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Brunswick
Records
A new shipment of popular selections now in
stock. Played with the steel needle.
DARDANELLA . Fox-Trot
Fsist Asleep in Poppy Land . One-Step
DESERT DREAMS . Fox-Trot
Missy . Fox-Trot
I MIGHT BE YOUR ONCE-IN-A-WH ILE . Song
Tulip Time ..•.. Song
WHERE THE LANTERNS GLOW . Fox-Trot
Lucille . Fox-Trot
O’ER THE DESERT WIDE . Fox-Trot
Vamp . Fox-Trot
BOW-WOW . One-Step
I’m So Sympathetic . Fox-Trot
MY CUBAN DREAM . Fox-Trot
La-La Lucille . One-Step
PATCHES . Fox-Trot
Swanee . One-Step
VENEIAN MOON . Fox-Trot
Mystery . Fox-Trot
CHINESE PICNIC . Banjo Solo
Daly’s Reel ... Banjo Solo
LAST PART OF EVERY PARTY . Fox-Trot
Hold Me . Fox-Trot
FLUFFY RUFFLES . One-Step
You'll Be Sorry .."..;. Fox-Trot
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Real Alaska Jewelry
can be had at Osborne Bros., Manufacturing Jewelers, who make jew
elry of all kinds fom Alaska gold.
We have the only GRADUATE OPTICIAN in Cordova, and can
grind lenses on short notice.
OSBORNE BROS.
EXPERT JEWELERS, WATCHMAKERS, ENGRAVERS
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Garments a Specialty. All Work
Guaranteed. Goods called for and
delivered
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In Latest Patterns
GLASS
In All Sizes
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Beef, Pork, Veal, Mutton and Poultry
Wholesale and Retail
All Orders Given Prompt Attention
NORTHERN MEAT MARKET
MRS. J. W. KENNEDY
Ghitina, Alaska
POOL TABLE IN CONNECTION
BCIST BRANDS OF CIGARS KEPT
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ALASKA ADVISORY COMMITTEE’S
REPORT IS PRESENTED IN DETAIL
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in pulp wood, some timber suitable
for export, extensive reindeer pas
tures, and lesser areas suitable for
stock raising. There are large areas
of arable lands in the Territory, but
these will be used principally to sup
ply the local population attracted by
other industries.
The total value of Alaska’s mineral,
fish, and fur products, etc. (1867-1919),
is $949,000,000. Alaska’s most pros
perous year was 1916, when the value
of her total products was $89,350,000.
The value of all Alaska products in
1919 was about $71,000,000.
VALUE MERCHANDISE IMPORTED
INTO ALASKA
From
From Foreign
Year. United States Countries.
1914 . $21,610,000 $ 633.000
1915 . 23,393,000 501,000
1916 . 30,835,000 1,544,000
1917 . 39,836,000 1,196,000
1918 . 40,412,000 1,175,000
1919 . 37,467,000 1,449,000
In 1919, 25 American vessels (net
tonnage 32,444) and 5 Canadian ves
sels (net tonnage 4,870) were operated
as common carriers to Alaska ports.
These carried 295,490 tons of freight
and 32,803 passengers northbound and
278,199 tons of freight and 31,717 pas
sengers southbound. A total of 370
private vessels (over 20 tons) were
operated in the Alaska service during
1919, having an aggregate net tonnage
of 118,169. Robert Semms estimates
that these private vessels carried a
total of 465,000 tons of freight (north
and southbound).
Nine river steamers were operated
on the Alaska Yukon and its tribu
taries in the summer of 1919. These
carried a total of 9,691 tons of freight,
of which 1,906 tons was for the Alaska
engineering commission. Besides the
local passengers, of which no record
is available, a total of 1,369 in and
outbound passengers were carried by
the steamers. One steamer was oper
ated on the Kuskokwim river during
the summer of 1919 and carried a total
of about 800 tons of freight.
MINING
Alaska mines have produced min
erals to the total value of $438,000,000,
of which $311,000,000 is the value of
the gold output. In 1914, $19,066,000
worth of minerals were produced; in
1919, $19,700,000. During the war
there was an abnormally large output
of copper, which in 1916 brought the
value of the total mineral output up
to $48,637,000.
Alaska gold mining, like that of the
rest of the world, has been curtailed
because of economic conditions im
posed by the war. As a consequence
the value of the Alaska gold output
has steadily declined from $17,242,000
in 1916 to about $9,550,000 in 1919.
Gold mining has long been the prin
cipal Alaska industry, for though it
has employed far less men than the
fisheries, yet the prospectors and min
ers, unlike the fishermen, were all per
manent residents of the Territory. In
the past over 60 per cent of the popu
lation has been directly or indirectly
employed by the gold mining indus
try. Therefore the decline in gold min
ing has been the principal cause oi
Alaska’s loss of population and the
discouragement of her residents. Ir
1916, 4,000 men were engaged in placei
mining, in 1919 only 2,000. A revival
of gold mining would undoubtedly
greatly increase the prosperity of the
Territory.
The total placer gold produced in
Alaska has a value of $218,000,000
Much of this has been won from the
rich bonanza deposits whose exploit.a
tion requires littl& capital. It is not
impossible that other rich placers will
be found, but the only certain reserves
of placer gold are in the extensive de
posits of auriferous gravels containing
comparatively small gold values
These must be exploited by mechan
ical methods involving large invest
ments. Including in the reserves only
the auriferous gravels of which some
test has been made and which are be
lieved to carry enough gold to warrant
exploitation under pre-war economic
conditions, the geological survey esti
mates that the Alaska placer gold re
serves have a value of between $240,
000,000 and $360,000,000.
Alaska gold lode mining in the past
has been chiefly based on large low
grade deposits of the Juneau district,
whose profitable exploitation has been
possible only by very large operations.
The enormously increased cost of min
ing owing to the present economic con
ditions, has greatly curtailed mining
at Juneau.
The most promising present field for
Alaska gold lode mining is in the ex
ploitation on a small scale of the aurif
erous lodes of higher gold tenor which
have been found in many localities,
notably in the Willow creek and Fair
banks districts. Geological informa
tion indicates a wide distribution of
auriferous deposits, and there is every
reason to believed that other workable
deposits of gold-bearing quartz will be
employed when the country is opened
up by railroads and wagon roads.
Alaska copper mines, first operated
in 1901, have produced a total of 545,
000,000 pounds of copper, valued at
$114,526,000. Stimulated by the war
price of copper the Alaska mines made
their maximum output in 1916, amount
inp' tn 11Q RKK OOP nrmnrls nf pnnnpr
valued at $29,484,000. Owing to the
fall in price of metal and to uncer
tainty of market, the Alaska copper
production fell in 1919 to 47,220,000
pounds, valued at $8,783,000.
Copper deposits are widely distrib
uted in Alaska, and there is every rea
| son to believe that their exploitation
will increase under better transporta
tion conditions. Much the larger part
of the present copper output has come
from the high-grade ores of the Chitina
district. Larger bodies of low-grade
ore have been found in several dis
tricts, notably on Prince William
sound, and the exploitation of these
should give a greater stability to the
Alaska copper mining industry.
Owing to the withdrawal of all Alas
ka coal lands from entry in 1906 there
was no development of the coal fields
until the leasing law went into effect
in 1914. Since then some advances
have been made but operations have
i been hampered by economic condi
| tions imposed by the war, and by cer
! tain restrictions in the leasing law.
j As a consequence Alaska has produced
in all only 253,000 tons of coal, and
her output in 1919 was only 60,000
tons. Meanwhile, she is importing
annually about 100,000 tons of coal
from Washington and British Colum
bia.
Much the larger part of the coal re
! serves of Alaska are lianitic. which.
under present methods of utilization,
-are not available for export. The
! Bering river and Matanuska fields con
tain, however, very high grade bitum
inous coals of a better grade than any
found on the Pacific seaboard, as well
as some anthracite. These coals are
for the most part closely folded and
much broken, making them expensive
to mine and rendering them in part
unavailable for present profitable ex
ploitation. There are, however, in
both fields high-grade coals that can
be mined and these will find an ex
port market. Until these fields have
been more thoroughly prospected by
underground exploration it is impos
sible to predict how large an annual
tonnage can be produced from them
The Alaska oil lands were with
drawn from entry in 1910 and thereby
practically all petroleum development
was stopped until the passage of the
leasing law in 1920. In spite of this
handicap some 53,000 barrels of petro
leum have been produced in the Ka
talla field. Meanwhile, Alaska is draw
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EMMY
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Where a case of mistaken identity serves a
new purpose, and a kidnaped girl falls in love
with her abductors
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TWO SHOWS 7:30 AND 9 P. M,
“IN HIS BROTHER’S
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HALE HAMILTON
PRESENTING
IN A DUAL ROLE OF TWIN BROTHERS. ONE, A SUCCESSFUL
BUSINESS MAN; THE OTHER AN UNSUCCESSFUL MINISTER.
THEY CHANGE PLACES, RESULTING IN A MIXUP OF SWEET
HEARTS, AND OTHER THINGS
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