The Cordova Daily Times
GREATER CORDOVA'S GREATEST NEWSPAPER
ASSOCIATED PRESS TELEGRAPHIC REPORTS. '
H. G. STEEL—PUBLISHERS—C. H. SCHEFFLER
H. G. STEEL, Editor and Manager
SUBSCRIPTION RATES:
Single Copies .$ .10 Six Months (In advance) ... * 6.00
One Month . 1-00 One Year (in advance) .... 10.00
Daily and Weekly, by carrier or mail, $1.26 per month.
Entered at the I’ostoffiee at Cordova, Alaska, as second-class matter.
('(>RIw )VA, ALASKA, FRIDAY. OCTOBER lM>, 1915.
ALL THE MAIL ALL THE TIME.
In “Jm* interior, and particularly Jit Fairbanks, we are in
formed that the one thing the people there want more than
anything else to make “life more liveable” is a complete mail
service such as they were used to “back home.” They com
plain of the limitations of the present service, which, are brand
ed as being “particularly irksome” and to quote from the
Fairbanks Times “ it is not to be wondered at that the parsim
oniousness of the government in this regard is a subject of
much embittered censure.”
The effort of the Interiorites to get all they can from Uncle
Sam is laudable, but when it is taken into consideration that all
of the first-class mail and considerable second-class matter is
dispatched from Cordova on the first train leaving after the
arrival of the steamer here, and other shipment of newspapers
and magazines follow on the next trains, the campaign inau
gurated presents some phases of the mail question that possibly
have not been carefilllv considered by our friend's in the in
t< rior.
ruder the present contract eight hundred pounds of mail
are dispatched from Cordova twice a week from October 1 to
November 24 and from the latter date to March 24 sixteen hun
dren pounds three times a week and from March 24 to May 31
eight hundred pounds twice a week. This fluctuating weight
limit is due to prevailing conditions on the trail. The Second
Assistant Postmaster General, to whom the proposed' increased
service has been referred says:
“The evidence of service given last winter shows that the
second class matter for Fairbanks and the other Interior points
was handled with reasonable promptness, considering the con
ditions affecting the service. The service was sufficient to car
ry second class matter regularly and in such amounts that at
times during the winter all second class matter offered for dis
patch was carried'. On February 13, 1915, there was only 289
pounds of second class matter accumulated at Cordova, and on
Februarp 20 and 27 all second class matter had been dispatch
ed.”
The question then arises as to what class ot mail accumu-1
lates at Cordova during the winter months, and is not dispatch
ed under the weight limit. It is principally catalogues, adver
tising matter of all descriptions and parcel post packages.
And is this the matter the Commercial Club and business men
of Fairbanks want tin* government to expend a large sum
of money to have transported over the trail during the closed
season. If so, the merchants in the Interior do not figure the
same as those on the coast, where the mail order houses are
attempting to ruin local trade, by supplying goods which should
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IM* UUU^IU tit iiwuir.
’Tis true that in some cases these outside concerns under
sell the town merchant, but it is also true that they demand
cash in advance for articles that looking alluring in attractive
advertisements, but but are not always .just what you need or
want. Then, again, the townsman is one who extends you
credit when needed and is always contributing to some public
spirited movement that tends to the upbuilding of the com
munity, which goes a long ways towards making “live more
liveable” in this northern country. The greatest curse to
Alaska’s commercialism is the mail order house. The money
sent out of the country was earned here and should be expend
ed here.
In the same issue of the Fairbanks Times that boosts for
“all the mail all the time” is an article stating that a well
known freighter has left for the outside to arrange with big
mail order houses to haul their catalogues over the trail and
if possible to make arrangements for the delivery at Fairbanks
of a lot of orders. Such a movement does not go hand-in-hand
with the attempt to build up a large community, where the
slogan should be “Patronize home merchants.”
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Cordova is possibly the only town in Alaska that has a
regularly organized development company that is making an
effort to open up the resources of the territory. We refer to
the Cordova Mining & Development Company, which has al
ready raised from $20,000 to $30,000 and is using this money
for the purpose of locating and mining gold quartz ledges.
Some prospective work has already been done and a deal is now
pending which may result in a big mill being erected near here
ami a mountain of low-grade ore mined on an extensive scale.
The war department has approved of auxiliary telephone
lines along the Chitina-Fairbanks trail and it is believed that
they will be placed in service before another year.
As'the weather gets colder the trail conditions improve
and the auto-trucks, with mail and passengers, are making
better time to Chitina.
Dread naught, says Secretary of the Navy Daniels, to build
ers of the all-big gun vessels, who had begun to fear for the
future of that type.
To make matters worse the wheels in some people’s heads
are flat.
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PHYSICIAN and SURGEON
Office over Cordova Drug Store.
Calls may be left at Cordova
Drug Store. Residence,
Alaskan Hotel
DR. W. W. COUNCIL
Physician and Surgeon
Office at Company Hospital
Hours—10 to 12; 1 to 6 p. m.
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DENTIST
Office In Adams Building
ASA C. BALDWIN
Civil Engineer
Patent Surveys
Address: Valdez, Alaska
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Attorney and Counsellor at Law
Room 1
Adams Block CORDOVA, ALASKA.
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ALASKA
STEAMSHIP CO.
Fast and commodious steamers sailing between Seattle, Ketch
ikan Wrangell, Juneau, Skagway, Cordova, Valdez, Seward and
ANCHORAGE, via INSIDE PASSAGE.
Sails from Seattle— Sails from Cordova—
tober 18 .ALAMEDA.October 29
vember 4 .... CITY OF PUBELA ... November 15
Regular freight service for Ketchikan, Juneau, Sheep Creek,
Treadwell, Douglas, Cordova, Ellamar, Valdez ard Latouche. Explos
ives, S. 8. Seward. S. S. Seward, 5th; S. S. Latouche, 15th; S. S.
Cordova, 25th of each month.
This company reserves the right to change schsdule of steamers
without notice.
Tickets on sale at up-town office Alaska Steamship Bldg. Baggage
or freight will not bo received at the dock later than one hour before
sailing time. Ja
F. B. TRACY, T. J. TALLENT,
General Agent Ticket Agent ^
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Pacific-Alaska Navigation to.
ALASKA PACIFIC S. S. CO. ALASKA COAST CO.
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Next sailing from Seattle will be
ADMIRAL FARRAGUT, October 17
ADMIRAL EVENS, October 25
Via the INSIDE PASSAGE for Ketchikan, Juneau, Yakutat,
Katalla, Cordova, Valdez, Seward, Cook Inlet points and Kodiak
Island.
Seattle-San Francisco connecting with steamers Yale and Har
vard for Southern California Ports.
Schedule subject to change without Notice.
ALASKA TRANSFER CO., Local Agents
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(Copper River &
| Northwestern Ry.
Effective October 4th, 1915.
Two trains every six days between Cordova and g
| Chitina, one of these trains leaving Cordova making g
| connection with Alaska Steamship Co. steamers arriving g
| from Seattle. jg
g Trains leave Cordova depot, at foot of Second Avenue, g
Mondays and Thursdays.
Leave Kennecott, Tuesdays and Fridays,
g Leave Kennecott for Chitina, Wednesday and Saturdays, g
g Leave Chitina for Cordova, Tuesdays and Fridays,
g The above schedule subject to change without notice. j|
Dining Car In Connection With all Regular Pessenger Train* Be
g tween Cordova and Chitina. ‘ g
g Freight received from 9 A. M. to 5 P. M. g
g Tickets on sale it Depot or up-town office, Alaska g
g Steamship Company building g
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