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OSTRANDER BLDG. CORDOVA, ALASKA
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AN OFFER FOR SIXTY DAYS ONLY.
575 Town Lots in Cordova.
Ranging in price from $50 up to $.‘{000, and 000
Town lots in Cliitina from $50 to $1000. Any
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It Cordova, Alaska. Trustee and Agent.
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CHITINA
ENLARGED AND COMPLETELY RENOVATED
SPACIOUS LOBBY .... STEAM HEATED
CAFE AND BAR
The Comfort Home of the Interior
T. W. CLONINGEK . . A , ,
Proprietor Chitina, Alsaka
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FIRST BANK OF CORDOVA
CAPITAL STOCK $25,000
| 4% on Time Deposits
Our Stockholders Are
I S. BLUM GEORGE C. HAZELET
M. BROCK FRED GLASBRENNER
A. E. LATHROP DELIA LYONS
JAFET LINDEBERG
DESPOSITORY FOR TERRITORIAL FUNDS.
BIG OPERATIONS
ON VALDEZ
GREEK
Geo. W. Sias and associates, of Bos
ton. who finance'", the Valdez Creek
Mines Company, are coming to Cor
dova in July to go Into the Interior to
inspect their property. These men
first became Interested In placer min
ing claims on Valdez Creek in 1907,
four years after the first discovery of
gold on the creek. Of their invest
ment, a Boston paper says.
Curing 1914 they expended on these
properties approximately $200,000 and
Installed a hydraulic plant, which is
Is simplicity itself. Valdez creek, in
the last half of its course, falls very
rapidly. At the head of the last
series of rapids a part of the water
is diverted by a ditch. From the
headgate, where this water is divert
ed by a ditch 6,200 feet long and 4,000
of steel pipe with an intake five feet
in diameter, the water is delivered
from three six-inch nozzles, under a
head of 350 feet, against the gravels
of an old, fllled-in pre-glacial canyon,
which is rich in gold-bearing gravels.
This old channel has been intersect
ed by the present creek canyon, which,
in its rapid descent, has, at this point,
cut a channel sixty feet deeper than
the floor of the old channel and fifty
yards further down the stream is a
further fall of 28 feet.
In the winter of 1913-14 260 tons of
freight was started from the railroad
terminus at Chitina, Alaska, and drawn
over the frozen surfaces of the rivers
to Valdez creek. Included in this
freight was steel for the hydraulic
pipe line, which weighed nearly one
hundred tons. This outfit arrived
at Valdez creek on May 7, 1914, and
during a greater part of the season
from May 7 until the last of Septem
ber, more than fifty men were em
ployed in installing this pipe line, and
supervising its initial operation. The
water was turned through this system
for the first time on August 21 last
The above mentioned Intersection of
the present canyon of Valdez Creek
^with the old, filled-in pre-glacial chan
nel was discovered during the first
seasons that the claims on Valdez
creek were worked; but the magni
tude of the discovery was not known
until the following year.
Altogether there was taken out from
tunnels and drifts and stopes worked
over $160,000, which was about $21
per cubic yard for all the gravel taken
out. They thoroughly prospected the
bedrock gravels of the first 1,200 feet
and proved the values that warranted
the Installation of this hydraulic plant,
which Boston capital has paid for.
While these bedrock gravels to the
height of seven feet—parts of the work
include a stope 38 feet high—have
yielded $21 per cubic yard, there are
between there and the surface, which
is 110 feet above bedrock (This being
the depth of the old channel) scores
of paystreaks of varying richness;
and gold is found in the pans of dirt
taken at the grass roots. From other
claims in Valdez creek now owned by
the Valdez Creek Placer Mines, more
than $140,000 additional has been tak
en out by hand methods.
Forbes Rickert, of Denver, Colo.,
in examining these gravels in 1911,
made an estimate of 94 cents per
cubic yard for all the gravels in this
old channel. Actual hydraulic work
by the present owners in 1913 with
a small equipment, showed the value
of the gravel from the top to the bot
tom of this old channel, exclusive of
the seven feet of bedrock gravel,
which had been extracted at tho point,
to be $2.70 per cubic yard. This
season a No. 3 Keystone drill and a
Rand-Ingersoll air compressor, driven
by a 58-horse power water wheel, is
going in as an additional equipment on
the property. The Keystone drill will
locate and thoroughly prospect the
gravels of the old channel beyond the
point where it was prospected by the
tunnel. The compressor will drive
four Rand Ingersoll drills, which will
be used in drilling the larger bould
ers found in the upper gravels as
fast as they are uncovered, and thus
in a large degree increase the effic
iency of the hydraulic equipment. Hy
draulic work will begin as soon as the
water runs in May, and will be kept
up until Sept. 1, when the season’s
cleanup will be made. In the product
is found many nuggets as high as $200.
After the cleanup, early in September,
AMERICAN PRETENDER TO THRONE.
Mr*. Alma V 11 ay tic (now Mrs. Don
aid 8. Andrews), who claims her aon
Rudolph Ik heir to Austria's throne, re
cently elo|>ed with D 8 Andrews, »
Yale senior, twenty-one tears old Mr*
Andrews before her recent marrlnci
was the "dearest friend" of the trie
to whom her youthful husband u •*
engaged In fuel. It was Hie flailn
who had Introduced the two
the hydraulic work will start again,
and continue until the winter freeze
up sets in.
The present hydraulic plant of the
Valdez Placer Creek Mines carries
2,400 miners Inches of water. Alas
ka practice, as proved by the reports
of the Yukon Gold Mining Company,
has shown n duty of five cubic yards
per miners inch for each twenty-four
! hours of the season. The working day
in the latitude of Valdez creek during
the summer Is twenty four hours long,
the men working in shifts.
POISONOUS ESSES ITU.
MIMIC FRENCH WARFARE
LONDON, May 29—Two soldiers
nre reported dead In the military camp
at Colchester, a few miles from Lon
don, as a result of inhaling poisonous
gases while engaged In mimic trench
warfare. It is said that experiments
were being conducted for the purpose
of developing means to counteract the
gases alleged to have been used by
the German troops in Flanders.
A sapper who had gone into a
gas filled trench was overcome, and
several others who went in search
of him also succumbed. The sapper,
a private named Williams, and the
commander of the squad. Lieutenant
Darton, died before fresh men suc
ceeded in getting the party into the
onen air.
KING'S NAME ADDED
CALENDAR OF SAINTS:
LONDON, May 28— The name
lof King Charles I, of England,
>is to be added to the Church of
England's Calendar of Saints, If a ^
resolution passed by the lower house I
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of Convocation of the province of
Canterbury receives the reo.oired sanc
tion from parliament. Resolutions of
the Convocation have no binding pow
er until they have been legalized by
the House of Parliament, or unless
they have been made under royal li
cense.
The attempt to canonize Charles I,
has been made repeatedly. Those
advocating such a move see in the
king's death on the scaffold nothing
but a martyrdom for the Anglican
church and for parliamentary govern
ment. Their opponents urge that the
king merely met the just deserts of
a life of political trickery, lying and
absolutism. For many years during
the early eighteenth century, the date
of his execution, January 30, was set
ipart for observances and sermons in
memory of the “Blessed Martyr
Charles."
CHURCH SERVICES
PRESBYTERIAN
Preaching Services 11 a.m. and 8
p.m.
Sabba.h School 12m.
The subject of the morning sermon
will be “Buried Treasure.” The ev
ening service will be commemorative
of our soldier dead, and the sermon
will be entitled “The Civil War, What
ForT” Following the evening ser
vice the congregational meeting will
be held.
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MINERS SPECIAL Red Sole Boots
$0.50 at S. Blum & Co’s.
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Fresh Cordova Eggs at O’Neill &
Slater Co’s.
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RENAMED SALT
CREEK
MCCARTHY, May 26—John E. Bar
rett has one of the finest gardens In
Alaska. For the past two weeks
he has had an abundance of fresh
lettuce and radishes, with other veg
e-tables well along. Three acres of
potatoes are planted next to the ball j
grounds and are already coming upj
nicely. John says that one is fool-j
ish to pay six to eight cents a pound 1
for spuds from the outside when he
can raise better ones here.
Tom Kinney went hunting for bear^
last week. He shot two rabbits and'
located a placer claim.
Billy James, of Sushanna, has or
dered fifteen tons of supplies to be
shipped in by the way of McCarthy.
Breedman's outfit will probably take
them in.
A letter recently received from Geo.
Goshaw, of Chlsana, states that Judge
Finnegan and Deputy Marshal Hoff
man sunk five holes to bedrock on
Dry Creek on the property recently
bonded by them from McGuire. George
says that the results were nil, and that
Dry creek has been re-named Salt
creek.
Comment among the miners and
prospectors of this district with re
gard to the new mining law passed
by the territorial legislature, is
unanimously favorable. The legis
lature seems to have cut out all the
bad features of the Roden law and to
have kept the good ones.
Attorney Capers and Auditor Ly
dick were in town yesterday in con
nection with the suit of Harvey & Co.
against the railroad.
The McCarthy school district will
probably be ready for business about
September 1. Some delay has been
occasioned by the fact that fuuds for
the construction of the school were
not available.
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HOW WAR EFFECTS
TRAVEL IN EUROPE
Hamburg, May 29—The effect of the
war on transportation anti passage
out of Germany through Hamburg, Is
indicated in figures just compiled
that during the entire year of 1914
>but 72,958 people went tbroad from
this city, as against 192,733 in 1913.
Practically all of the 72,000 odd left
the city before August 1
The war has similarly affected the
number of visitors in Hamburg. Thus
there were accommodated during 1914
but 22,299 transients as against 51,
3C4 in 1913. The total number of
persons coming to Hamburg stopping
temporarily and then leaving, either
for abroad or for other parts of Ger
many, fell from 244,097 in 1913 to 95.
257 in 1914.
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E. F. MEDLEY
Attorney and Councellor at 1 aw
Room 1
Adams Block CORDOVA, ALASKA.
J. F. R. APPLEBY
CIVIL ENGINEER
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I SMITH & GLASBRENNER, Props.
THE northern LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY ha*
again to report a successful year, with marked gains
in every direction.
, lhe assets were Increased One hundred and Thirty five
thousand Dollars! the resrve for the protection of Policy
holders, One Hundred and Sixteen Thousand Dollars.
Accident and Sickness Claims of $28,478.00 were paid
and Death Claims of $33,453.00.
No death Claim has ever been disputed.
All claims are paid immeJltely on receipt of proofs.
Total paid to policyholders in 1914 was $116,209 26.
50'! no ( omi,any B year,y income was increased to $415,.
n,rt,rryi,ng dh.ldends of Pie'Tt per cent, to stockholders
and dividends of $32,661.24 to policyholders—
The net surplus or the Company was increased more
than seventeen per cent, over the proceeding year
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