Only One Way
| The gateway from wages to independence j
1 is the bank.
| There are many ways to earn money.
I There are more ways to spend money.
| There is ortly one way to save money, and j
1 that is to deposit it in the bank.
I Think it over, and then come in and open \
your account.
Bank of Alaska
CAPITAL $170,000.00
Branches at Skagway, Wrangell and Anchorage
ALASKA TRANSFER COMPANY
TRANSFER AND STORAGE
GOAL AND WOOD
AUTO SERVICE
DAY OR NIGHT
Office, Northern Hotel Bldg. Phone 85
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ARE YOU GOING OUT THIS FALL?
Visit San Francisco and Stop with
Mark C. Thompson
at his now hotel in the heart of the city between
Powell and Mason Streets.
The Dale- Tallac Hotel
140 ELLIS STREET
| Special Rates and Headquarters for Alaskans. |
THE NORTHERN CLUB
FRED HAEF, PROP.
POOL, CARDS, TOBACCO
Soft Drinks of All Kinds
The Popular Corner
PHONE 47 CORDOVA, ALASKA
OSBORNE BROS.
JEWELERS AND
OPTICIANS
WATCH REPAIRING
JEWELRY TO ORDER
CORDOVA, ALASKA
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Cordova
Adjustment
Company
K. G. ROBINSON, Mgr.
Collections, Reports,
Insurance
Ostrander Bldg., Cordova, Alaska
I The Club 1
j Pool and |
j Billiard Hall j
I A Clean, Cozy Place Where Good Fellows jj
H Congregate
1 TOBACCOS, CIGARS, CIGAR- 1
I ETTES AND SOFT DRINKS 1
Meet Your Friends at The Club
I TOM CLON1NGER, I
j manager.
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Send the Saturday Times to a Friend Outside
ALASKA IS AN ASSET
AND NOT A LIABILITY
(Continued from Page Three)
agree that the amount is conservative.
For example: One company, the big
gest operating in Alaska, reports a net
profit for the year 1918 of nearly $20,
000,000, of which, under existing rev
enue laws, the government takes
nearly one-halt. Another company re
ports having paid a tax of $84,000 for
the year 1917, and another company
pal'd $60,000. These two latter con
cerns represent only a small propor
tion of the industries of the territory.
For the year 1918 our exports amount
ed to $83,423,668—some trade for 30,
000 people, eh? And yet to get any
constructive legislation for Alaska
through congress is fraught with the
same hardship as confronts the pro
verbial rich man when he essays to
enter the kingdom of heaven. In this
connection it must not be understood
that Alaskans are without gratitude.
Far from it. We are thankful for
what the government has done for us
—much more so than for what the
government has done to us—and we
still have confidence that needed gov
ernmental action in our behalf will be
taken as soon as congress awakens to
the fact that Alaska is an asset rather
than a liability.
What the Government Has Done for Us
It has given us a minimum amount
of self-government.
It has authorized the construction
of a railroad from Seward to Fair
banks, to cost $52,000,000. Splendid
construction work.
It is slowly giving us greatly needed
aids to navigation.
It is slowly charting our coast.
.(About 0 per cent of the coast of
Alaska is now charted, as against 64.70
per cent of the coast of the Philip
pines.)
It has, through and under the war
department, established a self-sup
porting cable and telegraph system.
It is appropriating (this year) $100,
000 for building wagon roads.
It maintains two coast guard ships
for 26,000 miles of coast during the
summer months and for the past two
years has maintained a naval patrol
of two small vessels during the same
period, or, as the orders read, “until
the close of navigation.” (Navigation
never closes in the territory covered
by the patrol.)
It maintains courts and the various
offices in connection therewith.
It contracts for the care of our in
sane.
It does excellent work in investigat
ing the mineral resources of the ter
ritory.
It maintains an experimental sta
tion at the bureau of mines in Fair
banks which is verey helpful to the
miners.
It maintains five small experimental
farms in different parts of the terri
tory, which are of mighty benefit to
the farmers.
It spends yearly an inadequate sum
through the bureau of education for
the maintenance of schools, hospitals
and the reindeer service among the
natives.
It gives an insufficient appropria
otin for the suppression of the liquor
traffic and the enforcement of the
game laws.
"It has established the Mount Mc
Kinley national park, but neglected
to make any appropriation for its main
tenance.
It has set aside the Katmai national
monument, which no one will ever be
able to visit.
What the Government Has Done to Us
It has withdrawn all oil lands from
entry and declines to reopen them.
It withdrew all coal lands in 1906
and kept them closed until 1915, when
tney were reopened with a leasing law
that no one wants to'work under.
It has withdrawn into national for
ests 34,000 square miles, an area
nearly eqeual in size to the state of
Indiana. (Capital steadfastly refuses
to undertake development of any kind ,
within such forests on the terms ex
acted by the government.)
It has withdrawn all water powers
0
from use except in revocable permits.
It has withdrawn vast areas of land
and created of them all sorts of re
serves which serve no useful purpose
and the very existence of which has
been forgotten by the departments
creating them.
It has made the territory shoulder
the burden of nearly $100,000 for re
lief of natives stricken with influenza
when such natives are really wards of
the federal government.
It has given Alaska the worst mail
service in the world.
It has enacted game laws which are
foolish and impossible to enforce, yet
-r
'efuses to allow the territory to enact
proper laws.
Alaska Respectfully Asks Congress to:
Restore the national forests to the
public domain, or at least allow the
establishment of industry therein. The
pulp industry is anxious to start hut
is kept out.
Open up the oil lands to exploration
and exploitation.
Extend- the coal land laws of the
United States to Alaska.
Give the territory jurisdiction over
the fisheries, game and fur-bearing
animals.
Consolidate all governmental author
ity in one executive, thereby eliminat
ing conflicting jurisdiction, so fatal to
enterprise and industry.
Remove the restriction on export of
birch timber from the public domain.
Establish a constabulary in order
that there may be prevention of crime
as well as punishment thereof.
Assign coast guard or naval ships
to constant duty in Alaska waters to
assist in the enforcement of law and
to be available for rescue work at all
times.
Assist the farmers by loaning them
money.
Increase telegraph service.
Restore the mail contract system in
stead of shipping mail by freight and
express.
Make larger appropriations for
roads, thereby enabling outlying dis
tricts to assist in the production of
revenue t'er t if government.
Give the Indians better opportuni
ties for learning trades and establish
sanitariums for them, in order that
hereditary diseases may be eliminated.
Give us aids to navigation commen
surate with trade demands.
Establish the musk ox industry,
thereby making waste land productive.
Give Alaska the same opportunity
to develop that was accorded the West
ern territories, now the Western
states.
.
The Canadian Pacific freighter
Ena struck Ripple rock, in Seymour
narrows, on her down trip recently,
and but for the prompt action of her
crew in closing the water-tight com
partments in the ship she would'have
gone down instantly, as about six feet
oi her bottom was torn out along the
stern. The vessel was run into Men
zies bay and allowed to settle on the
bottom. The vessel was afterward
patched by divers and pumped out, go-;
ing to Vancouver for repairs.
Cruger & Son and Miller & Henly
are reported to have cleaned up sev-1
eral thousand dollars in the Stuyhok
stampede. Other properties in the vi-1
cinity are said to be doing well. The
Stuyhok is a tributary of the Bonasila j
river, which empties into the Yukon
below Anvik.
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Dr. L. Von Zesch has returned.
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Special dinner served from 11:30
o'clock every day at the City Bakery. |
Fresh Ever-Ready Flashlight Bat-1
teries, all sizes. Blum-O’Neill Co. 3-tf j
We always have a supply of
pasteurized sweet milk and cream on
hand. Also buttermilk and Bulgarian
buttermilk. City Dairy. Phone 187.
Harmony Club masquerade, Hal
loween, Eagle hall.
We ship by boat or rail fresh
cooked crabs or crab cocktails. Order
from Dave Phillips, P. O. Box 217.
2-tf
Best coffee in town at the City
Bakery. 2-6t
If you do not receive your copy of
the Times regularly, please notify the
circulation manager.
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WINDSOR HOTEL
L. WALN, Prop.
WHERE YOU GET
COMFORT AND SERVICE
And the Rate* Are Right.
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CORDOVA, ALASKA
SHOE REPAIRING
DIMON NICKALOFF
Currier Building,
C Street. P. O. Box 986.
YOUR FURS MADE TO ORDER
Beat work guaranteed. Low
est prices. Over 2,000 Alaska
customers.
R. W. Drew
Tacoma’s Expert Furreir
11th and B’dw’y, Tacoma, Wash.
The Care
Given Your
Complexion
Now—
will in great measure determine
its future beauty. j
You should have four creams
on your dressing table. j
Arbutus Complexion Cream. 65c
A Day Cream
Violet Dulce Cold Cream... 65c
A Cleansing Cream
Harmony Cocoa Butter Cream. 65c
A Wonderful Night Cream
Rexall Cream of Almonds.'35c
As a Hand Cream
All are beneficial—none will glow hair.
All are beneficial to you.
Cordova Drug Co.
The *$&xaJUL Store
SERVICE WITH A SMILE
Alaska
Steamship Company
Regular Sailings Between Seattle,
Ketchikan, Juneau, Cordova, Valdez,
Ellamar, Liscum, Latouche, Seward
FROM SEATTLE— SAILS SOUTH—
Oct. 4.NORTHWESTERN.Oct. 14
Oct. 9.ALASKA.Oct. 19
Oct. 16. ALAMEDA Oct. 26
Oct. 23.NORTHWESTERN.Nov. 2
Steamer Alameda will make trip to Anchorage.
Frequent sailings of freighters carrying explosives.
This schedule subject to change without notice.
* ‘ 'T" '"Tl-'T'fiffiWnr F- B- TRACY, Agent
I
[I——- ^PACIFIC STEAMSHIP COMPANY^ - J.l
Alaska—Washington—California ALASKA ROUTE
Safety Courtesy Service Speed
OFFICE EMPRESS BUILDING
I WEST BOUND SOUTH BOUND
j LEAVE CORDOVA LEAVE CORDOVA
; About NoV. 10 WATSON .Oct. 25
Three Sailings per Week from Seattle for San Francisco, Los An
geles and San Diego. For further information call
Office phone 223. L. A. COUNTS, AGENT Res. Lathrop Apts.
Il f
Copper River and
NorthwesternRy.
Trains leave Cordova for Chitina Monday and Thursday.
Trains leave Chitina for Kennecott Tuesday and Friday.
Trains leave Kennecott for Chitina Sunday and Thursday.
Trains leave Chitina for Cordova Tuesday and Friday.
Dining Car in Connection with all Regular
Passenger Trains between Cordova and Chitina.
Freight received and delivered at Cordova
Wharf from 9 a. m. to 5 p m., except Sundays.
Tickets on sale at Second Street Depot office
one hour before departure of trains.
CALEB CORSER Superintendent
D. L. LEATON, Ticket Agent