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COMPANY
Fast and commodious steamers sailing between Seattle, Ketchikan,
Wrangell, Juneau, Skagway, Cordova, Valdez and Seward.
Sails Seattle
Arrives Anchorage
APRIL 11 NORTHWESTERN
APRIL 17 ALAMEDA.
APRIL 22 .ALASKA
APRIL 28 MARIPOSA
APRIL 19
APRIL 24
APRIL 29
MAY 5
This company reserves the right to change schedule of steamers with
out notice. Tickets on sale at up-town office. Empress Building.
PACIFIC STEAMSHIP CO.
ADMIRAL LINE
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ALASKAN SAILING DATES
Lv. Seattle Ar. Anchorage
Apr. 9 ..WATSON .. Apr. 17
Apr. 17 ...EVANS... Apr. 25
Apr. 25. .FARRAGUT.. May 3
May 3 ...WATSON ..May 11
sailings irom neauie 10
CALIFORNIA
Mondays, Fridays & Saturdays
Steamers
President, Governor; Queen,
Senator, Umatilla, Admiral
Schley and Admiral Dewey.
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ROUTE.
San Francisco to Los Angeles, daily except Sunday.
San Francisco to San Diego, Monday, Thursday and Saturday.
STEAMERS HARVARD, YALE, PRESIDENT, GOVERNOR,
ADMIRAL SCHLEY AND ADMIRAL DEWEY.
Schedule Subject to Change Without Notice.
For Full Particulars. T. B. WATSON, Agent, Anchorage, Alaska.
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LAUNCH “SWAN”
Capt. N. J. Gaikema.
Daily Trips to Knik and Goose Bay from Govern
ment Dock No. 1.
See Bulletin Boards for Schedule
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Picket Agencies at Baxter’s and City Auto Service,
Phone 89-R.
Correct Clothes
FOR MEN
THE VERY LATEST IN STYLES, COLORS AND
FABRICS SHOWN AT
CHEASTY’S Inc.
SEATTLE, WASH.
O. C. GRAVES, Pres. 2d Ave. and Spring
Men’s and Young Men’s Wear.
Sandwiches, coffee and pastry lunch*
e.* served at the North Pole Bakery.
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Best music and entertainers at Pe
terson’s. 399
MINNEAPOLIS, Feb. 19.—Back in
1897 hundreds of Minneapolitans had
Alaska gold fever.
Among them was John G. Johnson.
He packed his belongings in a gunny
sack and joined the endless streams of
tenderfoot “mushers” headed for the
land of promise.
He returned last week after 20
j years of ‘ necking it” through the
| wilderness of the far north, pros
pecting in the mountains and valleys,
and enduring all the hardships the life
entails. He was a young man when
he left. Today his face is seamed
with the lines that spell exposure and
■ hard work. His hair is gray.
Finds Fortune at I.ast.
He has put at his back 20 years of
experience that savor of a Jack Lon
i don story. He has found gold. He
has tramped out of the hinterlands
j with a fortune in gold dust in his
i pack. He has lost those fortunes in
j vain attempts to repeat his success.
He has run the gamut of good fortune
! and bad, always with face set on the
l golden rainbow just ahead.
He foufid fortune at last. Hut it
was not wrested from the yellow
; streaked rock. It was from the land
i of the Matanuska valley in Alaska.
Gold? Oh, No—Potatoes.
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He made his money raising pota
! toes.
It makes him laugh when he thinks
I about it.
For nearly two decades he pros
pected from Dawson to Fairbanks,
from Copper Iliver to Valdez and Cook
j inlet, finding gold and losing it. And
then he took up a 320-acre homestead
of government land near the new rail
[ road and discovered that three cents
i a pound profit on potatoes, on land
that will raise 12 tons of them an
acre, was the way to a permanent
bank account.
“1 mushed into the gold country j
with my pack on my back,” said John
son. "I worked in the Dawson mines
learning to know gold when I saw it
and to know where to find it. With
I my partner 1 worked a claim on
j Hunker creek.
Strikes Gold—Soon Broke.
“That one claim paid us $46,000 in
a few months. We took that money
and went into the Dominion creek re
gion in the Yukon. Bed rock was deep
there. We sunk expensive machinery
and went into it big. The next spring
found us broke, down and out.
“I went to Fairbanks and got a
stake furnishing wood for the mines.
And then back on the trail, way up to
the Slate creek district and into the
head of the Copper river to Valdez
and Seward. I worked every creek
and range on the way, always ‘mush
ing’ it on foot.
Tries Homesteading “For Fun.”
“Finally I found myself in Cook
i inlet and took up a government land
! claim for the fun of it. I discovered
j that a few acres of potatoes paid
more in the end than any claim 1 ever
connected up with. Funny, isn’t it?”
It was suggested that while raisng
the succulent tuber might afford a
more substantial honorarium than
chasing the golden will-o’-the wisp,
it was a decided "comedown” as far
as adventure and romance were con
cerned.
Through With “Romance” of It.
The prospector-farmer sniffed.
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mighty little of this romance stuff,”;
he exclaimed. “If you call working!
a drift with the thermometer around j
40 degrees below zero, all the while I
hoping that the spring run will show
you hit something during the winter
—if you call that romance somebody
else is welcome to it. If living on
‘sourdough’ and frozen beans is ad
venture, you can have my share.”
Thrill of Finding Gold.
“Why did you stick it out so long,
then?” he was asked.
Mr. Johnson looked rather sheepish
as he answered:
“You never found gold, I guess,”
he said. “There isn’t any sensation
like it in the world. You’ve got to
work like seven niggers to get to it.
and then maybe it isn’t there. And 1
maybe it is. And when you see it
there in your pan and you figure all
you got to do to make $100 is to
shovel a little, well, there isn’t any
feeling 1 know about like it. There
it is, yellow and pretty. And it will j
buy you anything in town—anything j
you want. That is what keeps you 1
there.”
Sees Rosy Future Up North.
The suggestion was natural that
some day he would desert the pota
to farm and again hit the trail.
“Not if 1 know myself,” he said. “1
,
like the land. And they are building
the government railroad right through
it. From Seward to Anchorage it is
wonderful land. You can raise any
thing there that you can here. And to
the north about f>0 miles are the coal
fields. Some day there are going to
be sawmills and pulp mills up there.
It won’t take many years before the
whole district is settled I am there
to stay. Raising potatoes is some
thing like mining anyway. You work ,
all season and then look to see what |
you have got. And the odds of there
being potatoes in the ground is in
your favor.”
Mr. Johnson will return to Alaska
as soon as transportation opens in ,
the spring. He will remain with his '
parents at 3420 Pillsbury avenue, un- I
til then.
C. L. Pring will arrive in Anchorage [
on the Northwestern to repair and
tune pianos. Please send orders .to
The Times office. 809
We want the best the market af
fords. You get it at Cameron’s Cafe
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fter the movies a nice dairy lunch
at the North Pole Bakery. 797
Daily War Bulletins at Peterson’s
Wood Undertaking Co..
FUNERAL DIRECTORS
LICENSED EMBALMERS
Anchorage Matanusks
MONEY TO LOAN
Short term loans on Rea)
Estate. Bills discounted.
R. NICHOLLS, 615 7th Ave
Our New Stock of CUT GLASS, CROCKERY, CHINA
GRANITE AND ALUMINUM WARE
OIL CLOTH. Builders’ and Heavy Hardware.
STOVES AND RANGES
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C. W. BOLTE
l 726 4th Avenue. Anchorage, Alaska.
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Hotel Anchorage
NEWEST AND MOST MODERN IN THE CITY
SUNNY ROOMS FT.rCTRIC I.IGHTS
HOT AND COLD WATER.
REASONABLE RATES
Hegg & Laurence
Members Photographers’ Association of America,
Washington, D. C.
High Class Portrait Work
Artistic and Pictorial Photography.
EXPERT KODAK FINISHING.
We do not finish work in the shortest possible time,
but in the best possible manner.
Our prices arc not tin• cheapest in town, BUT OUR
WORK IS.
We have the best labor-saving equipment that money
can buy, hence onr claim to superior work.
HEGG & LAURENCE.
Masonic Building.
Rich Willow Creek Mining Claims for Sale
one-half interest In four claims, 80 acres. tier
Fissure vein, free milling, one assaying from $35.00 to $60.00 per ton.
Joins the Mohawk Mine.
PRICE $15,000.00. |
Three claims, 60 acres, joining the Matanuska mining property Mg
where a mill is now being Installed. The Matanuska Mine is considered one
of the richest in camp and was sold a few years ago for $60,000.00.
On these three claims is a strong tissure vein from two to four feet in
width, and crops on the surface for 600 feet assays 30 per cent molubden
ium and several dollars in gold.
There Is also a parallel vein that pans gold. Over $000,000.00 worth
of mineral in sight Price 9175,000.00. Will s»-il on terms, with u sub
stantial payment down.
One claim of 20 acres, showing a good vein of free milling ore, ad
joining the Mohawk min*-. Price 9S.OOO.OO.
One claim of 20 acres adjoining the Webfoot claim, ground well lo
cated; the vein can easily be found by doing a little digging. Price 91,000.
Samples of ore can be seen at my office.
GEORGE ANDERSON
4th and F Street, Campbell Bldg-.
Anchorage, Alaska
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FRANCE WAS SAVED—
INDIRECTLY THOUGH NONE THE LESS SURELY, THROUGH THE THRIFTY HABITS OF THE FRENCH PEOPLE, AS MUCH AS BY THEIR UNEXAMPLED
HEROISM; MILLIONS OF DOLLARS WERE AVAILABLE FOR THE PROSECUTION OF THE WAR, MONEY SAVED BY THE PEOPLE, LITTLE BY LITTLE,
UNTIL THE SUM BROUGHT FORTH AT A CRITICAL TIME WAS IN THE AGGREGATE, STAGGERING.
THE AMERICAN PEOPLE—THE MOST EXTRAVAGANT ON EARTH—MIGHT AT THIS CRUCIAL MOMENT IN THE AFFAIRS OF THE NA
TION ASK THEMSELVES IF EACH PER'SON IS DOING HIS “BIT” AND BY SO MUCH AS HE IS ABLE TO PUT AWAY FOR A POSSIBLE NA
TIONAL NEED, HELPING TO PAY HIS DEBT TO HIS COUNTRY.
OPEN AN ACCOUNT TODAY. A BANK ACCOUNT IS THE GREATEST INCENTIVE TO PRACTICAL ECONOMY. _
BANK OF ANCHORAGE
RESOURCES OVER $500,000.