VOLUME 2, NO. 5. VALDEZ, ALASKA, THURSDAY, MARCH 12, 1903* OFFICIAL CITY PAPER*
JAMES FISH e> CO
Furnishing Goods.
“Everything to Wear.”
IP you WANT
Hats, Caps, Boots, Shoes,
Pants, Overalls,
Ready-to-Wear Suits,
Sweaters or Slickers,
You can get them here
and save money. We
have the Finest, exclu
sive everything-to-wear
stock in town. |
"'-^-Headquarters for Underwear
And can fit you in anything you
want, from Fleece-Lined, at $1.30
n suit to Mercerized Silk at $8.00
a suit. Twenty-five styles to select
from.
COTTON UNDERWEAR,
WOOL UNDERWEAR,
SILK UNDERWEAR.
Cure That Cold at
P. O. DRUG STORE.
fWfnJWT’*
P. E. KERN,
GOLD and SILVERSMITH.
We Carry a Large Lot of
Souvenir Spoons
Nugget Jewelry
Rings, Etc.
Fine Watch Repairing
City Market
NEXT TO MERCHANT** CAKE.
Wholesale and Retail Dealers in
Beef, Mutton, Pork and Poultry
Our Price* are RIGHT. Given* a call.
Tlit* Watch nl tlw Hour;
And the Hour of the Watch.
On it Life mav dejiend! To this end get the
PROJPKTOR
A TRI STV KKLIABLK WATCH.
Special Price $2.00.
Se* it and you’ll believe it, try it and you’ll buy it.
Tbos make a double strike, Time and Gold.
W. C STULL, Nugget Jewelry Blade to Order
Optician, Jeweler and Expert Watclimaker.
IiUt Time For Old Council.
A quorum of tlie old city council
(ailed to materialize last Monday
night and finish up their business j
and receive the reports of the vui
tous committees and officers, and
at 9:30 Mayor Steele declarer! the
old council adjourned sine die.
The following memliers of five
new council were present: Steele,
Miller. Hem pie, Dowling and
Kraemer. All itad qualified and
cook their seats as councilmen.
•fudge Goodell was out of town and
E. B. Wheat was unable to attend
ou account of sickness.
The new council postponed the
election of permanent officers until
all tlie members were present, and
elected J. L. Steele, temporary
chairman and H. H. Hildretli,
temporary clerk.
The two requests for franchises
for a water works system made hv
J. F. Hielsctier A Co. and S. G.
Mathews were laid on the table for
the |tresent
J. G. Snyder, eitv treasurer, pre
sented his annual report as follows:
OKNKHAI. FUND
Total amount received
from all sources.12,496.14
Total exjienditures. 2,469.69
BaL on band. 26.45
SCHOOL niNU
RceM from licences, etc. $4,039.28
Paid out on warrants_ 2,277.70
Bal. on lmnd.$1,761.58
Tlie following bills were ordered
paid*
J. \V. Leedr, salary....... .$75.00
Gasoline for fire engine ... 5.00
Eighty Stamps.
The Mount Baker-Yale Mining
company has practically completed
; arrangement* to put up an eightv
I stamp mill on their property, itj
. stead of a forty-stamp mill as was
, at first contemplated. This will
! enable them to treat 400 tons of
, rock daily, giving them an esti
1 mated net revenue of 972,000 per
; month.—Seattle Weekly Times,
l Feb. 28.
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I Vocal und piano instruction,
I French or German language classes, j
Schneider Sisters, Broadway.
jworaiMf
NOW BEING ERECTED ON
KEYSTONE AVE.
M Df V. t. Qei;tr
Will Be Rushed To Completion As
East As Possih'e. Twenty
Peet Wide.
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i Tlic erection of another wharf in
i Valdez began last Tuesday at the
foot of Keystone ave. Geiger and
McPhee are in charge and the
work will l«e rapidly pushed to
completion. Natives and white
men have lieen busy most of tl e
winter cutting and rafting logs in
the numerous hays along the sound j
and these are lieing forwarded as
rupidlv as ]>osaihle for use as piles. ■
A large number of piles will he re- |
quircd, the dimensions of the wharf
will lie fourteen hundred feet long
by not less than twenty feet wide)
throughout, with a five-foot side- j
I walk for pedestrians. In connec
j tion with the wharf there will lie a j
warehouse, 4rtxl GO feet, for Un
safe-keeping of gootls, pending their
1 removal.
Mr. Geiger is an old hand at the
! bridge ami wharf building business
and is fully competent to manage!
, the construction of the present
structure. Mr. McPhee, his part
ner in the enterprise, has lieen for
several years a resident of Dawson,
land is well known to the residents
[ of that place.
School Board.
The new school board met on
! Tuesday night at the office of Mr.
F. M. Brown. On account of leav
ing the city in a few weeks, Mr.
Hildreth notified the other mem
bers of the hoard tluit he would
not qualify, and in .accordance
with the city ordinances a new
member had to be elected. Mr. A
W. Rochford was elected to fill the
vacancy. The lmard will not or
ganize until Mr. Rochford qualifies.
The matter of employing teachers
was discussed hut nothing will lie
clone until the lmard is regularly
organized.
Delegate Bill.
The senate committee on terri
tories, ou Feb. 25th, reported the
Alaska delegate hill recently passed
by the house with an amendment
which strikes out every (wovision
of the house measure and author
izes the a|miiitinent of u commis
sioner from Alaska to be appointed
by a commission, consisting of tbe
governor of the territory, the sur
veyor-general and judges of tbe
three* district courts. It is stipulated
that tbe commissioner appointed
shall not lie related to any of tbe
five memliers of the appointing
commission. The bill will now go
to conference, but the provisions of
the two bills are so radically dif
ferent that an agreement is a mat
ter of grave uncertainty.
The- Alaska Commercial Co.,
North American Transportation A
Trading Co. and Alaska Explora
tion Co., are pressing a claim of
$26,900 against the government for
supplies furnished the Alaska in
dians during the epidemic- of 1900.
Capt. Jarvis, collector of customs!
for the district of Alaska, has lieeu
summoned to Washington to con
fer with'the secretary of the treas
ury in regard to affairs in the dis
trict.
The Alaska Packers association
have, jiist paid to the clerk of the
U. 8. district court $41,000 license
money on their output of salmon
in this district. This is probably
the largest lioeme fee paid iu
Alaska by any one firm or corpor
ation.
THE TANANA STRIKE.
Reliable information lias just
lieen received from the scene of the
Tanana strike, stating that tlic
rich ground covers a large area,
and seems to lie of almut the same
richness all the way through. Sur
face pans average 10 to 20 cents..
Thirty cent pans bc,ing obtained
three feet down.
There are now almut 4200 people
in that section and a great rush is
on from Nome, Dawson and all
Yukon (mints.
The construction gang on the
Tanana division of the telegraph
line have all quit work and gone
to the strike. Lieut. Gibbs, who
had charge of the telegraph crew,
was one of the first men on the!
ground. He claims that it is a
second Klondike.
The strike was made 20 miles j
almve Cliena station, on tributaries'
of the Tanana. It is almut ISO
miles from Wearc.
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Proposed Legislation for Alaska..
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In it communication to thecham
ltor of commerce, J. \V. Ivey says
lie has had a hard tight in Wash
ington for Alaska, but thinks he
sees light ahead. He says lie is
very anxious to get through there,
so he can return to Valdez at mi
early date.
Following is the legislation for
Alaska, advocated by him:
A bill for a delegate to Congress,
passed the house Jan. 23.
A bill extending land laws, from
80 to 1(>0 acres, and providing for
patent after five years residence in
case puljic .surveys are not ex
tend*!
A bjjl to appropriate $150,000
for promotion of salmon culture in
Alaska.
A bill providing for making coal
land entries prior to extension of
public surveys.
A bill making Alaska a separate
liglit-house district: passed senate
Jan. 31.
A bill to establish life-saving
station at Nome.
A bill providing private incor
poration law for Alaska, and ex
penditure of all taxes collected for
maintenance of public school* and
incorporated towns.
To have withdrawn from public
entry a certain amount of laud for
use of Copper rivpr Indians and
natives of Alaska.
To have Alaska included in min
eral census next year.
Appropriations: for cable from
coast of Wash, to Juneau, $500,(XX).
For aids to navigation $350,000.
For survey* of public lands
$115,000.
For survey of mi*d<M) stations,
$50,000.
For agricultural exjierimcnt sta
tions, $15,000.
To complete public building at
Juneau. $10,000.
Ft r relief of Copper river Indians,
$15,<XX).
For representation at St. Louis
ex
F. Acltles anil three companions
recently left the Forty-Mile district
and came across country to Valdez.
While coming down Copper river
they came across a pair of dogs
that had evidently l>ecn caught in
an overflow and were frozen into
the ice of the river; the harness
was on the animals hut no trace of
a sled could lie found
The Ladies Aid society of the C.
E. church will give the Rev. Mr.
Hosford a farewell entertainment
next Frirluv night and at the same
time greet Rev. Mr.and Mrs. Crum,
wl»o returned on the Santa Ana.
An interesting program has been
arranged and refreshments will be
served.
Mrs. Helen Sexton, of Seattle,
arrived on the steamer Portland,
and will open a ladies’ furnishing
goods store and hair dressing par
lors in the White building formerly
occupied by Evans the architect.
The ladies of V’aldez are requested
to eall and examine her goods.
Maps of Nisina country for sale
at the Piwtoffice.
VALDEZ TO WEARF
I
SPECIAL COURIERS TO MAKE
TRIAL TRIP
With Nail Tor Home
Will Go Via Chistuchina, Delta
and Tanana. Shortest
Route to Yukon.
Today (‘apt. Patterson, win* has
been master on the lower Yukon
river steamers for some years, and
Win. Taylor, the veteran mail car
rier who has li'sm on the Valdez
Kagle route this winter, leave here
for Fort Gibbons, at the confluence
of the Tanana and Yukon rivers.
They will travel light ami wait
at Chistuchina mail station for
certain mail that will he dispatched
bv regular mail carriers on the
loth inst. After getting this mail
they will make all speed possible
to the postoflicc at Weare. with a
view to demonstrating that Valdez
and the Tanana river is the short
est and l*est mail rout** to Nome
and St. Michaels.
While it is not cxjiectcd that as
fast time will la* made on this trial
trip as can l>e made should a con
tract l*e awarded, it is reasonably
exjiected that sufficient time will
l*e saved as to demonstrate lieyond
all question the superiority of the
Valdez route over all others to the
lower Yukon river, Nome and St,
Michaels. A few copies uf {his is
sue of the Prospwtor will mak#
up part of the mail.
Additions to Mill..
The sawmill, which closed down
late last fall in order to make some
addition to the plant, will open ti|»
again in a few days. Mr. Robin
son, manager of the work-*, returned
ou Die Manta Ana with boilers and
nuu-liinery enough to double the
former capacity of the mill. The
old mill turned out ulmut 15,000
feet per day, which was found in
sufficient for the demand, so with
the new and improved machinery
it is expected to produce at least
30,000 feet of all kinds necessary
for building purposes and when the
opportunity presents itself drying
rooms will lie added to the plant
The machinery is now being
removed from the wharf to the
mill ami machinists will at once
W put to work getting it in plane
and no labor or excuse will he
spared to make it a tirst-olnsa
plant. The old part of the mill
is cutting the lumlier for the im
provements. but nothing will lie
cut for general use until the new
mill is in running order.
The Santa Ana arrived in port
last Monday, having on lioard the
following passengers for this place:
II. Klliiitt, II. K. K,»hi 11*4,11. A. J. Daly, J. S.
Sheridan, Rev. Cram. Mr*. I rani. F. Carter, W.
R. Jiihuann. A. McLaren. II. Culucr, l»r. M.
Schuuiun. O. Kucher. J. K. Cunl, Sr.. J. F.. Cord,
Jr., II. Knglotrdt. Ilaii* llnn*un. F. M BiclialL
A. Schilling. L. I)ii|niul. Thu* Tiihb*. W. Herd
er ami child, F. Hoi*. — Jauiiala, — TalcanchL
Fal laiylc, — Wile, K. I.. lu rry. Cha*.Cubiirne,
I Alex. Mciiurrey. Alex. ti. Fark, K. I- Fattcrxili,
J. Moreuaacu. J. Ilan*en, II. \V. (Hcm.ii, J. K,
Xutcbcll, Martin ol*cn. Janie Fi ler*. II. Cub
|a-r, Henry Calun, Rub'i Rice.
R. S. Bates, of Valdez in particu
lar and Alaska in general, leas re
ceived the np|Htintnicnt as U. S.
marshal for the Nushagak district,
in which C. H. Clegg is coni in is
sioner. The appointment of Mr.
Bates was a very wise one, as he ia
an old ‘‘sour dough” and up to
all the wiles of the natives as well
as the white men of Alaska.
According to the Beattie papers
the steamer Dawson Citv will be
put on the run between Valdez and
Kayak until navigation opens in
Bering sea, when she will proceed
to Koine and operate between there
and tiolovia hay during tha muh
mar.