POfl ILLS
H. W. Vance, who is developing a
gold quartz property on Betties bay,
in the Port Wells district, reports that
good progress is being made in the
work of running the tunnel into the
mountain on the ore body. The
groupd which he is developing is
known locally as the Daly and Ben
nett property.
The original locators run several
hundred feet of tunnel last year, and
when the property was taken over by
Mr. Vance he gave a contract to them
for two hundred feet of tunnel, which
will develop the ore body at a lower
level. The new tunnel is now in a
depth of seventy feet, and the lead
which was only eighteen inches on
the surface, has widened out to four
feet in the face of the drift. It is
good commercial ore, and as condi
tions are favorable for economic min
ing and milling, it will return hand
some profits when more fully devel
oped and equipped with a mill.
A splendid waterpower is available
and as the ground is covered with
timber suitable for lumber and mine
purposes, the property has a promis
ing future.
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POPULAR CHITINAITE CORDOVA
VISITOR.
John E. Nelson, of the Cbitina Cash
Store, arrived in town on yesterday's
train and will spend several days with
his many Cordova friends. John is
one of the most popular business men
in the Copper Kiver valley, and he is
enjoying a much needed vacation.
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It is understood that Judge Jen
nings will sit in Valdez at the April
term of court.
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Wanted — A position as steam en
gineer. Twenty years’ experience.
Apply A. L. McDonald, Cordova House.
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FORMER VALDEZ WOMAN WRITES
WAR POETRY.
Mrs. Harriet Joseph Burr, who for
merly conducted a dressmaking es
tablishment at Valdez, Is the author
of the following poem, which appeared
in a recent Issue of the Portland Ore
gonian :
ARE YO UREADY?
Are you ready, are you ready,
Ho you hear your nation's call?
Do you feel you could surrender,
Your country, home and all?
Are you ready, are you ready
When the bugle sounds the blast?
Do you feel within your bosom
The echoes of the past?
Are you ready, are you ready
Your fair country to defend?
To join your loyal comrades
And battle to the end?
Are you ready, are you ready
If the call should come today?
If our shores should be Invaded
And the enemy comes to slay?
Are you ready, are you ready
With your navy, shot and shell?
To give the foe Invading
The answer that will tell?
Are you ready, are you ready
To keep your flag unfurled?
And help to make this Nation
The most glorious in the world?
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Recent advices say that all Signal
Corps operators who have spent six
years in the territory will be trans
ferred to the outside not later than
September 1.
BUDGET OF NEWS NOTES
. FROM M'CARTHY
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partial Every one entitled to vote j
within the two mile limit voted. So!
far the only applicant for a saloon li-|
cense is John Amber, an old Alaskan,
qualifiedly in experience and Inclina
tion to run a saloon as it should be
run. Soon again we may hear "have
one with me.”
At a meeting of the "bootleggers'
union,” held since the saloon elec
tion. its officers resigned in a body.
Today the Republican primaries are
being held in the city.
At a trial held in commissioner
Faddis' court, Mickey Galligher and
Mickey Graham plead guilty to steal
! Ing a quantity of whiskey from a deni
zen of the red light district, and were
sentenced to 40 days in jail and a fine’
of tlOO each.
Mart Lattin, the pioneer agent of
McCarthy, recently returned from a
three months’ trip to the States. It
is hoped by the people of McCarthy
that Mart will locate here permanent
ly, than whom none are more popular
than Mrs. F.attin and himself.
; Frank darkens, the genial 1 road
1 house man from Nazina. accompanied
; by his bride, are in McCarthy on their
j way home from a trip to Seattle and
j other coast towns.
MAKE STRIKE
That
kans wherever they go. is proven by
the fact that John McGinn, Jack Price,
Frank Manley and E. J. Ives are into
the money in an old claim in Tuo
loumne county, in California.
Mr. McGinn was offered an option
on a placer mining claim in Tuoloum
ne county for a small amount of
money. The claim was immediately
above Due from which Senator Hearst,
father of William Randolph Heart,
took several million dollars. It has
been worked for many years, but
somehow' did not seem to yield very
much. But Mr. McGinn took the op
tion on the ground and asked .Jack
Price to go there and investigate it.
Mr. Price went to the claim. He
went down in the hole and
was picking on bedrock. He found
gravel on the bedrock. This led him
to believe that the hole had never
been sunk to real bedrock, and he or
dered a couple of men to keep on
picking and sinking. Today $2 and $3
pans are not rare finds in the claim,
it was just as Mr. I'rice figured it
out. They were on the rim of a boul
der. They drifted and struck the
paystreak, and are now in the money,
end in it in no uncertain way.
The gravel is hard and has to be
run through a. small pebble mill.
Working two or three men for a few
weeks, without the proper kind of a
mill to handle the gravel, the former
Alaskans more than paid for their op
tion and the expenses connected with
the investigation of and work on the
mine, and got a good profit besides.
The men are well pleased and w-ill in
stal up to date machinery on the
ground and work it on a large scale
in the near future.
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MAKING BIG DEAL ON BEAR
CREEK GROUND.
James McCoy and some others have
almost completed a deal by which
they will bond a large amount of
property on Elear creek, which they In
tend to operate by hydraulic methods.
All the signatures of the owners of
the property except that of Charles B.
Herron have been secured, and the |
deal is regarded as virtually made.
Bill Cassidy, Con Sullivan and others
are holders of some of the property,
which is very extensive and promises
tremendous returns from proper op
eration.—Seward Gateway.
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Wanted — A woman cook at once.
Apply at this office.
Cordova Dressmaking Parlors. Work
tuaranteed. Prices reasonable. Adam*
building.
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Japanese wants a position as cook
Jr kitchen helper. Morooku, Box 241
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For good piling, any length, anj
unount. See Dooley.
REGISTRATION NOTICE. 'A.
Beginning February 1 the registra
tion book of the Town of Cordova
will be open at my office at the P. O.
! Store, Second street, Cordova, at all
hours during the day and evening. The
registration book will be closed at 4
p. m., Saturday, April 1, 1916.
CHAS. ROSSWOO, Registrar.
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dies’ and Gents’ Suitings.
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