The Cordova Daily Times
GREATER CORDOVA’8 GREATEST NEWSPAPER
ASSOCIATED PRESS TELEGRAPHIC REPORT8.
H. G. STEEL. C. H. WILCOX, C. H. SCHEFFLER, Publishers
H. G. STEEL, Editor and Manager
C. H. WILCOX, City Editor.
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niKlMiYA, ALASKA, \YLI>NLSI)AY, MAY :>, l!>i;>.
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CORDOVA’S PUBLIC BUILDING MAY BE
ADVANCED BY TIGHTENING PURSE STRINGS
TI1E pinch of poverty which Uncle Sam is feeling, manifest
ed' in a yawning treasury, has caused Acting Secretary
of the Treasury Byron Burton to decide upon a course
of action that is certain to create a storm in every community
where sites for public buildings are to be bought under the
terms of the hist omnibus public building bill, approved March
4, 1913.
Mr. Newton decided that all steps toward the procurement
of these sites shall be terminated and that the purchase of the
sites shall be deferred indefinitely. This action, he explained,
is necessitated' by the condition of the trasury.
When the news that he had decided to hold up the pur
chase of sites spread among senators and representatives it
created a loud murmur of disapproval. Senator Shields of
Tennessee and other promient lawyers took the position that
the treasury department has no discretion to hold up sites;
that the department’s function is purely administrative and
that it must carry out the will of congress. Under the language
of the law the secretary of the tresury is “authorized and direct
ed to contract for the acquisition, by purchase, condemnation or
otherwise, of a suitable site for the United States postoffice and
other governmental offices in each of the cities enumerated.”
Fortunately, this ruling will not affect Cordova, as the site
for our new $100,000 building was donated' to the government,
and upon a recent request of the Supervising Architect the
ground is now being surveyed.
During the fiscal year beginning June 30 seventy-five pub
lic buildings, for which appropriations were made in 1913, will
be constructed. Cordova is fifty-second on the list and as a
number of the sites have not as yet been purchased our position
may be advanced and work started upon the new federal struc
ture during the early fall or winter. “It’s an ill wind,’’ etc.
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Last year the Times offered to do the city printing free of
charge, but the “ holier than thou” gang then in office, spurned
the offer and designated its mouth-piece as the city official news
paper. This in the face of the fact that bids were asked for
the printing.
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Nearly $.300,(XX) worth of copper ore was todav shipped
to the Tacoma smelter from producing mines tributary to Cor
dova, and about the same amount is on the local dock awaiting
transportation on the next steamer sailing south. It is be
lieved that Cordova will ship $1,000,000 worth of copper glance
this month, and as this metal is shipped here from interior Al
aska, our claim of having the only tonnage railroad route
in Alaska is not an idle one.
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REVIVAL IN MINING REFLECTED
IN EXTENSIVE OPERATIONS AT JUNEAU
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THE improvement in sentiment in this country is already
being reflected by increased interest in the new mining
entreprises. The Alaska-Juneau Gold Co., which owns
a portion of the great lode back of Juneau, Alaska, two wTeeks
ago offered 400,000 shares of its treasury stock at $10 per share
in New \ ork. On Monday of this w’eek it was announced that
allotments would be only 25 per cent, the issue having been over
subscribed tour times, the Alaska-Juneau property adjourns
that of the Alaska-Gastineau. The company is directed by
Messrs. Bradley Requa and McKinzie, of San Francisco.
Naturally the success of this company and the Alaska
Gastineau (Alaska Gold Mines Co.) is inspiring all kinds of
advertising of other companies, claiming to have extensions,
offshoots or spurs of the Juneau lode. The development of a
bull market in Wall St., where much money is being made
speculatively, lead's to interest in mining speculation. The
man who has just made $100,(XX) in stocks is promptly recep
tive to the idea of putting a tenth of it into a project for driv
ing a tunnel somewhere which will cut a vein 100 ft. below its
outcrop and prove millions of tons of ore, the only risk being
that the ore may not extend downward so far. However, when
speculative persons are making money they are eager to
take sporting chances, which often result in making mines and,
anyway, produce activity in the mining industry. We think
that now we are just beginning to discern renewed interest in
mining. The temper of our people has become optimistic.—
Engineering and Mining Journal.
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It is none too early to begin housecleaning of the streets
and alleys, although there has been no official designation as
yet, as U> a general “Cleanup Week.”
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When two train loads of copper ore, one of twenty-five and
fourteen cars each, are shipped' over the Copper River & North
western railway within a few days, it furnishes food for reflec
tion when the government proposes building a trunk line in
Alaska, and overlooks the Cordova route. The value of this
ore is over half a million dollars.
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The American people are not tired of the reformer who who
works disinterestedly for reform’s sake. They are not tired
of the political reformer sincerely working for betterment of
political conditions. But they are almighty tired’ of the horde
of petty politicians who have gone about this country crying
‘Reform! Reform!” just to land themselves in public office
and whose only asset is the commodity known to the unregen
erate as “hot air.”
The competency of our corps of public school teachers
was well illustrated in the entertainment given by the pupils
in the Empress Theatre last night, as every number on the pro
gram demonstrated the careful training of the children, as well
as their proficiency in the work assigned to them. Parents
had good cause to feel proud of their offsprings, and naturally
are willing to give both Miss Ware and Miss Crabb the credit
due them for the excellent showing and progress made by their
pupils.
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Seward is now overrun with get-rich-quick merchants from
the states, to the detriment of the local business houses, which 1
prompts the Gateway to offer the following excellent suggest
ion:
►Some way should be found to tax itinerate peddlers or
business men who come into cities, sell a lot of junk and then
hike out with the money. They are absolutely no good to the
community or to the people who buy from them. Tf they had
good merchandise to sell they would surely stay in one place
and get a reputation. The people who run around like that,
selling for a short time in every old place, do so only because
they want quick sales and a clean getaway before tile simple
victims catch on to them and their rotten junk. A business
man who lives permanently in a place has to keep good value
or lose business. Those fiy by-nights do not. They pawn
over stulf that is specially manufactured and that is espec
ially prepared to catch the unwary.
DR. W. H. CHASE
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON
Office over Cordova Drug 8tore.
Calls may be left at Cordova
Drug 8tore. 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
DENTIST
Office In Adams Building
E. F. MEDLEY
Attorney and Councellor at t aw
Room 1
Adams Block CORDOVA, ALASKA.
J. F. R. APPLEBY
CIVIL ENGINEER
Phone 4. CORDOVA. ALASKA
THE ARCTIC
LUMBER CO.
Still In Business and Carry
LUMBER OF ALL
DESCRIPTIONS
And Building Material
Prices Made on Orders for
Material
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THE MODERN LAUNDRY
Phone 86
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FANCY FLANNELS AND
STARCH WORK OUR
SPECIALTY
N. A. CLASEN, Prop.
For Sale
Four big groups of fine copper
properties on navigable water on
Prince William Sound. Large
amount of shipping ore In sight on
these properties and ore could be
taken out at once in from two to
three places on each group to help
the expense of opening same up.
Prices and terms reasonable.
S. A. HEMPLE,
Valdez, Alaska.
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ALASKA
STEAMSHIP CO.
Fast and commodious steamers sailing between Seattle. Ketch
ikan. Wrangell, Juneau, Skagway, Cordova, Valdez, Seward, Kenal
Anchorage and SHIP CREEK, via INSIDE PASSAGE
Sails from Seattle— Sails from Cordova
April 30 .NORTHWESTERN. May 12
May 6 .MARIPOSA. May 18
Regular freight service for Ketchikan, Juneau, Sheep Creek,
Treadwell, Douglas, Cordova, Ellamar, Valdez ard Latouche. Explos
ives, S. 8. Seward. S. S. Seward, 5th; 8. S. Latouche, 15th; S. s.
Cordova, 25th of each month.
This company reserves the right to change schedule of steamers
without notice.
Tickets on tale 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 Ticket Agent
Pacific-Alaska Navigation Co.
ALASKA PACIFIC S. 8. CO. ALASKA COAST CO.
PUGET SOUND-ALASKA ROUTE
Next sailing from 8eattle will bo
ADMIRAL EVANS, MAY 5
ADMIRAL WATSON, May 15
Via the INSIDE PAS8AG£ for Ketchikan, Juneau. Yakutat.
Katalla, Cordova, Valdez, Seward, Cook Inlet point* and Kodiak
Island.
Seattle-San Francisco connecting with steamers Yale and Har
vard for Southern California Port*.
Schedule subject to change without Notice.
ALASKA TRANSFER CO., Local Agents
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i Copper River &
I Northwestern Ry.
EFFECTIVE APRIL 1, 1915.
Trains leave Cordova, depot at foot of Second Ave- i I
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Mondays and Thursdays ! \
• Chitina for Kennecott— !!
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; Kennecott for Chitina— ! I
; Wednesdays and Saturdays <j
; Chitina for Cordova— <'
! Tuesdays a-nd Fridays ;;
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’ Freight received from 9 A. M. to 5 P. M. ;;
; Tickets on sale at Depot or up-town office, Alaska ' ■
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: Caleb Corser S. R. Hedges
; Superintendent Cordova Agent ' I
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call on or address
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Cordova, Alaska,
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Cordova Power
Company
LIGHTS, WATER, PHONES
AND POWER
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.
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