THE ALASKA PROSPECTOR
ublished ut Valdez, Alaska, every Thursday by the Prospector
Publishing Co. Phone, Main 1.
Entered at the Valdez postoflice as second class matter.
The last assessment roll of the I
town of Valdez shows a realty
value of about $300,000, and adja
cent to the town is another inhab
ited section that is practically a
a part of the town, though not
within the corporate limits, and
consequently not on the assessment
roll. If it was we Could show a
conservative valuation of at least
$400 ,'!00, and all built up from the
hard earnings of an enterprising
and energetic class of men and
women who came here from all
over the union to try to better
their conditions. They are the
people who from their own re
sources have opened up the vast
country known as the Copper river
section of Alaska, and as a head
quarters they have established and
built up the the town of Valdez,
until, as our local contemporary
justly says, “It has become one of
the best towns in Alaska.” It is
excellently situated at the head of
navigation, with two wharves, a
first-class electric light plant,a well
equipped sawmill, churches, schools
stores of all kinds, comfortable
homes and many other up-to date
improvements are well established.
After eight years of expenditure of
toil and capital to bring the town
to its present position, where many
have their every dollar invested, is
it any wonder that they now object
to throwing up their hands and
surrendering everything at the re
quest of a few interested
parties, and receive in return only
the privilege of purchasing lots
and erecting buildings on a piece
of ground five miles down the bay,
and consequently that much fur
ther away from the interior, aim
ply to enrich the owners of a piece
of property that was taken up a
few years ago as a pasture for
stock, but which will be far more
valuable to the owners as a town
site if railroad investors can be
induced to construct five miles more
of road than is necessary in order
to put value in the so-called town
site. As stated above the people
of Valdez have opened up the Cop
per river country and have done
more, they have discovered valu
able mineral deposits that are only
valuable ii they can be brought to
the market, and that a railroad is
necessary for the purpose everyone
recognizes the fact and every indi
vidual would gladly welcome the
advent of a road. “It has been a
long wait, but the people here have
held on determinedly if a little im
patiently, confident that in the end
they would be rewarded for their
perse verence,” and such a reward,
they are advised to stand one side
and grin while being despoiled of
$400,00J worth of their hard earned
dollars. It is objected by the in
terested parties and by them only
that Valdez is unsuited for a town
Bite owing to occasional washouts,
The same might lie said of Galves
ton, East St. Louis and many
other towns throughout the Union
that have existed many years, are
still in existence, and are prosper
ous. The washouts referred to oc
cur on the north and south sides of
the town so that the proposed rail
road if started from the proposed
townsite would have double the
amount of water to contend with
than if it were started from Valdez, j
But no it is not a matter of water
trouble, but of townsite profits,
and this same townsite proposition
has held Valdez back more than
any other factor. Each season
during the past three years there
has Wen given a positive assurance
that a railroad was altout to W
constructed from there and some
of our citizens have Wen offered
inducements on each occasion to
move there. The promoters know
ing quite well the sheep-like pro
pensities of the human race to fol
low a leader on all occasions. The
people of Valdez are more than
anxious for a railroad as they have
paved the way for it and they
Aitow that Valdez, where the land
is free to all comers, is eminently
suited for a terminal, but no mat
ter where it is located no obstacles
will be interposed. We nil know
of hundreds of 8]K)ts along the
shores of Prince William sound
on which towns might be built a
number of towns. Sites have been
located and in fact one is now be
ing built at the head of Cordova
bay. They are all good for some
future purpose but at the present
do not, as Valdez docs, offer the
same inducements for economical
railroad construction to interior
points. Their selection brings to
mind u musher who has taken up
many placer claims in Alaska
simply because they afforded
plenty of water and a good dump
regardless as to what the ground
contained.
As stated elsewhere in these col
umns two men are isolated on
Middleton Island, off the coast of
Alaska, and if still alive must lie
in a starving condition. It is al
most impossible to reach them in
a small boat, one at least having
been wrecked and lives lost in at
tempting to reach them. The
island is not much out of the way
of steamers coming to or leaving
Valdez, and it would be a humane
act for one of the companies oper
ating along the coast to give orders
that would tend to save the^nen
if psosihle. The island is not very
large and is in a general!}’ rough
part of the ocean and is well known
to all captains.
A Texas girl advertised for a
husband and got him. The total
expense for advertising, wedding
outfit, etc., was $11. Within a
year he died, leaving her an in
surance policy of $10,000. And
yet somo people still claim that it
doesn’t pay to advertise,—Ex.
Forfeiture Notice.
Alaska Mining asi> Development Company,
Ij EAlMJl'AHTERS AT NT. LoVlS, Mo.t
You art* hereby notified that the undersigned
lias performed your share of one hundred dol
lars wort Ir of work for each of the years of 1‘JOl,
l'Arj, DRW, l'.Hd and l!Wi, on the plueer mining
elaim situated on NlateCrcek, Alaska, known as
the**NI. Anne.” Said elaim was located June 22,
H.*tM>, Recorded Juue 2*. l'.HM), in Hook 1, imgc 112,
Chiaua Mining Records, iu Alaska. Nani ex
penditure was made in order to hold said
claim tinder the provisions of Heel ion 2324 of
the Revised Statutes ot the Cnited States, and
amendments thereto, concerning annual work
on iiiiuiug claims, being tlie amouut required
to hold said claims until December Mist, lWti.
And if, hi the expiration of ninety days from
tlie publication of this notice you faii or refuse
to contribute your proportion of such expendi
ture as co-owner, your interest in said mining
claim will become the property of the under
signed, A. M. Howell, your co-owner who lias
made the required expenditure, or paid for the
same, according to the terms of said sect it n.
.. A. M. Howell.
Hrst publication Aug. t», 11105.
Last publication Nov. 6,1UU5.
Notice Dissolution of Partnership.
Notice is hereby given, that the partnership
heretofore existing between the undersigned
in the Horseshoe Saloon, in Valdez, Alaska, is
this day dissolved by mutual consent.
All debts due from the said firm are to be
presented to J. K. MeXeel for payment, tlie
mid J. U MeXeel coiiliuuiug the business.
Hated April25th, 1905.
HARRY ASHLAND.
J. R. Me NEEL.
On or about July 1st the Tenas
Senate will be moved to the ground
floor of the Holman Block, adjoin
ing Hotel Holman, and will con
tinue to lte operated as a first-class
saloon under the name of
COPPER CENTER CLUB
Chas. Cowell, Prop.
Fine Wines, Liquors and Cigars.
A Store
At Slate (reek
Will be opened up early in the
Spring with a Complete, First
Class stock of Boots, Shoes,
GROCERIESanaCLOTHING
Everything needed by theQMi
ner and Prospector will be in
stock all summer.
Freighting Done
Leslie & Nelson.
APPLES A8 MORAL AGENTS.
Tbey Tend to Keep ThMr Consumers
from Indulging in Kany
Evil Habit*.
Scarcely too much can the apple
be extolled since it lias been al
most entirely tin* creation of
man. starting with the crab ap
pie of Europe, man has produced
a fruit that has no coniporisc
with it.< original. Nature coni
only furnish the germinal and is
not given to making improve
| ments, says the St. Louis t Slope
i Democrat. When Superintendent
Stimson of the pomology depart
ment of the world's fair says
( “There is no doubt flint apples ate
a cure fur the drink habit, tbe to
bacco hr.liit. the ‘Indian’ hr.l.it am*
many others that may be called
objectionable.” we appreciate
deep’? what the apple has dom
for man and still more deeply
what mail has done for the apple.
I’rof. Stimson adds: “Apples ele
vate the morals of persons who
eat them and if the United States
were a great apple-eating coun
try we would have less crime and
fewer woes. When you want to
smoke eat an apple and you will
find the desire in a measure satis
fled. Do the same if you wunt a
drink.”
It will bo soon that the apple is
the enemy of the saloon ami of
the vice of stnokinp. The moral
effect of apples has boon too tnneli
neplected. We have tried to re
form entirely with the pospel and
moarl suasion. Had we pone into
tin* haunts and hotbeds of vice
and crime with an apple in one
hand and the Bible in the other we
mipht have had better success.
Mr.Ktimson says that apples are
pood for the “Indian” habit. This
is somethinp that has never been
tried in all the efforts to reform
St. Louis politics. The “Indians”
have not had apples enouph.
Bar’Is have been opened in plenty,
but not apple bar’ls. Dayton con
ventions would Im* impoiis'hle on a
diet of apples. Hereafter the
sturdy farmer should po to 1 i<
convention with a doren apples in
one pocket—and u well-oiled .44 in
the other.
WAR CHESTS OF EUROPE.
Large Sums of Money Kept Constantly
on Hand to Uphold Na
tional Power.
In n financial as well as a mili
tary sense Germany is probably
best prepared lor war. A sja-cial
war treasure of MMl.lMid in
coined gold is always kept at
Kpuudau. France and England
are both richer, however, than
Germany, and their war chests
are well lined with gold.
Their people arc also (letter able
to put their hands in their pockets
in an emergency than the Ger
mans. Heavily taxed as France is,
it is estimated that her taxpayers
could meet a demand of fifty mil
lions more for the war chest under
a sounder finamval system and ad
ministration.
Two years ago Russia’s war
chest was practically empty. In
fact, instead of having savings in
her box, l'rof. Getfckeu, who is au
authority, says she is always bor
rowing money in times of jieaee.
France has lent the most money to
Russia, the debt in that quarter
being not less than five milliards
of francs. Of the important
states, Italy is the worst otf, her
people being taxed to the verge of
starvation to keep a compara
tively small sum in the war money
box. Even salt is so taxed that
tie poor can afford at present only
half as much salt as in 1871. The
army has swallowed up all the
saving's of the country and more.
Germany’s full money box would
certainly make it possible for her
to ’eke the field of war more
quickly than any other power. She
prides herself upon a war force of
2.549,918 men, which could take
the field within ten days after or
der, and. backed by the war chest
with its six millions sterling, this
would be a formidable showing.
Vo Use for Paintings.
Pigment—I saw you at the art
exhibition last evening. I sup
pose you are very fond of paint
ings?
Gamboge—Ob, dear, no! I bate
them. I’m an art critic, you know.
—Boston Transcript. -—
“ Confession. ' u
r “Bag anything while yon warn
oat hunting, Newahot?"
“Bagged my new spring panta at
the knees.”—Detroit Fige Fie as,
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
F. M. BOYLE, M. D.
Physician and Surgeon
Phone ;;o VALDEZ,
Office*: ALASKA
Fish Building. McKinley St.
Dr. C. A. WINANS,
Physician and Surgeon.
Office: Rooms 1 and 2,
Swan Building Phone 10
W. A. RYSTROM,
Dentist.
Fish
Building. Valdez.
open trenlnp, Swml«y excepted, 7::»i t 9.
A. JUDSON ADAMS,
Civil Engineer and Surveyor.
U. S. Deputy Mineral and Land
Surveyor.
Broadway.
GOODELL & EDWARDS
Lawyers
VALDEZ, ALASKA
FRED M. BROWN,
Lawyer
Mining nml LhihI Lawk, ftpccmltle*.
VALDEZ, ALASKA
Cecil H. Clegg,
Attorney at Law,
Notary Public.
Office Court House, Valdez.
LEEDY & KELSEY,
Attorneys and Counselors.
Keystone Ave. Valdez.
T J D0N0H0E,
Attorney at Law,
VALDEZ
John A. Carson,
Attorney and Counsellor-at-Law.
SALEM,
Member of
Alaska Bar. OREGON
R. BLIX.
NOTARY PUBLIC
And CONVEYANCER.
COPPER CENTER, ALASKA.
ARTHUR J. WARNER,
ASSAYER
and ANALYTICAL CHEMIST.
77-78 Sullivan Bldg. Seattle.
RIPANS Tubules
Doctors find
A <;ood prescription
For mankind
The 5-cent package is enough for usual occa
sion. The family hottlcpsi (cut.-) contains a
supply for a year. All dr sell them
For Assays Send Your Ore To
Ellamar Mining Co.
Gold, Silver and Copper $3.50
Gold and Silver - 1.50
Copper - - - 2.00
Lead - 2.00
Ellamar, Alaska
80 YEARS'
EXPERIENCE
Trade Marks
Designs
Copyrights Ac.
Anyone send!!;*? n sketch and description may
qntckly ascertain our opinion free whether an
invention is probably patentable. Communica
tions strictly confidential. Handbook on Patent*
sent free. Oldest aceuey for set uriug puu-n.-.
Patents taken through Munn ft Co. receive
tvrcitU notice, without charge, in the
Scientific American.
A handsomely Illustrated weekly. Largest cir
culation of any M-icutitle j«>cruul. Terms, f;j a
year; four months, |L tkild by all newsdealers.
IflUNN & Co.«^—•» New York
•ranch Office. t£2i b oL. Wa»Loigtou. D-U
Camp Comfort Roadhouse.
On tire trail to all interior points. Large com
fortable quarters with every accommodation for
man or l« ast. Garden products in season
Fresh Milk and Home Grown Vegetables
C. C. ROBERTS, Proprietor. 1*2 Miles From Valdez.
Workman’s Road House
P. MAGNU880N, Proprietor.
First roadhouse huilt on Government
Trail. Can aceomodate 50 people, has large
warm lmrn for 20 horses and good quarters
for dogs. Good meals and everything the
musher desires.
Twenty Miles From Valdez.
A EJ Meal-Try It A Good Bed-Enjoy It
White House
30*4 MILES FROM VALDEZ
U. S. Mail and Stage Station
The Last Place Before Crossing Thompson Pass
Freighting Contracted Feed For Sale
T. M* Daniels, Prop.
The Teikhell Ro dhouse
48 Miles From Valdez
On Government Trail.
Bcst'of accommodations for man and beast. Fresh Meat,
Poultry and Vegetables always on hand._^Best,feeding|ground
for horses on the trail.
_Mrs. Ed. Wood, Proprietor.
V. T. Co.
The following Roadhouses, situated on the route to Fairbanks,
operated under the management of the Valdez Transportation Co.,
will he found to he tirst-elass in every particular:
BEAVER DAM Roadhouse
41 Miles From Valdez.
Rates #4.00 per day. BILLY KAUFFMAN, Manager
GAKONA Roadhouse
135 Miles From Valdez
At Junction of the Eagle and Fairbanks Trails
Rates: Meals, $1.50, Beds 11.00
GEO. B. RORER MANAGER
CHIPPEWA Roadhouse
100 Miles From Valdez
At Trail Crossing of the Gakona River
Rates: Meals $1.50, Beds $1.00
JOHN GILLESPIE MANAGER
HOTEL DILLER.
Headquarters for Valdez people. 120 rooms.
Rates no routs, f 1 and fl.oO in*r dav. Firttclasa
Restaurant in couneetiou. Free Bus. opposite
l*. 8. Poslollire.
W. G. POTTS, Manager.
C'oa. First Av. A I'nirersily st., SEATTLE
School ol Open All Year
Practical Mining, Civil Mechanical, Elec
trical, Engineering, Metallurgy,
Cyanide Process.
Surveying. Architecture, drawing and Assay
ing Assaying of Ores. |2 >; Bullion aud (hlor
inatiou Assay. |2'»: Blowpipe Assay. |10. Full
tours* of Assaying. *'j0. Established ltttl. Send
for circular.
A. VAN DER NAI1EN, President.
118 Fulton Street, San Francisco, Cal. One
block west of Citv Hall.
Ojterates the finest trains in the
world every day in the year, be
tween
Minneapolis,
St. Paul,
Chicgo,
Milwaukee,
OMAHA and KANSAS CITY,
making direct connections with
through trains for all points East
and South.
A> cheap as the cheapest and itu
Iwst to be had. For rates or reser
vations, call or write,
F. W. PARKER,General Agent.
151 Ycsier Way, Seattle.
SANDERS
PAINTING
PAPER HANGING
DECORATING
Signs A Specialty
Ellamar
Mining
Company
Powder, Caps, Fuse,
and all other nec
essaries for the
Prospector.
GENERAL MERCHANDISE
Prices Reasonable.
Ellamar.
^ailing Cards Pr,nted
i * » . i T. *n thte
latest style Engravers 01.1 English
the proper thing. Invitations and
seore cards for card parties. Th,
Prospector. Phone 1.