Trade is Increasing.
The Alaska trade in 1.804 prom
ises to exceed in gross value tiiat of
any previous year—and even a
possible fall hi tlie market jirioe of
canned salmon,which forms so im
portant a part of the commerce of
the territory, writi probable wot af
fect, the general result. All signs
point to a prosperous season, and
there certainly was a good begin
ning in January. The complete
figures, in much detail, are given
for that month by the bureau of
statistics of the dejiartmcutof com
merce.
In domestic merchandise shipped
to Alaska in January there was a
gain of 33 per cent., and in goods
shipped from Alaska in the same'
month there wns a gain of 56 per
cent. The winter business is com
paratively light, of course, but the
value of merchandise shifted north
ward in the first month of the year
was $234,833, ns against $177,114
in the same month of 1903. The
south hound shipments, coasisting
largely of native products of Alas
ka, amounted to $188,453 as against
$120,343. These figures do not in
clude gold and silver.
Copper will lie an important fac
tor in the Alaska trade within the
next twoor three years, and in com
parison with other product* of the
territory is by no means insignifi
cant, even now. Several important
copjier properties in the region bor
dering on tl»c gulf of Alaska and in
the southeastern part of the terri
tory are at the very threshold of a
large production. The owners of
ihese projerties know the copper is
there, for they can see it, and it is
only a question of time when this
ore will form a big item in our
northern commerce. Production
has already liegun on a moderate
scale, hut the greater part of it is
incidental to development work
entirely, and is simply an indica-t
tirm of the formidable output which
the near future is to witness.
In the first month of this year
Alaska shiftied $9,377, and al
though this was not large enough
to enrich any transportation com-,
puny or to make any impression on
tlie copper market of the United
States, it was nevsrtlieless nearly
three times as much as was ship
ped from our northern territory in
the corresponding mouth of the
year before.
Court House for Tanana District.
When Judge James Wickersham
arrives at Fairbanks, the new min-,
ing camp on the Tanana, he will
enter into negotiations for the con
struction of a court house to accom
modate tlie officials of that rapidly:
growing district. Announcement
to that effect was made by the
judge at Tacoma. He said:
* “During my recent visit to Wash-,
ington I laid before the attorney
general the need of an official home
for the officials at Fairbanks, and
recited the history of the prosper
ous camp to hear me out in my ap
plication for permission to arrange
for the construction of a court
house.
“I am authorized tosjiend ♦5,000
which will give us a small, but
comfortable home.”
When the first discovery of gold
was made in the Tanana region the
Tanana region the townsite was
named Fairbanks, and to Judge
Wickersham belongs the distinc
tion of naming the new camp. Sev
eral montlis previous to tlie loca
tion of the valuable Tanana claims
the judge, in conversation with
Capt. E. T. Barnette, who was the
first to reach the district after the
discovery had been made by Felix
Pedro, suggested that if the trip
that he, Barnette, was about to un
dertake up the river proved success
ful the new camp should he named
Fairbanks ia honor of Beuator
Fairbanks of Indiana. lit return
the judge agreed to appoint a com
missioner for the district, and as
sist in every way possible to make
the original campsite the perman
ent headquarters of the district.
When the discovery of gold on
the Tanana was 'announced and
confirmed. Judge Wickersham lost
no time in fulfilling his |«rtof the
agreement, as Felix Pedro and
Captain Barnette both agreed to
tlie name Fairtianks for the camp.
Work on the new court house
Will lie started in the spring.
First Vessel Sm Alaska Canneries
Tint Pari tic Parking & Naviga
tion Cot, whirl) operates salmon
canneries in Alaskan waters from
the mouth of the Htickeen to that
of tlic Kuskokwim, will despatch
its first vessel, the hark J. I). Peters
north this week. 8he will take a
full cargo of cannery supplies and
employes nuuiU'ring probably sev
enty-five.
Orca, where is located one of tin
largest, of the company's ranneric*,
is the destination of the Peters.
The tug 8almo, which is to be a
fender to the Orca cannery this
season, has already sailed.
Win Help Indians.
Representation* are made to the
Washington authorities that th<
Copper river Indians generally an
sick and dying from lack of nour
ishment. Assistant Oliver, of the
war department, has telegraphed
General Funaton, commanding the
department of the Columbia, to do
anything lie can for the Indians,
in the interest of humanity. The
only military post in the Coppei
river region is a small post at Cop
jier Center used by men of the sig
nal cor|«. who have supplies suffi
cient only for their own subsist
ence.
The ltonorable Ex. of Ketchikan
has done Valdez the honor of de
voting ulmut a column to an ex
pression of his ideas concerning
the wagon road. A very strong
argument, from his point of view,
against the necessity for a road, is
the fact that Senator Nelson does
not favor territorial government
for Alaska at present.
The Nome News expresses grati
fication over the awarding of the
Valdez-Tamna mail route, as it
improves the service to that point
lessening the time by over ten days
The more pertaters you raise this
year the more seed you hev next
year—the l*etter advertisin’ you do
this year the bigger your business
will be next.—Rusty Mike.
According to the Nome papers of
January 15, the Bertha was wreck
ed near Valdez during December
All hands were lost. This is inter
esting news.
Notice.
All persons are hereby warne<
not to trap or bant on Hoodoo is
land, Prince Wjlliam Sou ml; Ala sk.
as I have this day, March 7. 1904,
stocked the «ame with blue foxc?
for breeding jairiirwes.
Walter H. Holland,
La touche.
Application.
I* S. Lacd Office, Juneau, Alaska Mar. 7, 190
Xntiee i« hereby given tiiat:
I. Carl ^ N. Crary, of Valdez, Alaska,
assignee ««f Thompson «lardenhicr. being enii
tl <1 to the beacfUtnrfSection 2306 of the itevis d
Statutes of the United States, grunting addi
tional lands to soldiers and sailors w ho served
in the War of the Rebellion, do hereby apply
toe»»ter U. S. Survey No 337, containing
aertw and more particularly described as fol
lows, to-vit:
Said survey No. 337 is situated within tlu
Valdez Recording District, Prince Wllliai
Sound, described by metes and bounds, court
and distances, as fol.ows:
Beginning at Corner No. 1, which is 18.49
chains N. 4-4 deg. K. from Corner No 1 of Valdez
lownsite, and 15.32 chains N 41 deg. .'in min K
from the iuitial monument of U.s. Survey No.
145, thence N. 28 deg. 33 min. W. lii.Jo chains t
Corner No. 2; thence X. 01 deg. 27 mill. E. 9.8
chains to Corner No 3; thence S. 28 deg. 33 mil
K. 16.26 chains to Corner No. 4; thence 8.61 deg.
27 min. W. 9.85 chains to Corner No. I, the pla«
of beginning. < ontaining 10 acres. Variation
28 deg. 57 mm E.
Ah additional to his original homestead on
the S. U of the NE »4 See 5 T 16 S R 26 W,
which lw* entered ou the 27th day of January,
1869, per homestead entry No 1575 at the United
States Land Office at Clarksville, Arkansas.
Notice is hereby given to any and all parties
claiming adversely any portion of the above
described tract, to tile with the Register of the
U- S. Laud Office at Juneau, Alaska, an adverse
claim in accordance with law durfug the per
iod of publication or within 30 davs thereafter.
CARL X. CRARY,
Ausignee of Thompson Oardeuhier.
L John W Dudley, Regiaterof the C. S. Land
Office, at Juneau, Alaska, do htreby order that
a copy of the Notice of Application of Sohlier's
Additional Homestead of CarJ X. Crary, I*. S.
Survey No. 337, tie published in tl»r Alaska
Pkohmsttwk. a weekly paper, published la Val
dez, Alaska, for a peri.nl of sixty 60 days, or ten
10 conHecutive weeks.
JOHN W. DUDLEY
Register
iioodell Edwards, Attorneys 7
IX THE t\ 8. COMMISSIONER’S COURT,
THIRD DIVISION, DISTRICT OF ALASKA.
COOK INLET PRECINCT.
A. F. Davis, Plaintiff. »
vs. > Summon#.
Hrkm Smith, Defendant. 7
You aim Imre by required to appear in an ac
tio* brought against you by the above named
Plaintiff, in the United States Com mi winner's
('•art, far tli* Precinct of Cook Inlet. Third
Division. District of Alaska, at Sunrise to an
swer before said Commissioner, at bis office at
SunrDe. in said Precinct and District, the t*»m
fdaiut Hied therein, within thirty daya— exclu
sive of the day of service—after the service o*
you uf this sumiuous.
Tiu* said action to brought to obtain judg
ment against you to recover the sum of fl95.1V,
for work and labor alleged to have been per
formed by plaintiff for you on your mining
claim* in tiie Sunrise Miaiug District, in said
Precinct and District, as a laborer, between
the Vtli day of April, 1‘JOO, aad the 18tli day of
September. ltno, aud costs of suit* as more fully
appears bjr the complaint on Hie herein, a copy
of which is attached hereto.
And you are hereby untitled that if you fail
to so appear aud answer said coinplaint, aa
above required, said plaintiff will take judg
ment agaiust you for the sum of 9195.35, togeth
er with the east*.
Make legal service and due return hereof
Given under toy baud and seal of the above
Court, Ibis 29th day of November, I9U.
II. II. HILDRETH.
17. S. Commissioner.
Goodkll a Edwards, Attorneys for Plaintiff.
First publication. March 10.
fast publication April If.
CHANCE FOR YOUNGER SONS.
Tk» Terr UNnl lair* la That They
**•* Tak* la the Orcapatloa
oI fJlaattrir.
What an amazing world is this mod
ern world of ours! I have Iwcn frad
lug ugain the letters of Homer Wal
l*ole. in which It is easy to see that the
srnly professions possible for n young
innn of family were polities, the nrnir
and the navy, says a writer in Country
Life.
How we have changed all that In a
little over a century. . . . What is
there, nowadays tlint oor golden youth
think derogatory? Certainly not turn
ing actor, going on the stock exchange,
taking photographs, running a hotel.
Now that the war Is over, the very
Intest iden for useless younger sons la
that they shall take up the occupation
•of chauffeur. At the first blush this
seems an excellent idea. Charming for
miladi, for instance, to have an agree
able young man of good fnmiiy at her
elbow every day driving her motor
car, instead of .lohn. silent anti obse
quious. on the box of a carriage.
Indeed, I know* one gent ieman chanf
feur who has a remarkable good tinie.
He has a little cottage all to himself
t»n the estate, and when the fnniiiv nre
short of an amusing mnn they ask him
up to the hall to dinner.
Hut at present this new profession
for younger sons is certainly more
dangerous than the army. Very rarely,
in any recent accident, has the driver
•escaped being killed.
MEN WHO DO AND DON’T.
Tfc* Kill Who Accomplish Soms
thlac la Life sad How Thsp
>st Ahoal It
Men, after all. are, and always will
be. of two kinds—the men who ac
complish and the men who don't. The
oilier day there was an important
conference at the office of one of the
biggest men in American finance. Jt
began early in the morning, and ai
noon it was not concluded. Prompt I \
Jit half past 12 the clerks went out
to lunch. The financier apoli gi/.ed to
one of his stenographers for keeping
him ten minutes after the regular
hour—indeed, if it had occurred often
the stenographer would have indig
nantly sought another position, lie
slid not, however, apologize to the
other seven or eight millionaires who
sat about his desk until well nfter
seven o’clock, with no thought «f
luncheon or dinner. These men were
willing to make the saerifice which
success demands, says the Cosmopoli
tan. There is bo denrth of openings
for the man who will fit himself in
accomplish. The fact is that the de
velopment of business has been more
rapid than the development of men.
and to-day there is a greater need of
men of the right sort than ever, and
every great business is looking for
them.
Il» of Orest Britain.
Great Britain is only half as big
as Sumatra and double the size of
Newfoundland. It stands fifth in
point of size in the list of the world's
islands. England, without Wales, is
almost identical in point of si/c with
Roumnnia. It is less than onc-qiiar
ter as big as France or (iermuny.
The whole British isles only occiijui
the one-sixteenth hundredth part of
the surface of tile globe.
Wastrfal Irrlaarfion.
Attention ha* lately been directed
to the wasteful methods of irrigation
in use in our southwest. M u-urr
ments have shown that only i; per
cent, of the water in the canal*
reaches the fields, the rest being lost
in transit through seepage.
Coal la France.
It is only within the last 00 years
that coal lias been mined on a large
scale in France. In 1700 the output
was only lOO.OOO tons. In ls43 it was
barely 4.000.UCO tons. Last year It
was 32,000,000.
Oyster* la Berlin.
In Berlin restaurants oysters cost
front 50 to 75 cents per dozen. They
are small and of inferior quality.
Cooked oysters are never seen un
German tables.
| NEW PROCESS
STEAM LAUNDRY,
McKinley xtkeet.
Finest Work. Prompt Hkdivory.
Fully Kenponsilile.
For Arrays Send Your Ore To
J. H. MORRISON,
Assayer Ellamar AAiniug Co.
(•old. Silver ami (<opj or Ao .*>0
(•old and Silver - l.'H)
Copper ... 2.00
Lead - • - 2 00
Ellamar, Alaska
Ellamar
Mining
Company
Powder, Caps, Fuse,
and all other nec
essaries for the
Prospector.
GENERAL MERCHANDISE
Prices Reasonable.
Ellamar. Alaska.
The northwestern Line
Operates the finest trains in the
world every day in the year, be
tween
Minneapolis,
St Paul,
Chicago,
Milwaukee,
OMAHA and KANSAS CITY,
making direct connections with
through trains for all joints East
and South.
As cheap as the cheapest and the
best to Ik; had. For rates or reser
vations, call or write,
F. W. PARKER,General Agent,
151 Yesler Way, Seattle
Notice ol Forfeiture.
_ ... _ Values, Alaska, Jan. 1, lfOJ.
To W alter L. White and K. F. Wilms:
You ar* hereby notified that the undersigned,
A. II. I tlev, lias cxnendod during the year
1»«. «°ur hundred ($400) dollar* in labor u'imui
the Lost Chord, the Htfleu. the c.dd hollar and
the Black B *ar mini eg claims situat-d < n the
iienehes of Slue creek and Miller Culch. in
the Chisua inning district, Vlaska. in V.i!
dca Recording l»i«trict, the location notices
of which claims arc now of record in tlie
office of the I nited States Commissioner at
V able/., and to w11i• *li notices reference i* mad*
fora more particular description thereof, in
order to h«dj said daim* under provision of
SiM-tloii ».j|. Revised Htat it-s d the fnlte-i
States, and the amendment* relating thereto
concerning aunu: t labor upon milling «*1 h 1 mn.
b- iug till* amount re lat ed ta hold said »l :im*.
dining the vsar l***:! ending hcceml i-r Hi,
I akj. And if at the xpiration of ninety
«*«It 111 tlie P'lhlic I .1. <.t 11,1s 11..Tic . yon
fall or refuae to contribute your proportion of
smh exp Mid it lire, your inter-sM in said . i.iim>
w ill be -ojiic the property of the undendgiicd.
your co-owner, who ha mad. Co r «,,jircd c<
l*euditurc bv tlis term» of said *** <*tiou.
.. A II. I TLET.
rirst p ti«»n Jan. ?.
Imsl paid tent ion April 7.
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VALDEZ |
BEER |
X Pure Home Product I
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For Sale At _ f
Al. Whites The Nizina The Senate £
The Pulman St Elias The Elk $
The Montana and all Restaurants £
Valdez Brewing Company \
Ma Pacific flaiplioD Company
Carrying U. S. Mail and Express.
E. E Caine, President
In k Mat "-"LTirr'"
Sir. Excelsior
Sir. Sanla Ana
Sir. Dora
f nun fcv:uiIt* lor \ .title/, i tw*1: knk*t un<l
vav porte. let ot eiu-h month. From Val
dez for Seattle mill v^ay puri*.lt>ih of each
month.
Ff'jiii Scat'io for Valdez, Cook tnlef and
v.ay port* lt.ihot each n.onth. From Vsl
«'iz lor Seattle and way ports, 1st of each
m»i.th.
Ihrom \ tilde? to ( na -i*ka and wav ports
'Jtiili of t.ich month, connecting .at Valdez
iviih S. S. Santa Ana
Com|mny reserves right to change ft earner* or date of failing
without notice.
SeattleOffice—<618 First Avs. . J Martin
Agent.
PHONE 16.
A. B lies, Pres. F. M. Unnui. Treus. F. King born. Sec.
Valdez Dock 8 Mouse Company.
G<ml« may In r.r.r I'urp Ktul le/i In w«r«>t!nuM> tin
rallwl for. I’Artie* sr«»iiifg *•» tin* interior will find itf onv?n>
l^nt to leHTo uneitswiHi unto l»f forwarded to smh
And At •Mi'di time ah tin y mny direct.
Our storage is safe, being t-4th mile from nearest building
McIntosh & DunckJee
Horseshoeing and Biacksmithing
All work will receive prompt attention. High class
biacksmithing made a S|>eeial feature. Give us u call.
OsR. £ KYSTONE AND McKlNI.BY. WaIIUM
Nome Restaara»{ t .
Keystone Ave. Opp. St. Elias Hotel.
Meals At All Hours From G OVlock A.M.
to 9 O’clock P.M. Regular Dinner From
•5 to .7. Sunday Dinner A Special tv.
Ice CrearriandSodaWater Parlor
MRS. E. H. AEEEN.
C. E. EC<MKDU5
Assayer and Chemist.
GolJ and Silver $ 1.00 Gold Silver cud Copper $2.50
GO-Coj.imria Sc., Skvi u.k, Wash.
"10 YEARS STANDARD” ’
RQBEIfOib
(Trade Mark il -gisttml.)
Has demonstrated that it is the me.-: durable and ellieient ROOFING
for all sorts oi buildings, weathers and comliti. ns. Made of the strong
est, best wool felt, ti.orongTdy sat nr tied with tin wcli-kuowu Ktdicroid
Compound. Proof a gait »s; teat, c.o'd, wat-er. s'cam. acids, alkalies,
gases, fumes, etc. Outlasts iiu-lul. . Fir .-resisting. 'Cut'a ins no tar or
paper. Will not melt, rot or tear. Kn.-uy la ill. booklets, samples
and prices upon application. A large shipment now on hand at
SHEFFER & BORTON,
McKinley Street.
Valdez Electric Light, Power & Telephone Co.
Incorporated.
We haw on hand a large assortment of Electric Fixtures,
Plain and Fanev Shades. Call Hells and Annunciators.
Estimates given on all kinds of electrical work. Phone 39.
Where Do You Stop? Wtiy of Course at
0
MINERS’ HOTEL.
COMFORTABLE QUARTERS.
McKinley st and Keystone av C. J oh nson, Prop
McKinley -Hall
Cor. Reservation Av. and HohartSt.
S liable for Balls, Parties,
Receptions, Banquets, etc.
%
Dates Booked With
A. M. EDWARDS, White Biock.