The Cordova Daily Times
GREATER CORDOVA’S GREATEST NEWSPAPER
ASSOCIATED PRESS TELEGRAPHIC REPORTS.
H. Q. STEEL—PUBLISHERS—C. H. SCHEFFLER
H. G. STEEL, Editor and Manager
SUBSCRIPTION RATES:
Single Coplea .) .10 six Months (in advance) ... $ 6.00
Oue Month . 1.00 One Year (In advance) .... 10.00
Dally and Weekly, by carrier or mail, $1.26 per month.
I ; ! I at the PoBtofllce at Cordova, Alaska, as second-class matter.
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PARTIES THEY HAVE MET.
Gene Foss still has a few on the Colonel when it
comes to a discussion of “Political Parties I Have
Met.”—Washington Post.
Delegate Wickersham could give both Foss and the Col
onel lessons. Since coming to Alaska he has been a Republi
can. an Independent, a Progressive, a “Wilson Progressive,”
mi independent again, a “Progressive Democrat,” and a Re
publican again. He opposed self-government for the Territory,
favored self-government, prepared a commission bill similar to
tin1 Boveredge Hill for Cale, opposed the Bereridge bill secured
the neactment of a half-measure organic act (“as a first step”),
and has religiously opposed taking another step toward self
government, notwithstanding that the President lias declared
tor “full Territoorial form of government.”—Juneau Empire.
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, BEER AND THE WEED.
“Suds,” sometimes known as “German champagne,” but
more commonly called plain “beer,” is rapidly forging ahead
as the great American beverage.
The first report of internal revenue receipts for the new
fiscal year just made public, sustains the reputation of beer as
a “comer.” It covers the month of July, the opening month of
the fiscal year 1915.
During that month the tax on spirits yielded $10,996,175.78,
as against $11,451,561.79 during July, 1914, a decrease of $455,
386,51. Fermented liquors, on the other hand, paid taxes
amounting to $9,497,948.39 during the month, as compared with
$7,293,508.96 during July, 1914, an increase of $2,204,439.43.
There was an increase of $539,121.23 in the receipts from tobac
co. In July, 1915, the total receipts from tobacco were $7,437,
495.50, as against $7,078,374.27 during July, 1914. These fig
ures seem to indicate that the American public is drifting away
from whisky and developing an increased fondness for beer and
the “weed.”
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OIL AND ALASKA COAL.
\\ bile it was not to have been expected that a representa
tive of the Morgan-thiggenheim syndicate would talk enthusi
astically of the outlook for the government railroad’ in Alaska,
the opinion ot Stephen Birch, as expressed in a recent inter
view, relative to the probable difficulty which will be met
with in disposing of Alaska coal outside of the territory, is
shared by a number of prominent men who have made a study
of conditions on the Pacific coast.
One of these men, who believes as Birch does, that oil will
limit the sale of Alaska coal, is .T. M. Davidson, a mining en
gineer who was identified with the construction of the Miocene
ditch at Nome. In a statement made recently at Seattle, on
the eve of his departure for the North, Mr. Davidson declared
that the steady increase in the production of oil had begun to
worry the coal dealers of the Pacific coast. “They see their
markets constantly diminishing,” he said, “their one bright
rav of hope being ttiat the fuel oil fields will be short lived, or
that somebody will invent a method bv which the full value of
the thermal heat units of coal may uiilized, instead of wasted,
as is the case at present, with 8f> per cent of the heat going up
the Hue in smoke, sparks and soot.
“Oil is cheap,” he continued*. “Desperately so. There
is not a sufficient demand, and oil deterioates when stored—
especially when the storage is an open tank. Much of the
volatile matter escapes. The thing that the Pacific coast needs,
more than anything else, to bring unboundetd prosperity, is
manufacturing industries in which its abundant supply of both
coal and oil and water power could be utilized.”
Referring to tin* coal fields of the North, he suggested that
had tin* Matanuska and Bering river districts been opened
six or seven years ago, the Alaskan product would have had a !
much better chance in the markets of the Pacific coast than it
will have when the government railroad solves the problem of
transportation, chiefly owing to the fact that many of the
steamships and railroads are now equipped with oil burners.—
Fairbanks Times.
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One of the interesting statements contained in a recently
published report of the territorial mining inspector is that there
appears to be “a mania for falling down mining shafts in the
Fairbanks district.”—Tditarod Pioneer.
There may be some question whether all the world loves a
lover outside ot a story, a play or a movie, but here is no doubt
that all the world loathes a loafer, rich or poor.
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Some of the pieces against woman suffrage in the papers of
the tardy east remind one of Artemus Ward’s kangaroo.
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The football season is here, and the war office in Paris may
again report gains and losses by yard lines.
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DR. W. H. CHASE
PHYSICIAN and 8URGEON
Office over Cordova Drug Store.
Calls may be left at Cordova
Drug Store. 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
DENTIST
Office In Adame Building
ASA C. BALDWIN
Civil Engineer
Patent Surveys
Address: Valdez, Alaska
GEO. F. WHITE
The Assayer
Assaying and Ore Testing
VALDEZ, ALASKA
Established 1911. Formerly 12 year*
with Tacoma Smelter
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E. F. MEDLEY
Attorney and Counsellor at Law
Room 1
Adams Block CORDOVA, ALASKA.
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E. A. HEGG
PHOTOGRAPHER
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Views and Post Cards
STATIONERY
PICTURES and FRAMES
M. C. Thompson H. C. Murphy
The MECCA
Thompson & Murphy, Props
Dealers in
WINES, LIQUORS AND
CIGARS
Phone 107.
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GOLD-COPPER
FOR SALE
A high grade Gold property, ten
miles from Valdez with several
hundred sacks of high grade ore
on the dump. This property ad
joins a producing mine and sev
eral veing of high tirade ore are
properties on Prince William
exposed on tha surface of this
ground.
Also four groups of copper
Sound, adjoining navigable water.
All of these properties could be
made producers with a smalt
amount of money and for a party
v^io can open same up or can se
cure the capital to do so, this Is
an opportunity to Aleke a fortune.
For prices and terms apply to
S A. HEMPLE, Valdez. Alaska
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ALASKA
STEAMSHIP CO*
Fait and commodlout iteameri tailing between Seattle, Ketch
ikan, Wrangell. Juneau. Skagway, Cordova, Valdez, Seward and
ANCHORAGE, via INSIDE PASSAGE.
Sail* from Seattle— Sails from Cordova—
September 9-NORTHWESTERN_September 18
September 14.MARIPOSA.September 23
Regular freight service for Ketchikan, Juneau, Sheep Creek,
Treadwell, Douglas, Cordova, Ellamar, Valdez ard Latouche. Explos
ive*, 8. S. Seward. S. S. Seward, 5th; 8. 8. Latouche, 16th; 8. 8.
Cordova, 25th of each month.
Thi* company reserve* the right to change schedule of steamers
without notice.
Tickets on sale at up-town office Alaska Steamship Bldg. Baggage
or freight will not be 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 S. 8. CO. ALASKA COAST CO.
PUGET SOUND-ALASKA ROUTE
Next sailing from Seattle will be
ADMIRAL FARRAGUT, September 5
ADMIRAL EVANS, September 15
Via the INSIDE PASSAGE for Ketchikan, Juneau, YakutaL
Katalla, Cordova, Valdez, Seward, Cook Inlet points and Kodiak
Island.
8eattle-8an Francisco connecting with steamers Yale and Har
vard for Southern California Ports.
Schedule subject to change without Notice.
ALASKA TRANSFER CO., Local Agents
(Copper River &
| Northwestern Ry
Effective June 12th, 1915.
|| Two trains every six days between Cordova and |
g Chitina, one of these trains leaving Cordova making
g connection with Alaska Steamship Co. steamers arriving g
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Trains between Chitina and Shushanna Junction, j§
g and Kennecott connect with trains between Chitina and &
g Cordova. g
All trains from Cordova leave from Second Street g
g Depot.
g. Dining Car In Connection With all Regular Pe**enger Train* Be- g
tween Cordova and Chitina. g
The above schedule subject to change without notice.
Freight received from 9 A. M. to 5 P. M.
g ^ Tickets on sale it Depot or up-town office, Alaska g
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