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CORDOVA, ALASKA, WEDN ESDAY, NOVEMBER 28,1917
ALASKA SCHOOLMA’AMS
Why does a sehoolma’am!
who possesses a bright smile j
and a winning personality be
come more precious than
pearls, once she becomes a resi
dent of Alaska? While no ac
curate figures can be obtained
upon the subject it is estimated
that the chances of an attrac
tive schoolma’am marrying anj
attractive Alaskan, is about;
TOO per cent., once she lands j
in this matrimonial bureau. In i
a majority of' cases it takes ur- j
gent pressure by the school
board to induce the young la
dies and young men to post
pone their connubial bliss until
the end of the school year in
order that Minerva will not be
slighted. The selioolma’ams
(God bless ’em) have furnish
ed good wives for thousands of
Alaska’s bravest and brawn
iest men, and the Alaskan sup
ply is apparently inexhaust
ible. The States turn out the
teachers and Alaska turns out
the husbands. And this mix
ture and brains and brawm
wedounds to the future of the
Territory. All women are beau
tiful. but statistics show7 that
out of 6791 teachers who have
come to Alaska for the purpose
of teaching the young idea to
shoot, 6791 have very soon be
come atached to some genus
homo of the vintage of ’98.
Dressmakers in job lots do well
in Alaska, and clerks and sten
ographers are quoted at par,
but one good-looking school
ma’am can cause a stampede
that lays the Klondike rush far
in the shade.—Valdez Prospec
tor.
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THE SPELL OF ALASKA
“The spell of Alaska falls
upon every lover of beauty,
who has voyaged along those
far northern snow-pearled j
shores with the violet waves of»
the North Pacific ocean break
ing splendidly upon them—or
who has drifted down the
mighty rivers of the interior
which flow, bell-toned and
lonely, to the sea,” Ella Hig
ginson says in her book about
Alaska, and she goes on to
speak of the differing impres
sion received m different parts
of the country. In some parts
“one sinks to a passive delight
and drifts unresistingly on
through a maze of tender lovli
ness. Nothing irritates. Allis
soft, velvety, soothing. Word
less lullabies are played by
shades of blue, rose, amber and
green; by the curve of the sat
in waves; by the mists, light
as thistledown and delicately
tinted as wild rose petals, into
which the steamer pushes lei
surely; by the dreamy poise of
seabirds on white or lavender
wings high up in the golden at
mosphere; by the undulating
flight of purple shadow, tiptoe,
through the dim fjords; by the
lap of waves on shingles, the
song of birds along the wooded
shore, the pressure of soft;
winds, the sparkle of the sea.
“The steamer glides through
green and echoing reaches;
past groups of totems standing
like ghosts of the past, among
the dark spruce or cedar trees;1
through stone-walled canyons
where the waters move dark
and still; into open, sunlit seas.
“ But it is not until one sails
on ‘to westward’ that the spell
of Alaska falls upon one; sails
out into the wild and splendid
Xorth Pacific ocean. Here are
the majesty, the sublimity,
tlx* untrodden heights, that
enthrall; here, are the no
ble spaces, the titanic forces,
thrill and inspire.
“The marvels here are not
the marvels of men. They are
wrought of fire and stone and
snow through centuries un
numbered and unknown. He
that would know Alaska will
sail on ‘to go northward,’ on to
Unalaska; or, he will go north
ward, and drift down the Yu
kon—that splendid, lonely riv
er that has its birth within a
few miles of the sea, vet flows
2,300 miles to find it.”—Chi
cago Post.
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Record Trade With Alaska.
For several years there has
been a steady growing realiza
tion in the United States of the
importance of Alaska as a po
tential and actual source of na
tional wealth.
The impressions which have
long been prevalent are con
firmed by the figures of Al
askan trade in the last fiscal
year.
The movement of merchan
dise between Alaska and the
United States reached its high
esL recoin m me nscai year
ended June 30,1917, aggregat
ing practically $100,000,000 in
round numbers. The exact fi
gures are $99,765,908 in 1917,
exceeding the trade in 1916,
the previous high year, by
twenty-four and a quarter mil
lion dollars, and more than
double the trade in 1915, which
amounted to $48,702,387.
The shipments of merchan
dise from Alaska to the United
States were valued at $60,773,
850, of which $60,135,205 was
of domestic and $638,645 of
foreign production. Merchan
dise exported from the United
States to Alaska amounted to
$38,992,049, of which $38,427,
618 represented domestic pro
duction and $264,431 foreign.
The merchandise shipped from
the United States to Alaska
represents a per capita pur
chasing power of $600 based on
Alaska’s estimated population
in 1916. The shipments from
the United States to Alaska ex
ceed the exports to China,
which has a population of 336,
000,000. The exports to China
in 1917 were about $35,000,000, j
only ten and a half cents per
capita.
The value of Alaskan cop
per shipments to the United
States for the year ended June
30, 1917, was $33,098,190
against $5,182,004 for 1915, an
increase of almost $28,000,000
in two years.
Canned salmon shipments
were 231,372,337 pounds, valu
ed at $21,195,612 in 1917,
against 192,354,878 pounds
valued at $17,590,317 in 1916.
The exports of ^canned salmon
to the United "States in 1917
averaged more than two and a
half pounds per capita. Besides
canned saJmon Alaska sold to
the United States other salm
on valued at $1,034,112; fresli
fish, $764,320; cured fish,
$183,773; kippered herring,
$112,254; pickled fish, $254, •
469; and all other fish—chief
ly shrimp and oysfers- valued
at $390,122.
In 1917, 7061 sealskins, valu
ed at $221,830, were shipped
from Alaska to the United
States against 2,884 skins vain j
ed at $115,360 in 1915, an in- i
crease of 145 per cent, in the J
number of skins shipped injj
1917 compared with 1915. The [I
average value per skin was $30 j!
in 1917 against $30 in 1915.
Buffalo Times. _ 1
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 28—Be
tween fifteen and eighteen thousand
acres of timberland in California wore
burned over during 1917, according to
a bulletin issued by the United States
forestry service. The season was de
clared to be the most disasterous
since 1910. However, the forest serv
ice was compelled to spend little
more than $100,000 for fire control in
the state.
There were 150 fires that the serv
ice countR as severe, while in many
of the others the loss nominal. No
figures on the amount of the damage
done have been compiled by the serv
ice to date.
Attention was also called in the
bulletin to severe fires in the north
west and the means taken there to
keep them under control.
In addition to this loss inf the pub
lic domain a large of property
was consumed and at least 12 pers
ons are reported to have lost their
lives. The season was an unusually
long and severe one, containing such
"aggrevating” factors, according to
the bulletin, as periods of hot and
dry weather accompanied by .heavy
winds, heavy traffic in the moun
tains and a shortage of labor for fire !
fighting.
As in past seasons, the bulletin de
clares, the greatest single cause of
fires was the carelessness of settlers,
campers and travelers in leaving un
extlnguished fires and throwing
matches and burning tobacco from
automobiles.
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SACRAMENTO, Cal., Nov. 28.—
California ranks among the leading
states of the union in the organiza
tion of high school cadet companies,
according to Adjutant General J. J.
Borres, Fifty-five companies have
been formed in various high schools
throughout the state and more are in
process of formation he said. The
membership of each company ranges
from 60 to 80. An order for 2,000
wooden rifles for use of the cadets
in preliminary training recently was
placed by the adjutant general's of
fice. When the cadets have advanc
ed sufficiently in their training thev
will be supplied with regulation rifles.
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Juneau hunters claim that grouse
are more plentiful this season because
of the bounty placed on eagles. The
eagles were responsible for the de
struction of many grouse in preceding
years and the nuisance to a large ex
tent has ben abated.
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Don’t miss seeing our shoe line. We
have a full line of them, ae smart as
any made. Clay son. The Clotftier.
Bank of Alaska
I ALASKA’S BRANCH BANKING SYSTEM
Banks At
CORDOVA
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j Anchorage Skagway Wrangell
| CAPITAL AND SURPLUS $105,500.00 |
j Resources Over $1,000,000.00 f
l CORDOVA OFFICERS I
J ANDREW STEVENSON W. R. HILLERY *
1 resident Vice-Pres. (Managing)
6 B. R. COLKETT
. Asst. Cashier
COMMERCIAL ACCOUNTS SAVINGS ACCOUNTS 5
Sj Safe Deposit Boxes Travelers, Checks
The , NATIONAL ARMY is Neither wage-earner nor mer
N drawn from our reserves of chant can afford to always
| men. If you are drawn will live close to the margin of
you leave a cash reserve in the their resources. Whether you
* bank? You may not need it join the colors or not, start
during the war but you cer- now building up a reserve by
tainly will when you are mus- depositing with the BANK OF
tered out. ALASKA, an institution that
carries ample reserves and |
builds for the future. ^
If You !
ARE LAID UP IN THE HOSPITAL
YOUR EARNING POWER
Stops
Does your Insurance cover you? If not < '
Get a ^ IN 1 P0LlGY ,N THE J- D* Hollenbeck
^ A NORTHERN LIFE— District Agent, Cordova
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