FIRST BANK CORDOVA
CAPITAL 8TOCK $25,000
14% On Time Deposits
We Sell Travellers’ Checks
Gold Dust Bought at Highest Market Prices
DESPOSITORY FOR TERRITORIAL FUNDS.
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The Leading Hotel of Alaska
WINDSOR
HOTEL
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THE HOU8E OF COMFORT
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THE BEST EQUIPPED HOTEL
IN ALASKA
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Hot and Cold Water, Electric Bells, Electric
Lights, Steam Heat, Suites With Bath.
Bar in Connection
ij:j ROBERT GOTTSCHALK Proprlteora ART CLONINGER S
| CORDOVA, .... ALASKA |
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Steam Heated Centrally Located.
HOTEL NORTHERN
V. G. VANCE, Prop.
08TRANDER BLDG. CORDOVA, ALASKA
TAILORING
Cleaning andJPressing
Detmer’s Woolens for Ladies’ and Gents’ Suitings. Prompt Attention
to Remodelling of Ladies’ and Gents’ Suits. Reasonable Prices.
Satisfaction Guaranteed.
W. H. GRAVES
Phone 130 Mickelson Building
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WHY NOT OWN YOUR OWN HOME?
Many families are Paying out from $200 to $500 in
rent each year. Why not put that into a home of your
j:j: Own?
Call on Geo. C. Hazelet, Trustee of the Townsite, and
| see if it can’t be arranged.
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FOR GENERAL TEAMING, BAGGAGE
TRANSFERRED, AUTO SERVICE
COAL AND WOOD
ALASKA TRANSFER CO.
Cordova and Anchorage
UNEXCELLED WAREHOUSE FACILITIES
For Storing and Insuring Baggage,
Mdse, and Household Goods
Office—EMPRESS BUILDING, CORDOVA—Phone 85
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For All of Cordova
I Phone 72
( NECESSITY OF OPENING UP
BERING RIVED COAL FIELDS
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(Continued From Yesterday.)
Malignant Politics.
The truth is, the Bering coal 1ms long been the subject of
jj political controversy. The most astonishing lies have been iu
|i vented about it and retailed to the public for political pm-joses.
:• The Ballinger-Pinehot quarrel raged about it. The enemies of
•| the Taft administration used it freely as a weapon of attack in
■: )|k> Cunningham coal eases and the Controller Ba\ incident.
: Its uses for such purposes ought to have been passed. The time
‘ seems to have come when it should be put to its natural uses.
The Copper River Railroad.
The Copper River railroad is an excellent line, extending
’ 200 miles from Cordova inland. It would long ago have thrown
out a branch to the Bering coal, but was stopped. Now it can
i not. It is owned' by the Kennecott Copper Corporation, which
owns the producing copper mine already referred to. The
shareholders of this company number six or seven thousand. It
is operated more as a mine road than a commercial line, because
it has not been permitted to extend to the coal. It has !<>r the
; same reason been prevented from extending other branches into
the copper field or further to the interior. Its growth is
stopped. The rates are necessarily higher because it can not
t develop its territory and so increase its volume of business.
Government May Condemn.
Bv the terms of the Alaska railroad law the president is
fully authorized to condemn or purchase any existing line of
railroad or any part thereof, or to compel any such line to make*
traffic connections with a government line.
Therefore, in extending a line to the Bering coal, the gov
ernment may make use of the existing line as tar as it goes. Tt
may purchase or condemn the 38 miles of track, or if considered
preferable, could condemn or purchase the whole of the exist
ing line.
But it is not at all necessary to do either. The law is ample
to compel the existing line to make a traffic connection with
any line the government may build to the coal, upon reasonable
terms and conditions, to be adjusted by tin* Interstate (com
merce Commission, if necessary.
The government could, as an alternate plan, secure running
rights over the 38 mile s of existing line and so handle the coal
traffic independently. Such contracts for running rights are
very common. The Union Pacific railroad, for example, se
cured such rights on the Northern Pacific track from Portland
, to Seattle, and operates its own trains over its rival’s tracks, in
full competition with it.
Such contracts for running rights may be seen in nearly
every large city where two or more railroads use the same
tracks to enter the terminals.
Unless the government means to own all the railroads in
Alaska now or hereafter to bo built, it must consider traffic
i connections and running rights agreements with private lines.
I The law requires them to make such connections.
i Route Officially Recommended.
‘ In 1.912 an expert commission was sent to Alaska under
authority of congress expressly to study the subject ot railroad
routes, and the development, of coal fields. It was composed
of distinguished army and navy and civil engineers, and in
cluded Dr. Alfred II. Brooks, chief of the Alaska division of the
United States geological survey. Referring to tin* Cordova
route and the Bering coal, they report.>d and recommended ns
follows:
“Tt is evident that on the Cordova route the first invest
ment will be less than on the Seward route, the resulting freight
rates will be lower, the terminal port offers a better harbor
than the one at Seward, and the tributary coal field promises
the earlier developments because its product can be marketed
: cheaper. Each of these economic features points clearly to the
l advisability of reaching the Tanana valley via the valley of
i the Copper river, and the commission therefore re«rommends
the construction of a railway from Chilian to Fairbanks.”
The second engineering commission, which was sent in
;lj 1914, though it made no recommendations, confirmed the report
$ of tin* first commission in all essential facts. No doubt, upon
:? reasons which seemed sufficient, tin* report ot the first com—
| mission was rejected in so far as a line to Fairbanks is con
si cerned. It is certainly unusual to send an expert commission
to examine and recommend action, and then take a course di
rectly opposite to their recommendation. But the line to the
Bering coal field still calls for decision.
(Te be Continued Tomorrow.)
Choice Tobaccos, Cigars snd
Smokers Sundrlss—Wholeeale
| and Retail Cigar Store.
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POPULAR RECREATION PLACE
Billiards and Pool
Headquartera for the Petersen,
Wellington, Calabaeh and
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E. A. HEGG
PHOTOGRAPHER
PHOTO SUPPLIES
Views and Post Cards
STATIONERY
PICTURES and FRAMES
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Dealers in
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ALASKA
STEAMSHIP CO.
East and eommodioua steamers tailing between Seattle, Ketch
Ikan, Wrangell. Juneau, Skagway, Cordova, Valdtr, Saward and
ANCHORA&E, via INSIDE PASSAGE.
Knils from Seattle. Sails from Cordova.
May 11. ALASKA May 22
May 16. .. ALAMEDA .May 27
May 20 .... NORTHWESTERN .. May 31
Regular frtlght service for KetcniKan, Juneau. Sheep Creek,
Treadwell, Douglaa Cordova, Ellamar, Valdez ard Latouche. Explo»>
Ives, 8. S. Seward. S. S. Seward, 5th; 8. 8. Latouche, 15th; 8. S.
Cordova. 25th of each month.
Thle company reserves the right to change schedule of steamers
without notice.
Tickets on at up-town office Alaska Steamship Bldg. Baggags
or freight will not bo received at the dock later than one hour befora
tailing time.
F. B. TRACY. T. J. TALLENT,
General Agent Agent
MEET YOUR FRIENDS AT THE MUSIC ROOM
OF THE !
Northern Drug Co.
Phont 94.
j DEVELOPING AND PRINTING
Victor and Edison Victrolas. Stationery. I
| Prescriptions Carefully Compounded.
We are the authorized agents for the U. S. Coast ■
s and Geodetic Survey Charts and Tide Tables.
Pacific-Alaska Navigation Co.
ALASKA PACIFIC S. S. CO ALASKA COA8T CO.
PUGET SOUND ALASKA ROUTE
Next sailing from Seattle will be
ADMIRAL WATSON .June 4
ADMIRAL EVANS.June 11
ADMIRAL FARRAGUT . May 28
Via the INSIDE PASSAGE for Ketchikan, Juneau, Yakutat,
Katalla, Cordova, Valdez, Seward, Cook Inlet polnta 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 CO., Local Agents ;
| Copper River &
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
0 days and Saturdays.
| Leave Chitina for Cordova Sundays, Tuesdays and
Fridays.
| Leave Chitina for Kennecott Sundays, Tuesdays, Thurs- |
days and Fridays.
j§ Leave Kennccoti for Chitina Mondays, Wednesdays, |
:$ Thursdays and Saturdays.
!l The above schedule subject to change without notice. %
Dining Car In Connection With all Regular Rewenger Train* ■« 0
tween Cordova and Chitina. ^
:0 Freight received from 9 A. M. to a P. M.
Tickets on sale it Depot or up-towu office, Alaska |
Steamship Company building 8
| Caleb Corser S. R. Hedges |
Superintendent Coriksva Agtufi "w
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“SURE! I have tried
Ruhstalleis Gilt Edge Beer.”
“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.
I NORTHERN MEAT MARKET |
I WHR.ESALE AMD RETAIL DEALERS IN
1 Fresh Jeef, Pork, Veal, Mutton |
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fanti Provisions
Particular Mention and Prompt Service Given te ordere tram
MIN-NG CAMPS, ROADHOUSES AND
interior POINTS
SMITH & OHASBRENNER, Props. ^