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WAV CORDOVA
SAYS WRITER
SOUTHERN NEWSPAPER MAN
DESCRIBES ALASKA LURE
AS HE VIEWED IT.
NATIVES COMPLAIN OF HEAT
See Large Iceberg Break Off from
Childs Glacier—Thinks Juneau
Pretty Big Town.
Today’s article by F. P. Roper,
Californian scribe who is writing his
impressions of Alaska gained while
visiting the Territory last month
and who spent a couple days In Sew
ard, deals with that part of the jour
ney after leaving Juneau for South
western Alaska:
July 22, 1925.
We had quite a thrill this morning
when we came within a few feet of
striking an iceberg, head on. There
was a dense fog about 8 o’clock. The
vessel was proceeding slowly at half
speed, when an iceberg about 30 feet
in diameter hove in sight directly
ahead. The boat was put in reverse
and steered to one side, miss.ing the
huge piece of ice by ten feet. The
officers informed us that the berg
was large enough to have stove a
hole in the side of the vessel had it
struck squarely. After that we stop
ped and drifted for nearly three
hours until the fog cleared. Then
we proceeded through Icy Straits
at full speed, fo rit had cleared off
nicely. We passed hundreds of ice
bergs quite close to the vessel.
Some of them were very large, con
sidering that but one-eighth shows
above the water.
We are now in open water, headed
for Cordova, where we are due to
arrive some time tomorrow night.
We arrived at Juneau last night
at 11:30, remaining an hour and a
half. Nearly every one left the ship
and inspected the town, which is the
capital of Alaska. It is a city of
about 3,000 inhabitants, and the
principal industry is the big gold
mine—the largest quartz mine in the
world. The mill handles and crushes
10,000 tons or ore daily. It is a low
grade proposition, running $1.40 to
$1.60 per ton, employing 450 men.
We were informed that the mine has
been paying until last year, when new
improved machinery was installed and
the company recently declared a
dividend of $92,000. The ladge is
from 200 to 500 feet thick. The ore
is handled by gravity, being run out
of a tunnel into the mountain on
electric trains, after which it is run
through rock crushers and ball mills,
where lS-ton steel balls revolving in
drums crush the rock into a powder
ed form.
Juneau, like all the Alaskan towns
we have seen, has wooden streets,
which serve the purpose very nicely
in a country where it rains and snows
a great portion of the time. There is
little danger of the streets catching
afire and burning up, for they are too
wet to burn. The same is true of the
forests, which cannot burn on account
of the dampness. For that reason
no forest rangers are required to
look after fires in this country.
* * *
July 23, 1925.
We are now sailing across a smooth
unbroken sea, crossing the Gulf of
Alaska. We have been in open water
since yesterday forenoon, and most of
the passengers are showing up at
most of the meals—four each day.
The last meal is served from 8 until
11 in the evening.
This forenoon we passed about 150
miles of glaciers on the southern
coast of Alaska, but they were 30 to
60 miles away.
The sun has been shining brightly
all day, and it is just comfortable
lounging in the sun.
* * *
Strelna, July 23.
It is now 10 o’clock in the evening,
and the sun is still shining on the
mountains.
We left the steamer at Cordova last
night at 9:30 o’clock, after having
a wonderful ocean trip. All after
noon we traversed a beautiful bay lin
ed with rugged mountains and pretty
islets. The trees and shrubbery are
a dark emerald green. The timbei
line is not high. The snow is in
patches from one to two hundred
School Days are Near
MOTHERS, let us show you the wide selec
tion of Boys’ Clothing we are showing
this season:
Suits, two pants.$10 to $16.50
Shoes, solid leather.$4.50
Underwear, heavy ribbed.$1.50
i
Blouses, assorted patterns.$1.50
Corduroy Pants- double seat and knee - - $3.50
Stockings, heavy rib.40c and 50c
Sweaters - - -.$1.50 to $7.00
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feet above sea level in many places.
! Above the timber are mountains tow
| ering thousands of feet into the sky.
It looked like the entire population
had turned out to meet our vessel.
The population is 1500 in summer and
about 1000 in winter. One of the
first things to catch our eyes as we
neared the dock was a number of
malamute and husky sled dogs. At
11:30 you could see to read a news
paper outside the house.
At 9:30 this morning we boarded
a sightseeing train on the Copper
River Northwestern railroad, and are
bound for the Kennecott mines. This
train does not run on any particular
schedule, stopping along the line
and allowing the passengers to get
their fill of scenery at the most im
portant points. This railroad is only
196 miles long and cost $15,000,000.
The bridge at Childs and Miles gla
ciers cost a million dollars. It is the
road upon which Rex Beach found
: his story, “The Iron Trail.”
Childs glacier was worth the ex
j pense of the entire trip. The train
remained there two hours. The glacier
i is three miles wide, from 300 to 350
j feet high at the face and extends
back 12 miles. We walked to the mid
! die of it and viewed the ice fall from
' the opposite bank of Copper river, a
1 distance of about 1000 feet. There
j was a constant cannonading as the
i huge cakes of ice broke off and
I tumbled into the river. Shortly after
! we arrived we witnessed a sight, we
| were told, that does not often hap
pen. A piece of ice, about 200 feet
i long and 60 feet in depth broke off
from the top of the mountain of
ice, and with a terrific roar, came
tumbling down into the stream. It
oaused an immense waves across the
stream which was like breakers on
the sea beach, and left a small lnoun
tain of ice out in the stream. Childs
glacier is three miles away from the
railroad, and altho we could tell by
the icebergs floating down the river
that it was active, it was too distant
to be appreciated.
We are now stopping for the night
at a small summer resort about 50
miles this side of Kennecott. We will
visit the mine tomorrow, returning
here tomorrow afternoon ior the
night. We will not leave Chitina for
the automobile trip on the Richard
son highway until Sunday morning.
The natives here are complaining
of the heat, athooigh to us it has been
a beautiful spring day. It gets from
50 to 60 degrees below zero here in
winter. We passed hundreds of beau
tiful sights today that have to be
seen to be appreciated. The road
winds up the bed of Copper river,
crossing it at one place where it is
12 miles wide and at another where
the same body of water is flowing
and the river is not more than 300
feet wide. The Alaska range consists
almost entirely of big mountain? thou
sands of feet high. The tcenery is
bigger and even more beautiful than
it is along the coast.
Camphor Acts Quick
People are surprised at the quick
action of simple camphor, witchhazel,
I hydrastics, etc., as mixed in Lavoptik
eye wash. One small bottle helps any
case sore, weak or strained eyes.
Aluminum eye cup free. Seward
Drug Company.
NOTICE OF COURT TERM
Notice is hereby given that a term
of the district court of Alaska, Third
division, has been called to convene
at Seward, Alaska, October 5, 1925, at
10 o’clock A. M., in the federal court
room in said town. A petit jury will
be in attendance at said term.
W. N. CUDDY, Clerk
of said court.
FALL AND WINTER SUITS
My fall and winter suit and over
coat samples are now on display. If
you are planning a new suit or over
coat it will be to your advantage to
look these over.
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H. Berger’s gas boat Hazel, tied up
at the city float, became half filled
I with water this morning, when the
low tide caused the boat to list over
on her side.
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