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Cordova, March 26
G. Howard Birch, manager of the
Dan Creek Mining Company, was
an arrival on the Alameda thu
morning. He took the train a few
hours later for McCarthy and will
have his season’s supplies freighted
to his placer property, 16 miles dis
tant. He will employ a large num
ber of men this year and expects to
have a good clean-up. A few weeks
ago he received government patent
for 18 placer claims.
W„ H. Seagraves, superintendent
of the Bonanza mine, returned this
morning from a month’s trip to the
outside. He took the train for
Kennecott.
Cordova .March 27
Articles of incorporation for the
First Bank of Cordova have been
filed with Secretary of the Terri
tory, Chas. E. Davidson. The incor
porators are Sam Blum, M. Brock
and G. C. Hazelet, of Cordova. The
first board of directors consists of
the incorporators and Fred Glas
brenner and A. E. Lathrop, of Cor
dova. The capital stock is named
at $25,000. This is the third ban*
to be organized under the new ter
ritorial banking act as passed b>
the Alaska legislature.
The first cashier of the newly
incorporated institution, having for
merly the name of S. Blum & Co.,
Bankers, will be Thos. Scott, who
was formerly deputy clerk of the
-» court in this division. Mr. Scott
came north on the steamer Alameda,
but went through to Valdez. He will
return on Saturday and at once as
sume his new' duties. Mrs. Scott is
now in Seattle and will come to
Cordova in the course of four or
five weeks.
Monty Wahn, a townsman and
brother of Link Wahn, has been en
gaged the past winter with the Jacit
Dalton party in bringing 800 tons
of coal from the Matanuska field to
tidew-ater at Knik, at which village
he met with an accident on March
6th.. He accidently shot himself \
through the lower part of the leg
and foot, inflicting a painful injury
and which makes walking impos
sible for a time. As a consequence
when the Dalton party had finished
their work and started out w'ith
their expedition by way of the Tal
linn river and Chitina, Mr. V ahn
was compelled to remain behind
and will not be able to get away
until navigation opens, when he can
come on a boat. The Dalton party
are daily expected to reach Chitina
and to come over the railroad to
Cordova.
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Cordova, March 28
Criticism having been made of
the official conduct of Deputy Mar
shal W. E. Wood, of Chitina,
Marshal Brenneman made a trip to
the interior to look into the matters
complained of. When he reached
Chitina the fore part of the week,
the marshal states that Mr. Wood
voluntarily tendered his resignation,
to take effect March 31. It was j
'i, accepted and Marshal Brenneman at
once named Joe Feister as the suc
cessor to Deputy Wood. Mr. Feister
was formerly employed in the Cor
dova store of Will Clayson, going
to Chitina to manage the store of
Finkelstein & Sapiro, holding that
position until about a month ago. |
Marshal Brenneman also went to
McCarthy where he found Deputy
Millsap doing good work, and having
cleaned up the town, which is fast
growing. The deputy is putting up ;
an office building for l\imself. Jus-1
tice of the Peace Todd stated that
he had sent in his resignation and
it is expected that Judge Brown will
visit the interior after the term jf
court at Cordova and select a suc
cessor to Justice Todd. At the same j
time the judge is also exnected to
V make a permanent appointment of i
a United States commissioner and
recorder at Chitina. Since the death
of Judge d’Heirry the place has been
temporarily filled by Oscar Fish.
There are several applicants for the
position, and it is expected that a
lawyer will be named for the office.
It 1b also considered likely that
within the next two or three weeks
a change will be made in the office
of United States commissioner at
Cordova. Various complaints have
been made as to the manner in
which the office is now' conducted
and 198 citizens have signed a peti
tion favoring the appointment of
Judge Chapin when a change is
made.
Among the arrivals yesterday was
' Tom Noyes and wife, who have been
engaged in mining for the past three
years in the neighborhood to
Prince Rupert and Ketchikan. Last
summer Tom made a hurried trip
to the Shushanna country and de
' c$ed that the prospects looked so
encouraging that he would return
this spring and put in a long season
of hard work. He brought two
horses and some supplies, which
have been largely increased in Cor
dova, and will leave on Monday’s
train for the interior.
Tom and his wife are veritable
sourdoughs, having been engaged in
mining in various parts of Alaska
for the past 16 years. They were
first at Skagway and when the
stampede set in for Nome in 1900,
they were among the first of the big
crowd to reach there. Later Tom
became interested in a tig ditch
proposition in the Fairhaven dis
trict, far north of Nome. He became
the mayor of Candle Creek and for
years his courageous and popular
little wife, Frances Noyes, was the
only woman in that section, fre
quently driving alone in the winter
with dog team to Nome. Although
frail in appearance she is plucky
and has more endurance than the
average man.
They have lots of friends in ail
parts of Alaska who will hope that
they will strike rich dirt in the
Shushanna. Tom Noyes has the
mining fever and comes naturally bv
it as his father, the late John Noyes,
was one of the hardy pioneers of
the Butte district, where he made a
fortune in mining during the early
days. The Noyes estate is the
owner of the popular Rainier-Grand
Hotel at Seattle, which has always
been a favorite resort for Alaskans.
The members of city council met
in special session last night to hear
the report of a special committee
named to prepare the data and gen
eral information for a pamphlet to
be issued by the city. Mr. Hazelet
read the manuscript, which set forth
clearly the industrial conditions as
they exist, the possible future de
velopments of the surrounding coun
try, the number of business places
in the city, w-ages paid, -the cost of
living, openings for new- enter
prises, etc., and a w-arning for im
poverished and improvident men not
to come here at present, as it would
be difficult for them to secure
employment. The report was ac
cepted and the committee was in
structed to have 5,000 copies printed
and circulated, largely throughout
the coast cities.
when School Director O Neill in
cidentally remarked last night in the
presence of Capt. Lathrop that an
effort was making to secure a
library for the school house, he met
with a response that was as pleasing
as it was generous. The Captain
stated that he would make a dona
tion of a set of Messages and Papets
of the President, which was
promptly accepted by Mr. O’Neill.
There are elecen volumes of gilt
edge, leather bound books, which
are extremely valuable because of
their contents and a handsome
adornment to any book case.
W. L. Smith is laying the founda
tion for the addition to.his rooming
house, that will be built on the lot
adjoining his present structure.
Attorney T. J. Donohoe and wife
came over from Valdez today. Mr.
Donohoe has several cases on the
court calendar for next week.
Fred Glassbrenner is an outgoing
passenger on the steamer Alameda.
He will meet Mrs. Glassbrenner at
Seattle and go back to Minneapolis
for a visit.
Cordova, March 30
The Tango Club and their friends
will indulge in their regular dance
on Tuesday night, March 31, at the
Windsor hotel. Of course it will be
an interesting and delightful affair.
The chicken pox seems to be
spreading in the town. Hub Bol
linger’s children have been afflicted
and the house placed under quaran
tine. In the family of Will Bol
linger the disease has also taken
hold.
The train left for the interior
this morning with about 55 passen
gers and ten cars of freight. Most of
the passengers will leave the train
at Chitina and go from there into
the Fairbanks country and a few to
the Nelchina. Some are going on to
McCarthy and Kennecott. Of the
freight there are two cars for the
Mother Lode Copper Mines Co., con
sisting of machinery and supplies.
The train will return tomorrow
afternoon and among the passengers
will be Jack Dalton and his party
from the Matanuska coal fields.
Cordova, March 31
The train arrived this afternoon
at 3 o’clock, bringing about 15
passengers, including the Dalton
party from the Matanuska coal
fields. The next train will leave for
the interior on Thursday morning.
The consumers of coal about town
are now wearing broad smiles. Some
real coal has been received. It is
from Nanaimo, and it is selling at
the former prices of $13 in bulk
and $15 in sack, delivered. During
the shortage that has existed for
many moons past a very inferior
article has been shipped from
Seattle that was sold at about an
increase of one dollar over the
present rate.
The freighter Latouche arrived
in port on Sunday midnight, bring
ing a carload of ore sacks for the
Kennecott Mines Company and two
cars of lumber for the Kennecott
Mines Co. She went to Valdez yes
terday and returning southbound
will take on 1,500 tons of ore at
Ellamar and 1,100 tons of Latouche,
to be transported to the Tacoma
smelter.
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The freighter Cordova sailed
north from Seattle last week. In
her caro is considerable construction
timber for the new tram to be put
in at the Jumbo mine. Tnis prop
erty adjoins the Bonanza mine and
is owned by the Kennecott Mines
Company. Considerable develop
ment work has been done and it is
expected that by the time the tram
is erected the Jumbo will be in
readiness to ship 100 tons of copper
ore per day, making the daily ship
ment from Kennecott about 200
tons. And it is all in the neighbor
hood of 60 per cent copper.
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When the Mariposa sails from
Seattle tonight she will have 16
steerage passengers for Cordova and
' 46 cabin passengers, including W. F.
I Palmer, R. F. McClelland, Mrs. J. A.
Nicola. Gilbert Haugen and wife,
Mrs. C. R. Fields, Miss Irma Rodi,
Mrs. R. i’. Herron, John Monahan
and William Hayes. For Valdez
there are 14 cabin and 30 steerage
passengers. Seward has 12 cabin
and 9 steerage.
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We have received from the
Mother Lode Copper Mines Co., a
copy of the smelter returns from the
shipment of ore made from their
property a month ago. The shipment
amounted in net weight to 413,700
pounds, in which there was 4.14 per
cent moisture, leaving the dry
weight at 396,573 pounds or
198.286 tons. In values there were
15.45 ounces of silver and 59.83 per
cent copper. The copper was paid
for on a basis of 12 cents per pound,
and less $1.50 per ton for treatment,
netted $147.41 per ton, or - a total
of $29,229.41. From this sum the
Tacoma Smelting Company deducted
$4,860.98 for freight charges from
the railroad at McCarthy to the
smelter at Tacoma. A photograph
j of the check of $24,368.43, received
j by the Mother Lode Company, is
j also included.
! L.ast winter uie Aiumer
j Copper Mines Company brought
about 500 tons of ore from their
Marvelous claim on the top of the
mountain to McCarthy creek, with a
tram 6,980 feet long, having a fall
of 2,564 feet in that distan.ee. From
McCarthy creek it is hauled 13
miles to the railroad at McCarthy
station, or Shushanna Junction, as
it is now known. President Godfrey,
who has been in New York a couple
of months, returned the other day
and is now at the mine. He will
soon send another shipment to the
smelter and will arrange for exten
sive work, so that before the sum
mer is over the Mother Lode prop
j erty will be made a regular shipper.
It is expected that before the end of
the summer of 1915 that the Copper
River & Northwestern Railway will
have built a spur to the Mother Lode
tram. When this is done another
; big shipper of high grade copper ore
will be adding to the renown of
Alaska’s great copper belt.
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While we have advocated the
placing of automobiles on the sum
mer trail between Chitina and Fair
banks, for the carrying of passen
gers, mail and freight, it seems that
an ambitious confident driver thinks
that there is no reason why an auto
should not also be run in the win
ter. Robert Sheldon, during the
past few days very successfully
demonstrated that his confidence in
his ability to drive over the roads at
present was not over estimated. On
Sunday morning March 22, at 6
o’clock, he started with his auto and
eight passengers from Chitina. He
traveled 76 miles to Gulkana, reach
ing there that evening. He returned
the following morning 37 miles to
Willow Creek, where he picked up
another lot of passengers and turn
ing around proceeded 59 miles to
Sourdough, reaching there that
night. On Tuesday morning he left
the Sourdough roadhouse at 5
o’clock and reached Chitina that
afternoon at 4 o'clock covering a dis
distance of 98 miles. He stopped
at Copper Center for gasoline and
lunch and also lost some time ®
turning out for freight trains that
he met on the road.
It is almost superfluous to con
tinually refer to the ease and quick
ness with which passengers and
mail are transported from McCarthy
up the Nizina river and across the
Nizina glacier into the Shushanna.
But we only do it because the knock
are still at work in various parts of
Alaska and in Seattle. It is the
usual thing for mushers to come out
from the diggings to McCarthy in
from two to three days, and then it
is a question of a day or two delay
to make railroad connections for
Cordova. A registered letter that
left the postoffice at Shushanna on
the morning of March 20 reached
Cordova and was delivered to S.
Blum & Co. at 2:30 o’clock on
March 25. A party of four oper
ators, who are interested in litiga
tion to be tried before the federal
court here next week, left the dig
gings with one pony on the 20tli and
reached Cordova yesterday after
noon at 2:10 o’clock. By name they
are A. M. Taylor, Thos. Doyle, G. L.
Gates and W. E. McKinney. They
say that the glacier is in good con
dition, although a few crevasses
might be filled in with advantage,
j They think the glacier trail will con
| tinue to be the route during the
i summer, and say that the old timers
j in the interior, who came from
j White Horse and Dawson,, realize
j that the quickest and easiest way
i to return to those places is to come
| out by way of Cordova and go on i«
I Skagway, over the railroad to White
Horse and down the river to Daw
son.
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Twenty-two years continuously
spent in the interior of Alaska and
the Northwest territory is the reco -d
j of W. E. McKinny, who arrived in
Cordova yesterday afternoon from
the Shushanna. In 1S92 he came
! west from Maine and immediately
! proceeded to the interior of Alaska.
He first went to the Forty mile dis
trict, where he remained until the
Klondike excitement in 1897. He
then joined the rush to the new
diggings and has since been in many
a stampede. He is now operating
in the Shushanna and is here in con
nection with the trial of the mining
cases to be called in court next
week. Mr, McKinny had not seen
the ocean for 22 years and is so
pleased with the novelty of gazing
on its broad expanse that when
asked to take a wee crop he is in
clined to ask for salt water.
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j From now on Southwestern
! Alaska will have the best passenger
| service that it has ever had. The
steamer Mariposa will sail from
Seattle tonight, to be followed every
six days by a steamer of the Alaska
Steamship Company. In addition
the same company is dispatching the
freighters Seward, Latouche and
Cordova from Seattle on the 5th,
15th and 25th of each month. The
Pacific Alaska Navigation Company
will also send out the Admiral
Sampson and the Admiral Evans on
the 5th, 15th and 25th of each
month. Southbound from Cordova
the Mariposa, Alameda and North
western with sail about nine days
from the date of leaving Seattle. As
the Sampson and Evans go farther
to the westward they will be about
12 days before sailing south from
Cordova.
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