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FUR CAPS.....
JUST RECEIVED—Over the Trail—A Full Line of
FUR CAPS.
SOME MID-HOLIDAY
.jt * SUGGESTIONS
IS THERE anything you may have overlooked for your
holiday necessities? We are offering some splendid
inducements in gentlemen’s needs—all at seductive
prices.
BATH ROBES—Our assortment is still complete—all the
different patterns are here—you will find a garment
that will appeal to your fancy.
! GENERAL CLEAN-UP of all Overcoats. We will sacri
fice the remaining stock at a most seductive price,
that is
$15.00
For this whole line of Overcoats.
! HERE IS a chance seldom offered to secure a garment of
this kind, at this time of the season and for a small
piece of money, the quality considered.__
HEADQUARTERS FOR STETSON HATS AND
PACKARD SHOES. _
CARROL & CO.
! CARROL BLDG. FOURTH AND E STS.
BANKING BY MAIL
i
It makes no difference where you are located, you
can send us your gold dust or checks and we will place
them to your credit, acknowledging receipt and furnish
ing you with a check book so you can draw money when
needed; or, if you prefer, we will place the money on de
posit in our Savings Department where it will earn 4 per
cent interest.
We will be pleased to attend to any business you
wish transacted anywhere.
German-American Mercantile Bank
SEATTLE - - WASHINGTON.
Inlet Soda Works
W. A. TAYLOR, Proprietor
Manufacturers of all kinds of
MINERAL WATERS, SODA
CIDER, SYRUPS.
AGENTS FOR GRAPE JUICE
Anchorage - - Alaska
J LEARN TO DANCE.
ip. Latest Dauees Taught. Begin
ners given special attention. For ap- ;
pointment call at third house from
C on 6th Ave.
WB. BUNTING.
For Billiards and Pool try Peter- j
son’s. 461
All kinds harness repair work done
by Bartholf, between 5th and 6th, near
C St. 20
B. 0. NICHOLS
WATCH MAKER AND ||
ia JEWELER. jjf
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Anchorage, Alaska. S
TO THOSE CONCERNED.
The Anchorage Lodge No. 1534,
Loyal Order of Moose, will not be re
sponsible for any bills contracted by
any member or members, or any other
party or parties, unless goods are
bought upon requisition signed by the
Secretary and countersigned by the
Treasurer. JAS. L. CORT,
196 \ Secretary.
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AIRTIGHT HOT BLAST
HEATERS
Are the best on the market;
they use less fad, and have
more heating surface than
any other heater of the same
size. The firebox is sectional
with an air space between
outer shell and fire pot.
NO BUILDING OF FIRES ;
IN THE MORNING. '
All you do is to shake the
grate, fill stove with coal,
open draft and you have a
red hot stove.
We have in stock from
smallest No. 12 size to
No. 24 for store room.
Come in and let us show
L how they work.
Dohrmann--Herning & Co.
GOVERNOR’S
ANNUAL REPORT
The annual report of Governor J. P.
A. Strong of Alaska is at hand, and
reads, in part, as follows:
“Forty-nine years ago Alaska cost
the nation $7,200,000. Straggling
along under conditions nearly always
disheartening and accentuated by the
not veiled indifference of the govern
ment until within comparatively recent
years, fighting for tardy recognition,!
asking only for the right to be judged !
as American citizens exploring a new
and vast wilderness, content to govern 1
themselves if given the opportunity,
its people persevered, as pioneer peo
ple always do, with the firm conviction
that one day a great commonwealth
would be carved out of the terra in
cognita of the far northern wilds. And
that original national investment—
what of it? It has been returned to
the nation seventy fold, for from its
products of land and sea Alaska has
added to the national wealth upward
of $500,000,000, and the greater por
tion of that amount has been produced
during the past 20 years. What other
possession oi tne unitea states can
approximate that record ? While the
fostering care of the government has
not been lacking in the direction of in
sular possessions of the nation; while
many millions have been spent for
tbeir betterment; while the completes!
possible measure of self-government
has been accorded them, notwithstand
ing their comparatively recent ac
quirement, Alaska is still struggling
along as best it may under a system
of government entirely inadequate and
unsuitable to its need§. It is still en
tangled in the meshes of official red
tape; bureaucratic control has not per
ceptibly diminished; and legislation in
taroduced in congress, whose aim was
to grant more extended autonomy to
the territory through conferring en
larged powers upon the legislature and
control of all matters bearing a nat
ural relation to Alaska to a constitut
ed body within the territory instead of
having them administered by a score
or more of bureaus thousands of miles
distant, has not materialized, and
Alaska is thus compelled to flounder
along in the same antiquated nits that
lead to inefficiency and discontent,
that hamper material progress, and
that are destructive rather than con
structive.
Modern methods are being applied
in national and state government; the
best thought of our people is being en
listed in the work of securing govern
mental policies that recognize the
changing conditions which are brought
about by economic, industrial, and so
cial evolution; and, as a result, far
reaching, fundamental changes in gov
ernment have been made since the
founding of this republic. Had the
American people been content to
stand still, American civilization, de
velopment progress intelligence, en
lightment, wealth, and power would
not have reached that marvelous state
of efficiency which now makes the
United States the wonder of the world.
Yet Alaska still labors under a system
of restricted government that should
not be permitted by a nation that calls
itself progressive, and which undoubt
edly is concerned in the welfare and
happiness of all its people.
Why Will Not Congress Listen?
A little research shows that Alaska,
until within the past dozen years or
less, received little consideration by
the government except in the casual
and haphazard way. By this is meant
that there has been a distinct lack of
interest shown; such interest as has
been taken has nearly always been
general and not particular; it has been
merely academic. Restriction rather
than privilege has been abundant. Its
people have been told what they must
not do rather than encouraged to
make the best legitmate use of their
opportunities. Reservation was too
long apparently the only end sought to
be accomplished. There is still too
much of it for safe and sane progress
and development. Therefore, the ter
ritory languishes when it should flour
ish; it stagnates when it show strong
virility. For Alaska has all those nat
ural resources that are the essential
foundation stones of a great common
wealth. It has gold, silver, copper,
coal, tin, iron, gypsum, lime, granite,
marble, oil, antimony, and many other
minerals in abundance; it has the
greatest fisheries of the world; its
water powers are practically untouch
ed, its furs long since attracted the at
tention of the world and have pro
duced millions; its agricultural re
sources are potentially great, and its
timber is not inconsiderable. It has a
diversified climate; in the coastal sec
tions the climate is equable, there be
ing, few extremes of heat of cold; in
the great interior regions the sum
mer season is dry and warm, the win
ter is dry and cold, the precipitation
being much lower than on the coast. It
is one of the most healthful countries
of the world; vegetation, except in
the extreme northern regions, is lux
uriant and rapid. Nearly every va
ANCHORAGE
SPECIAL SALE THIS WEEK ONLY.
COMFORTERS, Regular $2.50, Now. $2.00
COMFORTERS, Regular $3.00, now
$2.50
VENTIPLEX I NS( >LES, Regular
25c, 3 for .25c
SOLE AGENTS FOR PREFERRED STOCK CANNED GOODS
SEWARD
riety of hardy vegetables and fruits
grow in abundance'; on the plains and
plateaus of the interior various grass
es are found, extensive in area and in
great abundance. In the valleys and
more mountainous coast sections, fine
agricultural land is found, suitable
for farm and dairying purposes; and,
speaking generally, Alaska is as fav
orably situated climatically as the
Scandinavian peninsula. If all its
natural resources, including agricul
tural, were developed, they would be ]
found to be infinitely greater; and I
yet, while the Scandinavian countries
much smaller in area, have a popula-,
tion in excess of 10,000,000, it has j
taken Alaska nearly 50 years to i
achieve a white population of not S
more than 50,000 souls. Of course, j
Scandinavia has the advantage of!
years, but Alaska can offset it with
natural wealth and opportunity.
Natural Wealth Scarcely Touched.
And all its wealth of natural re
sources has been scarcely touched, al
though the land resources have al
ready yielded a quarter of a billion
dollars and the sea almost, if not
quite, as much. Alaska needs people
who are able and willing to work—
those who are able to breathe life into
a stone, or quicken a rock; it offers
splendid opportunities for the invest
ment of capital and the consequent
employment of labor; it welcomes an
independent, self-reliant citizenship;
it needs home builders, and it offers
them that independence that is achiev
ed by honest labor and intelligently
, directed effort. It would not be with
1 in the confines of truth to say that
Alaska presents no difficulties to the.
investor or to labor. Nothing that is
worth while is achieved without toil,
mental or physical. Alaska is not a
country of tropical mold; it is stern
and rugged in its exterior, rather than
mild and benevolent; it is a country
wherein it is decreed that the strong
and the healthy shall survive and the
weak and incompetent fail, if not per
ish. He who would find wealth in its
gold placers or quartz lodes, must
work for it; he who would reclaim the
wilderness and make it bud and blos
som, can not escape some hardship.
To make the land produce crops
much toil and patience are required,
but it can be done, and in the years to
come it will be done, and Alaska will
be known not only as a mining and
fishing country, but an agricultural
domain with a happy and prosperous
people attached permanently to the
soil.
The Economy of Nature.
It seems, as it were, a part of an
economic design to further the spread
of population and civilization that
gold has been scattered broadcast over
the earth, to be found in due time by
man. Looking back on the large
westward movement of population
| during the last century, we find that
' he discovery of new gold fields was
: the prime incentive of that great
! march; the news of new finds spread
far and near; the gold fever took pos
session of the people, and the onrush
to the new diggings in the wilderness
! began. The early pioneers of the west
j entertained no intention of settling
j there; they were bent solely on ex
ploiting new fields and afterwards re
turning to their homes with their
quickly gained wealth to a life of ease
among their old neighbors. Disap
pointment, nevertheless, was always
in store, for but few were destined
to realize the fruition of their dreams.
So they stayed in the new country
and, many of them, tiring soon of the
uncertain fortunes of mining, began
to take stock of their surroundings
and their new country,and soon the
wilderness became studded with smil
ing hamlets and happy homes. Other
resources than mining were developed,
new industries established and the
country began to grow and prosper.
This was the situation in California,
in Colorado, in Montana and other
states of the west, and this hstory is
repeating itself in Alaska.
Not so many years since it was con
fidently asserted that if Alaska had
any value it was confined solely to
placer mines, and when these were
worked out and the gold exhausted all
the people would leave the country,
and it would revert to primal condi
tions. The same cry was heard in the
early days of California and elsewhere
and as it has proved itself wrong there,
sa has it proved itself wrong in Alaska.
Long before an ounce of gold had
| been produced from the soil of Alaska
THE DARCY MILL
(Patent Applied For)
The Darcy Mill is designed to meet the need of the mine owner and
prospector who wants to develop his own mine or open up ore bodies with
a view of disposing of the property, to work rich stringers of pav ere
to mill and ship concentrates or to try out a property before purchasing
—at as low a cost as possible.
It is not a toy mill or a makeshift in any way but a mill constructed
on scientific principles and equal in efficiency as any stamp of the same
weight. The 2000 pound mill has two stamps of 325 pounds each and drop
at 110 blows per minute for each stamp. The number of blows and the
force of the drop can be increased very easily by placing springs on the
stamp stems or the weight of the blow be increased with additional
weights, which we furnish when necessary.
It occupies a space 4x4 feet; no piece weighs over 100 pounds, and is
easy to move, pack, or set up, and uses less power and less repairs than
any other. The frame, battery blocks, etc., are made of Washington fir,
strongly bolted with rods to stand all strains; guides have large wearing
surfaces; in fact the mill is so constructed that any one can handle it
satisfactorily. Shoes and dies are of special hard iron with chilled faces,
screens easily removed—the whole front and back can be removed so as
to get at the shoes and dies. Tappets arranged to clamp on a screw
thread so that the wear can be easily taken up. No expensive machine
work to pay for in repairs, in fact everything about the mill is simple,
compact and durable.
It is the simplest mill to start your mine with, as it is an easy mat
ter to add two or four more stamps or to increase the output by adding
the extra weights without any alterations in the mill.
We can furnish the complete mill or just the iron work, or lease them
to responsible parties if they show us their properties are O. K. We can
furnish engines, concentrators, copper plates, rock crushers, jigs, tables,
etc., at market prices.
A vast amount of ore could be put on the market by using one small
mill for coarse crushing and jig the pulp, which will save the coarse
metals and get rid of the lightest, and the middlings recrushed in another
small mill and this pulp run over concentrators or tables. This plan will
enable a lot of low grade ores to be worked at a profit which it is impos
sible to do in any other way.
Write us if you have such properties or if you wrish further particulars.
Yours truly,
H. J. DARCY, West Tacoma
NELS OTTO JOHNSON, Agent,
IT’S A REAL PLEASURE
to view the new wall decorations on
view here exclusively. They are so
unconventional, so out of the common
and so unusually artistically attrac
tive. If you plan to repaper you
should by all means see these new
papers. To decide without doing so
is apt to result in regret later.
EVANS & FRANTZEN
its fisheries had yielded much wealth.
Witness the fur seal and whale fisher
ies, salmon and cod fisheries. Many
millions of dollars have Pacific coast
merchants and others takenf rom these
sources without even making or giving
a. single permanent improvement in
this territory. It was contrary to
their policies to encourage and estab
lish settlement in Alaska. To this
; day they carry their fishing and can
ning crews to and from the territory
i every season, paying them their wages
under special contracts when they shall
have returned to the ports from
whence they are shipped. Now, if
these fishermen, or many of them,
were encouraged and placed in a po
sition to stay in Alaska all the year
around, prospecting for mineral or
fishing in coastal waters, taking up
homesteads in the neighborhood of the
canneries and other fishing plants, and
otherwise creating new values, the
fishing interest would then further
the settlement and prosperity of the
territory.
Therefore it may readily be under
stood that Alaska’s land resources
have been scarcely touched. Some of
the cream, notably in the gold-placer
regions, has been taken, but there is
plenty left, and since gold allured
people to Alaska’s shores and induced
them to become permanent settlers,
these fishing and agricultural indus
tries will be taken in hand and more
and more prosecuted by citizens of the
territory for the benefit of the terri
tory. Quite a percentage of the pres
ent population of Alaska used to gain
their living on the deep fcr have been
in various ways connected with fish
ing and the sea. There are whalemen,
cod fishers, seal hunters who have
abandoned their former callings to en
gage in mining and other pursuits, but
who, with proper encouragement and
opportunity, would again return to
their seafaring occupations. Then
there is a native population that may
become a burden to the government,
which, if rightly led and rightly
handled, are able and willing and
could easily be made producers and
wage earners under new conditions.
Phone 43-Y for car, day or night.
Wood and coal a specialty. Universal
Taxi and Transfer. 126
Be with the crowd at Peterson's. 46
Anchorage General Hospital
Corner 6th & K Sts.
Private Rooms and Wards, Sani
tary and Thoroughly Equipped.
When you are sick it's CARE
you want.
111*11
When You
Buy Fruit
Look for this Trademark
Discriminating housewives serve
only Hunt’s Quality Fruits in
their homes. They are the choicest
of sunny California’s tree ripened
fruits, packed with scientific and
clean methods, and come to you
fresh as when picked, every day
in the year.
We carry a full line of
Hunt's Quality California
Fruits
"Tk. bad Tt.t 1. NOT Lr«-P*eUd"
tVe tell and recommend them
POLLEY BROS.
Anchorage, Alaska
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P. 0. SUNBERG
GROCERIES AND GENERAL
MERCHANDISE
Reasonable Prices and a
Square deal to Everybody.
Umjerene ciene I dobra
podvorba svakomu jednako.
E. ELVERA SWANSON
Stenography, Typewriting, Dic
tation.
Peterson Building Phone 61-R