SKAGWAY INDORSES
CORDOVA'S FLU PLANS
Skagway Is performing an Interna
tional favor or deed In detaining per
sons coming from influenza infected
districts who are enroute to the inter
ior of Alaska, and Northern British
Columbia and Yukon Territory.
Should the efforts of Governor Higgs
fail in securing the appropriation
sought for this purpose, then tho ex
penses incurred by Skagway will have
to be borne by tho taxpayers, and Is
this just?
In another column, it is noted that
Cordova is detaining all transients
arriving in that city for ten days, and
they are taking the precaution ot
making those so detained pay for
their keep. Cordova, it seems to us,
is merely cautious.
As a matter of fact, few of those
thus far detained in Skagway by rea
son of tho health regulations have
been Skagwayans, and as transients
at this season of the year are almost
all compelled to remain here from
two to five days at some one of the
hotels, it is not asking too much to
require them to pay for their keep
at the hospital annex.
It is certainly not fair to run Skag
way into a heavy debt in order that
the interior may be protected, this
debt to ultimately be paid by the tax
payers of Skagway. It is admitted
that this may be paid out of govern
ment funds, but until such funds are
assurred, it might be safe for the
health board to require the traveling
public to “pungle up.”—Skagway
Alaskan.
PRIVATE CONTRACTORS
WILL NOT BUILD ROAD
W F Carey of hte Sims Carey-Ker
baugh Company of Seattle has denied
the rumor that has been circulated in
Alaska and along the Pacific coast that
the company was going to complete
the government railroad in Alaska.
Mr. Carey said that the company had
never been approached on the matter
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and had never considered the propo
sition. Mr. Carey denied thnt his com
pany was figuring on the work, and
did not know whether other compa
nies had taken the matter up with the
government.
LUXEMBURG HAS BEEN
DECLARED A REPUBLIC
PARIS, Jan. 13 (by Associated!
Press).—A republic has been pro-1
| claimed in Luxemburg, and the Grand j
Duchess Marie has retired from the I
capital.
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QUARANTINE NOTICE.
Providing there are no new devel
; opments or recurrence of influenza,
and with the approval of the city
council, the school, theatre and other
places of amusement as well as public
meetings will be permitted to assume
their normal proceedure on and after
Monday, January 20.
Eight days have now passed since
a new case has occurred In the city
and the indications are that the epi
demic has been stnmped out.
It is advisable that all persons who
have not yet done so should be vac
cinated. Not only as a preventive,
but that should the disease make its
appearance again It could be more
easily combatted and the conse
quneces would not be so grave.
Vaccination can be had free of
j charge at my office each day between
] one and two o'clock.
W. H. CHASE, M. D.
Health Officer.
Cordova, Alaska. Jan. 13, 1919.
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Give a Discount of From 10 to
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COATS, S ITS,
Hats, Sweaters and Shoes.
MAIL ORDERS GIVEN PROMPT ATTENTION
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AN OPPORTUNITY IS OFFERED YO
To Share In the Immense Wealth Which Every Season Is Taken From Local
Waters By the Canneries.
Local Company Organized to Engage in the Salmon Industry and Keep the Profits at Home
LAY THE FOUNDATION FOR YOUR FUTURE INDEPENDENCE
The Hinchinbrook Packing Company has been or
ganized at Cordova for the purpose of operating a two
line cannery on the site now occupied by the Ohm Fish
and Packing Company.
The new company has taken over the Ohm Fish and
Packing Company and will use the boats, gear, buildings
and other equipment of the latter company.
Gus Ohm, V. J. Swanberg and William H. King are
the organizers of the new company.
Everyone in Cordova knows of Gus Ohm. He started
at Cordova with a dory and fished for the local market.
By using sound business methods he prospered and soon
had a number of other fishermen working for him. Busi
ness men of the city became interested and he was given
capital to operate on a large scale, and finally the Ohm
Fish and Packing Company was formed, with him at
its head.
Now Mr. Ohm is convinced that although he has
made a success of the company there is more money to
be made in a salmon cannery than in fish packing, and
with the two men who have been closely identified with
him in the Ohm Fish and Packing Company he has de
cided to take over the latter plant and turn it into a
salmon cannery.
But to do this will require a large sum of money.
The new company will have a good start in possessing
the boats, buildings and equipment of the old company,
but money will be needed to buy additional machinery*
and equipment.
The usual plan in such enterprises is to seek outside
capital—to go to the States and place the proposition
among men who are always on the lookout for such be
ginnings of successful industries.
But in this case the men interested have decided
that instead of going Outside for capital, and eventually
turning the largest part of the profits to people not of
the community, they will first offer people of Cordova
an opportunity to become interested.
The people here know something of canneries. They
know of the past successes of this industry in this imme
diate vicinity. They know that despite cries from the
cannerymen every year that their plants are on the verge
of ruin, yet every plant in the district is being enlarged
and improved and employs more men every season.
Fish packing is not a gamble, as is gold mining or
oil mining. The fish are in Prince William sound, and
when they are taken out they have a ready sale. The
industry yet is in its infancy.
Naturally it is impossible to guarantee a large return
on the stock, but people of Cordova who have seen the
canneries rise and prosper about the city can not doubt
the success of the new cannery.
Shares of the Hinchinbrook Packing Company have
a par value of $1.00 each, and will be placed on the mar
ket at par. All stock will share equally in the profits of
the company. Any quantity, small or large, will be sold.
No exaggerated statements about the company will
be made. A large and profitable fish-packing company
which has every assurance of continued success is being
turned into a cannery because the men in charge believe
a greater success can be made. A man wall be in charge
of the new cannery who has spent practically his entire
life in work connected with fishing and fish packing, and
who has made a success in this very community. Every
possible supply for the canneery will be purchased here
and local help and fishermen wall be employed. The
profits will go to people of Cordova. Thus instead of
the largest part of the money going outside the city, ^
Cordova wall reap the benefits in supplies purchased, sal- 1 ■
aries paid and profits distributed.
This is an open statement of the new company and
its aims.
Remember there has never been a salmon cannery
in this district that has failed. < j
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Look Into This Matter; Get In the Fish Game :
For Further Information See V. J. Swanberg
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