CORDOVA
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The seaport through which all the copper and gold
ore deposits of interior Alaska must pass to reach the
markets of the world.
The largest salmon canning center in Southwestern
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Alaska, with five salmon canneries in operation.
The natural outlet for the coal of the Bering river
coal fields; where the copper ore of the interior and of
Prince William Sound points will be reduced when the
coal is made available,
The nearest practicable harbor to the oil fields of
Katalla.
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CORDOVA
Has the best harbor north of Puget Sound; ideally
created topographically for a naval station.
Has more natural beauty in its location and sur
roundings than any other city in Alaska.
Has doubled its population the past year through an
influx of permanent residents, brought here by the estab
lishment of new industries.
Has a modern, broad gague railroad tapping the rich
copper deposits of the Kotsina-Chitina copper belt.
Has the largest dock in Alaska, taxed to its capacity
to handle the millions of pounds of copper and thousands
of cases of canned fish being shipped from here monthly.
Has seven passenger and six freight steamships
making regular trips between it and Puget Sound points,
besides numerous tramp vessels.
Has the best lighted streets in Alaska, lined with
modern business blocks.
Has two navy wireless stations, one of which is equal
in power to any in the United States, and cable connection
with Seattle.
Has every line of business and profession well repre
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sented.
Has a $10,000 school building, where high school
grades are taught; four churches, four modern hotels,
good restaurants, telephone, electric lights, waterworks
and sewers,
Has splendid facilities for the sportsman; wild fowl
and game fish are abundant, while a short trip on the
railroad brings the hunter within easy reach of bear,
mountain goat and sheep, moose and caribou.
Has for the sightseer and tourist the greatest natu
ral wonders in the world, the Childs and Miles glaciers.
Cordova today is on a more permanent basis than
any other city in Alaska; is assured of continued prosper
* ity and a steady growth, due to the progressive develop
ment which its natural resources are now undergoing.
When the coal of the Bering river fields, now but 25
miles from the present railroad, becomes available, smelt
ers will be erected here, and Cordova will become the
Butte of the North,
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For more particular information regarding the in
dustries and resources of Cordova and vicinity, the oppor
tunity for investment and employment here, and descrip
tive literature, write
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Cordova Chamber of Commerce
Cordova, Alaska
REVIEW OF SECOND
YEAR OF THE WAR
The second year of the world war
closes with the "Battle of Europe,” a
concerted effort of the allies on three
fronts to crush the central powers,
whic-h has developed into a titanic
struggle before which superlatives, al
ready exhausted, are completely beg
gared.
France and Great Britain in the
' west, Russia in the east, Italy in the
south are hurling wave after wave of
armed men on the Teutonic lines, to
gether with an avalanche of shells and
bombs such as the world has not
known up to the present time. For
the first time the Teutons are, tem
porarily at least, on the defensive on
the thousands of miles of the exist
ing battle fronts.
The change In the situation which
the year has brought is striking, al
though the results so far have been
more potential and spectacular than
radical. A year ago the Germans, con
tinuing their great drive against the
Russians, hurled the Slavs back along
the entire eastern front, captured War
saw, the great fortresses of Kovno,
Novo Georgeivsk and Brest-Litovsk
and established lines far Inside Rus
sian territory which they maintained
virtually unbroken until within the
last three months. They seized all
Boland, a great slice of Russia to
the south of that country and expelled
the invaders from Galicia and Buko
wina. Field Marshals von Hindenburg
and von Mackensen were the heroes
of these great successes.
On the western front the changes
in position during the year were com
paratively small, but the twelve
months were marked by three events
pf interest. The battles of Cham
pagne and Verdun and the opening of
the great Franco-Brltish offensive on
i the Somme took place in this period.
The battle of Champagne opened on
September 25. after a week's terrific
bombardment of the German lines by
the French, British and Belgians. In
a week of the bloodiest fighting that
had been known up to that time the
allies announced that they had taken
twenty miles of trenches, six towns
and 23,000 prisoners. But there they
halted. They could not break through
the mighty German wall and the grim
deadlock which marked the western
front for so many months was re
sumed. The battle of Champagne
marked the removal of Sir John
French, the British commander in
chief from the beginning of the war
up to that time. In December, 1915.
it was announced that he had resigned
to take a home command and Sir
Douglas Haig was appointed his sue
In sheer human Interest the battle
of Verdun probably surpassed all
other Individual events of the war. On
February 23 the German crown prince
began his assault of the historic
French fortress, known throughout
many centuries as the gateway to
France. For five months the defend
ers withstood a storm at the fury of
which the world stood aghast. Foot
by foot, almost inch by inch, the Ger
mans forged forward, with a reckless
disregard for their lives, a tenacity
and cool courage which was only
equalled by the heroic determination
of the French. On June 3 an unoffi
cial estimate of the German losses
to Verdun placed the total at the
appalling figure of 460,000. The as
sailants fought their way to within
about three and a half miles of the
fortress, but for several weeks have
reported no further progress, and the
force of their attacks appears to have
lessened.
The Franco-British offensive on the
Somme opened on July 1, 1916. It
was preceded by a bombardment of
unparalleled duration and Intensity,
featured by the appearance of new
and gigantic British howitzers. Under
this awful hurricane of big gun fire
the German first line defenses crum
bled. When the British and French
troops advanced they reported that
they found trenches in which there
was not a single survivor, only the
dead guarded the silent rifles and
machine guns. German first lines
were carried over an extent of 26
miles snd the second positions pierced
at certain points, but up to the pres
ent the fighting has been Indecisive
in so far as the forcing of the Ger
mans to withdraw their main lines is
concerned. The fighting has been of
the bitterest possible description, and
the reports of press correcpondents
at the front teem with accounta of the
most amazing heroism and devotion
on both BldeB. Instances have been
recorded of the sole survivor of a
company, wounded and without hope,
who manned a machine gun and
fought to the last amid the bodies of
his comrades; of Isolated detachments
who Btood off their foes for days un
til succor reached them or death; of
captured surgeons who bound up the
wound* of their captors; of heroic
re*cue* of wounded comrade* under
fire and of countless similar deeds
that thrilled the watching world.
The first move In the great allied
offensive was not made by (he
Franco-Britlsh, however, but by the
Russians. On June 4 the troops of
the Emperor Nicholas opened a tre
mendous assault on the Austro-Oer
man lines on a three hundred mile
front, extending from the Pripet
marshes to Rumania. The Teuton
lines held firm in the north, but to
the south General Brusslloff swept
with irresistible force through the
Austrian defenses, tearing a great gap
about 100 miles in extent. Through
this the Russians poured, capturing
Ozernowitz, the capital of Rukowlna.
and overrunning the crown land. The
Austrian losses are declared to have
been enormous, a month after the
offensive began the Russians making
pn official announcement that over
200,000 prisoners has been taken and
at least an equal number killed or
wounded.
As the offensive developed the Rus
sians won new successes further
north, and at the close of the war year i
are engaged in a mighty struggle for j
Lemberg, the capital of Galicia. The ^
fighting has also extended to the ex-j
treme north, In the Riga-Dvlnsk re-'
glon, but here the Germans have held J
their own, and no decisive result has
as yet been gained by either side.
In another theatre of the war the
year was marked by other and im
portant Russian successes. Following
the disasters on the eastern front in
the closing months of 1915 the Grand
Duke Nicholas was removed as com
mander in chief of the Russian armies
and sent to take charge of the oper
ations against the Turks in the Cau
casus. After months of preparation j
he began a great drive across Armenia ;
in January, 1915, which resulted in the j
capture of Erzerum and the port of
Trebizond, and expelled the Turks i
from the greater part of Armenia. Af- ■
ter a comparative lull of some months
the grand duke resumed his advance ,
simultaneous with a serious uprising;
against the Turks by the Arabs in |
Arabia. The Arabs took the sacred
city of Mecca, Jiddah and Taif and be
sieged Medina, the city where Mo
hammed was buried and one of the
holiest spots of the Mohammedan
world. In the meantime the Russians
took Mamakhutan and Balburt, but
these operations have not yet reached
definite conclusion.
In connection with the Turkish cam
paign, the year saw a serious reverse
for the Franco-British arms and a less
important, but highly dramatic, disas
ter for the British The disastrous at
tempt of the French and British to
force the Dardanelles and seize Con
stantinople was definitely abandoned ■
in November, 1915, and the allied
troops withdrawn from the Gallipoli
peninsula. About 150,000 troops had
been used in this venture, supported
by a mighty fleet. Six battleships,
five British and one French, were
sent to the bottom, as well as some
minor craft and the casualties were
unofficially reported to be almost
equal to the original number of the
expeditionary force. This was the
result of six months of some of the
most sanguinary fighting of the war.
The second disaster of the British
was the surrender of 10,000 troops un
der General Townshend to the Turks
at Kut-el-Amara on the Tigris. This
expedition had made a sensational
dash more than 300 miles up the
river in an attempt to seize Bagdad.
It was within ten miles of the city
when it was decisively defeated by
the Turks and forced to fall back 100
miles. Here it was surrounded and
forced to surrender after a relief
force had made several vain efforts
at rescue.
(Continued Tomorrow)
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Tex Rickard, formerly of Nome, and
well known throughout the territory,
has organized a big company for rais
ing cattle in South America.
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COPPER PROPERTY
EXCELLENT SHOWING.
Near Beatson Mine, La touche.
Close to tidewater. An excellent
ipportunity for man with little monej
:o make large profit. Price and terms
reasonable. Apply
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Latouche, Alaska.
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Gold Dust Bought at Highest Market Prices
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Hot and Cold Water, Electric Bells, Electric
Lights, Steam Heat, Suites With Bath.
Bar in Connection
| ROBERT GOTT8CHALK Proprlteorw ART CLONINGER k
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Sixty Steam Heated Rooms Eletric Lighted
Hot and Cold Water in Every Room
With or Without Bath.
Cordova House
H. C. ROSS, Proprietor.
Headquarters for Railroad and Mining Men
Satisfaction Quranteed
Rates Reasonable
The Lang Stove, born in Alaska.
Is the Stove for Alaskans.
Body made of Annco Rust-Resist
ing Iron.
Polished Cooking Surface.
Will hold fire overnight with wood
or coal.
Will burn green wood.
Ask your dealer for a Lang Stove.
If he cannot supply you write us.
Our line is complete from the
smallest camp stove to the larg
est hotel range.
Any .sourdough will tell you about the
Lang Stove, They aJl know it
F. S. LANG MFG. CO. ’
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For Your Drugs Phone 94.
We Deliver.
Northern Drug Co.
Have just received a shipment of fruit and nut dain
ties for our soda fountain.
Plenty of Fresh E. K. C. Films.
Victor Victrolas Victor Records
$15.00 up. for July Here.
MAIL ORDERS GIVEN PROMPT ATTENTION.
| Foos Gas Engines |
4 to 5CO Horse Power
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General Electric Motors
Roebling Tramways
Pelton Water Wheels
Chicago Oil Engines and Compressors
Regal Boat Engines |
| Harmon Machinery Co Inc f
p! Oxy-Acetylene Welding.
CORDOVA, ALASKA
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Particular Attention and Prompt 8ervlce Qlvan to orders from
I MINING CAMPS, ROADHOUSES AND
INTERIOR POINTS
SMITH & ULAHBKENNEU, Props.
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