STEAM HEATED HOT AND COLD BATHS
Copper Block Hotel
VALDEZ, ALASKA
“The House of Comfort”
pH0NE 7 FOR MEN ONLY
MERCHANT’S CAFE
FRESH BREAD AND PASTRY DAILY
M Chas. Fischer, Propr.
Phone do
Buy Alaska Made Cigars
ASK FOR W. R. King, Terminus, or Lavtnna,
Made in Seward by union workmen.
We maintain onr atandard. Sold everywhere
COTTON PRICES IN
GERMANY HAVE TRKBIJ5D
FRANKFORT, Ger.; The Frank
fort Zeitung publishes the following
report of conditions in the German
cotton industry:
“During the last three months bus
iness in the German cotton industry
has been extremely quiet. Mean
while the use of cotton and cotton
waste has been regulated in such a
way that these raw materials can
hardly be used at all except for army
purposes. Consequently, the existing
stocks of yarn having been used up,
and the transition period having ex
pired, the free activity of most of the
mills is checked and the closing of
a number of spinning and weaving
mills is to be expected; in some cases,
indeed, it has already taken place.
“During the last three months cot
ton has been uncommonly dear in
Germanv. The price of middling in
the open market at Bremen was
about double the price which pre
vailed before the intervention of
Italy, and about treble the price at
the beginning of August,' 1914.
“The situation as regards cotton
waste is similar to the situation as
regards cotton. Germany and Aus
tria were always important buyers of
English, American and Indian waste.
Since the disappearance of these two
buyers it is said that enormous stocks
of cotton waste have accumulated in
Lancashire and plso in Bombay.
“Employment in the German cot
ton spinning mills has fallen off very
much in consequence of the official
regulations. Yarns are no longer de
livered except to purchasers who can
prove that they will be used for the
carrying out of army contracts, and
as such orders are not on a very great
scale, business iB jtagnant. Deliver
ies are kapt within the narrowest
limits, arid there have been very few
new bargains dWing the last few
months. Business in imitation and
fancy yarns is rather more active, as
it is also in the mills which produce
Wn-evlinder yarn, because these
businesses can use the various Kinds
of cotton waste the employment of
which is permitted by the regulations.
A large number, however, of cotton,
Cotton waste, and also "imitation”
mills have preferred to stop work.
“The position of the German cot
ton-weaving industry has been un
favorable during the past three
months. Production for non-military
Vequirments is, with comparatively
few exceptions, forbidden. Orders for
the military authorities were only of
moderate extent in August and Sept
ember. It was only during October
that blanket business became more
active. Almost the whole existing
stocks of cotton blankets were taken
by the military authorities, and new
orders were given. There is also a
'strong demand at present for sand
bag materials. Many concerns have
devoted themselves to this business,
* and are employing in it most of their
spindles. The busiest concerns are
those which produce bandages and
hosplal requisites, many of them be
ing supplied with orders until next
spring.”
ADMIRAL LINK HEAD
SAYS PROSPERITY COMING.
SEATTLE: President H. F. Alex
ander. oPttae Pacific Alaska<sNaviga
tion company, operating .the Admiral
line of steamers to Southwestern
Alaska, has returned from the East,
and says that business conditions in
the east ‘have improved in an amaz
ing manner during the past few
months.' He report* that factories,
shipyards and mills are swamped with
orders and will accept no new orders
for delivery less than one year ahead.
‘The lumber mills of the South ore
Htocked with foreign ordenbthat will
keep them busy for two years and the
lumbermen say that the Mississippi
Valley* the central states and the At
lantic states will have to depend bn
tbe Pacific coast mills for their ltim
ber. While the closing of the Pana
ma canal will hold back this busi
ness to a certain extent, all the lum
bermen agree that thfey will have to
come West.
“While the war, I found, is un
doubtedly responsible for heavy busi
ness among the transportation com
panies, the executive officers of many
of the railroads and other concerns
tell of an immense increase in do
mestic business. I personally talked
with executives of the Great North
ern, the Milwaukee system, the Nor
thern Pacific, the New York. New
Haven & Hartford, and other lines.
Without exception they said that the
transportation business was bette.
now than at any time in the history
of their roads. All said that the
wave of prosperity is rapidly extend
ing to tfe coas$.”
Alexander went East to purchase
the steamships Ruthland and Ogden s
berg for the Admiral Line’s Alaska
service. The vessels are now under
going alterations and improvements
in New York the company expending
approximately $100,000 on each ship.
New stern frames and new steel
masts and cargo booms are being in
stalled and the ports plated. They
will steam for Seattle on the open
ing of the canal. These ships are to
be renamed the Admiral Clark and
the Admiral Sebree.
SCHOOL FUND FROM
FORESTS IS UNTOUCHED
Juneau Empire: The Nelson School
Fund of the Territory is holding out
much better than expected when the
estimates for the present year were
footed up. All schools are to run the
full nine months with the exception
of Eagle River, Anchorage and Ka
saan. The latter three are new dis
tricts established during the past
summer and for a time it was thought
funds to open schools there would not
be available. At the Governor’s of
fice today it was said that all schools
are running and that so far it has
proven unnecessary to touch any of
the S15,000 received from the Forest
Service as the school fund for the
Forest Service money .turned over to
the Territory.
The Anchorage school has been
opened and is to run for a term of
eight months. This was made possi
ble by the Railroad Commission
which arranged for the housing of
the school. If the Territory had been
forced to provide a school building
the school could not have been open
ed this term. The Eagle River school
was opened under the same condi
tion, the settlers in that section pro
viding the building. The Eagle Riv
er district, has been allowed funds
for eight months of school. Expen
ditures were authorized today to cov
er the expenses of live months of
school at Kasaan. This waa the last
district formed and for a long time
no funds were available to open the
school. Mendenhall was authorized
to hold school for five months with
the proviso that if ap increased at
tendance could be shown at <the end
of three months, the full nine months
term would be authorized. The show
ing of increased attendance has been
made and today the directors were
authorized to continue the school for
the full nine months.
First Class Show Tonight.
A first class program has been ar
ranged at the Liberty Theatre for to
night as follows:
The Animal—a drama well wortb
seeing.
Thieves and the Cross—a good fea
ture.
A Trip Thruogh the Alps—a scenic
picture. ■ ■■■
The Simple Life—some #un'.
Fatty and the Bandit—don’t miss
it.
Be sure and don’t miss this show
tonight at -the Liberty theatre
Note—Charlie Chaplin, the funni
est inan in the movies presents him
self 8unday night at the Liberty The
atre. ,
UNO CREEK WILL
FINISH POWER
Sea Coast Mining Company will In
stall metric Plant to Generate
Power for Mines.
The waters of Uno Creek, which
empty into Shoup Bay, are soon to
be harnessed and will be made to per
form their share in the industrial
development of the Valdez district.
E. R. Pulver and George A. Pulver,
officers of the Sea Coast Mining com
pany, who arrived on the Alameda a
few days ago from the States, have
announced that the work of install
ing a hydro-electric plant, having a
capacity of six hundred horsepower
will be installed there and will be
ready to furnish electricity before the
middle of the coming summer.
It will be remembered that the
company suffered the loss of its
plant last year through the destruc
tion of the Grand Trunk dock in Se
attle, when its machinery to the value
of $18,000 was burned the night be
fore it was to have been shipped
north.
Uno creek is capable of developing
a tremendous power, Which, in time,
will be fully utilized in furnishing
electricity to the mines for the dis
trict. The first unit to be installed
will have a capacity of GOO horsepow
er and will furnish power for the Sea
Coast mine, the Three-in-One mine
and the Cliff mine.
The plant will be established near
the beach and will be supplemented
with a steam plant in order that cus
tomers of the company may be assur
ed of a service tor the entire year.
The pipe to convey the water to the
turbines was placed on the ground
last summer. The distance from the
intake to the point of discharge is
about twelve hundred and fifty feet
and affords a fall of three hundred
and thirty-seven feet, furnishing a
tremendous pressure. The pipe is
16, 14 and 12 inch. The power hoiiBe
is ready to receive the machinery
and four hundred feet of the trestle
work has been completed. The tim
bers for the penstocks and flumes are
on the ground and it is believed that
the plant will be furnishing power
within ninety days after the arrival
of the machinery, which will come
north on one of the first boats.
Development work on the Sea
Coast mining property will be carried
forward and contracts are now being
let for driving tunnels. The work to
be undertaken during the present
winter will be confined to continuing
the tunnels which were driven into
the mountain several hundred feet
last summer, and in crosscuts. An
upraise will also be made in order to
connect the main tunnel with a shaft
which was put down last year to a
depth of more than fifty feet. About
three hundred feet of tunnel has al
ready been run on the property and
has developed a good body of ore.
The Sea Coast leads, of which there
are a number, vary in size up to eight
feet in width. The vein upon which
the tunnel was run into the moun
tain has a uniform width of three
feet and returned values of $31 per
ton from mill test. A number of the
smaller leads carry much greater
values as assays have been made re
turning values of $400 per ton.
A five stamp mill was delivered on
the ground last summer, but owing
to the loss of the power plant in the
Seattle fire the stamps were not in
stalled but the work will be started
at any early date and it is not expect
ed that the Sea Coast will enter the
list of producing mines before next
fall.
FOREST ROAD MONEY
FI ND ALMOST CON E
Warrants were drawn against the
Forest Money Road Fund for the
First Division yesterday by Secretary
Davidson for $3935 to A. E. Heath
of Ketchikan in payment for con
structing the Territory's part of the
Charcoal Point Road at Ketchikan.
This road has cost $10,028.84, leav
ing a balance in the fund for the
First Division of $1281.96. In the
Fourth Division the fund has been
exhausted on road work in the Fair
banks section. Tbe Third Division
has $4166.80 remaining in the fund
and the Fourth Division has used all
but $739.76 of their share. The
Forest Servioe Fund, which was ap
propriated between the four divisions
by the Last Legislature amounted to
dl»;ur;
310.80 to be expended on road work
in the divisions. The balance of the
Forest Money was placed in the Nel
son School Fund to be used in main
taining schools outside incorporated
towns.—Juneau Dispatch.
Just received ,the finest line of
neckties ever -shown in Valdes, at
Ben Bttverman's. l>
Had Exercised a Paternal Influence
Over His Countrymen in Val
dez and Was Well Known.
' V
George Yoshida, a Japanese, who
has resided in Valdez for a number
of years and was well and favorably
known, died yesterday afternoon
from a complication of diseases. He
has been a sufferer from kidney trou
ble for many months and had been
confined to his home for several
weeks ago he embraced the Catho
lic faith and his last moments were
attended by Father Corbett.
George was regarded as a man of
influence among the Japanese in this
section of Alaska as he exercised a
paternal Influence over them and their
interests and was always ready to aid
any of his countrymen who were in
trouble.
He has a brother living in Valdez
who was in constant attendance at his
bedside before the end came. Ar
rangements for the funeral are being
made and will be announced later.
Funeral services will take place
from the Catholic Church, Wednesday
at 11 a. m. Interment in the Valdez
cemetery.
KAISER REFUSES PERMIT
SALE OF GERMAN SHIPS
NEW YORK: The action of the
Germans in respect to their shipping
tied up in American ports is not un
derstood. At the outbreak of the war
the big German steamship companies
were anxious to sell much of their
shipping. It was figured out that
they could save maintenance expenses
and build new vessels during the
war.
Objection was made on the part of
Great Britain and her allies and also
by advocates of strict neutrality in
the United States who maintained
that purchasing those ships was giv
ing so much ammunition to Germany.
Now, however, Germany and Great
Britain have both been recognized as
rightful borrowers of money in the
United States and the question natu
rally arises as to why efforts have not
been made to relieve American ship
ping by purchase of German bo$ts.
One of the big steamship companies
signed contracts of sale of several of
its boats and the individuals purchas
ing those boats signed on their parts
It was stipulated by them, however,
that the boats should be subject to
dock inspection. The ships passed
this dock inspection and all that re
mained was to receive the formal
consent of the German government
and the cash from the American pur
chasers to complete the trade.
To the complete surprise of all par
ties in interest the German emperor
refused the imperial consent to the
transfer.
FIRST DISCOVERY OF
GOLD IN ALASKA
It is interesting to note at this time
that the first discovery of gold in
Alaska was made during the Russian
occupation on Anuak river, a tribu
tary of the Kuskokwim.
The Anuak river was discovered by
a Russian trader, Simensen Lukeen.
in 1832, at which time he built a fort,,
called Lukeen’s fort, 'on the Kusko
kwim. 25 miles above the mouth of
the Anuak. It was partially destroy
ed by natives in 1841 and rebuilt by
Kalmakoff, a Russian trader, and aft
erwards called KalmakofT Redoubt.
In 1832 the-headquarters of the
Russian American Fur company wore
at Sitka, and supplies were trans
ported from there to Lukeen’s fort
by way of Nushagak river, Tic-a-chic
river and lake down the Anuak to
the Kuskokwim, and thence by stem
25 miles to the fort.
In 1837 the yearly supplies were
sent in by the way of the mouth of
the Kuskokwim river and the old way
abandoned as a summer route and
used only for the purpose of sending
out the mail during the winter by
dog team.
It was the only winter route the
Russians ever used fiom anv point on
the Yukon to the outside (^itka),
and was only abandoned for the pur
pose after they left the country.
It was while on one of these trips,
in 1832, that the Russians discov
ered gold on the Anuak, and it is
known today as the Yellow river of
the Russians. It is not known whether
they evCy attempted mining on a
large scale, or whether they fttord
gold in paying quantities, it is tho
Unit time' ofi record of gold being
found in this country.
Kodak SuppIlP* at ate Valdea
Drug Company. tf
Hata OleeiMd and Blocked.
Hit* cteaaed and blocked; enitf
cleaned and preeaed.
tf OUT W. OAMBRON. '
CITY EXPRESS
MEETS ALL BOATS AND NEVER MISSES A TRAIN
Aoto for Hir e Day or Night.
Boy and Sell Anything.
Phone 82 J. A. SPENARD, Prop.
Independent Laundry Co.
Satisfaction Gnaranteed
Telephone 88
Foot Keystone Ave
Rough Dry lCc lb
When in Chitina Stop at the
CHITINA HOTEL
Finest Hotel in the Interior—Well Heated, Clean Rooms.
Bar in Connection. Rates Reasonable
UPPER TONSINA ROAD HOUSE
Best of Meals—Prices Reasonable
GENERAL STORE. - TRADING POST.
Telephone connects with Chitina'.
General Freighting. KNUTE nafsted. Mur.
VALDEZ REAL ESTATE AGENCY
Real Estate, Insurance, General Brokerage
Absentees Business Properly Handled
Treat Building, Alaska Ave. Telephone No. 60
Mead’s Sheet Metal Works
PIAMBING, STEAM AND HOT WATER HEATING,
Sheet Metal Work, Mine Air Pijte, Pipe and Fittings, Valves, Etc.
Motor Boat Supplies, Paints and Oils,
located on Valdez Dock, Opposite Prospector Office. Phone 24
Pacific Alaska Navigation Co.
PUGET SOUND PUGET SOUND
California Alaska
ALASKA
Steamers sail from Seattle at 9 P. M. on
5th, 15th, 25th—EVERY MONTH
Slnmr Sailing KMh call* Illamaa and Kodiak—All Sailing call at Knik
and Anchorage.
CALIFORNIA
Seattle to San Franetaco every Wednesday aad Sunday, connecting with
Steamer* Yale and Harvard for Southern California.
Right reserved to change schedule without notice
RICHARD J. RINGWOOD, Mgr., Seattle! VALDEZ DOCK CO„ local Agt.
ALASKA
STEAMSHIP CO.
8. 8. ALAMEDA AND S. S. NORTHWESTERN SAIL FROM SE
ATTLE THE 10TH, 20TH AND 30TH,
EVERY MONTH
FROM VALDEZ SOUTH—8TH, 18TH, 28TH, FOR CORDOVA,
JUNEAU, WRANGEL, KETCHIKAN AND SEATTLE.
_ service for Ketchikan, Wrangell. Juneau. Sheep
Creek, Treadwell, Douglas, Skagway. Cordova, Ellamar. Valdes and La
touche. Explosives, S. 8. Seward, on the Eth; La touche, on the 16th- S S
Cordova. 25th of each month—right reserved to change this schedule
without notice.
r. Bv TBACY, C«n Agent VALDEZ DOCK CO- Local Agent.
When Ybu Leave
For the Outside
’ take the
One read—one management—one service all the way
through to Chicago. It's the Short Line to the
over
THE NEW STEEL TRAIL .
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For information and hterature write or ask
J. C. MARTIN, Agent, Valdes, Alaska.
CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE A ST, PAUL RY.
A. E. HARRIS, Freight and Passenger Agt,
Juneau,- Alaska.