The Cordova Daily Times
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The private manufacturer lias to be always on the alert to
see when* he can make improvements and do more effective
work. Whatever else the government of a republic may do, it
has no right to enter into competition with its own public
spirited citizens. It is against the genius of free institutions.
Its business is to remove obstructions from tin* paths of
enterprise, not to put a check upon it. This is the more essen
ia 1 when what the government essays to do outside its legiti
liate governmental affairs tends to prevent private individuals >
’rom entering the same business.
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The three boats that left Cordova last week, the Edith, the
Ylameda and the Northwestern, brought to Tacoma a total
>f nearly one million dollars worth of copper ore. This was
he heaviest week’s shipment of ore from one mine that ever
eft Alaska.. Truly Cordova is the Copper Gate.
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The governor is making a tour of inspection throughout
Vlaska, and will visit Cordova. We should make some arrange
ments to greet the executive, and show him that Cordova appro
intes his administration of our affairs. He is the governor of
11 the people irrespective of party lines.
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Most of us have been prone to envy J. P. Morgan and the
iches which his name stands for, but the deplorable attack
pon the gentleman by a crank, resulting in his being shot
vice, makes us see the other side of tin* picture, and after all
e are rather glad that we have not got so much money that we
re in danger of being shot. .
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If that flotilla of torpedo boats, which is coming to Alaska
lis summer, makes a careful examination of all the available
irbors, it will agree with the first railroad commission that
te oue at Cordova is “unquestionably the best.”
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Czar Nicholas has left Petrograd for the front, say the
spatehe8. Can he catch it?
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SEATTLE AGAIN
A kind word for Seattle from Alaskans deserves to be
printed. We are prone to believe that Seattle looks upon
aska as something to exploit, which God' made for her par
mlar benefit. That Seattleites and notably the Chamber of
immerce have done much to help Alasku, must be,admitted,
le -Seattle Chamber as distinguished from the Seattle Com
»rcial Club lias always conducted itself in a dignified manner,
.lowing a policy of sane boosting for the territory as a whole,
d being careful not to defeat its ends by knocking one
ition and shouting for another. This is what helps Alaska
. d Seattle too. The Ketchikan Progressive recognizes the
rth of the Chamber in the following editorial:
“There are a very few of us Alaskans who can disclaim
ving a grouch against Seattle. We all have something against
> “Seattle Bunch’’ as most of us say; whether imaginery
otherwise, that much we must admit. We seem to think
it Seattle is too darn anxious to help us, thut behind this
dety there lurks something; a something that will get away
h us, body and soul; and all that. This is all poppycock,
ittle is helping us because in doing so she is helping herself,
interest is mutual, coincidently so, due to our geographical
lation. It is Alaska’s outlet to the outside world; and that
11 there is to it. Seattle has spent more time and money to
ertise Alsaka than we have or ever shall spend ourselves;
i much we must admit, providing we wish to be fair. Just
r the Alaska Bureau of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce
pving free lectures and displaying views of Alaska at a
it expense, yet none of us are over appreciative of the effort.
, m our point of view, it seems us though our grouch against
ttle has no solid foundation to rest upon.
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GOVERNMENT WORK AND PRIVATE WORK
An exchange prints the following editorial on government
ownership, and pessimistically refers to the Alaskan railroad.
\\ liile we may agree with the general remarks of our contem
porary, we feel that conditions in Alaska are peculiar, and that
the government railroad here was necessary and just, owing
to our government’s previous mismanagement of the affairs
of the territory. As an effective exposition of what the
opponents of government ownership believe in, the editorial is
worth while reading and we therefore present it.
A contemporary wants the government to undertake the
making of war material on a gigantic scale, that it may be made
at cost, no private contractor to have any part in it. There are
some drawbacks to that scheme. In the first place (lie govern
ment has a good deal to occupy its attention nowadays with
out going into business in competition with private enterprise.
Second, the government cannot compete with private firms or
corporations in any kind of business without having the
product of its work cost more than the same product would cost
in the open market, and the people who pay the taxes would, if
the experiment was tried, have to make good the deficit. The
government took in the Panama railroad when the Panama
canal reached a certain stage of construction and has run it
since. The service haw cost twice as much, mile for mile, as on
any other road in the United States, and the charges for fares
and freights have been twice as great.
Even the post office business of the country which has been
a government concern from the first, costs twice as much money
ns private citizens would be glad to contract for.
To do necessary government work costs so much and
requires the services of so many men, that those men make a
dangerous central power behind any administration in power.
The government is building a railroad in Alaska. It is safe ,
to predict that when finished, it will have cost quite double as
much as it would have cost in private hands.
The reason for this is evident enough. A government
employe works by the month; his chiefest interest is in getting
his salary.
Cordova’s celebration of the Fourth was up to the mark in
every respect, and' the committee of the Chamber of Commerce,
who hail charge of the events nre to be congratulated on the
program, and the smoothness with which the races were run off.
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Harvard university is holding organ recitals to soothe
the nerves of students before they go to their examinations. The
custom is genera!, we believe, of “doping” criminals before
they go to execution.
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Gibraltar has lost its formidable romance. Seven German
submarines have crept past it into the Mediterranean and now
something will blow up.
England is opening more of our mail, showing the curiosity
of a maiden postmistress whose old' sweetheart’s letters to his
wife are passing through her hands.
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By the time of the next Olympian games Russia ought to
be able to take all the running races without extending herself.
She is in excellent training.
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The Russians are merely trying to compel the Germans
to outrun their bread wagon. Thus they’ll starve to daeth. It’s
all very simple.
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The trouble with Russia was, as they say in golf, that it
had to “jump a stymie.”
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General Do Wet. is one man who needn’t worry about the
rain for the next six years.
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Why not let the Yaqui Indians pacify Mexico?
DR. W. H. CHASE
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON
Office over Cordova Drug Store.
Calls may be left at Cordova
Drug Store. Residence,
Rainier-Grand Hotel
DR. W W COUNCIL
Physician and Surgeon
Office at Company Hospital
lours—10 to 12; 1 to 6 p. m.
DR. C, L. HALE
D E N T I 8 T
Office In Adams Building
E. F. MEDLEY
Attorney and Councellor at t aw
Room 1
'dams Block CORDOVA, ALASKA.
ASA C. BALDWIN
Civil Engineer
Patent Surveys
Address: Valdez, Alaska
J. F. R. APPLEBY
CIVIL ENGINEER
“hone 4. CORDOVA, ALASKA
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The
MINT
Thos. Davie, Prep.
STRAIGHT WHISKEYS
IMPORTED WINES
KEY WEST CIGARS
BONDED GOOD8
NOTHING BUT THE BEST
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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 veing 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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Fast and commodious steamers sailing between Seattle, Ketch
ikan, Wrangell, Juneau, Skagway, Cordova, Valdez, Seward and
8HIP CREEK, via INSIDE PASSAGE
Sails from Seattle— 8ails from Cordova—
June 24.NORTHWESTERN.July 4
June 30.MARIPOSA .July 10
Regular freight service for Ketchikan, Juneau, Sheep Creek,
Treadwell, Douglas, Cordova, Ellamar, Valdez ard Latouche. Explos
ives, S. 8. Seward. S. 8. Seward, 5th; S. S. Latouche, 15th; 8. 8.
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. B. 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
ADMRIAL EVANS, JULY 5
ADMIRAL WATSON, JULY 15
Via the INSIDE PASSAGE for Ketchikan, Juneau, Yakutat,
Katalla, Cordova, Valdez, Seward, Cook Inlet points and Kodiak
Island.
Seattle-San Francisco connecting with steamers Yale and Har
vard for Southern California Ports.
Schedule subject to change without Notice
ALASKA TRANSFER CO., Local Agents
Copper River &
Northwestern Ry.
Effective June 12th, 1915. J|
Two trains every six days between Cordova and 11
Chitina, one of these trains leaving Cordova making ! I
connection with Alaska Steamship Co. steamers arriving !
from Seattle. I;
Trains between Chitina and Shushanna Junction,
and Kennecott connect with trains between Chitina and ';
Cordova. ! 1
All trains from Cordova leave from Second Street ;
Depot. •;
Dining Car in Connection With all Regular Pessenger Trains Be ' ■
tween Cordova and Chitina.
The above schedule subject to change without notice. ;;
Freight received from 9 A. M. to 5 1*. M. ;;
Tickets on sale at Depot or up town office, Alaska "
Steamship Company building !!
Caleb Corser S. R. Hedges i;
Superintendent Cordova Agent ■;
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