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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1915
THE KENNECOTT-BRADEX DEAI/.
One of the most curious transac
tions in copper corporation affairs is
that which was announced last week,
whereby the Kennecott Copper Com
pany, operating mines in the Copper
River region of Aaska, >c. to take over
the Braden company, operating mines
in Chili; and furthermore, is to ac
quire the interest (about 400.000)
shares of the Guggenheim Explora
tion Company in' the Utah Copper Co.
No reason based on economy in oper
ation of these far-apaft mines has
heen advanced, nor has the public
been appraised of any explanation of
what it is hoped to accomplish.
The Kennecott, Braden and Gug
genheim Explorations arc concerns
in which the Guggenheims are large
ly interested. The Guggenheim Ex
ploration Company, which is essen
tially a holding company, has heen
advertised indhe squibs in the Wall
Htreet • journals as about to be dis
solved. The Braden company has
been borrowing several millions of
the cash assets of the Guggenheim
Exploration. The Kennecott com
pany, which represents a huge invest
ment in Alaska by the houses of \
Morgan and. Guggenheim was offered
to the public for investment several
months ago, in connection where
with there has beer, a shrewd stock
market propaganda. 'I he Utah Cop
per Company plays no part in the
deal, but the Guggenheim Explora
tion Company owns a large block of
its shares.
The Braden Company owns a great
mine, but it has experienced disap
pointments and probably was still far
short of the time when it going alone,
could safely begin the payment of
dividends. On the other hand, the
Kennecott company, which made its
debut in Wall Street about the time
when copper rose to 20 cents pet
pound last spring and soon after
ward discovered wha£ was heralded
as the richest copper bonanza ever
known, will soon be in a position to
begin the payment ef dividends. The
Braden and Kennecotc mines are. in
short, the antithesis of each other.
Both are situated in remote regions
and are subject to vioelnt vicissitudes
<il climate, Jabor conditions, etc. The
Kennecott mines are far up in the
Northern Hemisphere and the Bra
den mines far down in the Southern.
The latter have low grade ore, a lot
of it, and the probability oi iong life
The Kennecott mines have phenome
nally high grade ore, but there is a
doubt as to how long it will hold out.
The idea of the Braden-Kennecott
combination appears to be to average
things. The Braden stockholders will
probably not object to this. The Ken
necott company is too new a thing
to have a large list of stockholders
of the investment class.
The strangest thing in the deal is
the taking over of the Utah shares of
the Guggenheim Exploration Com
pany, the latter receiving Kennecott
shares in exchange. If the Guggen
heim Exploration company is going
into liquidation and is going to dis
tribute its assets among its stockhold
ers, the latter will get Kennecott
shares instead of Utah shares. The
principal Guggenheim stockholders
are quoted in the Wall Street prints
as talking as if they liked this. Of
course there’s no accounting for
tastes. The Kennecott company will
naturally increase its list of stock
holders.—The Engineering and Min
ing Journal.
DON’T WORRY.
Worry has come to be a question
of hygiene rather than of religion.
Whether immoral or not it is cer
tainly unhealthful, so the doctors tell
us. Whatever the effect upon the
soul, it it certainly injurious to the
body.
If the medical fraternity are cor
rect in their latest deductions, many
of the most distressing of our physi
cal ailments are due to worry alone.
The pulse of a worried man is ir
regular. It beats intermittently, and
its force varies greatly. He sighs fre
quently. His respiration is repressed.
He is likely to be pale. His extrem
ities are cold.
There is but one meaning to this.
Through the marvelous influence
which mind exercises upon matter
the worry has gripped the heart, the
circulation is impaired, and chronic
heart disease is to be feared unless
the worry ceases.
The stomach is likely to suffer also.
The same worry which disturbs the
heart’s functions plays havoc with the
digestion often. The appetite fails.
The secretions are disturbed. Should
the worry continue the subject is al
most certain to become a dyspeptic
old grouch.
The effect or worry upon me mmi
nal glands has never been fully re
alized. Enough is known, however,
to assure the physician that it affects
the secretions of these glands very
seriously through the sympathetic
nerves. It thus becomes an impor
tant agent in producing a train of ills
that can only be defined when the real
functions of the glands in question
are more adequately studied. In
somnia, a most fruitful source of
physical ills, a certain consequence
of worry. Diabetes is often due to
the same cause.
If you would live.lorig and prosper,
don’t worry.- It isn’t worth the ef
fort. No matter how black and fear
some life seems to day, tomorrow
may prove brighter. Man is but a
receptacle of glands, which affect his
life more than he imagines. Certain
glands control his growth; others
retard his brain development; man’s
anatomy is a complex machine, and
surgeons are just begining to pry a
little arounds the edges of the mys
tery of life.
THE EMPRESS
Owing to length only one show each evening at 8 o’clock sharp^ |
DANIEL FROHMAN Presents * 1
HAZEL DAWN
The Stage Beauty, in
“One of Our Girls”
A Paramount International Feature by
FAMOUS PLAYERS COMPANY
Tonight, Friday Night and Saturday Night
Admission 25c. All Children 10c.
Next Week “MARTIN EDEN”--6 Acts, by Jack London
REVERSING THE ROLES.
Is Europe soon to be transformed
by the whitehot strife of war that
it will surpass the United States in
the essentials • of civilization? Will
Europe make such gigantic strides,
and will her enegies be so quicken
ed and her vision made so lofty that
any suffering and travail she may
now be undergoing will cause her to
outdistance America at the war’s
end? Some critics and observers
seem to think so, and among them
may be named Sydney Brooks, En
glish writer publicist, now in this
country. Interviewed by the New
York Sun, Mr. Brooks said, among
other things:
"After the war one will speak of
the new world of Europe and the old
world of America. For in Europe
we shall become incomparably more
democratic than before, socially and
politically, and in industrial matters
we shall necessarily build up again
on a socialistic basis. You in America
will go on as you are, as we were,
in the old fashioned, individualistic
way.”
If out of the frightful cataclysm
which has engulfed Europe, there
shall actually arise a new Europe, in
which social and political equality
and industrial prosperity shall pre
vail, the peopie of the United States
would be the last to begrudge their
neighbors _ boon. This country,
in truth, welcomes such a rebirth for
the Old Wond.
But it slTould be said that Europe
has a long, long way to go ere it
will have reached the industrial, the
political, the social equality which
America has already attained. So
deeply rooteu were the political ine
qualities of the majority of the peo
ple of the Old World and the social
inequalities that it required, evi
dently, some such catastrophe as the
present to destroy them.
And let no one imagine that this
country will remain ignorant of and
indifferent to the progress which Eu
rope is making in whatever realm of
life. We shall adapt that which is
good to our own institutions and re
ject that which is bad, or else the
whole traditions of our national ca
reer are falsely conceived.—St. Paul
Pioneer Pi ass.
. THE RIGHT WAGON.
The old soldier was telling of his
thrilling adventures on the field of
battle to a party of young fellows,
one or two of whom were skeptical
as to his veracity.
“Then,” he said, “the surgeons
took me up and laid me carefully in
the ammunition wagon, and—”
“Look here,” interrupted one of
his doubtful listeners, “you don’t
mean the ammunition wagon. You
mean the ambulance wagon/’
But the old man shook his head.
“No,” he insisted, “I was so full
of bullets that they decided I ought to
go in the ammunition wagon.”
Valdez is so healthful that our phy
sicians are in despair, and the under
taker may he found at his office about
as often as a small boy misses a ball
game when a comp has been present
ed him. Some day we are going to
publish the health statistics of this
city, and when we do they will send
us to the Ananias club, as no one will
believe it.
The next organization of men to
join Roosevelt’s “Order of Mollycod
dles” are the , Odd Fellows. This
magnificent body of men has petition
ed their representatives and senators
in different states, to apprise the
president that the world wants peace.
They are working to that end, and
where a body of over a million men
work to an end they generally attain
it.
The Seward Gateway Says: The
government Alaska railroad is a pe
culiar thing. It is not a mere rail
road. It is something vastly more.
It is a great experiment on the part of
the United States, one of the great
governments of the earth in govern
ment ownership and government con
struction and when we begin to look
at it as something which is just meant
to sell a few lots it proves our provin
cialism. The railroad which has Sew
ard for a terminal is really a far
greater thing than most of us seem
to imagine. We hardly stop for a
moment to 'think that this little city
is just the terminal of a railroad
which is being built to test one of the
greatest problems that face the hu
man race. On the success or failure
of this work of the great democratic
administration' will depend the ver
dict of the United States on govern
ment ownership as a whole. Let us
pause sometimes to think of this.
Notice of Young People’s Society.
The Social meeting df the Young
People’s Society will take place on
next Friday evening at Everyman’s
Clubhouse at 8:16 o’clock. As some
thing special in the way of a good
time has been planned all the mem
bers are requested to turn out and do
their share in making the evening
a success.
Bargains at the Emporium; open
fromjl. a. m. to 9 p. m. *
DRYER BAY MIKE
BEING DEVELOPED
Another Knight's Island Copper Prop
erty Will Begin Making Ship
ments at an Karl.v Date.
George F. White, the assayer, left
this morning for Dryer Bay, Knight’s
island, where he will begin develop
ment of a copper property which he
believes is destined to become a big
producer. Ben Silverman is inter
ested in the property with him.
The property is ideally located for
cheap development and handling of
ores as it is located near the beach
where large steamers can land to
take on ores when a short dock has
been constructed. The ore is high
grade, returning values of 12 per
cent copper and the owners believe
that sufficient values will be recov
ered from the ore taken from the
tunnels during development to pay
for the work.
Captain Morris of the Three-M has
chartered his boat to the miners and
rifie will be used in delivering ship
ments of ore from the mine to La
touche, to be shipped to the Tacoma
smelter. Dryer Bay is approximate
ly eighteen miles from Latouche.
The lead upon which the work will
be done this winter haB been consid
erably prospected during the past
summer when sixty feet of tunnel was
run in on the ore as well as consider
able surface work done in the way of
opencuts. The lead shows on the
surface for a distance of three thou
sand feet and has been found to in
crease in size where depth was gain
ed in the tunnel.
New Show Tonight.
Complete change of program at
The Liberty Theatre tonight. A pro
gram of good films worth seeing.
New Show Tonight.
Complete change of program at
The Liberty Theatre tonight. A pro
gram of good films worth seeing.
if you were sick would you go to
a blacksmith for repairs? Why then
do you go to a lung mechanic for in
formation about machinery when you
have mechanics in your home town
that stay there the year around, and
depend on their knowledge and abil
ity to do your work satisfactorily for
their existence as mechanics. Try the
Valdez Iron Works; we are here to
stay with your assistance. th-tf.
Fancy Stationery at' the Valdes
Drug Store. •
Dougherty & Ferguson
GENERAL
Merchandise
Tiie best groceries received
on every boat,
—
Fresh vegetables, fruits, and
nuts.
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The Best Place in Valdez to
Stop at is the
Arctic Hotel
' Warm, Light Rooms—The Hoase of Comfort
• RATES REASONABLE
BATH ROOM Special Rates By tbe Month
PHONE 133 MRS. SYRING, Prop.
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ISjlr^EATTLE'
lf^>4 Complete Services
I IN THE HEART OF THE CITY
| l55toomswiHi bqttrSOSamplelboma
w Shamrock
CAPT. TIM MARCUM
Sails fqr Port Wells, Portage
Bay, Granite Mine, Saturday
at 9:00 a. m., from the Val
des Dock Company’s, Dock.
For Eliamar, Land lock Bay,
and Fldalgo, every Wednes
day, 9:00 a. m„ from Val
dez Dock Company’s Dock.
For Rates, Apply on Boat.
■S. Blum & Co.
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Men’s rolled edge Storm
Rubbers. Price $1.25
Men’s Toe Rubbers.
Price - - $1.00
Cloth top Storm.
Price - - $1.50
Half-storm Rubbers,
Price - - $1.00
Boys’ rolled edge Storm
Rubbers, Price - 90c
f. . 4
Misses Protectors and
Defenders. Price 75c
in * t,
Ladies’ Storm Rubbers^
a full variety of bed*
and toes. Price - 90c
Cloth covered Storm,
medium beel.
Price - - $1.25
Toe Rubbers. Price 75c
Misses’ rolled edge
Storm. Price - 75c
Child’s Storm Rubbers.
Price - . 60c
MEN’S FOUR-BUCKLE
ARCTICS,
Price . $3.50
MOTORMAN’S GAITERS, 1
Price —.„.$2.5Q
BOYS’ TEN-INCH SHOE
PACS, with heel,
Prices $2.50 $2.75, $3.25
LADIES’ 3-BUCKLE ARC
TICS,
Price .....*.... $3.00
MISSES’ TWO-BUCKLE
ARCTICS,
Price -.-.. $2.00
CHILDREN’S THREE
BUCKLE ARCTICS,
Price . $2.00
HARDWARE
Snowshovels at $1.00; Sidewalk. Scrapers 75c
Yukon Sleds at $8.00; Snowshoes at $6.50
Boy's Sleds $1.50 up; Baby Cutters $6.50 to $7.
S. Blum & Co.
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DR. H. COCKERILLE
Graduate National Cnlvernlty,
Washington, D. C.
DENTIST
Fourteen Years In Valdez.
PHONE 110
Office Rooms in Whaling Building
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DR. GERMAN
„ 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.
AU Work Guaranteed.
E. C. DALTON, M. D.
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
Phone 42
Alaska Avenue Valdez, Alaska
DONOHOE & DIMGND
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
OUce Opposite Court Houae
Phone 34 VALDEZ. ALASKA
JOHN LYONS E. E. RITCHIE
LYONS & RITCHIE
Attorneys-at-law
OHires In Whaling Building
Phone 101 VALDEZ, ALASKA
Copper River
Draying Co
Freighting and Passengers
to all parte of the Interior.
GENERAL TRUCKING
McKinley Street, Valdez
ED. WOOD, Proprietor
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VAIjDEZ lodge
no ies
Free aid Accepted M
Regular Communications first Wed
nesday In each month in McKinler
Hall. Visitors always welcome.
A. K. GRIGSBY. W. M
KI). WOOD, Secretary.
Valdez Miners Union Do. 188
Western Federation of Miners
ROBERT SHAFFER. President.
Granite Mine
CHAS. McCALLUM. Secretary.
Valdes, Alaska.
When In Seward Stop at the
COLEMAN HOUSE
GEORG| SEXTON. PROP
SlRICTLY FIRST CLASS
Fourth Ave, Seward, Alaska
Red Cross Hospital
Keyitone'tBd Hobart Sts.
OPEN TO ALL PHYSICIANS.
Private Room, for Patient*.
Phone 144 MRS. C. H WILCOX." -
A. M. DIERINGER
Valdez Transfer
Company
Office on Alaska Avenue, m
Ceorge C. Treat Buildhul
Telephone No. €0 ’
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General Trucking and Freighting
to all Interior Pointa.
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LIVERY and FEED STABLH
STORAGE,
Teaming of All Kinda
Positively No Coal Delivered Un
less Paid for in Advance
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