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With the awarding of a contract for
10,000 tons of steel rails for delivery
this summer, the Alaska engineering
commission inaugurates the year’s
work in requisitioning the vast
amount of supplies and equipment for
the north. Left over from last year’s
order there are approximately 10,000
tons In Seattle, sufficient to build
nbout 00 miles of rail and these will
he shipped to Seward and Anchorage
just as soon as the U. S. transport
Crook is fully repaired by the Heffer
nan Engine Works. So, with the ad
ditional order, there will be available
for this year, rail sufficient to lay
200 miles, although it Is not antici
pated that that much track will be
laid during the year.
As soon as navigation on the Yukon
opens, a largo consigenment of rail
will be sent into the interior for the
hulldlng of the line to Nenana and n
large proportion of the order will be
delivered at Anchorage with the open
ing of navigation in March. A total
of about $10,000,000 has been asked
for this year, and as there is no doubt
but that the appropriation will be
made, the work of rebuilding the Alas
ka Northern, connecting that road
with the lines south of Anchorage,
completing the line to the Matanuska
coal field at Chickaloon, extending the
line through the Susitna above Mata
nuska Junction and building the Ne
nana line, will be prosecuted through
out the spring, summer and fall.
Considerable winter work has been
accomplished on both the Seward and
Anchorage districts, and if the Turn
again Arm district can be completed
this year, train service can be inaugu
rated between Seward, Anchorage,
[ Matanuska landing and beyond this
fall. There Is considerable heavy rock
on the Turnagain Arm district and
this entire section will have to in
clude snow sheds, so that the extra
amount of work may make it impos
sible to place the line In readiness for
trains this year.
In another month the great rush to
Anchorage will start, and it is pre
dicted that it will be heavier than ever
before. U. S. transports and two oper
ating steamship companies will handle
what is expected to be a rush of pros
pectors, investors, business men, rail
road builders and various other class
es to the Susitna region this summer.
Some splendid temporary business
openings are in sight at various points
along the proposed line above Mata
nuska Junction, while every mtle of
constructed railroad above that junc
tion will help to open up the Broad
Pass mining district, which is being
regarded by many as one of the com
ing mineral sections of the north.
While contracts are still being let
, in Alaska for thousands of ties for
the road, all the bridge timbers and
structural lumber of all kinds will be
shipped north and bids are now being
prepared covering the purchase of sev
eral million feet.
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MERCHANT SHIPS:
BEING BUILT IN
ENUD
(By Associated Press)
LONDON, Feb. 15. — The new min
ister of shipping, Sir Joseph Maclay,
Is expected shortly to outline his pro
gram in connection with the construc
tion of merchant ships. (Deletion by
censor.) Already contracts have been
placed for several vessels, and others '
will be given out as fast as arrange- '
ments can be made.
In the United States and Japan
standard ships have recently been
built in about four months. One Brit
ish shipyard expects to cut the time
of construction to about three months,
while another concern has agreed to
deliver fifteen standard steamers in
a year.
CENT RONE
THlEUTUNr
AMSTERDAM, Feb. 15. — Negotia
tions are going on between prominent
capitalists in Germany and Austro
Hungary tor the foundation of a Cen
tral European Bank, with a capital of
one billion marks. Branches are to
be established at Berlin, Frankfort,
Hamburg, Vienna, Budapest, 8ofia,
Constantinople and the concern is to
be a sort of central bank for all the
states of allied central Europe. The
bank will be under German control,
according to the Berlin newspapers,
and all the central European govern
ments will grant special privileges
with the object of furthering com
mercial Interests and alliances during
the transition stage from war to
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SPORTS
Go«i!p About Event* of National
Importance and the Peraona
Who Are In the Head
Liner Claaaea.
(By Associated Press)
NEW YORK, Feb. 15. — The action
of the hoard of stewards of the In
tercollegiate Rowing Association, In
withholding invitations to the annua!
regatta set for June 21, pending fur
ther conference with the rowing au
thorities of the leading eastern uni
versities, leads to the belief that there
will be radical changes in the pro
gram of tho famous Poughkeepsie
regatta. It Is confidently expected
thnt at tho next meeting of tho stew
ards the announcement will be made
that the distance of the 'rarslty race
has been reduced from four to three
miles.
Agitation for the elimination of
what has been termed the "Deadly
Fourth Mile" haB been growing for
some time and Is favored In a general
way by the leading coaches of the
east, including Charles Courtney, Cor
nell; Jim Ten Eyck, Syracuse; Wright
of Pennsylvania; Dr. Spaeth, Prince
ton, and others who have devoted
much study to the question. Sev
eral of the professional coaches arei
of tho opinion that If the oarsmen are
properly trained for four miles there
is no danger of permanent disability
from rowing one race a season at this
distance.
It is held, however, that a three
mile race would be just as decisive,
require, less training and result in
more crews entering the so-called
championship regatta of the year. But
six crews rowed in four mile races last
season. Syracuse, Corner, Columbia
and Pennsylvania competed at the
Poughkeepsie regatta, while Harvard
and Yale rowed at New London. It
is hoped that if the big race at Pough
keepsie is reduced to three miles that
Wisconson will return to the Hudson
and that possibly Princeton and the
Naval Academy eights may be induced
to enter.
During the preliminary rowing sea
son last year Princeton and the Navy
crews competed in three races each,
ranging in distance from one mile
550 yards to two miles, while on the
Pacific coast Stanford, California and
Washington all rowed one or more
three mile races. In past years
C.eorgetown, Wesleyan, Trinity, Dart
mouth and Williams figured in the
annals of college rowing.
There are farseeing enthusiasts who
predict that the time will come when
there will be a national intercollegiate
championship regetta at which ten
to fifteen crews will compete for
honors. Soverai of the big middle
west universities are planning for
rowing, as soon as artificial water
ways are completed, and the growth
of college sports in other directions
would indicate that the prediction may
yet be realized.
The reduction of the main event at
the intercollegiate regatta from four
to three miles would open the way
for shifting of the regatta, in years
to come, to one or more courses which
would not be available for a four-mile
race. Several years ago there was an
informal discussion among several
undergraduate crew managers who
favored a regatta, open to all the col
lege crew* of the country with elimi
nation races over a two mile course,
to continue for a week and to be held
at different cities or colleges each
year, like the track championships.
It Is certain that a two mile cham
pionship regatta would attract far
more entries than the present four
mile race, and the lopping off the
fourth mile may be a step In that di
rection.
Rowing Is one of the most expen
sive sports fostered by college ath
letic associations, the expenses far
exceeding any revenue derived. The
financial statement of the Cornell uni
versity association, the premier row
ing college of the country, for the past
year shows that maintenance of the
navy cost $15,264, while the receipts
amounted to but $4 ,165. Because of
certain financial arrangements with
the railroad company furnishing ob
servation trains, this revenue was
greater than at several other Insti
tutions which turn out fast eights
each season.
With a regatta rowed over a shorter
course and rotating from city to city.
It Is likely that the sport could be
put upon a dividend paying basis as
Is the case with the Intercollegiate
track and field games. Springfield,
Mass., recently started an agitation
for the holding of such a regatta on
the Connecticut river course and of
fered excellent financial Inducements,
while Peoria, 111., several years ago
endeavored to'lnterest middle western
colleges In a Bimilar proposition. If
the facilities existed for charging ad
mission to the average Intervarsity
regatta there would be no difficulty In
securing receipts sufficient to finance
college crew races upon a large scale.
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BOTTLES ARE
(By Associated Press)
PARIS, Peb. 16. — The Vigneron
Champenols, organ of the Champagne
district, recently announced that
champagne bottles were being offered
In France by American glassmakers.
Heretofore, says the paper, America
had not made champagne bottles.
Moreover, their price of shipment to
Europe would be so high as to leave
but little profit. The Vigneron Cham
penois now affairms after Inquiry that
these so-called American bottles real
ly are German made, adding: “They
are made in Germany at Geresscheim.
near Dusseldorf, in the glass works
of F. Ileyes. A trip to the United
States, even to Cuba, the time to
change nationality, and the trick Is
played. Holland had already offered
these same bottles.”
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The Eska Coal Company, operating
on Eska creek, near Anchorage, is
mining 50 tons of coal a day and the
output will be Increased as fast as
possible. Milo Kelly Is superinten
dent.
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WINTER IN ALASKA.
I’m going to tell you city folks
About a lovely winter scene.
It's on the Copper river road.
A little way from mile thirteen.
No stately block o'ershadowe you,
Nor granite pavements do you tread
'Above you, skies of sapphire blue,
Beneath you, earth's white mantle
spread.
No man-made wonders can I show,
But sylvan shade and wild things,
crude,
A panoram of glistening snow;
And Nature In her loveliest mood.
The path—a level even track,
A beautiful tree bordered lane,
The sun Is sinking at your back,
As New Year's day Is on the wane.
The trees like slender sentinels stand'
Their spreading branches clothed In
white,
While underneath on every hand,
Are shadows lying black as night.
The space between the slender stems
Is like some dim cathedral aisle.
And far beyond like sparkling gems,
The mountain peaks stretch mile on
mile.
The eagle soars amid the blue.
On lazy, long, slow spreading wings;
A raven glides athwart the view,
And fades away on ebon wings.
But there, the signal whistle blows,
The throttle I must open wide,
And stack the piling up In rows,
Nor may I think of aught beside.
—L. H. R.
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The citizens of Nenana are planning
to give a minstrel and vaudeville show
for the benefit of James E. Dethief
son, the town night watchman, who
recently loBt all of his fingers and one
thumb as the result of freezing while
engaged In fighting a fire.
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Clarence Dormlnger is reported to
have struck pay on I.ivlngood creek,
In the Tolovana country. 500 feot
farther down the stream than any
previous discovery.
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REGISTRATION NOTICE.
The registration book of the town
of Cordova is now open at my office
at the Postoffice store. Second street,
Cordova, at all hours during the day
and evening. The registration book
will be closed at 4 o’clock p. m. Sat
urday, March 31, 1917.
CHAS. M. ROSSWOO, Registrar.
IN THE U. S. COMMISSIONER'S
COURT FOR THE TERRITORY OF
ALASKA. THIRD DIVISION, COR
DOVA PRECINCT.
In tha Matter of tha Eatata lof A. B.
Cooper, Deceased.
NOTICE TO CEREDITOR8.
Notice is hereby given by the under
signed. administrator of the estate of
A. B. Cooper, deceased, to the credit
ors of. and all persons having claims
against, the said deceased to exhibit
them, with the necessary vouchers,
within six months after the first pub
lication of this notice, to the said ad
ministrator, at C. M. Frazier’s office
in the Town of Cordova, Territory of
Alaska, the same being the place for
the transaction of business of said
estate.
Dated February 6, 1916.
W. J. SHEPHARD,
Administrator of the Estate of A. B.
Cooper, Deceased.
First publication February 6, 1917.
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