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CORDqva, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 9,1915.
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CORDOVA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
IN FAVOR OF MERCHANT MARINE
THK Chamber of Commerce held a special meeting last
night to vote on the referendum concerning the proper
measures for the upbuilding of our merchant marine,
which is being taken among the members of the Chamber of
Commerce of the United States. The local chamber is the only
commercial body in Alaska belonging to the national organize
tion, and so they have an opportunity in this referendum to
exert their mite of influence on national legislation. The export
business of the country has become practically paralyzed
because of the war, and the only permanent remedy will be the
creation of a large fleet of American merchant vessels.
The vote taken by the Chamber last night covered nine
distinct propositions to remedy the present state of affairs.
This vote will go to Washington, and be counted with all the
other commercial bodies of the union in determining what
recommendations the national body will make to Congress. The
sentiment of the local body was decidedly opposed to govern
merit ownership and operation of merchant vessels. The busi
ness men of Cordova favor government aid, by subsidy or
subvention to ships which will promote commerce with the
countries where it is deemed important to foster the influence
of the United States. The Chamber favored the creation of a
federal shipping board with powers and duties in regard to
ships similar to those exercised by the Interstate Commerce
Commission in regard to railroads. The Chamber also favored
the licensing and control of foreign shipping corporations
doing business with American ports, along the lines that
foreign insurance companies are regulated by the various states
they enter. The various propositions were discussed freely by
the members before voting on them, and' there can be no doubt
that such discussions on questions of national moment offer an
inviting field for all commercial organizations.
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COPPER RIVER VALLEY ROUTE
RECOGNIZED AS TONNAGE PRODUCER
THE question of tonnage for the government railroad is
one that is now receiving considerable attention from
the press of the states and Alaska. All realize that if
the experiment of government ownership, now being tried in
this territory, is to be a success that it will be necessary to
build the road in that mineral section that will develop tonnage.
Thus far Cordova is the only terminal point in the north that
can boast of a railroad that taps a mineralized belt, producing
tonnage. At present $1,500,000 worth of copper ore per month
is being shipped over the Copper River & Northwestern rail
road from the Mines at Kennecott, and as soon as transporta
tion facilities are afforded' many other interior properties will
be on a tonnage basis. Even tin* people to the westward, where
Uncle Sam has started his first railroad construction, realize
that other routes will have to be built, if Alaska is to be opened
up and sufficient tonnage offered t oinake the investment of
that $35,000,000 worth while. It is interesting, in this connec
tion to read what the Cook Inlet Pioneer, the first newspaper
published at Anchorage has to say on the subject:
Perhaps one of the most debated subjects that has come up
since the government decided to build an Alaskan railway, is
the matter of tonnage. Very frequently one hears Alaskans
and near-Alaskans say, “It is all right for the government to
build a railway, but where will the tonnage come from?”
When one stops to consider that Alaska has an area of over
550,000 square miles, with a white population of less than
30,000 people, it becomes very easily apparent that one of the
things that we most need is population; and yet our population
is more than sufficient until such time as transportation prob
lems are worked out to an extent that they will permit
dormant industries to get in a state that will help support a
population many times greater than we now have.
We believe that when the government once starts railway
construction in Alaska, that it should keep constantly at it for
at least 20 years; and the tonnage question will more than take
care of itself, and will not only prove sufficient for development
purposes, but will, under a wise management, show a profit for
the whole period.
One trouble with Alaska is, that it is so large and the popu
lation is so scattered, that one locality does not see tin* advan
tages and possibilities of other localities. For instance, who
has heard any one in Knik, Seward, Valdez, Cordova, Juneau,
Fairbanks or Nome speak of the richness of the Innoko, Kus
kokwim, Koyukuk or Kobuk valleys? And still all of these
valleys are capable of supporting large populations, if they had
the great Alaska need—transportation.
All of us are somewhat selfish, and it is perhaps good that
we are a little inclined that way. But we should not let local
needs blind us to the just claims of other localities that are
sorely in need of the same help that we are very evidently first
going to receive.
A railway constructed from Seward to Fairbanks, with a
branch to the Matanuska, will most assuredly help the loculi
ties that will be tributary to the line, but we fortunate ones
should not feel satisfied until such time as all parts of our huge
territory get the transportation that is needed for their
development.
We candidly believe that the government should com
mence, as soon as possible, a branch railway to open up the
Kuskokwim valley and thence north to the Innoko and Yukon.
These sections, in potential possibilities, are the greatest on
the continent. And at the same time, the Cordova railway
should be purchased or developed, so that the great mineral
wealth of that section should have adequate transportation!
facilities, and the people in the Copper River delta and the]
upper Tanana valley be given a chance and have an even break
with us.
If you stop In consider that under reasonable freight rates
the low grade placer deposits of Alaska, already discovered,
would quadruple the gold output from that source; that the
well known but at present inaccessible quartz lodes would be
mined; our tremendous possibilities in agriculture, our wood
products, our fisheries, our furs, and our wealth in the world ’s
greatest-felt need—meat—which our reindeer will help to
supply, you cannot do but one thing—cut out this pessimistic
talk about not sufficient tonnage.
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frontier must be difficult for the “neutrals” to be certain
about.
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Treadwell, Douglas, Cordova, Ellamar, Valdez ard Latouche. Explos
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without notice.
Tickets on sale at up-town office Alaska Steamship Bldg. Baggage
or freight will not bn received at the dock later than one hour before
sailing time.
F. B. TRACY, T. J. TALLENT,
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Pacific-Alaska Navigation Co.
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ADMIRAL WATSON, JUNE 5
ADMIRAL EVANS, JUNE 15
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
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
E. F. MEDLEY
Attorney and Councellor at l aw
Room 1
Adams Block CORDOVA, ALASKA.
J. F. R. APPLEBY
CIVIL ENGINEER
Phone 4. CORDOVA. ALASKA
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GOLD-COPPER
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A high grade Gold property, ten
j miles from Valdez with several
hundred sacks of high grade ore
on the dump. This property ad
joins a producing mine and sev
eral veing of high firade 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 Is
I an opportunity to make a fortune.
For prices and terms apply to
S A. HEMPLE, Valdez, Alaska
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OSTRANDER BLDG. CORDOVA, ALASKA
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