VOLUME 1, NO. 41._*_VALDEZ, ALASKA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER. 20 1902. OFFICIAL CITY PAPER.
JAMES FISH & Co. I
ANNOUNCEMENT.
We believe that the time has now arrived that lines of merchan
dise should be specialized—Acting upon this belief we have sold our
entire grocery stock to Hemple & Dougherty, and will hereafter
carry a full line of
Clothing, Hats and Caps, Boots and Shoes,
Gents Underwear, Dry Goods, Rubber Goods
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We shall be pleased to have you call on us if you want anything
in our Line.
Don’t Forget . Your Friends
We have a complete lino of Perfumery, Fine Soaps,
Shaving Sets, Manicure Sets. Toilet Cases, tilove Boxes,
Cuff Boxes, Collar Boxes, Handkerchief Boxes, Jewel
Cases. Work Boxes, Photo Cases, Alliums. Smokers’
Sets, Traveling Cases, Atomizers, Fine Stationery, anti
dozens of other neat and appropriate articles for
Holiday Presents
Call in and examine them at
THE VALDEZ PHARMACY
City Market
■EXT TO MERCHANT’S CAFE.
Wholesale and Retail Dealers in
Bee f, Mutton, Porkand Poultry
Our Prices are RIGHT. Give us a call.
ST. ELIAS RESTAURANT,
ONLY FIRST-CLASS RESTAURANT
IN VALDEZ.
Merchant’s Lunch, 12 to 1,35 c Sunday Dinner 75c.
Dinnners 5:30 to 8 p.m., 50c.
OUR
Spectacles
Tin v’re
Eye Helps
It Right.
Eye Hurters
MIK1
Headache
Makers
If \Vr«mg.
Neglect of Wearing
Glares a lien nml
ed, produce* Irre
parable Sight.
HOW ARE YOUR
EYES?
It's Your Own Fault
If you’ll go prowling along through life,
half blind from Headache,Tired Weak Keen,
Dizzy ness, Floating Specks. Burning, Itch
ing, Blurred Condition of Vision.
We have lots of new things in the Jewelrv World.
W. C. STULL.
Optician, Wutchniakt rand Jeweler.
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PLENTY OF LUMBER
Will Soon be on the Market. Big
Orders Coming.
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The lumber famine will soon 1m-,
over and the market will In- flooded
with building material of all kinds, j
The saw mill now has 170,000 feet j
of logs that will soon lie made into
lumber.
The Santa Ana and Bertha will
have about 125.000 feet each. The
Ruhv Cousins will be here in a few
weeks with a full cargo. Ruther
ford and Larson have chartered the
Newslxiy to bring in a eargo of
lundM?r, and Mr. Linden, formerly
purser of the Bcr.ha, announces
that he will send up a schooner
load of luinlier in he near future.
Building has lieen retarded here
the past two months, on account of
scarcity of lumlier, and now that
the winter season has arrived, when
hut little building can lit-carried on,
there will be a iurge supply of ma
terial. However, when spring ar
rives there will fie everything need
ful in tho m-irket for the building
lioom which will surely follow.
Brown-Wood.
A quiet little wedding occurred
in the Endeavor church on last
Monday night, ihe contracting par
ties tieing Mr. Chas. EJBrown and
Miss Josephine Wood. Both par
ties arc recent arrivals from Nome,
hn ving come In re U>make ’his tow n
their home.
The ceremony was periomu-d by
Rev. ti. L. Hosfordj_ of Nebraska,
tem|Mirary pastor of the church, and
the others present were Melvin
Dempsey and Mrs. \V. A. Bearieau.
Advertised Letters.
The follow ing is a lisi of im- .ilii d- [
for letters remainin': in the po.-t-l
other at this place. If not called !
fi.rin :-Ml days they will **; sent to j
the d« ud letter otlict.
J il L»*« . 1) t» cylveUt., T II llciiilerv*!), K
| SojAtng, I j HMiiiiori I. L stow. . h Neill, li Ft
i 4« (' li«t.:> Ufll, k t« Jt'Uit- ll. I. StuuU. r A \V ,
1 ll -iifn.-H, B 1. liunil y. j Foley, li ilttusoa, j
i> Ki‘Ltll«iul, t» M mini ii, i. Herring
Salted Peanuts at Valdez Candy ;
Kitrhrn.
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ORGANIZED TO OPERATE IN !
ALASKA.
Kill Bond Property
And Develop any Large Low Grade
Propositions in this
Section..
A new and rich corporation has1
l<een organized in Seattle and will
commence operations in Alaska in
the early spring. This company
is known as the Alaska Pacific
Transpirtation »k Coal Co., and its
aim is to purchase and develop
gold, copper and coal properties,
and do a general transpirtation
business.
The capital of the new organiza-'
tion is $3,000,000, of w hich amount I
♦1,000,000 is fully paid in. Mr. R.
Onffroy. the organizer and general
secretary and a director of the
Pacific Packing & Navigation Co., !
is the president and treasurer of
th< new company, and from what
is known of his former business
o[KTat,oils and associations, there:
is no doubt that Mr. Onffroy will !
make a signal success oi the Pacific (
Alaska company.
This company has already pur
eluded the new and extensive coal
mines located on the Alaska penin
sula at Portage bay. The mines j
tire on the north side of the penin
sula, but there is a low, short port
age here where the coal can easily
he brought to Portage bay and this
will be done, llit* coal is said to
Ik- nf a very tine quality, being the j
la-st ioumi at any place along tliej
Alaska coast, and there are very |
large dc|K>si:» oi it. All steamers j
plying along the southern coast be
tween Scuttle and Nome can stop
at Portage hay ' without going
very far out of their reg-j
ular course, hut it is the in
tention of Mr. Onffruy to put on
a line of freight steamers, and es
tablish a coaling station on one o
the Aleutian islands, so that all
vessels, whether going to or coming
from Nome or the Orient, can secure
all tlie coal needed, and the coal
will also l>e shipped to Seattle and
San Francisco.
The company has also secured
some valuable gold ipiartz mines
near Unga, and near St. Michael
has purchased what they lielieve to
he the richest silver and lead mines
in this country. The ore is almost
pure silver and lead.
Mr. Onffroy, with hie son and
twelve assistants, including survey
ors and engineers, have visited
these properties during the past
summer, and are most enthusiastic
over their prospects and Kje great
resources of this country.
The new company will not con
iine their operations to any one
jioint in Alaska, hut will purchase
and develop property wherever
they can secure it. They have a
repn scnta'.ive here in the person
of Mr. H. M. r>can who will bond1
property either in the inierioJ or
on the Sound. ,
Another Line to Alaska.
It i.' announced that the direct*
or.-*01 i la- Oregon Short Line have
voted a fund for the establishment
«»f a steamship line from Portland
to Alaska. The matter has been
under consideration for several
years, and the introduction of a
rcoahlc service has been promised
the support of all the wholesalers
and other business meu of Port
land. ’ —’
In From Elliott Creek.
Messer*. Hubbard and Klliot.ac-j
c.'mpanicd liv (leo. C. Treat, ar-i
rived Saturday afternoon fromj
tlieir projierties on Klliott creek, in 1
the Kotsina country. Mr. Hub- j
bard left here about the first of |
Sept. for Klliott creek, to jmst the
official |>ajicrs calling for jiatents
on a number of their jirojaTties.
We are informed that there has
I wen more actual develojiment;
work on these j>roj>erties than any '
other in this section of the country. I
In every case the ore bodies have
proven to Is; not only extensive,!
fait eighty j»er cent are true rissurej
veins, the ore lieillg of the same!
richness as on the surface.
I'licv report the location of manv
n**w and valuable locations tliia*
fM'iiNin. Mr. Treat ami S. I). Hull
hard located one claim of very tine
eo|»|a*r glance ore, which carries a ;
high percentage of silver. They
also located a number of other
jirojKTties of lairnite ores. hast j
year there were twenty-two claims !
on Klliott creek; this year has ad-!
valued the total to fiftv-four. all I
within h radius of five miles.
I Ins creek makes one of tin- most •
ideal mining propositions in Alas-;
ka, for tlie ease with which the ore]
may lie hat.died (entirely by grav-j
itv if desired) the great quantity]
ot waterpower available; millions j
of feet of tbe best mining timber in
elose proximity to the mines, and
lastly the ease of reaehing tbe prop-'
erties by railroad.
The source of Klliott ereek is dis-:
taut from Copper river approxi-!
mutely IS miles, and from Valdez!
ISO miles. This brings an inex-]
baustable supply of tbe highest j
grade of copper ore almost at the
door of Valdez.
The City Council.
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Tlie City Council met at the city !
hall Moiulav night at which the!
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assessor reported the tax roll com
pleted, and it was ordered turned
over to the treasurer for collection.
The assessor was allowed 1125 for
his services.
A committee was ap|>ointcd, con
sisting of White, Simonstead and
McHie, to pr«»cure at site for a dog
pound and to employ a dog catcher.
The matter of collecting the dog
license was discussed, hut no decis
ion was reached.
The committee on eolleetion of
|>oll tax reported 14 on hand, and
actually stated that there was some
complaint that only a part of the
taxes had iteen collected. No rem
edy was offered and no effort made
to compel the collection of these
taxes.
The following hills were ordered
paid:
Copper River Lumber Co. 1195.00 J
Jas. McHie, assessor 125.00)
Work on bridges 20.00
H. H. Hildreth, salary 12.<Xt
Enlarge Saw Mill.
The saw mill will close down for j
repairs as Siam as they eansaw the
170,(MX) feet of logs that they now |
have on hand.
It is the intention of Capt. Rol>- '
inson to enlarge the capacity of the !
mill so that they can turn out
2-t>,000 feet of lumber a day. In
order to do this they will put in!
new engines and boilers, saws, phi- ]
tiers and everything necessary to!
the completion of a first class mill.
It is ex|iected that the mill will
lie ready for operation by the first !
of r xt April.
Dissolution of Partnership. I
Notire in hereby given that the partnership
heretofore existing between Chan. Hand and
Chaw. K••*»». under the firm iiHtne of Hand A;
lb,!*n. iw this day dismdved by mutual eon went.
Chaw. Hind sue«‘ei*ds to the buwineaa, and will
ree-d Ve and pay all debtw of the late co-partner
ship.
Hated Valdes, Alaska, Nov. 10, 1SU3.
Chaw Kown.
i'll a*. ILutla |
the LOWER YUKON MAIL IB
TO
do Over Valdez Route
First Hall for None Passes Over
the All-Americaa
Trail.
The A ukoti mail left' yesterday
with llNt pounds of Nome mail,
• he first to lie sent over this route.
Those in charge of the mail were
M. F. Dennison, Gnv Banta, F. J.
Decker and John Tietjen. Oscar
Fish nlso accompanied the party,
hut will return with the incoming
mail.
The department intends to try
this route with the through mail
and if all goes well the larger part
of the Nome mail will come this
way. This will mean weekly trips
from here to Kagle and improved
service between here and Seattle.
The P. I., of recent date gives the
following description of the winter
mail service for Alaska:
An approximately accurate ac
count of the winter mail service to
ami from Alaska can !*■ given thus
earlv, though formal detailed in
structions regarding the ma.ter are
vet forthcoming from II. P. Thrall,
superintendent of the Eighth Cnit
ed States mail division, with head
quarters in San Francisco, who has
the general direction and so*
perintendenev of the Alaska mail
service.
The probabilities are that mail
will come from and be despatched
to Nome this winter by four differ
ent routes. These are known as
the all-Yukon, the Yukon-Copper
river. Iliamnu and Katinai routes.
The all Yukon this year, as last,
doubtless will la- route over which
the hulk of the Nome and St Mich
ael mail is to he carried. The all
Yukon route lies from St Michael
up the mighty river to Dawson, on
to the headwaters and across to
Skagwav. from which point it is
conveyed on Lvnn canal liners to
Seattle, the inbound mail taking
the same course. The Yukon-Cop
per river route contemplates the
carrying the mail from St. Michael
and Nome to Eagle City, and thence
through the Cupper river valley to
Valdez, where it will he put alioard
vessels plying lielweeu this and
that nor;.
The Katmai and Iliainna routes
are practically one and the eame.
Both Katmai and llliamna are Alan
ia peninsula points. The mail
for Nome leaves one or another of
these jiorts. being carried overland
to Bethel mission, to the Yukon
and on to St. Michael and Nome,
the route from Nome and St.
Michael being the same. Last
year one regular mail was received
ircnn Nome via the Katmai route.
The Transalaska C'ampany. found
ers of the lliitmna-Nome trail, had
a contract, it carried a consign
ment of mail both wavs during the
season,hut could scarcely lie credit
ed with a continuous delivery.
The lirst mail 10 arrive from
Nome last winter reached Seattle
via tlie all Yukon route February
2nd, having left Nome on Nov. l.'i.
Mail font this port to the North ar
rived at Nome in January. Pri
vate mail advices from the district
were at hand from Nome earlier,
and private mail reached that des
tination from Seattle toward the
close* of December.
City Market is making a grand
display of Poultry for Thanksgiv
ing