firiciEiririJCifiEiciciEicLeifLciririririrmii:
^fkiri^Q^crcA'
Smart Clothes
“BEST IN THE WORLD”
Felix Brown & Co.
CLOTHIER AND FURNISHINGS
NONE BUT THE BEST. 0 ME FELIX.
RECREATION
Bowling Alleys and Pool Parlors
YOUNG VIKING H. HEGSTROM
Next to Harmony Theatre.
PLUMBIN6 AND HEATING
Full Line of Plumbing Supplies, Pipes and Fittings.
PROMPT ATTENTION TO ALL ORDERS.
T. W. KENNEDY,
E St. Bet. 3rd and 4th. Next to Hotel Anchorage
pra§niai!anl§nl§nlgil§n3§nl§nlSnlSnli
WM. MAITLAND
EDW. T. McNALLY
M’Nally & Maitland
Lumber Wood
We carry a complete stock of common dimension. Fin
ish that is CLEAR and properly kiln-dried.
SALES AGENTS
ESKA CREEK COAL CO.
YARD and OFFICE, Foot of G Street.
mii=in 1=1 can r?»nran rr=n fr»nr?»n 0=11 rPftrPnfPnJPflJP me IU2(UE(UeiU5IU5(U5aJ5IUE(lf5IUenJEIUe(LElUl
MONTANA HE W
The Art Palace of Anchorage.
The First Building in Anchorage.
Carrying a high grade line of cigars, cigarettes, to
baccos. Strongest Fruit Department in the city.
Classical music rendered every afternoon and even
ing. Piano and violin. You will like it.
Have your mail sent to Montana Pool Room. You
can get it any time.
You are welcome ! 1 Let’s get acquainted this winter.
A. CHIMENTO and ALEX TSAKUMIS, Proprietors.
CARROL & CO.
Fourth St., near E
MEN’S OUTFITTERS
Complete stock of Clothing,
Shoes and furnishings.
It’s the flavor of the goods that the
North Pole bakery turns out. 242
Cotton felt mattresses, bed springs
and linoleum, at Crocker’s.
Read Robert Simpson’s advertise
ment in this issue. 293
While en route from Ward’s cove to
Ketchikan with a load of shark skins
recently, the launch Sunrise broke
her steering gear during a storm. The
crew was taken off by another launch,
and the Sunrise went ashore on chan
nel island. She is little damaged and
will be floated at the first opportunity.
THE SYDNEY
LAURENCE CO.
COMMERCIAL AND
PICTORIAL PHOTOGRAPHY
Interior, Flashlight Work a
Specialty.
Kodak Developing and Printing
HARMONY THEATRE.
CHOVIN SUPPLY
5th and C.
Carries Everything in Electri
cal Supplies and Fixtures
to make a happy Home
Agent for
FRISCO STANDARD
GAS ENGINES.
Your saw will saw right if filed by
saw expert. Cor. 7th and L. 267
Fine Job Printing at Times oilice
WEEKLY PROGRESS REPORTS.
Anchorage Division.
(Alaska Railroad Record)
Following are the progress reports
of the various departments of An
chorage division for the week ending
January 6:
MAINTENANCE OF WAY
Buildings.
A small force of carpenters contin
ued work on fixtures for hospital No.
2 and for the five-room cottages. Cot
tage No. 30 was finished, and at the
end of the period the interior work on
cottage No. 29 was 85 per cent com
plete. Excellent progress was made
at Anchorage school house No. 2 and
the commissioner’s residence. The
plastering of the second floor of the
school house was finished.
Painting.
The painting of Cottage No. 30 was
completed and the force is now at
work on Cottage No. 29.
Water Service, Plumbing and Steam
Heating.
Practically the whole force was en
gaged on plumbing work during the
week, the repairs being occasioned by
the extreme cold weather.
The installation of a hot water sys
tem in cottage No. 17 was completed
and work on a hot water system at
Warehouse No. 2 continued. Steam
heat was turned on in the machine
shop.
Electrical Department.
The turbine was placed in service
and the buildings at the terminal, the
telegraph and telephone building, the
postoffice, the marshal’s office and
hospital No. 2 were furnished with
light from the new power plant. Three
eight-hour shifts are now employed at
the plant.
Mechanical Department.
No work was done during the pe
riod on the installation of machinery
in the shops. The heavy repairs to
engine 280 are 80 per cent complete,
and the overhauling to engine 265 is
progressing satisfactorily. The usual
amount of miscellaneous commercial
jobs was performed.
Eklutna Dam Protection.
The force working on the south
wing wall for the bank protection has
completed about 200 feet of fill to
date.
MATANUSKA DISTRICT.
Matanuska Branch.
The Matanuska river above King’s
river is now frozen sufficiently to per
mit freight to be hauled by four-horse
bobsleds all the way to Chickaloon.
The contractors between Kings riv
er and Camp 27 have finished clear
ing right-of-way and are now at
work drilling. At Hole-in-the-Wall
Iverson & Co. have completed their
clearing and have started tunneling
coyote holes. Above Hole-in-the-Wall
Divyak & Co., Svarko & Co., Pappa
dis & Co., and Davis & Co. have all
completed the building of their re
spective camps and finished their
clearing contracts, and in a few days
they will commence drilling.
Contractors Aronson, Erickson, De
lich, Merrick and Harris will be in
stalled on their work during the com
ing week. When this has been ac
complished the entire branch line
east of Kings river will be covered
by contract with the exception of the
following areas: Station 494 to 581;
277 to 305; and 101 to 118. These
three sections will not be let until
spring, at which time they can be
handled to best advantage.
The work of retracing the located
line, together with making the neces
sary revisions, is nearly completed
and will be finished by the end of
next week.
The freight teams have supplied
the entire line to a point nearly two
miles above Hole-in-the-Wall with all
the 20-pound rails that will be requir
ed to complete the work to that point.
The greater part of the powder re
quired for that stretch has also been
distributed and cached in the various
stationmen’s powder houses. Each
station contractor in the Matanuska
district is required to build a powder
house of sufficient dimensions to hold
all the explosives required for his par
ticular piece of work. The requisite
amount of powder is then placed in
the powder house, and the station gang
is charged for such powder as the
timekeeper’s monthly inventory shows
to have been used during the period.
The timekeeper and the head station
men are the only persons holding keys
to the powder house.
The telephone department has in
stalled telephones at all the camps as
far as Camp 36, and within a few
days will have completed the tele
phone line to the proposed terminal at
O’Brien’s cabin at Chickaloon.
Main Line.
The freighting of supplies along the
main line is going ahead in a satisfac
tory manner, and the rails, cars and
other construction material and sup
plies are being distributed rapidly as
far north of the Little Susitna river
as Willow creek. When the section
south of Willow creek has been com
pletely stocked the caching of materi
al and supplies will continue as far
north as Kashwitna river. It is plan
ned to finish this latter work before
the break-up in the spring.
The camp at Willow creek is near
ly completed, and construction of a
camp at a point midway between Lit
tle Willow creek and Kashwitna riv
er will be commenced within the very
near future.
The piledriver crew has finished the
driving and the greater part of the
decking of all trestles and openings as
far north as Station 5920.
Three contracts south of the Little
Susitna river remain uncompleted but
will be finished during the month of
January. These contracts are Plackus
& Co., Rice & Co., and Olson & Co.
A clearing contract has been let to
Axel Johnson & Co., covering the sec
tion from station 7004 to station 7780,
in the vicinity of the Kashwitna river,
and the contractor will begin this
work within the next ten days. From
■ the north end of thi scontract to Sheep
creek, right-of-way clearing is alrea
dy under way, the contract having
been let to C. A. Anderson & Co.
TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE
DEPARTMENT.
The temporary telephone line built
for construction purposes along the
right-of-way of the Matanuska branch
has reached the O’Brien roadhouse, at
the coal mines on the Chickaloon riv
er. The force at this point is being
withdrawn and will at once begin
closing the gap in the telephone line
between Camp 174 and the Talkeetna
district. Telephones have been instal
led at O’Brien’s Roadhouse and at the
mouth of the Chickaloon.
The recent heavy snowfalls will im
prove the,trails in the Talkeetna dis
trict and enable good progress to be
made in the line work in that section.
A force is already at work on Mon
tana creek.
The fire-alarm system fn the An
chorage terminal yards has been rear
ranged and bells have been placed in
the new fire station, near the general
office building. Five switch-boxes, in
addition to the six formerly in use,
are being installed. A fire bell has
been placed in the power house, so the
engineer can be notified to sound the
whistle, and one in bunk house No. 4,
to be used in calling the volunteer
crews, in case of fire. Blue prints will
be prepared and distributed showing
the new arrangements made for fire
protection at Anchorage terminal.
TURNAGAIN ARM DISTRICT.
Clearing Right-of-Way.
The clearing between Indian creek
and one mile north of Glacier creek is
progressing slowly on account of bad
weather and heavy snowfall. The
snow is about 30 inches deep in the vi
cinity of Bird point.
Grading.
All station work along the arm is
progressing favorably, although there
has been some delay occasioned by
storms.
Trail.
-'The trail gang is working a snow
slide just north of Bird point. It is
now possible to use double-enders
from Bird creek to Kern creek.
Miscellaneous.
A new stable and a wagon shed have
been completed at Potter creek.
The new dining room and kitchen
at Falls creek is now in service, the
dining room having a seating capaci
ty of 80.
Alaska Pool Room
_ Fourth Ave., Near D.
Cigars, Tobaccos, Candies, Soft Drinks, Fruits, Concord
Grape Juice.
MUSIC
JOSEPH SCHMITBAUER,
Proprietor.
When at the Junction stay at the
New Malanuska Hotel
Cafe, Barber shop, News-stand and Cigar Store in Con
nection
Just opened M. J. ROCHE, Prop.
Alaska Men
Going Outside This Winter Outfit at
CHEASTY'S
The Specialty Men's Shop
in Seattle.
CHEASTY'S Inc. a^2fiT6J=:
Men's and Young Men's Wear
Sanitary Market
The only told storage plant in con
nection with market in Anchorage.
Home-made Sausages. Fruits. Veg
etables, Butter and Eggs, at whole
sale. Bestaurants and roadhouses.
8periu) attention.
tth Ave.. Bet H and I Sts.
E. E. KURTZ & CO.
Union Laundry
and Bath House
Fourth Ave., Between H and 1,
Anchorage
OUR WORK IS GUARANTEED
—and—
SANITARY
THE LARGEST AND CLEANEST
BATH TUBS IN ANCHORAGE
NEW CABINET SHOP
Furniture Made to Order. All
Kinds Cabinet Work, Show
Cases, Etc.
JOE KITAK.
4th and K Sts.
HOTEL SEWARD
511 THIRD AVE.
Arctic Club Bldg., SEATTLE, WASH.
ZBINDEN BROS., Props.
Rooms $1.00 Special
With Bath $1.50 Weekly Rate*
»+♦♦♦♦♦»♦♦♦IM>♦♦»♦♦♦♦♦♦»+
Tony's Cafe |
OPPOSITE EMPRESS
THEATRE.
TABLES FOR LADIES— ”
—NEWLY REMODELED ;;
Tex Jones R. C. Jeffery
The Panhandle
CIGARS
CANDIES
TOBACCOS
FRUIT
NUTS
4th AVE. NEAR C STREET
CITY AUTO SERVICE.
Phone 89-R.
FOR AUTOMOBILE
Any hour of the Day or
Night.
OFFICE!—Next door to New
Labor Hall.
Central Barber Shop
Modern Equipment Throughout
New Sanitary Bathroom in
Connection.
417 4th Arenue.
Bird Creek Lumber Co.
Robert H. Fleming, Manager 1
The Fuel Question Solved
Where to get your fire wood, on short notice, in the right lengths, dry,
ready to bum—has been your problem ever. Now, all you have to do
is to call up 52-Y and tell us your wants, and we will attend to the rest.
WOOD WOOD
A trial order placed with us will dispel all your aggravation, caused
by former experiences with the keep-warm question.
Yard Nat to R. R. Track in Old Town