S. BLUM & CO.
INCORPORATED
BANKERS
CAPITAL $200,000.00.
We do a general banking business.
We sell exchange on all parts of the world.
We pay 4 per cent interest on Time Certificates of Deposit
Prospectors,
Don’t neglect your health on the trail.
The VALDEZ DRUG CO.
is prepared to fill your medicine kit
| with the purest and best of drugs,
medicines, and surgical bandages.
Give Your Freight Contract to
Robert McIntosh
DELIVERY GUARANTEED
Contracts taken for delivery in the N ELCHIN A,
CHISANA, and SLATE CREEK sections.
No contract too large, none too small.
For prices apply to Rob’t McIntosh, Valdez.
J. E. WILSON
FREIGHTER
Special price on mills and large outfits—Special atten
tion given to Fairbanks, Nelchina and
Chisana freight.
Teams are always ready to go to any point in Third or Fourth Divisions.
When in Chitina Stop at the
CHITINA HOTEL
Finest Hotel in the lnterior---Well Heated, Clean Rooms.
Bar in Connection. Rates Reasonable
Wortman’s Road House
E. P. CASHMAN,'.Proprietor.
20 miles from Valdez.
The best meals and most comfortabld beds Procurable.
TAZUNA HILL ROAD HOUSE
it open for freight and accommodations for the new
strike at Nelchina—Horses on hand at all times.
JAMES L. SIMPSON.
UPPER TONSINA ROAD HOUSE
Best of Meals—Prices Resransble
GENERAL STORE. - TRADING POST.
Telephone connects with Chftina.
General Freighting. KNUTE NAFSTED, Mgr.
Ernestine Road House
On Government Road 65 mile* from Valdez.
HARRY MILLER. Prop.
Good dean beds. CuorvthiniT PifCt P.ISCC Fine warm barns. Ac
Excellent meals. LTGIJIIHIJg TIW UHw* comodaton for'60 borset.
GET THE HABIT j
Every Evening
BE A BOOSTER
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BOOST VALDEZ AS
A HEALTH RESOBT
Long Letter of Mrs. Alfred B. lies is
Printed in Washington Post—
Renew Vigor in Valdez.
The following article is reprinted
from the Washington Post and tells
of the wonders of Valdez, as a health
resort:
Valdez has a press agent.
Valdez is not a city in Mexico, or
Peru, or Spain, and it isn't a patent
medicine or a hair restorer. It’s a
seaport in Alaska, located on Valdez
bay, highly spoken of in various ad
dresses in and out of congress. It ap
pears to be the spot that Ponce de
Leon was looking for, but failed to
locate.
Appreciation of Health Seeker.
Mrs. Alfred Bennett lies, writing to
Mrs. It. A. Hatcher of Washington, has
the following to say about Valdez:
“Come up to Valdez. Come up to
Valdez. Oyez, oyez.
1 pi CUltl ILl cl L Hit? LlUll? IM 11UI 1<11
distant when Alaska, especially south
ern Alaska, will be a famous health
resort. It is the best place I have
found—and my travels have been
quite extensive—for jaded nerves, ex
hausted vitality and all the pains and
aches that these demons engender.
“Like Japhet in search of a father,
I have wandered around this conti
nent and a portion of Europe, dili
gently seeking for that rarest of jew
els—health.
“Lantern in hand, like Diogenes, 1
have peregrinated from one part of
the globe to another, grasping at
straws, hanging on to cobwebs, clutch
ing at rainbows with grim death,
skulls and crossbones, grave diggers
and undertakers wildly pursuing me.
Playing ‘tag’ with such horrors was
finally too much for me, and I fled
to Alaska, where the purity and crys
talline quality of the north pole-isli
atmosphere might dispel the voracious
microbes of disease.
"In Washington I hung, like a neck
lace, around the necks of divers doc
tors, beseeching the mto make me
well. I was drugged, dieted, almost
electrocuted. I furnished a line in
come for all the specialists, including
osteopaths, theraupautics, nerve and
rest cure faddists and did not neg
lect to consult Christian Scientsts.
“Several drug stores branched out
into huge emporiums and gorged
themselves with my money. Patent
medicine people waxed financially
corpulent at my expense. 1 was hu
miliated by being regarded as a semi
invalid, a namby-pamby weakling.
“My intellect waned until its di
mensions resembled the fine point of
a cambric needle, but not as sharp.
A magnifying glass had to be applied
to discover my brains. Indigestion
and insomnia overwhelmed me.
Renewed Vigor In Valdez.
“Now, me voice! A flying leap to
Alaska, and here I am in high arctic
rubbers, trudging around in the snow;
eating like a hobo, or worse, and
sleeping so soundly that a whole or
chestra of Gabriel's trumpets could
hardly awaken .me. 1 could dangle
from a flying trapeze, jump through a
burning boop at a circus, outrival
Prof.-Cook in climbing Mount McKin
ley, run races with a gorilla, or beat
any army officer of the United States
army in a nrty-mtle DareDaca riae.
"The moral of all these egotistic
remarks is that there never was a
more healthful country than Alaska,
particularly Valdez, which is locat
ed on Valdez bay, and has all the life
giving idiosyncracies of Atlantic City,
minus the mob. It should also be
advertised as a beauty-maker, for it
excels all the lotions of all the beauty
specialists ever concooted. It is with
regret that my modesty forbids me
to pose for this advertisement, but
iuost of the women here can.
"1 have, however, upon several oc
casions, through the newspapers,
sounded horns and beaten drums for
Alaska. I marvel that some of our
Washington friends who are worn to
a frazzle every winter by the gayties
and dissipation of official life, and
who are really in need of some de
cided change, do not come up here to
recuperate.
"We have the purest air on earth.
It comes laden with the ozone of
myriads of miles of ice and snow,
wherein no germ can exist, ft is fill
ed with the salt breath of the sea,
the healing of primeval pine trees, the
tonic or high mountain peaks.
“While 'you in the east are beset
with hliaeards and all ^inds-of cyclon
ic disasters this winter, l aw at this
ntbmept sitting with#(ty window open
, and. today -is fcpe first of January.
We have many ttaMs gone-rowing in
open boats upon the Bjiy. of Vsldez,
which contains no ice. Ponder on
that!
"Not a health-bestowing character
istic is lacking. And as for scenery
—well, I am not easily squelched, but
words fail me.
All Modern Conveniences.
"In Valdez you can get steam-heat
ed apartments with electric lights,
private bath, etc. You can eat all
tha varieties of fruits and vegetables
your tremendous appetite will engen
der. Porterhouse steaks travel this
way. Also young lambs and fat tur
keys and chickens.
“The waters abound with the finest
salmon and halibut, and as to game,
there is every palatable creature that
you can desire; ptarmigans galore -
mallard ducks, deer, moose, bears
what more do you want?
"Come on and see for yourselves.
Don’t take my word
"This is your country; a part of
your United States. You should be
patriotic and patronize it for a change
instead of foreign countries. Pay us
a visit.
You can live nere to he as old as
Wu Ting-fang says he will—250
years! People seldom die in this land
of the midnight sun. Physicians and
druggists would starve if they made
their money from the misfortunes of:
others.
“Occasionally a man breaks a leg !
or a woman sprains her ankle, or an ,
unwary pedestrian walks under an
avalanche, is buried alive and is dug i
out, months afterward, [looking ,as1
good as new. but in a state of frigidity.
Doubtless if the now famous Xf. Car
roll were here lie could resuscitate
these latter victims for if he can .
make any old frozen tissues live, then
why not the entire body? . j
■ Alaska is also the lesidence of
Aurora Borealis. Come ai d see wh-it
a splendid girl Aurora is:
“\\v have everything but a railroad,
and as our democrati • president, is j
the k’nd of tone to sei that the!
"whee s go round” we tie feeling
confident that this will transpire in;
the near future. Then Alaska will |
make Cnele Sam the wealthiest old 1
bachelor in the world.” |
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Notice.
By order of the board of direct- j
ors the Granite Gold Mining Go. of- j
fers for sale at 50 cents a share 10,000
shares of the treasury siock of the
company. This is for the purpose of
clearing up all indebtedness up to,
March 1, 1914, at which time, barring i
the acts of Providence, the mill will,
start. The company has expended
about $32,000, for which we have a
complete power equipment, a com
plete twenty-ton mill, a hoist, an un
derground station, a gallows-frame
for hoisting, 450 feet of tunnel work,
an upraise from the tunnel to the
surface of 147 feet, and a shaft 0 12
xlO 1-2 feet and 40 feet in depth,
leading from the tunnel down and
which exposes the ore for 200 feet.
A shaft has also been driven on the
upper vein for 40 feet in depth. The
company has a surface tram across
the gully 200 feet long and will have i
an aerial tram 320 feet long to trans
port the ore from the mine to the
mill. Supplies to the value of $3,000 ;
are on hand on the property. Stock 1
can be secured at Attorney G. E. Bun
nell’s office, secretary of the com
pany. B. F. MILLARD, President.
WEATHER RECORD.
Taken at 8:09 a. m. Snow is given
as depth on level, in inches.
Locations— Temp. Snow
Saturday, February 2S, 1914.
Wortman’s,
Summit, cloudy, windy .. 105
Beaver Dam, clear, calm . . 22 60
Teikhell, cloudy, calm .... 14 60
Tonsina, clear, calm . 9 15
Copper Center, cloudy, calm -5 18
Gulkana, cloudy, calm .... 2 26
Hogan’s, cloudy, calm .... 29
PaxsQn’s
Summit—Trail drifted
Beaver Dam—Trail heavy.
Teikhell—Trail heavy.
Tonsina—Trail open.
Copper Center—Trail open.
Gulkana—Trail good.
Hogan’s—Trail good.
Friday, Feburary 27, 1914.
Wortman’s,
Summit, clear, calm . 105
Beaver Dam, clear, calm .. 6 60
Teikhell, clear, calm . -1 60
Tonsina, cloudy, calm - 2 15
Copper Center, cloudy, calm -7 18
Gulkana, cloudy, calm --8 26
i Hogan's, cloudy, calip .... 29
i Paxson's, cloudy, calpt .... 11 30
Valdez. Feb. 27, 1914.
Barometric Pressure .29.672
Temperature at 7 p. m.25
Maximum Temperature .30
Minimum Temperature .11
Mean Temperature —.20.5
Precipitation .02
Cloudy, calm, wind N. E. two miles.
Snowed at night. Snow from 4:30 p.
in to 7 p. m. v
Nugget jewelry made to order by
G. O. Reinke at Thb Valdbx Drug Ce.
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Alaska Steamship Company
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PUGET SOUND-ALASKA ROUTE
Steamers sail from Seattle every ten days of each month on g
the 5th, 15th and 25th, |
via the Inside Passage for Ketchikan, Juneau, Yakutat, Ka- g
talla, Cordova, Valdez, Seward, Cook Inlet points and Kodiak. P
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Siattle-San Francisco, connecting with steamers Yale and 8
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night reserved to ehunge d:»te-.and steamers without notice 2
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ALASKA
STEAMSHIP CO.
S. S. Mariposa and S. S. Northwestern
Sail from Seattle 10th, 20th of 30th
EVERY MONTH
From Valdez south-8th 18th and 28th for Cordova, Skag
way, Juneau. Wrangell, Ketchikan and Seattle.
Kcirultir freight service for Ketchikan. .luueaii. Sheep creek Treadwell. Douglas.
Cordova. Kllamar/Voldo* and f, itouche. Kx plot! ues, S S Seward. S S Seward. 5th:
s S I.atouehe. 15th: S S Cordova. 35th of each month—[tight reserved to change this
schedule without notice.
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Plate glass, window glass, roofing and X
8 building pspei., roofing pitch, lime, ce- I
2 meal. pUstei lath, .Single., buiUery |
tt hardware. Shop and job work of all kinds I
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Valdez Sheet Metal Works
Manufacturers of !
YAKSHAW STOVES
Plumbing. Steam and Hot
Water Heating, Pump* and f
Well Points.
■ Sheet Metal Work of Every
Description, Hose Valve*. :
Jrci Pipe, Fittings.
a M. DieritiKwr
Valdez Transfer
Company
General Trucking and Freight
ing to all interior point*
LIVERY mi FEE£> STABLE
STQRAGE
Teaming of all kind* .JJgf
MH-v 0 JWtouwt
unless paid far la advance;
* When In Seward Stop at the |
j COLEMAN HOUSE
{ GEORGE SEXTON. PROP.
♦ SVRICTLY FIRST C/.ASS
T Fourth Avt Skwarp, Alarra
Copper River
Draying Co
AteKfelftr Strati,
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hid. Wood, • 1‘ropriatM