ALASKA BIDS FOB
FARMRjG HONORS
SEATTLE, Nov. 4.—Strawberries
measuring six inches In circumfer
ence, a shock of wheat four feet high,
with heads of grain four inches long,
clover six feet high, enormous pota
toes and giant turnips which resem
bled a shipment of the products of
Washington's richest agricultural dis
trict were discharged at Pier 7 yes
* terday afternoon says the Times. They
did not come from the Yakima Val
ley, which boasts of its crops of
vegetables, or from the grain belt of
Washington, hut from Alaska, which
many easterners believe is but a play
ground for polar bears.
The shipment which would take
all kinds of blue ribbons at a county
fair came from the rich agricultural
district hack of Haines, Alaska, from
the Eagle Hiver farming lands, .30
miles west of Juneau, and from the
west side of Douglas Island, alaBka,
and was brought to Seattle aboard
(lie steamer Humboldt of the Hum
boldt S. S. Co.
The consignment will be exhibited
by the Alaska Bureau of the New
chamber of Commerce.
Edison’s Men Strike.
WEST ORANGE. N. J., Nov. 4.—
Several hundred men at the Edison
plant are on a strike for the reinstate
ment of a discharged man.
H. P. King was a returning passen
ger on the Northwestern from a trip
to Cordova.
NORTHWESTERN IN
PORT FROM SOUTH
The steamer Northwestern arrived
in port shortly before noon from the
south and will remain until probably
after midnight nnloading htr cargo
Of general merchandise and lumber.
Her passengers for Valdei were- R. I>
Nlchol, E. N. Smith, E. S. Hewitt, V.
R. Qaspard, Nels Jensen, Lars Hol
land and W. H. Whittlesey.
WICKKRSHAM Wild. CARRY
FAIRBANKS BY HMAl.l. VOTE
(Special to The Prospector.)
FAIRBANKS, Nov. 4.—It Is beltev
ed here that Wickershain will caro
tids city by a small vote, although not
so large as in 1914 when he ran
against Bunnell. The odds are five
to four that Wlckershum will carry
the city and even money that he wi'l
carry the division.
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“Raise the Hough” Gaspard, rcpro
senting the Crescent Manufacturing
Co., of Seattle, was an arrival on the
Northwestern, and is busily engaged
in impressing the merits of his line
upon the locnl merchants.
Grover Frame, proprietor of the
Frame Btage line between Chftina and
Fairbanks, was a passenger on tie
Northwestern for Anchorugc.
Nels Jensen, who has been out with
one of the road commission crew this
summer, returned on the Northwest
ern, coming by the wuy of Cordova.
Charley Chaplin in a scream com
edy at the Empress tonight. Don't
miss it as you will scream will!
laughter.
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This is what “Harrison’s Biography” of Nome, says
of HON. GEO. E. SCHOFIELD, Candidate on
the Republican ticket for ATTORNEY GENERAL
for Alaska.
GEORGE 1). SCHOFIELD is a lawyer of Nome, a man of forensic
ability, and one of the best presiding officers ever selected to conduct
u public meeting. He was born in Portland, Michigan, August 23,
1X04, and received his education in the Northwest University and in
the Normal School at Dixon Illinois.
MR. SCHOFIELD comes from a family of lawyers, Ids grand
father was a lawyer in the State of New York, and ids fattier was
District Attorney in Nebraska.
MR. SCHOFIELD was admitted to the practice of law in the
State of Washington when at the age of twenty-one years. ••
SHORTLY' after MR. SCHOFIELD went to Butte, Montana, und
while there lie learned mechanical engineering and ran a hoisting
engine at the Anaconda mine.
IN 1883 he started for Juneau from Butte but stopped off at
Montesano, Washington, and began the practice of law with Ids
father and was a candidate at that time for District Attorney, t<!
which iiositlon lie was elected.
HE served two years at District Attorney for Cliehalis County
and in 1898 was elected Senator from Uie 10th District, State of
Washington.
HE came to Alaska in 1900 and resided in Nome. In 1904 lie
was appointed by the Nome City Council to the office of City Attorney,
and wus attorney for the Union men at Nome during the 1905 strike.
At the Republican Territorial Convention held at Seward,
Alaska, April 19th, he was nominated for the office of Attorney Gen
eral on the Republican Ticket.
VOTE FOR HIM AT THE ELECTION. NOVEMBER 7, 1910.
(Paid Advertisement)
A. A. A. JCAJU JU JL.JUJU JU J
President’s Endorsement of Sulzer
Executive Office, Asbury Park, N. J., Sept. IS, 1916.
HON. T. J. DONOHOE,
Democratic National Committeeman,
Valdez, Alaska.
In reply to your telegram of recent date would say that I
very earnestly favor the election of CHARLES A. SULZER
as Delegate to Congress from Alaska.
WOODROW WILSON.
Vote the Straight
DEMOCRATIC TICKET
FOR DELEGATE TO CONGRESS—
CHARLES A. SULSER
FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL—
GEORGE B. GRIGSBY
FOR SENATOR—
JOHN RONAN
FOR REPRESENTATIVES—
THOMAS H HOLLAND
CHARLES McCALLUM
THOMAS C. PRICE
PRANK B. CANNON
FOR ROAD COMMISSIONER—
JAMES E. WILSON
| Quartz and Placer
i Location Notices
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For Sale at #
The Prospector Office
ALL AUTOS MAY SOON “WEAR" FENDERS
Track demonstrating use of fender on autos. A dummy Is being used
New York public service commission lias approved the device.
TUB (JRBAT HAI,B OK
COPPBK TO TIIB AliMBH
The great sale of copper to the al
lied governments that has been talk
cd about for several weeks back has
been consummated. The quantity
contracted was 200,000 long tons
448,000,000 lb.— a quantity beyond
all precedent for a single transaction.
This is about 20 per cent of the total
production of the world in a year just
previous to the war. It is about one
sixth of what the American capacity
for the production of relined copper
I is expected to be in the early part of
i 1917. The contract is for deliver'
; uniting through the lirst half of 1917.
: It might be said, therefore, that at
l least one-third of the expected output
of American refiners for the lirst half
'of 1917 has been preempted by this
one purchase.
It was natural that this spectacular
transaction should he the main theme
of gossip, surmise and forecast in the
! daily papers and in Wall Street.
American consumers of copper were
represented us being confronted hy a
famine of their raw material. Judging
from that sort of talk, it was to be in
ferred that a new buyer had suddenly
grabbed one-third of the prospective
I supply out of a market that is already
being seriously taxed by the needs of
current consumption. This is not so
not at all so.
i The allied governments made large
purchases of copper in the early part
of 1016, contracting for deliveries up
to the end of the year. It is the rill
ing of those deliveries that creates to
a large extent the strength of the cop
per market now. The war continu-J
ing and there is no reason to fore
cast its early termination it was to
be supposed that the Allies would re
quire as much copper as they are tak
ing now. So far as the statistical po
sition of the industry is concerned,
there is no difference whether tliev
buy it all in one transaction or buy
about :t::,000 tons per month late-,
lather wuy there is just as much cop
per left for other consumers; prob
ably there will be as large a fret* sur
plus as there has been during the lat
ter part of If) 16, especially taking In
j to consideration the increasing relin
j ery capacity.
j Moreover, the American consumers
‘do not approach 1917 as a preempted
market. They have, themselves, din
ing the last fortnight been buying
very heavily for the tirst half of the
coming year, no doubt in anticipation
of the great sale that has just been
consummated, for if it hud not been
consummated on Sept. 22, it wouH
have had to be done later. I’roduc
| ers supplied them with coppor at
about the same price as was realized
in the big sale. It was natural, there
fore, that the copper murket should
have become rather dull after the cul
mination of what all had been looking
for. We shall see prolonged dull pe
riods between now and the delivery
of the last of the copper tliut has late
ly been sold.
It is to be remarked, furthermore,
that all the copper just bought by the
Allies is not necessarily going into
war material. Itather does it repre
sent the total requirements of Great
(Paid Advertisement.)
SOCIALIST TICKET
LENA MORROW LEWIS
For Delegate
DR. E. F. GERMAN
For the Senate
R. E. HEGNER
For Representative
Endorsed By Alaska Union
ISritutn ami part of that of her allies. j
Kor Great Britain has now so organ- '■
(zed her industrial affairs that the
Munitions Ministry supplies every-'
body, including the manufacturer who
is making electrical machinery for1
sonic industrial purpose. The running
of things in Great Britain is no long
er at sixes and sevens. On the other:
hand, a good deal of the copper that j
lias lately been sold to Connecticut!
brass makers is going into munitions. j
What the big sale of copper has re- ■
ally done is to insure to certain pro-;
ducers, especially the Anaconda and
those lor which it sells, similarly as
to Phelps, Dodge & Co., and to the
producers selling through the Ameri
can Smelting und Refining Co., the
disposition of a large part of their
production in 1917 at a very high
price. In this respect Anaconda prob
ably fares best as a single producer.
The smaller producers, who do not
participate directly in the big sale,
will nevertheless do so indirectly, for
they will have command of the gen
eral market in which the withdraw
al of tlie luige quantity of copper al
icady contracted will be a backlog.
Tlie-copper producers are now guar
anteed an extraordinary price for
their copper and phenomenal profits
in 1916. They are - guaranteed the
same l'or a considerable part of 1917.
They are entitled to a feeling of satis
luction. - engineering ami Mining
Jou mal.
Congregational ('hurt'll.
The new pastor, Itev. Nlcholls, ar
rived on the North western and wily
preach Sunday evening at 7:0. He
homes very highly retjoimjiiuuUa1"—
Admiral Evans—Sailed from Beattie
for Valdes, Oct. 31.
Northwestern—Sailed from Seattle
for Valdes, Oct. 29.
Mariposa—Sailed south from Valdes
Oct. 29.
Admiral Farragut—Due Vald w from
west some time tonight.
Admiral Watson—Sailed west from
Valdez, Oct. 28.
Alameda—Sailed from Beattie for
Valdez, Nov. 2.
DONALDSON SCHEDULE.
Lvs. Fort Liscum I.vs. Valdez
8:15 a.m. 9:45 a.m.
1:15 p.m. 4:00 p.m.
TUESDAYS
8:16 a.m. 9:45 a.m.
1:15 p.m. 2:00 p.m.
4:30 p.m. 5:00 p.m.
SATURDAYS
1:14 p.m. 4:00 p.n.
7:00 p.m. 10:30 p.m.
There will be no trip of the launch
on the second and fourth Fridays of
each month, these days being ased to
clean boilers.
TIDE TABLES FOR VALDEZ BAY.
Saturday. Nov. 4 —
First High Tide, 7:58 a. m.. 7.7.
Second High Tide, 7:55 p. in., 7.4.
First Low Tide, 1:21 a. in., 1.0.
Second Low Tide, 2:11 p. in., 2.7.
Sunday, Nov. G—
First High Tide, 8:48 a. m„ 8.5.
Second High Tide, 9:10 p. in., 7.5.
First Low Tide, 2:22 a. m., 1.2.
Second Low Tide, 3:17 p. pi., 1.5.
Monday, Nov. 6—
First High Tide. 9:31 a. m., 9.2.
Second High Tide, 10:10 p. ni., 7.7.
First Low Tide, 3:12 a. m., 1.3.
Second Low Tide, 4:09 p. m., 0.4.
Tuesday, Nov. 7—
First High Tide, 10:08 a. m„ 9.8.
Second High Tide. 11:00 p. in.. 7.9.
First Low Tide, 3:57 a. m., 1.5.
Second Low Tide, 4:53 p. ni.. —0.5.
Daily Weather Ke|M>rt.
Valdez, November 3, 1916.
Barometric report.29.287
Temperature 7 p. in.26
Maximum temperature . 29
Minimum temperature.21
Mean temperature .25
Clear, northeast wind, 15 miles.
— Myrtle F. Billings, Ohs.
Interior Trail Conditions.
Valdez, Alaska, Nov. 4, 1910.
Fairbanks, 5, two inches of snow;
cloudy, calm.
Salcha, 2, 5 inches of snow; calm,
trail rough, 2 luushers south 10; 10
yesterday; 1 mustier south 10:40 a
ra. N. C. freight team south, 1 p. in.
yesterday; slight snow.
Richardson, zero, 4 inches of mow;
cloudy, calm, truil fair, two autos
north 4 p. in. yesterday, 1 passenger.
Donnelly, -—22; calm, clear, tra11
rough. 2 Sheldon’s autos south during
the night; 3 mushers south 8 a. m.
McCollum, —18, 24 Inches snow;
cloudy, calm, snow falling; trail fair
south; stage by 12:30 a. ra. 3rd.
Fuxson, zero, 12 inches snow; calm,
clear, trail good, soutli mail with six
passengers out at 0:30 a. in. ; 3 mush
ier s south noon.
I Hogan, 2, 1 inch of snow; clear,
calm, trail fair, trattic now taking 'he
winter trail.
Gulkana, zero, 1 inch snow; calm,
trail fair. Waren team south 7 a. m.
Copper Center, 2, 1 inch snow;
Icloudy, calm, trail fair; Frank Lam
son 1 passenger south G a. in.; Mc
Donald and Edgecomh with their cars
north 6 a. m., no passengers; Scanlon
north 6 a. m.
Tonsina, zero. 6 Inches of snow;
cloudy, calm, trail fair.
Teikhell, 4, 4 inches of snow; calm,
cloudy, trail fair, 2 mushers south
3:30 p. in. yesterday; Johnson and
Payne wagons south 4:30 p. m. yes
terday.
Beaver Dam, 10. 1 inch snow
Icloudy, calm, trail rough.
I Summit, G, 32 Inches of snow* ,
doudy, calm, 32 inches of snow: trail
tood north: drifted south.
Wortman's, 18, cloudy, calm, trail;
air, ex-mayor Pete (’ashman a.ig!
vlfe visited Wortman yesterday; /I
Hair north 7:30 a. m.
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j Pure Fresh Drugs at me Valdes
fiug Store. tf
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PRINCE MAHILDA.
Brothar of Slamaaa Rular Hara
ta Study Haalth Mathoda.
Photo by American Press Association
Where Can I Meet You?
LEVY & ROSS’
CANDIES
Cigars and Tobacco
BILLIARDS
Phone 54
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Valdez Dock Co . PHONE NO. 1 j
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JOBBER IN \
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COAL, HAY
GRAIN and ,
LUMBER 1
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Office, toot of Wall street.
HOME NEEDS
A Combination of Simplicity, Durability
and Efficiency at a price within the
reach of every electric light user.
TriE ✓
CEEANER
AND
PUMP
THAT
MEANS
SERVICE
Prince William Sound Water,
Power, Light & Tele. Co.
Your Groceries will come on
time. Don't worry about dis
appointments about the gro
ceries either. Your house
wifely judgment will be thor
oughly satisfied. As for prices
well just compare ours with
others of equal grade. Spe
cial attention to out of town
orders.
KING’S GROCERY
HHONE 188
MERCHANT’S CAFE
FKK8H BKKAD AND PASTRY DAILY
Phone «S _ OPKN ALL NIGHT Dim. Fischer, Propr.
THE SENATE
ANGUS CHISHOLM—FRANK GUSTAFSON
CIpARS, BILLIARDS
Nioely Furnished Rooms.Phone 35
! Keystone Hand Laundry moved to
Sixth street between Alaska and
| Broadway. Don't forget, work guar
anteed. 2t
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For good home-cooked meals try
Mm. M. Olson, on Hobart street. *
The N. £ S. leaves the Valdez dock
on regular sailing days. See adv.
The Golden North, the House of
Comfort. tf
Fresh candy at the Emporium, tf
Nuts and Fruits, Chocolate Cover
ed, at Hunt’s.
Stop that Infernal Racket
Show rour wife bow much you
love her and send that noisy old
pump to the Valdez Iron Works and
let them remove the peace disturber,
your neighbors will appreciate it. tf
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| Wm. H. Whittlesey returned on the
Northwestern from a business trip to
' Cordova.
Itig Comedy HUI.
A big comedy bill at the Empress
tonight, ('has. Chaplin in another
scream that is better than '‘Shang
haied” called "IN THE SHOW." Also
I'uthe News and other comedies.
We’re on time like the clock. City
Express. tf
Fresh Augustine & Kyer Butter
Krlsp and Queen Victorias at Hunt's.
Location notices, both quarts and
placer, at the Miner office.
Pictures developed at the Valdaa
Drug Company. tf
FOR SALE- -Thoroughbred Llewel
lyn pups, $10 and $15 each each.
Erich Lucas, Seward, Alaska. 11-30
Fancy Stationery at the Valdaa
Drug Store. tf
Everybody laughed at the Empress
last evening at the comical comedy
pictures. See them tonight.