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OSTRANDER BLDG. COROOVA, ALASKA
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AN OFFER FOR SIXTY DAYS ONLY.
575 Town Lots in Cordova.
Ranging in price from $50 up to $3000, and 600
Town lots in Chitina from $50 to $1000. Any
or all of them on easy terms.
Now is the time to buy.
For particulars—Call on or write to
GEO. C. HAZELET,
Cordova, Alaska. Trustee and Agent.
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THE HOTEL
CHITINA
ENLARGED AND COMPLETELY RENOVATED
SPACIOUS LOBBY —- STEAM HEATED
CAFE AND BAR
The Comfort Home of the Interior
T. W. CLONINGER ... A , .
Proprietor Chitina, Alsaka
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gestion to put in your “Jimmy Pipe’’ and smoke.
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Cordova. Carve your name in the Hall of Fame.
The Cordova Daily Times wants your advertising.
GET IN THE WAGON AND RIDE
FIRST BANK OF CORDOVA
CAPITAL STOCK 826,000
4% on Time Deposits
Our Stockholders Are
8. BLUM GEORGE C. HAZELET
M. BROCK FRED GLA8BRENNER
A. E. LATHROP DELIA LYONS
JAFET LINDEBERG
DESPOSITORY FOR TERRITORIAL FUNDS.
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;To Build to Bering
j Coal Says Riggs
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I Under date of April 20 the Seattle
| Times publishes the following dls
I patch from Washington, by its spec
I lal correspondent, W. W. Jermane, in
I which Commissioner Riggs talks free
U ly of the railroad plans for Alaska:
- Now that President Wilson has
designated Seward as the terminus
of the government railroad in Alas
ka, the Alaska engineering commis
sion will bend all its energies tow
ard the construction of its lines into
the Matanuska and Bering Rner coal
fields. This is the statement made
by Thomas Riggs, Jr., a member of the
commission.
“Of course we have not yet bought
the Alaska Northern Railroad,” said
Mr. Riggs, but eventually it will
come into our possession. It ha; been
, constructed only up to Kern Creek,
and will be extended from there as
_ we get funds from congress.
"This year, however, the commis
sion will do some construction work
on its own nccount. It will start a
line four miles long from Ship Creek,
which will tap the Alaska Northern
when It is extended toward the Ne
nana river. This short line will be
through a level country, and vill take
care of the Matanuska coal. There
will be a great development, howev
er, below that toward Seward. There
are many mineral claims in the Ken
ai peninsula and when the govern
ment road is in operation there will
be further developments of gold mln
► Ing.
- “In order to get into 'he Bering
River field, we will make a definite
survey from Mile 38 cn the Copper
River & Northwestern. This will
provide means of getting this val
uable coal to the seaboard by the gov
ernment line and the Copper River
road to deep water at Cordova,
whence it can be shipped to (the
states.
"The people of Fairbanks need have
no fear that the government road will
not extend to that place. No defi
nite location has been fixed for a line
from Nenana River, because tlieie
were several routes that may be fol
lowed. This summer the commission
will continue its surveys from the Ne
nana to Fairbanks with a view to sub
mitting an additional report to the
President for the selection of a road
to the Yukon.
"It Is not expected that the govern
ment road will be extended further
than Fairbanks for the present.
The commission is not considering
the acquisition of the Tanana Va’ley
road, commonly known as the Falcon
Joslin road. That extends north
ward beyond Fairbanks, and our pies
inent plan Is to have the government
road stop at Fairbanks.
“The commission will not attempt
any survey this summer looking to
the extension of the government line
toward Nome. The construction of
branch lines running in that utrec
tion Will come naturally the next
few years, as the construction of the
main line into the interior proceeds.
The commission has available now a
bout $2,500,000. Of this the first
installment of $500,000 on the pur
chase of the Alaska Northern will be
due shortly. That will leave only
$2,000,000 for our construction and sur
vey work during the coming season.
“During the summer we will do
both earth and rock work on the ex
tension of the Alaska Northern bey
ond Ship Creek, and next winter rock
work will be continued because it is
possible to do that kind of work in
cold weather. We can't make any
estimates now as to when the rail
road will reach Fairbanks, but when
all our plans are completed construe- ^
tion will be pushed aB rapidly as pos
sible with funds that congress will
provide from time to time.
“In conection with our work I would
like to have the fact known that all
available places at the disposal of
the Alaska engineering commission
have been filled. This Includes la
borers and others who may be used
on the construction of the line from
Ship Creek tins summer. We have
no fewer than 40,000 applications for
places on file and It will be useless
for anybody else to ask for a Job.”
Officials of the interior department
are unxlous that transportation facil
ities shall be afforded for getting the
coal from Matanusa and Bering River
to the sea. It is because of this de
sire that the engineer commission has
has decided to run a line to the Mat
anuska field from Ship Creek, and to
survey the tap line from the Bering
River field to communicate with the
Copper River & Northwestern rail
road. .j
Secretary Franklin K. Lane is con
fldent that the Alaska coal leasing law
will be practical and that it will re- S
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suit in the development of these two
fields. If his hope is realized there
will be a profitable tonnage from both ■:
fields. Alaskans who were in Wash- •:
ington last winter are not so confi- •:
dent of the efficiency of the leasing :•
law. They are anxious, however, :•
that the government road shall ex- :•
tend into these fields. They say i;
that with the roads available, govern
ment officials will be anxious to put •
them on a paying basis, and will be
willing to so amend the leasing law j
as to make it workable without too •:
great a hardship upon those who will •:
put their money into the development. :■
Falcon Joslin, of Fairbanks, who :■
come here to try to get a contract for
the construction of the government •:
roads, predicts that eventually the •:
government will buy the Copper River •:
& Northwestern road.
Secretary Lane has been dickering :■
with J. P. Morgan for the sale of this :•
road but up to this time they have
been wide apart on the question of
value, and just now there is little j ;
prospect of their getting together.
The representative of the federal gov
I
ernment will be satisfied for the pres
ent to construct the branch from Mile
38 Into the Bering River field so that
the coal mey get to the seaboard.
The Matanuska coal has been shown
by actual test to be of high grade
and it is expected that considerable
quantities will be sent over the Ship
Creek route for naval use. The Mat
anuska coal will save the government
annually enormous Bums that have
heretofore been spent for transporta
tion of Eastern coals to the Pacific.
Eventually, it Is expected that Uncle
Sam's warships will be using Mat
anuska coal exclusively while In Pa
cific coast waters.
1 LONDON FUE
CHIEF TO RETIRE
LONDON, April 30—After thirty
three years of service, William John
May, head of the London Fire Depart
ment, Is about to retire. He is one of
the few high officials in the city gov
ernment who have risen from the
ranks. He entered the service In 1883
and became senior superintendent in
1913.
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Fresh Cordova Rggs at O'Neill &
1 Slater Co’s.
8 AH the Ileal News In the Times.
WOMEN CONDUCTORS
GLASGOW CARS
GLASGOW, Scotland, April 30
Women street car conductors are be
Ing tried in Glasgow. The uniforms
includes a neat blue skirt and coat
edged with gold braid. If the trial
squad of women conductors proves
efficient, a considerable number will
be employed at once. For the pres
ent, the women fare-collectors wil
work only four hours a day, runnlnf
between the University and Dum
breck. They will be paid the sami
wages as men—$6.25 to $9 a week
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Official* Buy Lots.
The Seward Gateway reports tha
District Attorney Spence and his ai
sistant, W. A. Munley, have purchase
several lots in the westward towi
The lots were purchased while th
attorneys were in the westward tow
to settle the case of the right to tld
lands upon which a number of peopl
iiad squatted.
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LAWRENCE BARRETT a mi
Havana smoke at all dealers.
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Eggs, Fresh from the Local Rancl
at O'Neill & Slater Co's.
FAMOUS JURIST
GETS IRON CROSS
LEIPSIC, April 30—Attorney Will
iam Dietz of this city, who achieved a
well-nigh international reputation a
few years ago by prosecuting the
famous "Captain of Copenlck,” has
been awarded the Iron Cross. He is
serving as a captain of reserves at
tached to a reserve army corps. In
the Franco-Prussian War. though only ■
a high school senior, he enlisted and
• served through the campuign.
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COAL SHORTAGE
SOUTH RUSSIA
t ODESSA, April 30—The shortage of
i- coal In South Russia has assumed
J serious proportions, and may force the
i. closing of all the large factories of the
e Odessa district. The factory owners
n are holding conferences in an effort
e to find some method of conserving the
e available fuel supply.
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Keep Dry with an $18.00 Mackin
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ro’s.
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The northern life insurance company has
again to report a successful year, with marked gains
In every direction.
The assets were Increased One hundred and Thirty-five
Thousand Dollars! the resrve for the protection of Policy
holders, One Hundred and Sixteen Thousand Dollars.
Accident and Sickness Claims of $28,478.00 were paid,
and Death Claims of $33,453.00.
No death Claim has ever been disputed.
All claims are paid immeditely on receipt of proofs.
Total paid to policyholders in 1914 was $116,209 26.
The Company’s yearly income was Increased to $416,
506.00.
After paying dividends of eight per cent, to stockholders
nnd dividends of $32,661.24 to policyholders—
The net surplus of the Company was increased more
than seventeen per cent, over the preceeding year.
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Suppose you should get sick, ir by accident you had
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A. E. RANSOM
Dlv. Supt. for Alaska
. A. J. Adams, Local Represen
___tatlve, Cordova, Alaska.
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