CORDOVA
The seaport through which all the copper and gold
ore deposits of interior Alaska must pass to reach the
markets of the world.
The largest salmon canning center in Southwestern
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Alaska, with five salmon canneries in operatiom.
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The natural outlet for the coal of the Bering river
coal fields; where the copper ore of the interior and of
Prince William Sound points will be reduced when the
coal is made available.
The nearest practicable harbor to the oil fields of
Katalla.
The seat of the only clam canning industry in
Alaska. . \
Cordova has no indebtedness, and the lowest tax rate
of any city in the territory.
C O R D O V A
Has the best harbor north of Puget Sound; ideally
created topographically for a naval station.
Has more natural beauty in its location and sur
roundings than any other city in Alaska.
Has doubled its population the past year through an
influx of permanent residents, brought here by the estab
lishment of new industries.
Has a modern, broad-gague railroad tapping the rich
copper deposits of the Kotsina-Chitina copper belt.
Has the largest dock in Alaska, taxed to its capacity
to handle the millions of pounds of copper and thousands
of cases of canned fish being shipped from here monthly.
Has seven passenger and six freight steamships
making regular trips between it and Puget Sound points,
besides numerous tramp vessels.
Has the best lighted streets in Alaska, lined with
modern business blocks.
Has two navy wireless stations, one of which is equal
in power to any in the United States, and cable connection
with Seattle.
Has every line of business and profession well repre
sented. f V
Has a $10,000 school building, where high school
grades are taught; four churches, four modern hotels,
good restaurants, telephone, electric lights, waterworks
and sewers. \
Has splendid facilities for the sportsman; wild fowl
and game fish are abundant, while a short trip on the
railroad brings the hunter within easy reach of bear,
mountain goat and sheep, moose and caribou.
Has for the sightseer and tourist the greatest natu
ral wonders in the world, the Childs and Miles glaciers.
Cordova today is on a more permanent basis than
any other city in Alaska; is assured of continued prosper
ity and a steady growth, due to the progressive develop
ment which its natural resources are now undergoing.
When the coal of the Bering river fields, now but 25
miles from the present railroad, becomes available, smelt
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ers will be erected here, and Cordova will become the
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Butte nf the North
For more particular information regarding the in
dustries and resources of Cordova and vicinity, the oppor
tunity for investment and employment here, and descrip
tive literature, write
Cordova Chamber of Commerce
Cordova, Alaska
HUS VESSEL
The battered hull of the famous old
gold ship Portland, now lying on the
I beach at Katalla, is being torn to
' pieces for the brass bolts and fasten
; ers which K. K. Miller of Ketchikan is
| going to soli for junk,
I The Portland earned her title of
Gold Ship when she steamed into Se
attle with tin jit-st cargo of gold from
the Klondike in 1897, but she began
her long and sensational career in 1885
under the name of the Haytlan Repub
lic. Almost from her first voyage she
began to furnish the papers with start
ling news Items, as she was seized
for carrying ammunition to the rebels
in Hayti during the Hippolyte rebel
lion. When the United States govern
ment forced her release, a futile at
tempt was made to sink her as she left
the harbor at Port au Prince, and the
marks of the collision with the gun
boat selected to do the work were still
visible when she came to the Pacific
coast in 1889.
After failing both as a cannery boat
and a passenger steamer during the
next few vears, she was finally char
tered by a Portland (Oregon) con
cern, apparently for the purpose of car
rying passengers and freight between
Vancouver, Puget Sound and the Co
lumbia river, but in reality the prin
cipal and most lucrative part of her
i argo consisted of contraband Ohina
i ient and opium. As a smuggler she
was notoriously successful and the ex
pose of the big smuggling ring on
Puget Sound, after which she was
seized and sold by the government at
Portland.
Her new owners remodelled her and
started her out again under the name
Portland. From this time on she had
a varied, but always respectable ca
reer, running to all points between
Panama and the far Aleutian islands
of Alaska.
As a passenger boat on the Alaska
lull no steamer was ever more popu
lar than the Cold Ship. All over Alas
ka today are people who like to recall
the pleasant journeys made on the old
Portland, and who still feel a twinge
of regret when they tell of her fate.
It was during a heavy snow squall
one morning in November. 1910, that
the Portland, westbound, in trying to
come to anchor off Katalla, struck an
uncharted rock and tore a large hole
in her bottom. The captain, thinking
only of the safety of his hardly awak
ened passengers, ran the sinking ves
sel full speed a distance of two ..lies
until she grounded on the bar in front
of the town.
Lighters and launches from Katalla
were alongside almost immediately,
and the passengers, who scarcely had
time to realize what had happened,
were quickly taken ashore. The one
hotel not being large enough to accom
modate then all. the sympathetic resi
dents came forward and offered the
shelter of the'r cabins Keen the
ship's four eats and a family of Kittens
found happy homes, when an old sail
or produced them from the egg case
into which he had placed them when
the sliiii began to go to pieces.
That night all the town was out on
the beach watching through the mist
while the old Portland made her last
fight against the sea, and the creak
ing and groaning of rending timbers
could be heard above the roar of the
breakers. When morning came the
beach in front of the town was littered
witli piles of wreckage three feet high
Provisions of all kinds, turkeys, chick
ens and meat alternated with bedding
and furniture protruded here and there
; from splintered stacks of wood, and
j the beach combers, hurrying from pile
j to pile in the gray, drizzling dawn
> reaped a harvest. -
Six years have gone by since thei
i and piece by piece the old hull has
| washed ashore, but the engines, cov
j ered with barnacles and sea weed
| and buffeted by breakers, sink deepei
each year into the sand on the bar
and the launch men of Katalla use tht
rusty old mass of iron as a tide mark
for they know when the incoming tidi
covers the Gold Ship’s engine, the;
; may take their boats out with safet;
through the breakers on the bar.
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PROTECT THE BABIES.
Whooping cough eases must be iso
lated for a period of five weeks froti
the beginning of the disease — o
longer if the "whoop" persists. Cor
tacts who have had the disease will b
permitted to attend school. This dii
ease ranks third among the fatal dii
eases of children, and should be give
serious consideration. Strict ijuarai
tine must be maintained In ail case
occurring outside the town limits u
well as within.
W. II, PHASE.
. Asst. Health Pom.
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VIANDS CONTAIN
LOOSENERS OF
TONGUES
Under the title, "How Prohibition
ists Take Their Spiritus Frumenti,"
the New York Hotel Oazette prints
the following:
"Do you rater to the so-called tem
perance people?” a entered was asked.
"Yet, and while there is no wine
served from bottles, we manage to
introduce enough of it in the viands
to make the company lively. There is
mighty little inspiration to be obtained
out of a glass of water, and that class
of people know this as well as we do.
"They don't, as a rule, order us to
fortify the viands with wine, but 1
notice that dishes which contain
spirits are usually selected from the
bills of fare submitted for their con
slderation. Roman punch is always
acceptable to them, and is jokingly
called 'the life saving station' of a
temperance dinner. Fritters of fruits
and vegetables having maraschina
sauce is another temperance delight
not often objected to.
"Terrapin may be good eating with
out a little sherry, but I have never
served it without adding sherry to it.
Everyone knows it is the wine which
improves its flavor. Terrepan is a J
verv popular dish among so-called tern
Iterance diners.
"There are a variety of sauces which
are served with meats that contain
more or less wine. The one most
favored at these temperance dinners
is sauce Bordelalse. The electric
pudding, so-called because it is liber- !
•illy charged with brandy, was invent
ed by a temperance dinner giver. In
deserts we furnish an endless variety
of dainties well calculated to loosen j
the tongues of temperance after din- j
tier speakers. W hen you want to give
that kind of a banquet come and see
me."
NEWEST NOTES OF SCIENCE.
Several Siberian rivers flow over
beds of solid ice.
Popper can tie cleansed with a cut
lemon dipped in salt.
Sugar is extracted from sixteen va
rieties of palms that grow in Ceylon.
__A Hi-inch electric fan handles about
2,t>00 cubic feet of air in a minute.
Kuropenn Itussia is believed to have
13,1100,000 horse power in undeveloped
water power.
New aluminum foil for wrapping
purposes is only one-sixth of one him ;
dredth of an inch thick.
The first known use of asbestos
was in the manufacture of cremation
robes for the ancient Homans.
A water heater has been invented
to utilize the heat want-. by (he ex
tiaust of stationary engines.
For experiments with a model aero
plane a Frenchman mounted the wines
and tail of a crow on a wire frame
Toothed strips of galvanized metal,
easily attached to soil, have been in
vented for marking tennis courts.
Spanish railroads are conducting
campaigns of education along their
lines to improve agricultural condi
tions.
A new typewriter attachment auto
matically feeds envelopes or cards Into
a machine to save an operator's time.
A butter substitute made of cocoa
nut oil, egg yolks and a small amount
of cream has been invented in Bo
hemia.
Pockets for money ami jewelry are
woven into the tops of women's stock
iugs that a Pennsylvanian has pat
ented.
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Near Ueatson Mine, La touche.
Close to tidewater. An excellent
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to make large profit. Price sad terms
reasonable. Apply
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Latouche, Alaska.
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WINDSOR
HOTEL
:_CORDOVA, ALASKA i|
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Alaskan Hotel
THE HOUSE OF COMFORT
THE BEST EQUIPPED HOTEL
I N A L A S K A
Hot and Cold Water, Electric Bells, Electric
•;:;l Lights, Steam Heat, Suites With Bath.
| Bar in Connection
ROBERT GOTTSCHALK Proprlteor* ART CLONINGER
| CORDOVA, .... ALASKA
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Sixty Steam Heated Rooms Eletric Lighted
Hct and Gold Water in Every Room
With or Without Bath.
Cordova Mouse
H. C, ROSS, Proprietor.
Headquarters for Railroad and Mining Men
Satisfaction Guranteed
Rates Reasonable
The Lang Stove, horn in Alaska.
Is the Stove for Alaskans.
Body made of Arinco Rust-Resist
ing Iron.
Polished Cooking Surface,
Will hold fire overnight with wood
or coal.
Will hunt green wood.
Ask your dealer for a Lang Stove.
If lie cannot supply you write us.
Our line is complete from the
smallest eamp stove to the larg
est hotel range.
Any sounlough will t*»ll you about tho
Lang Stove, They ail know it,
F. S. LANG MFG, CO.
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TOOLS FOR THE TOILET
such as brushes of all kinds, combs
nail pole hers and manicure aoods of
every des< Option should In- high .lass
iu order to ,i\c a leipuate erviee That
is the only kind we handle. No mat
ter what you buy here un i how little
you pay tor it, you can rest assured
that no bolter article is to be had
, anywhere at any priee.
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Northern Drug Co.
MAIL ORDERS GIVEN PROMPT ATTENTION.
| Foos Gas Engines
§1 4 to 5C0 Horse Power
General Electric Motors
Roebling Tramways
Pelton Water Wheels
Chicago Oil Engines and Compressors
| Regal Boat Engines
J Harmon Machinery Co Inc
Oxy-Acetylene Welding.
CORDOVA. ALASKA
1 NORTHERN MEAT MARKET
|& WHOLESALE AMD RETAIL DEALERS IN
| Fresh Beef, Pork, Veal, Mutton J
and Provisions
. § Particular Attention and Prompt Service Given to order* from
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MINING CAMPS, ROADHOUSES AND
INTERIOR POINTS
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CAPITAL STOCK *25,000
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Cold Dust Bought at Highest Market Prices
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