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VOL. 1 CHITINA, ALASKA. CHITINA, ALASKA. JULY 1. 1911 pu. . NO. 41
Local News
Harry Delvig. who has been work
ing this past spring with the Spang
ler engineering party at the front,
left on Wednesday morning for Cor
■dova, where he will wait until his
brother comes down after which he
expects to go to the westward, or
may take a trip back east.
E. J. Davis, the paymaster for the
Katalla Co., returned Tuesday from
a business trip up the line, having
made the men happy again by leav
ing the usual monthly checks.
Mesdames Solomon and Cox arriv
ed on Monday evening's train and
left the following day for the front
’where their husbands are employed.
Mrs. M. Dixon was an arrival on
Monday’s train, making a business
trip from Cordova, and remaining
"here until Wednesday morning as
the guest of Mesdames St. Clair and
Cloninger.
Mrs. P. R. Newhouse made a busi
ness trip to Cordova on Wednesday's
train to secure different lines of
stock for their store which they ex
pect to open in the Hotel Chitina
building next week. '
R. J. Boryer, attorney for the
Katalla company, made a business
trip here on Monday’s train, return
ing again Wednesday. While stay
ing over Tuesday he instructed a
few Chitinaites in the following of
Isaac Walton on trout lake.
Alvah Eames made a business trip
to Chitina cn Monday’s train and
from here took the train for the
Kennecott, to look over the different
post offices enroute.
Ben Delzelle. the well known trav
eling man. arrived here on Monday's
train from Cordova, returning again
Wednesday after taking orders from
our different business men. Mr. Del
zelle married a Cordova girl recent
ly, and the couple are now making
•their home at Ketchikan and Juneau.
William H. and Chester Van Cleek
who made a trip to the front last
■week, returned again to Cordova on
Wednesday’s train. Mr. Van Cleek
Is an eastern tourist and was ad
vised to come here as a diversion
from the ordinary beaten paths of
travel.
Captain A. E. Lathrop. mayor of
Cordova, made us another business
trip on Monday's train, returning
•again on Wednesday morning.
Oscar Breedman made a business
trip to Cordova on Wednesday’s
train and will be the main booster
from Chitina to secure the excur
sion from Cordova on the Fourth of
July.
Charles Vernon Beresford, well
known in Cordova, and Valdez, was
an arrival in Chitina on Monday
from the Kolsina country, and left
on Wednesday’s train for Cordova.
Quite a few men are coming from
up the line and will do their poll
"tax work on the road here, having
Tefused to pay the $8 tax, although
tax collectors Healey and Wolf, who
are now up the line are collecting
considerable money at the different
camps.
R. M. Hathaway brother of Mrs.
Fred Schaupp. is paying us a visit
this week. Mr. Hathaway is from
> California where he with his father
is largely interested in hop grow
ing. After a few weeks spent in
Alaska he will again return to the
hop harvest. He is greatly interest
ed in Alaska, and says 'hat the two
glaciers, Miles and Childs, on each
side of the Copper River railroad,
are alone worth the trip north. He
expects to go as far as the Kennecott
and visit all the scenic beauties of
the Copper River way before return
ing south.
JLet us do your job work.
AX THE SEN ATOR’S
There's a small cafe up Chitina way
Where the tired may eat and rest.
There’s chicken and steak and oyster
pattee
And the Senator’s smile for zest.
There are onions and greens
And colored ice creams
And a coffee cup a la gem.
But what strikes one most,
Save the smile of the host
Is the collection of good looking men.
AT THE SENATOR’S 6-17-tf
Let us do your job work.
Keep your eye on Chitina and
■watch h r grow.
PROGRAM FOR BIG CELEBRATION
The different committees on ar
rangements for the Fourth of July
celebration at Chitina turned in their
reports on Thursday night, and every
thing is now in readiness for the
big day. A splendid list of sports
has been arranged and while there
are not many large cash prizes, there
will be a good program of events,
which will keep the fun going all
afternoon. The rock drilling contest
for our miners is the main event,
and will be pulled off shortly after
the arrival of the excursion trains,
the rest of the events following in
rapid succession. The committees
[ have all decided to pull off the events
| without any delay, so the people will
! not become bored by unnecessary de
lays. In addition to the regular pro
; gram, a boxing and wrestling match
in the open, so that ladies and every
one can enjoy them, will take place,
j There are several clever athletes who
! will compete for cash prizes and this
' sport is expected to be as interesting
a thing as will be pulled off. No ad
| mittance will be charged, but good
cash purses will be contested for
1 and no little side money may be
' wagered, as some of the contestants
i are clever and there is considerable
rivalry. There will be no long and
lengthy discourse of the day. no ora
tion or reading of the Declaration of
Independence, though arrangements
are now under way to secure “Sport”
McAllister^ the well known “Irish”
Indian to impersonate Uncle SaS»
and furnish amusement by a take-off
as speaker of the day.
M. W. Anderson has been appoint
ed official starter for the races and
O. E. Bennett, clerk of the course.
Efficient judges will be chosen and if
possible the honor will go to some of
our visitors. Dr. Whiting has been
unanimously selected to act as ref
eree in the wrestling and boxing mat
ches. These will not last over four
or six rounds and the best two out
of three falls for a decision in points.
Mrs. M. Wallace has been chosen
as chairman of the ladies reception
committee and a building directly
across from the dancing pavilion has
been provided for the use oi the lad
ies, and children. In addition to this
most of the married residents oi
Chitina have announced their inten
tion of keeping open house, and the
homes will be thrown open to th;
guests. It is to be a gala day and
Chitina citizens will do all in their
power to make our visitors feel at
home. The dancing in the pavilion
will take place immediately after the
program of races and sports is fin
ished. Two cash prizes for the best
waltzers have been hung up as it is
always difficult to determine the best
couple in a prize waltz when the last
few couples are singled out. The*
couples must win on their own merits.
The sports will begin immediately
after the arrival of the excursion
ti*ins or as soon as the guests have
had lunch and feel ready for the en
tertainment. which of course depends
entirely upon the time the train's
arrival. A list of sports and pro
gram have been ordered printed so
all can know the events coming off.
some of which of course may be sub
ject to change in which event an an
nouncement will be made.
Following is a list of the differ
ent committees and program of
events:
SPORTS
J. L. Brown, Ivory St. Clair. E. \Y.
Exum, H. H. McCutcheon. M. W.
Anderson and Geo. Bluen.
uAXCE COMMITTEE
O. E. Bennett, J. Sapiro, B. B.
Tibbs and J. L. Brown.
FINANCE
S. O. Breedman, T. W. C'loninger,
and C. C. Hull.
GENERAL COMMITTEE
S. O. Breedman, E. W. Exum, C.
C. Hull. H. Gessner, O. E. Bennett
and J. Saptro.
PROGRAM OF EVENTS
Rock drilling contest, cash prize of
$100.
Fat man's race—First prize $7.50,
2nd. $2.50.
100 yard dash—First prize $15,
2nd $5.00.
Ladies' 50 yard dash—First prize
$10.00, 2nd $5.00.
Boys race—Under 16 years of age;
1st prize $5.00, 2nd. $2.50.
3 legged race—First prize $10.00,
2nd. $5.00.
Run and carry race—First prize
$10.00, 2nd. $5.
Running broad jump—First prize
$7.50, 2nd. $2.50.
Sack race—First prize $5, 2nd.
$2.50.
Girls race under 18 years of age—
1 First prize $5.00, 2nd. $2.50.
Indian foot race—First prize $5.00
2nd. $2.50.
Pie eating contest—First prize $2,
2nd. $1.00.
Tug of war—Five men teams, 10
minute pull. $25.00.
Prize waltz—Two best couples, 1st
prize $10.00, 2nd. $5.00.
“Enjoy yourself.” That’s the
slogan, and everybody in Chitina will
try and see that you go home sat
isfied with your outing.
ARE BLOCKING OUT THE ORE
Throughout this great copper belt
development and assessment work is
now being vigorously pursued, and
the various holders of good copper
prospects are not only preparing
their claims for patent, but in a num
ber of cases are blocking out ore, and
expect soon to begin shipping their
produce to the smelters.
E. F. Gray, of Copper Mountain
fame, has about 135 men employed
on his different holdings and expects
soon to shift his Kotsina crew to
their properties on the Kennecott.
The Alaska Consolidated Copper
t
i Co., are doing considerable develop
ment work this year. They have not
only blocked out some splendid ore.
but have constructed a number of
substantial buildings on their prop
erty.
A. S. Garrison, who recently went
into his property on Trail creek, a
tributary of the Kuskulana. is mak
ing preparations for a good season’s
work and is so much satisfied with
the showing already made that he
expects to retain a crew of men all
next winter.
Jack Xafsted, who is freighting
[supplies to the Hubbard-Elliott prop
! erties, reports that the company
wants 20 or 30 men more to work
on their properties and a big showing
is to be made there this season.
The owners of the famous McCar
thy properties on Nugget creek, to
gether with some visiting capitalists,
are expected here the latter part of
this month, to overlook their hold
ings.
Experts are now examining the re
nowned Mother Lode properties, and
from the White river country, Ken
necott, Kotsina, and other well known
I
districts, where in the very near fu
ture copper mining will be in active
operation, preparatory work is rap
idly being done, so when the branch
lines of the Copper River & North
western railroad are run to these var
ious districts, preliminary surveys
for which are already being run,
thousands of tons of the highest
grade copper ore in the world will
be shipped to the States which will
startle the entire world.
A dairy with goats is being estab
lished at Sitka to furnish milk.
EXAMINING BRIDGES
ALL ALONG RAILWAY |
Foreman Ben Sundahl. Allen John- j
son. Chris Larson. Pete Peterson, E. ,
Johnson, O. Anderson, Ed Johnson,
I. Martin, Ole Peterson and Gus
Johnson are a crew of good husky
Swede and Norwegian boys who are
bridge carpenters sent out by the Ka
talla company to examine and repair
the many diffenent trestles and
bridges along the line. They arrived
in Chitina Thursday night, after be
ing at the front from mile 191 this
way for the past month, and left
on Friday's train with their car for
mile 13, and expect to repair the
bridges between there and Cordova.
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XEWHOl'SE & CO. LOCATE
AT CHITINA
One by one the people across the
river at old camp 133, who were in
business there last year, have moved:
across* to Chitina the last one-s to j
leave are P. R. Xewnouse & Co., who
have conducted a general merchan
dise establishment there for the past
year. They have rented a store room j
in the Hotel Chitina, formerly occu
pied by the old postoffice and have a
good line of sundry things to sell.
They expect to deal principally in
fruits, tobaccos, candies, etc., but
have a good line of groceries and nec
essary supplies as well. Mrs. New
house returned from a business trip
to Cordova on Thurday where she
secured an additional stock of goods
and the store will begin to look like
a big addition to Chitina in a few
days.
Chas. Schutzman. who has been in
the employ of the Orr Stage Co. all
winter as blacksmith, left on Fri-;
day morning’s train enroute to Se
attle, where he will spend a few
week’s vacation. He will return for
work again in September.
Foreman Jimmy McGill of the
piledriver crew left this week for
different points down the line, doing
considerable work around mile 111.
INTESEST
On the Esteriy property on the
Xizina, great boulders in the form of
copper nuggets have been piled up
steadily for years and several hun
dred tons of the rich stones have
been saved. Xow that a heavy ton
nage in machinery is to be sent into
the country the nuggets will be
loaded for the return trip to the
railroad. Thus will another big fac
tor be brought into play in the de
velopment of the interior treasure
house.
Several tons of Bonanza samples
are at the wharf for Kenneth Kerr,
industrial agent of the Alaska Steam
ship Co. They will be sent to the
American Land & Irrigation Expo
sition to be held in Xew York in
November. One of the samples
weighs over 1400 pounds and is al
most pure metallic copper.
Prospectors who have wintered in
Valdez or who went in there on the
early boats, are now drifting into
the Copper river country, being at
tracted by the many gold and cop
per strikes.
A large party of local railroad men
Is being ' pooled” to send out pros
pectors into the rich back country.
London, July 1.—The Prince of
Wales is soon to visit Canada, as Lord
Stratheona. High Commissioner, is
about to resign.
Sacramento, July 1.—David Cap
lan has been arrested in London,
charged with being implicated in the
Los Angeles dynamiting case and a
requisition has been asked for, in or
der that he may be brought to Cali
fornia for trial.
OF INTEREST TO
MANY PROSPECTORS
James McConnel, of the Alaska
Consolidated Copper Co., has just
completed the construction of a sub
stantial bridge across the Kuskulana
river on the old trail about two miles
below the Vaugn road house. This
will be good news to many prospec
tors who intend going into that sec
tion of country, as the Kuskulana
river at this season of the year is
nearly always' impassable. Even at
the lowest stage of water, this river
is very swift, the banks being very
high and but few piaces where one
can cross.
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WORK PROGRESSING ON
THE, NEW CHITINA DEPOT
U*he lumber ana material for the
new depot arrived on Monday eve
ning's train, and a force of seven
men under foreman John Strigsvey
began laying the foundation on Tues
day morning. Among some of the
workmen are two well known Cor
dova contractors and carpenters, Al
Lund and Henry Thoday.
The building is to be a two story
structure, the dimensions being 26
feet wide by 50 feet in length. There
will be four rooms on the first floor
with three or possibly four rooms up
stairs. A large bay window in the
center of the building with a dormer j
window in each end and two brick |
chimneys will give the building a!
most substantial and business like ap
pearance, which will be a credit to
Chitina. Rustic lumber will be used j
to finish the outside and a shingle j
roof is to be put on. It is estimated
that the depot will be completed and
ready for occupancy within the next
thirty days.
All the boys say they hope to spend
the Fourth in Chitina and compete
for the various prizes which our
citizens have hung up for that day.
Rend your job printing to the Chlt
iua Leader.
BE JILT
Surveyors are in the field looking
into further extension of the Copper
River & Northwestern railroad. The
main line and the Chitina branch to (
Kenneeoft traverse one of the world's
greatest treasure houses but along
both lines is a back country of great
promise and to be in position to j
reach these sections when conditions
shall warrant construction, Chief
Engineer E. C. Hawkins is making
original surveys.
One of these is from mile 23 to1
the McKinley lake district. This is
expected to be a high grade gold
camp. Another is from near mile i
192, around Bonanza mountain to
McCarthy creek. Still another sur- |
vey is being made into the dist ’ict
north and west of the Chitina branch
which is heavily mineralized.
TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS.
Seattle, July 1.—Major Carr, who
is at the head of the Signal Corps
in Alaska, will leave next Friday
for Skegway, Fairbanks and Nome to
inspect the cable and wireless. He
expects to be gone about two months.
New Haven, July 1.—The Yale
and Harvard oarsmen rowed two
races yesterday, in which it was an
even break.
Indianapolis, July 1.—President
Samuel Gompers, of the American
Federation, asks every member of a
labor union in the country to con
tribute twenty-five cents towards
the defense of McNamara brothers,
who have been indicted fo.* blowing
up the Los Angeles Times plant with
dynamite.
Chicago, July 1.—The Catholics |
decided that in the near future they j
will open a big co educational col
lege. I
Local News
Virginia Ewing, a young woman
from Copper Center, was brought
here Friday and adjudged insane and
sent to Cordova in charge of Deputy
Marshal Brown. A. P. Campbell and
John Bach were also taken to Cor
dova and turned over to the federal
authorities for a hearing in the dis
trict court.
\V. T. Oster, the well known Cor
dova assayer, made a business trip
to Chltina on Thursday. Mr. Oster
states that prospectors can now get
their assay work done most reason
ably and quickly at Cordova, thus
saving time and expense of sending
ore outside, with a guarantee that
the work is equally as good as that
of outside firms,
H. A. Keller, one of the most
prominent mining engineers of to
day, made us a visit on Thursday
and will be occupied for a time in
looking over the various properties
in this district. Mr. Keller was in
this country in 1902 and mentioned
the great contrast in getting in here
then and at the present time.
Alvah Eames and S. V. Padden
have grub-staked Vic Hendrickson on
a prospecting trip into the hills. Vic .
is a good man and the parties made
no mistake in this investment.
Harry Chamberlain, the ’ horse ho
tel man,” has been busy this past
week in charge of the poll tax work
ers on this end of the government
trail.
The government road house men
have made some much needed im
provements in front of the govern
ment cache at Chitina, near Tom
Holland’s place by completing a big
fill in front of the place leading to
the trail.
Frank Iverson returned from a
business trip to Cordova on Thurs
day’s train and says that his mine
near mile 191 now looks more prom
ising than ever. H. A. Kellar, the
great mining expert, is expected to
examine the property, and Frank
may yet, as he stated, be the first
to ship gold quartz over the Copper
River railroad which he has helped
to build.
George Wolfe and Roland Healey
who have *jeen collecting poll tax up
the line, returned on Thursday and
busied themselves in seeing that those
who quit the Katalla Co. to work out
their taxes made good on the road
work here.
Harry Thisted, the well known
Cordova hotel man, made a business
trip to Chitina on Thursday eve
ning's train in company with H. S.
Keller, the mining expert and assay
,-r Oster. Harry says he has had his
eye on certain prospects in this belt
for some time past and expects to
locate the real stuff before his re
turn to Cordova.
Henry Struck, the well known old
timer, returned from a prospecting
trip this week in the vicinity of the
upper Tonsina. Henry’s next try
will be towards the Slate creek coun
try some 200 miles from here, where
he claims to have located last year
a body of ore that should fix him
for life. He sent samples to the
smelter last year and states that
they gave him values of $1.30 per
pound. The ore is used for the hard
ening of steel and he says he has a
large quantity of it which can be dug
like coal, the only drawback now be
ing the long distance from transpor
tation facilities.
Hugo Fells and a crew of men who
have been working on the Kuskulana
bridge came down this week to
work a few days on the trestle across
the Copper. Hugo says the work at
Kuskulana will soon be completed.
George Powell returned from a
prospecting trip down the line this
week and spent a few days away
from the mosquitoes at his home on
Chitina heights.
Jim Kennedy returned one day this
week from a prospecting trip in the
hills between here and Tiekell. Jim
don’t say much, but while here he
has no doubt got a line on the rock
drilling contest which comes off on
the Fourth. He is an old timer at
this game and should he and a good
partner enter the race, will make all
competitors hustle to win.
J. J. Hill and M. Dunn, two jackers
from the government survey party
now located near Copper Center, ar
rived in town last week and waited
until the arrival of Monday’s train,
which brought in supplies for the
outfit. They brought in ten head
of stock, and returned on Tuesday
heavily packed with supplies.