COITKK MARK KT STRONG KST IN
HISTORY
As was very aptly expressed in our
metal market review last week the
pith of the copper market is that de-<
mand is in excess of the supply* and :
the copper market of today is not a .
competitive market by any manner
of means.
That this summing up of the situa
tion was correct is corroborated by the
placing last week of the largest single
order for copper ever negotiated in
the history of the copper trade—being
no loss than for a total of 44SJMRMRR*
lbs. of copper, involving an expendi
ture of approximately $12f»,000.000,
and at a cost around present market
quotations—27 cts. per pound.
Ibis order calls for practically M>
per cent of America’s entire output
from Jan. 1 to July. UM7. t’p to June
1 of this year, a period of six months,
the Allies purchased copper to the ex
tent of nearly a half billion pounds.
Since the beginning of the year in
tituling the present order Great l*rit
ain and her allies have negotiated for
nearly a billion pounds of copper, in
volving an expenditure in the neigh
borhood of $2:H).000.(HR).
The cloring of the above order
places the copper metal in the strong
est position known to the industry
ami an increase in present price is a
logical conclusion.
It is figured in the copper trade
that if the enoffmms option* signed
are taken advantage of to the full,
there can be no reduction in price of
copper throughout 1917, which should
give all copper companies bigger
earnings for a year to come than they
have enjoyed in the past year, with
consequently liberal distributions to
shareholders.
John D. Ryan, who has rend the
copper market correctly for so many
months, thinks the metal will com
mand very high prices for another
year. The president of the Anaconda
bases this view not only on the foreign
situation but the probability that do
mestic industry will be a heavy con
sumer of the metal during the next
twelvemonth. Incidentally there is
1 talk of a boom in real estate and the
building industry as a consequence of
cheap money and gold inflation.
That, of course, tends to bear out the
Ryan idea that home demand for the
copper metal is going to be an im
portant factor in the latter industry.—
| Mining World.
C. S. Patten, through the Gateway,
desires to issue a challenge to any
senatorial candidate for a joint debate
on any political subject, and the (lute
way hereby lets the political world
knodw tit. In all the Methodis
churches of Alaska next Sunday ser
mons will be delivered in favor of
prohibition.
ELECTION NOVEMBER 7, 1916
For Representative
THOS. H. HOLLAND
DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE
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BRIEF EXTRACTS
FROM RECORD OF
MARINE DISASTER.!
Accurate information on the subject
'is contained in an interesting article
by C. L. Andrews, in a recent issue of
the Washington Historical Quarterly.
The first account of a marine acci
dent in Alaskan waters dates buck to
| August, 1772, when the “Discovery”
I struck un unknown rock in Queen
Charlotte Sound; and the record since
that time contains the names of close
to four hundred ships which met dis
aster on the Northern coast. The
; money loss runs high up into the mil
lions and while the loss of life has
been surprisingly slight considering
the dearth of life-saving stations,
hundreds have paid for the lack of
[“preparedness” in aids to navigation
and adequate dragnet surveys.
The stories of these wrecks make
J fasinating if not blood-chilling read
ing. To repeat even a few of them
would not be possible here, but Mr.
Andrew’s account of the loss of the
' steamer “State of California,” deal
I ing with a catastrophe still vivid in
mind, is by the very reason of its cold,
business-like simplicity, so harrow
ing, that it is reprinted here for the
: effect which it may have in rousing
j public sentiment to more insistent de
mands for adequate protection of Al
askan shipping:
“On a clear, bright day, August
17th, 19111, the ship left the wharf at
the Gambier Hay cannery, swung
around from the landing, and settled
down on her course toward the mouth
of the harbor. Four minutes after
she left the dock an uncharted pin
nacle rock ripped open the bottom
of the boat as she passed over. The
ship was headed for shore and the
whistle sounded for assistance. With
in three minutes after striking the
rock the vessel was beached on the
rocky shore, and the cannery tugs
were on the way her assistance.
No sooner had she reached the beach
than the stern settled beneath the
surface and she slid back into the
deep water, taking with her many of
! the passengers and crew. The decks
were raised as by an explosion; th«
■ ... ..
bridge floated off with the captain;
shouting his orders us it drifted
away; the masts went overboard,
smashing the boats that lay in their
path; and the next moment there
was nothing on the surface but a.
stniggling mass of human beings
among the wreckage. The cannery
tenders and available small boats
rendered every assistance possible,
but of the hundred and forty-six per
sons on hoard the ship, thirty-live
went down to their death.”
NORTHWESTERN COMING
SEATTLE, Oct. AO. — The North
| western left on Sunday. For Seward
she has aboard Mrs. I). McKenzie,
Mrs. J. Gray and E. A. Taylor.
NEWS NOTES
| George Mirlach went out on the
Mariposa to spend a vacation in the
stutes.
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The Seward Drug Company store
has u hundred dollars of Wilson
money which is waiting to be covered.
No takers have showed up yet.
A. D. Estes was in the city yester
day on business from his scene of
work out the line.
Bryce Howard and Miss Lucille
Hallett won the first prize for waltz
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was most successful and pleasant.
Old papers for sale at the “Gate
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MISSIONER’S CO U RT, THIRD
DIVISION, COOK INLET PRE
CINCT, TERRITORY OF ALAS
KA, SUSITNA.
NOTICE TO CREDITOR’S.
IN PROBATE.
In the Matter of the Estate,
of
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of Joseph Grimes, deceased to the
Creditors of, and all persons having
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vouchers within six months after the
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suid administrator, Edw. T. McNally
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named precinct and Territory.
KDW. T. McNALLY.
Administrator of the estate of Joseph
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