The Cordova Daily Times
REATER CORDOVA’S GREATEST NEWSPAPER
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('(WIX>V.\, Alaska. SATURDAY, JULY24,1910.
A GOOD MINING YEAR IN ALASKA
li. tln> Geological Survey's mid year review for 1915,
7 led II. Brooks reports that there is every reason to believe
t wit tho mining industry of Alaska lias begun a prosperous
}e<n. I lie present high price of copper lias encouraged the
continuation of development work on many copper properties
on which operation were suspended in mid summer of HM4. It
ls probable that about a dozen copper mines will lx* on a pro
dnative basis in 1915 compared with (> in 1914. A considerable
increase of copper production w ill, therefore, take place. The
gold lode production from Southeastern Alaska, Prince William
Sound and Willow Creek districts will also be increased' this
year. * & .
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I lie outlook for an increased output of placer gold is also
encouraging. There will lx* more dredges operated on Seward
I eiiinsrtln this year than last and it is also probable that several
»ew dredges may lx* in operation in other filacer districts before
the close of the season. In addition to the dredges there are
also a number of other placer mining plants of considerable
size that will he operated this year for the first time.
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POOR SHOWING MADE BY GOVERNMENT
There is considerable discontent at Anchorage judging
from the expressions of those on the ground, if the following
excerpts from a letter received in Cordova from tin* new
terminal is any criterion:
“Tin* government has made a mighty poor showing as
railroad builders, and as a result there is a general feeding of
disappointment by those in Anchorage who had hoped for and
(expected better results from 1’ncle Sam in his enterprise. The
small business man feels as though his rights are being encom
passed by the government commissary and mess house, while
the Americans feel as though they have a double grievance on
account of the number of Canadian and other foreign laborers
who have been given employment; if not in preference, at least
with an equality of American labor. Again the short hours
worked bring the monthly pay from $25 to $35 lower than any
wages heretofore paid in Alaska.
“The sale of lots in the now townsite was a financial suc
cess so- far as the government was concerned but a great dis
appointment to the old miner and prospector. They had Imped
to be given a chance by the drawing system to acquire sufficient
ground upon which to build a home, and wore perfectly willing
to pay any price or value the government might fix on the lot,
if given a reasonable time in which to pay for same. As il is
seventy-five per cent of the town is now owned by outside
•apital and consequently will be more or less controlled by
tame, ’ ’
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THE ANTIQUITY OF ALASKA
Long before California was more than a myth, before the
Columbia was discovered, before there was a United States,
\laska had boon partially explored and settled. If Chinese
•ecords are to be believed, the discovery of Alaska antedates
h journeys of the Norsemen to Greenland and across the
Vtlantic. According to these records, a Chinese Buddhist
most traversed the Alaskan shore in 4!)t> A. 1). In 1711 the
Cossacks of Russia were hunting sable in Alaska. In 1724
Yter the Great with his own hand wrote the instruction for
he expedition that led to the discovery and exploration of
Jering Sea, and in the following century Spanish, English and
French navigators again and again headed for the Alaskan
oast in a vain effort to find the Northwest Passage from the
‘acific, to tin* Atlantic. The record of these explorations eon
titutes a most important phase in the history of America.
It is gratifying to learn that, coincident with the beginning
f construction on the government railway, Alaska is to receive'
practically complete library covering its entire history from
he Middle Ages to the present. James Wickersham, Alaska’s
•rritorial delegate in Congress, with several associates, has
dlectod from the libraries of half a dozen European countries
very known work on early Alaskan explorations, substituting
hotographic copies when the original could not be obtained,
i addition this library has been enriched by the addition of
lodern books, of magazine and newspaper articles until it
unprises a permanent record of almost every printed utter
ace on Alaka. To the future historian this collection will be
illy as important as the Bancroft collection has been to the
udents of Western American history.
Great material developments are impending in Alaska. It
to be hoped that, in the quest of individual wealth, Alaskans
d and new will not forget the spiritual development that
muds out a state’s well balanced life. And it is to lit' hoped
at Alaskans will remember the manner in which the older
mmonwealths of the Union have squandered their most
•eeious birth rights, their school lands. Through an act of
ingress the territory has been given two sections in every
wnship for the support of its schools plus one section in each
wnship of tin* Tanana valley for the support of an agrieul
ral college and a school of mint's. Rightly administered this
inct'ly gift should' by and by make the Alaskan schools the
>st highly endowed educational institutions in the world.
The itinerant merchant law, passed by the last legislature,
comes effective next Monday and Cordova should at once
ss an ordinance taking advantage of the act, as the mer
;nts here, as well as throughout Alaska, are entitled **to
election from the fly-by-night concerns who open up their
res for a few days and palm off a lot of shoddy goods, to
• detriment of the legitimate business firms. The* act also
'■ vers people who peddle from door to door with a satchel, as
!! ns the merchant who opens a store for a couple of days.
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The King of England heads a diamond flush since General
tha captured'the Germans’ mines about Luederitz bay.
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EDITORIAL COMMENT
If Seward is willing to erect a sanitarium, by all means
let the insane patients of the territory be taken care of there,
instead of sending them to a Portland institution.
Cordova’s contribution to the mineral wealth of the United
States has been $1,000,000 worth of copper ore during the past
week. This is a record that cannot be beaten anywhere in the
world. Is there any question as to the tonnage part of this
territory? If so, speak up.
A member of the Alaska Kngineering Commission came
overland from Fairbanks to Cordova yesterday, making the
trip in three days and 10 hours. This is surely going some, but
only demonstrates that whatever is undertaken in this section
results in breaking records, even if it happens to fall to the
lot of a government official to do the trick.
Colonel Sleicher, publisher of Leslie’s Weekly, speaks very
optimistically of Alaska’s future. He has been a consistent
booster of the territory, while other magazines were engaged in
muck-raking and he now insists that more energetic develop
ment of our resources will be demanded from the lawmaking
powers at Washington.
Alaska’s gold output for last venr was $15,760,000, an
increase of $140,000 over 1914. At the present rnte of produc
tion the copper ore output from Cordova alone during 1915
will be considerably in excess of all minerals mined in Alaska.
This week there was shipped from this port to the Tacoma
smelter copper ore to the value of $1,000,(M)0.
DR. W. H. CHASE
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON
Office over Cordova Drug Store.
Calls may be left at Cordova
Drug Store. Residence,
Rainier-Grand Hotel
DR. W. W. COUNCIL
Physician and Surgeon
Office at Company Hospital
Hours—10 to 12; 1 to 6 p. m.
DR. C. L. HALE
DENTIST
Office In Adams Building
ASA C. BALDWIN
Civil Engineer
Patent Surveys
Address: Valdez, Alaska
GEO. F. WHITE
The Assayer **
Assaying and Ore Testing
VALDEZ, ALASKA
Established 1911. Formerly 12 years
with Tacoma Smelter
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E. F. MEDLEY
Attorney and Councellor at Law
Room 1
Adams Block CORDOVA, ALASKA.
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A high grade Gold property, ten
miles from Valdez with several
hundred sacks of high grade ore
on the dump. This property ad
joins a producing mine and sev
eral velng of high flrade ore are
exposed on the surface of this
ground.
Also four groups of copper
properties on Prince William
Sound, adjoining navigable water.
All of these properties could be
made producers with a small
amount of money and for a party
who can open same up or can se
cure the capital to do so, this la
i an opportunity to make a fortune.
For prices and terms apply to
S A. HEMPLE, Valdez, Alaska
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Fast and commodious steamers sailing between Seattle, Ketch
ikan, Wrangell, Juneau, Skagway, Cordova, Valdez, Seward and
SHIP CREEK, via INSIDE PASSAGE
Sails from Seattle— Sails from Cordova—
July 12.NORTHWESTERN.July 21
July 18.MARIPOSA.July 28
Regular freight service for Ketchikan, Juneau, Sheep Creek,
Treadwell, Douglas, Cordova, Ellamar, Valdez ard Latouche. Explos
ives, 8. S. Seward. S. S. Seward, 5th; S. 8. Latouche, 15th; 8. 8.
Cordova, 25th of each month.
This company reserves the right to change schedule of steamers
without notice.
Tickets on sale at up-town office Alaska Steamship Bldg. Baggage
or freight will not be received at the dock later than one hour before g
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Pacific-Alaska Navigation Co.
ALASKA PACIFIC S. 8. CO. ALASKA COAST CO.
PUGET SOUND -ALASKA ROUTE
Next sailing from 8eattle will be ^
ADMIRAL WATSON, JULY 15
ADMIRAL EVANS, JULY 27 *
Via the INSIDE PASSAGE for Ketchikan, Juneau, Yakutat,
Katalla, Cordova, Valdez, Seward, Cook Inlet points and Kodiak
Island.
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vard for Southern California Ports.
Schedule subject to change without Notice.
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| Effective June '12th, 1915. I;
; Two trains every six days between Cordova and ! I
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; Trains between Chitina and Sliushanna Junction, ''
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; All trains from Cordova leave from Second Street ;;
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| Dining Car In Connection With all Regular Pessenger Trains Be- ■ >
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! Freight received from 9 A. M. to 5 J\ M. ;;
; Tickets on sale at Depot or up-town office, Alaska "
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