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VALDEZ, ALASKA
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D. F. MILLARD. Agent and Si
The launch Vikjjng, which was dam
aged during the recent big storm
while anchored at the Cliff mine, has
been brought V Valdez and will be
repaired and fljtted up for the coming
season’s trad^.
The Best Place in Valdez to
Stop at is the
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Arctic Hotel
Warn, Light Roons~The Haaaa rf CnhitQ
RATES REASONABLE
BATH ROOM Special Rates By the Meath
RHONE 1S3 MRS. SYR1NC, Prep.
Dougherty & Ferguson
GENERAL
Merchandise
The best groceries received
on every boat,
Fresh vegetables, fruits, and
nuts.
Copper River
Draying Co
Freighting and Passengers
to all parts of the Interior.
GENERAL TRUCKING
McKinley Street, Valdes
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ED. WOOD, Proprietor _
ippllw-Copper Block. Valdes
LOCAL BREVITIES.
WANTED: Experienced woman de
sires work as cook or maid. Refer
ences given. Address Prospector.
Visit the Liberty tonight, good pic
tures, new film service, first time ever
in Valdez.
Pictures developed at the Valdez
Drug Company. tf.
A fine display of nugget Jewelry at
Valdez Drug Co. tf
Furnished rooms at Mrs. Osland’s.
Prices reasonable. *
Jos. Feaster, U. S. deputy marshal
at Chitina, came up from Cordova last
night on the Northwestern bringing
a colored man who had been convict
ed of vagrancy before the U. S. com
missioner at Cordova and sentenced
to thirty days in Jail.
Pure Fresh Drugs at the Valdez
Drug Store. * *
Brooms 26o, 35c and 50c; for the
best at the Emporium. tf
Pasteurized Whipping Cream and
pure Buttermilk at Love-Whltley’s.
Nugget jewelry made to order at
the Valdez Drug Co., by O. O.
Reinke. tf
Bargains at the Emporium; open
from 9 a. m. to 9 p. m. *
Far good nomte-cooked meals try
Mrs. M. Olson, on Hobdrt Street *
Fancy btationery at the Valdez
Drug Store. *
Panoramic views of Child’s and
Miles glaciers, Dawson, Valdez and
Wren gel on hale at the Valdes Drug
store. tf
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CAPTAIN On '
RESENTS REPORT
Rumor That Ills Ship Had Been
Hung Up On Tideflats at Cor
dova False in Every Way.
Captain O’Brien, who is in com
mand of the Northwestern, is noted
along the coast from Ketchikan to
Nome as one of the bdst natured men
who navigate the waters of Alaska,
but when he got in port last night
! he was angry clear through over the
report that his ship had grounded
on the tideflats at Cordova.
The report had been circulated
I around town during the day that the
I failure of the vessel which had been
reported as leaving Cordova at 10:00
o’clock Sunday night, to reach Valdez
this morning was due to her having
suffered the same mishap as that of
the Alameda last spring when she was
hung up on the tideflats at Cordova
for several hours. Efforts to trace
the report to its source of origin was
fruitless and the contradiction is
made in order that the enviable re
cord of Capt. O’Brien as a careful
navigator may not be allowed to suf
fer frd'rn the circulation of the false
j report.
Vjiipi, u nrien eApituucu uiai. uic
Northwestern had been scheduled to
leave Cordova at 10 o’clock Sunday
night and that after the passengers
and crew were all on board the lines
had been cast off and the ship an
chored a few hundred yards from the
Cordova wharf. A dense fog pre
vailed and he had decided to wait un
til it lifted before negotiating the
winding passage out from Cordova.
The ship had left the wharf in order
that she might be ready to sail at
any time but it was not until near
morning that she sailed.
The freighter Latouche was also in
the Cordova harbor while the North
western was there, and, like the lat
ter vessel was delayed by the fog
from taking her departure.
Captain O’Brien is naturally proud
of his clear record as a navigator and
resents any imputation upon his sea
manship, but it is doubtful if the per
son who originated the false report,
and certainly none of those who re
peated it had tjie slightest desire to
rob him of the credit to which he is
entitled as a careful navigator who
is always alert to provide for the safe
ty of his ship and the lives of the pas
sengers and crew entrusted to his
care.
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LOCAL BREVITIES.
The launch Shamrock will leave to
morrow morning for Fidalgo, Land
lock and other points down the
Sound, and will then make her regu
lar trip to Port Wells district, carry
ing mail, freight and pasengers.
W, N. Spence, U. S. District attor
ney for this division, who went to
Chitina to prosecute the larceny case
against Ed Sellers for the robbery of
a cache on Bremner river, returned
home on the Northwestern.
The launch Elvira left this after
noon for the Cliff mine with a big
load of supplies, and will return to
Valdes this evening as she is sched
uled to leave tomorrow for Ellamar
and other points down the Sound.
Louie Bolich and Steve Plenn, who
have been working at the Granite
mine, Hobo Bay, for several months,
left last night on the Northwestern
for Seward where they will develop
a mining property in which they are
interested.
Hank Stroter, the well known
Slate creek miner who has spent the
winter visiting with his parents in
New York, returned to Valdez on the
Northwestern and will leave shortly
for the interior where he will be em
ployed on Nizina creek,
ler. ' , ,
Just , received ,the finest line of
neckties ever shown in Valdes, at
Ben Sllvorman’s.
Our fresh candy arrived on this
last boat late for the holidays, 12 ft
cents half pound at the Emporium.
__ L. A. Decker returned to Valdez on
the Northwestern last bight from Cor
dova.
PORTRAITS made by appointment
in yonr own home, by P. W. Sheelor.
Phone 186. tt
Eli Larson went to Latouche on the
Northwestern last night and will do
sonie carpentering work for the big
mining company there.
We guarantee when left to us to
Install machinery to give satisfac
tion. Valdes Iron Works, tu-tf.
TftlLRiDIN 1917
:'ears tlmt Construction May Delay
Arrival Beyond Life of Pres
ent Generation.
Unless Secretary Franklin K. Lane
can be induced to change his present
plans, according to Fairbanks citi
zens, it will be absolutely impossible
to complete the construction of the
government railroad from the Coast
to Fairbanks, the interior metropolis
of the territory, within five years.
A change of plans, It is contended,
would enable the Alaska Engineering
Commission, in charge of the con
strucion, to complete the project by
1917, in the summer of which the
[fiftieth anniversay of the acquisition
I of the territory by the United States
i will be celebrated,
j The Fairbanks Commercial club
has wired Secretary Lanes, President
Wilson and Senator Key Pittman,
George Chamberlin and others re
sponsible for the passage of the bill,
i urging them to try to induce the gov
jernment to begin the construction
ifrom both ends of the line next year.
! Similar requests were sent to the
i Alaska Bureau of the Seattle Cham
; her of Commerce, the Portland Cham
'ber of Commerce and other organi
zations on the Pacific Coast.
The Fairbanks people contend
that if construction is not completed
from the Fairbanks end next summer
i the road will be delayed two years
by reason of the fact that the Tan-'
ana River must be spanned by a
bridge, and that it will take two
years to build it.
They contend that it would be
foolish to carry the construction
to the bank of the river and then lay
off the track crews until the bridge
: is completed, then reassemble the
itrack crew to finish the last 100 miles
'of track to Fairbanks,
j “The allotment of $8,000,000 for
I the coast end of the railroad.” said
(Falcon Joslin, "and only $285,000
for the interior end. as contemplated
in the estimate made by Secretary
Lane, seems altogether out of pro
portion. It was expected at Fairbanks
that at least $2,000,000 would be
alloted for work at the interior end.”
Joslin,' who wrote the original
failroad bill and was largely instru
mental in gaining the passage of 'the
measure in its final form, says that
the building of a small piece of
! track from the Tanana River to the
|Nenana coal fields, as contemplated
'by the government, will seriously
hurt Fairbanks instead of helping it,
as it will drain the population of the
interior city.
“Indeed,” he said,“It will kill
Fairbanks as effectively as any town
ever was killed in the past by delib
erate discrimination of private rail
road exploiters.”
He says the Fairbanks end of the
line is easier to build than the Sew
ard end, as the groud Is level and
there is no rock work and no tunnels.
He says further that a road from
Fairbanks to the Nenana coal fields
will give the Fairbanks people a sup
ply of coal, something which is
vitally needed. The coast cities of
Alaska can get their coal by water
from the Uui ieu States.
Joslin figures that the difference
In cost would be insignificant when
{compared to the saving in time. He
says the freight can be landed at
Fairbanks for $30 per ton, and it will
cost nearly that much to land it by
rail after the road is completed to
the river bank.
"The slight decrease in cost and
labor," said Joslin, "would be com
pensated for many times over by
the increase of population and traf
fic which the construction work
would bring to the Interior. The
money paid out in wages would be
expended in building new homes,
clearing new farms and opening new
mines."
“This is the great object in build
ing the railroad. The whole expendi
ture is for that purpose. Thus the
population of Fairbanks would be
doubled in thrde years. This means
double the traffic for the railroad
when it is opened.
Joslin points out that similar rea
sons influenced the builders of every
road that reaches the Pacific Coast.
Everyone of them both American
and Canadian, was built from both
lands, thf material being brought
around Cape Horn at tremendous
cost.
Several foreigner* who arrived on
the last , trip of the Alameda to go
over the winter road to Fairbanks,
will leave for the interior la a few
days and expect to make the trip in
from twelve to fifteen days. Some
of the party have spent a number of
years in the north and will go to Tol
ovana, the new placer camp.
CITY EXPRESS
will guarantee that both you and your baggage will
reach the boat on time-—Let us do the
worr> ing.
J. A. SPENARD, Proprietor Phone 82
Independent Steam Laundry
Satisfaction Guaranteed I
Telephone 66 '
I Foot Keystone Ave
I Roush Dry lGe lb
MERCHANT’S CAFE
FRESH BREAD AND PASTRY DAILY
Phone 63 Chas. Fischer, Props-.
UPPER TONSINA ROAD HOUSE
Best of Meals—Prices Reasonable
GENERAL STORE. - TRADING POST.
Telephone connects with Chitina.
General Freighting. KNUTE NAFSTED. Mgr.
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
PLI MBING, STEAM AND HOT WATER HEATING,
Sheet Metal Work, Mine Air Pipe, 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
A ASKA
Steamers sail from Seattle at 9 P. M. on
5th, 15th, 25th—EVERY MONTH
Steamer Sailing 15th-calla lllainna and Kodiak—AU Sailing call at Kuik
l and Anchorage.
CALIFORNIA
Seattle to San Pmnelneo every Wednesday and Sunday* connecting with
Steamers Yale and Harvard for Southern California.
Right reserved to change schedule without notice
RICHARD J. RING WOOD, Mgr*, Seattle! VALDEZ DOCK CO„ Local Agt.
ALASKAi!
STEAMSHIP CO.!!
8. 8. ALAMEDA AND 8. 8. NORTHWESTERN SAIL FROM 8E- X
ATTLE THE 10TH, 20TH AND 30TH, |
EVERY MONTH j
FROM VALDEZ SOUTH—8TH, 18TH, 28TH, FOR CORDOVA, f
JUNEAU, WRANGEL, KETCHIKAN AND SEATTLE. T
Regular freight service for Ketchikan, Wrangell, Juneau, Sheep ?
Creek, Treadwell, Douglas, Skagway, Cordova, EUamar, Valdes and La- *
touche, Explosives, S. S. Seward, on the 5th; La touche, on the 15th; S. S. *
CordoVa, 26th of each month—right reserved to change this schedule +
without notice. T
r. B. TRACY, Oea’I Agent VALDBB DOCK CO, Local Agent. I
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When You Leave
For the Outside
take the
“MILWAUKEE”
One road—one management—one service all the way
through to Chicago. It's the Short Line to the East
> ■>* ; over
THE NEW STEEL TRAIL
For information and literature write or ask
J. C. MARTIN, Agent, Valdez, Alaska.
CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE & ST, PAUL RY.
A. E. HARRIS, Freight and Passenger Agt,
Juneau, Alaska.