FIRST BANK CORDOVA
CAPITAL STOCK $25,000
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Gold Dust Bought at Highest Market Prices
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Hot and Cold Water, Electric Bells, Electric
Lights, Steam Heat, Suites With Bath.
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ROBERT GOTTSCHALK Proprlteore ART CLONINGER j:
| CORDOVA, .... ALASKA |
Steam Heated Centrally Located.
HOTEL NORTHERN
V. G. VANCE, Prop.
OSTRANDER BLDG. CORDOVA, ALASKA
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TAILORING
Cleaning and jPressing
Detmer’a Woolens for Indies’ and Gents’ Suitings. Prompt Attention
to Hemodelling of Ladies’ and Gents’ Suits. Heasonable Prices.
Satisfaction Guaranteed.
W. H. GRAVES
Phone 130 Mickelson Building
WHY NOT OWN YOUR OWN HOME?
Many families are Paying out from $200 to $500 in :
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FOR GENERAL TEAMING, BAGGAGE
| TRANSFERRED, AUTO SERVICE
COAL AND WOOD
1 ALASKA TRANSFER CO. |
Cordova and Anchorage
UNEXCELLED WAREHOUSE FACILITIES
#For Storing and Insuring Baggage,
Y i Mdse, and Household Goods
| Office—EMPRESS BUILDING, CORDOVA—Phone 85 !
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. Yl K. SATO ■
f Public Messenger
For All of Cordova
^ J Phone 72 |
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I NECESSITY OF OPENING DP j
| BERING RIVER COAL FIELDS
(Continued From Yesterday.)
There are many different veins of coal in the Bering field,
I and many kinds of coal. The doctor happened to pick a poor
•j: sample for the peculiar needs of the navy. The chemical analy
jij sis shows the coal of the two fields to he of the same general
| character. The same coal mining engineer who selected the
ii; good sample from Mntanuska does notJicsitate to say that there
!j: is equally as good naval coal in the Bering field and pro ha lily
>: as much or more of it.
. Local Use Principal Value of Bering Coal.
But even it never a pound of Bering coal is lined for the
I navy, it does not justify strangulation of the district.
The principal value of the coal is for local uses. For upon
! the coal depends the other development of the tributary «1 is—
i tricts. The great copper belt extending over a hundred miles
in length along the Ohitina and Copper river valleys must stay
practically undeveloped until the coal is available.
■ There is one great copper mine opened there for which the
; Copper Kiver railroad was built. How many others there might
have been if the coal were available can not be told. But there ,
; are over f)00 other copper claims I (mated in the district. The
1 owners of these claims have spent hundred's of thousands of
; dollars in their development, and have been waiting for years
| for the opening of the coal. The ores are of the highest grade
and the coal, lime, silica and all elements for smelting are so
k near and so easy to assemble at a fine harbor on tidewater that
■ it is the most favorable locality in the entire world for develop -
ment of a great copper industry. The one essential lacking is j
a railroad 10 me com. ]
The Keiineoott mines are producing about 300,000 toils of
ore a year. A large part of tins is per cent ore—nearly pure
copper. But there is much more low grade ore, running from
-> per cent to In per cent, which must be crushed -and concen
trated at the mine until it is at least n() per cent copper before
it can be shipped at all; for it must now be carried through Cor
dova and past the coal field and taken to Tacoma, 1,400 miles
away, to be smelted. Nothing but the richest ore can stand
this transportation. How many thousands or millions of tons
of ore would be produced were it. permitted no one can say.
But in Montana, in Ctah and in Arizona, where the conditions
are not so favorable for cheap copper production, the ores
mined run into the millions of tons per year. Fine cities and
prosperous communities are built and supported on the copper
industry alone. Butte, a thriving city of 73,000 population, is
an example of what might be built at Cordova were only a lit—
> tie reasonable sense and justice uspd about it. As it stands,
the government will neither develop the field itselt nor permit
anybody else to do it.
Hon. Walter Fisher, former secretary of the interior, refer
ring to this situation, says:
“1 personally visited the Bering field and examined some
of its coal veins and coal mines. The erection of
j smelters on Prince William Sound' will cause an immediate
demand for coal, as the first smelters will probably be erected
near Cordova, which is the tidewater terminal of the Copper
Kiver & Northwestern railway, which now taps the principal
copper field of the territory.
“One of the pressing needs of the territory is the construc
tion of such smelters at which the copper ore especially can he
smelted without the labor and expense of transporting the ore
the enormous distance now necessary for this purpose. The
main purpose and practically the only present use ot the ex
pensive railroad from Cordova up the Copper river is the
transporting of tin* ore from the so—called Bonanza copper field,
in which the Morgan-duggenheim Syndicate, which owns this
railroad, already has extensive interests. No smelter, however,
has as yet been constructed, and none would be profitable until
the coal and copper can be brought together. Once the Bering
. coal fields are open, the transportation becomes in this, ns in
< other respects, the most important problem, upon the solution
l of which future development will depend. The enormous ex
:• pense of railroad construction through mountainous and gla
:• cier covered territory makes it practically certain that the
•i Copper River railroad will remain the natural distributor for
ij any of this coal for which there may be a demand in the interior
i of the particular district in which it is located. 1 think it may
:• be assumed, not only from the statements made to me by its
?j officials, but also from the very nature of the case, that the
| people interested in this road will construct smelting works at
| Cordova as soon as Alaskan coal is available for its use.
| Smelters at Cordova would be able to take care of the copper
J ores, of which there are many indications throughout the en
tire district tributary to Prince \\ illiam Sound. The exploita
tion and commercial development of these ores would prompt—
j. ly follow the construction and* operation of such smelters. * *
jj “The harbor at Cordova is so clearly superior in all re
jj spects to any other harbor available for the Bering coal fields
jj that the slightly longer transportation necessary by this route
jj appears entirely unimportant, especially as the grade is praeti
ji rally a water grade to the coal fields.”
Cruel Injustice to the People.
The people of the towns of Cordova, Chitina, McCarthy
jj and Kennecott and other places are not only obliged to see the
jj great resources about them remain undeveloped1, the ores pro
j; duced in their district hauled away to be smelted' and to build
j: up communities in a distant state instead of their own, but they
j: must bring even the coal they use for domestic purposes from
ii foreign fields a thousand miles and more away instead of from
1 tin* Alaska coal field right at their own doors.
! The people of Katalla, only ten miles from the Bering coal,
j- are obliged to pay $20 per ton for coal for domestic use, brought
jj from British Columbia.
These communities having a population of only two or
jj three thousand' pioneers, struggling to build up their own
jj towns against the natural hardships of the country, see their
j: best efforts defeated by the obstruction and discrimination of
jj their own government.
Heretofore pioneers have been helped and not hindered,
ij They have been praised for their courage and appreciated for
:• their enterprise in building prosperous communities in our un—
jj developed territories.
i (Continued Monday.) %
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Choice Tobacco*. Cigar* and
•mokare •undrlaa—Wholoaal*
and Retail Cigar Star*.
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The
Horseshoe
POPULAR RECREATION PLACE
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Billiards and Pool
Hoadqwartara for the Patoroon,
Wellington, Calabaah and
Garrick Pipe*.
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Regular Patron
At
Slater’s
Restaurant
Private Boxes
For
Large or Small
Parties
E. A. HEGG
PHOTOGRAPHER
PHOTO SUPPLIES
Views and Post Cards
STATIONERY
PICTURES and FRAMES
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M. O. Thompson H. C. Murphy
The MECCA
Thompson A Murphy, Props
Doslsrs in
WINES, LIQUORS AND
CIGARS
Rhoni 107.
Fast and commodious steamer* tailing batwaan Mattie, Ketch
Ikan. Wrangell, Juneau. Skagway, Cordova. Valdez. Seward and
ANCHORAGE, via INSIDE PASSAGE.
Bails from Seattle. Sails from Cordova.
May 11. ALASKA .' May 22
May 16.ALAMEDA.May 27
May 20 . NORTHWESTERN . May 31
Regular freight service for Ketchikan, Juneau. Sheep Creak,
Treadwell, Douglas, Cordova, Ellamar. Valdez ard Latouche. Ezploa
Ivea, S. 8. Seward. S. 8. Seward, 5th; 8. 8. Latouche, 15th; S. 8.
Cordova, 25th of each month.
Thla company reaervee the right to ehange echedula qf eteamera
without notice.
Tlckete on aale at up-town office Alaska Steamship Bldg. Baggage
or freight will not be received at the dock later than one hour before
tailing time.
F. B. TRACY, T J TALLENT,
| General Agent Agent
MEET YOUR FRIENDS AT THE MUSIC ROOM
OF THE
Northern Drug Co.
Phone 94.
DEVELOPING AND PRINTING,
Victor and Edison Victrolas. Stationery.
Prescriptions Carefully Compounded.
We are the authorized agents for the U. S. Coast
and Geodetic Survey Charts and Tide Tables.
Pacific-Alaska Navigation Co.
ALA8KA PACIFIC 8. 8 CO. ALASKA COAST CO.
PUGET SOUND ALASKA ROUTE
Next (ailing from 8eattlc will o*
ADMIRAL WATSON . May 14
ADMIRAL EVANS . May 21
ADMIRAL FARRAGUT. May 28
Via the INSIDE PASSAQE for Ketchikan, Juneau, Yakutat.
Katalla, Cordova, Valdez, Seward, Cook Inlet points and Kodiak
Island.
Seattle San Francisco connecting with steamer* Yale and Har
vard for Southern California Ports.
Schedule subject to change without Notlc*.
ALASKA TRANSFER CO., Local Agents
| Copper River &
I Northwestern Ry.
EFFECTIVE MAY 1, 1916.
Three Trains Weekly Between Cordova and Chitina.
Four Trains Weekly Between Chitina and Kennecott.
Leave Cordova, Second Street Depot, on Mondays, Thurs
days and Saturdays.
Leave Chitina for Cordova Sundays, Tuesdays am
| Fridays.
Leave Chitina for Kennecott Sundays, Tuesdays, Thurs
days and Fridays.
;$ Leave Kennecott for Chitina Mondays, Wednesdays
Thursdays and Saturdays.
The above schedule subject to change without notice
Dining Cart In Correction With all Regular Peeaenger Train* ■
tween Cordova and Chitina.
Freight received from 9 A. M. to 5 P. M.
' Tickets on sale :tt Depot or up town office, Alask
Steamship Company building
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! | Caleb Corser S. R. Hedges
Superintendent Cordova Agen« g
“SURE! I have tried
Ruhstaller’s Gilt Edge Beer.”
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“How do you like it?”
“FINE! Best beer brewed.”
Ask for it at the Horseshoe, Mint, Mecca, Windsor
Hotel, Alaskan Hotel, Simpson & O’Brien’s, Cordova
■ House and Northern Saloon.
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WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IN
|| FreshJBeef, Pork, Veal, Mutton
and Provisions
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Particular Attention and Prompt Service Given to orders from
MINING CAMPS, ROADHOUSES AND
INTERIOR POINTS
SMITH & \lLASBBENNElt, Pro
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