The Cordova Daily Times
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H. G. STEEL. Editor and Manager
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CORDOVA, AI.ASKA, FRIDAY, SKITKM KKK In, 1 Dir,.
OUR BARGAIN OF 1867.
The old impression that Alaska was composed in the main
of sealing grounds, glaciers, icebergs and eternal snows dies a
linger death. Despite the wealth that has poured out of its
sea gates since the stampede to Alaskan gold fields the impres
sion has persisted. The nation began to glimpse something of
the general resources of the country during the conservation
fight that marked the Taft administration. Now that the
United States is driving a railway through the 471 miles of
river valley, hills and' mountains, between Seward and Fair
banks there is more of a disposition to take an appreciative
Alaskan inventory.
Just what have we in Alaska? As a market for American
products Alaska with its 65,00 population ranks with China’s
400,000,000 souls, vet we are gretly concerned over the Orient’s
“open door.” Tn 1914 we shipped to Alaska something more
than $22,000,000 worth of goods, two thirds of the amount being
man factored articles. Alaska is yielding about as much gold
as California, and since 1867 a quarter of a billion dollars has
come out of these northern mines. Fish, seal skins, copper, fish
oils, silver, coal and furs have ad'ded another quarter of a billion
in the same period'. Shipments to the United States in 1914
totaled $44,000,000.
Lay Alaska down on the map of the United States and it
will cover the whole area east of the Mississippi river. In
Eurassia, those sections of Norway, Sweden, Russia in Europe
and Siberia lying in the same latitude as Alaska have a popu
lation totalling 11,000,000 souls. Alaska population possibili
ties as well as mining and marine resources and the new railway
will help greatly in realizing these. Under present conditions
our trade with Alaska has doubled in the last 10 years and the
resources of minerals and timber are practically untouched'.
Along the length of the new railway placer districts are well
nigh continuous, and the United States Navy has long regarded
with anxiety the richness of the Matanuska coal fields about to
be tapped by a branch road of the new railway line.
Li 1914 we imported two pounds of Alaska salmon for every
man, woman and child in Continotal United States. We bought
$20,000,000 worth of Alaskan fish, more than double the amount
of our Norwegian imports. The northern gold brought into the
Pacific ports in that year reached a value of more than $18,
000,000. Excluding the Canadian gold received we got $14,589,
237 of this precious metal, or more than twice the sum paid by
this country to Russia for the entire Alaskan domain back in
1867.
As the years pass and our native resources are overtaken
by a growing population we will have even more respect for the
foresight of Secretary of State Seward, who knew a bargain
when it was offered to him.—St. Louis Republic.
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EDITORIAL COMMENTS.
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If tlie Kennecott mines in Alaska operate successfully
throughout the winter, they mav furnish the needed example to
cause others to do the same thing.—Seattle Times.
Tolovana is receiving another boost from Fairbanks. A
pay streak for four miles is lined up, according to reports, but
the output of gold for this year is only placed at $6,000.
England is not pleased -with us because we are pleased with
Germany’s earnest effort to eliminate our displeasure. The
British papers think President Wilson slightly modified his
demands in order to avoid war, and maybe he did, a little, be
it said the credit of a long head.
The four insane prisoners that Deputy Marshal A1 Dowl
ing brought here and turned over to Sam Brightwell to take to
the asylum at Morningside were not, as we commonly supposed,
the four councilmen from Valdez who passed the recent City
Ordinance which extend the City of Valdez limits to the South
Pole. The Big Four are still at large, but for how long 0 Lord;
how long?
The Fairbanks Times, answering a query of a correspon
dent as to the execution of the death penalty in Alaska, says
there have been three. It includes as an execution a lynching
at Valdez. It omits, however, the lynching of a man at Yakatat
by his surviving partner and his wife, for killing two other
partners -an event which furnished' the plot for one of Jack
London’s famous psychological stories.
President Wilson’s friends are now framing up for his re
nomination .just as though the world was brand new and every
thing was glad, and Bryan hadn’t been gom, and Champ Clark’s
dog never had' been kicked, and the 1912 convention never said
a word against a second term. The capacity to forget is as
great an attribute as the magnanimous power to forgive. But
there are a lot of people who are not going to profess ownership
of either in the coming campaign, because times have been so
hard under the President’s tariff law that they have been unable
to acquire title.
DR. W. H. CHASE
PHY8ICIAN and SURGEON
Office over Cordova Drug Store.
Calls may be left at Cordova
Drug 8tore. 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. C. L. HALE
D E N T I 8 T
Office In Adams Building
ASA C. BALDWIN
Civil Engineer
Patent Surveys
Address: Valdez, Alaska
GEO. F. WHITE
The Assayer
Assaying and Ore Testing
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VALDEZ, ALASKA
Established 1911. Formerly 12 years
with Tacoma Smelter
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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
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E. A. HEGG
PHOTOGRAPHER
PHOTO SUPPLIES
Views and Post Cards
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STATIONERY
PICTURES and FRAMES
M. C. Thompson H. C. Murphy
The MECCA
Thompson A Murphy, Props
Dealers in
WINES, LIQUORS AND
CIGARS
Phone 107.
One Visit
Will
Make You
A
Regular Patron
At
Slater’s
Restaurant
Private Boxes
For
Large or Small
Parties
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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 flrade ore are
exposed on the surface of this
ground.
Also four groups of copper
properties on Prince William
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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CANNED GOODS
HIGHEST GRADE g
Selected Vegetables
and |i
Luscious Fruits |i
Ask your Grocer. S
SCHWABACHEfl BROS. & GO. |
(Incorporatd)
Distributors :j:|
Seattle, Wash.
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Pacific-Alaska Navigation Co.
ALA8KA PACIFIC 8. S. CO. ALASKA COAST CO.
PUGET SOUND-ALASKA ROUTE *4
Next tailing from 8eattle will be ^
ADMIRAL FARRAGUT, September 5
ADMIRAL EVANS, September 15
Via the INSIDE PASSAGE for Ketchikan, Juneau, Yakutat,
Katalla, Cordova, Valdez, Seward, Cook Inlet pointa and Kodiak
laland.
Seattle-San Francieco connecting with steamer* Yale and Har
vard for Southern California Port*.
Schedule tubject to change without Notice
ALASKA TRANSFER CO., Local Agents
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I Copper River &
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Effective June 12th, 1915.
| Two trains every six days between Cordova and I
I Chitina, one of these trains leaving Cordova making fj
connection with Alaska Steamship Co. steamers arriving Sj
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Trains between Chitina and Shushanna Junction,
jij: and Kennecott connect with trains between Chitina and U
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All trains from Cordova leave from Second Street U
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g Dining Car in Connection With all Regular Peesenger Trains Be- £
g tween Cordova and Chitina.
The above schedule subject to change without notice.
Freight received from 9 A. M. to 5 P. M.
ijij ^ Tickets on sale at Depot or up-town office, Alaska j:j;
g Steamship Company building
| Caleb Corser S. R. Hedges |
Superintendent Cordova Agent |i
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