STEAM HEATED HOT AND COLD BATHS
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Copper Block Hotel
VALDEZ, ALASKA
‘‘The House of Comfort”
PHONE 7 F0R MEN 0NLY
Do Your Christmas
~ Shopping Early
• An Excellent Line of .
Nugget and Ivory Chains; Rings, Scarf Pins, Brooches,
Fobs and Cuff Buttons from which to choose.
A Brand New Selection of
Hand Painted China in Writing sets; Ash Trays, Placques.
A Large Assortment of Toys.
OWL DRUG CO.
Same Location New Management
If V 11T i. strictly fresh Eggs, Butter, Fruit
It I op fYalll and Groceries, and appreciate
"r* V prompt deliveries, try
KING’S GROCERY
Phone 188
Independent Laundry Co.
asr.—M isssr
When in Chitina Stop at the
CHITINA HOTEL
Finest Hotel in tie Interior—Well Heated, Clean Room.
Bar in Connection._Rate. Rea»onable
JI NK.U; MINE TO TREAT
10,000 TONS PER DAY |
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BOSTON: Hayden, Stone & Go. j
In October the Alaska Gold Mines |
treated 154,000 tons of ore as com-]
pared with 132,000 tons in Septem
ber. The total cost per ton is now
f under 60 cents and the tailings are
running a shade under 1S cents. The |
plant is now regularly treating 6000 |
tons per day. which is approximately j
the limit of the present power ca-j
capacity at Sr-lmon creek. The new !
power plant at Annex creek should j
be in commission by the tirst of De- j
cember, when operations will rapidly
be brought up to the mill 10,000 tons j
capacity. The concentrates re-treat
ment plant is now in full operation.
Within a few months, or say with
in a year from the' time of starting
operations, the company shou.,.
treating 10,000 tons per day. This is
acutally a more rapid and satisfac
tory development than has taken
place in the case of any of the por
phyry copper mines with which our
house has been identitled.
It is an interesting fact ana one
perhaps, not generally appreciated,
that the low grade material recently
referred to by Mr. Jackling (for it
cannot be oalled ore in the fuller
sense of the word( lies entirely out
side of the developed limits of the
ore reserves as they existed at the
time we became identified with this
property; that is, whatever values
are recovered from this particular
section of the property will be en
tirely in addition to those that were
4counted on the time the property
was taken over by the present inter
ests. •
l If it were the policy of the man
' agement to make a “showing” it
would be possible to pass by the
greater part of this low-grade mate
rial and treat at once the higher
grade ore.
GERMAN CHILDREN
PICK NITS FOR OIL.
BERLIN: The Minister of Educa
tion of Prussia has issued a decree j
according to which the various school!
authorities are directed to give the j
pupils a vacation that they may sys
tematically collect the beechnuts and j
acorns, which are now falling, for |
the sake of the oil and fats they con- j
tain.
The Minister of Agriculture has
estimated that 400.000 tons of the j
former and 100.000 tons of the lat-!
ter will go to waste unless some defi
nite steps are taken to gather them.
From the nuts an acceptable table
oil can he prepared which will re
lieve the present shortage.
Germany will not. know accurately
until late in the fall just how large
the ls>i.» harvest of grain lias been
and whether it is big enough to in
crease the allowance of feed for
[horses as well as the amount of Hour
! for human consumption.
I Recently it was reported that the
; harvest was so large as to leave a
I surplus of 300,000,000 tons. Hopes
|ran so high that the authorities have
; had to issue an official statement of
ithe case. The surplus this statement
[declares, is only estimated, and is
[yet impossible of verification. Until
[ all returns are in no one shall be per
mitted to alter existing regulations
concerning the quantity of Hour or
feed used.
The exigencies of war have led to
the creation of almost countless sub
stitutes for articles which Germany
no longer has, even to the production
of substitutes for substitutes no long
er available.
Common iron pipes, gilded, take
Ithe place of brass curtain poles. In
stead of copper pans and pots, ves
sels made of a mineral called ‘'ser
pentine,’’ which is found in great
quantites near Dresden, have come
into use. Oven doors are made of
iron and steel, in place of the nickel
ones once generally used. Pins and
hooks and eyes are made of iron In
stead of nickel.
An effective substitute has been
discovered for rubber. Garden hose
and babies’ nipples are fashioned of
this “near rubber."
Underwear and bed linen are made
of celluloid to affect economy in
soap. There are scores of gas, elec
tric and spirit lamps and stoves to
! tempt people who find it difficult to
I procure petroleum.
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SuitB pressed for (1.0V at Silver
man’s, tb< *ai1or. Telephone 198 tf I
EASY TO KIND “HARBOR”
SAYS CORDOVA TIMES
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It la to be Inferred that Capt. G.
W. Porter, who has been investigat
ing the harbor possibilities of Con
troller bay for the Alaskan Engineer
ing commission, has found a harbor
which may be used as a tidewater
terminal, for a railroad running to
the Bering River coal'flelds. Speak
ing of Capt. Porter’s anticipated re
port the Cordova Times says:
“It is said that R. M. Brown, who
was in charge of the government par
ty, together with Capt. G. W. Porter,
have completed their mission at Ka
talla and returned to Seward, to re
port to Chairman Edes that they had
performed their work well according
to instructions. They were sent to
locate a harbor and they "located”
it. Which reminds of us an opinion
rendered some years ago by the then
city attorney of Nome. One of the
members of the council intended re
signing, shortly after his election,
but as that would have left a tie vote
in that body the legal adviser was
prevailed upon to render an opinion
that a member of the municipal body
cannot resign. This was done and
after the factional fight in the coun- :
cil had been, patched up the attorney
admitted that in rendering his fa
mous opinion that he could only find
one antiquated case from Texas to
sustain his position. On the other
hand he said he could have cited a j
hundred reaqpns why the member i
could resign. But then it’s a long ;
distance from Nome to Katalla, al-1
though the tactics adopted in one
community may not differ materially
from those used in another, to ac- !
complish a necessary end."
GATEWAY’S STEFANSSON
STORY ANGERS LANE. !
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The Cordova Times states that
Captain Lane, the Arctic explorer,
branded most of the statements in
the Seward Gateway’s story discred
iting Valhjamar Stefansson as un
worthy of consideration and down |
right untruths.
“The statement that anyone who
knows anything about the coasts up
around Herschel Island could have
known that Stefansson could not have
let it be known long ago that he was
alive is foolish. Vihjalmar Stefans
son was not near Herschel Island. No
man has ever gotten to a point of
communication with the outer world
from the spot where Stefensson was.
It would necessitate a long. hard,
expensive sled trip and would mean
the sacrifice of too much grub to
make the trip.
,"I have been in the Arctic for a
great many years and I have never
heard a single man deny that, there
are blonde Eskimos there. They all
claim, everv man who has been there,
that there are a small percentage of
! the Eskimos, some with very blorule
'hair and light blue eyes in that part
jof the country.
j “The article says that men. whal
iers who have been where Stefansson
| was. say there were no fair-haired
| Eskimos there. Where the blonde
Eskimos live there are no whales,
end there a^e no whaling grounds in
2o(> .'tiles of the place In all my ex
perience I have only seen one whaler
who has been in that part of the Arc
| tic.
"The statement to the effect that
■Stefansson should have known that
!the Karluk could not be frozen in
[solid at the point where she was
| stuck on the 20th of September is
foolish. I was stuck at the same
time and was stuck for the winter.
! Stefansson was in shallow water and
[he did not think that the ice would
move again where the Karluk was.
The ice run changes every year, you
cannot follow any set course or make
any definite plans in the Arctic ocean.
‘‘Captain Bartlett may be an ex
perienced navigator in the eastern
ice floes; there the water is deep
and the ice heavy, but things are dif
ferent here. The water is shallow
and the ice heavy. Captain Bartlett
was warned to stay toward the shore
but he started to drift with the floe.
It is a wonder he did what he did.
The Karluk is one of the only three
boats I know of that ever drifted
around Point Barrow in an ice floe,
without being crushed.
“Every prospector* whaler, trader,
trapper, Royal Northwest Mounted
policeman and native in that north
ern country-have nothing but words
of praise for Stefansson. He made
the longest sled trip ever made in
the world on ocean ice and got his
food by his own gun and nether his
men nor his dogs missed a meal. He
Is the greatest hunter I ever heard
of and will live where the natives
will starve. Why two trappers who
have been in the Arctic for years
made the trip with him and one of
them had to quit. He is now on the
Arctic coast trading and trapping. ‘It
was too strenuous for me,' was what
he told me. That is the beat proof
that Steffansson is on the square.
He is the greatest man in that coun
try that the world has ever known.”
A Dutch inventor’s life boat is cov
ered with wickerwork which is claim
ed to protect it from injury when It
strikes the side of a vessel.
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FIRST BASEBALL GLOVE.
8tory of tho Little Third Batoman
With tha Iron Fiat.
About 1807-tit* u baseball team came
to Rockford. 111., to play our uioe.
says a writer in All Outdoors. They
vailed themselves the “Uuconquered
Clippers of Illinois" and plastered our
town with big posters We made up
our minds to give them a drubbing,
and at the end of the game the score 1
was Rockford. 7U; Clippers, 0 (
There was a little chap playing third
base who grabbed everything that
came near bim. and held it too. i
noticed that he wore a kind of glove
When the game was over I went to
bim and asked what it was that he
wore on his hand. He told me that
he was a machinist and bad got his
hand badly hurt the week before, and
he showed me the wound in his palm
He said the hoys did not want him
to play In tlmt game, but he got a
piece of thin sheet steel and made i
it slightly concave. Inn so that it did ■
not quite touch the sore place. He
then made a short glove to cover ail
the hapd excepting the first joints of
the lingers and doubled the leather in
the palm so that he could slip the
plate between.
1 asked bim if It hurt, and be said
It did not and that he could take a hot
one and hold It better with the glove ■
than without it. That Is the whole
story. 1 don’t think tbdt Spalding
ever talked to the little chap with the
Iron fist, as the boys dubbed the third
baseman, but everybody in Rockford
knew about tbe mitt, and be may
have got the idea from him. Anyway,
that was the first glove that any bail
player ever wore.
MODERN WIRE ROPE.
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Mathematical Preciaion Rules Every
Process In Its Making.
Although wire rope has been used us
a mec hanical appliance for almost 5.000
years, it is commonly regarded as a
modern invention. During the many
years which have elapsed since the
first record* or its use wire rope has
passed from a crude to a highly devel
oped product, and the purposes for
which it is employed have Increased a j
thousandfold In no other branch of ■
the American steel industry is there so !
great a demand for material of proved j
integrity, for it might tie safely sug
gested that wire rope ts bom to be
abused. It Is subjected to tremendous
tensile strains: it must withstand con
stant bendings, abrasion, corrosion and
the peculiar internal stress produced by
vibration.
Wire rope as it Is made today is the
product of the metallurgist and the me
chanic. Every process, from the smell
ing df the ores, the cold drnwing of the
wire and the heat treatments it re
ceives down to the stranding or laying
up of the cable. Is conducted with
mathematical precision.
The chemist secs that only steel of
the proper analysis is used; the electric
pyrometer Insures uniformity of heat;
treatment In various testing machines
clearly develops the worth of the prod
uct before it is allowed to leave the
1 mill. Wire tope is used in the mine
j shafts more than a mile in depth, and
may be found on aeroplanes which sail
! ■ mile or more above the ground —
Technical World.
The Norwegian Costume,
j It Is at church In Norway that the
j national costume is best seen. In the
j north the women wear short dark
| gowns, with fringed handkerchiefs
i tied becomingly over their curly fair
j hair, black ones for the matrons and
white ones for maidens, in the south
! the old Norwegian dress is often worn.
\ It consists of a short dark petticoat,
with a stripe of bright colors, a full
white blouse and a red bodice heavily
embroidered, while on Sundays a quan
tity of silver pins and chains are add
ed. The headdress varies according to
the occasion and the wearer’s social
condition. The girls wear jaunty red
caps, the married women a coif made
of many folds of starched white linen,
plaited over a wooden frame, and a
bride wears a high metal crown curi
ously chased and set with jewels
Cataclysmic Gaology.
Cataclysmic geology uo longer ex
ists. It was once the accepted opinion
that the great changes In the earth's
surface had been mainly brought about
by sudden and violent (cataclysmic!
agencies, but Sir Charles Lyell. as far
back as 1838. demoiisbed the old theory
of cataclysm at once and forever Sir
Charles proved by facts which were in
disputable that the great geological
changes have been produced slowly by
gradual processes of subsidence and
elevation and not by earthquakes, vol
cattle action, etc. Lyell may be said to
lie the father of scientific geology
Planned, but Never Written.
Among literary works planned, but
never written, bave been a “Life of
Hazlltt." by Stevenson; “History of
i be Wars In Flauders,” by Sir Rich
ard Steeie: “Life of Talleyrand." by
Thackeray, and “A History of Our
Vernacular Literature." by Isaac Ole
i-aell.
Differentiation.
“Ia your husband an optimist?"
“Well," replied the tired looking wo
man. “he’s an optimist in' hoping Tor
tbe best, bnt a good deal of a pessimist
In working for It”--Washington Star
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Long Sentence.
WIU£jb B. Gladstone, when he was
British premier, once made a speech
at BlfpitoKbam. tbe oiwnlqg sentence
of which contained 170 woffle.
Noble Wood to an accident of fortune
Noble actions characterise the flfiUt
GoMonl.
CITY EXPRESS
MEETS ALL. BOATS AND NEVER MISSES A TRAIN
Auto for Hire Day or Night.
Buy and Sell Anything.
Phone 82 J. A. 8PENARD, Prop.
Jas. E. Wilson, Freighter
Large or Small Deliveries Made
To Any Part of the Country.
PROMPT SERVICE GUARANTEED VALDEZ, ALASKA
UPPER TONSINA ROAD HOUSE
Bpst of Mealp—Prices 'Reasonable
GENERAL STORE* T . TRADING POST.
Telephone connects with Chitina.
General Freighting. KNUTE NAFSTED. Mgr.
MERCHANT’S CAFE
FRESH BREAD AND PASTRY DAIIjY
Phone 03 * Chas. Fischer, Propr.
VALDEZ REAL ESTATE AGENCY
Real Estate, Insurance, General Brokerage
Absentees Business Properly Handled
Treat Building, Alaska Ave. Telephone No. 60
Mead’s Sheet Metal Works
PLIMB1NG, STEAM AND HOT WATER HEATING.
Sheet Metal Work, Mine Air Pipe, Pipe and Fittings, Valves, Etc.
Motor Boat Supplies, Paints and Oils.
Located on Valdez Dock, Opposite Pros|>ector Office. Phone
Pacific Alaska Navigation Co.
PUGET SOUND PUGET SOUND
California Alaska
ALASKA
Steamers sail from Seattle at 9 P. M. on
5th, 15th, 25th—EVERY MONTH
Steamer Sailing lBth calla lllamna and Kodiak—All Sailing call at Knik
and Anchorage,
CALIFORNIA
Seattle to San Kranclaco every Wednesday anil Sunday, connecting villli
Steamers Yale and Harvard tor Southern California.
Right reserved to change schedule without notice
RICHARD J. RINGWOOD, Mgr., Seattle! VAl.DEit DOCK CO., Coral Agt.
ALASKA
STEAMSHIP CO.
S. H. ALAMEDA AND S. S. NORTHWESTERN SAIL FROM SE
ATTLE THE 10TH, 20TH AND 30TH,
EVERY MONTH
FROM VALDEZ SOUTH—8TH, 18TH, 28TH, FOR CORDOVA,
JUNEAU, WRANGEL, KETCHIKAN AND SEATTLE.
Regular freight service for Ketchikan. Wrangell. Juneau, Sheep
Creek, Treadwell, Douglas, Skagwav, Cordova, Ellamar, Valdes and La
touche. Explosives, S. S. Seward, on the 5th; Latouche, on the 15th; S. S.
Cordova, 26th of each month—right reserved to change this schedule
without notice.
F. B. TRACY, Gn’l Agent . VALDEZ DOCK CO., Local Agent.
When You Leave
For the Outside
take the
“MILWAUKEE”
One road—one management—one service all the way
through to Chicago. It*s the Short Line to the East
over
THE NEW STEEL TRAIL
For information and literature write or ask|
J. C MARTIN, Agent, Valdez, Alaska.’
CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE & ST, PAUL RY.
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A. E. HARRIS, Freight and Passenger Agt,
Juneau, Alaska.
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As a matter of fact, there is al
ready discernable an improvement in
the ore no# toeing bandied.
The caving proeess of mining is
proving a splendid success. The
mine is already in condition now to
supply this mill with any tonnage re
quired and it will be a question now
of but weeks, rather than months,
before the Alaska Gold Mines is treat
ing ore of average grade and secur
ing the full profit.—Boston News Bu
reau. ,.j..
The Wrong Road.
Showing two reels in life; one to
happiness, the other to despair.