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COMMENCE WORK
ILES POLE LINE
Contractors Establish Camp On
the Beach—Will Parallel the
Old Line.
Sanders and Carter have com
me'noed the work of erecting the
pole line from the lies power
plant to Valdez. Three men were
sent across the hay yesterday
and they have established camp
near the power building on the
beach and will cut a right of way
through the timber, about 75
feet above the line1 used by the
Alaska Water, Light & Telephone
Company. The present plans
call for the use of about 175
poles, which will bring the pow
er to the junction of Hobart
street and Keystone avenue, op
posite the Arctic Hotel, from
which place it will be conveyed
about the town.
LOCAUilS
All new movies at the Orpheum
tonight.
A Life For a Kiss, at the Or
pheum tonight.
Joe Bourke returned from
Landlock bay yesterday.
Splendid change of program at
the Orpheum tonight.
Pink’s Garters at the Orpheum
tonight. A comic comedy.
\V. A. Dickey, of Landlock bay,
arrived in Valdez last night.
The regular Wednesday night
dance at Moose Hall. "
Dancing tonight in Moose Hall
at 9:30 sharp. Home waltz at
twelve.
Jack McLean returned from
the Ry.Strom property on Land
lock bay.
Tom Donohue returned to Val
dez after visiting the Schlosser
property.
W. A. Dickey has his bunkers
filled with picked ore, for ship
ment lo Tacoma.
Sidney Drake, returned to Val
dez last night from the Camer
on-Johnson claims.
Geo. Reinke. the watch repairer
and jeweler, is at the Valdez Drug
company.
John L. Steele made a visit to
Landlock bay, returning , last
night on the Copper Nugget.
When in need of bicycle pumps,
bells, grips and other supplies
and parts call on Owen E. Meals.
Dr. Ryslrom is driving a raise
in order to ventilate his mine.
The work is being pushed rapid
*>'• _ |
Charles Bush and party of
friends returned from an outing
at Shoup bay, with plenty of ber
ries.
The Copper Nugget, in com
mand of Captain Wiilliam Cyrus
Harrington, reached Valdez last
night.
Word was received on the last
boat that a baby boy had been
born to Mr. and Mrs. Clarence
Brown.
C. H. Wilcox left last night for
Cordova to become editor of the
Cordova Times, the weekly paper
of the railroad town.
The Valdez Transfer company
is having a pew foundation plac
ed under the office building. Gus
Djarf is doing the work.
E. E. Campbell, the mining
engineer, returned to Valdez af
ter making an inspection of the
Three Man Mining company.
General Agent B. F. Watson,
of. the Alaska ,Coaet Co., was
aboard the Sampson^ on his way
to Seattle on a* business trip.
Word received on the Samp
son indicates that the salmon are
running heavily in the Cook In
let waters and that all the can
neries and salteries are working
to capacity.
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Mrs. J. C. Dieringer, who was
taken ill a few days ago, is im
proving, although still confined
to her bed.
Judge J. J. Finnegan, of Sew
ard, was a passenger u»n last
night’s steamer for Cordova. He
is going into the new diggings.
Mr. Stein, a large owner in the
Cameron-John'son company, re
turned last night from the prop
erty much pleased with the prop
erty.
There was no show at the Or
pheum last night because of the
lack of power, but a special pro
gram will be run tonight to make j
up for lost time.
The Ellamar Mining company
is constructing a long wharf to
the reef, near the mine, which
will greatly aid in the loading of
ore and unloading of supplied.
.Eli and Louie Larsoft; have com
pleted the cement sidewalk in
front of their property on Key
stone avenue. Cement sidewalks
are becoming popular in I his
town.
George Treat is having the
former Cantwell studio enlarged
and will make a number of im
provements in the structure. Eli
and Louie Larson are doing the
work.
L. A. Lavensaler returned to
Valdez after making an inspec
tion of the Fidalgo-Alaska Cop
per eompay’s work, which has
been discontinued for several
months.
■A raft of 400,000 feet of lum
ber is expected some time today
or tomorrow fro.ua Montague is
land, where, under Manager Fin
ical, the Copper River J,umber
company, ha's had a logging
■camp. The launches n. F. M. and
Elvira are towing the big raft and
the Nellie M., owned by Jacobson,
left yesterday to ascerttain if any
further assistance is necessary.
The sawmill will resume work
next week and the raft will be cut
into lumber and stored in the
yard.
If you want all the new* all the
time, read the Prospector.
CINHAMON OF CEYLON.
How the Aromatic Bark Is Prepared
and Packed on Board Ship.
More than 200 years ago the
Dutch rulers of Ceylon, anxious to
retain their monopoly of the pre
cious spice for which that island is
famous, enacted a law that made it
a capital offense to buy or sell the
wild jungle cinnamon, then the only
sort known. The plants, wherever
found, were held to be the property
of the state. If a shrub chanced to
spring up in a man’s dooryard, he
could neither destroy nor use it un
der severe penalties. Things are
different hov.\
Today the cultivation is something
like that of a willow copse, straight
young shoots springing up round
the stump of the plant previously
cut. These shoots are cut every
second year. They measure two
inches in circumference. Many of
them are sold as walking sticks and
find a ready market among steamer
passengers, who think that there
must be a special charm in a cinna
mon stick, though in truth it is
hard to distinguish it from common
hazel.
The real thing to be secured is
of course the highly aromatic inner
bark. First the leaves are stripped
off and then the bark is split from
end to end with asharp knife that
has a curved point. With this, aid
ed by the fingers, the bark is care
fully removed in long pieces. These
are shaped up and left to sodden, so
as to facilitate the next process,
that of scraping off the outer rind.
In order to do this each piece of
bark is placed on a round piece of
wood and carefully scraped with a
knife, the almost nude brown work
ers sitting on the ground and using
their toes as an extra hand to steady
the end of the stick.
The bark is then left to dry in
the sun, when it rolls itself up into
tight quills. These are neatly sort
ed and packed, three or four inside
one another, made up into bales
covered with cloth and are then
ready for export.
Cinnamon is so sensitive tnat
care has to be taken with regard
to its surroundings on board snip,
as a bale of fine cinnamon will lose
much of its delicate aroma if packed
among bales of coarser bark. Vari
ous expedients have b6en tried to
remedy this. The Portuguese and
Dutch isolated the baleB by packing
them in cocoanut fiber or in hides,
trat it is found that the only real
safeguard is to pack bags of pepper
between the bales.—New York .
Tribune.
4. A.
A. M. Dieringer ,
Valdez Transfer
Company
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Positively no coal delivered
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Meet every Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock In
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VALDEZ LODGE NO. 6,1.0. O.F.
K1,'! Meets every Monday at 8 p. m- in
ODD FELLOWS HALL
Visiting Brothers especially invited
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PIONEERS OF ALASKA
IGLOO NO. 7.
Meets every first and third Mon
day of each month. All visit
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Valdes lodge
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Regular Communications first Wednesday Id
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