The Cordova Daily Times
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ALASKA IS SOME COUNTRY.
If the ghost of Wm. H. Seward still hovers over the earth,
it must be holding its thumb to its nose and wriggling its
attenuated fingers at the men who jeered at Alaska and called
it “Seward’s Folly.”
The fish product up to date at first cost aggregated' some
thing like $300,000,000, in itself a fair interest on the $7,240,000
paid for the country.
Then the great product does not come from the seals as
many suppose, but from the salmon. According to value the
order is first tin* salmon then the fur seal, then sea otter, the
halibut and cod. Then on one island the black fox is being
farmed in constantly increasing numbers; then there is the
gold and pretty soon there will be the copper. Then the forests
and the coal. Alaska is pretty much of a country.—Goodwin’s
Weekly, Salt Lake City.
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KENNECOTT AS A CHEAP PRODUCER.
The developments in the Copper River region of Alaska,
including a long railway through a difficult country and the
opening and equipmnet of the Bonanza mine, cost a great deal
of money. The gossip used to be that it was upward of $20,
000,000. This was furnished by .1. P. Morgan & Co. and M.
Guggenheim’s Sons, the latter subsequently taking in Kuhn,
Loeb & Co. Among engineers there was always considerable
doubt respecting the outcome of this investment considered as a
whole, although of course it was recognized that either the mine
or the railway could make a fine showing at the expense of the
other.
According to a Boston paper the syndicate put from $25,-'
000,000 to $30,000,000 into the enterprise and so far has re
ceived $7,500,000 in dividends from the Kennecott Mines Co.
(Bonanza mine), and $10,000,000 from the sale of Kenecott
bonds. The Copper River & Northwestern Ry., which necessi
tated the greater part of the capital expenditure, has paid noth
ing. Apparently therefore the Alaska venture has been con
ducted on the basis of a cheap mine and dear railway. Kenne
cott is advertised as the cheapest producer of copper in the
world, its average cost being said to be only about 5s per It).
The contributory factors in arriving at such a cost are high
grade ore—some of it almost pure copper glance—and what is
substantially the free use of a large amount of capital.
By the sale of Kennecott stock the syndicate will further
recoup itself, it is to be supposed. This company has an issued
capital of 720,000 shares, and there are 400,000 additional
shares reserved for conversion of the bonds, a total of 1,120,000,
which at $25 per share—the promotion price—represents a valu
ation of $28,000,000, or about what the syndicate is said' to have
put into the venture. It will be interesting to see how the
public will make out in its investment in this mine of very
rich ore, which probably lacks the elements of long life that the
porphyry mines have.—New York Engineering and Mining
Journal.
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THE DEVIL’S FURLOUGH.
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Secretary Daniels has invited Mr. Edison to name for him
a group of inventors, to try to devise new engines of war, or to
improve upon old ones. It is a good idea, ft will set every
man in the country who thinks he has a new miracle in mind to
work. If war is about to return to old brutality of hand to
hand’ fighting, as it seems is now being carried on in the tren
ches, why cannot a means be found to electrocute a trench ful
of men at a time. A dispatch last year told of the killing of a
long string of cattle were held in the stalls by a modern device
which makes it possible for the keeper at one end of the barn
to realose them all at once by touching a botton. The lightning
happened to hit upon the combination and1 all were killed.
Instead of putting up barbed wire fences to keep charging
columns back, why cannot one charged wire do the work?
When Edison was a boy lie was stationed' in an office that
was alive with rats. Hi* ran a wire around his room and
charged it from one of tin* batteries. In three days there were
no more rats.
Why would it not be possible for a single diver to bore
under water into the ammunition compartment of a battleship,
attach a wire from a submarine, return to his craft, charge the
wire and have it reported next morning that the battleship
Leviathan was sunk at her anchorage by an internal explosion?
Not half the possibilities of electricity have as yet been
brought out. Neither are those of chemistry. The Germans
are lighting with poisonous gases.
Does it not tell in Revelations that about this time the devil
is to be let loose for a thousand years? It does not say that he
will come with an electric battery in one hand and a jug of
carbonic acid gas in the other and a sack of dynamite over
his shoulder, but according to his reputation he would naturally
take to such things. By the way, is it not about time for the
smelters to catch and bottle up the sulpliric acid that is being
thrown off from our furnaces?
Cannot that gas be used in the devilish work that is going
on? _ _ * . „ „ _
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
D E N T I 8 T
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 Counsellor at Law
Room 1
Adams Block CORDOVA, ALASKA.
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PHOTOGRAPHER
PHOTO SUPPLIES
Views and Post Cards
STATIONERY
PICTURES and FRAMES
M. C. Thompson H. C. Murphy
The MECCA
Thompson & Murphy, Props
Dealers in
WINES, LIQUORS AND
CIGABS
Phono 107.
One Visit
Will
Make You
A
Regular Patron
At
Slater’s
Restaurant
Private Boxes
For
Large or Small
Parties
GOLD-COPPER
FOR SALE
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 veing 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.
Ail 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
an opportunity to make a fortune.
For prices and terms apply to
S A. HEMPLE, Valdez, Alaska
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Distributors
Seattle, Wash.
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ALASKA
STEAMSHIP CO.
Fast and commodious steamers tailing between Seattle, Ketch
ikan, Wrangell, Juneau, Skagway, Cordova. Valdez, Seward and
SHIP CREEK, via INSIDE PA9SAGE
Sails from Seattle— Sails from Cordova_
August 13.ALAMEDA.August 23
August 20.NORTHWESTERN.August 29 i
Regular freight service Tor Ketchikan, Juneau, Sheep Creek,
Treadwell, Douglas, Cordova, Ellamar, Valdez ard Latouche. Explos
ives, S. 8. Seward. 8. 8. Seward, 5th; 8. 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 8
sailing time.
F. B. TRACY, T. J. TALLENT,
General Agent Ticket Agent
Pacific-Alaska Navigation Co.
ALASKA PACIFIC S. 8. CO. ALA8KA COA8T CO.
PUGET SOUND -ALASKA ROUTE ^
Next sailing from Seattle will be
ADMIRAL FARRAGUT, September 5
ADMIRAL EVANS, September 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 (JO., Local Agents
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1 Copper River &
1 Northwestern Ry.
Effective June 12th, 1915.
Two trains every six days between Cordova and fl
jg Chitina, one of these trains leaving Cordova making gj
j-j: connection with Alaska Steamship Co. steamers arriving
Ig from Seattle.
Trains between Chitina and Shushanna Junction,
jg and Kennecott connect with trains between Chitina and gj
gj Cordova.
All trains from Cordova leave from Second Street Ig
gj Depot.
Dining Car In Connection With all Regular Pessenger Tralna Be
tween Cordova and Chitina.
The above schedule subject to change without notice.
Freight received from 9 A. M. to 5 P. M.
Tickets on sale at Depot or up-town office, Alaska jij:
gj Steamship Company building
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