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TRAINS ARRIVE
* Monday and Friday
7: P. M.
TRAINS DEPART
Wednesday and Saturday
7:30 A. M.
J Orlander
Jeweler
Dealer in watches and
clocks, nugget jewelry,
old ivory, curios and a
full line of goods us*
ually carried in a first
class jewelry store.
Watches repaired on I
short notice.
ROLLING IN WEALTH
In an article- appearing in a
recent issue of the Seattle Times
regarding a number of oldtime
Alaskans who are now on a farm
in King County, “Kid” Brown,
erstwhile dancehall proprieter at
Valdez, a one time inmate of the
'home, is now said to be in Wyo
! ming and worth a quarter of a
million dollars made from oil
stock he had purchased years ago.
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Samples and prices cheerfully
j shown. Sehaller’s Alaska Shop.
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SECURITIES m
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NEW YORK MAN SPECIALIZES IN
DEAD STOCKS AND BONDS
SOME are: VALUABLE
NEW YORK, Dec., 13. (/P)—There
| are some men who deal in worth
less securities and call them by oth
er names. But there is only one per
son who will sell you beautifully en
graved stocks and guarantee, on
,his professional honor, that they
I are worthless. He is Roland M.
Smythe, dealer in stocks and bonds j
of the dormant or dead variety. For j
45 years he has occupied a tiny of- !
|fice at 92 Broadway, and in that
jtime has built a profitable and
highly specialized business from his
original hobby of investigating
| “worthless” stocks and bonds.
Here, in dusty old tombs, done
largely in private code, are the obit
uaries of 300,000 dead corporations.
Scrap books with yellowed news
paper clippings marked by strange
footnotes form part of the library.
Smythe cares little about successful
issues, and their records usually
are missing. But the failures—and
there are enough of them—are
there in full detail.
ON STOCK EXCHANGE AT 23
Smythe was born in Ireland 74
years ago. His father was a ship
broker and provided an excellent
education for his son in this coun
try. He was out of college and in I
the brokerage business before he |
was 20, and at 23 he was a member
of the stock exchange.
Naturally gifted as a statistician,
Smythe collected data on various
stocks and bonds and soon was be- j
sieged with inquiries from other I
brokers regarding certain issues, i
“To discourage this drain on my
time”, Smyth said. “I started charg- |
ing a fee for advice.
‘I should have known better. This
immediately set me up as an “ex
pert” and increased the number of
calls. Finally I had to surrender
my brokerage business and give all
my time to tracing these cases.”
DEAD COMES TO LIFE
Smythe has made money from '
forgotten mining and oil stocks!
that have risen like golden ghosts j
to become revenue-producing se
curities. But when he purchased *
them they were “dead” and he had -
no reason to believe they would
ever live again.
But he made more money for
ether people. Several times he has
pronounced an issue dead only to
find signs of an awakening years
later. Immediately he notified the
folders of the issue, and delights
teem with information that they
leave come into possession of new
wealth. And he has a considerable
market for this knowledge of loca
tion of lost issues. 11
LM DEPOSITS OF j
COOL ESTIMATED ST
ISO BILLIONS TONS
Alaska’s known coal resources
may be conservatively estimated at
150,000,000,000 tons and ii is possi
ble that much larger supplies will
be discovered when geological sur
veys are extended to the four-iifth3
the country which has not yet
A TIMELY TIP!
TELL the people about
timely merchandise with
good printing and watch
your sales volume grow.
OTHER merchants have
proved this plan by re
peated tests. We’ll help
with your copy.
THE GATEWAY
been explored for minerals, it was
stated by the executive assistant to
the Secretary of the Interior, Ernest
[Walker Sawyer.
| Known coal fields comprise 12,
i *>67 square miles, he said, with 1,~
202 square miles believed underlaid
by workable coal. One-fourth of j
these 1,202 miles has been surveyed J
to date, he said, while little is;
1 known of the other 900 miles.
Types of coal found in Alaska!
vary from peat to the best grade of !
anthracite. One of the mines of the i
jMatanuska fields, near Fairbanks, I
[is producing a very high grade of
blacksmith’s coal which is being
shipped in increasing quantities,
Mr. Sawyer stated. Several grades
of coal found in Alaska also pro
duce excellent coke of a high grade
which on the Pacific coast will per- j
haps replace some of the imported
coke, he declared.
Mr. Sawyer pointed out that sup
plies of fuel oil and natural gas
have been historiacely variable so
we can expect the present low price
teeth white j
. breath sweet
. aids digestion |
After Every Meal •
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of fuel oil in California to be re
placed by prices materially higher;
Coal then, he added, will come back
stronger than before,
Alaska anthracite coal has excel
lent chances for sale on the Pacific
coast cities, said Mr. Sawyer, and
coke likewise has big possibilities
due to the various iron and copper
deposits of Oregon and southern
California. The big opportunity
presents itself in the distillation or
use of coal by the various new
methods which have forged ahead
In the past few months, he said.
THE PALACE
John Mattich Paul Svedeen
:: Proprietors ::
POOL. SOFT DRINKS AND
CIGARS
Furnished Rooms
Phone Main 55
SCHALLERER’S
ALASKA
SHOP
DEVELOPING
Printing
Enlarging
Photographs copied
and hand colored
Picture Framing
PIONEER COAL COMPANY
When ordering your next coal for the house,
hotel apartment house or business, try the
PIONEER COAL Company’s product which
is now on the market. We feel certain you
will be pleased with results obtained.
SEWARD WATER SUPPLY
SEWARD, ALASKA :
I
"‘Good Water a Necessity in Every Home”
*
John Nelson, Mgr. Wayne Blue, Agent
Office, Arcade Bldg. Phone Main 81 I
PLUMBINC SUPPLIES
With Winter
comes that busy period when wise householders are
preparing for the cold weather period. Now is the!
time to install new plumbing that won’t freeze up in
subzero days. And WE are the people to do it for you—
do it the way you like. We also do expert repair work
on plumbing, heaters, boilers, etc. It’s well to get your
home shipshape before the crisis of wintry blasts.
Phone Madison 56
SEWARD MACHINE SHOP
CHAS. LECHNER