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VOLUME 4, K0» 27 VALDEZ, ALASKA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 1905. CTFICiAL CiiY PAPER*
We are showing a
nice assortment of
In Light and Dark Colors
and ranging in price from
You can’t beat them for Style and Wear.
One of the next steamers is bringing us a large con
signment of SPRING SP IRTS of all kinds-Negligee,
Golf and Percales.
^t>mi 11 iMtiiaiffciw—hi—nn
European *Pian 'Rat* Reasonable
(Only First Class Hotel ini'uldox.) *
Headquarters for Mining Men
and Cormtercial Travelers
» D£BNEy & POOT, Proprietors.
Keystone Ave. | Valdez, Alaska.
OWL DRUG COMPANY
Pure Fresh Brui •.
MEDICINE OUTFITS FQR THE TRAIL
Stationery Phone 40 Newspapers, Magazines
IV P'f
B v w i
NEXT TO TUE
PRICES ARE
RIGHT
Wholesale an|i
Retail Deale
| GIVE US A
CALL
Beef, Mutton, Pork
Poultry and Game.
Hotel Holman, Copper Center,
lias enclosed a 40-acre tract of first
clast pasture for the accommoda
tion of its patrons.
Hugh Murray, of Lam llock hay,
visited Valdez for a couple of days
and returned on the Portland,
which vessel took aimul 100 tons of
ore from, the Murray mine, which
is now being opened up.
P. Hickey, a man of rare knowl
edge in mining, ar; i ve<! on the ber
tha. He is on 1 is way to Cool:
Inlet where he has some promising
gold property. W Idle here he i.as
been inve t gating s one of our cop
per properties am may possibly
acquire one or more groups i adore
departure for-the wist.
Ceitsiderahlt work anti prospect
ing/iias been done by tlie Tibbitts
paily on tire southeasterly side of
Mtl Wrangell. John Camp, om
of I a; party, arrived in town last
Sol..lay and stated that the rest
wtp following, The result of the
eel on’s work is not yet known btu
wit be in a few tiavs. Camp lefi
tHre July ‘it*.
jdex Austin, of Dawson left Jack
\l ult* ereek Juiv 17 and struek out
if: Valdez. taking the :i->ries;
at lie ero.'Sei! *!• nta.-ta pass and
om (litre went to Slate ereek,
..eie lie retnaiut :or a few tiavs
!i r to les uiiMig journey, lie
.iitie ; in It-wii i .1s Sttiittu .a lntie
ilccl Uttir llOi.C Ido luf Wi«tl\
Big Gold Ledge
K. J. Field returned this week
from the Jaksimt river, where thue
years ago he and A. T. H< rkenholz,
Hob Thorson and Car! Witluim
located a very large ledge of fret
milling gold ore. The ledge is at
least 500 feet wide and crops out
for a distance of over 1500 feet.
Assays of samples taken at i ntiem
give #43 in gold per toil. The men
have attempted nothing more than
assessment work on the ground
each year and are now busy doing
this year’s work. Home of the
party will remain on the ground
during the winter and continue the
work of opening lip the property.
Mr. Fjeld states that last year
the claims were bonded to a local
promoter who laid tile proposition
before Henry Bratnober. The lat
ter, after making an assay of the
ore submitted, turned it (town, de
claring there was nothing in it and
news to that effect was spread
around tie town. But notwith
standing his rejection of the propo
sition, Bratnoher tiled up an x
pedition of a number of men and
forty tons of provisions and ms
seen this summer by one of the in
terested parties on the Tanana ti er
heading for the claims. His object,
of course, was not stated, but tin
original locators are in posses.-ion
and propose to stay with it. The
Bratnober party lost a man while
boating on the Tanana.
After ls-ing duly advertised, all
the propcrlv of the Chitilu Devel
opment company wits sold at auc
tion on the sieps of the court house,
las: Friday, by J. .'I .ran, trus ee
of the hoi lit-gs. There was onlv
otic party pi .. -n anxious to secure
The proper,y ami .1 was knm bed
| down to him for less than six.c-n
I ’iuuisaml dollars. T: os. Ptcbhs
of Minneapolis, was tin- j r baser.
• !*■ -ale mus b- approved bv Tie
court.
if"ever Gases Increase
Sixty New Cases Reported. Department Store Building
Falls, Burying over One Hundred. Peace Envoys
Reach Portsmouth* Alexander
M. Beil Dead.
>rw Orleans, Aug. 9—Sixty new
eases of yellow fever were reported
to-day, the greatest number since
the outbreak of the disease. The
number of deaths was four.
Albany, Ail". 9—By the collapse
of the block occupied by the John
Movers Co. as a department store,
more than one hundred | eople,
many of them pels w ho were em
ploye l as clerks, were buried be
neath tin- hricks and timl'i«rs of the
budding. Six «!•-!»«I and f >rtv in
jured have already ben recnv* red
from the ruins, and nmn-than flf:v
persons are slid imprisoned be
neath the dehris.
Portsmouth, Ait'.;. !•—The Hns
siati and Japanese peace envovs
arrived yesterday and wi re for
mally welcomed hy representatives
of the government. The city i- in
•w'r-w." «. ,i« moww
gala attire.
Washington. Aug. i*—Alexander
M. lleii, tiie inventor of visible
sjH-eeli, and father ot Alexander
* !' • !>• :l, inventor of the tele*
I'llolie, is dead.
Catea, Island of Crete, Aug. It—
1 e lius-ian gunhoat Khrahray
■ o nh.rih'd and desiroyeil the town
ot i a~!e.ii, I~l.mil nj Crete.
Parties on tlie Ground
Work To Begin at Once
John Rosene,oi tin- Xorthwestt rn
Steamship Co., arrived on the Santa
Clara on Tuesday night, and Wed
nesday morning left town, in com
pany with Stephen llireh ami
Henry l)eyo, to look over a section
of the proposed railroad route. Mr.
Rosette some time ago took up the
. ropi -ition of building a railroad
from Valdez to the interior and has
keen working steadily toward that
end ever since. lie has h id n
number of men in tie- .! Id all
summer and a large part of the
survey is completed.
When seen upon hi.- arrival Mr.
.»•>■ lu- lie.-lined to spink ys to to.
future actions, slating that he
would he better able to ueclare
himself upon his return from the
imeiT r. which will he iti three or
four days.
Colonel A. \Y. Swanitz, who was
chief engineer of the Alaska Central
railroad, arrived here on the Sunla i
l iar., ;o begin the construction of!
a railroad from Valdez to the inter-J
lor. He ha- brought with him the!
ni-eessary tools to begin grade work.'
A corps of eiiginei rs auromi mv
vhe i • om i to es abhsh the gradt ;
too survey line.- will l.e picked up,
'and in a very few days men will
he Wred and the work hegun.
In an interview with the colonel
it was ascertained that .he ; e
li ick of the enterprise luiveahsorU d
ail the rights of the Valdez o: j
Northern li. R. Co., the Akron A '
Sterling R. li. Co., and the Valdez, j
Copper ev Yukon R. R. Co., and j
have merged them into what will
he known in the future as the
Valdez ii Yukon R. li. The above j
named companies have all made I
surviys amt the colonel is in poses -
sion of the data.
Associated with the colonel is hi.
C, l-l.iwkins, of the White Pass
railroad, and W. A. Warren, who
is present as an engineer.
Debney Makes A Sale
A vei'y important sale of copper
property was made tins week by
Charles Dcbuey and .Mary A. Deb
ney to B. I). Brown oi tlie. Hadley
smelter, J. L. Parker acting tor the
latter.
The properly, consisting of six
claims, is located on the southerly
! side of Valdez buv, in what is
1 t *
. known as Soiouiaii liasin and alKitu
! live miles frim tidewater. There i
.has iieen hut little work done on
V-aini.-. Hie ledge shows a width
oi uIhiiu dO feet on 'tie surface.
I Mr. Parker, who has fully iuvis
• *■
tigated tw led fa well*plei zu
v. itii his p' rehase. having co.u
p.eUu widih. tie lcloruccf ,o Had
ley. before leaving he placed T.
J. Rhinchart in charge wi h full
instructions as to opt nine up the
projiertv. Mr. R ,inchar. Mcur.-d
ten ini n and .supplies and i.nmedi
atelv la gan operations. Wore. wdl
lie continued with additional men
as necessit y dt inaiuls, a ml is now a
prospect will be made into a mint
at til*- earliest possible date.
in 1SK*1 “Red” Kllis discovered
and - iiked the claim and for a
consideration turned them over to
\\ . \\". tioiiin, w lio. tile next sea
son let out a contract for the assess
ment work. baler the property
was turned over to A. 15. lies, who
m glictid to do the assessment
work and thus let the claims go.
Very early lust year Mr. Itebney,
kmwing tin- piopcrty to be oj»en
t.;r n-..cation, weet over and
lo a ed i and has looked after it
sit., e.
It shows every indication of
being a very large body of copper
sulphides, but from present appear
ances not of a very gra.it .
Copper Cenier i)oipgs
Copper Center, Aug. i — icrinati
Kaizar, of Seward, was arrested on
a charge of stealing and d . .toying
provisions belonging to iiadclifm,
the gensing fanner at Copper Cen
ter. lie was tried before Judge
Holman, found guilty and sen
tenced to jaii for sixty days. Uul
katta Charlie, having ,-erved thirty
days for stealing, li i leu dis
charged. These are examples of
what may he expected front Judge
Holman to those who travel on
other people’.- grab. |>ol| h Smith,
lhtck lioyt, Holman, dadciiff'e and
others -are busy making hay.
Vegetables and grain crops in the
Copper river valley are exceedingly
promising. This is farmer’s weather
—plenty of rain and sun. fil'd
Scott, the pathfinder, splashed
through here on the fifth on his
way to tiuikana. Cowell is busy
finishing his new elub rooms for the
tall rush. Holman’s goats are doing
finely. L v. is and the government
survey party are expected this week
from the Taliana.
Of World-Wide Fame.
That the fame of the At ask a
Pru.-ckctok extends ;o the utier
Uiost parts of the earth is evidenced
by the following fetter:
Buyoiubong, Xeuva Vizcaya, P.I.
o— 2U“-05
Editor Alaska Phoapkctok,
\ aluez. Alaska.
Sir:
Will you kindly send me a
copy of your PuoemToi: and also
s th.-eription terms. Enclosed tiud
4>). 10
Your.- truly,
llotV.vKIi S. STBASUAfOll,
Teacher of Euglish, Bayoiultoni:,
N. Y„ P. i.
Mining Property SoU
An extension of .lie Beat son
in lie, on 1. touche i. .and, was sold
tins week by Axel Lind to George
Barrack, who represents panics in
the states. Cpon the completion
ot tile sale Mr ! arrack left to coll
ier with his neipals. and will
return at an •date to start
work opining u* v proper v.
The property consists of four
claims and is located on the west
end of the Beatsoti mine, an 1 is
evidently on the same ledge. Lind
lias stripped the surface in many
places and exposed two large ore
chutes of 20 and 24 feet in width.
Samples taken from the openings
assay ahov 10 per cent. What it
will show i •' >w the surface remains
for Barrack to prove.
Work kgun on Road
The men working on the wagon
road under the direction of Lieu
■cn::n. Or hard, ni the road com
mission, v.' si ! lean I from were
:u a point near the Hams. About
' iatter | an of tlie present week
they will move to Krnestine and
from there to Tousina will put the
road in tirst-elass condition, keep
ing it about 20 feet wide. Prom
there they will continue the road
over the U iilow creek trail to Cop
per Center. Cpon the completion
of this part they will move to the
Uakona and work up a good road
from there to a point near the head
of the iJclta, where it is expected
they will meet the party engaged
building road from Fairbanks and
coming this way.
Before snow fall all the men un
der Lieutenant Orchard will return
to town and build that section of
the road leading from Valdez, it
will he located hack at the foot of
the hills and will cross the stream
at the foot of the lake on a suls
stantial bridge to be built at that
point. A contract will be given out
by Lieuti mint Biiisburv who will
come here as soon as relieve d bv
Lieutenant Orchard, who left here
on the Bertha.
George Horer, who presides over
the destinie- of the Gakona road
house, has had two milk cows added
to his cart*, liotii George ami his
guests have found the milk of the
animals a very welcome addition
to the table, but the cows Leoanie
somewhat of a care. George prides
himself on the excellence of his
garden, and as a guard against the
cows lie huilt a fence around it, hut
the “critters” would break in. One
night recently, hearing them in the
garden, he tried a new and evi
dently successful scheme. He ac
tuallv frightened them out, and to
such an extent that it took Him two
days to tiud them, they having
traveled lti miles and ero.-sed twe
s.r a. in their efforts to get away
from the gnom.