Sherman County observer., January 21, 1910, Image 1

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E ia t a b i i s li o d 1 8 8 7 .
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T’ha firain Brouters [onveniences
Are not .lone confined to H ur.l Free Delivery ot n t.il
.m l the Telephone.
There I- ...other
“
farmer« «hould have — and many do have
an ftCCOunl
eenn, <H>, . good bank. . The r~.ee.ror of .och .» .cco«»t
avoid« th* risk ol having hi. money on hi« per.o
bi« home where it ia Mt danger of fire and thieve«.
Hi- bUU P a * by check are not only a
also • a con
eOn vernier»oe
e tM e e to* i»fF
alee
seulement i- not f t hand
the necee-.ry ch.nge fo, conclndmg «»ttlemen
Don’t -top to think ti.i. over, hut . t . r t
»ccoont no« - ,
ALASKA’S BABY
METROPOLIS.
Cordova to Be Gateway For
New Bush This Year.
The (fiasco Warehouse jflillinj C°-
Bank, of ffloro.
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Raila of the Copper River and North-
weatern W ill Ba Laid to the Mouth
of tho Chitina by July, When lm-
meneely Rich M ineral' Area W ill Be
Accasaible—A Dram atic Chapter In
Railroad Construction.
’" , F r i d a y , J a n 2 1
^ o u n ty ; t W
ed
The Copper river TR,,* ’r .
iin c U t h . reed m o .t roe.
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shifting. uncertain, rtit *“ “ * •
J ALASKA'S GREAT
GOAL PROBLEM.
.
.„„«hoed
J2X S * "
rtier f t * * {¡J « J
large stream emptying from
kan Interior to the 7 u tb ™ *
to £
turbulent, silt laden. Ice • * *
1
* wen.
reut lu which no man cnn - wUu
A t one
tween great living
“ Tnto W.
charge mtlllona of toua of lc *
e“ X
« .v b d . , e t t h . .o u n u «
current o u i« u
Scenery WiU Become World FamouA
» .« ..r g W iU B .
The scenery Is of unique grandeur, j
out these scenic features, so won to
become world fa meus, bave represent
ed to the engineers probh-m* of unex­
ampled complexity. M.'uy o
problems were repeatedly declared to
be Impossible o f solution • vie“ - undtE
the most favorabb- condition« of
fiooswelt's Conservation Order
.
ES
1910.
mile*. This gorge Is exceedingly wild,
with almost per|>eudlcular sides for
considerable stretches. This necessi­
tates almost continuous rock work, aud
this Is about the only klud of con­
struction we are sbls to continue on
the road during the winter. From 600
to 1.000 men w ill be kept In the can- ,
yon all this winter, and as soon as po*.
■Ibis I d the spring 2.000 more w ill be
added to the force. Beyond the mouth I
of tbs Chitina construction la moder­
ately easy for tbs Alaskan coast which
presents more and worse obstacles to
railroad construction than any part of
4.
1 1 1 1 1 1 1 -i- l + H - K ~1-.-t- H l - l 1 1- i l l- H H - l 1 H -l- 1+ H H i t
,
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* v \ Hawkins, Engineer In Charge of
the' Copper River and Northwestern
Railroad, Throws Light Upon an Ab­
surd 8ituaion— Paying $14 a Ton
For Coal Wren It Can Be Mined In
the Territory -o r $1.50.
EXPERT SEES FUTURE
FOR ALASKAN FARMING
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• .
G roceries
Preferred Stock Brand
S P E C IA L P R IC E S O N
S a lm o n , O y ste r s,
g
bridged for th * third U n s w ithin a
hundred miles."
a
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f t u
M o n k la n d
C ash
C. A. NISH,
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e s s
» «_ « «_.«„« *-■•
«. • - « —?—
111 l~l
twenty hours of a summer day and
^Becatwe A task, ns cannot mine any
w e a tftr a n d -w ith
eight hours of a winter tw ilight with
By CAR.LYLB BLU».
Tw o years ago next month the Ui»i o f their own exciMent coal by reason
a rough, semlarctic country, pushing a
Ou Ita second birthday the Copper lot of m aterial and supplies arrived in of the conservation order of President
clumsy, homemade cultivator by band
River and Northwestern rallroud. of Cordova. Hlnce t ieu construction bas Boosevelf they ar. being forced to
and smiling cheerfully, w ill not soon
which Cordova. Alaska. la the term i­ been pushed for card'-with almost un­ mako heavy drafts ><n the timber re­
fade, uor w ill the days when eighteen
nus linda Itself stretched 100 uillea In­
serve, according to E. C. Hawkins,
hours of yellow sunlight brought the
believable moui’ Utum.
land up the Copper river. By next
lu these tw o .ears a permanent roa
engineer in charge of the new Copper
seeds rushing to the surface and ma­
July. It la now practically assured, the of a high stan. ard has been completed
There are many thousands of miles
R iver und Northwestern railroad, who
tured them in five weeks. Those were
road w ill have roacbed the mouth of U, the mouth of the Tlekel river. 10-
o f good Ullage land In the valleys of
the moments when he saw the things
has
Just
reached
New
York
to
make
the Chitina river, where It branches, mlles from < .rdoya. Three great «tee
the southern coast of Alaska, to say
the future held. And he’s not going
heading for the Kenulcott copper bridges h a'e been set over the aw If • hto annual rej>ort to the company.
nothing of the great Interior, accord­
to sell out aud go back to 8weden.
M r. Hawkins is the engineer who
fifty-eight
miles
to
the
east
flowing
Co,
P«r
river,
and
a
fourth
mines
He's going to stick on the Job. It s
in g 'to Levi Chubbuck, special agent
built
the
remarkable
White
Pass
and
across
a
g
n
a
t
lea
«mured
channel
b
■
-
ward.
hto home now. and he sees the time
F x p e r t. E x p e rie n c e d . R e g is te re d P h arm
a rm a a cis
c is ts
for the department of agriculture, who
T
he
road's
arrival
at
the
Chitina
low
the
b
rg
lake
of
M
l
l^
g
l
a
i
U
Taikon
roiul.
an
achievement
second
The
In ten years—no, five—when ho will
has Just returned from tho northland.
means
that
the
great
Kobdna-Cbltlna
fur
advar
ed
and
w
ill
be
one
of
the
only
to
the
one
he
has
nov
half
finish­
rie tlic in e » C a r e fu lly C o m p o u n d e d .
have farmer neighbors all about him
copper region to finally made easily englneerh g wouders of the
ed for the Murgan-Uuggenlielm syndi­ ' M r. Chubbuck spent the entire sum-
and tbe rl, G soil w ill be working for
available
for
mining
and
prospecting
*mer
making
a
general
recommlssance
Long «tr- tche« of tunnel and rock « ut cate. He baa some most Interesting
Com piei« A osorlm enl o f 81l-uw<Te and J .w e lq
the men who can conquer IL
Thia w ill be an event of considerable and p *t g have been finished and a
Up In the Tanana valley and In the
tlpngrt to say about the conditions In of agricultural lands that may be sur­
Importance In Alaskan history.
Lx
veyed
for
homesteading
by
tbe
general
fleet of liv e r «learners built and placed
Copix*r river and the Susitna, too.
the northland that have recentlj been laud office 3to*t«W «f * r';u8 e*»™ 1» « 1
ceptlng Ita two great coal field«, this
Miles From Any Human Being, He farmers ure following the track of G e
lu comm .aaldn.
attracting public attentldti.
la tho richest k»*Kvo mineral field In
were the Bustol$na basin north of Sew­
Broke the Land W ith a Hand Culti­ Martin, the man who farmed and made
At Co:dova end. where there we
“The
local
need
for
our
own
coal
to
the territory. J ta area 1« very large, no problems of importance, much mon
ard. the Copper river and the Tanaua
vator and Won W ith His Nerve and It go through—alone.
acute.”
said
M
r.
Hawkins.
“We
feel
and the opportunities for prospectors ey has been spent In preparing for the
valleys. Concerning agricultural prog­
Brain»—Ole's Experience W ith Potato
It
especially
In
our
road
construction,
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and «mull operators there ure almost handling of a heavy train service to
ress and poeslbllltlee In Alaska he
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.
.
¿ 't v a v b I t i
Growing.
but every one else feels It too. Peo­ makes statements thst may be¿consid­
unlimited.
It
la
absolutely
safe
to
ex­
DAMES
AND
DAUGHTERS.
A ny a n d a ll K in d s of
and from the mines.
ple must keep warm In Alaska, as ered most conservative, but that w ill
pect anectucular developments at one«.
T he Iron In the blood of tbe men who
This to the story of a farm er who
In Wi of thia Cordova la destined are building this road shows apparent­ elsewhere, und It needs much fuel to be amazing to the great majority of won because he had nerve und under­
Miss Kmma Henry has a Sunday
to play a conspicuous part, and the ly In thé blood of Cordova, for a so do It lu winter. We pay $ H a ton for those “outside.”
standing enough to sit down on hto school class ot 2UO meu at Coatesville.
Llrltlstr- Columbia soft coal to use on
sixteen month-old baby metropolis la there has been fighting to do. "Made
“The most obvious fact concerning
Pa.
preparing for It w ith quite amazing town« like this oue do not grow of the railroad, and It certainly costs the nearly all the valleys of this sren 1 laud and fight it out tu, a finish, a
Mine. Dleulnfoy. wife of the archae­
energy. W ith the Copper River rail- I their own volition In u single year. It ■mall consumer uo less. Eveu this have seen—from Udewater northward farm er who had never heard of the
ologist. accompanies her husband on
road being driven Inland by the power­ 1 takes organization, conhdehce nnd has been unobtainable at times, and 100 miles—to that they are natural word discouragement and whose ouly
hto travels and dresses lu accordance
ful Morgan,Guggenheim Syndicate to much toll where one's home must, as we recently faced the necessity of grazing lands.' There are certainly definition of failure was that It meant
with what she has found to be the
tap tho coal and copper fields and the here, actuary be carved Iron» the eter­ putting u large force to work cutting tboueands of square miles of a very “try agnln a little harder;’’ also It to
rules of ex|»edlency and com fort—that
timber
for
firewood
to
be
used
In
keep
vast golden Interior. CordoVa becomes
high quality of wild grass, the nutri­ the tale of a man who farmed as much
nal hills.
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to. In masculine attire.
lng our five catosou and pier pumps tive value of which for stock eeema
Inevitably the Aluskan gateway par
with hto bend as he did with hto hands,
The Parisians this yenr chose as the
goirtg and running the work engines. well established. The gras, often
excellence, and for such a future she
and he did an enormous amount of queen of beauty and sovereign of the
PULP WOOD IN ALASKA.
At that we found It at times a I most stands six and M»ven feet high and to
waa chosen.
'
work
with
those
latter.
autumn feast Mite. Luclenne Joly. a
The essentials for an Alaskan gate­ Transportation Facilities Only Needed Impossible to keep steam In our boil­ of the mo*t luxuriant growth; aleo it
Hto name—not that It mutters par
dressmaker. The ceremonies of thto
ers. though the safety of ranch eon* can be cured and to of good keeping
way are a harbor, a town site, u rail-
O
cula
rly
-Is
Ole
Murttu.
aud
six
years
to Open Up Enormous Forests.
annual carnival, celebrated by the
struct ion and even of lives depended
rood route and proved resource* to
ago
he
drifted
luto
these
Fulted
States
Another valuable Item has been add- on It. W ith an almoet Inexhaustible quality.
tradespeople of Paris, are always elab­
run the road to.
‘
from
Sweden,
where
he
had
been
furm-
Great Dairying Country.
ed to Alaska’s growing list of andevel- store of coal within a few miles of
orate.
Cordova has all four, each of more.or
■ " t X
Nearly all of this land except some Ing in rocky and exhausted lu*d tor
Miss Irene Smith, who plays In Lon­
our tracks we should be getting It for
U»> sacellence. and her railroad has oned roeources. R ikcu I expert examl
side hill areas has more or less Stand­ fifteen years.
Six months after his don. to said to be the tallest of ac­
nation
of
the
lim
ber
In
the
BnkhltHi’
«bout
$1.80
a
ton
Instead
of
$14.
Cee
oow passed the hundredth «Uto. Ih e
ing and fallen tim ber on It, but much arrival at New York he was lu Alaska, tresses. -She stands six feet ooe and
baslu has confirmed the belief that i
tnlnly without adequate fuel supply
,-omblnatlon Is a richly promising one.
Is pulp wopd of a high quality. Th. .the opening of Alaska with railroads Is immediately available for grazing. nnd six months after that ho had a few n half Inches In her stockings. O * the
Road to Copper. Coal and Gold-
W ith adequate w inter protection stock acres of laud on the Kenai peninsula. stage owing to high heel shoe* which
tim ber to poplar, cottonwood an-
to going to be very slow. It cannot be
The harbor, though aot large. to ex­
thrives, and tbe market w ith the de­ Then he began to farm. There were
Hpruce. but little of which to of com otherwise. And transportation devel
she wears. Tier height Is six fee« four
cellent and susceptible of unlimited de­
merclal value for lumlier. The land O' Opment to the greatest need of that velopment of roads would seem as­ no nelghlmrs—not thrti, nt least, for It
Inches
velopment. w$He Im m e d ia te ly a v a H -
sured.
At
present
every
pound
of
meat
was
uot
until
later
thnt
a
taciturn
which this growth stands luclude* tb
wonderfully rich territory.
Mrs. Elizabeth Durden of Norris-
ordiuary
tounage
without
consumed
must
come
from
Beattie,
and
Scot
sat
dowu
a
short
distance
away
for
able
3 500 000 or more acres estimated a
has 200 living descendants.
town. (
Ths
New
Coppsr
Region.
The
town
site
Is
a
tundra
meat
to
o
f
first
Importance
In
the
diet
and
began
to
farm
on
his
owu
ac­
dredging,
and farm ing land aud *i.
...........
She
Is ninety tw o years old and the
rocky and Irregular hillside,
!
‘Nevertheless,
the
Copper
River
nnd
ary
of
so
cold
a
country
as
this.
In
count.
covered,
wmen homesteading receutly begnn
mother of eleven children. There are
most unpromising material*
Northwestern to being forced ahead as many parts of the country also It costs
Had No Pogs or Horses.
offering
This area, distributed amoug the van
sixty live grandchildren. 180 «rrut-
but which has yielded astonishingly
r
il
idly
as
possible.
By
the
1st
of
the
consumer
$1
a
pound.
All
dairy
The location was three and a half
ous valleys of the basin. 1« fo r th,
grandchlldren and ten great-great-
well to vigorous tre a tm e n t., The ra il­
m xt July It w ill have reached the products, too, are brought In by steam­ miles north of the new town of Bew
most part covered w ith a •“ • ' ¡ J 1
grandchlldren.
road route, while containing «otn*, e f
|
mouth
of
the
Chitina
river/
138
miles
er
at
high
cost,
and
this
to
certainly
a
ard. and there was uo rnllroad; ulso
grow th of w lid redtop grass, w ith lltth
It Is claimed for M ile I ’olalre. the
I inland.
This means that the great dairying country.
the worst obstacles to construct on
there were no horses and at first not popular singer of Parts, that she has
onderbruah and only a moderate «tan
ever encountered, to rapidly pushing Z r ”tïm l-»r . It . to Obvious
Kotsinn-Chltlna copper
reglon-proba
“There need be no speculation as to
« .s-
elx.it
that w
w arlfrn
ith n I J<„islna-Chltlna
copper _ re
g
.o
u
-P.
»
^
l.4
even a dog. ao supplies had to be the smallest waist In tbe world. When
forw ard despite these difficult es and
reasonably convenient m arket fo r pul • bly the richest
ac. some present posslbllltle«.
reaching out to the copper region and ^..wwi mid water transportation, of almost uuexplored-w lll be ea y
has just begun In a few localities In “nucked” lu. a man who has ne«er tho dainty actress gets Into her stage
<be coal fields of Bering river as well
this region, and local conditions are carried sixty to a hundred pounds ou clothes and squeezes the last but«on
which there I . much. t h . ~ « t o t , l t » , I ™ .lb l« to m iner.
as those vast interior regions, the ir,„
most varied, but oats and barley are Ills buck over rough, uubrokeu coun­ Into place they tell you that a thirteen
lands might be greatly r<- | summer, an event that Alaska w
riches of which apart from plucer gold duced I f not made a profit by the sale | tug eagcriy. '1 hto.j»nu
being successfully grown. Umothy try can only Imagine that. <*'‘° und Inch tnpe w ill Just about meet around
flourishes, and the root crop to of high had to be broken aud cleared. 1 hen It her wasplike body.
are still but guessed at-
of the tim ber as a byproduct.
c.
I mg of a new , g
t
had to he prepared for sowing, and
Almost every foot o> C o rd o v a ,
I N K
On K enai peninsula, aloug the line . f ,-gre«». has h lth u to toe
excellence.
the old methods of Swedeu and the
streets had either to be blasted out of
Sporting Notes.
I n a lr n
P p n t r i l l Tll’ l
r ; il x l t L ..... ..........
T llC (It* V P lo p IllC U t O I till® UH *>
Found Many Fine Farms.
United States even were useless Mar
solid rock, cut out of four feet or more
■‘I have been astonished at tbe
tlu
began
w
ith
potutoea
and
failed.
of mushy tundra or built over the
A Columbia university graduate has
■mount of farming under way around
v
r
x
-
j
r
:
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.
,h .
Hto results were watery cnril‘* tu” J donated a >2.500 ttfty-boraepowec
tuudra. T he' main streets. In P,nces
Seward. 1 h«d expected practically
of the potato of commerce, l i t bad coaching launch for the use of Coac
cut through Alrtrtji feet of WLL 1» -oth­ every mile of the roud's extension to-
none, and Instead I find half a dozen
- Ih e road to »
vot his seeds from Seattle, and lie
ers had to l»e built up as much, lb e
flourishing ranches on a commercial ba­ tried again and failed agalm Then be Jim Rice In his work with the New
wnr,l the M utai,o .lta coal
Th. '»'"hl, o ' " e
'j ,' ru„ uu, . t tid e « ,
cross streets climb a steep Irregular v a lu , o f t h l. .u p p lj . f pulp wood " [
M
[,.h , X
I. only oue sis and dozens of home gardens. Pota­ began to farm with hto head. He pn> York college crews,
Cambridge. Kugland. has engaged a
toK*k hill Over all there waa heavy American te rrlto r, and t h . practical.,I- , h r,
line c r » - toes of first quality are being grown In ceeded to educate hto to'tatoes a«»d
Belgian rowing crew as a result of
lty of utilizing It was Bret pointed out | t„. a k -n t Mile
.
between the two half a dosen neighborhoods, excellent
timber.
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.
tench them to grow respectably. Ahis
It to typical of Alaska aud the Alas­ by Levi Chubbuck of the department
hsvlng ttie Grand Challenge cop for
turnips grow freely, and there seeraa could only be done by growing and re-
the Copper H t r
Ml,es
kans who have built and are making
of agriculture, who visited the region .„ tn e gl.u » ’
nt thi8 point no difficulty with beets, carrots, rad­ seeding. «Aon he hud real potatoes eight oared crews lifted three times
Cordova- (hat these difficulties should last summer. Still more recently Benn i " It has ton u neves«« J t
ishes. beans, pens and lettuce. Cab-
by crews from that couutry.
f
iin
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begnn to sell them.
nuuu a LOOP foot bridge of un
have been so lightly regarded and so Iasi BUIUHim.
„ - - . -J
a,..
nraan » II. , to build
bare and cauliflower are a surprising aud
Cultivation wan n problem, foe with- I I tv ^ l^ ra ’-field. Cambridge. Mas*., was
valiantly met. In her first year of life tor Georg*-J? Baird o f Canada went lu urecedentcd strength and construction ■access In some localities. 1 believe
first Utilized for football lu 1892; wh**‘'
to the Matanuska coal fields and was
resist the Ice flows. Just above the this list can be extended almost lndetl
the baby town lias been making »u h
a se, ret practice field was iski mit
greatly Impressed by the vast area of
ad
this
problem,
however.
In
hto
own
Improvements as usually begin to be pulp woods a« well as the sptoml.l lirl(,ge is „ tokellke widening of the nltely w ith careful selection of varie­
patient way. He built himself n hand Games were uot played on Boldlers
river Into which the three mile front of
planned when a city has reached the
field by the varsity uulll 1896-
grazing lauds they stood on. H e pre­ chil(,s glacier volleys greal. berg" all ties a study of soli requirements and '„ „ b i n . ...d |,u,hcd It b l.n .cl( » t
ho.000 mark and feels the weight of
Spokane ». M. C. A. offers a hand
W c M ake
SPELL F o r Y O U at P rice »
dicts the rapid settlement of thl« re summer long. In winter thisHake Is acclimatisation by selective breeding. nrodlgous labor. Later, when be bad
wealth. She to* «till In swaddling
The pdsalbllltles are still practically secured a dog team, he broke them to some trophy for the most
So L o w " T h e y W ill A s t o n is h Y o u
glon
by
farmer«
and
cattlemen.
clothes, ragged, unkempt, nnflnlshed.
frozen several feet deep. At the pres
nnknown. but we do know that they
lets'w ho to a member ot the aw w ••
"
C o m . . n d C « . T h „ . . t . n . r H . . d , Y o u H . v e Deen N . e d . n . So L o n , but lusty w ith youth. I h e rapidity of
ent time we ore running trains over are far greater than most people even haul tbe cultivator. It
m that «lty this year. Ir e «
TONS OF ALASKA COPPER- the Ice on •temporary tracks, so tba here In Alaska Imagine. Borne of the tnak for he was alone There was no tlon
her growth to amazing. In the year
strength. s|M*ed, ,„<1urance co„rd nstr
track Will be continuous to the end of most promising parts of this area hired m a n -ju s t Ole himself aud the
she hus houaed a thousand souls, built
ability «ml physical stature will de
churches, schools, clubs, warehouses Report of Geologist Brooks Show’ the Hnc until the spring breakup. The have not been tried at all. and the dogs
clde the couipetlttoo.
Enormous
Yield
This
V
*
*r
.
Decided
on
Garden
Truck.
three
bridge
piers
have
hnd
a
severe
and simps that would be creditable lu
most successful tests have generally
“The season of mining In Alaska li i* | -ten this summer The Ice flow, ns can been In the least likely locations.
a large city. She has fitted herself
Finding himself so close to 8 «r0 * n
Law Points.
been
a
prosperous
oue,”
says
AIfr.
fi
be
imagined,
is
tremendous
’ih
e
river
with elec-trig ligh ts water supply,
“ Regarding climatic con dlt,° " * 1 tng community. M arlin saw that In
I
I
Brook«,
geologist
In
charge
of
the
I h deep and sw ift and the force of the have been somewhat surprised. Vt th­ garden produce there would be a mnr-
sewers and a telephone system aud
A »radenmrk n. t»eki In <»"> *z rrt
“ ’¡ ¡ ¡ ¡ . . T S
Alaska work of the United States g<o- Mg bergs afloat on It nothing short of in a thousand feet of sea level In fairly k .t, and he * *
developed a complete municipal orgau
Alexander versus Kentucky I 1" 1” ’*
n crL under enltlearion
In
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nation. She has also attracted to h er loglcnl survey, who has Just return -I terrific. To resist this we have sunk open conntry
r a w in g —«•<»• *•
our piers forty to sixty
w
self two newspapers, ench of w b,^h to Washington from hto annual
shorter than In the mountain region of hto work he had trouble with, hto seeds. let, aud Warehouse «-omp«ny tK y.i. tio.
Nes ertl Hutel to B ufine« Center, Banks and Depot-
rock, building them of "oHd concr * ’
8 W. 760. 21 L. K. A. <N » »•
receives a dally cable service from the around die circle” In the fa r n-tth
New Hampshire.
Pens are ■« «J Those from the States would not grow
be propertj w.thln «he meaning of a
„ „ „ fo rc e d by heavy steel rails set up­ planted In May. and danger from frost well In a soli where there were
outside, giving the cream of the west. “ W hile dry weather and
inches of rainfall lu a year, and so ho condtltutkMial provision requiring •»«
world s news, and special service from unfavorable condltloua have curl tea right a foot apart In the concrete I he Is considered over after the first fe
gviuduy D in n e r
cents.
piers are further Protw; ,edi|^ y J2L. days in June. In the fall the first had to educate hto turnips his <cauli­ property to be «ax«9d-
ench of the Alaskan cities connected the placer gold production at
flower. carrots, cabbages and the rest
Under a atatute providing that when
by wire or w ireless-Rew ard. Valdes. moat of the other camps h a v e Mr Heaviest kind of concrete and steel f r i t s are rarely before th *
T a b le th e B e s t th e H a r k e t w i l l A ffo rd
maintained or Increased their «» I t
guards.,also sunk to » ^ ^ k and. are week In September. It la true_ tfcat the to grow In damp soil.
■ decree of divorce to Kr>p«*d
Fairbanks. Jnneau. Skagway. Kctehl
“ Figures of gold output are n"t yet ■rt where there are burs in the rl
The government maintains exp*
court shall make such order
sum mer, -re cooler than In ,th e n o rth ­
kan, 8t. Michael’s aud Nome.
available, but It seems proto"''’’
thnt deflect the biggest of the bergw ern states and on t h . Im m edlst* coast m rnt stations but these were a n d s re tbe alimony of tbe wife a* under the
Region of Opportunitio«.
They are ninety feet through from end have more rain, but there 1s com pen- too few; also they are only
clrcnmatance. a.kl nature ot
,e*
These are some of tfyrdova’s external the production for 11MH» w
stations, and the real work: mmrt h j shall be rresobehle It to held » » J * * *
tween nineteen and twenty n; -lion
gat Ion In the fifteen to eighteen hours
lndk ations of vitality.
Even more
to end
„ rs u s Ecker (OktoL UH
of sunshine dally and the continuous T r a S : He arHa ,.fnadmhPer bu.R
significant to the spirit of her people, dollars. The low price of c»pi>'
Bridg« Duilding In Alaska.
L. It A. <N. »>• <21.
the dauntless adventure loving, ebaace not enrourngod mining ot th» ■
•T he steel superstructure of the daylight for nearly three months.
house*' barn nnd outbuildings. He cuts may decree alimony to a w ife again*'
but about half a dozen pro|«*rllc
ip-
“The exact area of the tillage lands
taking spirit o f the foreloper. They
bridge we hope to have In place early
M . h a y -to n . of « - b y hand and ricks wb<\iu a divorce to granted.
are opportunist* all and wide eyed to ped o r. during 1909- U n,,pP'
next fall by which time the line will in the Sushltna group of valleys as an It a lo L . He flnds t,rae fOrntfl. ° WeHe
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example
generally
applicable,
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the opportunity at their door.
»nd these are hto amusements. He
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Ravanga In 8i«M .
Impossible even to estimate as much built an incubator and to raising chh k-
As I Save said. Cordova's reason for the year w ill exceed 4.000.000 |>
Chit inn to the copper min
I
The druggist danced and chortled «1
of
the
territory
to
uninhabited
and
still
being Is the Copper R iver and North
U» be thé «rat branch of the road corm
PU,
and
to
housing
them
in
.
In«
» h a r» th» poop!» »top
O n. Light In Two Thou.snd M,
lbe bottles danced on the shelve*.
western rnllroad.
W ithout the rail­
nlete<l and It should be open from the because of Its undev.loped statejrath- house equipped with a
7
“W h a fa u p F asked the soda «‘lei
For the A " ! time lb e great
■
road h r Uie hope of It »he would
•astern to the southern terminus about cr than bec.ua. It to
hit of work on the place—every la t “Have you l»een taking sometbtugT
There to a total area of about 2.500
'bulckly cease to exist. I l e r neighbor,
ono year from now.
“N6." gurgled tba druggist cwtail--
square mile« along the western edge
Kntalla-on-the-8en. which bloesomed
“Another branch »»egiunlng at
B| . b .n .lftl
n . I» «
ally. “But do yo« remeraboK trben the
of Kenai peninsula bordering Cook in
when tw o railroads made a false start Though o n. of
38
of
the
main
line
on
the
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wsier pipe, were (Vosen tort w in te r r
le t the greater part of which to probe work of the exp» rlment
tl,c
, Bmnm*r, Ï and running about f o r ty - « i n ­
from there, still lives, though In great­ stormy coasts
the farm, «nd to him to due the sne-
Electric Call Bells.
ably available and some small valley«
• Yes But w b * f -
J
cult of navigation, even m
E
b
c
trlo
L
ig
h
t*
ly
reduced
circumstance«,
In
th
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hope
to
tho
Bering
river
coal
Arid
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Rivai» H egt.
reKa of farming «n the B’’«
"Tha plumber who Azed »he«« ha*
In the interior o f the peninsula,
S Ü - r . . h ..
"o
of their return.
▼eyed,
«nd
a
good
deal
of
th
,he rnllroad has .mm. to h»m. and M |nst brought ■ Prear rtpf loo fo be Ailed
now. The first light to
roughly eat 1 mats the rest, which I
M eanwhile the million« from below until
Hlnehlnbrook at on^of^the M .ire n c « b built. This branch, con d tor
can ship hto Pr'* ,nct, \ ,D( ?°rd^ 7 « S
eludes the Knlk Arm region and Ma
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X ’leveland len der
are pouring through Cordova In sup­
in a short tithe and the Alaska
tanuska valley to the
tb* even across the s-ipod to Cordova sad
plies and material« and cash for the m a n i’ T th e r places where
* ud made available for our Alksksn
C h ild r e n
, Yentna to t b . w w tw .r d , the main Valdez, and he to well to do.
A ll O R & N T ra in s Stop at F ro n t Door
forcing through o f the railroad to the
and the people of th e le rrlto ry
Rusbttna valley and sma'ler«trlbubarto.
slirnnls
are almost E|lns
as
gently
Fought
Twenty
Hour«
•
Day.
FOR F lITC S tR 'X
famous
Bonanza
mine
and
neighbor­
fog
«1
goal«
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wi,<re
R a ilw a y T ic k e t Office in the Lobby.
present I running northward far Into the In
ing propertl«» In the region around the needed, notably Cape
; d a y . , furth er delay.
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bead of the ChlUna r iv e r .„ T h * build­
terior at. say. 2-5«’ »<>»»»!
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wwn
ing of this road to on* Of t h * most because of fogs and a long.
T . N . C R O F T O N , P r o p r ie to r .
might w r e e d thfik
through Wood* canyon for twenty
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daring railroad enterprise* since th.» X t Otb.r IKbto "»•
Important Statement by Govern­
ment Agent Just Returned.
fflCJROPH ARM ACV
FARMING
BATTLE ALONE.
went Into WlidBrnsss and
Made a Ten Strike.
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