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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1913.
ROADS, ROADS, ROADS.
Let the federal government hark to
the appeal of Lieut.-Col. Wilds P.
Richardson, of the Alaska toad com
mission, and 62,000 other Alaskans,
for a congressional appropriation of
$7,250,000 for good road building.
This is the sum Lieut-Col. Richardson
will urge Congress to advance at the
next session.
The Pacific Mining Journal takes
up the cudgels for good roads in Al
aska and adds:
"Tis sum, it is estimated, will not
only convert the territory into a ver
itable paradise for the automobilist,
but will also increase the develop
ment of its resources tremendously.
If the plan promulgated is carried
out, it is believed that within ten
years, a sum of $300,000,000 per an
num now expended by American
tourists in Europe will be diverted
to the Pacific Coast, for Alaska, be
yond all question, will then be the
most attractive tourist country in the
world.
The presumption that Alaska can
be converted into a tourist fairyland
is based on the fact that it has been
endowed by nature with scenic fea
tures that surpass those of Europe
in magnificence and that a small Ford
automobile of twenty horsepower was
driven a few weeks ago from Fair
banks to Valdez, a distance of more
than 400 miles, in fifty-four hours. A
big autotruck laden with supplies for
road building has made several trips
over this road.
A careful estimate muue
Glen Edgerton, engineer of the l'. S.
army, shows that an expenditure ot
$7,250,000 spread over a period of nine
years, will build a hard surface road
from the coastal towns of Southeast
ern and Southwestern Alaska to ev- ;
ery mining camp in the interior that
has been developed, as well as to the
places where ihe geological condi
tions indicate that commercial mines
may be developed.
■In addition this sum will complete
the main irunk road from Valdez to
Nome, a distance of about l,50h miles,
which already is constructed as far
as Fairbanks.
While the plans have 1101 yet tak
en detinile shape, it is proposed by
the Alaskans who are backing the
movement to ask the federal govern
ment to appropriate the necessary
sum or to sell bonds at three per
cent to that amount and to impose a
road poll tax to repay the principal.
—Juneau Dispatch.
THE MAIL AS A PEACE AGENT.
The impassivity of the British gov
ernment toward Ihe Ulster "rebel
lion,” led by Sir Edward Carson,
need no longer be a matter of won
der. The British postoffice holds the
key to the situation. The Ulsterites
may march and countermarch with
tlieir wooden guns to their souls’ con
tent, and will be ignored until they
do some overt act. Then, according
to J. M. Robertson, under secretary
of the Board of Trade, as he explain
ed in a speech the other day, at New
castle, the British postoffice would
excommunicate Ulster, cutting off
Belfast, a great city, from all the rest
of the world. The absolute stoppage
of the mails would carry with it the
-cutting off of all telegraphic commun
ication, and would mean commercial
death to Belfast.
This plan opens a field rich in pos
sibilities. Suppose the United States
government, for instance, should de
cide to send no more mail to Mexico,
to receive no mail from Mexico and
to cut that troubled republic off from
communication with this nation until
the Mexican come to their senses
and decided in favor of law and or
der. How long would the revolu
tion last, and how long would it be
until Huerta and his followers began
pleading for their letters? Isolation j
is a terrible punishment. It might j
be worth trying in extreme cases.—
Ex. _
Cable Office Hours.
Week days 9 a. m. to 9 p. m.
Sundays and holidays 9 to 10 a. m.
and 5 to 6 p. m.
The Fireman.
(By George Fitch.)
The fireman is one. of the most
prominent members of our leisure
class. His duty is to loaf twenty
three hours of the day and to twist
the tall of the fire fiend with great
vigor and expression during the
twenty-fourth hour.
If the lire fiend would only leave
his tail exposed during regular hours
life would be almost all joy for the
fireman, who would attend the ball
game every day and go on river ex
cursions at night. But he never
knows when the twisting is to be
done. Sometimes he will rise at 3
a. m. to squirt industriously until
breakfast time; and then again he
will drop a half gnawed ear of sweet
corn at dinner time and travel four
miles over a cobblestone pavement
on the back of a hose cart in order
to subdue a feverish coal shed. Be
cause of this uncertainty the fireman
can do nothing but hang around the
premises and wait. Waiting is the
fireman’s chief occupuation. He is
more patient than the man who has
been promised a job by the Demo
cratic candidate for congress and who
has been holding on the knob of the
White House door since March 4.
Waiting for work is also the life
job of many thousand tired men who
have learned to ask for it in Volapuk
so that they will not be understood.
Why then do not tnese men rush no
bly into the ranks of firemen? It is
because the fireman gets his work af
ter waiting for it.
The chief duties of a fireman when
he finds work are to arise, leap nim
bly into a large pair of pants, slam
on a helmet, slide down a brass pole
and catch the rear of the hose cart
as it goes past. He then rides swift
ly to his task like any millionaire
holding on with one hand and but
toning his shirt with the other. Ar
riving at his job, he takes a large
impetuous hose, hoists it up a thirty
foot ladder and squirts it on the
flames, brushing the cinders, burning
shingles and plate glass out of his
eyes with deft movements of his
hand. Sometimes he climbs down
from the ladder and at other times
he falls into the lire and has to be
dug out from under 1,000 tons of
hot brick. But he does not get any
bonus for the latter feat.
When the fireman is not squirting
water he is climbing up a reu not
wall and rescuing beautiful ladies and
fat gentlemen wiio have awakened
loo late and found the elevator not
running. The fireman who cannot
climb up eleven stories by a water
spout and carry two women and a
baby over a plank to safety would
be jeered by his comrades.
Some firemen live to a fat old age
and are buried in one piece by their
sorrowing comrades after they have
died comfortably in bed. Hut many
of them do not return from the lire
until several days afterwards when
the ruins have cooled sufficiently to
allow the undertaker and the coron
er to enter. For this reason we do
not gaze with envy upon the fireman
as he loafs around the station in his
shirt sleeves doing nothing all day
and waiting patiently for the chance
to allow a large brick house to fall
on him.
A. B.’s Hold Regular Meeting.
A large number of A. B.’s attended
the meeting last night, at which the
officers for the ensuing year were
elected. • Sam McNiece, A. C.: Al.
Dowling, vice A. C.; F. G. Davis, K.
of N.; W. T. Stuart, Recorder, and
Rev. Ziegler, Chaplain, now step down
to make room for the following new
ly elected officers: T. G. Quinn,
Arctic Chief; Dr. A. von Gunther,
vice Arctic Chief: Sam McNiece, Re
corder; Al. White, K. of N„ and Rev.
Ziegler, Chaplain.
The installation of officers will take
place at the regular meeting next
Tuesday evening. A committee has
been appointed to provide entertain
ment and refreshments for the occa
sion and it is hoped that every A. B.,
whether a member of this camp or
not, will take advantage of this op
portunity to meet the members and
have a good time. Important business
has been held over to be transacted
at that time.
The report of the Keeper of Nug
gets shows that the lodge is in ex
cellent financial condition.
Geo. Reinke, tbp watch repairer
and jeweler, is at the Valdez Drug
company.
FURS FURS FURS
LADIES ATTENTION
Just received a large line of ladies’,
misses’ and children’s
Stoles and Muffs
Made up of
Isabelle Cooney
Jap Mink
French Mole
Black Lynx
/
Brown Bear
Siberian Wolf
Grey Fox
Iceland Fox
We will be pleased to have you call
and inspect even if you are not
ready to buy.
These furs will be sold at Seattle prices
SEE OUR WINDOW.
Robert McIntosh and a party of
five men left this morning to bring
in the body of Robert Martin, who
was killed last Saturday when a snow
slide caught the tent in which he
was sleeping. The body is lying at
an elevation of 5,000 feet and the men
will find it difficult to bring it to Min- |
eral creek, but from there to town a ]
good trail is open.
McCALLUM GOES BACK
TO CISANA CAMP j
Louis Mct’allum, who returned from j
the Chisana camp a few weeks ago !
where he staked some claims in a j
promising location, has gone back j
and will spend the rest of the winter
trying to locale the paystreaks. He
sent his freight out to Wortman’s on
a freighter’s wagon and from there
will handle it himself with a dog
team. He is going in light as far as
Gulkana where, he will load all the
team can handle. He has tools and
clothing in the camp and will take
sufficient supplies to keep him for sev
eral months.
Blood Will Tell.
Blood Will Tell is the fine two-reel
feature at the Orpheum tonight, also
one thousand feet of rich comedy.
Chane tomorrow evening.
Acfler
is closing out business and will leave
in thirty days.
The Cordova Alaskan in a two-col
umn editorial in its issue of Novem
ber third advocates the nomination
of Falcon Joslin, the Fairb nks rail
road operator and Guggenheim repre
sentative, by the Democratic party as
delegate to congress at the election
to be held next falh
Hand laundry, corner of Hobart
street and Keystone avenue. Flannels
and silks a specialty.
MRS. H. SHARTS & CO.
Chinese Chop Suey and Noodles at
the Valdez Cafe, after 7 p. m. tf
Sampson Hero In the Morning.
The steamer Admiral Sampson left
Seward at one o’clock this afternoon
and will leave Valdez for Seattle at
eight o’clock lomonow morning. The
boat will load ore at sound points be
fore coming to Valdez. A large num
ber of passengers will leave for Cor
dova and Seattle on the boat.
For Sale.
“Our Home” roadhouse at a bar
gain, on Valdez-Fairbanks trail, fur
nished and ready for business. Gar
den under cultivation. Berries in
abundance in season. Good trapping
and prospecting ground in vicinity.
Possession can be given at once.
Dougherty & Ferguson.
Hospital of the Good Samaritan.
For $6.00 we will give you a ticket
entitling you to hospital service and
care for any eight weeks out of the
year from date of your ticket, wrhen
incapacitated by injury or sickness.
See W. H. Ziegler.
For Sale.
Household goods, heating stoves,
riding saddles, etc., for sale. Apply
to Mrs. Orchard at the Crary house.
New Goods.
New goods on every boat at Mrs.
Winter’s.
The work of the grand jury will
be completed in a few days. A num
ber of committees were appointed to
visit the federal departments in the
city and report to the body after
which they will make their report.
Walter Elliott will leave on the
Sampson tonight for Seattle, where
he goes to have glasses fitted and
his eyes attended to.
Dr. Don LeRoy leaves on the
Sampson for Seattle and will return
on one of the first boats to resume
his practice in Valdez.
Fresh eastern oysters at the Vai
dez Cafe. tf
If you want all the news all the
time read the Daily Prospector.
If you want to sell or uuy any
second-hand furniture, stoves,
etc'., call up City Express. Tele
phone 82.
Prospectors,
Don’t neglect your health on the trail.
The VALDEZ DRUG CO.
is prepared to fill your medicine kit
with the purest and best of drugs,
medicines, and surgical bandages.
Copper River
Draying Co
Freighting and passengers to all parts
of the interior. cjeneral Trucking
Kd. Wood, • Proprietor
McKlnu-T St. V»ldet
Chas. R. Crawford
Wall Street Phone 159
Plate glass, window glass, roofing and
building papers, roofing pitch, lime, ce
ment, plaster lath, shingles, builders*
hardware. Shop and job work of all kinds
Windows, Doors, Moulding, Finish
ing Lumber
Agents for Fairbanks, Morse & Co.
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR
PATENT.—Survey No. 993
Serial No. 01618. United Stales
Land Office, Juneau, Alaska,
August iO, 1913,
Notice Is hereby given that in pursti
»nce or tbe act or Congress approved
May 10, 1872, Fred Llljegren, whose
postotrice address is Ellamar, Alaska, has
made application tor a patent tor l,50o
linear feet on tbe Copper Bullion No' l
lode mining claim and tor 1,500 linear
reet on the Copper Bullion No. 2 lode
mining claim, bearing copper, together
with surrace grounds as allowed by law,
lying, being and situate in the record
ing precinct of Valdez, Alaska, and de
scribed by the official plat and by the
Held notes or U. S. Mineral Survey N'>.
993, on file in the office or the Register
or the Juneau Land District, at Juneau,
Alaska, as lollows, to-wlt:
voppir Bunion no. 1 koae.
Beginning at Cor. No. 1, whence U. 5.
Mineral Monument No. 8 bears N. 46 de
grees 44 minutes 21 seconds E. 613.82 feet
distant; thence N. 61 deg. 09 min. W. 600
feet to Cor. No. 2; thence N. 28 deg. 51
min. E. 1500 reet to Cor. No. 3; theme
8. Cl deg. 09 min. E. 600 reel to Cor.
No. 4; thence S. 28 deg. 5 1 min. W. 1500
feet to Cor. No. 1, place of beginning.
Area 20.661 acres. The Additional and
Amended Location Certificate of the Cop
per Bullion No, 1 lode claim Is duly of
record in Book 14 of the Records of the
Valdez Recording Precinct at page 361.
This claim is bounded on the north bv
the Copper Bullion No. 2 lode claim.
Copper Bullion No. 2 Lode.
Beginning at Cor. No. 1, identical with
Cor. No. 4, Copper Bullion No. 1 Lode of
this survey previously described, whence
II. S. Mineral Monument No. 8 bears 8.
17 deg. 12 min. 50 see. \V. 934.98 feet
distant; thence N. 61 deg. 09 min. W.
600 feel lo Cor. No. 2, identical witn
Cor. No. 3, Copper Bullion No. t Lode;
thence N. 28 deg. 51 min. E. 1500 reel
to Cor. 3, wiicnce a witness corner, a post
marked C B No. 2 Cor. 3 W C bears S. 2s
deg. 51 min. W. 383.40 feet; thence rrom
true corner S. 61 deg. 09 min. E. 600
feet to Cor. No. 4, whence a witness cor
ner, a post marked C B No. 2 corner 4
W C bears S. 28 deg. 51 min. W. 141.70
reet; thence from true corner S. 28 deg.
51 min. W. 1500 reet to Cor. No. l, the
place of beginning. Area 20.661 acres.
The Additional and Amended Location
Certlilcate of the Copper Bullion No. 2
lode claim Is duly of record in Boor 14
•r Records of the Valdez Recording Pre
cinct at page 362. This claim Is bound
ed on the south by the copper Bullion No.
1 lode.
Any and all persons claiming adversely
any portion of said mining eiainis or sun
race ground, are hereby required to tile
their adverse elaims with the Register
of the II. S. Land OITice ai Juneau, Alaska,
within tlie lime prescribed by law, or they
will be barred by virtue of the provis
ions of tlie slatule.
I tu’.u i.o.,fr.vinr, o,
Claimant.
It Is hereby ordered l..at the foregoing
notice or application he published III tin
Valdez Daily Prospector, the newspaper
published nearest the said mining claim-,
ror a period of sixty days.
C. H. WALKER,
Register.
Date or tlrst publication Aug. 37, tfliri.
Date or last publication Nov. 6, IBIS.
If you want all the news- all the
lime, read the Prospector.
Valdez Sheet Metal Works
Manufacturers of
YAKSHAW STOVES
Plumbing, Steam and Hot
Water Heating, Pump* and
Well Point*.
Sheet Metal Work of Every
Description, Hose Valves,
Iroi °ipe, Fittings.
Small Stores Made Profitable
The amount of business done does not always depend on the
size of the store.* Many small stores properly conducted
are doing more business than some oi their larger neighbors
handling the same line of goods.
The amount of business done by a store of a given
size depends directly upon the effectiveness of lie methods
employed to draw trade.
One of the most effective methods is the use of good
light—plenty of light—electric light.
Light ap your stsrs wi'.h Hutson Mazda Lcmps and
watch your business grow.
Our Lamp Man will advise you how to use them
as profitably as thousands < f others arc using them
throughout the country.
j A. W. L. & T. CO.
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A. H. PINKUS, Mgr.