Every Time You Do,
You Don’t!
Perhaps this may sound a trifle slangy
but nevertheless it’s straight to the point.
Let’s “tie the animal outside’’ and proceed
to do another “careful investigation.’’
You’ll consider the CLOTHES and the
PRICE the BESTxEVIDENCE to] offer in
this case.
In our stock cabinet can be found both
ALFRED BENJAMIN and Hart Schaffner
8c Marx clothes; use your own comparison
on them or compare them with Values to
be found in'other stores.
ALFRED BENJAMIN suits, $20 and up.
Hart Schaffner Sc Marx - - $18 to $25.
Valdez Mercantile Co, Inc.
TRUE VALUES
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Stockholder* Meeting.
The annual stockholders meeting of
the Granite Gold Mining Company
will be held at the office of the com
pany at Valdes, Alaska, on the 12th
day of October, 1914, at the hour of
2:00 p. m„ at which meeting a board
of five directors Till be elected for
the ensuing year and such other bus
iness will be transacted as may
properly come before said meeting.
B. F. MILLARD, President
Will give an Interest In number of
placer claims on Mineral creek to
parties willing to pay cost of assess
ment work. Apply to C. H. Phillips.
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GREAT ESTATE 10
BE U. S. RESERVE
Mrs. Qtorus W. Vsndtrbllt, Following
Wishes of Her Husband to Have For
sat Preserved, Will 8ell Plaoe to Un
ole 8am—One of the Moat Magnifi
cent Domalna In America.
Asheville, N. a—The 88,700 acres of
beautiful wilderness at Blltmore, N. 0„
which the United States forest reserva
tion commission recently decided to
buy from Mrs. George W. Vanderbilt,
Is the largest area owned by the na
tion east of the Mississippi river and is
destined to serve as a national park
for the 85,000,000 people who live with
in a radius of a day's Journey from It
Most of them know nothing of Its
character, and few of the many thou
sand visitors who have passed on the
white roads of the Blltmore estate and
admired the magnificence of Blltmore
bouse have glimpsed more of it than
the misty blue barrier that bounds It
on the northwest
It Is a lordly domain of 134 square
miles of wooded mountains and rush
ing streams which has thus been add
ed to the national possessions. It is
the most extensive hardwood reserve
east of the Rockies. It Is a game and
fish preserve which has few equals. It
has seventeen miles of good roads built
for use by automobillsts, cresting
heights over 6,000 feet above sea level.
Great mountains rise In its bounds,
culminating In the rock peak of 5,757
feet high Plsgah. There are grassy
“balds” and domes dark with balsam,
and rock cliffs caveraing bear and
wolves. On the slopes are magnificent
trees and tangled areas of rhododen
dron and laurel.
Thousanas or nign piaceu springs
send their icy waters in rushing rivulets
down to streams which foam over beds
of rock and swirl in dark pools by vast
bowlders. The beds are paved with
rocks, and often the white water
spreads in silvery shimmer over giant
floors of granite. Waterfalls are here
and there, one on Looking Glass creek
having an abrupt fall of sixty feet
Scores of small streams unite to form
the Davidson river, which empties Into
the French Broad.
The reserve extends from a point
six miles from Asheville southwest to
Plsgab Forest station on the Toxaway
branch of the Southern railway, lying
between the Brevard-Asheville state
road on the southeast and Plsgab ridge
on the northwest. Its due north limit
being a line drawn from Plsgab to a
point four miles from Blltmore bouse
Much the greater part of It is in Tran
sylvania county.
The automobile road built by Mr.
Vanderbilt overlooks It, and by nsing it
one can be in the midst of the wilder
ness in two hours’ ride from Asheville,
and Asheville is only twenty-one hours
Journey from New York. The automo
bile road ascends 2,500 feet to the elab
orate hunting lodge of the Vanderbilts,
which with 600 acres adjoining Is ex
cepted from the sale, and then contin
ues along the ridge ten miles, topping
some heights and circling other peaks
while maintaining an average elevation
of 4,500 feet above sea level.
Each turn of this road develops new
beauties. Sometimes it bangs over a
precipice looking down on a sea of
greenery, and again from a lofty point
one sees a vast panorama of moun
tains rising and falling apparently like
billows—several of the balsams being
higher than Mount Washington—and in
the distance the prodigious wall of the
Great Smokies on the Tennessee line.
The secretaries of agriculture, Interior
and war came up this road from Ashe
ville to the hunting lodge, twenty-seven
miles, in an hour and a half, and at
that the chauffeur took no chances of
creating any vacancies in the cabinet
These government officials Inspected
the property in June, 1913.
An extension of this road a dozen
miles to Brevard would connect it with
the state road to Asheville, now in
very good condition, and thus provide
a sixty mile tour tor automobiles.
From It Mr. Vanderbilt constructed
two well graded roads leading down
Into the valleys, and there one finds
many miles of easy gradient highway
which he built along the water courses.
The Appalachian Park association.
has been for a year actively promoting
the conversion of all lands bought by
the forest reservation commission Into
national parks, which should be con
nected by automobile roads built by
the government
It Is estimated that there are now
8,000 deer on the tract, besides bears,
wolves, foxes, squirrels, raccoons, quail,
wild turkeys, native pheasants and the
descendants of the English and Chi
nese pheasants and the wild boar with
which it was stocked many years ago.
8hakeapeare’s Name.
It has often been a puzzle to stu
dents ef Shakespeare why his name Is
spelled in so many different ways.
Shakespeare himself Is said to have
signed his name on different occasions
"Shakspeare” and "Shakespere,” and
learned disquisitions have been writ
ten to prove which Is the proper spell
ing. None perhaps was more amusing
than the "weather” reason given In
1861 by Albert Smith, who averred
that he had found It In the Harlelan
manuscript It was as follows:
How dyd Shakspeare spell hys name?
Ye weatherre mayde ye change, we says.
So write It as ye please;
When ye sonne shone he mayde hys A;
When wette he took hys E'es.
Different Views.
Blnks—Oh. I guess your rich aunt
will remember you. You made a big
hit with her by going Into mourning
when her cat died. Jinks—True, but
listen. Now the other relatives accuse
me of poisoning the cat to get the op
portunity.—Exchange.
Right Out In Front
“Do you believe In women In the
home coming to the front?”
“You can’t prevent 'em If there’s a
wedding In the neighborhood.”—Balti
more American.
Subscribe for the Prospector.
REVENUE CUTTER SERVICE.
How It Came to Be Placed Under tho
Treasury Department.
The United States revenue cutter
service Is a military nrtn of the govern
ment attached to and under the direc
tion of the treasury department The
service was organized in 1790 and con
stituted the original naval force of the
country. There was at that time no
navy department and the service was
placed under the treasury department
where it has remained ever since.
It Is charged with the enforcement of
the navigation and customs laws of the
United States, the assistance of vessels
in distress, the protection of the seal
ing industry in Alaska, the enforce
ment of the quarantine laws, the de
struction of derelicts and other floating
dangers to navigation and numerous
other duties appropriate to Its class of
vessels. Each winter, by direction of
the president, a number of the cutters
patrol the coast for the special purpose
of assisting vessels In distress.
Tho service co-operates with the navy
when directed by the president and
has so co-operated in every war in
which tho United States has been en
gaged. It is sometimes called the reve
nue marine service, but revenue cutter
service Is the proper name. There are
forty-three cutters in the service, and
they carry from one to live or six guns
each.—Philadelphia Press.
HYGIENE IN THE DESERT.
Our Latter Day Methods Were an
Open Book to Moses.
Nothing under the sun Is new. Facts
have proved that even the pitch which
hygiene has reached at the present day
was equaled and In many instances
excelled under the laws of Moses.
The particular and careful manner in
which animals are slaughtered accord
ing to the laws of the Talmud Is ac
knowledged today to be the most sani
tary method possible.
Professor Koch gave to the world the
valuable results of his investigations
In bacteriology, but several thousand
years before that the Mosaic law point
ed out the danger to humanity from
tuberculosis In cuttle, but did not for
bid poultry as food. It was not many
years ago that specialists discovered
that fowl tuberculosis wns harmless to
man.
The yearly exodus to the country and
seaside is no new innovation. Moses,
the great lnwgiver, prescribed not only
feasting at certain seasons of the year,
but the removal of whole families to
great camping grounds in the open
spaces, where they could live near to
nature.—Pearson’s Weekly.
A Chinaman on the Opium Habit.
In the American Magazine appears
an article entitled ‘‘A Modern Opium
Eater." written by a newspaper man.
who became a victim of the habit and
is now a convict in a penltentinry. In
the course of the nrticle the author
quotes ns follows what a Chinese den
keeper said to him about the power of
the habit to hold its victims:
“You no quit. Every man alleetlme
say he quit Every man nllcesame
you. Smoke one time, smoke two
time, smoke tlee time, then smoke
alleetlme. Chineman. white man,
cbokquny (negro) alleesame. No can
quit Bimeby you die you quit. Bime
by maybe you bloke—no more money,
no more fliend bollow money, no can
stealem money, maybe you quit one.
two days. Bimeby maybe you go
Jail, no got fliend bilng you hop, no
got money givem policeman catchem
hop, you quit. You got money, no go
Jail, you no quit. 1 heap sabe. Bimeby
you see.”
The Facile Mexican.
* In the opening paragraph of one of
bis best stories Kipling wrote: "Let it
be clearly understood that the Russian
is a delightful |>erson till he tucks bis
shirt in. As an oriental he is charming.
It is only when he insists on being
treated as the most easterly of western
peoples that he becomes a radical
anomaly, extremely diliicult to handle.
The host never knows which side of
his nature is going to turn up next”
There is a somewhnt similar difficulty
with the Mexican. - lie cun be charm
ing, but one never knows whether he
is the most northern southerner or the
most southern northerner, and he can
change from one to the other with a
facility that is almost genius.—Phila
delphia Ledger.
Studied It Out.
One day two furm laborers were dis
cussing the wiseness of the present
generation. Said the first:
"We be wiser than our fathers was,
and they were wiser than their fa
thers was.”
The second one, after pondering a
while and gazing at biR companion,
replied:
“Well, Garge, whnt a fule thy grand
father must 'a' been!”—London Ex
press.
Wise In On* Way.
“I don't want to brag about myself.
I’ve done mnny foolish things in ray
time, but I’ve been wise In one way."
“What’s that?"
“I never had the Idea that I could pa
per a bedroom myself.”—Detroit Free
Press. _
Repentance.
If our past actions reproach us they
cannot be atoned for by our own se
vere reflections so effectually as by a
contrary behavior.—Steele.
Literary Note.
Some men never think of reading a
book till they run across it under a lot
of rubbish when the wife Is packing
up to move.—Onmlw Bee.
No man Is wise nt all times.—Pliny
the lilder
Notice.
Judge F. M. Brown will conduct
a class In shorthand at the Valdex
high school during evenings this win
ter. The class will commence about
November 1 and the tuition will be
free. All who wish to Join tho class
should give their names to Miss Car
nall or Professor Davis of the high
school.
FOUND—A dory with eignt h. p.
gasolene engine. Owner can have
same by paying for expense of this
advertisement and also for care of
boat, which drifted to Montague Is
land. Apply to Jack Ryder. tf
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VALDEZ ELECTRIC COMPANY
The Consumer’s Company.
The entrance of this company into business
brought down lighting and telephone rates in
Valdez, and its continued existence keeps
rates down.
Electric lamps and fixtures for sale at minimum prices.
Mazda Lamps, 40 watt, 30 cents.
60 watt, 40 cents.
100 watt, 75 cents.
250 watt, $2.00.
Office in Copper Block, on Broadway
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Largest and Best Equipped Hospital in
South Western Alaska.
Graduate Nurses—Private Rooms for Patients.
For Terms and Further Particulars Apply to
E. C. DALTON, M. D., Physician in Charge.
PROFESSIONAL
Dr. H. COCKERILLE
Graduate of National Uni vanity
Washington, D. C.
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Office Rooms over VALDEZ
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. hone .. THE DENTIST
Office rooms over Owl Drug store. Oftloe hours
3 a. m.. to 0 ii. m.. 7 p. in., to 9 p. m. Sundays
by appointment AU work guaranteed
DR. M. O. ADAMS
DENTIST
Office on Wall St. next Prospector office
Valdez, Alaska.
New Company*# Phone No. 80
HOURS 9 to 12 a. ss.; 1 to 6 and 7 to9p. m.
DR. C. H. VANCE
the osteopath
Graduate American School of
Osteopathy, Kikrsville. Mo.
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TREATMENT S2.SO
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|Clvll Engineer and
U. S. Deputy Land and
Mineral Surveyor
Blue Printing Valdnz, Alaska.
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CORRECT RESULTS
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GENERAL
MERCHANDISE
The best groceries received
on every boat,
Fresh vegetables, fruits
and nuts.
The Launch Ida
Leaves from Valdez dock for
SHOUP BAY
and way points Mondays, Wednesdays and
Fridays until further notice at 10 a.m.
W. J. CALLAGHAN.
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DONALDSON SCHEDULE.
Leaves Fort Lisoum. Leaves Valdez
8:15 a. m. 9:4,r> a. in.
1:15 p. in 4:00 p. in.
Tuesday’s
8:15 a. in. 9:45 a.'in.
1:15 p. m. 2:00 p. in.
4:30 p. m. 5:00 p. m.
SATURDAYS .
1:15 p. m. -■ 4:00. p. m.
7:00 p. m. ltf:30.T. in.
There will be no trips of the launch
on the second and fourth Fridays of
each month, these days boms used
to clean boilers.
JOB PRINTING
The Kind that
Pleases.
PROSPECTOR OFFICE
Are You Busy? We Are!
THE REASON
50 candle power light*, 50 cents per month.
Meter Rates... 2 cents per kilo-watt hour.
TELEPHONES, $1.00 PER MONTH
PRICE OF MAZDA LAMPS
40 watt, each 30 cents 100 watt, each 75 cents
60 watt, each 40 cents 250 watt, each .. $2.00
Alaska Water, light & Telephone
Company.