The Cordova Daily Times
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H. G. STEEL, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
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CORDOVA, ALASKA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 25,191G.
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The advisability of bribing the weather man is suggested.
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The Deutschland arrived home safely and the submarine
Bremen is now swimming the gauntlet towards our shores.
Of course the women of Alaska have a vote, and just what
effect it will have on the result of the November election re
mains to be seen.
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In Alabama they tied a militiaman to the ground for curs
ing the flag. That’s getting about as near as it is possible to
force a man to bite the dust.
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The vacation days are drawing to a close, but if this wea
ther continues the pupils will have no regrets—for then they
will be able to enjoy the enclosed playground.
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Now that a start has been made in the building boom, let
the good work continue until sufficient homes have been built
to accommodate our constantly increasing and permanent pop
ulation.
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Small town politics is interesting at all times, and some
times very amusing. The latest rumor from Nome is to the ef
fect that \\ ickersham and Schofield are to campaign together
-—but not in the First division, that’s a certainty.
I ncle Sam has staked down every water course in this vi
cinitv until it would be impossible to develop anything but
icicles, Mon • conservation ideas. Meanwhile millions of horse
power running into the sea and no one benefitted.—Valdez Pros
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According to our telegraphic dispatches all is not harmon
ious in the ranks of the Woman’s party, and state chairman,
Mrs. Frances ('. Axtell, of Seattle, candidate for congress, has
been asked to resign because she is a supporter of Wilson,
while her party is strong for Hughes.
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Fverv sizable city in the Tinted States has seen the film
named “The Birth of a Nation,” and nearly everywhere intel
ligence has commended it as a very fine thing, calculated to stir
patriotic pride and an interest in American history. If it were
any other kind of a show it would have been cast aside long ago.
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Anchorage is clamoring for a twice a-week overland mail
service, ot eight hundred pounds each, during the coming win
ter, and being one of the largest towns in Alaska it is certainly
entitled to as good postal facilities as are furnished Chitina,
Copper Center and'other interior points from the Cordova post
office during the closed season.
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11's kind of heart rending to feel that winter will soon he
upoi. us, and we have to continue to pay our good money for a
poor quality of British Columbia coal when one of the largest
and best areas of fuel is but a few miles from Cordova, but is
not being mined on account of the government restrictions
placed upon the leases.
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l/kllii l^o llo iiti'iii.e .,4* ill.. Viiii'O i>il t.ni'iii.it a t,.
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!y very much exercised as to (Candidate Hughe’s views on
Alaska’s government railroad. He realizes, as do a great many
others, that a Republican president is soon to he elected, and
is naturally anxious to get a line on the new administration. It
is rather unkind in Hughes not satisfying Ballaine’s curiosity.
Cordova has only one candidate for territorial honors, and
that man is Geo. Dooley, who is a senatorial aspirant. As this
town has never had a representative in the legislative halls at
Juneau, and he is tla* best qualified candidate in the field for
this honor, wouldn’t it he a graceful thing for Cordova and the
Copper River valley to give him an almost unanimous vote.
Think it over.
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What manner of cog is missing in our governmental or so
eial machinery that will permit the railroad squabble to reach
the dangerous status of a strike? Surely there can be found
some way around a menace so alarming. National paralysis of
trade, which a strike would inflict, is a blow which none of the
three parties — the railroads, their employers and the people—
can bear up against. It is a suicidal program for all sides—a
bull headed beating out of brains against economic walls.
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The Mother Lode copper mine has about $7,000,000 worth
of ore in sight and blocked out ready for shipment as soon as it
cun be transported over the trail to the Copper River & North
western railway at McCarthy and shipped from there to the Tu
coma smelter. This is only one of the many producing mines
that are tributary to Cordova. As the Bonanza and Jumbo!
properties at Kennec ott have an annual output of approximate- ]
ly :pw.uuu,uuu, uoesn i uus sounu as uiougn a smeller was need
ed at Cordova?
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The Juneau Empire insists on calling Mt. McKinley Mt.
Danali, because that is the native designation for the big moun
tain. The Russian name is Mt. Bolshoi, and this appears to lie
the favorite designation of the United States geological survey.
W. A. Dickey, now operating a copper mine at Landlock bay,
who was on a prospecting trip up the Susitna river when Presi
dent McKinley was in office, called the big mountain in honor
of the martyred chief executive, and the name has clung to it,
despite the efforts of some enthusiasts who prefer the old na
tive Russian name. Due to the killing of President McKinley
at the hands of an assassin, sentiment will probably be against
changing the popular name now mostly employed, hut as a fixed
principle, we should like to see the euphonious native names
maintained, rather than displacement by common names that
have no particular significance with respect to the object
named. The native name especially means something. Danali,
ANNOUNCEMENT
THE FIHST BANK OF
CORD()\ A wishes to an
nounce that on or about
September first it will
open a
SAVINGS
DEPARTMENT.
INTEREST will be paid
upon deposits made for
savings account at the
prevailing rate paid by
outside banks.
THIS BANK appreciates
the convenience to deposi
tors of having a Savings
Department at home, in
stead of being obliged to
transact business of this
nature at a distance, and
the desire of this Bank to
offer the public every
banking facility has re
suited in the determina
tion to establish a SAV
INGS DEPARTMENT.
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(Barton Hepburn In Leslie's Weekly.)
Alaska has the same latitude as
Denmark, Norway. Sweden and Fin
land and similar climatic conditions.
The same development may be ex
pected in Alaska that has obtained in
those Scandinavian countries, in
creased and intensified by her en- j
ormousiy great latent resources. The !
Scandinavian countries have 16,000
square miles under cultivation and
75.000 square miles in grazing. Our
department of agriculture has classi
fied 60,000 Square miles in Alaska as
suitable for cultivation, located most
ly in the Susitna, Tanana and Kusko
kwim valleys, with an additional
100.000 suitable for hay and grazing
end another 100,000 square miles of
reindeer range. This estimate makes
available for agricultural purposes
Howard & Lunu
Contractors and Builders
Estimates Furnished.
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160,000 square tulles of the 566,466
square miles which constitute Alas
ka's total area.
'J ho four ;4< andinavian countries
have 12.000.000 population and 14,000,
" *0 head of live stock. Applying the
same ration to the available lands 1
nf Alaska would give her a population
of 30,000,000 with 50.000,000 live stock.
The present population of Alaska is,
last census, 64,356, Including natives.
Her growth in population and com
merce is bound to be steady and pro
nounced, if not phenomenal. Alaska
has 4,000 miles of navigable rivers. ■
The government has apropriated $35,
uuo.ooo for railway construction, now
in active process, which will connect
the commerce of these great coal
fields and mines and rivers and render
accessible the forests and agricultural
products and will invite settlement by '
making ingress and egress easy of ac
complishment.
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when in McCarthy
You Will Find Your
Friends at
THE MECCA
DROP IN AND SEE US.
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INSURANCE
FIRE, MARINE, LIFE and ACCIDENT
Insure your properly against fire In
reliable Insurance Companies.
We represent the Niagara, London,
Phoenix, Hartford, Northern, Globe
and Rutgers, and others; all strong
Board Companies.
We also represent the Maryland
Casualty Company, and Issue Fidelity
and Surety Bonds.
Northwestern Realty 4 Trust Co.
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THE GOOD EATS CAFE j
Michelson &. Currier Building,
FOR HOME COOKING.
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Fancy Pics, Cakes and Jellies.
Hot Waffles with Home-made
Jelly.
Home-made Bread.
MRS. SMITH—MRS. BURKE,
Proprietor*.
AT THE
MOUNTAIN INN
Good hunting and fishing. Also fish
and game for sale In season. Boats
for rent, good meais and bed*. Rates
$2.50 per day.
The Walkers
ALAGANICK, ALASKA.
Twenty Miles From Cordova.
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Advertising
Not an Expense ;
ADVERTISING IS AN
INVESTMENT
Not An Expense, and Should Be Treated as Such.
Because it has been the habit of
some merchants to look upon It as an
expense, A WRONG VIEW HAS
SEEN GAINED. Perhaps the mlscon- j
ception arose from the fact that In
bookkeeping It has been the habit to
charge advertising to expense.
ADVERTISING PRODUCES NEW
BUSINESS — It SWELLS THE VOL
UME OP BUSINESS AND PROFIT—
THEREFORE IT IS AN INVEST
MENT.
Only the man who looks upon ad
vertising as an expense, who is afraid
of It, prejudiced against It, loses
money In advertising.
THE MAN WHO TREATS ADVER
TISING AS AN INVESTMENT AND k
GIVES IT THE ATTENTION AN IN
VESTMENT REQUIRES — KNOWS
THAT EVERY DOLLAR RIGHTLY
INVESTED IN THIS DIRECTION
YIELDS COMPOUND INTEREST —
AND MORE.
WM. A. HESSE
Mining Engineer,
U. S. Mineral Surveyor,
U. S. Deputy Surveyor.
30X 358. CORDOVA, ALASKi
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DR. W. H. CHASE
PHY8ICIAN and 8URGEON
iffice over Cordova Drug Stor
Calls may be left at Cordova
Drug Store. Residence,
Alaskan Hotel
DR. W. W. COUNCIL
PHYSICAN AND SURGEON.
Office Hours—10 a. m. to 12 noo
tailroad Hospital; 2 to 5 p. in., Adair
luilding, Room 6.
Phones—Residence, 115; Howpltr
16; Office, 132.
E. F. MEDLEY
Attorney and Couneellor at Law
Room 1
Kdame Block CORDOVA, ALASK,
ASA C. BALDWIN
Civil Engineer
Patent Surveys
Address: Valdez, Alaska
DR. C. L. HALE
DENTIST
Office In Adame Building
Alaskan Hotel
Barber Shop
Baths at All Hours, Day and
Night.
Accommodations for Ladles.
Ladles' Facial Massage and
Shampooing.
Razors Honed, Children's Ilalr
cuttlng.
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EVERYTHING BOUGH!
AND SOLD
For anything you can’t find li
town, go to J. Lawson's Secom
Hand Store and see what he ha!
got. We carry new and secom
hand goods of all kinds, clothlnj
and kitchenware.
We have an experienced mat
who does all kinds of repair work
Give us a call.
JOHN RAWSON,
First Street.
M. C. Thompson H. C. Murphj
! le MECCA
Thompson 4 Murphy, Props
Dealers in
WINES, LIQUORS AND
CIGARS
Phone 107.
Choice Tobaccos, Cigars and
Smokers Sundries—Wholesale
and Retail Cigar Store.
The
Horseshoe
POPULAn RECREATION PLACE £
•Billiards and Pool
Headquarters for the Petersen.
Wellington, Calabash and
Carrlck Pipes.
GOING TO FAIRBANKS
Take
FRAMES AUTO STAGE
I.eaveR Chitlna tor Fairbanks
on July 6 and every all days
thereafter.
Wire ChlUna Hotel for reaer
© ALASKA
d \ .2“ STKAMSHIP CO.
"I Fast and coTVimcdicus steamer* sailing between Seattle, Ketch
ikan, Wrangell, Juneau, Skagvtw/, Cor.dcva, V.-dez, Seward and
ANCHORAGE, via INSIDE PASSAGE.
Bails from Seattle. Sails from Cordova.
s Al'U- 13 . NORTHWESTERN . Sept. 1
Aug. 16 . MARIPOSA .Aug. 26
Aug- 27 'ALAMEDA Sept. 6
Regular freight service Tor Ketchikan, Juneau, Sheep Creek,
— Treadwell. Douglas, Cordova, Ellamar Valdez ard Latouche. Explos
Ives, S. S. Seward. S. S. Seward, 5th; $. 8. Latouche, 15th; 8. S.
Cordova, 25th of each month.
This company reserves the right to change schedule of steamer*
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
s sailing time.
F B TRACY, T. J. TALLENT,
|, _General Agent Agent
Pacific-Alaska Navigation Co.
ALASKA PACIFIC S. S. CO. ALASKA COAST CO.
k PUGET SOUND ALASKA ROUTE
Next sailing from Seattle will be
j ADMIRAL FARRAGUT.August G
: ADMIRAL WATSON . August 13
ADMIRAL EVANS.August 20
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.
3chedule subject to change without Notice.
ALASKA TRANSFK.lt TO., Loenl Agents
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Through Tickets from S W Alaskan ports to Minne
apolis. St. Paul, Chicago and all points East will be
on sale via Seattle and the 'Milwaukee" Railway at
i the low fares on and after August 20th by the
I Alaska S. S. Co. and the Pacific Alaska Nnv. C. Full
1 information from
1 TOM TW.I.ENT, Agent.
CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE & ST. PAUL PuY.
A. K. Harris, T. A . .Inm an, .\ln-kri.
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I; m mmsm
I Copper River & |
j Northwestern Ry. |
| EFFECTIVE MAY 1, 1916.
If Three Trains Weekly Between Cordova and Chitina. if
If Four Trains Weekly Between Chitina and Kennecott. if
.5 Leave Cordova, Second Street Depot, on Mondays, Thurs- if
| :;i; days and Saturdays. if
II Leave Chitina for Cordova Sundays, Tuesdays and
;<ji Fridays.
—* if Leave Chitina for Kennecott Sundays, Tuesdays, Thurs- if
- if days and Fridays. if
| Leave Kennecott for Chitina Mondays, Wednesdays, if
if Thursdays and Saturdays. if
The above schedule subject to change without notice, if
•:|i Dining Car In Connection With all Regular Pessenger Trains Be- §:
jiji tween Cordova and Chitina. £
Freight received from 9 A. M. to 5 I*. M. if
Tickets on sale it Depot nr up town nlVuv, Alaska |i;i
£: Steamship Comimiiv building
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| Caleb Corser S. R. Hedges
|p Su|>(krini(*n<lt‘iit iVmlova Aw* p
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Cordova Power
Company
LIGHTS, WATER, PHONES
AND POWER
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25 and 40 Watt Lamps.35c.
60 Watt Lamps.50c.
100 Watt Lamps.75c
250 Watt Lamps.$2 00
200 Watt, Gas Filled Lamps. .$3.00
Office: FIRST STREET.