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STEWART & SELBY, Proprietors
TERMS.
Dally Prospector.
By carrier, per month ..9 1-00
By mall, per annum --*10.00
The Weekly Miner.
By carrier, per month -9 *40
By mall, per annum ..* SAW
The Dally Prospector and Week
ly Miner, by carrier, to one ad
dress, per month .—;..* L25
The. Dally Prospector and Weekly
Miner, by mail, to one address
only, per year .-.-.-*1SUI0
Business Office and Editorial Rooms,
TEL. IBS
Advertising Rates on Application.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15, 1016
THE GRAND OLD U. 8. A.
At the present time the United
states is the wealthiest and most
Important nation upon the face of
the earth. The foundations of our
government were largely laid by the
English, but they have been modern
ized and improved upon by our
statesmen until we are far ahead of
the country which gave us our laws
of equity and jurisprudence.
Ever since its discovery America
has been the greatest nation in the
world for opportunities. Many na
tions tried to explore, colonize and
become possessors of different parts
of our nation, and its very vastness
defeated their purposes.
It was settled as a haven for the
poor and oppressed, by people who
came to our shores to escape politi
cal and religious persecution, and in
this country they found the dream
of their desires—a land overflowing
with riches to be had for the taking.
During all the earlier development
of this country our forefathers were
persecuted by the Old country, by
Indians, by famines, and by wild
beasts and strange diseases, hut un
daunted they plodded on, laying the
foundations for the greatest freed
land of modern civilization. The Eu
ropean enemies were subdued, the In
dians and wild beasts exterminated,
and science and right living over
come the many strange diseases and
pestilences endured by the colonists.
This country unfolded from its
cocoon, spread its wings and be
came a nation. Religious tolerance
was established, a person could wor
ship the Gods of his Fathers unmo
lested by cruel laws, and freedom of
speech and of the press became es
tablished prerogatives. Large land
purchases were in time made, and
great inventions burgeoned. Our
present free school system was evolv
ed and our free higher state institu
tions grew and flourished.
In the midst of great national
prosperity the civil war occurred,
and thousands of our best and no
blest found graves in southern ba
yous, in southern mountain passes,
In the canebrakes of southern val
leys, and where the limpid rivers of
the south rlpplejover their rocky
beds to join their waters with the
salty sea. Brother waa against
brother and the greatest and most
useless sacrifice a nation was ever
A FOOL THERE WAS
The Vampire
THE EMPRESS
, Thursday and Friday Only
One Show—at 8 P. M., Sharp
ARTISTS:
THEDA BARA, “The Vampire”,
Leading Lady at the Theatre Antoine, Paris.
EDWARD JOSE,
Sarah Bernhardt.
And a Supporting Company Such as Has Seldom Been
Gathered for a Single Productiqn.
6 Reels. 300 Scenes
ADULTS 25c. CHILDREN 10»
called upon the make, became his
tory. But the teeult of this national
travail was a settlement for ever of
State Rights and Slavery.
Our country, although settled by
poor and persecuted people, devised
the greatest form of government that
the world has ever known, and today
twenty-six great nations have adopt
ed our Republican form of govern
ment and the Stars and Strips is
known in every port in the world. In
education, art and pastoral happi
ness, what nation can compete with
us today?
Only one hundred and forty years
have rolled away since our nation
was bom, yet today the whole world
craves our friendship and expresses
admiration for our institutions, and
one hundred million people, living
within its borders, contemplate it
with fond regard.
The great pyramid upon which
rests the very foundation of our na
tion is yet uncompleted and it is for
us, the heirs of the best of all the
ages, to build it higher, wider, fuller
and more complete.
The United States of America is
the greatest nation of the world—
not in military strength perhaps, but
in the essentials which go to make a
happy, prosperous citizenry.
INVESTIGATE BEFORE BUYING.
Before you invest in a mining en
terprise, make a thorough investiga
tion, and after you have gained all
the facts possible, make up your mind
as to whether or not you should
place your money in the enterprise.
Inventigate before you invest. To
investigate after you invest is like
locking the door after the horse is
gone.We must remember that ev
ery mine was once a prospect, and
without the necessary development
funds to place the prospect in the pro
ducing class there would bo no mines.
No one can see farther ahead than
you can. Mining engineers and ge
ologists are able to state what might
be expected from a mining prospect
considering certain existing geologi
cal conditions.
The main point that an invest
or should know and which he should
insist upon knowing arc data in re
gard to title to the property; wheth
er or not the property is located in a
district of mining possibilities; a
satiement as to the capitalization of
the company; the portion of the cap
ital stociv assigned to the treasury
and the standing of the men at the
head of the company.
The greatest asset of any prospect
company so far as >.ue investor in its
stock is concerned is the integrity
and high sense of honor of the com
pany officials. Any investor can
make a pretty fair estimate of a
company through an investigation of
the company oficials. As a general
rule a prospect mining company is no
better than the officers aethe head of
it. Investors would do well to place
their fuuuo a\ honest capitalized com
panies officered by men of standing
and integrity. As a general rule pro
motors or operators are insincere if
they take more than their just por
tion of the company’s capital stock
upon incorporation. The promotors
of a company organized in a bond and
lease certainly have no right to take
half of the capital stock of the com
pany as their consideration for the
transfer of the bond and lease to the
company. An action of this kind
should brand the company at once as
an insincere mining effort and the
promoters as men who want to make
[their money, not through the devel
opment of the property, but through
the sale of the so-called promotion
stock.
In the older mining sections, get
rich-quick promotion methods in
mining are tabooed. Alaska has
prospered greatly in a mining way
during the past few years principally
because real mining men have been
doing their buying and the old-time
develop a mining property to one of
name mining to fleece eastern invest
ors has ~cn driven from the terri
torw. The promoter who sells treas
ury stock to gain funds to honestly
the end of your friend’s nose as he
quick mail order fakir who sells al
leged mining stock to ignorant inves
baked by his recent bride,
has learned this to his sorrow.—Ex.
THAT FIRST KISS.
"We don’t believe,” asserts the edi
tor of a paper In the States, "that a
kiss tastes as good as in the prestine
days when we were young.”
What tommyrot. Prom the mo
ment when Adam and Eve collabo
rated on the first kiss, we do not be
lieve there was ever one that did not
taste good. What young man or maid
does not remember his or her first
kiss? The silvery stars sang for joy
in the purple dome of the azure sky
when lip first met lip. The nightin
gale was dumb until the golden mo
ment had slipped into the evanescent
yesterdays. The rose and the violet
were noxious wheds and nectar was
as flat as circus lemonade until you
got over the sensation of that first,
soul-thrilling bubble of bliss. Taste
as good as they did twenty years ago?
Oh. benighted brother, they taste as
good now as they did when Mordecai
kissed Esther, when Leander kissed
Hero, when Antony kissed Cleopat
ra, when Aucassin kissed Nicollette,
when Romeo scaled the balcony and
pressed his fevered pie-face against
the alabaster brow of Juliet, when
John Alden kissed Priscilla, when
Herman kissed Dorothea, or when the
iridescent star-beams of bliss from
tho lips of the fair Evelyn led Harry
Thaw on to the asylum and everlast
ing damnation.
They taste just as good, you sour
souled joy-dispeller as they did on
that night of nights a score of years
ago when you and Bhe were darlings
of the gods, and she held up to you
those quivering rose-buds to let you
sip the ambrosia of the gods. Does
a kiss taWe as good? Does it? You
know it.
If you want to realize what a mon
umental Idiot you were when you
were courting your wife, just sneak
to the door of the room in which a
young fellow is courting your daugh
ter and listen to the way he talks to
her.
Another pathetic little thing about
human nature is the fascinating man
ner in which you watch the drip on
the end of your friends nose as he
tells you of the bad cold he has, while
you inwardly wonder if it will fall on
his shirt front or his necktie.
Why is it that the things we like
to eat are never Good for Us, and the
things we loathe and despise are
Healthy and Wholesome?
What has become of the old fash
ioned woman who used to grab up
her skirt on ono side to keep it from
tracing in the mud?
It’s funny how much prettier a girl
always is in her photograph.
From the way the peace delegates
are quarreling these days it seems
that Ford is due for a little blowout.
The President is a brave man. He
has been tried and not found want
ing. He ate a piece of birthday cake
basked by his recent bride.
Those armored automobiles seem
almost as deadly as the unarmored
one over here.
The quickest and surest way for a
man to get his mind off a woman is
to marry her.
One of our subscribers asks us for
a definition of the word "suspicion."
“Suspicion” is the feeling which
comes jOver you when your prohibi
tion neighbor sends you over a quart
of syrup in a-whiskey bottle with the
label still new upon U.
Panoramic views of Child’s and
Miles glaciers. Dawson. Valdes and
W ran gel on sale at the Valdez Drug
store. tf
Ferro Engines run successfully on
gasoline, kerosene or distillate and
their price is consistent with good
•workmanship. Valdez Iron Works, th
Hotpoint Electric Heaters, Cookers.
Bakers. Percolators and Vacuum
Cleaners arrived on the last boat for
the Emporium. tf
Are You Going to the;
i St. Patrick’s Day Dance?
Possibly You Will Need a New
Suit, Hat or Shoes
4 ' ——— ' "
| We Have the Famous
j Style-Plus Suits
| In Black and Navy Blue.
Crossett Shoes
For Particular Men,
Ladies Attention!
Just received a large line of the famous
Fox Slippers and Ties.
!
| We carry a large line of Hole-Proof and Kayser’s Silk Stockings.
S. BLUM & CO.,
l GOOD GOODS '
Potato Cards In Dresden '
BERLIN.—Communities receiving
butter through the so-called Central
Purchasing Accociation, founded by
the Government and under its con
trol, must, in accordance with the
order of the Imperial Chancellor, in
troduce better cards before March 6
to limit the supply per person to a
maximum of a quarter of a pound
metric weekly. Children under two
years are not cqnsidered in this es
timate, and those between 2 and 14
years will receive half the stated
quantity.
Fat cards may also be introduced,
with a maximum of 180 grams of
butter and margarine together, or a
quarter of a pound of all kinds of
fat. Persons receiving butter by post
from outside points must report the
amount received, and have their but
ter correspondingly cancelled.
Berlin is among the cities receiv
ing butter through the Central Pur
chasing Association.
At Dresden potato cards have been
introduced, a maximum of seven
pounds per capita being allowed
weekly.
Furnished rooms at Mrs. Osland’s.
Prices reasonable. *
m Shamrock
CAM. TIM MARCUM
Sails tor Port Wells, Portage
Bay, Granite Mine, Saturday
at 9:00 a. m., from the Val
dez Dock Company’s Dock.
For Ellamar, Landlock Bay,
and Fldalgo, every Wednes
day, 9:00 a. m., from Val
dez Dock Company’s Dock.
For Rates, Apply on Boat.
Arcade Cafe
OPEN ALL NIGHT
Private Dining Room with Electric
Heater.
BREAD, THREE LOAVES, 25c
Jack Callin. ■ Proprietor
A M DIERINGER
Valdez Transfer
Company
Office on Alaska Avenue, in
George C. Treat Building
Telephone No. 60
General Trucking and Freighting
to all Interior Points.
LIVERY and FEED STABLE
STORAGE,
Teaming of All Kinds
Positively No Coal Delivered Un
less Paid for in Advance
ULLY CAFE
We Are Here to Serve
You
FIRST DOOR ABOVE THE
BUFFET
TRY US
Valdez Miners Union No. 188
We* tern Federation of Miner*
ROBERT SHAFFER. PraUnt.
Granite Mine.
CBAS. McCAl LUM, Secretary.
Vaidea Alaaka.
When In Seward Stop at the
COLEMAN HOUSE
GEORGE SEXTON. PROP.
STRICTLY FIRST CLASS
Fourth Are, Seward, Alaska
Somebody
With Money
always has been found to
“back" a good plan, a good
idea, a good business ven
ture or a good mining pros
pect ; otherwise a good many
of today’s successful busi
ness enterprises would still
be mere dreams.
Advertising has brought
about a majority of the in
troductions of the man with
the idea, the man with a
prospect, or business to the
man with the dollar.
ADVERTISE IN THE
PROSPECTOR FOR RE
SULTS.
Dougherty & Ferguson
GENERAL
Merchandise
The best groceries received
on every boat,
Fresh vegetables, fruits, and
nuts.
■
• Regular Communication* Wed
nesday In each month In McKinley
Hall. Visitors always welcome.
F. M. BROWN, W. M.
| ED WOOD, Secretary.
DR. H. COCKERILLE
Graduate National lalwndty.
WaMhiiifftou. D, C.
DENTIST
Fourteen Y«sars in Valdea.
PHONE 110
Office Roodih in Whaling Building
DR. GERMAN
PIIONR 10 THE DENTIST
Office rooms over Owl Drug Store. Of
fice hours 9 a. m. to 6 p. m.„ 7 to 9
p. m Sunday by appointment.
All Work Guaranteed.
E. C. DALTON, M. D.
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
Phone 42
Alaska Avenue Valdez, Aiaala*
DONOHOE & DIMOND
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
Ofllee Opposite < onrt
Phone 34 VALDEZ. AJLAHXjA,
JOHN LYONS E E. KITCHUK
LYONS & RITCHIE
ATTORNEY S-AT-I.AW
Ottree in Whaling Bnlliing
Phene 101 VALDEZ. ALASKA
ASA C. BALDWIN >*
CIVIL ENGINEER
U. S. Mineral Surveyor
McKiftley Street opposite V. M. Stove.
Valdes, Alaifaa
0
The Best Place in Valdez to
Stop at is the
Arctic Hotel
Want, Light Rooms--The Hoik af Cndbcs
RATES REASONABLE f
BATH ROOM Spsciil Rato By tka ttmltk
PHONE 1S3 MRS. STRING. <W
Copper River t
Draying Co
Freighting and Passenger*
to all parts of the Interior.
GENERAL TRUCKING
McKinley Street, Valdea
ED. WOOD, Proprietor