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JUNEAU, ALASKA
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Clvh and Mining Engineers.
U. S. Mineral and Deputy Land Sur
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1102 L. C. SMITH BLDG., SEATTLE
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Specialist in the treatment of
diseases and deformities of the
eye, ear, nose and throat; glasses
fitted.
JUNEAU GENERAL HOSPITAL
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PLUMBERS AND STEAM FITTERS
Cor. Front and B Streets
Office Open Evenings.
E. F. MEDLEY
Attorney and Counsellor at Law.
Room 1.
Adams Block CORDOVA, ALASKA
FRANK H. FOSTER
Attorney at Law
Room 1 Alaskan Hotel
ALASKA’S POSSIBILITIES
US SEEN BY TRAVELERS
(Continued from Page Two)
finished, will have coat the govern
ment something like $50,000,000.
About half the line between Seward
and Fairbanks is now finished, ap
proximately $25,000,000 having al
ready been spent on the project. The
balance of the one thousand miles will
consist of feeder lines into the new
country abutting on the railroad.
The road is being worked in several
sections, or divisions, about 5,000 men
having been employed during the sum
mer. While 1 was in the north instruc
tions were received by the officials
of the road from Secretary Ijane to
rush the construction from Seward to
the Matanuska coalfields, the gorern
mont having appropriated $4,000,000
for this purpose. The Matanuska
coalfields are the richest in the world,
not excepting the rich mines in Vir
ginia and Kentucky. They comprise
ninety square miles of territory, bear
ing a fourteen-foot vein of the highest
grade of coking coal—the only coal,
excepting that of Virginia, that is fit
for the use of our navy. It is eetl
mated that coaJ can be mined and trans
ferred to San Francisco or Ix>a An
geles at a cosf, of $4 a ton, and it
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$9 cheaper than the present price of
coal In Los Angeles. In my opinion,
this means the solution of the coal
question, both for war and for dom
estic and industrial uses.
I heard a great deal of talk about
the Kennecott coper mine, which last
year produced the biggest per cent of
the $34,060,000 output of Alaska’s cop
per production. It 1b interesting to
remember that last year’s copper pro
duction doubled in value the entire
productipn of gold for the year. When
one considers that Alaska has pro
duced in exeas of $500,000,000 since it :
was purchased and that the whole ter
ritory was bought for $7,200,000, one
must admit that the purchase of that
territory was about the best bargain
Uncle Sam ever made.
I visited Juneau, too, and spent a
pleasant evening with Governor
Strong, whose general appearance and
activities do not belie his name, for
he is a splendid representative of both
the hardihood and culture typical of
Alaska. At Juneau are the two largest
gold mines in the world, these being
the Alaska Juneau and the Alaska
Gastineau, each plant handling about
S.000 tons of ore a day. The Juneau
mines produced $62,000,000 worth of
ore before the ocean broke through
into the workings, ruining two-thirds
of the property, the remaining third
now being shut off from the rest of
the property by a concrete dam.
The fisheries proved a great revela
tion to Mr. Peitshans, who says that
the Alaskan waters between Ketchi
kan and Seward are capable of produc
ing as large a quantity of herring
svery year as was imported from Swe
len before the war. Large fortunes
ire also being made in the salmon
fisheries, of which labor reaps its
share. Packers, who received from $3
to $4 a case before the war, are now
beintr S** hnHhll* imSnatr,,
tie found also to be developing rapidly, ,
ind many cold-storage plants are being ,
Brected. Of the reindeer industry (
which was another revelation, he t
says: <
Another surprise that was in store )
for me was the information r received c
concerning the caribou, or domesti- <
cated reindeer. For many years the :
government has protected the native 1
Indians and Eskimos in this business, i
and they have had complete control
af the reindeer industry, but now the (
reservations are removed and the in
dustry is open to all who care to in- t
vest their time and money in it. At i
present there are about 70,000 reindeer ’
n Alaska, and I believe the raising
>f these animals will be a big factor
n solving the meat question for this
'ountry. They multiply rapidly, about
50 per cent of the females bearing
wins every year, and there is a very
low death-rate among the young. The
meat is delicious—as good and as
lender as beef—and their hides can
se used for many purposes.
With the completion of the new rail
■oad any able-bodied, enterprising man
will be able to get into the Interior
of this vast rich empire at little ex
pense. Hundreds of prospectors are
ilready laying plans for the summer o(
1918, many of them having a great de
sire to work the Broad Pass eection
for copper and gold. That the other
Industries of which I have spoken will
be entered into on a tremendous scale
there can be little doubt.
The climate, while Bevere at times,
Is not disagreeable as a rule. The
warm Japanese current affects a great
part of the eoast line, and th« weather
la seldom unpleasant. As for th* In
terior, of course, it gets cold there,
but It Is a dry, Invigorating cold, not
so unpleasant as the climate of Chi
cago In the winter time. People drew
for the weather, and real snfferln*
from "bad colds" Is unknown. 1 never
saw happier, more vibrant men and
women, and certainly I never saw
more healthy, rosy-cheeked children
than I found In the interior of Alaska.
The Alaskan delegate to the house
of representatives is Charter* August
Sulzer, brother of former Oovernoi
Sulzer. He was born la New Jersey,
but be has lived tor fifteen years in
Alaska on Prince of Wales Island. He
was In business In HlUabeth. N. J.,
»nd first went to Alaska to look after
tome mining properties.
"If yon have never been there you
can not understand the Irresistible
fascination of that wonderland," he re
marked to a Washington representa
:ive of the New York Telegraph. "It
assessed me from the time I arrived,
*nd I have been there ever since.’’
Continuing, he said:
Yes, I am vitally concerned In every
hing pertaining to Alaska. What I
vant to do in congress Is to advance
he interests of the territory in every
jossible way. I want Alaska under
itood. Kor there are two absurd ideas
hat generally prevail about that coun
ry. One is that it is a land of ice
>ergs, snow fields—the frozep land of
he polar bear. That Is true of only
* portion of Alaska. There is a great
>art of it rich in agricultural lands
tnd green with splendid forests. The
>ther idea is that Alaska is an El
)orado, where a man has only to go
md pick up or grab something be
onging to the other fellow.
Now the conditions of living and
vorking in the territory of Alaska are
;overned by the same general laws of
ife that obtain in any other land, and
here is no reason, outside of rertile
maginations, why Alaska should be
nisunderstood.
suiuuui luiiiss ui tennis nanneis
nd roses in connection with Alaska,
tut just get this picture of Mr. Sul
er’s home there:
“Flowers? You’ll find them every
dace, even growing—a ring of yellow
ilossoms—around the base of a snow
apped peak. At my home in Sulzer
ve have the prettiest kind of a gar
len. The village is pretty, anyway,
vith fine trees of cedar, hemlock, all
ivergreens from a few inches to fif
een feet in diameter. I am sorry Mrs.
Sulzer is not here to tell you about her
lower garden, which is her constant
lelight and pride. It is chiefly of per
nnials—the hardier flowers that come
ilong every season with abundant
doom, poppies, foxgloves, roses! The
oses are unusually lovely and bloom
'rom early in August until nearly
'’hristmas time. The only annual to
vhich Mrs. Sulzer is addicted is the
iweet pea. We always plant those
tnd have a gorgeous display of them
vhen they blossom.”
“Besides the garden, what do you
do for recreation?*’
“Tennis. Both Mrs. Sulzer and I
like it: we have a good court and play
a great deal. Then, of course, the
great sport is boating. There is not
much choice,” the gentleman from
Alaska laughed, “and one comes to
like the water after living there a
little while—whether he was inclined
to enjoy it or not. We do not swim.
The water is too cold—and never gets
quite warm enough on our beach for
that. Besides, it is very deep there.
But the boating, either in the little
motor boats or the rowboat, is delight
ful.”—Literary Digest.
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SUMMONS
In the District Court for the Territory
of Alaska, Third Division.
Mabel E. Sprague, plaintiff, vs. Herbert
A. Sprague, defendant.—No. C-133.
The President of the United States
of America, greeting, to Herbert A.
Sprague, the above-named defendant.
You are hereby required to appear
in the district court for the territory
of Alaska, Third division, within
thirty days after the completion "oT
the publication of this summons, to
wit, within thirty days after the 2Cth
day of April, 1918, and answer the
complaint of Mabel E. Sprague, the
above-named plaintiff, in the above
entitled cause, which cause is an ac
tion for divorce in one of the cases
prescribed by law w'herein the plaintiff
prays for a decree dissolving the bonds
of marriage between herself and you,
and for such other and further relief
as to the court may seem right and
proper in the premises. And you are
hereby notified that if you fail to ap
pear and answer said complaint as (
herein required, the said plaintiff will
take judgment against you for want
thereof, and will apply to the court
for the relief demanded in her com
plaint. as hereinbefore set out.
The order for the publication of
this summons was duly made and en- <
tered on the 16th day of March, 1918.
Witness the Honorable Fred M. 1
Brown, judge of said court, and the
seal thereof, this 16th day of March,
in the year of our Lord the one thou- F
sand nine hundred and eighteenth,
and of our independence the one hun
dred and forty-first.
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REPORT OF THE TOWN CLERK OF CORDOVA, ALASKA, FOR THE
MONTH OF MARCH, 1918.
RECEIPTS—
Previously acknowledged $35,430 49
March, 1918, Rentals 20 00
Total receipts $35,450.49
DISBURSEMENTS—
Previous March Total
Cleaning streets $ 3,005.60 $ 133.50 $3,139.10
Printing, etc. 184.30 25.35 209.65
Fire department 2,304.55 305.90 2,610.45
E*Pen8e 795.80 251.67 1,047.47
Public health 1,737.75 167.50 1,905.25
L,ghts . , r 1,763.70 185.00 1,948.70
Ass. and Coll. Tax 225.56 11.50 237.06
Public buildings 594.10 49 75 642.85
Police department 4,082.35 285.00 4,367.36
Board of Education 8,650.00 8,650.00
Election expense 72.85 72.85 24,830.73
$23,416.56 $1,414.17 24,830.73
Balance $10,619.76
EDWARD F. MEDLEY, Town Clerk.
(Seal) ARTHUR LANG,
'lerk District Court, Third Division,
Territory of Alaska.
By JOHN B MILLER, Deputy.
March 21-24—Apr. 1-8-15-25.
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