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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.
COAL $8.00 PER TON
Yard and Office Foot of G St.
Phone 41R w
MONT* ML ROOM
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 aftf moon and even
ing. Piano and violin. You will like i
Have your mail sent to Montana Pool Room, iou
can get it any time.
You are welcome ! ! Let’s get acquainted this winter.
A. CHIMENTO and ALEX TSAKUMIS, Proprietors.
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BANKING BY MAIL
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.
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RECREATION
Bowling Alleys and Pool Parlors
YOUNG VIKING H. HEGSTROM
Next to Harmony Theatre.
PLUMBING 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 S
Cotton felt mattresses, bed springs
and linoleum, at Crocker’s. 459
Lunches after the show at the
North Pole Bakery. 429
SERVICE BARBER
SHOP.
ROBARTS BUILDING
Shampooing and Face Massage
A Specialty.
UNION CIGAR STORE
4th Are. Bet. C and B Sts.
Choice line of Cigars and
Tobaccos,
Confectionery and
Soft Drinks.
Meet Your Friends at the
UNION CIGAR STORE
GUS STIPOVICH and
OTTO GUSTOSON, Props.
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SPORT.
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WORLDS
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ROB ARTS’ BILLIARD
AND BOWLING
PARLORS.
P. 0. Opposite.
MERCER OE BIG
UP IN TRE 1
Concerning the reported merger of
the Utah Copper and the Kennecott,
which occupied much space and com
ment last month, and excited Alas
kans considerably, the Boston News
Bureau, of recent date says:
Since the recent stock market col
lapse nothing has been heard concern
ing the Kennecott and Utah Copper
merger. The basis agreed upon was
2.2 shares of Kennecott for one of
Utah Copper. We understand all the
differences which arose as to the ex
ecutive management of the consolidat
ed company were ironed out some
weeks ago.
While the Morgan and Guggenheim
interests, who dominate the Kennecott
Copper corporation, were favorable to
the merger on 2.2 shares-for-1 basis
and might be able to secure sufficient
proxies to put the merger through,
it cannot be denied that opposition to
any such plan has developed among
some Utah Copper shareholders.
These shareholders believe that they
are part owners in the world’s great
est copper mine, and do not take kind
ly to the proposed scheme which links
up its fortunes with those of any oth
er mining undertaking.
As Kennecott owns in its treasury
104.000 shares of Utah Copper, and as
the Guggenheims individually are be
lieved to represent a total of at least
200.000 more shares there is in the
combined total a formidable aggre
gate of 600,000 shares, or almost 40
per cent of the Utah Copper compa
ny’s 1,600,000 shares.
The Guggenheims are believed to
have been buyers of Utah Copper dur
ing the past two or three weeks, and
we have heard that they have taken
over some very large investment
blocks privately. Whether this is be
ing done to facilitate the merger is
not apparent at the moment.
The Utah Copper company in 1916
produced 190,000,000 pounds of cop
per. We figure that on this output
the company must have cleared up no
less than $33,000,000. Including its
51 per cent equity in the Nevada Con
solidated, the Utah Copper’s profits
easily totaled $40,000,000, or $25 per
share.
A prominent director states mat
since the adverse decision of the
supreme court in the Minerals Separ
ation litigation whereby the copper
companies which have not taken out
licenses are prohibited from using less
than one per cent of oil in the flota
tion process, the Utah Copper has
been making some extraordinary re
coveries in the use of a fraction of
over one per cent oil. Anything over
one per cent does not fall within the
prohibitions of the patent. The di
rector in question asserts that the re
coveries are just as high as when a
very small percentage of oil was used
and that by cheapening the grade the.
increased quantity of oil does not ma
terially effect the cost.
No Change for Months.
The Boston News Bureau of Jan.
26, received in Juneau, further says,
regarding the merger, as follows:
“We wired Managing Director D.
C. Jacklin, of the Alaska Gold Mines
Co., who is now in San Francisco, ask
ing if he had any advices from the
property that would explain the recent
decline in the stock to $8.26 per share.
Mr. Jacklin wired in answer as fol
lows:
“ ‘I have received no advices from
Alaska that would account for the
recent decline and believe, therefore,
that there is nothing in conditions at
the property to warrant it. The out
look, so far as I am able to interpret
it, justifies the belief that tonnage can
be maintained at not less than the
average for the last three months,
barring interference of severe weath
er; and the probabilities are that the
output may gradually, but slowly, be
increased as weather conditions im
prove toward spring. I do not expect
that the average values of the past
year can be improved much, if any,
for several months."
ALASKA’S
(Seattle P.-I.)
Figures compiler! by J. L. McPher
son, secretary and manager of the
Alaska bureau of the chamber of com
merce, and taken from the 1916 re
turns of the United States bureau of
foreign and domestic commerce, shows
an increase of 60 per cent last year
compared with the business transact
ed in 1916.
In 1915 a total business valued at
$73,573,384 was transacted with the
northern territory, while the figures
for 1916 are $110,368,778. These to
tals do not include foreign bullion
trans-shipped from Skagway.
Much of the increase is due, accord
ing to the compilation of Mr. McPher
son, to the activity of the copper in
dustry, which showed a 1916 increase
in the value of production of $23,200,
000.
Seattle Should Have Factories.
Mr. McPherson also calls attention
to the increased valuation of tin plate,
both in the raw and manufactured
commodity, which shows a gain of
$950,000 over 1915. Commenting on
this item, Mr. McPherson contends
that it is one of the strongest argu
ments in favor of the securing of tin
plate manufacturing plants for Seat
tle. The total value of tin importa
tions into Alaska were valued at $3,
381,354, and he maintains that all of
this business should originate at this
port.
Alaska possesses the only tin ore
deposits on the North American conti
nent, and, according to the Chamber
of Commerce expert, these mines are
being developed and operated only in
a small way. This ore is shipped to
Seattle and thence clear across the
continent for treatment, and then re
shipped again to Alaska for use in the
canning industry of that territory.
The salmon can tins packed in Alaska
canneries last year, if placed end to
end, would extend a distance of 17,707
miles, or over two-thirds of the cir
cumference of the earth at the equa
tor.
Vegetable Imports Increase.
Another interesting item in the fig
ures compiled by Mr. McPherson re
lates to the settlement of 1400 home
steaders in Alaska recently. While
many of these settlers have been sup
plying portions of the local markets in
the northern territory, vegetable im
ports increased to the extent of $200,
000 last year. The Alaska Engineer
ing Commission recently purchased
450 tons of potatoes grown in the
Matanuska valley.
In 1916 breadstuffs showed an in
creased value of $110,000, woolen
goods $280,000, cloth goods $220,000,
oils and gasoline $370,000. The latter
item is not surprising, as it is estimat
ed that there are now over 250 auto
and motor cars in use in Alaska.
Silk goods advanced from a value of
$17,000 in 1915, to $63,000 in 1916, an
assured indication of prosperous con
ditions. This is further emphasized
by the increase in the value of watches
and jewelry by $15,000, confectionery
$10,000, fruits and nuts $230,000 and
tobaccos and cigars by $160,000.
NEXT LEGISLATURE
TO HOLD SESSIONS
IN GOLDSTEIN BLDG.
Arrangements for the housing of
the next legislature have been com
pleted between Gov. J. F. A. Strong,
and Charles Goldstein, of the Gold
stein Improvement company. The
legislature will occupy practically the
same part of the building as it did
in 1915 on the third floor of the build
ing. The legislature will have the
hall on the south side of the hallway,
with the senate on the north, or Sew
ard side of the building.—Juneau Em
pire.
Wood—Phone 40-R. , 186
Latest War News at Peterson’s. 399
Phone 43-Y for car, day or night
Wood and coal a specialty. Universal
Taxi and Transfer. 126
BAXTER’S
MAGAZINES
PERIODICALS
NEWSPAPERS
Panorama Photographs
Anchorage and
Mount McKinley
Inlet Soda Works
W. A. TAYLOR, Proprietor
Manufacturers of all kinds of
MINERAL WATERS, SODA
CIDER, SYRUPS.
AGENTS FOR GRAPE JUICE
Anchorage - - Alaska
FREDERICKsNELSON
SEATTLE
Invite you to send to them for
such items in FURNITURE and
DRY GOODS as cannot be readily
supplied by the merchants in your
own community.
All such orders received by
FREDERICK & NELSON receive
the prompt, personal attention of
an expert shopper, and Parcel Post
shipments are sent POSTAGE
PAID to any point in Alaska.
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WATCH MAKER AND £
JEWELER.
Anchorage, Alaska.
NEW CRESCENT HOTEL
F. W. REDWOOD & CO., Props.
Warm Rooms. Moderate Ratea. Hot
Baths.
Cor. Fourth and C. Anchorage
Phone 43-Y for car, day or night
Wood and coal a specialty. Universal
Taxi and Transfer. 126
Union Laundry'
i and Bath. House
Fourth Ave., Between H and Jew
Anchorage
' OCR WORK IS GUARANTEED
—and—
SANITARY
THE LARGEST AND CLEANEST
BATH TUBS IN ANCHORAGE
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. Restaurants and roadhouses.
speciaT attention.
tth Ave.. Bet H and I Sts.
£. E. KURTZ & CO.
THE SYDNEY
LAURENCE CO
COMMERCIAL AND
PICTORIAL PHOTOGRAPHY
1
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.
CARROL & CO.
Fourth St., near E
MEN'S OUTFITTERS
Complete stock of Clothing,
Shoes and furnishings.
C. HENNING
TAILOR. £
Ladies’ and Gentlemen’s^
Suits Cleaned, Pressed and
Repaired. 4th Ave. and D St.
Tony’s Cafe
OPPOSITE EMPRESS
THEATRE.
TABLES FOR LADIES—
—NEWLY REMODELED
OAOAO.O-O.Q.Q-O-QOQ CO~Q^OTTqTTO^C.O.O
Kitak Show Case Co. I
Furniture, Cabinets.
Bank and Office Fixtures
Made To Order
Kiln Dried & Seasoned Lumber
jsj Factory Opposite White House
Tex Jones R. C. Jeffery
The Panhandle
CIGARS
CANDIES
TOBACCOS
FRUIT
NUTS
4th AVE. NEAR C STREET
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