VOLUME 3, WO. 28_ VALDEZ, ALASKA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 18, 1904. OFFICIAL CITY PAPER
Hats and Ca|>s
A new line of STETSONS and CONQUERERS
in the Newest Blocks.
The Latest Styles In Ca|>s
Negligee a»d Golf Shirts
Mercerized Flannel Madras
Underwear Neckwear Hosiery
TRUNKS, VALISES, SUIT CASES
A. L. LEVY & CO.
Good Goods.
THE LADIES’ BAZAAR
Ladies Furnishing Goods, Skirts, Waists. Red
fern CorBets. Underwear. Dress Trimming,
Etc., Etc. Fancy Pillow Toj>3. Brainard &
Armstrong Embroidery Silks.
New Goods on Every Boat
Mrs. E. G. Ames, Proprietor. K,*:
City Market
NEXT TO THE NIZINA.
PRICES ARE
RIGHT
Wholesale and
Retail Dealers
GIVE US A
CALL
Beef, Mutton, Pork
Poultry and Game.
CHAS. CRAWFORD,
CONTRACTOR and BUILDER
Plans and Estimates Furnished on Application.
Wharf Building House Moving
Beef - Veal - Mutton
Live and Dressed Chickens
Fresh Eggs
Valdez Market
Subscribe For tbc PROSPECTOR
In accoadance with a suggestion
from Fattier Crcmont, who is on
on the Yukon, Father Turnell will
wisit Valdez and other points
along the coast for the purpose of
establishing churches and mis
sions.
Robert Hildreth left Seward on
the Excelsior bound Sc* the Kansas
hot springs, where he will endeav
er to recover his health, as he is
still suffering from rheumatism.
While out he will visit the Fair.
On Tuesday the Excelsior left
here for Seattle after returning
from Cook Inlet. At Seward a
large number of passengers were
taken aboard for the states, and
several were taken f(om here.
Among those from Seward were
Messrs Ballaine, Dickinson and
Shedd, and from here Mr. M. T.
Rowland, Mrs. T. A Hilstrom, Mrs.
C. Bannister, Mrs. Dougherty and
sister and Felix Blei.
Oscar Foote of Juneau, who was
awarded the contract for carrying
the mail from Valdez to Fort Gib
ban, arrived on the Excelsior, and
will probably take a trip over the
route to study the best means 01
equipping the service for the com
ing work. His contract goes into
effect in October and in the mean
time stations must be established
and supplied with the necessaries
of life for the carriers. Mr. Foote
has also the winter contract to de
liver mail at St. Michael.
K. Rose and D. Brown, the rail*
road engineers, who left here some
weeks 'afo, and went to Eagle City
over the government trail in their
preliminary survey. They rro
now on kheir way out by a differ
ent route. Arriving at Copper
Center they will take a boat down
the river to the mouth the Taznuna
and will come in over the trail
from there. Harry Brown, who
accompanied them on the trip in,
went up the Yukon and will oome
out by way of Skugway.
ALOUd THE COAST
NEWS «*EMg OE INTEREST
FROM ALL PARTS
The income of this division from
cannery licenses for this year will
probably be above $65,000.
During the short time the Dora,
wns at I'nnlsska the U. 8. Revenue
e liters Petrel and Perry stojiped
there on their regular cruise.
The Bering sea ico packed into
Bristol bav and remained there ns:
late ns June 16th, much to the-det
riment of the cannery business on.
\\k ba^.
Under directiou of marshal Pt*r
rv a very imposing structure, to!
lie used as a court house and jaii,
has been built at Unalaska.
Tlrt steamer J. H. Crugcr, of
San Francisco, was at Dutch Har
lior n the cai y part of Ai-gnst un
loading a cargo for the N. (J. Co.
There is a rumor afloat to the
effect that L. H. Bailey, agent for
the A. C. Co. at Unga, will this fail
cease to be a batchelor. The ex
pected bride will couie up from
California.
On July 5th the vessel Mary D.
Hume, VfpcAattd by the receivers of
the P. P. & N. Co., was wrecked at
the mouth of Nushagak river. An
attempt is now being made to raise
her. Vhe <)e«a is about $50,000.
Win. Power*. Jr., of Nushagak,
was arrested, charged with dis
charging firearms and thereby in
juring a native. He was tried be
fore commissioner Niven, found
guilty and sentenced to six months
in jail
Very few of the steamers from
Nome touch at Dutch harbor this
season, taking a more direct route
to the states. The St. Paul on her
last trip down, for a consideration,
stopped there to let off a number
of pussengeJs who had business to
attend to at that place
Early t>hi* month a Canadian
sealer was seized in Bering sea !by
the revenue cutter Manning, for si
violation of the sealing laws. She
was brought into Unalaska and
detained until the arrival of the
British man-of-war Shearwater,
whose commander took charge of
the case.
The managers of eight of the
canneriey of this division who were
indicted by the grand jury for non
compliance with the law, have
paid up all arrears, and it is likely
that the indictmints will be dis
missed* it having been ascertained
that their failure to comply was
due to ignorance of the law and is
notliable to occur dg.ifn.
The Philadelphia Crude Ore Co.,
an eastern corporation, is doing
assessment work on their copper
and sulphur claims at Unalaska.
The same property is also claimed
by The Sulphur Mountain Co.,
which is also doing assessment
work on the property, and there is
every indication that litigation
tiill be resorted to to settle the
disputed ownership.
Marshal Perry recently ap
pointed C. L. Vawter as deputy at
Unga. He is there now on duty
having come down on the Dora
from Unalaska to take his position.
Mr. Vawter served as marshal
under Judge Noyes at Nome and
prior to that he acted in the same
capacity at 8t. Michael. Under
Marshal Perry’s instructions Mr.
Vawter will immediately begin the
construction of a courthouse and
jail at Unga.
The Bristol Bay canneries will
this year turn out about 900,000
casee of salmon which is consider
able less tl an last year’s pack.
The canneries at Igagak and
Ugashik were this season prepared
to put up 250,000 cases of salmon
but do not now expect to exceed
65,000 cases owing to the scarcity
of salmon. Red salmon have not
put in an appearance at either of
these places this season. At Nush
agak, Koggiung and Naknek the
run of salmon this year is about
normal. The Union Packing Co.
of Tacoma have this season estab
lished at Koggiung about five miles
above Hallcrville and will have an
output of about 20,000.
Hie people who this ytnr under
took to get in early to Fairbanks
by way of St. Michael did not
reach their destination until July
3rd.
Eight Canadian sealing vessels,
all manned by Birtish Columbia
Siwash, left (Jnalaska on Jnly 31,
for the Bering sea run of seals.
The season opens Aug. 1., and they
gathered at Unalaika awaiting that
date
Commissioner Kelsey of Kodiak,
visited the new town of Beeliarot
at Coal bay. He is much pleased
with the location of the new town
and expects a big Tush of people
there next season as t lie oil borings
are showing up fine under Casey’s
management.
The Dora, goiivg West on this
last trip, took on a large shipment
of dried salmon at Afognak for L'n
alaska. From there it will la- for
warded on to St. Michael where H
will lie used for dog feed during
the coming winter.
Judge Day, assissant attorney
general, of Washington, D. C.. who
is investigating the judicial depart
ment of Alaska, has finished his
labors at Fnirhnnks and has de
parted fdr Koine.
Three years ago a white man wa«
murdered at llinnina and the mur
derer escaped. During the past
year Deputy Marshal Bubs of
Nushagak has been tracing the
matter up and has finally arrested
a native at Nushagak for the crime
and will later bring him to Valdez
for trial. At the time of the mur
der the accused was a resident of
Ilianma and sudenly disappeared
after the crime. Deputy Marshal
Bates has secured sufficient evi
dence to warrant the arrest.
Frank R. Brown, superinten
dent of the Apollo Mining Co. of
Unga, spent some time at Unnlaskn
examining the Hague mine, be
longing to the same company. He
was well pleused with the property
and made his report to the effect
that with comparatively little
work it can be made a valuable
producer. From Una task a M:.
Brown, accompanied by his wife
and daughter, came down to Unga
to take the management of the
mine there bringing with his spec
ial machinery. YVork will con
tinue all winter.
An attempt is now being made
to raise the ship Balclutch which
was sunk at the lower end of Ko
diak island last spring while on
her way to the Karluk cannery.
If the raising is successful she will
l»e repaired and sail to Frisco.
Another ship was sent up to sup
ply the deficiency occasioned by
the the loss of the Balclutch and
she is now being unloaded at
Karluk.
The canncrfcs at Karlnk and
Uviik bay, operated by the I*. I*, die
N. Co, and the A. P. N. Co., have
this season found the salmon catch
very scant but are expecting a
heavy run of tish later in the sea
son. They have been receiving
heavy shipments from Chignik
where the run of tish was greater
than could be handled. The China
men at the latter place struck
against exceeding their contract
pack and to settle the matter Supt.
G. M. Landshury made a sj>ecial
contract with the men for an ad
ditional pack of 5,000 cases.
Valdes Sends Exhibit.
Under the direction of the cham
ber of commerce soi.e samples of
ore from the mines tributary to
Valdez were this week sent to the
Alaska building at St. Louis. There
weru also sent some photographs
of the town, the school and the sur
rounding country. The exhibit
was not 60 elaborate as the com
mittee desired, but owing to the
difficulty of transporting ore out
from the interior specimens could
not be obtained. The owners of
the Bonanza group sent about 500
hounds of their ore to the Fair
early in the season.
Wharf Improvements.
The wharf of the Valdez Dock
& Warehouse Co. is being thor
oughly over-hauletl and repaired.
Toredo proof piles were prepared
by the company and a contract let
to Chas. Crawford to drive the
same. When the work is com
pleted the wharf will he in -a
thorough condition as wiieu new.
PROMISES BIG RETURNS
rail ram
At Government S-fttions. Vegeta*
bles. Grains and Ilay brought
to Perfection.
The following is from the annua'
report of the Alaska Agrieultura'
Experiment Stations for 11M»:> and
may prove of interest to pmspaec
tive homesteaders:
The vast interior of Alaska wil
ls) the farming country in the
sense that it i.» adapted to niixtd
husbandry. The samples of grait
which have Ikh-u produced at tin
Rampart Station in ahoiit latit. de
•in deg .'10 min N., for the • ast two
years, and the sample-, ohiain.-1
from this our lirst year's work ir
the Copper River valley, leave lit
tle doubt that grain can la- grown
in these two widely separated re
gions, ami, by inference, elsewhere
in the interior.
Such being the fact, what is the
outlook for farming in Alaska and
what arc the chances of success for
those who come here to take up
homesteads ? The primary notion
of a farm is that it is a factory of
food supplies; tirsl. for those cir
gaged in tire work, sod the surplus
for those engaged in other lines of
industry, Measured by this stand
ard. the conditions in all sections
of Alaska south of the Yukon are
'such that a good living can he
made in one or the other lines of
work usually classified as farming.
That is, the products of the s.uil
and animal industry will provide
an abundant livelihood for ull in
telligent workers.
The numerous mining camps
atul the growing cities afford most
desirable markets for the surplus
above family needs. For confirma
tion of this 1 refer to the data pub
lished in letter from settlers. Of
course markets are not always eas
ily accessible, and a probable
market should always he had in
mind in selecting a homestead.
Beef, mutton, dairy products,
chickens, eggs, and garden produce
will find a ready market in every
settlement and mining camp at
prices that leave a large margin of
profit under proper management.
Hay anu grain are shipped to
Alaska in great quantities, and
could just as well be produced hero,
with much protit to the producers.
But there arc are many drawback'
to success that must not Ik: over
looked, the most serious of which
is at present the lack of adequate
transportation facilities. While
this condition makes prices for
farm products abnormally high all
over the territory, and particularly
at interior points, it also prevents
the marketing of any produce at
all over extended regions.
The austere nature of the climate
is another obstacle. This is so evi
dent as to require no comment.
Again, there are the hardships in
cident to pioneer life everywhere
intensified in a measure by the
isolation of the territory, sparse
settlements, and dillieult commun
ication. These, however, are yearly
dimisliing. Many of those who
now make their living in wholu or
in part from the soil are single
men, live in cabins, cook their on'fc
meals, and in the usual sense of
the word have no home life.
The conditions are so diverse ir.
regard to markets, and the crops
most profitable to raise, that in
tending settlers should first come
to Alaska and l«K>k over the coui»
«m F«Hirth I‘met*