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STEWART * SELBY, ITogrlMoM
VALDES, ALASKA
Published Daily Except Sunday
Entered ae Second-Claaa Mall Matter,
July S3. 1313, at the postofflce of Valdes,
Alaska, under act of March 3. 1373.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES:
Dally Preapeetor.
By carrier, per month-• LO*
By mall, per annum -SIAM
The Weekly Mtaer.
The Dally Prospector and Weekly
Miner, by mall, to one address
only, per year-SUM
Business Office and Editorial Rooms,
3y carrier, per month -4 M
By mall, per annum .......4 SM
The Daily Prospector and Week
ly Miner, by carrier, to one ad
dress, per month _>4 LSS
TEL. 133
Advertising Rates oa Application.
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1916
KEEP UP WITH THE PROCESSION
Publishers these days are having
difficulty in securing paper on which
to print their journals. The paper
stock now obtainable is about as poor
as it can well be and hold together
long enough to be read, and yet it
costs nearly 400 per cent more than
two years ago. Good paper stock is
practically unobtainable. Congress is
threatening to investigate the cost of
paper stock to learn whether it is
caused by a combination or whether
it is caused from natural shortages
of material.
inns cost trom sou to oOU per cent
more than they did a year ago. Rollers
and pressboard cost 100 per cent
more; freight is 20 per cent higher,
and every thing the printer eats,
wears, drinks or uses costs from 50
to 75 per cent more.
But despite all this The Prospec
tor is giving' you a better paper than
you received this day a year ago.
More telegraphic news, better edited,
and more prompt delivery at your
door.
During the campaign just past our
telegraph tolls alone amounted to
$150 for the first fifteen days of
November. We gave our people one
of the best telegraphic services ever
presented to the town of Valdez, and
the price remained the same. With
this excellent service we gave sans
price a prognostication on the elec
tion which alone was worth treble
the price of the paper,—if our read
ers had accepted it.
To get out this splendid paper we
must depend upon the support of ev
ery citizen of Valdez. We are not
attempting to run a Republican, or
Democratic, or Progressive, or So
cialist, or Methodist, or Episcopalian,
or Catholic paper; but a paper for the
citizens of Valdez. We desire to re
main friendly with all denominations
and parties and plug for the future
upbuilding of Valdez.
We would appreciate your help in
our self-appointed task, but if you
feel inclined to hang back in the
breeching, we deem that your privi
lege; but we beg that you step to one
side and let the chariot of progress
£.0 by.
Notwithstanding the cost of paper
and supplies we intend to give Valdes
the best paper she has ever had;
each day better than the one preced
ing.
With your help we can make a
much better paper, and we again ask
I
your united support, that the town
may be properly represented, and our
varied mineral resources brought to
the attention of outside capital.
THE GREATEST GOLD MINE.
Nine years ago, in May, when pass
ing upon the leading gold producing
mines of the world, we came to the
conclusion that the three best mines
were the Robinson, the Waihi and
the Homestake, says the Mining and
Scientific Press of recent date. The
Robinson was at that time the pre
mier property on the Rand goldfield;
it had 4,500,000 tons of $14 ore as
sured and was being operated at a
cost of $4.90 per ton. The stoplng
width was 6.5 feet and only 18 per
cent of waste had to be sorted out of
the mine product. Finally, the mine
was earning $3,500,000 per annum.
This, it will be granted was a hand
some showing.
What has happened since then? In
1915 the mill treated 688,800 ton*
of 6.72 dwt. ore at a cost of $3.40,
[after sorting out only 3.7 per cent.
The yield in gold was worth $4,652,
1389 of which $2,378,692 was labeled
profit. The dividend paid was $1,
915,750. Nine years ago the mine
had paid $25,497,362 on a capital
of $13,750,000. Since then it has
produced 5,280,460 tons yielding
$55,069,060, avering $10.43 per ton.
On this a nominal profit of $35,373,
194 was declared and $28,738,263
distribute din dividends, equal to 24
per cent per annual during the nine
years, on a capital of $13,337,750.
Evidently therefore the Robinson has
fulfilled expectations. From the be
ginning of 1888 to end of 1915, this
mine has produced $99,332,584, from
7,966,775 tons of ore, averaging
$12.50 per ton, at a cost of $4.43 per
ton. The dividends aggregate 405.5
per cent, or $54,235,625 in 27 years,
or 15 per cent per annum on the
550,000 shares of $25 each. Inci
dentally the aggregate “profit" is
just about $10,000,000 less than the
total of dividends.
“FROM MISSOURI.”
After waiting nearly two weeks.
Charles E. Hughes sent to President
W’ilson a telegram of congratulations
on Mr. Wilson’s re-election to the
highest office in the gift of the Amer
ican people, and thus admitted his
defeat for the Presidency. While
Mr. Wilson's election had been con
ceded on the ninth day of November
by the leading newspapers and the
country at large, Mr. Hughes was
‘from Missouri” and had to be
shown, but when once shown he cap
itulated and sent a telegram to Mr
Wilson giving him the glad hand.
This congratulatory stuff from the
defeated to the successful candidate,
when considered from the standpoint
of human nature, is pure bunk. Mr.
Hughes was the nominee of one of
the great parties of the nation. The
office to which he aspired carries
with it not only a liberal compensa
tion, but is the highest in point of
honor to which an American citizen
can aspire, and Mr. Hughes was de
sirious of winning as any other
man would have been. To be defeat
ed was undoubtedly a sore disap
pointment. Mr. Hughes resigned a
position which would keep the aver
age country editor in hog and homi
ny comfortably for a long time, with
THE EMPRESS
FLORENCE REED
In the Famous Emotional Five Act Drama
“The Dancing Girl”
CAST OF CHARACTERS
DRL'SILLA IVES .FLORENCE REED
David Ives .Fuller Mellish
Faith Ives .-. Lorraine Haling
A Quaker . Malcolm Williams
John Christieon . William Russell
Duke of Guiaeberry .-..». Eugene Ormonde
Mr. Crake (his overseer).... William Lloyd
Lady Bawtry, the duke's aunt. Minna Gale
Sanday-Triangle Play-The Valet-Comedy
a pu m. Sharp. Ilagalar AAaiarfan
something left over to slip Jawn D.
for Joyrides.
To be defeated ta bad enough, but
to be compelled by a custom of un
known and absurd origin to con
gratulate your successful rival when
your spleen has attained its largest
dimensions, is adding to the injury.
In words, on paper, Mr. Hughes
has tendered Mr. Wilson his congrat
ulations and best wishes, and the ac
cepted formula is completed, but if
Mr. Hughes is as human as most of
ub are, he is about as sore over his
defeat as we would have been had
"Honest John" and "Gravy Bob”
been successful.
A simple admission of defeat by
the Chairman of the Republican Na
tional Committee would have been
much better and would have provided
pork chops for many men who had
hocked their shirt studs to bet on
Wilson, and could not get their fin
gers on their money.
The way to treat some men kindly
is to treat them often.
Somehow or other when an old
maid meets a newly married woman
the old maid can’t find a thing to
talk about.
Maybe the reason your girl's lit
tle hands are so soft and white is
because her mother's hands are so
rough and soiled from doing the
house work.
Every man should have at least six
children. They take the conceit out
of him by asking him questions that
he cannot answer and keep him fr.ia;
imagining that he knows it ail.
You can’t always tell. It ofren;
happens that the 100-pound n<ani
with the 200-pound wife is boss of
the house. And again the 100 pound |
[woman with the 200 pound husband
i is chief of the premises.
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| POWERS LOOK TOWARD MEXICO
Uncle Sam Held Responsible for In
terests of Foreign Nations.
European claims for damage done;
by the revolutions in Mexico amount |
to $400,000,000. The Britsh and the
French embassies in Washington re
cently called to the attention of Sec-j
retary Lansing the fact that the Car-!
ranza government has seized the as-1
sets of British and French banking
institutions in the City of Mexico.
The British charge d'affaires at the
city of Mexico, now in Washington.!
said that Great Britain could not per
mit Carranza to imperil British in
terests.
The implication was that unless
the United States takes some action i
in behalf of the British and French
banks, these governments will take
maters into their own hands, Appar
ently Paris and London feel that the
Monroe Doctrine should not only give!
the United States a free field on this!
continent, but that it should place j
upon us the obligation of protecting j
foreign interests. It was with this;
understanding that Europe kept |
hands off in Mexico throughout thej
four years of revolution in that eoun-j
try. How much longer European na
tions can be induced to hold aloof in I
the matter of speculation.
All that the state department has;
done is to send these new complaints!
to American commissioners meeting!
with the Mexican representatives in j
Atlantic City. The American commis-j
sioners have served notice thai th".
claims of European nations against
Mexico must be considered in any ad
justment that is to be reached. Since
foreign governments held off at the;
request of the United States, theyj
considered that the Washington gov
ernment is responsible for the satis- j
faction of these claims, and they need I
(he money.
According to the method of com-1
putation used by the Northern Com-j
mereial Company at Fairbanks, the
Ireesenp of the Tanana river occur-'
red October 31. Only twice since
the N. C. company has kept the re- j
cord has the river closed later than j
this. In 1903, the first year the re
cord was kept, the river closed Nov
ember 13, and in 1911 it closed on
November 4.
At a recent meeting of the Alaska
Labor Union at Anchorage it was
voted to issue bonds in the sum of
*15,000 for the purpose of raising
funds to complete the new hall. It
Is expected to cost about $25,000 of
which amount more than $7,000 has
already been donated. The bonds
will bear 6 per cent Interest.
Mrs. Arthur Plnkus will leave on
the Alameda for the winter to visit
her home In Portland to recuperate
her health. *
The Golden North has steam heat
ed rooms. tf
The Home of the Pat-a-Oake. At
Love-Wh:;ley Co. tf
CITY EXPRESS, Phone 82; reedy
to transfer that baggage tor yom. tf
NORWEGIANS, FURIOUS,
CALL GERMANS PIRATES
CHRISTIANA, Not. 25.—Never
before daring tbe war baa the Nor
wegian press so unanimously ex
pressed tbe resentment aroused Id
Norway by the last steps in the Ger
man submarine warfare. The Ore
blade t calls it piracy and says it is
tbe general opinion that German ear
against mercantile ships is directed
especially against Norway, adding:
“It is a fact that this continue!
torpedoing of Norwegian ships de
prives Germany of friends in Nor
way.”
The Tidens Tegn says bitterness
has been provoked everywhere in
!Norway by the destroying of Norwe
gian ships and lives of Norwegian
sailors, and vehemently urges the
government to do something to pro
tect property and life.
The Verdensgang asserts Germany
has substituted for international law
vhe principle of power, recognizing
no other standard than what its own
interests dictate. Other papers say
the German government's secret
agents who report the sailings of
Norwegian ships are tolerated every
where while such agents have been
expelled from Holland and that when
Norwegian press correspondents at
tempt to keep ship owners and of
ficers posted as to whether German
submarines are lying in wait off the
coast, the censorship suppresses the
telegrams lest they might be of us?
to England.
The Shipping and Mercantile Ga
zette says that just before the new
submarine warfare began, agents of
the German government appeared in
its editorial office and threatened the
paper and the country because of al
leged unfriendliness towards Ger
many.
Popuiar feeling toward Germany is
tar from friendly. Ship owners have
decided not to permit their vessels
to sail to Russian ports in the Arctic,
and the war insurance companies will
take no risks on ships or cargoes with
such destination.
The Aften Posten says Norway
does not so much fear German sub
marine warfare near the American
coast, as it must be supposed that
the United States is better prepared
than are the small neutral nations to
prevent wholesale torpedoing of neu
tral ships.
The German submarine warfare
thus far has cost Norway 171 ships
with a total tonnage of 235,000 and
the lives of 140 Norwegian sailors.
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CLERGYMAN DEPOSED
FOR ALLEGED CRIME
POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y„ Nov. 25
Arthur Worthington, former pastor
of the Presbyterian church in New
Ilampburg, N. Y„ was deposed yes
terday from the ministry and excom
municated from the Presbyterian
church by a trial commission of min
isters and laymen of the North River ;
Presbytery. He was adjudged guilty !
of bigamy, swindling, fraud and bias-,
phemy.
The evidence obtained after two
years’ investigation showed that
Worthington had nine wives and was
known under 11 aliases. His right
name is Samuel Oakley Crawford.
Records show he served two prison j
terms for fraud, one in Albany, N.!
Y., and one in Melbourne, Australia.)
His operations covered the United |
States, Europe and the Antipodes. '
In his activities he obtained more i
than $500,U00, it is alleged. The de
posed minister disappeared from '
Pougkeepsie live weeks ago.
The Frye-Bruhn Company will re-!
c"ive oil the Alameda an unequalled]
upply of fresh killed turkeys, ducks, ;
geese, chickens and suckling 'pigs, j
fresh Booth oysters and, crabs, and j
also a full line of green goods such j
as cranberries, celery, grape fruit, j
and all other kinds of fruit. tf ]
_ I
An up-to-date line of cook stoves
Rnd ranges at Mea/Vs. tf
Hand laundry. Phone 81 McKiule;
St. tf
Your picture will please the folks
at home better than anything yon can
send them. Jenner the photographer
tt
Location notices, both quarts and
placer, for sale at the Prospector of
fice.
All kinds of cocktails. At the
Candy Kitchen. tf
Fresh Augustine ft Kyer Batter
Krtsp and Queen Victorias at Hunt's.
A new line of Beaters priced right,
at Mead's. M
A new line of hand painted china.
Owl Drug Co. M
FOR SALE—Thoroughbred Lew
ellyn pups, f 10 and f 16 each. Brick
Lucas, Seward, Alaska. 11-fO
A full line of py rails itory at Owl
Drug Co. «
MERCHANT’S CAFE
PRR8H BRRAD AND PASTRY DAILY
PhoiM 08 OPEN ALL NIGHT Ob a*. Fincher, Propr.
ST. ELIAS HOTEL
Under New Management
THOROUGHLY RENOVATED; WARM, LIGHT, OUTSIDE ROOMS
SPECIAL RATES TO PERMANENT GUESTS
PHONE 104 MRS. L. HOI/T, Prop.
Mead’s Sheet Metal Works
plumbing STOVES and RANGES heating
MOTOR BOAT SUPPLIES, PAINTS and OILS
Mine Air Pipe, Valves, Hose, Pipe and Fittings
Valdes Dock. Opposite Prospector Office. Telephone 24
LOUIE’S CAFE
Everything First class
Open Day and Night
ANDY MAROVICH, Prop.
LAUNCH N & S
Leaves every Wednesday at 0 a.
n>. from Valdes Doek for Eel la
mar, Landloek, and Fldalico.
Leaves every Saturday at I,a. m.
from Valder. Doek for Cedar Hay,
Wells Bay, Port Wells and Gran
ite Mine.
PORTAGE BAY AND OTHER
POINTS BY CONTRACT
W. J. CALLAGHAN
OWNER AND MASTER.
I Candy Kitchen i
E. W. HUNT—b Owl Dnif Store. I
j FOUNTAIN DRINKS \
HOT-COLD i
Valdez Miners Union No. 188
Western Federation of Miner*
ROBERT SHAFFER. President.
Granite Mine
CHAS. McCALLUM. Secretary.
Valdes Alaska.
Petty thieving is rampant in An
chorage. The Times of that city had
occasion to cai* the attention of the j
postmaster to the necessity for a j
lamp in the corridor of the postof
iic-e, only to be met with the reply!
that the postmaster had repeatedly j
provided one but it had been stolen. I
Judge David had a thermometer;
stolen from in front of his office in
broad daylight.
FOR RENT—Three-room house,
Sherman street, furnished, ready to
move in, rent moderate, man and
wife preferred; apply Mrs. A. C.
Dowling, Sherman street. tf j
FISH WHERE 3
THE FISHING'S |
GOOD 3
The riSHING IS GOOD
In this town.
THa Hama ■atrhal CAN SUP
PLY YOUR EVERY WANT.
eeep’tbiT1 dollars Tn
TOWN.
SHOW YOUR CIVIC PRIDE.
TRADE AT HOME
PROFE88IONA1, CARDS.
DR. S. WICKES MERRITT
Ofllces over V aldez Drag Co.
Phone '15 McKinley Stree
Contract Surgeon, U. S. Army
A. A. Surgeon, U S. Public Health Serv.
(Marine Hospital)
DR. H. COCKERILLE
DENTIST
Fourteen Years in Valdez.
PHONE FJO
Office Rooms in Whiling Building
DONOHOE & DiMOND
attoiimeys-at-law
once Opposite Coart Heine
Phone 3* VALDEZ, ALASKA
JOHN LYONS g, K KITCHM
LYONS & RITCHIE
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
Offlcea In Whaling Unlldlng
Phone lOJ VALDEZ. ALASKA
ASA C. BALDWIN
CIVIL ENGINEER
U. S. Mineral Survey*r
McKinley Street opposite V. M. Store.
Valdez, Alaska
PIONEERS OF ALASKA
IGLOO NO. SEVEN
Meets every Tuesday evening at 8:Of
o’clock in their hall over U. S. Com
missioner's office. Visitors are always
welcome.
T. H. HUNT. President.
E. G. AMES, Secretary.
VALDEZ LODGE
NO 108
Free and Aecepted Mannas.
Regular Communications first Wed
nesday in each month in McKinley
Hall. Visitors always welcome.
F. M. BROWN, W. M
ED WOOD, Secretary.
A. M. DIERINGER
Valdez Transfer
Company
Office on Alaska Avenue, in
George C. Treat Building
Telephone No. 60
General Trucking and Freighting
to all Interior Points.
LIVERY and FEED STABLE,
STORAGE,
Teaming of All Kinds
Positively No Coal Delivered Un
less Paid for in Advance
The Beat Placejnt VaAdex to
Stags a$b the
Arctic Hotel
Wan, Ifcftt fean-lfc Hn»«f C—hit
KATVS MASONABtE
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