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VALDEZ, ALASKA
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Arctic Hotel
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Freighting and Passengers
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GENERAL TRUCKING
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McKinley Street, Valdez
ED. WOOD. Proprietor
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Somebody
\ With Money
' always has been found to !
I “back” a good plan, a good ;
idea, a good business ven
ture or a good mining pros- !
pect; otherwises good many ;
of today’s successful busi
ness enterprises would still !
be mere dreams. |
Advertising has brought
about a majority of the in
troduction* of the man with ;
the idea, the man with a
i prospect, or business to the
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SULTS.
CARIBOU MEAT BEING
SOLD IN SEWARD.
Five western Alaska caribou were
brought here on the Dora this trip
from Sand Point. Four of the cari
bou were consigned to Carstens Pack
ing company and one to Dr. J. A.
Baughman, game warden.
These caribou were a surprise to
newcomers on account of their size.
There is a prevalent idea outside of
Alaska that caribou are about the size
of an elk or reindeer. These are the
plains caribou from the western sec
tion of the territory and are not as
large as the species found in the
wOoded sections of the interior. These
carcasses are dressed and weigh about
80 pounds each.—Seward Post.
Trying to lca«e Cannery.
It is reported that a prominent
Ketchikan, Alaska, cannerymar is
trying to lease or buy the Metlaksht
la cannery and should he be success
ful will operate same the coming sea
son. This cannery is on Annete Isl
and in Southeast Alaska, and belongs
to the Metlakahtla Industrial com
pany, composed of Dr. Duncan, the
missionary in charge of the Ind‘".i.
reservation and some of the natives
As Annette Island is an Indian re
serve It would be necessary to secure
the permission of the government be
fore a white man could buy or lease
the plant. The cannery has not been
operated for several years, due to fac
tional troubles between the natives.
—Pacific Fisherman.
STATES ALL RIGHT,—BUT
LIKES ALASKA BEST.
H. B. Ingram, better know in Val
dez as “Dad” Ingram, formerly of the
Valdez firm of Ingram & Bush, and'
a member of the first territorial leg
islature is in Valdez representing a
number of commercial houses whose
headquarters are on the Pacific coast.
He reports improved business condi
tions in the western states but says
there is no place quite like Alaska,
especially Valdez. He will be in town
for a few days and will go to the in
terior in the interests of his house
to take orders for early shipments
after the opening of navigation next
spring.
IN THIRD PLAGE
Gold Ontput of the Mines of tlie Uni
ted States for 1914 Amounted
to Ninety-Eight Million.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 3.—
The gold output of the United States
for the year 1914 reached the total
of ninety-eight million dollars, ex
ceeding the output of the previous
year by four million dollars.
Alaska ranks third in the list of
producers of the precious metal, with
California in first place and Colorado
second. The output of Alaska’s
mines for the year was sixteen and
one-half million dollars.
The value of the placer gold pro
duced in 1914 was $10,700,000, or
practically the same as that of 1913,
which was $10,680,000. The report
shows that forty-two dredges were
operated in Alaska for the whole or
a part of the season of 1914, and pro
duced gold worth $2,350,000. In 1913
thirty-nine dredges were in operation
in Alaska and produced gold to the
value of $2,200,000.
Twenty-eight gold-lode mines were
operated in Alaska in 1914 and pro
duced gold to the value of $4,863,
000. In 1913 there were thirty lode
mines producing, with an output of
$4,814,813 worth of gold. The de
crease in the number of mines was
due to the fact that a number of
mines In the Fairbanks district oper
ated in 1913 were idle in 1914. The
Juneau, Valdez and Port Wells dis
tricts are the chief producers of gold
from lode mines.
FORMER ALASKA STEAMER
WITHOUT NAME OR FLAG.
Post Intelligencer: By the purchase
of the steamer Curacao, wrecked and
abandonded in June, 1913, at Warm
Chuck Hecata island Southeastern
Alaska the Pacific Coast Steamship
Company comes into the possession
of the “ghost ship” .The Curacao,
just taken over by her former own
ers, does not officially exist. Her
name has ueen stricken from the reg
ister. She has no flag and is not offi
cially afloat.
Marine insurance men in calling at
tention to the vessels status Thurs
day, explained that when she was ab
andoned as a total loss by the Pacific
Coast Steamship Company, who now
becomes her new owner, the steam
ship lost her flag and became a ship
without a country. She was dropped
from all shipping records, with the
announcement that she had been lost
in seventy-eight feet of water.
Then came the Curacao from the
depths aB a man from the grave. She
was raised by uie Alaska Wrecking &
Salvage Company and taken to Eng
lish bay. As she was not officially afl
oat, she could not enter Vancouver
alone, although she had come south
from Ketchikan under her own steam,
and was obliged to pass into the har
bor with a tug alongside.
Soon after the wreck the Pacific
Coast Steamship Company abandoned
the Curacao to the underwriters, who
so... her to a number of Seattle and
Vancouver shipping men, including
Capt.Harry W. Crosby, of the Wash
ington Tug and Barge Company.
Crosby and his associates incorpor
ated the Alaska Salvage & Wrecking
Company. Overcoming a succession
of difficulties, they raised the vessel
in the summer of 1914. Temporary
hull repairs were made and she was
taken to Vancouver under her own
Bteam,'arriving at that port Septem
ber 23, 1914.
Approximately $50,000 will be
spent on the curacao to repair her
for reentering service.
The steamer is to be brought to
Seattle some time next week. Delivery
to her old and new owners will be
made at this port. Officials of the
Pacific Coast Steamship Company an
nounced Thursday that the vessel will
be placed on the Southeastern Alaska
freight and passenger trade and on
the same route she was serving at the
time of the wreck.
The American steamer Damara,
which went ashore on her maiden
voyage while leaving San Francisco
witb a cargo of grain, was a Similar
case to that of the Curacao. The Dam
ara was a total loss, but she was
raised,registered in Vancouver, B. C..
and put under provisional papers as
a “ghost ship.” Then she was pur
chased by American interests, who
found it necessary to have a special
act of Congress passed to enable her
to fly the fttfeTfl and
New Tonight.
The Liberty Theatre presents Shor
ty and Sherlock Holmes, a fine 2-reel
comedy, also a single reel, Dad and
the Girls. Visit the Liberty. Theatre
for good pictures.
Pasteurised Whipping Cream and
jure Buttermilk at Love-Whitley's.
WILL PROSPECT FOR
FISHING GROUNDS
Seattle Kish Dealers Realize Vast
Possibilities of Alaska Cod
Fishery Industry.
SEATTLE, Jan. 3.—The steam
schooner Maid of Orleans, owned by
Seattle Ashing interests, is being At
ted out for a voyage and will leave,
this week with a crew of Ashermen to
engage in codAshing in Alaskan wa
ters. The trip is largely in the nature
of an experiment and to prospect for
new Ashing grounds.
A considerable Oeet of Ashing ves
sels have ben operating out of Puget
Sound and San Francisco for many
years. In the season of 1914 there
were eighteen large vessels and Ave
smaller ones engaged in the industry,
but th number decreased last year
owing to th low prices realized.
Seattle dealers believe there is a
great opportunity for expansion of
the cod Ashery of Alaska, as there are
reported to be many good banks that
are scarcely touched.
The total investment is the Alaska
cod Ashery in 1914 amounted, to
$623,921 in 1913 it was $581,107.
There was also an increase in the
number of men employed, ^luring
1914 over that of the previous year.
The products of 1914 aggregated 15,
043,378 pounds, valued at $438,208,
as compared with the production of
11,916,900 pounds, valued at $357,
711 in 1913.
XO PATCHED UP PEACE
TO FOLLOW THE WAR.
In an address recently delivered in
Columbus, O., President Wilson ex
pressed the opinion that there would
be no “patched up peace” following
the European war. He urged the
American business men to mobilize
their resources in order that the Uni
ted aiates might be prepared to play
a more important part in world
affairs, anu „iing about justice after
the present war.
President Wilson defended his
Mexican policy and said that as long
as he was president nobody should
“butt in" to alter the Mexicans’ gov
ernment for them; urged business
men to pay more attention to for
eign commerce and be more self-re
liant; demanded the restoration of
the American merchant marine;
praised the new banking and curren
cy law, and touched on the attitude
of the United States toward the Eu
ropean war.
"When the present great contlict
in Europe is over the world is going
to wear a different aspect,” he de
clared. “I do not believe there is go
ing to be any patched up peace. I be
lieve that thoughtful men of every
country and of every sort will insist
that when we get peace again we
shall have guarantees that it will re
main and that the instrumentalities
of justice shall be exalted above the
instrumentalities of force.
“I believe that the spirit wmen nas
hitherto reigned in the hearts of
Americans and in like people every
where in the world will assert itself
once for all In the world affairs and
that if America preserve her poise,
preserves her self-possession, pre
serves her attitude of friendliness to
wards all the world, she may have the
privilege in one form or another of
being the mediating influence by
which these things may be induced.”
The president explained he did not
mean governmental mediation but
spiritual mediation, the recognition
of the world that "here is a country
that has always wanted things done
that way, and whose merchants when
they carry their goods, will carry
their ideas along with them.”
He declared that the spirit of give
and take will spread its influence to
the end of the world.
INCIPIENT BLAZE GIVES
DEPARTMENT A RUN.
A fire alarm which was turned in
from the Pinzon Cigar store this
forenoon gave the fire department a
run and affordejl them an' opportun
ity of showing fast time in getting
the hose laid from the fire hall to
the Pinzon corner, which was accom
plished before the alarm bells quit
ringing.
The alarm was occasioned by
smoke which was issuing from be
tween the cracks of the wall of the
boiler room in the rear of the Pin
zon and is believed to have been due
«»* lighted Mien thru
• hole in the floor.
Fortunately the blaze was discov
ered before it had gained headway
and was extinguished by a large
chemical extinguisher carried across
the street from S. Blum & Co.'s
store. _
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| J Auto for Hir e Day or Night.
J | Buy and Sell Anything.
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CHITINA HOTEL
Fined Hold i* tie bterior—Well Heated, Clean Room.
Bar in Connection. Rates Reasonable
UPPER TONSINA ROAD HOUSE
Best of Meals—Prices Reasonable
GENERAL STORE. • TRADING POST.
Telephone connects with Chitina.
General Freighting. KNUTE NAFSTED. M*r.
VALDEZ REAL ESTATE AGENCY |
Real Estate, Insurance, General Brokerage !
Absentees Business Properly Handled j
| Treat Building, Alaska Ave. Telephone No. 60 :
Mead’s Sheet Metal Works
PLLMBING, STEAM AND HOT WATER HEATING,
Sheet Metal Work, Mine Air Pipe, Pipe and Fittings, Valves, Etc.
Motor Boat Supplies, Paints and Oils.
Located on Valdez Dock, Opposite Prospector Office. Phone 24
Pacific Alaska Navigation Co.
PUGET SOUND PUGET SOUND
California Alaska
ALASKA
[ Steamers sail from Seattle at 9 P. M. on
5th, 15th, 25th—EVERY MONTH
[ Steamer Sailing ISth calls lllamna and Kodiak—All Sailing call at Kalk
| and Anchorage.
CALIFORNIA
[ Seattle to San Francisco every Wednesday sad Sunday, connecting with
| Steamers Yale and Harvard (or Southern California.
r Right reserved to change schedule without notice
[ RICHARD J. RINGWOOD, Mgr, Seattle! VALDEZ DOCK CO„ Local Agt.
ALASKA
STEAMSHIP CO.
S. S. ALAMEDA AND 8. 8. NORTHWESTERN SAIL FROM SE
ATTLE THE 10TH, 20TH AND 30TH,
EVERY MONTH
FROM VALDEZ SOUTH—8TH, 18TH, 28TH, FOR CORDOVA,
JUNEAU, WRANGEL, KETCHIKAN AND SEATTLE.
Regular freight service for Ketchikan, Wrangell, Juneau, Sheen
Creek. ^Treadwell, Douglas, Skagway, Cordova, El la mar, Valdes and La
touche. Explosives, S. S. Seward, on the 5th; Latouche. on the 15th; S. S.
Cordova. 25th of each month—right reserved to change this schedule
without notice.
9. B. TRACY, Gea’l Agent VALDEZ DOCK CO, Local Agent.
When You Leave
For the Outside
take the t
“MILWAUKEE”
One road—one management—one service all the way
through to Chicago. It’s the Short Line to the East
over ^
THE NEW STEEL TRAIL
For information and literature write or ask
J. C. MARTIN, Agent, Valdez, Alaska.
CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE A ST, PAUL RY.
A. E. HARRIS, Freight and Passenger Agt,
Juneau, Alasluu