Douglas Island news. [volume], September 18, 1907, Image 1

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either in skirt, suit or coat, because they are the very
latest styles and materials. The workmanship on these
garments is the very best.
The "WOOLTEX" Marchioness Coat is a beautiful style and we
have them in chitfon broadcloath, wool taffetas, and munish tweeds.
Prices rauging from
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The "WOOLTEX** Skirts are stylish and up-to-date, made of voiles
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LODGE DIRECTORY.
K. of P.
The North Slur Lodge, No. 2,
T K. of P.? meets every
' THURSDAY EVENING
> at 8 o'clock.
in Odd Fellows Hall
KD. ANDREWS. C. C.
L. S. FERRIS, K. of R. ft S.
Visiting Knights :\re cordially invited to ttt
tend.
Douglas Aerie, No. 117* ^)- E.
Meets, 2d and 4th Sundays
at 1:30 p. m.
at Co;r;rin?* Hi.ll.
All visiting: Brothers invited to attend.
ELMER E. SMITH, W. P.
JOllK STOFT. Secretary.
Aurora Encampment No. i
meets at Odd Fellows' hall first and third
Saturdays, at S p.m.
Brothers of the Royal Purple are cordially
invited.
I). F. HAWKINS, C. P.
HUGH MCRAE. Scribe
Northern Light Rebekah Lodge No. i
meets at Odd Fellows' hall second and fourth
Saturdays.
Visitors are cordially invited.
MRS. IDA WHIPPLE. X. G.
MRS. GERTRUDE LAUGHLIN. Sec'v
PROFESSIONAL.
Harry C. DeVighne, M. D.
GENERAL PRACTICE
OFFICE
Over Elliott & Smith's Pharmacy
'Phone 4 Office Hours i to 5 p. m.
Residence, Sans Souci B'ld'g Phone 4 6.
DR. F. L. GODDARD
Physician and Surgeon
TELErilOXE NO.. 3
DOUGLAS - - ALASKA
DR. C..M. HARRISON
DENTIST
Hunter Block, between Front
and 2nd Sts. Dousrlas City
'Phone, Douglas 3-8.
I.J.Sharick
I WATCHES, DIAMONDS,
JEWELRY
JUNEAU ALASKA
Alaska? Some Misconceptions
and the Truth.
15 v Lloyd \Y. McDowell in Jamestown
Magazine.
Nearly every visitor to the -James
town Exposition seems to have some
>sort of au idea of Alaska; an impress ion
left from reading the stories of thu
struggles of the early prospectors, the I
| pioneers, so to speak, of this great dis
trict. Their knowledge'of the resources
of tho country shows au evident lack j
of study of the possibilities of one of
Uncle Sam's richest possessions, and
the popular opiuiou of Alaska of those
unacquainted and unadvised is that it
is s mighty iceberg, with zero weather
the year around.
Wheu you inform your visitors that
grain higher than your head is raised
400 miles north of the Arctic circle and
refer them to the Alaska exhibit of the
United States Government at James
town for proof to bear you out in this
statement, they seem to be amazed, and
their iutere&t iu/ the district increases
at on<;e. Of the 329,529,000 acres of
ground comprising Alaska, more than
229,000,000 lie in tho temperate zone
and are capable of agricultural devel
opment. In fact, the commissary de
partment of the United States Army
has reached the conclusion that it is no
longer necessary to ship canned veget
, ables to Alaska for the use of the troops
stationed at tho various military posts
j because so many kinds of vegetables
are raised there that it is possible fur
the troops, at nearlj* all of tho stations,
to be supplied with fresh vegetables ail
the year.
s And all this ia tho land of perpetual
snow aud ice!
A careful btudy of the Alaska agri
cultural exhibit at the Jamestown Ex
i position will bear out the ottlcers of
the commissary department in their
contention that vegetables and grains
of all kinds are plentiful iu Alaska.
Here are to be seen exhibits of peas,
carrots, beets, potatoes, cabbuge, aud,
in fact, all sorts of garden vegetables.
Wheat, oats, rye aud barley thrive ex
cellently under the climatic conditions
of the territory. To encourage aud im
provJ agricultural pursuits in the ter
ritory the government some years ago |
established several experimental sta
tions and the results have been satis- j
factory.
At the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Expo
sition iu Seattle iu 1909 the Alaska ag- 1
ricultural exhibit will be one of the
leading features of the Alaska build
iug. There tho resources of the dis
trict will be brought to the attention of
the world on a larger scale thau ever
attempted before.
, Alaska uot only holds out every in
ducement to the home seeker, but is
one of the richest gold regions. All
known minerals are found there and
the yield of furs is greater than in any
| part of the Uuitod States. Seattle will
soon bo the fur mart of the country,
owing to the enormous shipments of
furs from Alaska and Siberia passing
: through the city. It is asserted that
Alaska will eventually control the cop
: per market of the world, since the visi
[ ble supply is so great. At this time the
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Guggeuheim interests have M. K. Rog
ers at iChtalla, on the Western coast,
building a standard gauge railroad to
tap the copper mines. An instance that
the moneyed men of the East have
their eye? on Alaska is evidenced by
t lie fact that tin* above interests are
spending 33, 000, 000 in the building of a
breakwater at Katullu to provide dock
ing facilities for ocean liners. At Sew
ard the Alaska Central is reaching
through the fertile valleys headed for
the Fairbanks miuing district, a rival
of the Klondike.
The question of fuel is settled when
government experts recently pro
uouuced the coal deposits to be of bi
tuminous, semi-anthracite and anthra
cite, equal to the coal Holds of Virginia
and Pennsylvania. Great oil fields have
been found on Comptroller Bay and
the output, although small at this time
has been pronounced to be of the high
est grade. Then the snlmou industry
alone has reached an anuual valuation
of $10,000,000. Alaska is also rich in
4itnber and the latest figures on the to
tal gold output show that it easily
reaches above 6100,000,000.
This* briefly gives an idea of the size
ami resources of Alaska, which the
1009 Exposition in Seattle will exploit
together with the Yukon territory and
British Columbia, both adjoining Alas
ka aud enjoying the same rapid growth.
The minds of ^ great many people
seem to be confused regarding the way
to reach Alaska from Seattle and few
realize that the class of passenger
steamships plying in northern waters
are vessels especially built for the
trade and compare favorably with the
best types of steamships operating
along the Atlantic coast. Southeastern
Alaska is the mecca for thousauds of
excursionists every summer and the
tide of tourisfctf travel is fast being
turned from Europe to the Pacific
Coast.
Each summer excursion parties spend
from eight to ten days visiting the to
tem polo villages and glaciers along
the Alaskan coast and the Pacific Coast
Steamship Company built tho steam
ship Spokane to be used as an exclu
sive excursion steamship. The voyage
from Seattle to Skagway covers 1,000
miles aud is often compared to tho
Thousand Islands of the St. Lawrence,
since the vessels pass through inland 1
waters throughout the trip.
The White Pass & Yukon Railroad
has its sea terminus at Skagway and
the rido to tho summit of the White
Pass mountains is one of the grandest
rail trips known. In June, 1905, Hon.
Joseph G. Cannon, Speaker of tho
House of Representatives, and a party
of Congressmen and Senators made tho
trip from Seattle to Skagway and
thence to Lake Bennett ovor the White
Pass liue. Upon his return Speaker
Cannon, iu an interview in tho Seattle i
Daily Times, said:
"1 have been surprised and pleased
with the grandeur and beauty of the
scenery along the inland sea channels,
which form tho course of the voyage to
Alaska. It seems to me that here iu
this thousand miles are gathered more
pleasing mountaiu and sea scenery
than can be found anywhere else on
this continent, or perhaps in the
world."
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And so Alaska holds out opportuni
ties for everyone. It is ?i count ry not
alone for the miner and prospector, but
for the merchant, farmer and railroad
builder, and :i fairyland for the tourist
on pleasure bent.
One of the great highways of Alaska
is the Yukon river, more than 2,500
miles in length. In the summer months
the vessels of the British Yukon Navi
gation Company ply between White
horse and Dawson, carrying thousands
of tons of provisions and supplies to
the interior. From Dawson the steam
er lines extend to Fairbanks and be
tween Dawson and St. Michael the
North American Transportation &
Trading Company iias its fleet of river i
packets handling tho freight shipments
for tho mining districts.
June 1 always witnesses the depar-1
ture of the ocean steamships from So- 1
attle for the Nome gold fields. During
the winter months the ice lloes from
the Arctic close in the port and navi- 1
gatiou is at an end. The steamer lines,
all pioneers in the Alaskan trade, are
factors in the progress of Alaska 3r:d
the best vessels in the ileet of the
White Star Steamship Company, North
western and Pacific Coast Steamship
Companies are placed in the Behring
Sea trade during the months of June,
Jul}*, August, September and October
of each year. The service to Valdez,
Seward, Katalla and points on the West
ern coast is furnished by two big lines,
the Alaska Coast Company and the
Northwestern Steamship Company,
successors of the Alaska Commercial
Company During a period of twenty
years this company alone paid the Un
ited States government nearly $7,000,
000 for its rental of the Pribylof islands
and a tax on all seal skins taken. This
sum nearly amounts to the total pur-!
chase price of ?7,200,000 paid tor Alaska i
to Russia in 1S67. The betterment of
transportation facilities has been in
keeping with the general progress of
the country and at the present time the
shipyards of Seattle are turning out
big steel vessels, some fpr the passen
ger trade, while others are great freight
ers built to carry supplies to the dis
trict and return ladeu with valuable
shipmeuts of ore, salmon and other 1
exports of the North.
Prominent men in every walk of life,
government officials and tourists from
every part of the globe, havo visited <
Alaska and all return with many words
of praise for the district. There is such
a fascination about the Alaskan voyage
that few persons make the trip who do !
not express a desire to return at some
later period. It was after a trip to Al
aska that Hon. William Sulzer, of New
York, was led to pay the following
tribute to Alaska in his speech before
Congress:
"Alaska with her population of near
ly 100,000; Alaska with her splendid
and invigorating climate; Alaska with
her beautiful scenery, her magnificent
distances, her towering snow-capped
mountains, her majestic rivers, her
fertile fields, her great industries of
fish and furs and timber and agricul
tural possibilities; Alaska with her
immense wealth in gold and copper
and silver and lead and iron and coal-p
mineral wealth beyond the dreams o
the most imaginative person in the
world; Alaska with her brave and loyal
God-fearing and patriotic- American
citizens; Alaska with her churches, and
?-whools, her splendid institutions, her
towns and villages; Alaska under the
blue dome of the Union sky and in tho
shadow of the midnight -nn; Alaska
with her incomparable glaciers, with
her great harbors and innumerable
lakes and countless cascades; Alaska,
in t lie naiue of all these ar.d more, in
the name of this generatian and the
glory of our institutions, I ask why you
should not have the right of home rule;
of local self-government, - and all the
rights of the territories?"
And E. Burton Holme.*-, famous as a
lecturer and author, in speaking of Al- ?
ark a, says!
"The Vosemite is beautiful; the
Grand Canyon of Arizona is colossal;
but Alaska, with its fjords aud moun
tains, glaciers and rivers, possibilities
and distances, is all of these.
"It i3 not only colossal, but wonder
ful and beautiful as well."
A late testimonial comes from G. Bie
Ravudal, formerly American Consul at
Dawson City. In a recent interview in
the Yukon World, published at Daw'
son, Mr. Kavndal says:
"It strikes me that this fascinating
Northland will before long loom up as
an attraction to tourists equal to jSwit- -
Zet land and Norway. The inside pas
sage between Seattle and Skagway,
practically all the way, presents scen
ery of natural beauty and grandeur and
picturesqueness only equalled, not
surpassed, however, by the fjords of
! Norway. Between Skagway and the
White Pass you revel in the delights of
Switzerland. Sailing down the Yukon
in luxurious steamers, with abundant
opportunity for hunting, fishing, ex
ploitation and scientific research, is au
experience never to be forgotten."
Aud Alaska does rival Switzerland
and Norway in it3 scenery aud the Al
askan voyage will be one of the feature
side trips to be offered to the visitors
to the Alaska-Yukon-Facific Exposition
ia 1909.
Did not do miracles.
A little town near Provideuce boasts
a church whose pastor, besides being
an eloquent preacher, is a man of stal
wart proportions. At one of his even
ing prayer meetings the services were
disturbed by two young men who audi
bly scoffed at everything they saw or
heard. Finally the pastor remoustrated
with them on their behavior, and asked
them why they attended the meeting.
"We came, expecting to see miracles
performed," impudently replied one of
j the rascals. Leaving the desk and
walking quietly down the aisle, the
pastor seized one after the other by the
collar, and, as they disappeared out of
I the door, remarked: "We don't per
j lorm miracles hore, but we do cast out
devils." ? Boston Globe.
The closing down of the Guggenheim
operations at Dawson has thrown 2,400
men out of employment. The Hurry in
I money circles is said to be not respon
i sible for the close down which is at
tributed to the inability of the company
to secure material for carryiugson the
work of construction.