The Chitina Leader
CHITINA, ALASKA.
Entered as second-class matter, November 12 1910, at the postoffice a.
Chitina. Alaska, under the Act of Congress of March 3, 18.9.
ONLY NEWSPAPER IN CHITINA
Published every Saturday by
WILL A. STEEL, Editor and Proprietor.
Office: Hotel Chitina Building. Cordova Office: Daily Alaskan
Seattle Office: 551 Colman Building.
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CHITINA, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JUNE 1, 1915.
EXCURSIONISTS FOR ALASKA
This year’s excursion season will soon be inaugurated
to Alaska and it is expected this year to exceed anything heie
tofore enjoyed bv either the steamship companies or the
tourists'. The Alaska Steamship Company will start then
excursions to this part of the territory with the steamer
Mariposa, sailing from Seattle on June 1-. They will continue
for nearlv three months, ending with the run ot the Alameda,
leaving Seattle on August 30. These two steamers will run
through to Anchorage, the town that is now in the public eye
because of the building from there of a government railroad.
The Northwestern will only go as far to the westward as
Seward. All three vessels will stop at Cordova long enough for
a side excursion out over the Copper River & Northwestern
Railwav to the glaciers, a distance of 49 miles. There one of
the grandest sights ever viewedNay any tourist may be enjoyed.
The^Admiral Evans and Admiral Watson, of the Paeifie-Alaska
Navigation Company, will also start the excursion season next
month and both steamers will run through to Anchorage. Their
excursionists will also be given an opportunity to visit the
glaciers from Cordova. Referring to the tide that has set in
northward, the Seattle Times says:
With Europe closed, this year interior Alaska is
inviting the American tourist as never before; and that
fact explains in large degree the remarkable demand for
passage on steamers from Seattle to the north.
All at once the city begins to get the meamra of
the movement, through the announcement that four
large excursions, each of them taking a steamer load of
tourists, have been booked, and that the demand for
passage is so great that not a single ticket remains
unsold.
The excursions are cast upon a big scale. They will
take their passengers from tidewater on Linn Canal at
Skagway into the interior. Some of them will go to the
month of the Yukon, and thence return to Seattle bv
boat from Nome; others will reach Fairbanks. Seward.
Valdez. Cordova and other centers. All of them will
receive such an opening of their eyes as to the extent and
richness of that part of the United States as will prove
to have a most important educational beaiing on the
entire country.
This is the year when Americans will “See
America,” and there is not the slightest doubt that the
tide of excursionists, having once turned in this
direction, will continue indefinitely. This part of the
world, as an attraction for tourists, will not suffer by
comparison with any of the other favored regions of the
earth.
A SURE WAY SUGGESTED
The people of the interior country, as well as in many
other sections of Alaska, are apprehensive lest a change in
national administration should x'esult in a suspension of work
on the new government railroad. The Fairbanks News-Miner
is prompted to remark on the subject:
In today’s issue we present an argument which
seems incontrovertible, at least, so far a? the welfare of
the interior and its future are concerned. The only way
that we can be sure of the government railway to
Fairbanks is by the government signing contracts for
its construction—then congress will have to carry out
the contracts and build the road, no matter what the
political complexion of the administration may be in
years to come. Otherwise, it is a political guess.”
SOON ANOTHER BIG SHIPPER
About a month ago James J. Godfrey, president of the
Mother Lode Copper Mines Company, was summoned to New
York in connection with a deal that was then pending for large
interests to take over the control of the Mother Lode property
on McCarthy creek, about 12 miles from Kenneeott and acros
the mountain from the famous Bonanza mine. The recent
shipments from the Mother Lode property indicate that there
is a large body of ore that goes about 50 per cent in copper.
With the construction of a branch line railroad from McCarthy
this property would prove a big shipper and large dividend
payer. If it is taken over by the Kenneeott Mines Company
or other large interests a railroad will be an immediate
construction and then the mine would be worked on a large
scale, and that will mean additional benefit to the Copper River
country.
The Eastern preacher who gave voice to the opinion that
“a censorship of both the press and stage is necessary,” might
easily have included some pulpits.
With the section crews that are working out along the
"Copper River & Northwestern Railway, the extra men at work
at the Bonanza and Jumbo mines, and the large number now
occupied in the fishing industry, has had a tendency to deplete
Cordova and Chitina from any idle labor. All are now working
who have any desire in that direction.
MORE FAVORABLE REPORTS
The later reports from Anchorage indicate that conditions
are not so bad there as at first reported and that few men are
there without money. Many believe that the improvements in
the way of concrete walls and dredging to be done by the
government indicate that a permanent port is to be established
there, from which coal will be shipped to all parts of the
Pacific Coast. A number of business places have been estab
lished and permanent buildings .will be erected so sopn as the
Engineering Commission will indicate just where the people
may build. In a letter just received the editor of the Daily
Alaskan is urged to go there and establish a daily newspaper,
as there is already enough printing, advertising and probable
subscribers to justify it.
EDITORIAL COMMENT
The Fairbanks Citizen lias discovered that Judge
Bunnell is a young but really industrious man who believes iu
giving some return for the money paid him by the government.
In this respect he is so different from the average federal
official in Alaska as to cause the Citizen to remark: “Judge
Bunnell is one of the few federal officials who work overtime
for the government. He is quote a contrast to the federal
officials who do little more than draw their salaries.”
A man charged with stealing $30,000 worth of jewelry,
in court ascribed his downfall to that alliterative trinity of
allurements, “pinochle, poker and pool.” He might have
expected to fail in an attempt to qualify as an expert in each
of those lines. In these days of specialization no man can
hope to be a successful all “rounder,” not even in Alaska.
The United States Geological Survey finds that secondary
metals, exclusive of gold, silver, iron. Heel and platinum, worth
nearly $60,000,000, were recovered last year from junk and
waste in American manufacturing and railway centers. We
are beginning to be economical.
Just when Teddy Roosevelt is hugely enjoying himself,
and having a bully time over his victory, at Syracuse, he falls
and breaks a rib. But then it won’t prevent him from talking.
The last reported words of Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt,
“Come and let us save the kiddies,” spoken while he faced
death after the torpedoing of the Lusitania, action suiting the
words, will live in the memories of humane people for all time.
It is the aggregate of individuals that sustains national
honor.
“Swat the fly, smother the mosquito and bat the rat,” i~
an inscription on some of the sanitary banners of the day. So.
lock the stable door after the horse is stolen. What should be
swatted, smothered and batted is that which breeds and feeds
the flv. the mosquito and the rat.
William Watson, the "English poet who drops into prose
long enough to say “it is doubtful if we are going to beat
Germany at all,” should not murder good old Anglo-Saxon
while there is so much other murder.
The Alaskan railway and other consider-:4will help to
swell the next census—provided the government gives the
settler a real chance.—Hx.
Illinois mothers have decided to pass the iob o" '■'sing
children to father, or at least his share of it. They might at
least have waited until the baseball season i< over.
Every few days a steamer lies at the Cordova dock and
loads a cargo of about 1,000 tons of the richest kind of copper
are produced in the world. One of these days a smelter on the
shores of Orca bay will obviate this shipment to a smelter in
the state of Washington.
Chicago has arranged to hold out to Billy Sunday a
guarantee of at least $50,000, and will possibly double that
amount by the time its committee of preachers waits on him
with an invitation to tackle the Windy City. Grand opera
song-birds of before the war period must regret that they did
not combine evangelistic work along with their other!
accomplishments.
If Dr. Cook be really in earnest in his determination to
surmount Mount Everest, he would add interest to the
perilous ascent by having Dr. Peary witii him to countersign
his account of the grand feat.
The trek of the tourists to the Northern territory has
started. Alaska will give the newcomers a royal welcome.—
Exchange. Sure, send them along in large numbers.
China, however, makes no pretense that it enjoys
swallowing the Japanese pill.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE
To F. M. Brown, John Lyons, Gust
Djarf, Charles Garwood, T. J.
Donohue and Edmund Smith, your
heirs, administrators and assigns,
and to all it may concern:
You are hereby notified that we
have expended during the years 1913
and 1914 upon your F. M. Brown
and John Lyons joint one-tenth in
erest, three hundred and sixty dol
lars (§360.00); Gust Djarf's one
forty-eighth interest, seventy-five dol
ars ($75.00); Charles Garwood's
one-forty-eighth interest seventy-five
dollars, ($75.00), lawful money of
the United States in labor and im
provements upon your above men
tioned interest in those mining
claims lying and being on Hidden
Creek in the recording precinct of
Chitina, Alaska, which are known as
'he Tjosevig group, consisting of the
Tjosevig No. 1 to 15 inclusive, also
Norway No. 2, Nebraska and Char
lotte; also on your’s T. J. Donohue,
end Edmund Smith’s one and six
tenths of one-forty-eighth interest in
the above mentioned claims also on
your seven and one-half of one hun
dre.d per cent interest in the “Dagny
Marie” and Carbonate Hill claims,
being in all one hundred and fifty
dollars ($150.00) lawful money of
the United States in labor and im
provements upon your joint above!
mentined interest in those mining j
claims lying and being on Hidden j
Creek in the recording precinct of j
Chitina, Alaska. The location notices j
| of al! above mentioned claims being j
; of record in the Mining Recording!
Books in the office of the commis- |
sioner and recorder at Valdez and at |
Chitina, Alaska, in order to hold
said claims under the provisions of
[Section 2324 of the Revised Statutes
I of the United State.s, concerning an
| nual labor on mining claims, being
the amount required to hold said
! lode claims for the period ending
: December 31st, 1914.
j And unless within ninety day.
[after the completion of the publica
, tion of this notice towit: within
| ninety days after the 8th day of
: lunc, 1915, you contribute your pro
: nortion of such expenditure incurred
in performing said annual labor and
improvements, which is the above
mentioned sum, your interest in said
claims will become the property'of
your co-owners who have made the
required expenditure by the terms
of said section.
Dated at Chitina, Alaska, this
22nd day of February 1915.
CHRISTIAN TJOSEVIG,
ELI TJOSEVIG.
First publication, March 2, 1915.
Why Not Invest?
With the building of the government railroad from
Chitina to Fairbanks, the future of the Town of Chitina
is assured.
Lots are still offered at attractive prices and there
are many desirable ones remaining.
A few months later lots in Clitiina will be held at
largely increased values. Why not invest NOWt
GEO. C. HAZELET,
Agent Chitina Townsite Company.
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IN SHUSHANNa
No more need to carry
STOVES and TINWARE
over the long trail to the
Interior, as we are pre
pared to till all orders in
our tin shop.
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W. K. CARSTENS & CO.
jSHUSHAXXA - - ALASKA
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0. ADRIAN NELSON
U. S. Mineral Surveyor
CHITINA - - ALASKA
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