STEAM HEATED HOT AND COLD BATHS
, Copper Block Hotel
VALDEZ, ALASKA
“The House of Comfort”
PHONE 7 FOR MEN ONLY
MERCHANT’S CAFE
FRESH BREAD AND PASTRY DAILY
Phone 63 Chas. Fischer, Propr.
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D. F. MILLARD. Agent and Supplier—Copper Block. Veddez
The Beat Place in Valdez to
Stop at ia the
Arctic Hotel
Rwao TW Hoo»e of CoafuCI
KATES REASONABLE
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BATHROOM Sp«d»l Rale By tk« Hod
PHONE 133 MRS. STRING, Prop.
VAUJRZ 1/ODOB
ROIM
PtM »d Accepted Hi**
Regular Communications nrst weo
•esday In each month In McKinley
HalL Visitors always welcome.
A. E. GRIGSBY. W. M.
HD. WOOD, Secretary.
Ksy*tone!aad Hobart Sts.
OPEN TO ALL PHYSICIANS.
Private Rooom far Patient*
Pfcooe 144 MRS. C. H WILCOX. Matwm
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Copper River
^ Draying Co
Freighting and Passengers
to all parts of the Interior.
GENERAL TRUCKING
McKinley Street, Valdez
ED. WOOD. Proprietor
OLD TIMS INDIAN
SLAVS PASSES AWAY
Wrangell Sentinel: “King George,
a blind native and a character well
known in Wrangell, passad away in
his cabin uack of the Charlie Ching
Shun store last Saturday.
“King George,” whose real name
is unknown, and whose history wo i'c
make good fiction, was about eighty
years of age and has been a resident
of Wrangell for about 30 years.
' “King George” is one of the last
living slaves of the Alaskan natives,
having been captured and brought to
Alaska over sixty years ago by the
Klawock tribe returning from a plun
dering expedition down into the Can
adian territory and it is probably
due to that fact that he was ealled
"King George.”
At the time he was brought to Alas
ka he wub only a boy and worked as
a slave for the Klawock natives un
til the advance of the United States
government placed that under the
ban, when he was given his freedom,
although a close watch was always
kept on him because he was suppos
ed to be the grandson of an evil spir
it and associated with witchcraft. But
somehow he managed to escape from
his guardians and came to Wran
gell and asked the government au
thorities here to protect him as they
had threatened to kill him for prac
ticing witchcraft
He lived and fished about Wron
ger until only a few years ago when
he went totally blind and ever since
that time he has been a familiar fig
ure setting cutting wood on the
beach or finding his way to his shack
dragging his firewood along with
him.
Brooms 26c, 36c and 60c; for the
best at the Emporium. tf
Bargains at the Emporium; open
from 2 a. m. to 9 p. m. *
Subscribe for the Prospector.
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TO INSTALL IOO -
TOO A it MILL
Mother Bode Alines Company Plan
ning Development of Its
Property on Big Scale.
According to Supt. W. Bertram
Hancock, of the Mother Lode Copper
Mines company, the property is to be
developed on an entensive scale and
will be equipped with modern ma
chinery.
At present fifty-seven men are em
ployed at this copper mine, develop
ing on four different iCtbtu. nelow the
mouth of the tunnel and stoping out
tho high grade ore. Recently about
100 tons of this metal was transport
ed over the trail to the Copper River
& Northwestern railway to the Taco
ma smelter. This ore runs from 51
to 60 per cent copper.
Arrangements have been made to
instal a mill on the property next
spring, with a capacity of 100 tons
per day; a hydro-electric plant of 200
horse-power for the mill, and also a
compressor. An eighty foot dam will
also be built and a wagon road con
structed from the mine to McCarthy
for the hauling of the ore during the
summer months, a distance of four
teen miles. Owing to the high wa
ter in McCarthy creek in the sum
mer, caused by the melting snows
and glaciers at its head, the partly
constructed trail down the creek can
only be used by pack train and sad
dle horses for about eight months
of the year... after the freeze-up
heavy freight sleds become available.
The whole of the mining operations
so tar ■ on in uie Mother Lode
mine are practically confined to the
Marvellous, Godfrey and Hero claims,
and consists of 5,415 feet of tunnels,
crosscuts, drifts, etc. Since the rec
tion of a tramway the work of explor
ation and development has been car
ried on expeditiously. The ore body
follows the dip of the bedding plans
in the limestone, and the main body
varies from six inches to twenty-nine
and a half feet, likewise the compo
sition of the ore which in places may
be all copper glance and in others a
mixture of covellite, azurite and mal
achite, with considerable oxide of
iron. It is estimated that there is
$3,600,000 worth of ore blocked out,
and tonnage broken in stopes and on
the dump.
I ne property consists oi seventy
lode and placer claims, located in
1907, and subsequent years by Os
car Haglund, Oscar Sail and Johrf
Smith, and embraces an area of about
1300 acres of ground in the Chitina
mining district. These locations
are for the most part in Marvellous
and Independent gulches, thirteen to
fourteen miles above its mouth,
where it flows into the Kennecott
river. The Marvellous, Godfrey and
Hero claims, upon which most of the
mining has been dine, are all at the
head of Marvellous gulch, at an ele
vation of from 5820 to 6734 feet
above sea level. The Marvellous
claim is 3191 feet due east from the
Bonanza mine, and one and a quarter
miles southeast from the Jumbo
mine, both properties of the Kenne
cott Copper Corporation.
LOCAL BREVITIES.
Amateur Night Tonight.
At the Liberty Theatre tonight is
amateur night. A good show.
Pasteurized Whipping Cream and
pure Buttermilk at Love-Whitley’s.
Chas. Whalen, the well known
miner, Is planning a trip to the States
on one of the first boats.
Furnished rooms at Mrs. oeiand’s.
Prices reasonable. *
Weary Willie.
At the Liberty Theatre tonight—
amateur night.
Anything in the Jewelry line at the
Valdez Drug Co. tf
W. L. Smith, the wei. ...own min
ing man, will leave' on the Alameda
for Seattle, where he will spend the
balance of the winter.
Valdez Drug Company nave a fine
line of School Stationery. tf.
Miss Sullivan, the well know.
stewardess of the Alameda, who
spent her vacation in California is
again on duty and visited with Val
dez friends yesterday while in port
Pictures developed at the Valdez
Drug Compan}. tf.
The Valdez Quartette,
fyt the Liberty Theatre tonight—ama
teur night; also good movie show.
Fancy Stationery at the Valdes
Drag Store. *
W.l lUIl I'UUISK Uf AliAHKA
TREATED ON IN BULLETIN
For several years the United States
Geological Survey has been making
a study of the water supply of part
of Alaska. At first this work was
confined to Seward Peninsula- later
it was extended to the Yukon-Tana
na region; and Water Supply P<*per
No. 372, just issued, describes the wa
ter resources of the region tribu
tary to Copper River, Prince William
Sound, and the lower Susitna
Stream measurements made dur
ing only one season cannot of course,
be relied upon for estimating aver
age flows, but the Survey Engineer,
C. E. Ellsworth and R. W. Davenport,
besides making measurements of the
flow of some of the streams, obtain
ed much information on the topog
raphy of the drainage basins, reser
voirs, and power sites. The data thut
obtained, when combined, with the
weather bureau’s records of precipi
tation, will serve as a general guide
to the engineer, who, however, will
at once realize that those facts must
be supplemented by careful and thor
ough surveys and measurements be
fore he can plan in detail any water
power project. The paper will at
least show that the water powers
available throughout the year are not
so abundant in the south central part
of Alaska as has sometimes been as
sumed.
The general province discussed in
the report contains valuable mineral
deposits. In its eastern part lies the
Bering River coal field with its high
grade fuels, and also the Katalla oil
field. In the Copper River basin and
in the Prince William Sound region
to the west, there are, valuable de
posits of gold and copper, and in the
Willow Creek district of the Kenai
Peninsula, which is also in the provj
Ince, there are deposits of gold. Close
at hand is the Matanuska coal fiel-1
Take it all in all this is one of C’e
richest mineral districts in Alaska,
and it contains also arable lands.
Moreover, it embraces the Copper
River and Susitna valleys, two of the
most important gateways into inland
Alaska.
Appended to the main report is a
reprint of an article by J. C. Hoyt
on the water powers of southeastern
Alaska, so that Water-Supply Paper
372 contains all available in forma
tion on the water powers along the
Pacific Coast of Alaska as far west
as Cook Inlet. A copy of this paper
may be obtained free on application
to the Director, U. S. Geological Sur
vey, Washington, D. C.
LOCAL BREVITIES.
H. B. Ingram, former representa
tive of this division in the Alaska leg
islature, who has been circulating
among Valdez business houses dur
ing the past week in the interests of
wholesale houses In the States, will
leave on the Alameda for Cordova.
He will go over the road to Fair
banks and will spend the balance of
the winter in the interior.
Just received ,the finest line of
neckties ever shown In Valdez, at
Ben Silverman’s.
Mrs. von Gunther and daughter
Lena will leave on the Alameda en
route to Tacoma where the ywill vis
it friends and relatives. Mrs. von
Gunther will return to Valdez early
next spring but Lena will stay with
relatives in Tacoma, where she will
attend school.
Our fresh candy arrived on this
last boat late for the holidays, 12%
cents half pound at the Emporium.
Ralph M. Cummings, a member or
the Signal Corps who has-been sta
tioned at Beaver Dam during the
past few months, will be an outgoing
passenger for Seattle on the Alame
da.
Far good home-cooked meals try
Mrs. M. Olson, on Hobart 8treet. *
Capt. Swanson of the launch B. F.
M. is one of the busiest men in Val
des as he has scores of commissions
to perform for the miners employed
in the Granite mine each time he
comes to Valdes.
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Kodak Supplies at the Valdes
Drug Comnany. tf
A large crowd attended the open
ing of Moore’s open-air skating rink
last night. The ice is fine, and many
persons will take advantage of the
fine weather to try and renew the
joys of youth.
George, the Japanese, who worked
for Wm. Blackwell for several years,
is reported to be very low' from a ,
complication of diseases.
Pare Fresh Drugs at the Valdez
Drug Store. . *
The linemen of the Alaska Water,
Light & Telephone company stretch
ed the wires on the poles this morn
ing to connect the new fire alarm
system the Valdes Are department is
Installing. After the insta’latlon has
been completed a system of alarms
will be arranged to indicate the loca
tion from which the alarm was turn
ed in.
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CITY EXPRESS
MEETS ALL BOATS AND NEVER MISSES V TRAIN
Auto lor Hire Day or Night.
Buy and Sell Anything.
Phone 82 J. A. SPENARD, Prop.
Independent Laundry Co.
Satisfaction Gnaranteed I I Foot Keystone Ave
Telephone 66 I | Rouifh Dry lCc lb
When in Chitina Stop at the
CHITINA HOTEL
Fined Hotel in tie Interior—Well Heated, Clean Room.
Bar in Connection. Rates Reasonable
UPPER TONSINA ROAD HOUSE
best of Meals—Prices Reasonable
GENERAL STORE. - TRADING POST.
Telephone connects with Chstina.
General Freighting. KNUTE NAFSTED. Mgr.
I VALDEZ REAL ESTATE AGENCY i
r !
| Real Estate, Insurance, General Brokerage
Absentees Business Properly Handled
l Treat Building, Alaska Ave. Telephone No. 60 :
Mead’s Sheet Metal Works
PLIMBING, STEAM AND HOT WATER HEATING,
Sheet Metal Work, Mine Air Pl|>e, Pl| e 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 Admiral PUGET SOUND [
California Lillfi Alaska
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ALASKA !
Steamers sail from Seattle at 9 P. M. on :i
5th, 15th, 25th—EVERY MONTH
Steamer Sailing ISth calla Dianaa and Kodiak—All Sailing call at Kalk
and Anchorage.
CALIFORNIA
Seattle to San Francisco every Wednesday and Sunday, connecting with J
Steamer a Yale and Harvard for Southern California* £
Right reserved to change schedule without notice c
RICHARD J. RINGWOOD, Mgr* Seattle! VALDEZ DOCK CO* Local Agt* \
ALASKA
STEAMSHIP CO.
a a ALAMEDA AND 8. 8. NORTHWESTERN SAIL FROM SE
ATTLE THE 10TH, 20TH AND 80TH,
EVERY MONTH
|i
l FROM VALDEZ SOUTH—8TH, 18TH, 28TH, FOR CORDOVA,
j! JUNEAU, WRANGEL, KETCHIKAN AND SEATTLE.
»
t Regular freight service for Ketchikan, Wrangell, Juneau, Sheep
* Creek, Treadwell, Douglas, Skagway, Cordova, Ellamar, Valdes and La
* touche Explosives, S. 3. Seward, on the 6th; La touche, on the 16th: S. S.
* Cordova, I6th of each month—right reserved to change this schedule
* without notice
* F. B. TRACY, CeaT Agent VALDEZ DOCK CO* Local Agent.
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.