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P JEWELER AND WATCHMAKER
KENDRICK BUILDING FIRST STREET
THE CITY BAKERY
WE ARE SPECIALISTS IN. FINE CAKES AND PASTRY
FOR
Parties and Receptions
MAKERS OF THE FAMOUS .“CREAM LOAF" BREAD
SUN “MAID" RAISIN BREAD—A TREAT INDEED
RYE BREAD GRAHAM BREAD
LUNCH ROOM—WH;RE YOU GET THOSE EXCELL
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And see what we have in the line of workmen’s clothing,
beds, mattresses and canvas goods of all kinds, tents and
shovels, kitchenware, furniture, stoves, etc. We also
carry a full line of mirrors—plate glass and plain.
THE NORTHERN BLOCK
First Street
Copper River
& Northwestern Ry.
FOUR TRAINS WEEKLY BETWEEN
CHITINA AND KENNECOTT
Leave Cordova, Second Street Depot on Mon
days, Thursdays and Saturdays.
Leave Chitina for Cordova Sundays, Tuesdays
days, Thursdays and Fridays.
Leave Chitina for Kennecott Sundays, Tues
days and Fridays.
Leave Kennecott for Chitina Mondays, Wednes
days, Thursdays and Saturdays.
The above schedule subject to change with
out notice.
Dining Car in Connection With all Regular
Passenger Trains Between Cordova and Chitina.
Freight received and delivered at Cordova
Wharf from 9 a. m. to 5 p. m., except Sundays.
Tickets on sale at Second Street Depot
office, one hour before departure of trains.
CALEB CORSER, W. E. BROWN,
Superintendent. Agt. Cordova Wharf
R. K. BROWN, Jr., Ticket Agent.
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mm mine j
The largest mineral producers of
the Copper River region, in 1917, as
in the several preceding years, were
the Jumbo and Kennecott-Ronanza
copper mines. Considerable copper
was also shipped from the Mother
Lode mine, and small shipments were
made from several other properties.
The important local developments In
copper mining during the year include
the successful operation on an am
monia leaching plant installed at the
Kennecott-Bonanza in 1916 and the
construction of automobile roads for
hauling ore from the Mother Lode
mine and from Nugget creek. Much
development work was done at these
and other mines, some of which will
probably soon begin shipping. Labor
troubles reduced the output of the
Jumbo and Kennecott-Bonanza mines
during the summer. Hydraulic placer
mining continued on a large scale in
the Nizina and Chistochina districts.
Some platinum was produced in the
Chistochina distrct.
Prince William Sound.
The value of the total mineral pro
duction of Prince William sound was
about $4,200,000 in 1917, compared
with about $3,000,000 in 1916. This
represents the value of the production
of 6 copper mines and 7 small gold
mines.
The producing copper mines in 1917
included the Beatson, Blackbird,
Schlosser property, C'idas, Mackintosh
property, and Ellamar. The Black
bird group, on Latouche Island, began
shipping after lying dormat for several
years. Three hundred and fifty men
were employed at the Beatson-Bon
anza, where large operations were con
tinued, and the capacity of the mill
ing plant was increased to 1600 tons a
day. Twenty-five men were employed
on the Schlosser property and consid
erable underground work was done,
the Macklntos hproperty employed 13
men stoping an old lead and extending
the adit tunnels on it and cross-cutting
le a new lead. The Ellamar mine, with
100 men, continued operations through
out the year on about the usual scale.
Fifty men were employed at the Mi
das during the year, underground
operations were continued, a tram w^as
operated, and large shipments were
made. Six hundred feet of tunnel and
crosscuts were driven on the Rua prop
erty. A large low-grade copper prop
erty xvas discovered on Long bay.
Some diamond drilling on a nickel
iferous deposit on Knight Island is re
ported.
Four small gold mines were oper
ated in the Port Valdez and Port Wells
districts, but there was a gradual de
cline in gold mining and milling
t throughout the year, and the total pro
duction of the gold mines was small.
Kenai Peninsula and Cook Inlet.
The lode and placer gold mines of
Kenai Peninsula yielded a smaller out
put that in the previous year. There
was very little activity in the lode
mines. The largest placer operations
were on Resurrection and Crow
creeks. Preliminary steps were taken
toward placer mining on a large scale
on Canyon creek. Large shipments
of chromic iron ore were made from
Port Chatham.
Matanuska Coal Field.
The most important event of the
year in the Matanuska valley was the
extension of the railroad to Chicka
loon, completing the Matanuska
branch. The Eska Creek coal mines,
opened in 1916 by private lessees, have
been taken over by the Alaskan En
gineering commission, which is also
opening a mine at Chickaloon. The
Doherty coal mine, on Moose creek,
was operated throughout the year, and
w'ork preparatory to mining was un
dertaken at other localities.
Susitna Region.
In the Willow Creek district 4 lode
mines were operated in 1917, and a
small mill W'as erected on a fifth. A
promising new quartz vein was opened
at the head of Fishhook creek and has
already been traced for several claim
lengths.
I' l.'Li and 1917 some twenty groups
of (Minis were staked on gold and cop
perbearing lodes in the baa,n Qf Iron
creek, a tributary of Talkeetna river.
Some massive bornlte that carried
visible free gold and that was reported
to have been found in the basin of;
Kashwltna river was brought in by a !
party of prospectors.
I lip prescribed amount of annual
assessment work was performed on
about a dozen groups of lode claims
in the upper basin of Chulitna river,
often referred to as the Broad Pass
dlstrii t. No mines in this district are
yet productive, but more vigorous ex
ploitation of the gold, copper, and anti
mony deposits awaits the better trans
portation that will be furnished by the
government railroad.
I lie i ache Creek district continued
to the principal source of placer gold
in the Yentna basin. The inaccessi
bility of placers on Cache creek has
made mining there very expensive, but
a new wagon road from Talkeetna, on
the government railroad, to Cache
creek, which Is now under construc
tion, will soon afford a quick and easy
approach to the district. A dredge
burning local coal was operated on
Cache creek and 15 hydraulic plants
were working on Cache and Peters'
creeks during the summer. Over 100
men were employed, producing placer
gold valued st between *125,000 and
$180,000. Operations at the end of the,
season were hampered by protracted
rains and serious floods, which caused
considerable damage to several min
ing plants. Late in the fall a Hudson
Dry dredge was installed on ground
along the north side of Kichatna river,
at the mouth of Nakochna river, to be
gin mining in the spring of 1918, Some
prospecting and mining were done in
: the Camp and Lake Creek basins.
| Along the lower Kahiltna river pros
pecting for platinum was carried on by'
I one company at two localities—one'
! about 3 miles below’ the mouth of
| Peters creek and the other a short
distance upstream from the mouth of
the river. A hand drill and two power
drills were used in prospecting the
river bars, abjuit 12 men having been
employed in this work. The prospect
ing is to be continued next season.
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(Uy Associated Press)
SACRAMENTO, Cal., Jan. 24.—Data
gathered while the anthrax outbreak
in California was being combatted last
your has been assembled for preven
tive campaign by which Dr. Charles
Keane, state veterinarian, hopes to
forestall a possible recurrence of the
infection in the late summer and early
I autumn of 1917.
The outbreak last year was worse
than in any previous year, and “would
have been a disaster to stockmen had
it not been for the fact that the en
larged state sanitary police force pro
vided by legislative action was ample
to cope with the situation,” Dr. Keane
said today.
I Dr. Keane said the disease was
spread principally by “biting flies”
and irrigation water from rice lands.
The water carried the larva from in
fected premises into new fields he
^said.
A record has been made of all
premises infected last year and repres
entatives of the state veterinarian
have begun a campaign of education
among the stockmen and are aiding
in vaccinating stock to make them
immune.
Statistics gathered by Dr. Kane show
that the infection occurred between
August 1, 1917, and the present date,
on 312 premises. Complete data was
gathered concerning 145 of these. The
total number on animals on all the
infected premises was 62,209, of this
number 31,455 were vaccinated. Two
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thousand five hundred and seventy
three animals died before vaccination
and 1,519 subsequent to vaccination.
The disease was entirely suppressed
on <!4 premises. The infection was
principally among cattle, hogs and
sheep.
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SWEDEN’S POSITION.
Editor Cordova Daily Times: Every
one who is against Great Britain Is
against the United States, as a great
American statesman said a few months
ago. These words ought to make
some of my fellow-countrymen, the
Swedish-Americ.ans, and every German
In the country cease their slanderous
talk about England. Forget the Boer
war, und if you can't, then keep your
mouths shut. But remember that
Great Britain has opened dark, un
civilized parts of the world for civ
ilization and the benefit of the whole
W'orld. Before the Boer war (that war
the Germans "can’t forget”), Sweden,
for instance, had no trade, or very
little trade, with the South African
Union. But a few years after the
Boer war Swedish shipping interests
started two lines, the Transatlantic
and the Swedish South African steam
ship lines. Today Sweden is making
millions in business with South Africa.
The British opened South Africa even
for the ungrateful Germans—those
Germans who never have done any
thing but for their own benefit. 1 be
lieve that after this great world wyar
is ended a friendship more sincere
than ever before will keep Great Brit
ain and the United States of America
united to work for the progress of
the world, the right and liberty.
The United States will certainly al
ways remember (hat in the Spanish
American war the British navy was
the only thing that kept the kaiser
from sending warships against the
United States. And if it had not been
for that mighty British navy when
this terrible war started perhaps the
kaiser’s warships had landed troops
on American soil ere now.
It happens sometimes that some of
my own countrymen (the Swedes) in
Alaska slander England and conse
quently the United States of America.
These Sw'edes I can understand came
from some dark part of Sweden into
this country, and know little about
the outside world. But I do believe
that they remember the honored his
tory of Sweden and the flag of blue
and gold. If King Gustavus Adolphus
today could rise from the dead and
see how his old enemies, the Germans,
today sneer at the flag he fought for
and how those Germans sink ships
and coldly murder innocent people, he
would once more call the sons of
Sweden to arms and take revenge on
the German murderers; and once more
should he make the Germans repeat
the prayer of several hundred years
ago in their churches: “From the
rage of the Northmen save us, mighty
God.” Now his sould is restless and
from the grave he is waiting to see
that the sleeping Sweden shall awakt
and remember that he died on Germai
soil by a German murderer's hand
giving his life for the cause of jus
tice, right and liberty.
A few weeks ago news from Swedei
let me know that when the Germar
warships destroyed several neutra
ships in the North sea a few month:
ago, together with several English
ships, the Swedish steamer U. Vican
der, before torpedoed, was bombarded
and there was no chance to get th<
lifeboats out from the burning steame
because of the German shells tha
destroyed them. Sixteen persons per
ished, three of whom were women.
What Sweden needs now is anothei
Gustavus Adolfus, and I hope that be
fore long Mother Sweden will read
her hand across the sea to Uncle Sam
j and England. My happiest day woult
be that day—to see the flag of blue
and gold together with the Stars ant
Stripes, the Union Jack and the flags
of the other allies.
R. L. MALM BORG.
Cordova, Jan. 23.
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JACKLING’S YACHT LOST
Word has been received in Juneau
(hat Col. 1). C. Jackling's former
yacht, the Cyprus, sold to the Rus
sian government, was lost off Hali
fax by a boiler explosion. The Rus
sian crew did not understand the use
of oil.
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BOY DROWNED.
Herbert Cowan, 12 years old, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Cowan, of the Rush &
Brown mine, was drowned recently
while out duck hunting in a small
skiff. Deputy Marshal Sharpe brought
to Ketchikan the news of the little
boy’s death.
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NATIVE RED CROSS
The natives of Klukwan gave a
basket social for the benefit of Amer
ican Red Cross recently, and cleared
in the neighborhood of one hundred
dollars, and are now organizing an
auxiliary to the Haines branch of the
Red Cross.
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NOTICE.
Notice is hereby given that the firm
of Gottschalk and Clonniger conduct
ing the Alaskan hotel at Cordova, Al
aska, and the Alaskan bar, McCarthy,
Alaska, has this day been dissolved
by mutual consent and all bills owing
the firm are payable to R. L. Gotts
chalk, who will also pay all outstand
ing indebtedness, as Art lonniger has
retired from the firm.
R. L. GOTTSCHALK.
AR TCLONNIGER
Cordova, Alaska, Jan. 1, 1918
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Don’t miss seeing our shoe line. We
have a full line of them, as Bmart as
any made, Clayson, The Clothier.
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If You Want
FRESH
CHICKENS
Springers and
Hens
CALL UP
JOE FRY
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Opposite city Bakery,
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An' others smoke VELVET.
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