S. BLUM & CO*
INCORPORATED
bankers
CAPITAL $20d,00d.6d.
We do a general banking business.
We sell exchange on all parts of the world.
We pay 4 per cent interest on Time Certificates ef Deposit
ROBERT McINtOSH
delivery guaranteed
Contracts taken for delivery in _ fhe NELCHINA,
CHISANA, and SLATE CREEK sections.
No contract too large, none tob small.
For prices apply to Rob’t McIntosh, Valdez.
J. E. WILSON
FREIGHTER
Special price on mills and large outfits—Special atten
tion given to Fairbanks, Nelchina and
Chisana freight.
Teams are always ready to go to any point in Third or Fourth Divisions.
TAZLINA HILL ROAD HOUSE
is open for freight and accommodations for the hew
strike at Nelchiha—Horses on hand at all times.
JAMES L. SlfoPSON.
Wortman’s Road Homo
E. P. CASHMAN. Proprietor.
20 miles from Valdez.
The best meals and most comfortabld beds Procurable.
UPPER TONSINA ROADIHOUSE !
Best of Meala—Prices ^Reasonable
GENERAL STORE. - TRADING TOST.
Telephone connect* with Chitina."
General Freighting. KNUTE !NAFSTED. Mgr.
Ernestine Road House
On Government Road 65 miles from Valdez. |
HARRY MILLER. Prop.
Good clean beds. CtfOrUtttfriff CirOt fllacfc F,#e w*r^,*b*n,,■ Ac'
Excellent meals. ClUl JllllUg III dl UlUOO comodston for'60 Horses.
GET THE HAfelT
Every Evening
BE A BOOSTER
• A. H. PINKUS, Mgr.
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Dougherty & Ferguson
GENERAL
MERCHANDISE
The best groceries received
60 every boat,
Fr&fi Vegetables, ruits I
arid huts.
fJUGO FELS
Day Work if Desired
Estimates Furnished
WORK GUARANTEED
Suits pressed* for $1.00 at Silver
man's, the tailor. Telephone 198.
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LOCAL BREVITIES.
FOUND—A fur neck piece at. Lou
ie’s Cafe. Owner can have same by
railing at the Prospector office, prov -
ing property and paying for this ad
vertisement. tf
Cook wanted by Mrs. Carleton at
Fort Liscttm; call or phone Mrs. Car
leton.
G. O. Keinke, the watchmaker anti
jeweler, is at the Valdez Drug Co. All
work guaranteed.
I ho St. Elms, the best place to sto,
n Valdez. Clean, warm outsid>
, uoms and prices reasonable.
Suits pressed for 11.00 at Silver
man’s, the tailor. Telephone 108.
The St. Eiias, the b>. st place to stop
I :n Valdez. Clean, warm outside
j rooms and prices reasonable.
j Don’t forget the Surryhn? dance to
| morrow night at Eagle hall.
Outfits Return From McCarty Be
cause of Blockade on the Glacier
Route—Forty Horses Stalled.
Jim Simpson, who runs the road
house at the foot of Tazlina hill, has
just returned from the Shushana. He
made the trip in four days and reports
the trail as being glare ice from
Chistochina to Cooper creek.
There is not much work being done
on the claims, reports Simpson, but
everybody is engaged in building cab
ins. There are now 400 completed
and more are being started every day.
Grub is a little more plentiful in the
camp and the prevailing price on
flour, beans, sugar and rice, is 50
cents per pound. Wild meat is very
plentiful, mfoose, caribou and sheep
selling for ten cents a pound.
There are several large outfits on
Ihe way going via Gakona. Cap.
Northway is taking in a 50-ton out
fit for the Royal Stores Company,
limited. The outfit consists of a gen
eral stock of merchandise and a saw
mill. The manager in charge is F.
McQuestln, a nephew of the famous
Jack Mcuestin, of C'rcle City.
Another large outfit is being tak
en to the camp by Conrad & Co. from
Fairbanks. They have 15 tons com
prising a complete candy manufac
turing outfit and several tons of sug
ar. Having been told that there was
only one way into the camp, and that
via McCarthy, they shipped the out
fit that way, but on arriving on the
ground they found that there was a
blockade on the trail that had exist
ed for two weeks, some forty horses
being stalled at th ■ foot of the gla
cier, and they shipped the outfit back
to Chitina and started over the Ga
kona route. On January 5th they
were at the Chistachina.
Frank L. Johnson is en route to the
diggings wiih a complete moving pic
ture outfit. He is equipped both to
take and io stow pictures, ke has
several hundred reel's of films with
him and if the camp makes good he
should make some money.
Carl Witham came out over the
glacier for a load of supplies but went
in over the Copper river trail. He is
the pioner of that country and John
Hanson, who used to keep books for
the Valdez Bank and Mercantile Co.,
is in partnership with him. They
have a good piece of ground that is
sure money.
Jim Gilmore and Johnnie Hanson,
of the Wilson outfit, returned yester
day to Valdez.
Notice of Marshal’s Sale.
United States of America, Third Di -
vision, Territory of Alaska, ss.
1’ublic notice 's hereby given, that
by virtue o£ a writ of execution, dated
January 9th, A. D. 1914, issued out
of the District Court, for the Third
division, Territory of Alaska, on a
judgment rendered in said Court, on
the r.th day of January, A. D. 1914,
in favor of the United States of
America, and against James Fish, ad
ministrator of the estate of Louis Ca
rn'cia, deceased, Angus Chisholm,
Frank Gustafson, Max J. Schnrdt and
Jennie Raymond, I have, on this 9th
day of January, A. D. 1914, levied
upon the following described real es
tate, situated in the town of Vaidez,
Territory of Alaska, to-wit:
Lot nine (9) in Block B; lot three
(3) in piock two (2): lot four. (4)
in block twenty-four (24), of the
Valdez Townsite. according to the
official plat f said townsite on file
in the office of the recorder for said
precinct, and iliat I will, according
ly, offer said real estate for sale,, at
public vendue to the h’ghest and best
bidder, for cash, on the third day of
March, A. D. 1914, at two o’clock p.
m., at the front door of the Court
House, Valdez, Alaska.
Dated at Valdez, Alaska, January
9, 1914.
F. R. BRENNEMAN.
U. S. Marsha,, Third Division, Ter
ritory of Aiaslj#.
First publication January. 10„ f9,14.
Last publication February 21, 1914.
MIL COWL
IS STILL HELD
Postoffice Department Has Not Grant
ed Contract to N. C. Company—
May Operate it Themselves.
A report has been circulated aboul
Valdez to the effect that the Northern
Commercial Company had secured the
contract to carry the mail for the
next four years from Chitina to Fair
banks in connection with the rail
road. In order to verify this report:
the Prospector wired to Chief Clerk
Alvah Games at Cordova for infor
mation and received the reply that
at, ftu as the chief clerk kimr no
contract has been awarded, as he lias
received no notification from the de
partment.
The story as told on the streets
of Valdez was that the railroad com
pany had agred with the N. C. com- i
pany to deliver the mail at Chitina !
and in the event of a blockade on !
the railroad, which has happened
each year since the road was built ;
and opened for traftic, then the rail
road officials had agreed, so the story
goes, to deliver the mail to the stage
company at Tiekhell, o nthe Valdez
Fairbanks government road.
No one knows the reason for the
delay in granting ttie contract and
some state it is because the N. C.
company refused to give the depart -1
mem a bid if they were forced to
carry the mail from Valdez in times
of blockade. Others have advanced
the proposition that the postmaster
general, who is advocating the gov- j
eminent ownership and operation of
everything he can get his hands on, j
is strongly in favoi of the Postoffice j
department operating its own stage j
line front the eous; o Fairbanks and I
on to Nome, a f"si and certain sor- i
vice.
It is said that the government could ,
provide stations and roads and rnain
tainence of trails and roads where a
, j
private company could not and that
by reason of being certain of the
contract for many years the depart- :
nient could secure more equipment ;
than a private company would be jus
tified in having, as they secure a
contract for only four years and it
can be discontinued at any time by
the department therefore the com- 1
pany is forced to go light on equip
ment.
MEXICAN SOLDIERS
at fort Bliss
WASHINGTON. Jan. 13. Under
orders from the War department the
3,000 Mexican federal soldiers, who
crossed the line into the United States
and surrendered to the United States
army officers in order to save them
elves 'from massacre by the rebel
forces under Gen val Villa, are to be
imprisoned at For. Ul'ss and are not
to be freed for some time, and pos
sibly not until the present civil war
in Mexico is settled,
i Agents of the Huerta government
I had hoped that the men would be al
lowed to proceed to some gulf port,
where they could take transportation
to Vera Cruz and join again the army
fighting the rebels.
LOCAL BREVITIES.
Guy Uantti is in town from Galena
I bay.
Don’t forget the Surryhne dance to
morrow night at Eagle hall.
Chinese Chop Suey tind Noodles at
the Valdez Cafe, after 7 p. in. tf
The St. Elias, the best place to ston
r. Valdez. ; can vaun outside
rooms and prices reasonable.
Don’t forget the Surryhne dance to
morrow night at Eagle hall.
Don’t neglectjyour health 6ri fh6 trail.
Hie valD£Z Drug co.
is tftetiarcd to fill your medicine kit
wife the purest, and §eii pf drugs? .
^ »n«* surgical bandages.
When in ChHina Stop alt tfre
CHltlNA HOTEL
Fiheet Hotel in the Interior---Well Heeled, Clean Roane.
Bar in Connection. Rates Reasonable
Marca Rica Cigars
VALDEZ MOST POPULAR SMOKE
INTEQRIDAD’S EL SIDELLO’S
BELMONT’S Hslf|P§fH REPRESENTA’S
VAN DYKET OPTIMO’S
SMOKECRAFT’S LOVERA’S
Direct From The Factory
Ingram & bush
_ EXCLUSIVE CIGAR DEALERS.
Independent Laundry Co.
| Satisfaction Guaranteed I
, Telephone 66
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I Foot Keyhtone Ave j
| Rough Dry l(!c lb. £
Valdez Dock Co i PHONE NO. 1 j
| JOBBER IN j
| COAL, HAY and GRAIN j
j AGENT FOR j
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l Alaska Steamship Company 1
| Alaska Coast Company j
ALASKA C2&S&
I Steamers via the INSIDE'PASSAGE calling at Ketchikan. Ju
! neau, Yakutat, Katalla, Cordova, Ellamar, Valdez Fort Lis
[ cum, Latouche, Seward, Cook Inlet Points and Kodiak.
S. S. ADMIRAL SAMPSON
; Sailing from Seattle
i
| January 15 with Mail, Freight and Passengers j
((SAMPSON calls at Kodiakreach trip. (
! California connections Alaska-Pacific. S. S. Co. j
Riirht is t“served to change this schedule without notice. ,
I B. F. WATSON VALDEZ DOCK CO. !
General Agent Local Agent
ALASKA
STEAMSHIP CO.
S. S. Alameda, S. S. Northwestern
Sail
10th, 20th and 30th
EVERY MONTH
For Skagway, Juneau, Ketchikan and Seattle.
F. B. Tracy, Gen’l Agl- Valdez Dock Co., Local Agt.
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| Chas. R. Crawford §
§ Wall Street Phone 159 3
I Plate glass, window glass, roofing and 9
building papei i, roofing pitch, “hie, ce- n
ment. plaster lath, shingles, builder* a
' hardware. Shop and job work of all kinda S
3 Window,, Doors, Moulding, Finish- |
8 ing Lumber f|
H Agent* for Fsirbnnk*. Morae & Co. I
nmiB'-imwiinmr
i Valdez Sheet Metar Works
t j
; Magufadfurers of
f* YAKSHAW STOVES
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Plumbing, Steam and Hot
Water Heating, Pump* and
Well Point*.
Sheet Aitetal Work of Every
?' Description, Hose Valves,
S Iroi °ipe, Fittings.
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a M. hierr.iRfi
Valdez Trustar
tan
General Trucking find Freight
ihg to all inferior points
LIVERY ard FEED STABLE
STORAGE
Teaming of all kinds
Positively no coal deliveieo
unless (told for fri advice
’ When In Seward Stop at the £
j COLEMAN HOUSE I -
\ GEORGE SEXTON. *>RO»> ♦
J S1RI9TLY FIRST class I
> Ft. usTm Avf StWAAi), Aiassa }
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Copper River
Draying Co
Kt-oiitnini; ami p}i99?uger& to ail p»m ,
of t)u> lme*lo\ Unnmil Truekln*
McKinley Street, Valdez.
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