The Alaska Prospector
And Valdez News.
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Pwblxhed at Valdez, Alaska, every TUuiaday
O. tile I’nO.-t-EvIOK ITaLlSHtNU C’O
3'hose Main 1.
tillered at i'.,6 Vulilei I’osioffice <i? second
class matter.
»uhs»riptlon ?:t p r year. *-* f< r -lx montt.s
single ropica JOieiu*
The new judge of this judicial dis
trict, Silas II. Kcid, is caked ‘*Si ’ u
Jii‘3 home stale—Oklahoma accord
ing to the Washington l'cst. ihit
would tend to incicate that he is i
“ good fellow*,” if the proprieties per
mitted such a characU rrzalic n of r
dignified position, lie is described at j
a typical westerner and is about tin j
same avoirdupois as Secretary laid, j
Iu an interview* in a Washington papci
the judge said:
“Gov. Frantz and I stump xl the
state together; we covered aeventj -
five counties in forty days and made
126 speeches each. Each got so that
he knew* the ethers’ speeches practi
cally by heart, with the result that
when his throat gave out I made his
addresses in addition to my own, and
when mine gave cut. he gave sub
stance of my talk. Each c f us talked
about an hour. We were stumping i
for the election of the republican state
ticket. We met defeat ancl went broke
together. I always had an ambition
to go on the bench; I would rather be j
a member of the supreme court ol the
United States, the highest tribunal in
the world, in this cr any other time,
than be president. A justice of thai
tribunal is above the exactions of pol
itics. With the assurance of a life
time position before him, lie is con
cerned only in the giving cut exact
justice. It wa3 first suggested that 1
become a judge cf Porto Rico, but
this was found impracticable. Iht
fact that I had had experience in a
new country helped me, I suppose,
and besides I had the united support
of the Oklahoma republicans.
“Alaska is not so very different
from Oklahoma, when you come tc
think of it. Wo are so far away from
it here that we are apt to think of
Alaska as a barren plaee in which
living is a burden, But I am infern -
ed that the climate is not worse than
Richmond, Va., and that in Sitka i
room in a hotel with a private bail
and electric lights is not out of the
question. As for cold weather, out
does not mind that, because he is pre
pared for it. In Western Oklahoma i
man can get lest in a blizzard un
freeze to death.”
During the summer an important
copper discovery was made at Point
Baiubridge, on the mainland ueo
Hoodoo island The find was made by
Jesse Phenie. An interest was bought
iu the property by Charles Tecklen
berg, a saloonkeeper of Latouche, ami
some development work lias since been
done. The indications poist to a pro
ducing mine when ope te l u;>. S in
pies taken across the face of the ledge
assay 6 per cent.
H. E. Camehle, A. H Camehle and
Edward Heine arrived from Fa.rbaukr
by dog sledge yesterday. They left the
Tanana metropolis November 7th. tire
thermometer being about 40 degrees j
below zero o" that date.
The Camehle brothers have opened
up No. 2 below discovery on Pedro
creek, for summer work next year, and
expect to return over the trail some
time in February. They will leave on i
the next steamer for the o.Asiue, to i
-pend the next two months in travel
ing UirciMho.it the states.
O. H. Sleeper has organized the
Gold Nugget Mining U-xipany which
will develop placer property on Hear
creek, a tributary of Resurrection
creek. The property has beeu pros
pected and worked at different tune.*
for a number of years and has yielded
c itisilerable ig >1-1. The trouble in
working tins property has been with
he water, there being either too much
>r too little. This will n vv be over
come by installing a reservoir an.) hy
1 ran I ic pump to handle the water just
a.* it is needed. A complete hydraulic
plant is on th^ gioiind, buil iings hav.
been erected and every! lung i* in read
mess tor work with the exception ot
the l umping plant, which will be in
stalled rally in the spring.
Articles < t incorporation were filed
with the clerk of the district court in
Valdez yesterday, which called into
being the “Catalla and Carbon .Moun
tain Railway Company.” The incur-j
porator« of this proposed Alaskan I
railway are John Si bram, II K. Han i- j
man. W. M. French, Clark Davi:-, j
T, S L ppy and 11. Monroe 13. Rankin
The prime object of this company,
as set f rth in the incorporation
paper-, i> to build and equip a ia. 1 road
from the Behring river coal fields to
tide water at Katalla, although, as side
issues, the concern will bin and lea»r
timber lauds, run sawmills, op.rate
steamship lines, build wharves, etc.
Among the iucoi porators are some
substantial business men. John
Schiatu is a well-known banker ol
Seattle and Fail bank:-; T. S. Lippj
gained fame and fortune as the owuh
>f a rich claim on FI dorado in the
Klondike, and Clark Davis is tlie resi
lent manager of the to Misite company
it Kitalla The others are not so well
known to Alaskans All. however, are
interested in the coal fields near Car
bon mountain. . j
The capital stock of the company is j
placed at tl,OU0,O00, divided into 10,
.'00 shares at 81U0 per shaie.
Fairbanks Gold Arrives
Due to arrive ui Valdez today is the
largest shipment of gold in its native
date yet sent out from Fairbanks
iver the trail. The treasure expedi
ion set out from the Tanana metropo
lis on the afternoon of November 11.
n charge of Dan Kennedy, the wideh
Known freighter .Armed men attend
lie precious cargo.
The consignment is valued at 81,200,
000. Of this amount, 8150,000 is m
gold bricks and is being shipped out
by the Fairbanks Hanking Company
ICC. Wood, cashier of the bank, ac
companies the gold as an escort.
I'iie remaining 84.10,000 is i l gold dust
from the vaults of the First National
Hank of Fairbanks. John Honuiiieid,
a brother of Samuel Honmtield, pre
'blent of the bank, represents (he con
cern The bullion is transported on
ihiee double-enders, and represents
a tou and a half in weight.
Five other sleds are occupied bj
passengers, among whom are: Mr and
Mrs. R. G. Wood, Jack Haird, John
Honnittebl of tlie H.mnitield country,
Harry Holander, a Vault creek opera j
tor, Hugh Doherty from the Kentish !
a country, John Doherty, Frank1
i
Mace and Paul Fischer.
The most difficult part of the trip !
is on the summer trail along Keystone !
canyon It is narrow and slippery j
with ice. The last report from the !
Kennedy party was from the canyon, j
FRED M. BROWN
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
Valdez, Alaska
W. T. SCOTT
A TTORN EY-A T-La\V
Office
Court House ^ A LDLZ
John A. Carson,
Attorney and Counsellor-at-Law.
SALEM,
Mem Rer of
Alaska Bar. OKlMilO
W. LINCOLN REEDY
Dentist
EITEL BUILDING
SECOND AND PIKE
Seattle, Wash.
br. H. COCKERILLE
de.ntist
Second Street
On Reservation VALDEZ
Fail banks owes 820,801
Miners are sluiciug at GO degrees be
lo v freezing point on Ester creek b
the Tanaua district.
John F. Maloney and Jack Daltoi
have sold placer ground on Porcupit <
creek to New York parties for 812 ),009.
Rich men of Eastern Canada hav»
uganized a company with a capital ol
?20.000,000, to fight the Uuggenhein
ciowd in the Klondike country'.
Maj. Richardson, head of the roa I
com mission, is advocating a trunl
railroad line through Alaska. Uesay*
it is the only way the country will be
opened up.
A Government Bank
In discussing this subject, the
Saturday Evening Pest, one of the
ablest publications, editorially, in the
United States, says:
“What the country mest needs, ii
mch a situation as developed in Wall
Street the latter part of October, it
just a word of umimpeaeliable author
ity. Whoever, in that disturbance,
withdrew a bank deposit to hoard it,
picked at the underpinning of the
house in which we all live. Only the
people have money. It is their twelve
jheusand milllions on elepcsit in the
banks that carries on the commerce
wf the country. If wage-earners, sal
aried men, proprietors of small busi
nesses should coneertedly withdrew
their bank deposits they would there
by automatically throw themselves
out of employment and into bank
ruptcy. No one deliberately pulls
down the roof over his head. There
could have been no reasonable doubt
of the soundness of practically all the
banks. Yet there were s.me activi
ties in the roof-pulling line because a
considerable number of persons were,
for the moment, unreasonably fright
ened. What the country then needed
was simply a convincing word of as
surance; somebody who would be be
lieved, who could say, ‘Don’tshut elf
the water supply because a fire alarm
has been turned in; let your deposits
alone, and you will certainly not be
hurt.’ A Government bank, proba
bly, could say this w.rd convincingly.
The Wall street disturbance streng.li
ens the argument for such an ins A in
ti on.”
j C C Rudolph i
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Kates 50 eonts, $1 and $1.50 per day. MrstrliB
Restaurant in connection. Free Hu- <)pp.*st»
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• 'ns. First Av. A L'niversity st., SFATTU
The Germans won 1 lie bowling tour
ament by a lead of 417 pi* s, m h totn1
)f 18 games played. Colli s got bigb
iTerag** in the tournament and snj<<ke»
t line Meerschaum to prove ir.donated
y the management The m ie:
1st 2nd 3rd
Hell. 148 181 159
Worley.. 128 139 11" 1
Seals. 188 148 187 Wft
Mantheny ... 142 1C8 123
Al’Carty. 169 152 142 1«S
Hibernians—
Selle* s. 118 111 138 12*j
Mos.-man,... 145 128 ltd'
Honzagm. .. 112 136 106 ^
Kraemer.... 149 146 17s
Collins. 173 160 161 ^
| Totals—
Hibernians .. .*..
2284
! jermans. ,.
! . 13
Germans Woti by.
Born
\ daughter wa.-> born to M1 • 'l'|.
I Mrs. Chi l-laio Tjo.-evig at 1" U i" .
i morning, Nov. 25, 1907. Nl< tbet
child aie doing nicely.
l*’or Rent — Five-room house,
listed. Apply this office.
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