POSPECTS FOR COPPER
(i'rom the Mining Journal)
Up to about a fortnight ago thero
were two views respecting copper a
mong producing and selling interests
—one bullish, the other bearish. It
is unnecessary now to discuss tho
reasons for the bullish view. The
bearish was based chiefly upon the
enormously increased production, the
weight of which was considered bound
to tell. Consumers also held this
view and deferred further purchases,
even requesting producers to antici
pate contrncturnl deliveries, with tho
expectation that later they would be
able to buy copper cheaper.
Recently there was a ehangc of
opinion among those selling interests
that previously had been bearish. The
reasons for this were two—a growing
belief that the military use of copper
is much greater than any previous
estimate, no matter how large; and the
perception that regardless of tho In
crease in production, refinning capac
ity imposes a limit that cannot be
overstepped. It is significant that
there is but little additional refining
capacity in preparation, the only im
portant construction of this kind be
ing at Tacoma and Great Falls.
Confirmation of this theory is to
be found in several important things
that have recently transpired Thus it
is well known that recent refining
NOTICE
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The Skating Rink is now open and
running full blast every night of the
week. Tuesday and Friday nights,
are reserved for White Nights, the
other nights of the week are • for
Natives. Special Saturday Afternoon
Matinee, 1 o’clock for School Chil
dren. We have a competent Instruc
tor in attendance every afternoon to
teach beginners.
Charge for skates, Gentlemen, 50c.
Ladies, 25e.
contracts have been inaile at $20 per
ton, wherdas, $15 was formerly regard
ed as a fine price. Moreover, although
the British embargo on crude copper
was lifted under certain conditions,
the unusual disparity between the
prices for electrolytic and standard
has continued, showing that refiners
aro not in a position to buy standard
freely. Finally, it is a matter of
more or less common know’ 'go that
several copper-producing companies
aro having to pile up blister copper
in consequence of ’nubility to have it
refined.
At the beginning of 1915 the elec
trolytic-refining capacity of the United
States was about 148 million pounds
per month. At the middle of 1915 it
was about 152 million pounds. The
new construction that is now going
on will raise it to 164 million pounds,
but this will not be attained until
tho end of the year, and it may be
that the new plant at Great Falls will
not be ready until 1916. Included
in the foregoing figures is the small
capacity—about five million pounds
per month—fox' electrolic Lake Cop
per.
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CAPT WYMAN RETURNS
Cnpt. 10. E. Wyman is shaking hands
with his many friends around town.
He is just down from Petersburg
where he has been all summer in the
employ of the Petersburg Packing Co.
Ho plans to make Ketchikan his head
quarters this fall and winter.
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Headquarters for Commercial, Can
nery and Mining Men
First Class Cafe and Buffet in Connection
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KETCHIKAN, ALASKA
The Dream TheatreSe
cures Big Pictures
The best news that has come to
the show going people of this town
will be read in tho following lines:
■Contracts have been drawn up where
by the Dream theater, of Ketchikan,
has secured the entire run of Famous
Players Features. They are known
from coast to coast as The Para
mount Pictures. They are all 1914
and 1915 releases, and will come
direct from tho Famous Liberty
Theater, in Seattlo. Jn order to ob
tain these wonderful pictures tho
pream Theater will have to show
tw'o each week. Considerable expense
lias been gone to in securing these
marvelous attractions and tho sup
port of all will have to be felt In or
der to keej) these pictures in the
Territory. When you see one of these
features, which are in four, five and
six reels, you will agree with us that
they are in a separate and distinct
class, and you will readily under
stand why the Liberty Theater, of
Seattle, has had such a tremendous
run, completely snowing under all
competition, including tho big Clem
mer Treater. Below we are submit
ting a few of tho many attractions
that will bo here on or about the
first of October.
Name of Production Star Reels
Mistress Nell Mary Pickfortd 5
The Goose Girl Marguerite Clark 5
Cameo Kirby Dustin Farnum 5
Warrens of Virginia Blanch Sweet (i
Cinderella Mary Pickford 5
Girl of the Golden west House Peters5
Her Triumph Gaby Desleys 4
Love Route Hazel Dawn 4
Caprices of Kitty Elsie Janis 5
Are You a Mason John Barrymore 5
Pretty Mrs. Smith Fritzi Scheff 5
Morals of Marcus Marie Doro 5
Crucible Marguerite Clark 5
The Italian George Beban 6
Niobe Hazel Dawn 5
Jim The Penman John Mason 5
Gretna Green Marguerite Clark 4
Bullshot John Hobart Bosworth 5
(David Harum W. H. Crane 5
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ADVERTISED LETTER LIST OF
THE KETCHIKAN, ALASKA,
POST OFFICE
Fr- the Week Ending Sept. 25, 1915.
Caverlin, W.
Harvey, Mrs. Fred
Herbert, Karl
Kayan, George
Mather, Andrew
Olsen. Andrew
Peters, M. J.
Roswald. Nils
Whiteway .Mrs. A: S.
When calling for the above say
ADVERTISED.
Parties claiming letters from the n
bove list must pny a fee of one cent
for each letter claimed.
Oct. 9, 1915 will be sent to the DEAD
LETTER OFFICE, Washington, D. C.
M. E. SWINE FORD,
Postmaster.
PERSONAL MENTION
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BACK ON THE JOB
Mr. W. If. Spanieling, chief account
ant for tho U. S. Lighthouse Service,
is back at his desk smiling this
morning, and is now resting up from
his nnnunl vacation.
MIKE RETURNS
Mike Martin returnes from Bell
Island Hot Springs last night where
he has been for the past three weeks.
IBs foot is much improved and lie re
ports having an enjoyable time while
up there, though the Ketchikan col
ony is small at present, being limited
to Mrs. Van Zandt and daughter Loom
and the Perry Jenkins party.
DELHI PHOTOS
POTASH PLANT SOLD
(From the Pacific Fisherman))
The National Potash and Iodine
Company, headed by George K. Mil
1 ler, president of the Bremerton
Trust and Savings Bank, Bremerton,
Washington, completed the purchase
on Sept. 4, of tho plant of the West
ern Algin Company at Port Stanley
in the San Juan Islands, and will be
gin at once to manufacture by-pro
ducts of kelp.
The company expects also to utilize
fish refuse from the canneries in male
irig fertilizer. George Messcrat, a
German chemist, will have charge of
the plant.
WOOD ONLY HALF AS
HEAVY AS CORK
BALSA FROM PORTO RICO USED
FOR LIFE PRESERVERS
A wood so light that it is only
half as heavy as-cork is Porto Rico’s
latest contribution to the commercial
world. It is known as Balsa wood,
the Porto Rician name being goano,
which is “corkwood” when translat
ed, while in Martinique the term ap
plied to it is floating wood.
Samples of Balsa wood have been
put on exhibition in the museum at
the Missouri Botanical Garden in
St. Louis, Mo., from which institution
a bulletin describing it has just been
issned.
Coated with paraffin to render it
imprevious to water, Balsa wood Is
now taking the place of cork in the
manufacture of life preservers, and
modern life rafts constructed entirely
of the Porto Rican product are be
ing made. Being extremely porus.
Balsa wood acts as a natural insul
ator against both heat and cold. Fire
Ices cookers mde of it are found to
require no additional insulation, and
a piece of ice placed in a box made
of goano withstood the heat of an
intensely hot day for five or six
hours recently. The United States
Government already is using it for
the construction of buoys used in the
coast service.
HOTEL ARRIVALS
AT THE REVILLA
W. Raymond, Blaine
0. Johnson,
AT THE STEDMAN
T. S. Gorman. Kasaau
l'\ A. Andrews, Kasaau
Henry Evans,
E. S. Roe, Bell Isl. Hot Springs
Henry Kingsburry
C. Wilson.
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('apt. .1. E. Sayles is showing some
interesting photographs of the wreck
ed Delhi in the dry dock at Prince
Rupert. He denies the report of the
Prince Rupert papers to the effect
that the engines were lost out of the
wreck. Ho states that the boilers
were gone, but that they saved all of
the machinery.
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CAMP FIRE MEETING
The Camp Eire Girls will hold their
regular weekly meeting this evening
at the home of the Guardian. All
members requested to be present.
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CAPITAL CITY FREE
FROM INDEBTEDNESS
1'rom the Juneau Dispatch)
JUNEAU, Sept. 24—Juneau is
now out of debt, the last of the war
rants outstanding against the special
fund being taken up yesterday and
cancelled. They were paid in full to
gether with interest.
On the first day of July. 1915 the
city had special warrants outstanding
to tiro amount of $42,214.85, the first
of them being taken up on the 21st of
July at. which time $12,000 worth were
called in and paid. The council lias
been paying off the balance of them
»s fast as money was paid in for tax
es until only. $17,386.35 remained un
paid. This was the amount paid out
yesterday which again gives the city
a clean slate.
At 9 yesterday morning the remain
der of the unpaid taxes amounted to
approximately $35,000, which sum will
have to be used to run the city and
schools until the first of July 1916.
Money to Run Schools
The schools alone will take nearly
$20,000 of this amount. The monthly
payroll of the city ainouuts to $1,
215. This monthly amount does not
include the salary of the city engine
er, which is not a fixed sum, the fire
chief and the expenses of his depart
ment, the monthly bill, the water bill,
any street labor bills nor the cost of
coal and transfer work.
Running Expenses
The average expense of the city of
Juneau is about $2,000 which will
necessitate the spending of $18,000 be
tween now and the first jf July for
ordinary expenses, which together
with the cost of the schools will a
mount to $38,000. The income in
sight to supply this is approximately
$35,000 from the taxes with what lit
tle may come in from the sale of coal
and which may be collected by the
clerk of the court from license fees,
which will not, amount to much from
this time until next yea.r.
California Company
Has Just Organized
"WILL MAKE FERTILIZER
FROM KELP
The Coast Reduction Company, of
Long Bench, California, has been re
cently organized, says the Pacific
Fisherman. Its principal purpose be
ing the reduction of sea kelp to the
form of fertilizer, for which there is
a strong demand among the orange
groves of Southern California. A
capacity of six tons per day lias been
provided for in tho initial unit, the
kelp being cut from the immense
'beds in the vicinity of Point Fermin
and hauled to the plant in barges,
A conveyor transfers the wet kelp
to the cylindrical dryer, the heat of
which reaches 2,800 dergoes. On com
ing out of the dryer it is ground, and
from thence goes into a rotary reel,
the fine product going through the
wire cloth and the tailings going back
to the grinder. The cost, of the
ground kelp is said to be $16 per ton
and the market pr'ce is $85. H. S.
Privett, president of the company, has
experimented somewhat with a wring
er which he thinks will be entirely
practical, and believes that from the
juice a large amount of the potash
which the kelp is known to contain
may be saved.
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SAFEGUARDING CHILDREN
(From the Douglas News)
Because whooping cough prevails in
Douglas our sister town of Treadwell
maintains a quarantine and will not
permit Douglas children of Hie whoop
ing age to pass her boundaries. This
is done that the Treadwell young
sters may be preserved whoopless.
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To Owners of Power Boats
NOTICE TO FISHERMEN_The Al
aska Codfish Company at Unga. Alas
ka, offer employment to owners of
power boats. The pay for Codfish
me isuring 28 inches and over is $19 «
per then.and delivered at Company's
stations, which includes dressing,
washing and salting. The company
furnishes hand linos and hooks. Fuel,
provisions and fishing gear is for
sale at the company’s store. For
further particulars address Alaska
Codfish Company, Unga, Alaskn.
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Table of Distances from
Ketchikan
Seattle, (160 Wrange'.' 81)
Petersburg 115 Juneau 223
Skagway 301 Sitka 202
Mellakahtla 15 Dolomi 274
Niblack 30 Chomlcy 304
Kasaati 294 Hollis 39
Kiam 32 Loring 21
Yes Bay 39 Cape Chacon 18
Sulzer 92 Ilowkan 73
Waterfall 103 Craig 121
Klawak 126 Karlieen 150
Shakan via. Chacon 182
Hell Island 50 Unuk River 70
Mary Island 23 Hadley 28
Three TreeIJointl5 Stewart B. O. 150
Prince Rupert 95
This table is complied in nautical
miles which are6080 feet. The larg
est part of this list was complied foi
the Post Office by the Captain of the
Gedney and is authentic.
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Ketchikan
Transfer and Messenger
Service
Prompt and Efficient
Call upon us for all kinds of light delivery
and messenger service, window cleaning and
odd jobs in general. Satisfaction guaranteed.
Office in Jack Close’s Barber shop opposite
Heckman’s.
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RememberPhone 15 |
Millinery From New York |
We have been fortunate in enlisting the services of a New York flilliner of 15 years experience asd directly 4
connected with a concern that makes exact copies of Paris models 4
:5 Now this is what she says about Autumn styles in general and the hats just received in particular: g
IJ. B. Heckman.
Ketchikan, Alaska.
‘“Have shipped you two dozen up-to-the-minute Hats.
Sure Winners. You may expect two dozen more in
five ot six days. W ill send you a dozen or two new
ones if you let us know and anything especially New
appeals to me.”
“The Lyons Velvet Turbans are the Season's
Big Success. The Medium Sized and Irregular Tricorne
Models are universally becoming. Velvet is now
largely used in the manufacture of hats. The Taffeta
silk aud gros-grain edge combined with high quality
silk velvet used, make these hats ‘Exceptional Values.'
Mark them at a price that will carry them off quickly
and make half price sales at the end of the season—
ancient history.”
‘ ‘ Those of your customers who appreciate ex
clusive designs and superior workmanship, will be in
terested in these models; and don’t be afraid to show
them and describe them as the last word in milinery.”
I Why Experiment With Paper Styles ? I
Why buy hats of doubtful value, of questionable style, of unknown merit when you can now be on speaking g
terms with hats whose style is attested and whose merit has been proven g
ft Those “Cute” Hats are now on display and we expect two dozen fi
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I more on the next boat. See our window Sunday. |l
Stock J. R. HECKMAN & CO. Service I
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