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CHITINA, ALASKA.
Entered as second-class matter,
November 12 1910, at the postoffice
at Chitina, Alaska, under the Act of
Congress of March 3, 1879.
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LET US MINE
OUR OWN COAL
Chitina, Alaska, Saturday, June 24.
SHOULD WORK TOGOTHER.
“Every man should recognize him
self as a factor in his home town and
become a solider of the common
good. Why not? We are mutually
dependent, every one of us, from the
sunrise to the sunset of life, for no
man lives to or for himself alone.
The utterly selfish man is a misfit
in the scheme of human existence,
is a libel upon a beneficent provi
dence.”
These golden words of truth are
quoted from a booklet booming a
town in the states that believes in it
self and is going forward with rapid
strides because its people work to
gether for the common good. Its
population increased nearly 100 per
cent during the past ten years, while
another town similarly situated, on
ly twenty-five miles away, has in
creased only about one per cent in
' thirty years. Why the difference?
The other town is cut up into cliques
and factions, which is, unfortunately,
true of some Alaskan towns. Some
sets won't trade or neighbor with
other sets. The result is that thous
ands of dollars every month are sent
out of that town for mail order pur
chases, whereas in the town first
mentioned, where the people stick to
gether, it has been estimated that
the home merchants get about ninety
eight per cent of the home trade.
“We are mutually dependent, ev
ery one of us,” remember that, aud
“become a soldier of the common
good.” Patronize home industries.
Trade at home. Don’t be selfish and
a libel.
POOR OLD NOME.
We have not heard how the old
timers in Nome take the declara
tion of Attorney William Gilmore,
recently elected mayor of the Sew
ard Peninsula metropolis, as to the
Sunday closing law, which he says
will be enforced. Poor old Nome.
Practically closed from navigation
and the outside world for about eight
months in twelve and not any too
good for the past few seasons any
way, with the closing of the lid, 1
we can see the finish. After a term
of office with the Sunday lid on,
about the next starvation thing we
hear of will be the attempt of the
few remaining citizens to enforce lo
cal option in that district. Chances
are it will go through, too, as the
old-timers will have mushed on to
more progressive towns and dis
tricts, leaving the prohis and dry
advocates to die a natural death.
Little sympathy would be extend
ed from the majority of Alaskans,
should this prove to be true, for we
are not ready for Sunday closing or
local option. Only misguided peo
ple in dead towns and communi
ties advocate such policies. Alas
kans are already realizing how
James Wickersham has double
crossed their best interests since his
election, and now the Nome people
have another bitter pill to swallow
since William Gilmore, political
manager for Jim Wickersham in the
last delegate election on the Seward
Peninsula, has been eelcted mayor
and threatens to put the lid on their
town. Poor old Nome. Next time
a Wickersham follower bobs up for
office we opine the people will know
what to do with him and remember
the following stanza before marking
their ballots:
Well, If he’s a follower of tricky
Jim,
We can’t expect much good from
him; ,
It’s a cinch he’ll doublecross our
town.
So scratch his name and turn him
down.
ALASKA’S OPPORTUNITY.
Enterprising Americans are boo. t
ing the movement already started at
Baltimore to induce Americans to see
their own country before going
abroad, and a big convention will be
teld in Baltimore next winter to
’urther this idea. A short publicity
ampaign was started last month and
he governors of different Eastern
itates have asked for a commission
of citizens from different states
I throughout the West to see that they
j are properly represented. Baltimore
has the most advantageous building
for such a gathering to be found
anywhere in the United States, and
if over one hundred great pictures,
fully portraying the scenic, indus
trial, agricultural and livestock re
sources of the Northwest could be
shown at that convention, they would
make a wonderful impression and be
of lasting benefit.
Alaskans should get busy now and
be represented at this convention
Many tourists and men of means who
have hitherto held a wrong impres
sion of this territory, could they see
some of Alaska’s wonderful scenery,
would be induced to cancell their
European tour and spend the sum
mer months in this great North. Let
us keep this convention in mind and
have Alaska’s scenery and resources
portrayed along with the different
Eastern states. If we can secure only
one-half of one per cent of the peo
ple of the congested cities of the
East who make an annual tour some
where we can double our population
and many will remain good Alas
kans after once seeing our territory.
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JOBBING TRADE WITH ALASKA.
One of the remarkable sights of
early summer in Seattle is the as
sembling of the Alaskan fleet. Each
year there is a repetition, in degree,
of the scenes marking the departure
of the ships immediately after the
arrival of the Portland with the car
go of gold in 1897...
This season is no exception to the
rule. Jobbing houses are working
night and day hustling supplies for
the energetic cities of Alaska. There
is do abatement in the volume of
business, in fact, the figures are said
to be larger than ever before.
This kind of commerce is holding
up, no matter what part of the ter
ritory is considered— whether it be
Nome, the Kuskokwim, Fairbanks,
Seward, Cordova or the Iditarod.
Such being the case, the inquiry is
pertinent, how much larger would be
that trade provided the government
of the United States had not hinder
ed development and pratically throt
tled Alaska by over-conservation?
Each Alaska is making the money
and spending it freely; and yet Alas
ka scarcely advances, for the reason
stated. Given an equal opportunity
with other possessions of the United
States, it would quickly outstrip
them all.—Seattle Times.
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MORE MONEY IN FARMS.
A prominent agriculturist and stat
istician has just made a statement
to the press that at least $10,000,
000 in milk, butter, eggs and light
farm products are shipped east annu
ally from the Inland Empire and that
these products could just as well be
raised in the North and West with a
consequent great saving. He calls
the attention to the need of more
farmers in all agricultural districts
of the West and North, and that
there is more gold in the farm lands
than can be dug from the hills. This
will soon be realized by many in
Alaska. People here are yet blind
ed by the close proximity of gold and
mineral, overlooking the many thous
ands of acres of fine agricultural
lands, which, if taken up now and
properly cultivated, within five years
will yield more to the average farm
er than all the prospects and ordi
nary mines can possibly produce.
There are little valleys and south
side hill slopes all along the Copper
River way from Wood Canyon to the
Kennecott, which, according to old
prospectors (though they would no
more think of developing a ranch
than leaving Alaska), will grow most
anything used by man. Everyone
who has seen the soil and the warm
sun shining brightly for twenty hours j
a day on these lands realize the great
agricultural possibilities here,, anu
believe, with the proper cultivation,
the land would produce more than
the ordinary mine, yet the lure of
gold is still too strong for the aver
age Alaskan to think of anything so
slow as a farm. A number of most
promising locations along the Cop
per River at Northwestern Railway
from Chitina to the Kennecott, have,
however, been gone over by a few
thinking people, with a view to home
steading, and no doubt this fall will
see a number of homestead entries
recorded.
There will ever be a market along
this line of railway and throughout
this mineral belt for anything the
farmer can produce, and if the soil is
broken up for two or three consecu
tive seasons the farm ct-.i produce
more than the average mine.
Let us do your job work.
Work is progressing on the bridge
across the Columbia at Celilo. Car
loads of steel are arriving daily in
Portland. The bridge will cost $1,
500,000. and it is expected it will be
finished by next September.
Old-time prospectors who have
held down likely looking copper and
other mineral prospects throughout
this mineral belt, are hailing with
joy the arrival of the engineers sent
out by the United States. Smelting.
Refining and Mining Company. Suf
ficient development work has been
done on a large number of these
properties to prove them paying pro
ducers, and when examined by ex
perts. a number of sales will no doubt
be recorded, w-hich will add greatly
to the future prosperity of Chitina
and this mineral section.
Keep your eye on Chitina and
watch h r grow.
Now is
Your Chance
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ROAD NEWS of the Copper River Valley there
is no better medium through which to get it than
The
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This is one of the Greatest Mineral Belts in
the North and Chitina is the Gateway to Inter
ior Alaska. Here’s where the rail meets the
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To Juneau and Puget Sound Ports and Southwestern Alaska.
Steamer ( Bertha leaves Seattle June 20tli.
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Steamer Sampson leaves Seattle July 5th.
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Chitina, Alaska.
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NOTICE TO CREDITORS.
In the District Court for the Dis
trict of Alaska, Third Division, Chit
ina Precinct, before M. R. Healv„
Commissioner.—In Probate.
In the matter of the estate of Char
les W. Babbage, deceased.
All persons having claims against
the estate of Charles W. Babbage, de
ceased, are hereby required to present
them for settlement to the undersign
ed, the administrator of the said es
tate, at his office in Chitina. at the
Chitina Pharmacy, not later than six.
months from date.
All persons owing money to the
said estate are required to pay the
same to the said administrator at his.
office without delay.
Done at Chitina. Alaska, this 9th.
day of June, A. D. 1911.
A. G. MOREY,
6-12-4 w Administrator.
Washington, June 23.—The ap
propriations of the last congress
amounted to $1,026,000,000.
Log
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Restaurant
GOOD COFFEE
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FRIDAYS
and.SUNDAYS
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Chitina Bakery
& Coffee House
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Proprietors
FRESH BREAD
Cakes and Pastry
Always on Hand
Main Street, — Chitina.