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JOHN M. REID
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT
LAW NOTARY PUBLIC
Peterson Building Anchorage
L. David
Attorney -at-Law
Notary Public
Office, corner 5th and E
Anchorage, - - Alaska
ARTHUR FRAME,
Lawyer
Office: Robart Block
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Attorneys at Law
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Attorneys at law.
Alaska Bldg. Anchorage
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Bblte Bldg. - - Anchorage
CHAS. G. GANTY
Lawyer
Hewitt Building
Anchorage
Alaska
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Attorney-at-Law
Seward
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Attorney at Law.
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Alaska Building
Anchorage, Alaska
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DENTISTRY.
Hewitt Bldg. Fourth Ave. Phone 7-Y
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Dentist
Alger Block, Anchorage
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DENTIST
Cor. 4th and C St. Anchorage
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Physician and Surgeon
Aluska Building,
Corner of 4th and G.
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Physician and Surgeon; •
CITY DRUG STORE
Anchorage, -.. . A.aska
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Established 1905.
Assayer and Chemist
Ores Treated, Ton and Car
Lota.
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Wilson's Carpenter Shop.
Wf Stake Everyth Ina-r
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TAILOR
Ladies’ and Gentlemen’s Suits
Cleaned, Pressed and Repaired. 4th
Ave. and D St.
BOB SMALL
Horseshoeing a Specialty
Oxy-Acetylene Welding
Cor. C and Second Anchorage
LDDKSGQODTO
THE GEOLOGISTS
The U. S. Geological survey offi
cials in one of their pamphlets of a
year or so ago, published the fact that
all of the ore milled in the Willow
creek district previous to the report
had averaged better than $50 per ton;
and unquestionably this showing has
been kept up since that date.
The question is: Does the average
person livingAi this locality realize
what such inures signify? We be
lieve that they do not, for the simple
reason that he^jtofore no great boom
or stampede has been on or made to
that section. 1
Most of tJTJ^peopIe of Alaska, per
haps less so here than elsewhere, are
to a very great extent interested in
mining. Our territory up ta^he pres
ent time has been largelj^T mining
community, and our population up to
the last influx has been largely that of
miners, by that we mean mine oper
ators, mining investors, mine workers,
prospectors and people directly and in
directly interested in the production
and reduction of the product of the
mine.
It has always been said in a mining
country that “placer is the poor man’s
mine.” However, in actual production
here in Alaska this lias been shown,
in a large number of cases to be not
a fact. >
me neep ground ot me lvionciiKe,
Nome, Fairbanks, Iditarod, Ruby and
the Koyukuk have all conclusively
shown that placer ground of that de
scription costs more in initial devel
opment than does free milling ores.
This fact becomes very apparent to
any one who is at all familiar with
the sections above named and also
with our Willow creek country.
In this last named section nearly
every mine has financed itself from
practically the grass roots. And an
other very significant fact is that
every property in that section that got
in shape to reduce its product have
made good, regardless of the costly
experience undergone by all of the
pioneers in the section.
This portion of Alaska owes no
money to the outside; in fact fortunes
of considerable magnitude are now in
vested in the older sections of the
United States and the Dominion of
Canada that have been produced in
that section of Alaska 35 miles from
Knik.
Most of us get our mining ideas
from one of two sources: Either
from the scientific end as propounded
to us bf mining experts and geologists
educated and trained in the great min
ing colleges of the country, and in
most cases supplemented by actual ex
perience in the hills and in the mines,
or from the prospector who learns by
actual experience. In most cases
these two classes are nearer together
than one would actually suppose, and
in the section we are writing of they
both agree on its great future devel
opment.
Both agree where ledges show great
length on the surface, you have a
right to assume that it also goes to
great depth; both agree that the
lodges indicate from surface showings
on the high places where most of the
development heretofore has been
made, that these same ledges will, in
the future be tapped at much lower
altitudes and this theory was fully
corroborated by the Byron Bartholf,
Sr., discovery made this year. This
discovery of large bodies of ore at a
low altitude, having big milling values
demonstrates more than anything else
. the great value, of the district.
Much has been said, principally by
.mining promoters of no- standing,
about securing big money ’from the
, outside to finance properties here in
j Alaska, but as a matter of fact little
| money has come from that source,
j The initial expense of practically all
: developed properties here in Alaska
J has been borne by Alaskans and the
Willow creek country will prove no ex
ception to the rule.
There is ample reason for this. In
the first place if we do not show faith,
who are on the ground, can we natur
ally expect investors to dig up that
are beyond the area of cheap inspec
j tion.
me section we are writing 01 win
prove no exception to this rule and if,
this section is to come in to the prom
inence that all indications point to, it |
must be through the initial money and
1 efforts of the people who reside in
close proximity to it.
1 It will not take immense sums of |
money to place one of the Willow
creek properties on a paying basis, as
it has in the case of the low grade .
ores of Gastineau Channel, or in the.
copper properties out from Cordova
or in the Prince William sound coun
i try. On the contrary, only a very
reasonable amount is required.
From now on the residents of An
chor^ge and vicinity can expect to be
approached by different men, and dif
ferent locally organized corporations,
though their agents, who will have
mining stock for sale in the countr;
written about and in other prominer.t
sections tributary to this town a c.
neessary for them to use due caution
in investing. Remember always tiiat
all lode mining countries have been
developed by the same means.
They should before investing satis
fy themselves of several patent condi
tions. First, is the propi-rey in the
right locality to expect successful de
velopment from. Second, is the prop
erty in proximity to other properties
that are making good. Third, is the
district so situated that supplies and
material can be gotten to it without
prohibitive cost. And, fourth, and
away the most important of all, in
whose hands is the money that they
are paying for stock to be intrusted.
This last condition has caused more
failures in mining development than
any other cause. It matters little
what amount of money any company
can raise if that money is not used
economically and skillfully in devel
oping the property.
So to the investing public of An
chorage, and we unhesitatingly ad
vise investing in moderation, w’e call
your attention to the foregoing. And
confidently predict that those who get
in on the ground floor on some of the
best properties that are being pro
moted ni the Willow creek section, and
who see that their investments are
placed in the hands of men who in
tend to develop the properties in which
their stock represents, will here in
Anchorage have^an opportunity in a
mining way of a lifetime.
AT THE EMPRESS.
Fun Tonight—Interesting Features
Sunday and Monday.
Richard Carle is to be the feature
attraction at the Empress theatre
Sunday and Monday, December 3 and
4 ,in a Pathe Gold Rooster play en
titled “Mary’s Lamb.”
Mr. Carle, it will be remembered,
made his reputation as a star in a
musical comedy called “The Spring
Chicken.” His song “Will Someone
Kindly Tell Me, What I’d Like to
Know, Why I Picked a Lemon in the
Garden of Love Where So Many
Peaches Grow.” in the musical come
dy was the success of the play. Not
only that, but his original lines, aside
from those written by the author of
the play, were screams in any speak
ing play in which he appeared. In
“Mary’s Lamb,” Mr. Carle is ably sup
ported by Jessie Ralph and Marie
Wayne, two Pathe screen celebrities.
Add to “Mary’s Lamb” on same pro
gram “The Fable of the Galloping
Pilgrim Who Kept on Galloping,” by
George Ade, America’s greatest hu
morist, and the ever-intersting Pathe
News, and you have a show of real
enjoyment, carefully prepared to sat
isfy everybody in Anchorage.
For this Saturday evening, we have
prepared the usual combination of
comedy and drama variety for your
pleasure. The bill consists of the
following “The Strategist,” one
reel comedy; “Out of Bondage,” two
reel drama; a Keystone comedy en
titled “Baggage Smasher” and “Host
age of the North,” a two- reel drama
featuring Walter Edwards. Sir. Ed
wards’ portrayal of a man who was
moted in the Willow creek section, and
years to sgve, is truly pathetic.
HAVE YOU WATCHED ALL
THE GOOD BUSINESS
Center around Robarts’—the churches,
school house, postoffice, telephone of
fice, fire hall, Barney Sirtfon, Kosloskie
the money king, the Empress 'theatre, |
the Masonic temple, the Bill’s Club, all [
dentists and doctors, the only garage,
the Chamber of Commerce
The Morgue and Jail. i
ROB’ARTS BILLIARD AND BOWL
ING'PARLORS. ' ' 57. ,
They do say' ftf Would be a" ttrime to
set down to a Thanksgiving dinner
without a smart suit of Stein-Bloch ■
Clothing, sold by Felix Brown. ^ 86 j
LADIES
Try Excelsior Creaju forthe
hands. Oa sale for 85 c^Pat
the Gift Shop, F Street.
BAXTER'S
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PERIODICALS
NEWSPAPERS
Panorama Photograph*
Anchorage and
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UNIOlj’ CIGAR STORE
4th Ave. Bet. C and B Sts.
Choice.line of Cigars and
Tobacco^
Confectionery and
Soft Drinks.
Meet Your Friends at the
UNION CIGAR STORE
GUS STIpbviCH and
OTTO GUSTOSON, Props,
Tex Jones
R. C. Jeffery
The Panhandle
CIGARS
CANDIES ' -
TOBACCO^
FRUIT
NUTS
4th AVE. NEAR C STREET
Taxidermist
»W. D. WANDLING
5th Ave. Bet. C and I)
Anchorage t Alaska.
PIOTOTOTOTOTO
Unidn Laundry
| . Anchorage
OUR WORK IS GUARANTEED
, —and—
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THE IiAKOKST AND CLEANEST
BATH TUBS IN ANCHORAGE
Seattle Second-hand Store buys and
sells everything. D and 4th Ave.
11-6-tf
All kinds harness repair work done
by Bartholf, between 5th and 6th, near
C St. 20
Second-hand harnesses bought and
sold by Bartholf, between 5th and 6tb.
near C St. 2p;
Are You Successful?
If you are not successful—who is to blame? You
notice all around you successful men—don’t A
you? Many of them have had no better oppor- ^
tunities than you—some of them not as good.
The successful man avails himself of his oppor
tunities. The unsuccessful man does not. One
of the opportunities that make for success is a
Bank Account. Have you one at this Bank ? Try
it for a year. The note the progress you have
made.
A Bank Account is the Ladder by which
many men have mounted to Success.
BANK OF ALASKA
ANCHORAGE
ALASKA
NEXT DOOR TO HARMONY THEATRE
ALASKA TRANSFER
Express ana Heavy Hauling Storage in Connection
COAL AND WOOD
OFFICE LATHROP BLDG.
^ ALFRED BENSON, Prop.
City Drug Store
THE REXALL STORE Dr. K. A. Kyvig, Prop.
We carry a large assortment of imported French at \
domestic Perfumes, Soaps and Toilet Articles. A fufr >
stock of the great Rexall line. Rubber goods and Station
ery the best in the world. All at surprisingly low prices.
IT PAYS TO TRADE HERE.
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HARMONY THEATRE.
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WE HAVE MOST OF OUR TOYS AND CHRISTMAS NOVELTIES ON
s DISPLAY. WITHOUT DOUBT YOU WILL FIND THE FINEST SELECTION
OF TOYS, BOTH PLAIN AND MECHANICAL THAT YOU CAN SEE AT LARGE
DEPARTMENT STORES ON THE OUTSIDE. * YOU BETTER HURRY AND
-MAKE YOUR SELECTIONS NOW.
WE EXPECT THEM TO SELL FAST.
REMEMBEk—WE HAVE THE FINEST CHRISTMAS TREE DECORA
TIONS IN TOWN.
Watch Our Ad for Special Bargains This Week
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