Valdez Daily Prospector
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WEDNESDAY. APRIE 10. 1013.
A MINING EDITION.
The Prosperin' Publishing
Company has derided to issue a
Special .Mining Edition of tlie
Valdez Miner if Die business men
and mining operators will support
the project. The purpose would
be to make public Die amount of
work being done about Valdez in
the way of opening up Die mineral
resources and also to inform
mining men in Die slates of the
amount and Die result of Die work
already done in this section.
This issue will be a success or
failure largely as the business
men decide. Without llieir co
operation il will lie impossible.
With half-hearted aid Die result,
will in*, but indifferent, but with
the whole-souled assistance of
the businessmen and operators it
will he a credit to the town and
an aid to Die future development
of the Prince William Sound dis
districl.
ONE REASON FOR DEAR MEAT.
Apparently if doesn't pay to eat
veal. The ultimate cost is too
high, for each veal killed means
a potential beef pul out of exist
ence.
The year book jusl issued by
I lie Chicago packers shows l hat
8.000. 000 calves, having an av
erage weight of id pounds, were
slaugtered in this country in 101 1.
if those animals had been per
mitted to live until one year old
they would have produced an av
crag nf 000 pounds of beef. We
gut 500,000,000 pounds of veal
where we might have obtained 5,
800.000. 000 pounds of beef. That
was a clear waste, so far as food
supply goes,"or more than 40
pounds per capita in one year.
The imporlani.I that waste
should not be overlooked when we
are considering the ipieslimi of
the high cost of meat.
The loss in beef we might have
obtained had the calves been kill
ed when a year old instead of at
the ago of a few weeks, is not all.
The slaughter of such a large
number of them lias a serious ef
fect on the meat supply for all
lime because it tends to preveint
the restocking of our depleted
herds. Argentina has a law. and
Argentina is one of the world’s
great beef-producing countries,
to prevent the killing of any heif
er or cow under I he age of six
years. Thai insures breeding
stock to prevent the tutting down
of the supply of meal. Some leg
islation along similar lines should
ho enacted in Ibis country, if we
would improve the conditions of
supply and demand in regard to
tiee f.
Tile roconi congress saved I lie
cost of one battleship Inil spenl
it for "pork'' and pensions.
"Women should do more act
ing with their eyes,” says Julia
Marlowe. How could they*
An usher in a Spokane theater
has inherited a title. The ushers
in some other I healers merely act
like lords.
It is announced that Huerta
will use an iron list in ruling,
lie used a cheek of brass to get.
into power.
Now a l-'rench newspaper de
clares that Count Boni de Cas
tellano was a model husband. A
model of his kind, no. doubt.
Pennsylvania’s legislature is
considering a bill to make it a
misdemeanor to bother newly
weds. The Quakers must be bid
ding for the honeymoon tourists.
If the California biologist who
is attempting to produce a breed
of mice striped like the zebra suc
ceeds in Burbanking the rodents
i
the family cal will shortly climb
on the water wagon.
Tin* speaker probably meant
well, but the linotype operator
could not resist the temptation
of quoting him as declaring that
“Chicago is destined to become
the artistic scenler of this nn
I ion.”
The wireless station at Newport
has picked up messages from I lie
Argentine republic, 0,000 miles
away. Nexi thing messages will
go around the earth and the op
erators w ill lie able to hear I Item
selves talk.
Vice President and Mrs. Mar
shall say they will live on Mr.
Marshall’s salary during his ol'I'i- i
rial term in Washington. Social
Washington may resent this, but
the vice-president is* not alone.
Many families in this country are
living within their incomes.
i ;
Sane in His Old Age.
Poriii'in Diaz, former president j
Of Mexico, is in Naples, lie lias
been over in Egypt amt has other
plans of travel, but he has auth
orized the statement that he does
not plan any visit to Mexico.
Some men accumulate wisdom
and caution with advancing years.
Diaz’ name belongs to (bat list.
The Lipton Challenge.
Sir Thomas Upton is a tighter,
anyway, and the Americans like
his type, lie has served notice
again that, the Americans cannot
retain the yacht cup without, an
other contest.
Of course, we have no idea of
letting anyone win the American
cup. Our designers and yachts
men excel any in the world, but
if we ever have to lose the cup
in a game light, we hope sir
Thomas Upton will capture it.
LIBRARIES.
' My < leorge Filch A
A library is a cold storage
warehouse for knowledge. After
knowledge has first been canned
in books it is then placed on li
brary shelves, where it can be
gotten at any hour of the day by
a tall young lady with spectacles,
for the. benetit of the public. It
is a great comfort to know that
wisdom is immortal, and that ev
en though the man who produces
a throbbing thought may forget
it and afterwards be run over by
a taxicab while begging for bis
dinner, his immortal words will
sleep forever on some library
shelf.
Libraries are pl-asauf, sunny
places, lined with rows of books,
and are rarely over-crowded.
This is one of their liinesl fea
tures. No one ever bad bis toes
trampled on while trying to get
into a public library. No lives
have been lost by panic-stricken
mobs, lighting to get out of a
public library. Libraries have
burned down, it is true, but the
seething attendance inside al
I ways puls on its hal and walks
out without, harm.
I'd, le soem satisfied lo know
that all the wisdom ever produc
ed is safely stored in (lie librar
ies and do not insist on going
and seeing for themselves. It, is
a great, comfort for a man to re
alize, as he walks into the mov
ing picture I boater, that no mat
ter if he should forget all he
knew he would learn il over again
by going lo a library and draw
ing out an armful id' books.
Libraries were once very rare
and infreijuenl. Only I he big all
ies bad them. Nowadays the town
of 2.00(1 people which hasn't a
library is viewed with suspicion
by ils neighbors. Libraries are
of two kinds—Carnegie and home
built. About twenty years ago
Andrew Carnegie started on the
task of speckling llte map of the
I idled States willi libraries, and
Imill many hundreds, to the in
lense disgust of the enterprising'
towns which had just, finished
paying for their own buildings.
Moral: Procrastination is the
protector of the lax levy.
Seeing the Country.
I'lie mail who holds a public
.job has Jit I b* peace or pleasure;
the papel's say lie is a slob, and
roasl him wilboul measure. And
I hen Ihe uplift magazines gel on
liis lrail and hound him, until he
leaves for other scenes, his rec
ord wrapped around him. So let
me raise my garden suss, remote
from public clamor, and saw my
wood and mow my grass, and nail
things with a hammer. Oh, let
me cultivate Ihe soil, no laurel:
wreaths demanding, for there’s aj
peace in humble toil that passetb i
understanding. When I am dead ,
no marble shaft will make my
fame eternal, as shafts will stand
o’er old Mill Taft and Woodrow
and the Colonel;, I’ll mildly play
my lowly game, with never noise
or hustle; 1 cannot hope for last
ing fame, like that of Pastor Rus
sell. Hut when our little jour
ney's done, perhaps folks will he
saying; "He did as much as any
one by sticking to his haying.”
1 gather up Ihe eggs, and pack
the butter down ill lirkins, and
I’m as happy in my shack as Aid
rich, Clark or Perkins. No enemy
with voice or pen is climbing on
my record: I sympathize with
public men whose lives are tierce
and checkered.
W ACT MASON.
Maine’s Needle Rock.
In Mine Hill bay, Maine, there j
is a pinnacle rock only six feel in
diameter at its top which pro
jects to within seven feet of the
surface of the water and rises
nearly perpendicularly out of a
depth of 78 feel. The existence
of this rock is evidence of the
difficulty, even in well known wa
ters, of demonstrating that no is
olated rocks are lying in wail for
heedless victims.
Bring your job work to ftm i
Prospector office.
I
Independent Laundry Co.
Satisfaction Guaranteed |
Telephone 66 I
Foot Keyhione Ave
Roufrh Dry lfic lb.
Valdez Dock Co. PHONE NO. 1
JOBBER IN
COAL, HAY and GRAIN
AGENTS FOR
Alaska Steamship Company
Alaska Coast Company
FOR SALE
2 1-2 H. P. Stationary Gasoline
Engine
A BARGAIN
Keystone Dock Valdez Iron Works
New Arrivals For
THE HOME
9x12 ft Amber Velvet Art Squares
9x12 ft Seneca Velvet Art Squares
9x12 ft Palisade Velvet Art Squares
9x12 ft Fulton Tapstry Art Sbuares
36x72 in Hart Axminster Rugs
27x60 in Smiths Axminster Rugs
16x30 in Smyrna Rugs
A Few Bargains Left
In Green and Red WOOL FILLER SUPER
INGRAIN CARPETS.
MILK-MILK-MILK
Fresh Milk and Cream
VALDEZ DAIRY
Telephone order* to Phone 187
Geo. f. white
The Assayer
Assaying and Ore Testing
CORRECT RESULTS
No More, No Less
VALDEZ, ALASKA
New York Life
Insurance Co.
W. H. CRARY, Representative
Valdez, Alaska. Phone 41
THE SALESMAN
makes more sales and
makes them with greater
facility if his work is re
enforced by Electric Light.
It shows his goods to the
best advantage.and colors
may be readily matched
under its rays.
A brilliant electrically
lighted store stamps a
merchant as a hustler.
And trade follows light.
A. W. L. & T. Co.
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THE
CUFF
ROOMS
Steam Heat
Always Clean
and Comfortable
Central Location
P. S. HUNT, Prop.
Copper River
Draying Co
Freighting and passengers to all part*
of the interior. General Trucking
bid. Wood, - Proprietor
MeKimcy St, Valdez
Steam Heat Electric Liglita
THE COPPER BLOCK
Finely Furnished Rooms All Modern Conveniences
Good Tiir DUCCCT G °0 d
Goods I lit Dull LI Goods
Copper River Lumber Co., Inc.
ALL KINDS OP
Native and II TIV/IQITD and Budding
Puget Sound L U IVlQUilV Material
CONSTANTLY ON HAND
Prices Right W. M. FINICAL, Mgr. Phone lfi
Patronize a Home Industry
VALDEZ DRUG CO.
Drugs and Druggist Sundries
PRESCRIPTION SPECIALISTS
Telephone Orders Solicited Free Delivery
We do a
general
Banking
Business
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S»H5SSII!iB
Bank in
war of
mercantile
department
I We Pay 4 Per Cent Interest an lime Certificates el Depesit.