Clothing.
Blaok Boar brand of union mado Ovoralla and Jackata.
A complata ilna of Wool and Cotton Blankata, Qullta of all klnda,
Bad Spraada, Shaata and Pillow tllw. Wnni An* and inaolaa.
■ owara nan prana oil Coata.