SaUg ^niapertor
PUBLISHED BT
STEWART & SELBY, Proprietors
TERMS.
Dally Pronpcctor.
By carrier, per month .awb.$ 1*00
By mall, per annum .$10.00
The Weekly Miner.
By carrier, per month .$ .40
By mall, per annum .$ 3.00
She Daily Prospector and Week
ly Miner, by carrier, to one ad
dress, per month .$ 1.25
She Daily Prospector and Weekly
Miner, by mail, to one address
only, per year ..-...$12.50
Business Office* and Editorial Rooms,
TEL. 152
Advertising Rates on Application,
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1915
AN UNPOPULAR FIGHT.
After a careful perusal of his hon
or’s semi-annual message, printed yes
terday in the Prospector, we believe
that the least said is tire soonest
mended.
The mayor calls attention to the
fact that he has spent ten years of his
virile manhood; ten years of a useful
life, fighting the Dock company, and
he is still hale and hearty in the elev
enth year of the great war against
capital.
Well, we can’t help but admire his
persistence, but if we were on that
job we would either change our law
yer, or go down in the night and kick
the durned thing into the bay.
It looks to us that if the mayor’s
fight had been popular, and the peo
ple and the law and the council had
been with him that he could have put
the company out of business in six
months. But ten years—he’s either
got a mighty poor case or else is un
derplaying his hand.
No sir, had his hon'or’s fight been
righteous, he might have had Jesse
Martin counting ties back to his ille
hie in Seattle, and Sam—poor Sam—
but why prolong our grief by dwelling
on impossibilities?
No, you’re headed wrong, your hon
or. You are on the unpopular side
of the game. People are changing in
these past ten years, and you have
played the old tune on one string so
long you can’t recognize real har
mony.
We would advise you to get a new
issue; chewing the same old rag so
long has reduced it to unrecognizable
pulp, and if ten years’ fighting has
cost you so many thousand dollars,
you’re a mighty poor captain if you
don’t trim ship. The people are tired
of the fight, and so are we. We would
like to go to work in the morning with
the calm consciousness that we will
have a roof over our heads at even
tide.
Why not quit this unpopular fight
on our industries? All we want is to
be let alone to pursue our peaceful av
ocations according to the dictates of
our conscience. You have dwelt too
much in the past, your honor, and
your ideas have been stored with
moth balls too long. They have quit
fighting capital outside five years ago,
and almost any old industry is offer
ed a prize package now to locate in
a community. And a $200,000 com
pany—wow! Even the Seattle cham
ber of Commerce would sit up nights
planning how to land a thing like
that. Take a trip outside, get that
mind that has been doing business at
the old stand renovated by contact
with real live issues, and we’ll bet a
dollar against one of jtour honor's
prescriptions that you’ll come back
to the little old town and work nights
repairing the damage you’ve done.
Honest, My. Mayor, we’d be tickled
Jo death to see you stop Routing and
skin off those old ideas and join us
in making Valdez the greatest min
ing center on the coast.
At the time the Vaidez Dock com
pany’s wharf was built, fourteen
years ago, the steamships were land
ing passengers and freight in the
mud, from small boats, and with the
then unalluring prospects of a city be
ing erected here, it took a lot of
nerve as well as capital to put up a
2000-foot wharf. It is hard to believe
that the people of the city were so
unmindful of their interests that they
would compel a company to build a
dock under cover of darkness, to es
cape landing in the mud.
-THE
EMPRESS
TO-NIGHT
2 Shows—at 8 and 9:20,sharp
PROGRAM
Paths Weekly News No. 39
Any Woman’s Choice
Two-part Drama by Francis
X. Bushman
Fixing Them—Comedy
Selections—Empress Trio.
Change Again Hmrsday
Admission 25c.
Children occupying front ie*D 10
Let's give the other fellow a chance
to live. We get our price for what
we sell; don’t be a welcher, pay the
Other fellow his and don't grumble.
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It costs $9.00 per ton to land coal
on the Valdez wharf. It Is sold de
livered at your home for $12.50 per
ton. Is that high considering Alaska
prices? ,,
Seward has a wharf owned by a
greater government than Valdez’—
Uncle Sam’s—and freight is $2.00 per
ton wharfage, and coal tile same price
as here. Why is this?
Anchorage has no wharf, and it
costs passengers one dollar to land
from the steamships, onto the mud
flats. We'll bet Anchorage would
fight teeth and nail agSiwftt a wharf
being built there.
The Alaska Steamship company has
named one of its largest and fastest
ships after this city. We hope that
the vessel will spread the gospel of
Valdez’ spirit from town to town
along our coast.
We have gone carefully over our
books and cannot find where a dollar
of those thousands the mayor claims
to have lost during the past ten years,
has ever come into our coffers. Sim
ply another argument for it pays
to advertise your business in the
Prospector.
And after all. are freights and pas
sage so high? When yon consider
that one gets twenty-four splendid
meals between this city and Seattle,
together with a fine stateroom and
careful attention by the ship’s crew
for $45, the wonder is that it can be
done at the price.
In the mayor’s speech yesterday
it should have read, “I have no per
sonal differences with Mr. Lathrop,
Mr. Martin, or the Prospector, etc.”
The error was in the copy and in our
hurry we overlooked it; therefore we
hasten to correct it. We knew all
the time that the mayor was only
jollying us along.
News dispatches today state that
the Washington Board of Lighthouse
Commissioners will ask an appropria
tion of a half million dollars to in
crease the safety appliances for coas
tal travel. This is good news for
Alaska shipping and now if we get
that $300,000 for the interior road
we are willing to lay back and watch
Valdez grow
The first coal brought to Valdez
was 1000 tons brought in a scow, by
Jesse Martin, on a private specula
tion. It was sold at $18.50 per ton,
and went like hot cakes. Mr. Martin
informs us that he made nearly
enough out of the venture to buy him
a suit of ,clothes, and quickly turned
the coal business over to the com
pany.
And our principal reason for join
ing our voice to the chorus is to try
to call attention to those innumerable
blessings we have and never appreci
ate. We don’t want to see this a
cheap town; when papers get to sell
ing on our streets for a penny, as in
Seattle, it will be time to move. And
we’ll concede to, before some one
beats us to it, that it might be all
they are worth.
If that Fairbanks law is good law,
in that a person living near a city
and doing business with it should
help contribute to its support,v.why
not apply it to the Senator’s vast
holdings on the edge of town? He
gets his living from the city as well
as we, and he is directly benefitted
by having his property next to the city i
as are we. Why not stretch that law
over all of us, not just a few?
According to his honor’s argument
he raised George C. Treat’s assess
ment to $7,000 on his property be
cause he was reported to be drawing
a twenty per cent income from his
rentals. Why then, Mr. Mayor, ac
cording to your own argument, assess
Judge Bunnell anything? He was
burned out in July and is deriving
no income from his property, and yet
you placed the assessment at the same
figure as when he had a good house
upon it. Why the inconsistency?
We do not believe the old timers
or, In fact, the newcomers, would
care to make this a nickel town. The
one charm about Alaska is the high
wages and the reckless expenditure
of the coal of the realm by her peo
ple. Newspapers at 10 cents, moving
picture shows at 26c, meals 60c, and
everything else in proportion keeps
money in circulation and makes bet
ter times. We even suspect his hon
or charges a little more for his wares
than they do In the States. And why
shouldn’t he? If we get to doing
business on a Jitney basis we’d soon
have a Jitney town._
The Valdez hospital announced in
the Sunday paper that it would be
forced to suspend business unless It
could make some arrangements with
the large mining Interests to take
care of their sick and wounded. The
loss of the Valdez hospital would be
keenly felt at this time, as it is a
necessary pfcrt of the community. It
has beds for twenty patients and is
thoroughly up to date and modern in
every appliance. Its departure would
cause endless inconvenience to our
citizens, and perhaps needless loss of
life in emergency cases. Our citizens
should spare no efforts to keep every
industry we have. If they slip away
from us, one by one, in a short time
the old town will be hard to revive.
We need the hospital, let us work to
keep it here.
LOCAL BREVITIES.
Mrs. John Johnson and child, of El
lamar, are visitors in Valdez.
Do you know that this is the hot
test place In town? We keep 6300
degrees of heat on tap night and day.
That is the reason we weld anything.
Valdez Iron Works. Tu
Master Mechanic Ostenberg, of the
Ellamar mine, is a visitor in Valdez.
WANTED—Capable woman for
general housework. Address Box 86,
City. tf
Emil Davis arrived in town today
from the Ramsey-Rutherford mine.
Suits pressed for $1.00 at Silver
man’s, the tailoi. Telephone 198. tf
Mrs. Capers is visiting friends in
Valdez from the Cliff mine.
Pure Fresh Drugs at the Valdez
Drug Store. *
A. W. Austenburg was an outgo
ing passenger on the Admiral Farra
gut for Seattle.
J. F. Proffit was a passenger on the
Admiral Farragut this morning for
Seattle.
Suits pressed for $1.00 at Siher
man’s, tb* *ailor. Telephone 198. tf
Roy McDonald, of Ellamar, was a
passenger coming to Valdez yester
day afternoon on the launch Elvira.
Fancy Stationery at the Valdez
Drug Store, •
Furnished rooms at Mrs. Osland’s
Prices reasonable. *
Gus Hogbloom, of Ellamar,' came
up from the copper city yesterday aft
ernoon on the launch Elvira.
Ladies’ buttons made from your
own material, any size. Guy F.
Cameron. tf
If you are going east travel via
Great Northern Ry. For rates see D.
F. Millard, Agent, Copper Block. tf
H. E. Ellis, of t'ne Cliff mine, came
up yesterday afternoon on the launch
Elvira, and returned to the mine
igain today. .
Wells-Fargo Money Orders and
rraveler’s checks are payable any
where in the United States or Cana
ia. D. F. Millard, Copper Blk. tf
Bill Holmes came up from the Cliff
mine yesterday afternoon to look
after his property in Valdez and will!
return to the mine today.
Fresh cream and buttermilk al
ways on hand at Love-Whitley’s, tf j
Fresh Oysters received on every
boat.—Frye-Bruhn Co. tf
The launch Elvira made a trip
down the bay this afternoon carrying
a number of passengers for the Cliff
mine and other points on Valdez bay.
Kodak Supplies at the Valdez
Drug Company. tf
Pictures developed at the Valdez
Drug Company. tf.
New Tonight.
Entire change of program at the
Liberty Theatre tonight, and some
comedy to balance, featuring Jeffer
son De Angelis in comedy. *
Valdez Drug Company nave a fine
Une of School Stationery. tf
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How does a ride to Camp Comfort
with a dance and a dinner before re
turning strike you? Fresh killed
chickens and Alaska vegetables at
your command. For particulars see
CITY EXPRESS
tf # Phone 82.
Passengers on the Admiral Farra
gut returning from Anchorage state
that a number of former well known
Valdez citizens, who secured contracts
on the railroad construction work
from the Alaskan Engineering com
mission, have completed their con
tracts and have returned to Anchor
age Among the number are Con
Downey, Joe Bell, Abe Bell, Earnle
Amundson, Sam Mundel, Mike Sher
ry ai.d others.
Received on last boat. Wearing Ap
parel, articles of every day needs, at
Emporium. Open from 12 to 9 p.
jm. tf
Meet Mr._
The Little Fat Tailor,
* Representing Ed. V. Price Co.,
Stopping at Blum's.
An Opportunity In Mackinaws
We have a limited number of Mackinaws—
The “Boss-Of-The Road”, in blues, grays,
browns, and checks, which we are closing
out at reduced prices.
Plain colors were $5.00, and are now $2.50
The checks were $6.00, and are now $4.00
Better Investigate This.
S BLUM & COMPANY, INC.
Capt. Thos. Stamy, who operated
the launch Brighton of the Sound for
years, and who is now living in An
chorage, has written Valdez friends
that he intends spending the winter
in the Cook Inlet metropolis.
Men’s, Women’s and Children’s
Wool Sweaters, Hoods and Hosiery,
Sheeting, Pillowcase Tubing, Outing
Flannel 10c yard, at Emporium. tf
Fresh cream and buttermilk always
on hand at Love-Whitley’s. tf
Fnt good home-cooked meals try
Mrs. M. Olson, on Hobart Street. *
Vic Sedgwick, who has been em
ployed at the Cliff mine, came up to
Valdez yesterday afternoon expecting
that the Admiral Evans would arrive
today from the States. He is expect
ing Mrs. Sedgwick, who has been vis
iting relatives in the states to return
on the Evans.
DON’T LET THEM FOOL YOU.—
I am still in the photo work and as
well, if not better fitted to do your
finishing work than ever. I have
merely moved my place up stairs in
(he Cliff house, temporarily, which
I have been running for the past four
years, and have more photo goods in
stock than any other place In town.
Amateur finishing work can be left
with my son in the Candy Kitchen.
tf P. S. HUNT.
\
Before the gangplank is on the deck,
Joe is there your baggage to check.
He knows just where you want to go,
And his auto bus is not so slow.
When leaving Valdez it is Just as well
To wait until you hear Joe’s bell.
He never yet has missed a boat
But connects with all that ever floats.
Joe never sleeps day or night,
He does his best to treat you right.
The traveling public well can bless
The man who runs the City Express.
All you do—Just Phone Eight Two,
The City Express will see you thru.
tf
| When In Seward Stop at the
COLEMAN HOUSE
j, GEORGE SEXTON ►hop
i S i RIOTI V riRsT CLASS
j Fourth Ave, Seward, Alaska
Copper River
Draying Co
Freighting and Passengers
to all parts of the Interior.
GENERAL TRUCKING
McKinley Street, Valdex
ED. WOOD, Proprietor
DR. H. COCKERILLE
Graduate National University.
Washington, D. C.
DENTIST
Fourteen Years in Valdez.
PHONE 110
Office Rooms in Whaling Building
DR. GERMAN
phone t» THE DENTIST
3fflce rooms over Owl Drug Store. Of
fice hours 9 a. m. to 6 p. m., 7 to 9
p. m. Sunday by appointment.
All Work Guaranteed.
C. E. DALTON, M. D.
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
Phone 43
Alaska Avenue Valdez, Alaska
DONOHOE & D1MGND
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
Office Opposite Court House
Phone 34 VALDEZ. ALASKA
IOHN LYONS E. E. RITCHIE
LYONS & RITCHIE
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
Offices In Whaling Building
Phone 101 VALDEZ. ALASKA
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VALDEZ LODGE
'r NO 168
Free and Accepted Masons.
Regular Communications first Wed
nesday In each month In McKinley
Hall. Visitors always welcome.
A. E. GRIGSBY. W. M.
ED. WOOD. Secretary.
Red Cross Hospital
Keyatone andJHobart Sta.
OPEN TO ALL PHYSICIANS.
Private Room* for Pstienta.
Phone 144 ^IRS. C. H WILCOX. Matron
Somebody
Wiih Money
always has been found to
“back” a good plan, a good
idea, a good business ven
ture or a good mining pros
pect ; otherwise a good many
of today’s successful busi
ness enterprises would still
be mere dreams.
Advertising has brought
about a majority of the in
troductions of the man with
the idea, the man with a
prospect, or business to the
man with the dollar.
ADVERTISE IN THE
PROSPECTOR FOR RE
SULTS.
The Best Place in Valdez to "
Stop at is the
ArcticHotel
Want, Light Rooms--Tbe House of Cssfsit
RATES REASONABLE
BATH ROOM Special Ratei[Bj the MaatA
PHONE 133 MRS. SYRINC, fn*
lM Shamrock
C.-VPT, TIM MARCUM
Sails for Port Wells, Portage
Bay, Granite Mine, Saturday
at 9:00 a. m., from the Val
dez Dock Company’s Dock.
For Ellamar, Landlock Bay,
and Fidalgo, every Wednes
day, 9:00 a. m., from Val
dez Dock Company’s Dock.
For Rates, Apply on Boi?
Valdez Miners Union No. 188
Western Federation of Miners
ROBERT SHAFFER. President.
Granite Mine
CHAS. McCALI.UM, Secretary,
Vndez, Alaska.
Dougherty & Ferguson
GENERAL
Merchandise
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The best groceries received
on every boat,
Fresh vegetables, fruits, and
nuts.
A. M. DIERINGER
Valdez Transfer
Company t
Office In Pinzon Cigar Store
General Trucking and Freighting
to all Interior Points.
LIVERY and FEED STABLE
STORAGE,
Teaming of All Kinda
Positively No Coal Delivered Ua
less Paid for in Advance