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CORDOVA, ALASKA. WEDNESDAY, (KToBKW 13, 1!n:».
A TIME TO BE LIBERAL.
Colonel John A. Sleicher, editor of Leslie’s Weekly, who
recently made a trip to this territory is telling some truths
c.houl the wonderful resources of the nortland in his excellent
magazine which are going to set the people of the United States
thinking and when this powerful influence reaches Washington
this northland will come into its own. In fourth of a series
of articles among other things Col. Sleicher says:
“Alaska deserves more uoerai ueaimem uuu u in
time that the country realized the fact that one of the greatest
factors of its prosperity lies right here. Alaskans have been
at fault to some extent. They have been too provincial. They
have fought each other, putting local interests ahead of the
public welfare and forgetting the prosperity of all. Cor
dova has a railroad to the interior Skagway has
one, Seward has one. Valdez, Juneau and other well-locat
ed places must in time stretch out their lines of steel into the
rich interior. Let everyone take hold and help everyone else.
There is room for all. Alaska’s natural wealth is enormous.
It is undeveloped, ready for the worker with money, the build
er with energv, the capitalist with foresight. Give them all an
open door. There will be no crowding. There is plenty of
room and abundance of riches.
Statistics an* tiresome*. Most people will not read
them and most who do speedily forget their significance. But
every reader can remember a fgw striking facts about Alaska,
unique, incomparable, unequaled, unexcelled. It is magnifi
cient in its isolation. It has an area of 000,000 square miles,
one-fifth the size of the United States, which means that it will
make 14 New Yorks and nearly 500 Rhode Islands. It cost
Uncle Sam $7,200,000, 4K years ago, or less than two cents an
acre. It has paid for itself twenty time and' more in the out
put of its fisheries. Its gold mines this year will produce more
than three times what Alaska cost us. Alaska claims to have
more gold than California and more copper than Michigan and
Arizona, more coal than Pennsylvania, and is willing to prove
it if the government will cut the red tape restrictions of non
sensical conservation and let capital do its work, as it has done
it with the gold and copper mines and the fish industry. Its
great cattle ranges remain untouched and most of them are tree
to the homesteader. _ _ «...
“Alaska has a population of about 65,000 with a fertile, un
developed acreage suitable for tillage, exceeding several times
the acreage of those sections of Norway, Sweden and Russia of
similar latitude with 11,000,000 souls. Let the people of the
whole United States think deeply of the official statement that
Alaska with 65,000 population, as a market for our own pro
ducts, is “of equal importance with China with a population of
336,000,000.” Is it a matter of no consequence to you, my
neighbor, whether the door to Alaska’s storehouse of wealth
shall remain closed' or be opened ? It produces half the world’s
salmon. It sold last year 200,000,000 pounds, or two pounds an
average for every man, woman and child in the United States.
It claims the only tin mines in the United States. It is opening
oil wells about Natalia and I ran across geologists who are fol
lowing up strong indications of an oil belt all the way up to
Nome! Wealth? Alaska will roll it in long before the present
century approaches its close. Already Fairbanks, away up in
the interior, 500 miles from the coast, is getting ready to cele
brate the semi-centennial of Alaska’s purchase, two years hence.
Get readv now to go. .
“Seattle, too, the great, mg oroiner oi mm —
done more than all the rest of the country to induce the news
papers of our great cities to give Alaska a fair hearing, she too,
the star-lit city of the sea, is to celebrate Alaska’s fiftieth birth
day. And' she will do it as she does everything, as she did the
recent splendid welcome to the Shriners, with an open hand and
a hearty welcome. Seattle is quick to recognize what the open
ing of Alaska means to her. She is Alaska’s gateway. She
knows that Alaskan trade has doubled in 10 years and wid
quadruple in the present decade. Keep your eye on Alaska,
and while von watch it don’t lose sight of Seattle. The lat
ter’s growth has only begun. Its destiny is fixed and looms
big on the horizon of the Pacific as one of America’s greatest
commercial ports.
“Since Alaska hailed the American flag 48 years ago the
wealth of the United States has had an astonishing expansion.
Tt is estimated to equal that of Germany, France and England
combined. It has increased since the opening of our new cen
tury by one hundred billion dollars, a sum in excess of our na
tional assets when we took over Alaska. W e have achived
these amazing results since we have been a united people, since
Ave obliterated sectional lines and since we have “shaken hands
across the bloody chasm.
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The auto-stage service from Chitina to Fairbanks is in full
operation for the winter and mail and passengers are now being
taken over the trail by this latest mode of transportation. The
first trip was made in seven days, with the roads soft and
muddy and as soon as the ground freezes this time should be
cut down to three days.
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Mr*. Catherine J. Palmer, Proprietor
Steam Heated Modern in Every Respect
Headquarters for Chamberlain’s Auto Service
CHITINA - - - ALASKA
DR. W. H. CHASE
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON
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Office over Cordova Drug Store.
Calls may be left at Cordova
Drug Store. Residence,
Alaskan Hotel
DR. W. W. COUNCIL
Physician and Surgeon
Office at Company Hospital
Hours—10 to 12; 1 to 6 p. m.
DR. C. L. HALE
DENTIST
Office In Adams 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 years
with Tacoma Smelter
E. F. MEDLEY
Attorney and Counsellor at Law
Room 1
Adams Block CORDOVA, ALASKA.
CLOTHES
CLEANED AND PRESSED
All Work Given Prompt
Attention
CHARLES GAME
E. A. HEGG
PHOTOGRAPHER
PHOTO SUPPLIES
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Views and Post Cards
STATIONERY
PICTURES and FRAMES
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M. C. Thompson H. C. Murphy
The MECCA
Thompson & Murphy, Props
Dealers in
WINES, LIQUORS AND
CIGARS
Phone 107.
One Visit
Will
Make You
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Regular Patron
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Restaurant
Private Boxes
For
Large or Small
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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 velng of high tirade ore are
properties on Prince William
exposed on the surface of this
ground.
Also four groups of copper
Sound, adjoining navigable water.
All of these properties could be
made producers with a small
amount of money and for a party
who can open same up or can se
cure the capital to do so, this Is
an opportunity to make a fortune.
For prices and terms apply to
S A. HEMPLE, Valdez, Alaska |
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ALASKA
STEAMSHIP CO.
Fast and commodious steamers sailing between Seattle, Ketch
ikan, Wrangell, Juneau. Skagway, Cordova. Valdez, Seward and
ANCHORAGE, via INSIDE PASSAGE.
Sails from Seattle— Sails from Cordova
September 24.ALAMEDA.October 4
September 30.NORTHWESTERN.October 9
Regular freight service for Ketchikan, Juneau, Sheep Creek,
Treadwell, Douglas, Cordova, Ellamar, Valdez ard Latouche. Explos
ives, S. S. Seward. S. 8. Seward, 5th; S. 8. Latouche, 15th; S. S.
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 Steamship Bldg. Baggage
or freight will not be received at the dock later than one hour before
sailing time.
F. E. TRACY, T. J. TALLENT,
General Agent Ticket Agent
Pacific-Alaska Navigation Co. *
ALASKA PACIFIC S. S. CO. ALASKA COAST CO.
PUGET SOUND-ALASKA ROUTE
Next sailing from Seattle will be
ADMIRAL FARRAGUA, September 25
ADMIRAL EVANS, October 5
Via the INSIDE PASSAGE for Ketchikan, Juneau, YakutaL
Katalla, Cordova, Valdez, Seward, Cook Inlet points and Kodiak
Island.
Seattle-San Francisco connecting with steamers Yale and Har
vard for Southern California Porta.
Schedule subject to change without Notice. jP
ALASKA TRANSFER CO., Local Agents
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| Northwestern Ry.
Effective June 12th, 1915.
Two trains every six days between Cordova and jjjj
jjj Chitina, one of these trains leaving Cordova making j|
jij connection with Alaska Steamship Co. steamers arriving gj
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Trains between Chitina and Shushanna Junction, gj
jij and Kennecott connect with trains between Chitina and jjjj
jjj Cordova. gj
All trains from Cordova leave from Second Street gj
I Depot. gj
Dining Car In Connection With all Regular Pessenger Train* Be- :g
tween Cordova and Chitina. :g
The above schedule subject to change without notice. jjjj
Freight received from 9 A. M. to 5 P. M. jjjj
Tickets on sale at Depot or up-town office, Alaska gj
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| Caleb CDrser S. R. Hedges
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