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NOTICE TO WATER CONSUMERS
This Company has spared neither time
nor expense to give Cordova a continuous
WATER SUPPLY. To do this the Company
must have your co-operation to stop the waste
that occurs from letting the water run to avoid
freezing the pipes. Where we find this con
dition still to exist we shall SHUT OFF THE
WATER for the winter without further notice.
ALASKA PUBLIC UTILITIES
First Street Phone 1 3
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RIGGS SUBMITS
HIS REPORT
TO CONGRESS
In Governor Riggs’ report, trans
mitted to congress by Secretary
Franklin K. Dane, the subjects of fed
eral roads, territorial banks, labor
conditions, bureau of publicity, food
administration, public land and naval
, patrol are touched upon, as follows:
Federal Roads
The Alaska road commission, eon
j stiluted by act of congress approved
January 27, 19(15, is composed of three
officers of the army, who report to the
war department through the oltice ot
the < hief of engineers.
The total expended for all construc
tion and maintenance to June 30, 1918,
is $4,788,576.93. Of this amount,
$2,800,000, or 59 per cent, was appro
priated at different times by congress
and $1.968.576 93. or 41 per cent, from
| the Alaska fund One thousand and
six miles of wagon road, 673 miles
of sled road and 2,346 miles of trail
have been constructed and maintained
since 1905. Approximately 300 miles
of wagon road has a light gravel sur
face.
A total of $597,020.18 was expended
during the fiscal year ending June 30,
1918. Of this amount $274,428.45 was
for maintenance of existing roads,
bridges and trails, and $322,591.73 was
charged to construction, most of the
expense of construction being fur ex
tensive improvement of present roads
ami trails During tile year the mile
age was increased rs follows Twenty
six miles of wagon road. 30 miles of
winter sled road and 55 miles of
trail In addition to this new work,
several new bridges were constructed.
Approximately $325,000 is available
for road work during the present fis
cal year 11919). The crying need of
Die territory Is for roads 11 will
never reach a high state of develop
ment until a system of good roads
covers the entire country. Almost all
routes of travel cross long stretches
of boggy country over which if is im
possible to drag a wagon. In conse
quence, development is along primi
tive lines when once (he established
routes <ft transportation are aban
doned The scope of work of the
Alaska road commissioners cost®* well
lie doubllkl or trebled without increas
ing their overhead expenses Appro
priations of $750,000 or $1,000,000 per
annum would be only a fair amount
with which to continue their excellent
and constructive work.
Territorial Roads
In addition to roads constructed and
maintained by the Alaska road com
mission, the territory has appropri
ated $200,000 yearly for roads not
otherwise provided for; this amount
is equally divided among the four jit
diclal divisions, to be ex|M*n(led under
the direction of a road commission
elected in each division and an ad
visory body of t wo assistant road com
missioners appointed by the governor.
About Petroleum
Petroleum is now being produced
in paying quantities from a few shal
low wells near Katalla, with further
drilling in progress. There are seep
ages and other oil indications on the |
Kcnai peninsula, the Seward penin
sula, the Alaska peninsula. Cook in
let. at Vakataga, and persistent ru
mors of oil pools found near the line
of the government railroad north of
the Alaska range The finding of oil
in quantity in any one of these local!
j ties would be a wonderful boon to the
country, which is rapidly going on an
oil-burning basis as price and supply
will permit. The petroleum found is
of a very high grade and has a par
affin base The small plant at Katalla
produces gasoline and distillate, the
residue being sold for fuel oil. As
matters now stand, tin* oil lands of
Alaska are entirely tied up in govern*
i ment withdrawals. When legislation
now before congress has been enacted
an attractive field will be opened up
| to the prospector financially able to
bear the expense incident to oil ex
ploration.
Police Protection
Outside of the incorporated towns
there is hut little police protection
except as oiTorded by tin* various
wardens and sp.v ial employes for the
suppression of tin* liquor traffic
among the natives. Tin* marshals’ of
fices are hemmed around with restric
tions concerning expenditures for the
detection of crime, which makes it
almost impossible to prevent crime or
to run down lawbreakers after a crime
has been committed. A recommenda
tion is made for the establishment of
a federal constabulary to enforce law
and prevent crime
Alaska Game
The game laws are unsuited to the
needs of the territory Congress can
not devote the time necessary to the
enactment of laws which will meet
the many diversified conditions en-|
countered in a country so large as:
Alaska (lame should he protected by
tin* enforcement of stringent laws, but
of laws made by people familiar with
game and the country. There should
he laws which will conserve game,
hut which will still allow of its use
by a population dependent upon it.
'fhe governor recommends that the
control of Alaska game be passed to
the territorial legislature. At present
the force of game wardens is entirely
inadequate, particularly when the pop
ulation is hostile to the unjust provi
sions of the laws and regulations
Territorial Banks
At the close of the fiscal year there
were sixteen territorial hands and
three national hanks, the same num
ber as at the close of the previous
year. New banks were established
at Fairbanks and Cordova during the
year, and there was one failure, a
bank in Fairbanks having been closed
in August, 11*17, by the territorial
banking board. Tib* Bank «»i ltuby,
after slightly more than a year s ex
istence, voluntarily liquidated its af
fairs.
Labor Lonamons
II is safe to say that every industry
in the territory is suffering from a
shortage of labor Mines, mills, fish
cries, shops and railroads are all work
ing short-handed. Peak production
everywhere has been rendered impos
sible. Ill many instances men have
given up good wages with coiuhuiou*
employment, urged to other environ
meats by the national restlessness.
At Nome a most serious strike is
ill progress. The Miners' I'ulon
struck for an eight hour day as pro- '■
titled by territorial law and would
accept no compromise, although the
law had been found uilconsiitutional
by the judge of the Fourth judicial !
dis;;: -t An attempted appeal was de
nied by ‘.lie attorney general of the I
Fulled Stales. I'ntil the validity ol j
the law is finally settled there will be
a recrudescence of labor troubles.
As provided in the set, under In
structions of the Council of Defense,
the eight-hour workings of the law
were set aside by proclamation of the
governor as applied to fisheries for
the period of one year, unless the war
sooner terminates.
Bureau of Publicity
A territorial bureau of publicity is
being conducted for the purpose of
disseminating literature concerning
the territory and for Interesting pros
pective investors by furnishing relia
ble special information. A central la- j
bor bureau is maintained and is do-1
ing much toward a general distrlbu-1
tlon of labor. Results are com
mencing to be shown.
Food Administration
The food administrator, with head-J
quarters at Juneau, reports many im
portant results accomplished, the i
most important of which has been the
fixing of the price to be paid for sal
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WILLOW CREEK,
ALASKA
will soon become a second
Cripple Creek
$100 Invested Today in the
Little Gem Mine
will make you several thousand dollars within
a year or two.
1 am authorized to place a limited amount
of shares at
TEN CENTS A SHARE
and will accept Liberty Bonds at par value.
Will be at Smith’s Hotel for one week
only.
R. DAVID REESE
Mining Engineer
Alaskan Grill
FRANK A DOUGLAS, Proprietor
“The Home of Quality and Attention”
The Popular Restaurant of Cordova. Everything First-Class
Special Attention Given to Parties
One Visit to tile Alaska Grill Will Make You a
Regular Patron
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| Mecca [
I ROOMING HOUSE If
I | Over I .indig's Grill •
4 PHONE 173 I
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j northern meat market
•j: Wholesale and Retail Dealers in
if FRESH beef, pork, veal, MUTTON AND PRO- f
I VISIONS
Particular Attention and Prompt Service Given to Order* from
Mining Camps, Roadhouses and Interior Points
| Halibut and Other Fresh Fish of All Kinds Will Be Kept I
in Stock When Available
SMITH & (ILASSBREXNHR, Props.
Copper River
and Northwestern Ry.
FOUR TRAINS WEEKLY BETWEEN
CHITINA AND KENNECOTT
Leave Cordova, Second Street Depot, on Mon
days, Thursdays and Saturdays
Leave Chitina for Cordova Sundays, Tuesdays,
Thursdays and Fridays
Leave Chitina for Kennecott Sundays, Tuesdays
and Friday!
Leave Kennecott for Chitina Mondays, Wednes
days, Thursdays and Saturdays
’I lie above schedule subject to change without
notice.
Dining Car in Connection with all Regular
Passenger Trains between Cordova and Chitina.
I reiglit received and delivered at Cordova
\\ hart Irom !• a. m. to .) p m., except Sundays.
I iekets on s;ile at Second Street Depot office
' "O' before departure of trains.
uAI.EB CORSER Sui>i-i int< mi ■•in
D. L, LEATON, Ticket Agent