The Cordova Daily Times
GREATER CORDOVA’S GREATEST NEW8PAPER
ASSOCIATED PRESS TELEGRAPHIC REPORT8.
H. G. STEEL. C. H. WILCOX, C. H. 8CHEFFLER, Publishers
H. G. STEEL, Editor and Manager
C. H. WILCOX, City Editor.
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Entered at the Postofflce at Cordova, Alaska, as second-claAS matter.
CORDOVA, ALASKA, TUESDAY, APRIL 20, 1915
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CONSTRUCTION OF TWO TRUNK LINES
WILL OPEN UP AN EMPIRE OF RESOURCES j
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HE Seattle Chamber of Commerce has published a most
interesting booklet on Alaska, a copy of which was re
ceived by the Daily Times in yesterday’s mail. It con
tains a vast amount of valuable and accurate information, and
the good work being done by that body, on behalf of this ter
ritory, is not only appreciated by our people, but will bear beu
eficial results.
The purpose of the booklet is to present in a brief manner
tlie progress and conditions in Alaska during the preceding
year, together with a few brief statements of facts relative to
the Northland*. Among other things it says:
To those who are turning toward Alaska with no fixed
purpose in view, a word of caution is in order. Time must be
given for the mining and industrial interests to expand as im
proved transportation facilities are provided, before the agri
culturists can find markets for their products. Those contem
plating agricultural pursuits must locate along the lines of
present development in order to be assured of a market.
Growth in all directions, as in all frontier development, must
be slow at the beginning, but increasing more rapidly year after
year under the new era of development. Men of the producing
class with more or less capital will find opportunities today,
but the field for ordinary labor is limited anti can be expanded
only as new industries are installed or existing ones are en
larged. Persons going to Alaska should have funds sufficient
to maintain themselves for one year, at least, if they expect to
reap the benefits of the change. Above all they should bear in
mind that frontier conditions, especially in Alaska, do not
make for a life of ease, but demand of those who will succeed,
courage, perseverance and determination. Alaska will re
ward those so endowed.
From the results of the development during 1!)14 and the
improved conditions, the future of the Northland never ap
peared brighter. The only shadow or cloud during this past
year has been the temporary disturbance of the copper and fur
industries due to the foreign war, but the one product is so
indispensible a necessity and the other such a general lux
ury that they will assuredly come to their own with the read
justment of the financial world.
Alaska has a future that cannot be pictured by the most
enthusiastic optimists. A country that has made such a show
ing with a mere handful of men under the most ad'verst amf
restrictive conditions offers untold possibilities. The con
struction of two trunk railway lines will result in the opening
up of an empire nine times as great as the state of Washing
ton, and over nine times as rich in natural resources. Her’s
should be a future of the greatest prosperity, and it is the duty
of our people to see that she secures the rational development
which she has so long been denied.
Our day of reparation is at hand. Our united efforts will
be crowned with a success that will mean an awakened* em
pire of the North—Alaska, Our Frontier Wonderland.
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In our ratiocinations concerning the war it will be well,
for the present at least, to salt well all reports that the Turks
are seeking peace. A man who is sure to lost* all bis clothes
as well as his self-respect, his rooftree and' his religious faith
by crying “enough” is not going to utter that word until he
has said and done everything to prevent it. The Turks are
making a pretty good fight of it. There is much doubt wheth
er the allies have made as much as a respectable dent in the
Dardanelles.
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Delegate Wickersham, constantly, in season and out of
season appeals to the prejudice of the working class against
politicians, yet his sole business during the 16 years of his con
nection with Alaska has been politics, and he has managed to
keep himself on the payroll for 15 of those 16 years. During
that time he has worked at one time or another with practi
cally every political party and every school of political thought.
—Juneau Empire.
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The Portland Oregonian gets right. Editorially it says:
Hudson Stuck, archdeacon of the Yukon, is himself a moun
tain climber of renown and he has only lately ascended Mount
McKinley, which he thinks best to call by its Indian name of
Denali. Would that his taste might prevail and the beautiful
native names of all the western mountains be restored. Pol
iticians might then find some other road to immortality.”
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The Great Northern railroad' brought through the Pan
ama canal the big steamer which is running between Astoria
and San Francisco, and the authorities are now raising the
question whether the company violated the Panama Canal Act,
which prohibits railroad ownership of steamship lines. By
all means let the government lawyers earn their salaries.
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l)r. Wiley says a man can kiss a woman on the cheeks with
out injurious results. Thus a great scientist disposes of a
very tender subject on a theoretical basis. Many a man with
a practical turn of mind has blundered into endless difficulties.
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One of the labor union witnesses said before the commit
tee on industrial relations that the late E. H. Harriman was a
good friend of union labor. About all a man has to do to
gain the good will of the world is to die.
The testimony seems to indicate that the rules and wages
of the Pullman Car CcAnpany have made grafting and theft
eminently respectable.
France has ordered 45,(XX) tons of shrapnel from the Car
negie Steel Company, and the dividends will afford additional
assets for the Carnegie Peace Foundation.
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The value of a wife’s love has been placed at $524, some
thing less than the price of an automobile and a little more
than is absolutely necessary for a trousseau.
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DR. W. H. CHASE
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON
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Office over Cordova Drug Store.
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. 0. L. HALE
D E N T I 8 T
Office In Adams Building
E. F. MEDLEY
Attorney and Councellor at law
Room 1
Adams Block CORDOVA, ALASKA.
J. F. R. APPLEBY
CIVIL ENGINEER
Phone 4. CORDOVA. ALASKA
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THE ARCTIC
LUMBER CO.
Still In Business and Carry
LUMBER OF ALL
DESCRIPTIONS
And Building Material
Prices Made on Orders for
Material
THE MODERN LAUNDRY
Phone 66
FANCY FLANNEL8 AND
STARCH WORK OUR
SPECIALTY
N. A. CLASEN, Prop.
You want the beet r«r your money,
then subscribe for The Times. Dally
or Weekly, or both.
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KJnney has a comer on Coffee
What we mean Is COFFEE, not the
wlBhy wishy kind you have been
buying and nicknamed coffee. One
can of Dwight Edwards will convince
E. A. HEGG
PHOTOQRPHER
PHOTO SUPPLIES
Views and Post Cards
STATIONERY
PICTURES and FRAMES
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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.
HOUSEBUILDERS
ATTENTION
We make a specialty of Wall
papering, Kalsomlnlng, Painting,
Tinting and Sign Painting
Compare Our Prices With Corn
Competitors Before
Ordering
W M. WOLF
Hegg Bldg. C Street
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Will
Make You
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Regular Patron
At
Slater’s
Restaurant
Private Boxes
For
Lar^e or Small
Parties
CLOTHES
CLEANED AND PRESSED
All Work Given Prompt
Attention
CHARLES GAME
V. A. SCHMITZ
PRACTICAL OPTICIAN
Office at
CORNER DRUG STORE
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Thos. Davis, Prop.
8TRAIGHT WHISKEYS
IMPORTED WINES
KEY WE8T CIGARS
BONDED GOODS
NOTHING BUT THE BEST
M. C. Thompson H. C. Murphy
The MECCA
Thompson A Murphy, Props
Dealers in
WINES, LIQUORS AND
CIGARS
Phone 107.
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Fast and commodious steamers sailing between Seattle, Ketch
ikan, Wrangell, Juassu, Skagway, Cordova, Valdez and Seward, via
INSIDE PA88AQK.
Sails frcm Seattle— SaHs from Cordova—
April 12.NORTHWESTERN .April 22
April 18. :.MARIPOSA.APRIL 27
Regular freight service for Ketchikan, Juneau, Sheep Creek,
Treadwell, Douglas, Cordova, Ellamar, Valdez ard Latouche. Explos
ives, 8. S. Seward. 8. 8. Seward, 5th; 8. 8. Latouche, 15th; 8. 8.
Cordova, 25th of each month.
This company reserves the right to change schedule of steamers
without notice.
Tickets on sale at up-town office Alaska Steamahlp Bldg. Baggage
or freight will not b« received at the dock later than one hour before
sailing time.
F. B. TRACY, T. J. TALLENT,
General Agent Ticket Agent
Pacific-Alaska Navigation Co.
ALASKA PACIFIC 8 8. CO. ALASKA COAST CO.
PUGET SOUND- ALASKA ROUTE
Next sailing from Seattle will be
ADMIRAL EVANS, April 15
ADMIRAL WATSON, April 25
Via the INSIDE PAS8AQE for Ketchikan, Juneau, Yakutat,
Katalla, Cordova, Valdex, Seward, Cook Inlet polnte and Kodiak
Island.
Seattle-San Francisco connecting with steamers Yale and Har
vard for Southern California Porta.
Schedule subject to change without Notlca.
ALASKA TRANSFER CO., Local Agents
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I Copper River &
; Northwestern Rv.
EFFECTIVE APRIL 1, 1915. 11
: Trains leave Cordova, depot at foot of Second Ave- 11
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;; Mondays and Thursdays 11
• Chitina for Kennecott— ;;
;; Tuesdays and Fridays ' I
;; Kennecott for Chitina— ' 1
;; Wednesdays and Saturdays
;; Chitina for Cordova— «;
!; Tuesdays and Fridays ;;
'! 'I lie above schedule subject to change without notice. ;;
Freight received from 9 A. M. to 5 P. M. ;;
; | Tickets on sale at Depot or up-town office, Alaska <1
;; Steamship Company building !!
Caleb Corser S. R. Hedges
;; Superintendent Cordova Agent ■ ’
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Travel East
O V E R T H E
“ MILWAUKEE ”
The Newest end Shortest Line to the East
Crossing the Cascade Mountains, the Kittitas Valley, the Colum
bia River, the Bitter Root Mountains and Montana Canyon, trav
ersing a country of surpassing scenic grandeur, historical interest
and wonderful development. j
TWO FAST THROUGH TRAINS DAILY
“The Olympian” and “The Columbian”
The NEW ALL-STEEL TRAINS to
BUTTE. MILKS CITY. SIOUX CITY.
MINNEAPOLIS. ST. PAUL. MILWAUKEE and CHICAGO
For further information regarding fare*, train service, reservations, etc., j
call ou or address
City Ticket Offices, Alaska Steamship Co. or Alaska Coast S. S. Co. *
Cordova, Alaska,
City Ticket Offices, Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway
443 Hastings St. West, Vancouver, B. C. j
OR j
Second Ave. and Cherry St., Seattle
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Cordova Power
Company
LIGHTS, WATER, PHONES
AND POWER
Office: FIRST STREET.