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Cordova, May 27 (
Captain Peterson of the Orea can- j
nery was in town this morning and
says that the salmon are. now run
ning at a very satisfactory rate. He,
is getting in about 10,000 fish a j
day and this evening he expects to ■
have packed 6,000 cases. Nearly,
all the fish are re.ds, which are the
best for packing. The Kings are
fine for eating when fresh but
after canning do not retain the
proper rich color to make them
leaders.
Judge C. M. Frazier will be an
outgoing passenger on the steamer
Northwestern, but expects to return
on the steamer leaving Seattle on
June 12. He will attend the annual
session of the Masonic grand lodge!
for the, state of W ashington, to be
held at North Yakima for three;
days, commencing June S.
This was the last day of study for
the Cordova school pupils. Tonior-j
row they will enjoy the day picnic- j
ing. The older pupils will go to |
Mile 4 and the primary grade to
nearby hills where the day will be. |
pleasantly spent.
Dr. Daggett, the Seward dentist,
was a passenger over on the North
western and will remain a few days.
Dr. Council was a passenger on
the morning train. He will go to
the other side of Heney glacier and
scout around a few days on a hunt- |
ing expedition. He took his Peter-;
borough canoe along and when he is!
joined by Rev. McBride on Monday
they will paddle up the Tasnuna
river and hunt for bear.
The steam schooner San Ramon, !
which sailed north from Seattle on
the 19th is about due at Anchorage, j
with 1,000,090 feet of lumber for.
the Alaska Engineering Commission. I
She also carries a number of pas-j
sengers. This lumber cargo repre-i
sents the first of a number of ship
mnets that will be required by the
commission in the construction of
the government dock and railroad in
the north.
Bartley Howard and family will
leave on the steamer Northwestern
tonight on a six weeks vacation. Mr.
Howard is a delegate, to the Masonic
grand lodge, to convene at North
Y'akima on June S, and which repre
sents a membership of about 19,000
in the state of Washington and
Alaska.
Cordova, May 28
E. A. Hegg made a trip to Anchor
age. and returned last night. He
found conditions lively at the white
tented city and predicts consider
able activity so soon as the perma
nent town is located. He took a
number of good views of the new
railroad terminus.
Fred Tracey, general agent of the
Alaska Steamship Company, arrived
from the. westward last night. For
several weeks past he has been
directing the discharge of freight
at Anchorage, and will soon return
tnere.
The train from the interior
reached Cordova about 3 o'clock
this aftern on. bringing a few pas
sengers and 17 cars of rich copper
ore from the Bonanza and Jumbo
mines, which will be shipped south
on the Mariposa next week.
' Seward now has a band among I
its many other metropolitan acquisi
tions. It will make, its first public
appearance on Sunday and give a
free concert on Fourth Avenue. And
when William C. Edes, chairman of
the Alaska Engineering .Commis
sion, accompanied by his wife, ar
rives on Sunday night or Monday
morning it is intended to meet the
Mariposa at the wharf and serenade
the chairman, whose arrival is ex
pected to mark the beginning of real
railroad construction activities in
the terminal town of Seward.
( In arriving at Nome, on the 23th.
the little steamer Corwin beats all
previous records by two days. The
earliest date she had previously
been able to push through the ice.
into the northern metropolis has
been May 27.
E. M. Ball, agent of the fisheries
department, was an arrival on the
Watson from the westward. He
will spend a couple of weeks in this
neighborhood and will scout about1
to see that the fishermen are com-!
nlying with the law in regard to
placing their nets, and in other par
ticulars.
Cordova. May 29
Harmon & Deever, North Alaska
agents for the Regal Marine Motor
Co., of Coldwater, Mich., will give a
cruise tomorrow on the Edith G,
Capt. Green in command, for the
nurpose of demonstrating the Regal
Motor to many Cordova boat enthu
siasts. While the Edith G.’s 14 H.
P. Motor is not a late model, its
recent trip and experience in com
ing here from Juneau demonstrates
lhe reliability of the. Regal Motor,
besides this motor has been in con
stant use for several years.
X. P. Nelson, one of the original
discoverers of the rich ground in the
Chisana, was an arrival yesterday
from the interior. He will go to Val
dez on the steamer Mariposa, and
may' wait for the arrival of his at
torney, M. D. Leahev, of Seattle, who
is expected to leave, there on the
Alameda tomoirow night.
When the. train goes out on Mon
day morning the last S00 pounds of
mail for Fairbanks will leave for
this season. The summer mail for
the interior will then go via Skag
way, White Horse, Dawson and
down the Yukon River. The con
tract via Cordova and Chitina will
be resumed the. first week in Octo
ber next. There will be consider
able traffic this summer between
Chitina and Fairbanks by means o'
automobiles, as light machines can
easily run over the roads and make
the distance in three days.
Rev. Lewis and his party of
excursionists returned on yester
day's train from a trip to Tiekel,
where they spent a couple of we.eks
on the mining property that ‘ Doc’’
Lewis is operating. The party o'
five is from the east and they repo”i
having had a delightful Alaska out
ing.
Geo. Vinger, who represents sev
eral standard lines of goods, is oc
cupied with the merchants of Cor
dova and receiving liberal orders.
He will go to Chitina and McCarthy
on Monday’s train, returning on
Friday and leaving for the south on
ibe Admiral Evans.
The catcher came in yesterday to
change engines and went out the,
line early this morning.
The steamer Mariposa which
sailed north from Seattle on Monday
night is due to arrive in Cordova
tomorrow morning at 8 o’clock. She
will be in port for several hours un
loading freight. Among her not
able. passengers will be William C.
Edes, chairman of the Alaska Engi
neering Commission, who is en route
to Seward to establish his head
quarters for the summer. There
are about GO passengers aboard for
Anchorage., and the following for
Prince William Sound ports:
For Cordova—Mrs. P. Bourgh
man. Miss Irma and Willie
Bourghman, Capt. Walter Storey,
Mrs. E. Krippaehne, Dr. W. G. Cas
sels and Carl Wick.
For Seward—William C. Edes
and wife, Miss Helen Burnham,
Carl Moot, Joe Brossel, H. Work
man, H. Keesmose, R. Hartug, Fred
Debon. Mrs. James Walters, C.
Brunson, J. Harmon and wife, J.
Watts, John Liern, H. Hall. Ed
Carlson and wife, E. W. Bach, John
Canfield, C. Bade, A. Estes, Mrs. W.
Lucas, Mrs. Geo. Lear, Colonel O
Onokheim. E. McPhee, B. Ballard,
Marie Halley, Inez Adams, Mrs.
Anne Leo, Miss Jennie Crawford.
Mrs ..Toe Mantell, George Carrm.
Ctto Erickson. Ruth Chandler. Dave
Newman, Tom Collopy, Roy Sol
omonson, J. Solmonson, R. Fleet, T.
G. Dayton, Wm. Way and 19 second
class.
For Valdez-—C, Burnell and Miss
L. Burnell and 3 second-class.
C. W. Joynt and Delegate Wicker
sham of Fairbanks recently went to
the new Tolovana district to make
a study of the conditions there. Mr.
Joynt has returned and states that
while, it will he possible for small
boats to get within a few miles of
the camp, when awter conditions
are favorable, Mr. Joynt does not
think that it will be possible to use
that route to greater advantage than
the 01ne$ road. He found the river
crooked and such that it will be
difficult to navigate, even when
water conditions are good.
Regarding the camp itself, Mr.
Joynt feels certain that it will be a
good one„ but of what magnitude he
refuses to hazard a guess. So far,
Livengocd creek is the only good
one, but there are others that look
nromising. When he left for Fair
banks, a 'hole, on Livengood cre.ek,
about a mile above Cascaden’s prop
erty, was nearing bedrock and indi
cations were that pay would be
found.
Delegate Wickersham, who went
to the new district with Mr. Joynt
and others, remained on Harry
Patterson’s claim, to see if he
found pay. Patterson has a plant
which belongs to the Delegate and
for that reason he is Interested. He
will also examine the river route
and may return to Fairbanks by
boat, if conditions are such that he
can.
Send the Daily Alaskan to friends
Mrs. Helen Van Campen, the
noted writer, has just been 10
Anchorage and views conditions
there with rather an optimistic eye,
and failed to see the hundreds of idle
men that are generally reported as
in evidence out of the 1,200 who
have congregated at the new- camp.
Returning to Seward Mrs. Van
Campen is reported as saying:
‘'Grading has advanced from the
mud flats to the camp itself, and on
May 18 th gangs of men were
excavating and filling in through
the busiest section of the camp.
Grading is a’.s- going on at two
gravel cuts about two miles from
tidewater, and tracks are being laid,
and ties cut and piled, for dump j
tracks at these spots. The tundra
is cleared from the ice at present
about eight inches frem the surface,
and exposure to the air melts at
least some of the ice. The clearing
gang in charge of Can F. Leach, a
veteran station man, from the Can
adian Northern railroad, is about 2fi
miles out.
“At Eagle River, Mile 15, a per
manent camp of boarded tents lias j
ibe.en made. There is an engineers!
camp at Mile 4, and these men!
work from there to tidewater, and
back, as conditions demand.
“A noticeable change was achieved !
by the arrival of James O’Reilly, i
I superintendent of construction, and ■■
| an old-time Alaska Northern man.;
j Work began to shape up as it should :
j under efficient handling, and railroad I
; men who had been s anding around
| looking thoughtful, decided they
, - anted to stay and take a job. Mr.
! O'Reilly is creating syste.m, and he
; is accessible to whoever needs to see
| him. He wastes no time and he!
j knows the country.
‘ A petition is in circulation j
I among business people of Anchor- j
age, asking that the toovnsite be!
changed to a bench on the opposite .
side of Ship Creek. The planned
3ite is one mile from the. present j
camp. For reasons of sanitation the
Land Office is said to favor the I
I change, but I did not talk with a
: representative member of this officQ.
and I can't guarantee that a definite
! statement-was made.
“Water is sold from one private
■ well at 5 cents a bucket. Ship Cree:-;,
\ and “springs” that are realiy only
seepage, water holes, supply the
people. Marshal Waxdell has ordered
j garbage dumped on the outgoing
tide, once every 24 hours, and is
making ether rules to safeguard the
camp. There are two doctors be
sides Dr. Reidy, the government's
physician. Meals are mostly 50 cents
each and at that rate the restaurants
are making very little,
j “Launches charge one dollar per
i passenger to land people at the ships I
, or anchored barges. Trunks are. car- j
ried for one dollar, and freight pays ;
i a barge, and launch charge, as it is j
1 cent only to the ship’s side. There j
is a “palm garden” under construc
tion. and a pool room with six
tables is to appear as soon as per
manent building is safe. Many I
stores now up are built in sections, 1
for moving. Tents are everywhere,
and so are sniffly colds, but the s.;n j
shines and the Alaskans are feeling
pretty che.erful.
j “I heard about hundreds of men 1
■ without money, but I didn’t see j
: them, and the number walking i
I about, idle, is likely not over a |
| hundred. Most of these have money j
I and are there for speculation. 1 j
j don’t think any are hungry, and
! since the energetic O’Reilly’s round !
, genial face appeared, the strollers
j are less, for he is working many into
the station work.
“It is all section work so far.
Common labor is 37*4 cents per
hour, carpenters 50 cents. No Sun
day work on government construc
tion. This is smaller wages than
Alaskans are used to. Only one
shift being worked which causes
comment, when the dayilght is suffi
cient to work all Sight without lan
: terns.
“If you’re going to Anchorage
and don’t mind the snores, you can
get be'1-, with bedding, in several
ciean bnnkhouses. For such effete
persons as object to the snores, a
tent with a deadline around it is
nee.ded.
‘ I slept in a tent, and on the
ground and I liked it so well that
when the Alameda blew, I had the
bedroll and pack sacks roped, the
tent struck and rolled, in about 12
minutes. The camp is worth look
ing at. It’s different than anv
in Alaska I ever saw. I’m going
again.”
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1VAXTED—A good stock of g?n
eral merchandise of about $10,000
in exchange for some equity in lirs'
class income property in best part
of Seattle. Give value of e,ach class
of your stock. Address Box 236,
Seward, Alaska.
“Hollvhurst eggs have, a money
back guarantee.”
Rex Creek, May 23.
The operators and men in the
Nizina district would welcome a
visit from Col. Richardson, presi
dent of the Alaska Road Commis
sion. And they would like, him to ,
make the trip over Sourdough Hill J ^
.vhen the trail is thawed out, and j
:hen ford the Nizina river when the j
ivater is high. If possible to get J
iim to do so, it is contended that j
;he. Colonel would immediately '1
i'ause a bridge to be built, as well
is a trail, so that he could get back *
n safety. Every day laborers take (
:heir life in their hands when cross- ‘
ng the river seeking work. The ,
present conditions work* a hardship
m both operators and men. If the '
:reeks were of easy access the pack- 1
ng would be four cents a pound *
nste.ad of six and ten cents. The !
:ry of the creeks is for a trail for
:his season, and have the bridge J
?ome later, as it is realized that
much of the work would have to be 1
lone in the winter. i *
Some of the men on the creeks >'
:ontend that the eight-hour law ■ '
loc.s not affect open cut or hydraulic i1
work, and would like the Daily j1
Alaskan to publish the entire eight-]1
hour law.
On Rex Creek
Bill Woodward has started to put.
up boxes. He will damp direct into
them from his tunnel, using wheel-!
barrows.
The vR. A. M. Co., laymen have!
been piping for two days. They
have not completed the.ir ground
slu’ce ditch yet, having been hin
dered by frost.
The Andrus force drove 1,300
feet more pipe this season, increas
ing their pressure some 40 pounds.
They intend to mine up-stream this
season, instead of downstream a.*
heretofore. The former method is
conceded by some to be a better j
—ay to keep track of the ground j
sluice grade.
Bert Carvey will have a big force
his season in increasing the output
of gold from Rex.
Carl and Oley have their winter
dump sluiced and are pleased with |
the results.
Coper and partner on Sunday
gulch are into pay and reports indi
cate that thev are doing well.
Col. Geo. Max Esterly is busy on
the job these days with his mining
well under way. He expects this
year’s cle.an-up to exceed any previ
ously had, although the. efficiency
of his plant will he somewhat con
tracted on account of the added
—avel that will he running from
''sneer & Stanton’s workings, one
jjjs penstock.
fin?* Cnrletrum is handicapped
- ith no water for sluicing.
On White Creek
One of the righest strikes made,
recently must be accredited to Art
Powell. It has been known for
some time that he and. Bodie had
some pay on the. right limit bench
off 8. But only recently has j
Arthur given out the richness of
his find. Two dollar and a half
cans are frequent and as high as
80 centg ha3 been taken three feet
from bedrock. It is thought by
seme he has tapped an old channel
leading from Grbustake creek into
White, as Bodie, one claim above
jim, ha3 not succeeded in locating
such rich dirt. If the find proves to
be. continuous it will rank well with
the .best of the interior pay streaks.
Bodie ar.d others will ground
■luice No. 9 this season.
The Lubie boys will be running
in two weeks on No. 12, purchased
recently from H. ,T. Golightly.
The, pay roll of the creeks, with
‘he except’on of Dan, will be about
<4 00 per day. Mr. Birch on Dan is
”kelv paying out over $150 per
day.
Now that Receiver Noyes, of the;
defunct Fairbanks bank, bas a ne-.v ;
attorney, that gentleman is devis- j
ng ways of earning his salary. As
a consequence Fernand de Journel|
has induced Judge Bunnell to sign I
an order citing E. T. Barnette and,
Isabelle Barnette to appear in court j
and show cause why they should not j
be declared in contempt of court for
suing the receiver of the Washing
ton-Alaska Bank, without first
obtaining permission from the court.
According to the. contention of
the attorney, no one can start suit j
against a receiver without first ob-1
taining permission to do so. The
object of this is to prevent frivolous
and expensive litigation for the pur
pose of hampering or tying up an
estate,.
Last fall, the Barnettes brought
suit against the receiver, while there
was no judge in the Fourth division,
asking that they be awarded the
property which is held by the
receiver under a trust deed given by
Mr. and Mrs. Barnette. They also
asked that the $30,000 collected for
rent be turned over to them.
NOTICE OK MARSHAL'S SALE
jNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
THIRD DIVISION, DISTRICT OF
ALASKA, ss.
Public notice is hereby given that
>y virtue of a writ of execution
lated April 30th, A. D., 1915, issued
nit of the District Court, for the
'hird Division, Territory of Alaska,
m a judgment rendered in the U. S.
Commissioner's Court, Chitina Pre
inct, Alaska, on the. 21st day of
lecember, A. D., 1914, in favor of
!. O. Breedman, and against E. IV.
Jxum, I did on the 17th day of
Jay, A. D., 1915, levy upon all of
he right, title and interest of the
lefendant E. W. Exum, in and to
he following described real estate,
ituated in the Chitina Recording
3recinct, 3rd Division, Territory of
Uaska, to wit:
Lots one. two and three in Block
wenty-two and lots one, two and
hree in Block (E) all situated in
he townsite of Chitina. Alaska, and
hat I will accordingly offer a'l
>f the right, title and interest
>f the defendant in said real
(state for sale, at public vendue
:o the highest and best bidder, for
•ash, on the 24th day of June. A. 1)..
[915, at 2 o’clock P. M. at the front
ioor of the U. S. Commissioner’.',
Jffice. Chitina, Alaska.
Dated Chitina, Alaska, this ISt’n
lay of Ma'\ A. D., 1915.
F. R. BRENNEMAN,
U. S. Marshal. 3rd Div-’sion,
Territory of Alaska.
By W. .T. FEASTER. Deputv.
First publication. May IS, 1915.
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ALASKA—Just out, large com
plete map of Broad Pass District,
showing government railroad sur
vey, trails, mining camps, mineral
deposits, rivers, creeks, cabins.
$1.00. Alaska-Pacific Exploration
Company, Smith Bldg., Seattle.
Subscribe for the Daily Ataskan.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE
To Ben C. Hannara, administrator ot
the Estate of Janies Garrett, de
ceased and to his heirs and
assigns of said James Garrett.
You are hereby notified that I, the
subscriber, Ringwald Blix, have ex
pended and paid for your share in
labor and improvements upon the
Jacobson Placer Mining Claim for
the year 1912, 1913 and 1914.
Said Placer Mining Claim is situ
ated on Slate Creek, Copper Center
Recording Precinct, Alaska. The
notice of location thereof is of
record in Book 1. Page 120 of Min
ing Locations in said recording office
at Copper Center Alaska. To which
book and page reference is hereby
made for a more particular descrip
tion of said claim. Such expenditure
was made for the purpose of holding
possessory right and title to sanl
claim under provisions of Section
2324 of the Revised Statutes of the
United States and the amendments
thereof providing for annual labor
upon mining claims. That is to say
that an hundred dollars worth
labor and improvements was made,
upon said placer claim and that I as
co-owner have expended the amounts
which were for the interest of said
Garrett’s estate.
You are further notified that un
' less you pay your proportion of such
j expenditure together with the cost of
| this advertisement to the under
j signed within ninety days from the
| last publication of this notice your
interest in said claim will become
the propertv o*' tne undersigned co
owner under said Section 2324, Re
vised Statutes of the United States.
RINGWALD BLIX.
First publication. March 9, 1915.
Last pubiica'ion June 8, 1915.
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Treadwell, Douglas, Cordova. Ellamar, Vault, and XiA’onclio. Explosives,
S. S. Seward. S. 3. Seward, Stli; S. S. Latouche, 15th; S. 3. Cordova,
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This company reserves the right to change schedule of steamers
without notice.
Tickets on cale at up-town office Alaska Steamship Bldg. Baggage
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sailing time.
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