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VOLUME 3, NO. 13 VALDEZ, ALASKA, THURSDAY, MAY5, 1904. OFFICIAL CITY PAPER
Commence On To|>
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A STETSON MAT
Newest Myles
Latest Shades
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Just Arrived
A. l. levy & co.
Good Goods.
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Valdez drug company
Wholesale and Retail Druggists
AND DKAI.F.KS IN
Periodicals and Photo Supplies
Save Your Coupons. ;
P. E. Kern,
Gold and Silver Smith.
Diamonds, Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, Optical
Goods, Sterling Silverware, Fine Watch Re»
pairing and Nugget Jewelry a Specialty. Cut
Glass and Lamps.
SKAGWAY and VALDKZ ALASKA
City Market
NKXT TO TliK NIZINA.
PRICES ARE
RIGHT
Wholesale and
Relail Dealers
GIVE US A
CALL
Beef, Mutton, Pork
Poultry and Game.
fc. There is a mathematical problem
going the rounds of the states, anil
a San Francisco paper is offering a
prize for the solution of the same.
It is rc)Mirted that men neglect
their business and homes in their
endeavors to solve the problem, so
here it is: If a brick weighs seven
(rounds and half its weight, what
will a brick and a half weigh?
Testimonials are pouring in from
all quart) rs to the Valdez brewery
in praise of the l*eer. A very en
thusiastic one came from the Bis
uiark in Seattle, and the lutest is
from the people of Ellumar.
If you would enjoy good health
(rathe frequently at ihc ifiK k Bu'.lis.
A meeting of the democrats of
this city will lie held ut the office
of Donohoe & Ostrander, in the
Swan building, on the 5th day of
May. at 8 o’clock, p.m. for the pur
)K>se of electing 5 delegates to the
district convention, which has been
called to meet at Juneau oil May
25th. The purpose of the district
convention is to elect delegates to
the National_Democratic Conven
tion. All keinocrats are requested
to lie present and participate in
the meeting.
A green sea oiler hunt with red
top is now held at Kllnmar await
in'/ an owner. It was picked up
i adrift on the sound.
Big Ones.
The following romantic bit of
news is from the Popular Scienc -
Notes:— —
On King’s island, Alaska, Indi
ans were found who hy their phy
sical characteristics belong to the
Innuit or Eskimo family, having
small black eyes, high cheek hones
and full brown begirds which con
ceal their lips. The majority of
the men are over six feet high, and
the women are usually as tall and
often taller than the men.
These women are also wonder
fully strong. One of them carried
off in her birch bark canoean eight
hundred pound stone, for use as an
anchor to a whale boat. • When it
reached the deck of the vessel it
required two strong men to lift it,
but the Innuit woman had man
aged it alone. Another woman
carried on her head a box contain
ing two hundred and eighty pounds
of lead.
Both men ami women are endow
ed with remarkable agility. Thev
will outrun ami outjump competi
tors of any other race who may be
pitted against them.
Their strength is gained from
very poor food, and they frequent
ly travel 30 or 40 miles without
eating anything. They live on
earrion fish and seal oil. The fish,
generally salmon, are hurled when
caught, to be kept through the
winter and dug up as consumption
requires. When brought to the air
they have the appearance of sound
fish, but the stench from them is
unbearable.
The North American Commercial
Co. sent down on the Dora a con
signment of 39 tons of goal from
their mines at Dutch Harbor. It
is being sent to the Alaska Trans
portation and Coal Co. as a sample.
A small sample of 200 ]M>unds
; was also sent by Charles Brown, of
Cbignik, to Mrs. R. A. Foster, of
; Oakland, Cal. It will ho tested.
■ The ladies of the Congregational
church give a Ten Cent Tea >n Fri
day p. in. from two till five, in the
j parlors oi the chureu. All are
I cordially invited.
VALDEZ PLACERS
LATE8T DISCOVERERS ARB
NOW
Si" 5at footOlacier
Suburbs of Valdes Will Be Pro
ductive with Little More
Development.
Placer ground is being gradually
discovered closer and closer to Vai
dez. Lost year about 1,000 ncrts
were located 20 miles lip the val
ley on the Lowe river, and are this
year Itcing prepared lor hydraulic
working.
Font weeks ngo a larger gravel
dc|iosit was located along the Lowe
river, but only ten miles from town
This has been sufficiently exploited
to warrant the beginning of work
this season. Preparations are now
being made for extensive work.
Just as sion as the trail will per
mit men and materials will lie put
to work there, and kept at it till
the snow Hies.
The latest find is less than four
miles from town, at the foot of the
glacier.
Five men, strangers to this sec
tion, recently arrived here intend
ing to prospect the interior. They
came too late to go in over the
winter trail, and were compelled to
wait for the summer trail to open
up. To fill in their time they Is
gan prospecting over the flat la
tween here and the glacier. They
found gold in every pan, and in
order to get a good working test
they put up a sluice Imx, and are
I now running it steadily. They d >
not claim to have reached very
profitable dirt as yet, hut from the
character of the gold recovered
they are hopeful of striking it very
good.
in ’99 in sinking wells, Dr. Von
Gunther and others, dicovered gold
all through the gravel within the
town limits, to as deep as they
sank.
Directly across the hay is the
Solomon gulcli deposit now being
piospecied with machinery to de
termine whether a dredger or a hy
draulic plant will be most elfi ieni.
Heretofore prosjtecting lias been
done at remote i>oints,but it is now
gradually nearing town and with
good results.
The Yukon Going Out.
Eac.lk, May 4.1i.—The Yukon
rose a foot in the last 24 hours at
Dawson. The Klondike is break
ing up. Forty Mile is now open
for a mile and a half alaiva tin
town; it is likely to go out at any
time.
Dawson, May 5th.—The Yukon
began rushing out this morning.
The aiaive shows a very early
season on the Yukon and Tanana,
and*consequently a larger output.
Wedding at Unga.
Miss Driscoll, of Sail Francisco,
was a passenger on the Dora going
westward on the last trip. Upon
the arrival of the steamer at Unga
she was eagerly met by Pete Nel
son, of that place, who immediately
escor.ed tin* blushing lady up to
commissioner’s office, where tlu:
con pie were duly married. They
are now comfortably settled in the
home prepared by Peter.
During the working season on
the Shusliitna a special mail cur
• ri*-r will la-employed by the miners
I to carry mail from Copper Center
do the camp. The trip will lie
made at least once a month. The
government has not yet established
a rou.e in that direction.
Mew Local Steamer.
The trim little steamer, Ragh
nohl, of \Vrange!, with captain
J. M. Hofstad in command, urrived
here on. Friday evening last and
will enter into business on Prince
W illiam sound. She is a staunch,
well built vessel, wit h a speed of I
12 to 14 knots, and comfortable ae-1
commodutions for about 30 passen
gers. She came here partly under
contract to tow logs for the mill
anil is ojien for engagements of any
nature that may turn up. It is
very probable that npplicutinn will
be made to the postal authorities
for a mail contract for points along
the sound, as the large steamers
now holding contracts for delivery
at Valdez stop only at Orca and
Ellnmnr, and the many people liv
ing along the sound must go to
these places, when the weather |a>r
mits, to secure their mail, and
they are very often from three to
six months without mail. With
such a contract and the business
that is now spreading out from
Valdez, the Ruglinold could la
kept busy all the year round, and
would prove a great factor in build
ing up the population of Prince
William Sound. On Sunday the
steamer left here foi Unga with
men and tools. The captain is the
owner of some coal property at
that place, and will leave the men
to work it this season, the boat
will return in a few days and may
have a cargo of coal for Valdez.
Big Coal Field* m Alaska.
The geological survey has re
ceived a report of an extensive de
posit of Alaskan coal accessible to
the Pacific ocean, located from 12
to 25 miles inland from Controller
hay, Alaska. The coal fields lie
behind the Con: roller bay oil fields,
at the foot Chugusch mountains.
The coal and oil were found to
be in two distinctly separate form
ations that lie in roughly parallel
lad is. The coal area as at presen
recognized, includes about eighty
five square miles. The coal resem
bles the harder bituminous coals
of the East, more tlutn it does an
thracite.
* Court House.
Kaolk, May 2d.—Advertise for
bids at once for construction of
court house and jail.
Bids to be opened May 23d.
Court house and jail to be com
p eted Sept. 1st.
li. (i. Pkhry, Murslutl.
The above was received hy’ depu
ty marshal Dreibibis, who will hi
iu charge of the work as Marshal
Perry is not likely to be in Valdez
until after the completion of the
build HIES.
The plans and specifications as
drawn bv A. Judson Adams, were
sent to Eagle by last mail, and
have evidently been adopted.
Wants His Library.
Judge Wickersham this week
telegraphed the deputy clerk a!
this place to send all of the Judge’.
effects, including his law library,
to Fairbanks, where, it is pre
sumed, he in'.eiids to es'ahlish his
headquarters. If he retains his
position as judge of the third ju
dicial dis ricr, Ins regular circuit
will bring him to Vahios each fall
as usual. Huvin • mining interests
at Fairbanks he will probably
spend much of his time there.
Gj »1 Mews.
Copper Ckntkk, May 4th.—Mail
arrived from Shushitna last Satur
day reports the l toys within three
days travel of Vaiilez creek on
April 20.!.; ocryhudy fcciing giH»l.
Mad iet'i .his morning by special
carrier for Sliinshitna.
For a good Unh try the Dock
Bath IKisk.
TMlMDOOffllUi
THE GRAND WINTER DUMPS
WIEE
Yield On 1400.000
Product Exceeding Previous Esti
mates. General Success
Assnred.
Upon his arrival at Fairbanks
some time ago. Judge Wiekershatn
in looking over the ground predict
ed an output for that section of
aliout 9-400,000.
The season for cleaning up the
winter dumps is now at hand, and
the Judge has materially altered
his opinion, as the following tele
gram will show. He wire 1 the
good news to clerk Hcilig at Eagle,
and the latter sent it on to his
deputy, Henderson, at this place.
Faikiiaxks, May 4 —‘ The clean
up will he considerably over my
estimate of 9100,000."
If the camp will produce such
amount as this, its first season, its
future is a great one, as very few
of t..o claims have been ojiened up
this season. A great many who
went in there last summer were
ioreeii to go out in tlie fall owing te
a scarcity of money and food sup
plies. From now on it will lie dif
ferent. Some large companies
have established stores there, and
just as soon as navigation opens
these store* will he stocked with
ail sorts of commodities. Ths
clean ups of this season will pat
plenty of money in the camp, and
men or families will he aide to livs
.here as comioaLabiv as anvwhere
else.
Heretofore nun wist desired to
leave points on the Yukon or Tan*
ana for the states, and wished to
remain in cauip as long as possi
ble. generally took tlie last steam
er fur fit. Michael and out that
way. _ They were thus forced to
leave at the best working season,
some time in 8cp s.ulier. Now
that it lias been so repeatedly dem
onstrated that people can go to or
from Fairbanks by way of Valdes
in from 12 to 15 days, the camp
will not be broken lip as early as
usual. Those desiring to go out
may work right along till tlie lat
ter part of November, and then by
going out via Valdez may lie with
their families or friends by Christ
mas. in going into the country
ihey are now enabled to. go in over
the same route at any time through
ihe winter instead of waiting till
July fora steamer. Twenty days
has been the lougest time taken by
any party this season logo either
way from Valdez to Fairbanks,
and some assert that it can be
done in 12 days.
Ktdiak’s Postmaster.
A lut ed passenger to leave here
mi (lie Portland, was 11. P. Cope,
pu.s master at Kodiak. Mr. Cope
went to visit friends in the states,
and will spend some time at St.
lands, seeing the sigh:*. He ex
pects to Ik- liack in Alaska in July.
He came to Alaska in lrtiirt, and
and in lddif was appointed post
man er at Kodiak, with a salary of
$12 tor cite first year. Uc still
holds the |M>sition, and holds well
to his post, as this is the firs, time
he lias liven away in eleven years.
The cannery at Tymiik that was
las: year put out of commission hy
Hoods, lias recently been purchased
hy H. M. W'elherliee for the Alas
ka Packer’s Assoviu ion, and it
( il! he restored to its form r use
fulness.