he Cordova Daily Times
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Entered at the Postofflce at Cordova, Alaska, as second class matter.
CORDOVA, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 90,1915.
As real estate boosters, the government officials in charge
the sale of town lots at Anchorage have any private real
itate promoter backed off the map. Think of sending a tele
.’ain to the Seattle papers boosting Anchorage as the railroad
rminal, with coal bunkers, docks, etc., to be erected, and
Ivising the people of the country that the steamers Watson
id Mariposa would leave Seattle in time to reach Anchorage
r the sale. That is advertising a land sale with a vengeance.
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They say that a roster of the employees of the Railroad
ommission at Anchorage reads like the roll call of a regiment
Serbian reserves. A recent letter from the new town asserts
lat a plain Amrican has to beg for work enough to earn the
rice to get a plate of beans.
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THE TOLL OF WAR
Nothing seems to be happening in this great world of ours
ccept fighting. They are warring to the north of us, and to
ic south of us and the clash of arms is taking up the attention
t the whole world. We read about doctors, college professors,
riests and ministers in the army. What can the result be?
othing but retrogression. The best blood of the nation goes
) war and gets killed. The weaker men, the less fitted remain
imie and become the progenitors of the next generation. Thus
oes war leave its heavy hand upon the people long after the
tst gun is fired. For the life of a nation at war has received a
?t. back. This country is but now recovering from the effects
[ our Civil War, when the slaughter was not nearly so great
•i the awful carnage in Europe. With Europe at war, and
merica at peace nothing can prevent the United States from
ecoming pre-eminent among the nations of the world. This
ill not happen as some critics of our neutrality assert, because
e will selfishly try to grab our neighbors’ trade while they
re fighting, but because the war will take such a toll of the
est blood and brains of England, France and Germany, that
lose countries will lose caste because they lack the raw
mterial, namely virile, rugged, strong men, and plenty of them,
hurches can be rebuilt, towns reconstructed, and new homes
lade, but a human life lost is gone forever. The wonderful
rain of a genius gets no more respect from a bullet than the
ulled intellect of a drunken sot. War plays no favorites,
xcept to show a tendency to help tin* grim reaper harvest the
est of the youth of the nation. If Germany loses her vast
jreign trade she will have the war to blame, and not the people
f the United States, who thanks to the wisdom of the great
aider at Washington, has so far kept her hands free from
lood.
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When you stop and consider that the boats leaving Cor
ova for the south get more south bound tonnage from this
ort alone, than they get northbound for all the ports of Alaska
;aving Seattle, you can begin to realize how important the
3wn of Cordova is to the territory, and how much truth there
ms in the statement of the Chumber of Commerce to the Ruil
oad Commission last summer, that this was the only tonnage
oute for a railroad into Alaska.
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If the news received yesterday is true to the effect that
he English have been trying to secure recruits in San Francisco
; puts Johnny Bull in a bad light. Do the people of England
mnt to fight their own battles? The story seems incredible
nd decidedly unworthy of a great nation.
OUR DEBT TO OUR FOREFATHERS
Let us nil remember that the Fourth of July is Independ
ence Day. Let us all be Americans nnd forget this foolish war
which is trying to divide our people into parties with hyphens
to express their nationality. We are all more or less foreigners l
in this country of the United Stats except the Indians. They
are the only natives. But we are free from the European idea,
and most of our forefathers came to this country to avoid the
evils of European governments, which were so prone to war. If
they had not done so, most of us today would either be fighting
for the king, the Kaiser, the Czar or sunny France. Let us be
thankful that our fathers had the wisdom to shake off the
European shackles, and let us try to keep that point of view
rather than to allow our natural sympathy for the land of our
forebears makes us forget that this land of our forebears
did not treat our forefathers well enough to make them
want to remain. Then you will begin to see that there
is an American point of view in this war, and we don’t all feel
the same way as the people in the old country do. The Fourth
of July should do much to make us one people, nnd so let us all
join in and honor the patriots who made it possible for us to be
free from this horror that is going on in Europe.
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Our Seward friends got peeved because the officials in
charge of the sale of lots at Anchorage sent out an advertising
circular by wire to the states, in which Anchorage was men
tioned as tin* railroad terminal. They say the Seward Com
mercial Club summoned the offending official before them, and
demanded an explanation. The next day the Gateway explained
it all by saying that a comma had been put in the wrong place.
Seward real estate took an awful slump when the wording of
the telegram became known.
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For a dissatisfied bunch of people go to Anchorage. Inter
view anybody on the government’s methods of disposing of tl^*
lots there, and you will probably lx* treated to more plain and
fancy cussing than you ever heard in your life before.
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The statement given the Times yesterday is an enlighten
ing exposition of the real situation and the possibilities at
Anchorage. Facts are facts, and so far there has been nothing 1
to demonstrate tin* necessity of a rush to Anchorage.
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Kaiser Wilhelm and Uncle Sam are beginning to feel that
their difficulty was nothing but a misunderstanding, and they
are both preparing to shake hands and “Gesundheit.” It is
tlx* better way.
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They say that the kiddies are going to have some swell
costumes for the Fourth of July, and if they only knew what
swell prizes the committee was preparing for them, they would
surely be a hot competition for them.
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King Canute and his famous effort to tell the sea to stand
still may have a counterpart, when the government officials get
ordering around the slush ice at the head of Cook’s Inlet.
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Cordova is going to have some celebration on the Fourth
of July, and everybody that remains in town will be assured
of a good time.
TERMINAL TROUBLES TO WESTWARD
Wo, in Cordova, might have been disappointed, and
ubtless were, when Seward was announced as the railroad
■minal by the president. We swallowed our disappointment,
d extended our congratulations sincerely to our neighboring
y. We thought it was settled, and honestly rejoiced with
ward in her good fortune. As far as we in Cordova are
ncerned we have nothing more to worry about. We are not
ing to be a government town, and our mind is clear. The
owledge that the matter is settled against us is much better
an the previous uncertainty. We will go on courageously
ing all we can to develop the Copper River Valley by trying
induce private capital to develop our resources. We feel that
e government has made a mistake, but we are not crying
er it. Of one thing we are certain, and that is, that today
* are in a better position than Seward, and for this reason,
rer in the westward town, they are at sixes and sevens on the
ilroad situation. Although selected as the ocean terminus
the railroad by the president, the commission seems to be
nding every effort to make Anchorage an all the year round
rt, and if they do that, why Anchorage will naturally become
e terminal, for it would not pay to ship coal to Seward over
e railtoad, when it could reach the tide water in any month
the year at Anchorage. This would mean that Seward would
t a little passenger traffic, and would make that town nothing
are or less than the terminal of a branch line. Our friends in
ward deserve better luck than this, hut tin* fact remains, that
dging from what is going on at Ship Creek, the average
wardite is a very much worried man. Here in Cordova, we
»ep easy of nights. We have our own little railroad, that
ings over two million dollars worth of ore a month to the
ast and which has unlimited tonnage possibilities before it.
le problem of government assistance in the railroad line has
*en settled against us, and we have nothing more to think
•out, and so can go about our daily work and do the best we
n to explain to the general public, and particularly tin*
vesting public, what a rich field for development lies in the
untry contiguous to Cordova. We certainly would hate to be
the position that Wilson had picked Cordova for the govern
ent terminal of the railroad, and be worrying our fool heads
f because the men he sent up here to do the job were trying to
ake Katalla the terminus.
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DR. W. H. CHASE
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Office over Cordova Drug Store.
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Two trains every six days between Cordova and II
Chitina, one of these trains leaving Cordova making ! I
connection with Alaska Steamship Co. steamers arriving •'
from Seattle. 11
Trains between Chitina and Sliushanna Junction, ;;
and Kennecott connect with trains between Chitina and ;;
Cordova. ■'
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Depot.
Dining Car in Connection With all Regular Pessenger Train* Be- ' ’
tween Cordova and Chitina. < ■
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Freight received from 9 A. M. to 5 1’. M. I!
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