The Alaska prospector. [volume], May 01, 1902, Image 1

About The Alaska prospector. [volume] (Valdez, Alaska) 1902-1908

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VOLUME 1, NO. 12. VALDEZ, ALASKA, THURSDAY, MAY 1, 1902. OFFICIAL CITY PAPER.
NSh BROS.
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OUR PRESENT ASSORTMENT OF
Choice Groceries
INCLUDES THE FAMOUS
HOLLY Flour, MONOPOLE Brand Canned Fruits and Vegetables, HEINZ’
Celebrated Pickles and Preserves, CROSSE & BLACKWELL’S Chow
Chow, GOLD SHIELD Coffee, SCHILLING’S BEST Tea, WALDORF’S
Canned Vegetables and SILVER SHIELD Dried Fruits.
We Recognize
that the day
of
LARGE
PERCENTAGE
has passed.
And that the SI ( (T.SSh l I, MERCHANT is the (me who does a large volume of business on
a small margin of profit.
Acting upon this principle we have marked our entire stock to show u less advance on cuet
than would he (tossihlc with a smaller volume of trade.
Buyers, therefore, who would consult their interests will understand the importance of in
specting our stock and comparing prices before purchasing elsewhere.
Merit will tell
The truth of this saying has been proven
by the wonderful success of
CRARY’S COMPOUND COUGH SYRUP
i In :i!l cases of Cough's Colils,etc. It is our als
solutely genuine |<re)iarat*iw) tliat
Has merit.
Huy a hot tie of it now. Try it, and if not absolute
lv satisfactory to you. the money will be refunded.
THE VALDEZ PHARMACY
H.T. WHITLEy. GEO. J. LOVE
Merchants Cafe!
AMD
Bakery.
/WEALS AT ALL HOU^S. OPEM ALL MIGHT
I WE ARE
■ Kquiped with special tools
jand skill for doing the most
intricate Watch Work. Dia
mond Setting and Manufac
turing Nugget Jewelry of
every description.
Send Watches from <sini|>s
l»y carriers tir by mail. They
will be promptly fixed.
Our glasses fit right, stick
tight, feel easy, are light and
restore perfect sight. Eyes
tested free.
W. C STULL,
Exjiert Watchmaker, Manufacturing
Jeweler and (Graduate Optician.
Y/lLbU
WILL GRAM STREETS.
The Council Have Ordered Some
of the Streets Filled In
General Clean-up.
The city council held a meeting
last Monday night at the school
house and iir the aliscnce of the
mayor, councilman Me Hie occupied
the chair.
Mr. Lilias. Crawford liaving<pial
itied as a councilman, took his.-eat.
The city health officer was in
structed to notify the owner of dis
eased dogs to keep them off the
streets, or such animals would fie
killed and the owners proceeded
against, as provided by law. He
was also instructed to notify tls
property owners to put tlieir lots
in a sanitary condition immediate
ly.
The street committee was in
structed to proceed at once to till
in and grade the depression at the
corner of McKinley street and
■Broadway and also grade and put
in shape Alaska avenue from Mis
Kinlev street to tfie approach of
the wharf. They were a Iso author
ized to do any needed work on
other streets at their discretion.
The eoiuieil will hereafter meet
at tla* city full 1 and will proliahly
havc tiie building completed in tin*
near future.
New Steamship Line.
A new steamship comjiuny hue
hit'll organ hut 1 inScattle with E. J.
Linileii iomerlr of tlie Bertha as
general manager. They will run
1 the steamer Chico, a 540 ton vessel
to Valdez and Cook Inlet jaunts
once a month. The steamer leaves
Seattle on tlie 5th of each month.
11 is not yet known who the loeal
agent will lie.
Bromide of Quinine Capsule*
cure a cold in one day at Valdez
Pharmacy.
CAPTAIN HEALY SAYS THAT
THERE IS
S3.000.000 on Deposit
With Which to Start Work on
Railroad fron Valdes to
Eagle.
There arc many rumon* of rail
roads for Alaska in the late Seattle
l»a|ars. and from |>rm-nt indica
tions work of some kind will soon
he commenced mi tlie Valdez and
Eagle noil.
Captain John J. Hoalv lias just
returned from Europeand an inter
view with the P.-i. said:
4,Tlnre arc several well-founded
companies now in the held, with
t 1m* intention of building railroads
through Central Alaska.” said ('apt.
llialey. "and there is no doubt that
there will lie a great deal of rail
road building in Alaska for many
years hence. There is room in that
extensive territory for almost any
numlicr of companies to*operate.
One of th«‘ most favored routes pro
jected is from Valdez tw Eagle.
This would open for development
wluit 1 U-lieveis one of the riehest
mining districts in the whole world.
“Two or tlim* companies have
selected this route, hut I supjMtse it
will lie taken hv the one that begins
operations tirst. Tliccompany with
which i am somcwliat indirectly
connected is in the luinds of Mr.
Ahliott of Manchester. England,
who is now in tluit city carrying on
negotiations. 1 luid a eonferenee
with him in Chicago a few weeks
ago. and with Mr. HeJm. tlieex|iert
of the company. I understand
tluit this eomjianv luis IKMUNIO
deposited in a Seattle hank with
which to make a start, and I do not
look forward to much delay. The
intention is to complete the road
a distance of almut -itM) miles, aid
as the Tuiiaua valley develops to
ex total it westward down the Yukon
tlu-iioc in a northwesterly direction
to Nome and eventually to connect
with tlie Siberian roaiL
The Mr. AhlHit and Helm men
tioned aliovc are memliers of the
Euglisli syndicate. wldeh is re|s
resentod here hv Mr. MilLard.
$50,000 Appropriation.
Major Abercrombie Recommends
Increased Expenditures
on Trail.
There is some probability that
Utwoen #.">0.1100 an«l #75,(XX) will
Ik- expended on the gov-emjueiit
trail this year, which will Ik- of
va-t U-netit to the all-AiiM-rioan
mail route as well as to the miners
ami jwospeetors in getting through
the country.
Major W. K. Aliererombie lues at
hist got his wits together aod rco
isLBfju iidcd to the War IH-partiucnt
tliat they expend laO.UUO in addi
tion to the #2l',tXX) left over from
the former appropriation for this
work.
Major Aliererombie made this
request jK-rsonally to the heads of
! the department, showing them that
this mail route was the most suc
cessful in Alaska, and that the
work tliat had already Ik-cb done
had ]>rnved of much assistance to
miners and prosjKi-tors as well as
to mail carriers and should Ik-kept
: in repair and giKKl order. It is to
' lie hoped tliat his recommendation
will he complied with and that
UiisiuiKctant piece «f work will lie
kept in repair.
i Blix Ibis ji st received a full line
of miners and travelers loots and
shoes at reasonable prices at his
i CojijK-r Center store.
In HATrtAi.
! PINK DENNISON RETURNS
PROM
I
Bad Weather, Poor Trail. Dogs
Played Out. Man Frozen
to Death.
Mr. M. F. Dennison returned on
j the Ncwjuwt from the Westward,
where lie and C. I). .Shaw havclieen
engaged in carrying the Katmai
St. Michael niaii. They left here
Dee. 12, and readied Katmai Dec.
2<». The trip should have been
made in four days hut they encoun
tered heavy storms and were thank
ful to get through at all. Katmai
is the worst place on the whole1
western mail run for stunners to
, land either in summer or winter.
Messrs. Shaw and Dennison hail
hard luck from the Isginning. The
lout overturned in the surl landing,
and they had to stay in Katmai
several days on account of terrible
storms and cold weather. For sev
eral days aftiT they startl'd thev
encounter**! storms, overflows and
1 deep snow.
Mr. Slr.tw froze four fingers nn«l
the* native guide froze his face.
Tlicir dogs gave out and they wine
compelled to purchase others front
tin* natives. They had all kinds
of weather. Nice surnnuT .daw
when it would rain, and the snow
and iee would melt; and days and
nights wlan the thermometor
would fall to oO degrees helow zero.
| Some nights they would have to
sleep on the snow and others with
Siwashes, and Dennison says that
the large namU-rs of "frater
nal delegates'” they would Meet was
surprising, and they took such a
liking to them that tiny weredifli
1 cult to shake. Tiny are some
what larger titan a California flea
hut itot quite as large as a humble
hee_
They were treated well by na
1 tives and tlie few white people they
i met. Mr. Dennison says the Mo
ravian missionaries they ntet
treated them royally,
i Tiny got one mail through to
I Xushegak and Betltcl. From there
it was taken on by other carriers.
The trip is-a very luird one and
1 cannot possibly lie made with one
| team of dogs. Several relays will
have to. Ik- made to get the ntail
; through. Many men and teams
■ had to lie ciiuptooed this winter.
• and only sueoeeded in gifting three
mails rut from St. Mieltael to Knt
! mai and two mails from Katin mi
to St. Michael. The third mail
Was not landed at all from tlie
1 steaimr, and Mr. Sliaw who awaits
j it at Betliel. will not knmv imtil
navigation ojx-ns in Bristol hay,
that the mail is not coming.
Mr. Dennison reports that a mim
in'r of iwrsons have been froaen
badly this winter in the Kusko
; kwim ■country. Dr. Komig, the
! physician at lla-Betliel mission has
; been kejit busy taking <£ fingers
1 and toes.
One man liv the name of ted gar
WalUfs was frozen so hadly that
, he died. He was found in a dc
' serted Indian imt by Mr. Carter.
; one of the mail carriers, hadlv froz
|en ami nearly starve<L Carter di
vkled Ids pruh with him hut the
]K»ir follow died lateral. Another
; man. name unknown, who was
; with a |>arty of prospectors who
called themselves the "Tailor Par
ty” as they were all tailors, left
his friends to look for their cabin.
Continued on Fourth Paj;e.
ON BKEMNERITES. BUT IT
DON’T STICK.
20 Cents toPan Struck
On Recently Discovered Creek in
Chittyna Section. News
from Golconda.
’»r Our ^ntUI ('vfri">pnii<lt'iil.
tioleonda, Ajiri-J IS- Bob Ful
kerson in company with a man by
name of Ben.nett .arrived in eamp
tiMlay. Binileft put his pun in hiit
pocket anil pot Boh to hack him,
then net to look for Fete Mona
han.
Bennet claimed he had lieen told
by a Si wash that Fete u censed him
of poinp into a cache liclonpinp to
Anderson, at tin mouth of Little
iBreJiinic. With his six-shooter and
Boh liehind him. he was poinp tn
make Fete cat his statements. Pete
positively refused to eat anything
excel* at regular meal Kmits.
By that time some other people
had collected, and Ben net luinded
the pun to Fulkerson, who flour
ished it around and said lie had
made a pun play stiek «ci Slate
•iir-ook last year, so hvik out fur Mk,
and tlie two hacked praeefnlly off
and went to their tent.
A meeting of the prosixx-tora was
calk*I. anti after some arguments,
a eommittee of two, consisting of
R. Heron and Max Reigler was ap
pointed to wiiit oil Rennet and Ful
kerson, to demand their gun and
an immediate apology to Monahan.
The demands of the otummittae
were complied with and jto;wu-'twice
more reigns supreme in the camp.
(-ioleonda, April 23- -Tlwre are
Itetween forty atml fifty people
bore.. Nearly all of them have
claims already staked. Most every
**ne has their lumlx-r cut ami is
neatly to commence making sluice
IxtXCS.
Mr. Mi Knight is making prepar
stions to work onti below discovery
on (toleomliL. Mr. Wheaton will
work A helow. Ha use anil party
4 helow. Harry Habile 1 ultove
discovery. Magmisoii turnl Ide dis
covery. King, Anderson, Dunton
anti Heron 2 ultove. Ms.-Lain, (iil
lisaiul Muckier 3ultevc. Monahan
anti Van Iderstine-fa'knve. Rant*
and Sweet A ultove. These are the
only ones tliat 1 know- nimut at
present. Most of the ultove men
tittnod claims ]ta<n fairly well.
Tluire axe ton jxtnple on the
Chittynn side tlic divide, they
nearly all have claims staked. tat
either Ranta creek or Moualian.
Not enough prnsjxtctiag has Ixten
tlittle oil either of the last named
creeks to say Itew tla-y will turn
out.
The I >iui nor creek so far on the
Uhittyna side of the rauge, is Am
erica* ereek. Twenty cents to the
jam is the liest taken out yet that I
know of. Out of sixty |»aiis taken
out hy myself, I did not draw *
single hlank.
Year other correspondent sent
out some i|U®tations last time, so I
will send a few now, to show the
.sentiment of tlte<fowL
Or. Kang -“How will I ever get
all my gold to Vahlez."
Dunton “llo you think it will
fc* safe for me to shoot all my gold
through the rapids at one time?"
John VanIderstein -“I willjiark
every ounce of mine out if it takes
ten years to do it."
Kanta did you say? Oh la; is
law.
Snltserilie for tlic Punsi-xcro*.