Ship Ahoy
When you are overhauling that boat
remember we are Strong on all
kinns of boat gear and supplies
Lights
Bells
Rope
Paint
Canvas
Oars
Anchors
Life Preservers
Valdez Bank & Mercantile Co., Inc.
PIONEER OUTFITTERS
A Business Luxury
A checking account is indeed a business necessity, and
he who tries to get along without one is at great disadvan
tage. It is not required that a person shall have a large bulk
of business in order to open an account. Professional men,
miners, and even many worn en, are running checking ac
counts. If you have fiever done business in this way and are
not familiar with the plan come lo us and we will get you
slarled- BANKING DEPARTMENT,
Valdez Bank & Mercantile Co., Inc.
SO Per Cent Discount
We are disposing of our large slock of undertaking poods,
consisting of best metallic-lined and plain caskets, also hard
wood coffins; also embalming by a licensed embalmer at 50
per cent, of our original price, which si about cost price.
VALDEZ BANK & MERCANTILE CO., Inc.
Edisoo Mazda Hdhf
I mm iii ■ ii.—... —
Alaska Water, Light & Tel. Co.
Phone 39
Puget Sound Fir Lumber
We Carry a Complete Assortment
Mining Timbers, Bunker At
and Stamp Mill Materials
Prices
Arctic Lumber Co.
Yards Foot of WAUL ST.
Offie# in
CRAWFORD BUILDING
Phono 214
Notloe of Forfeiture.
. .To Blarney Stevens: You are
hereby notified that there has
been expended during the year
101 i in labor on those certain
quartz claims known as the "Last
Chance," the "Last Chance No.
i," and the "Last Chance No. 2,"
situate, lying and being on 8houp
bay near the entrance thereof, in
the Valdez recording precinct.
Territory of Alaska, tho sum of
three hundred dollars ($300.00),
lawful money of tho United States,
tho amount required by law to
hold said claims for the year fol
lowing Ihe performance of the
annual labor; that said expendi
ture for labor, as aforesaid, was
made by Wm. Koch and Alex.
Nelson, the co-owners of said
claims. And unless within ninety
(00) days after the completion
of the publication of this notice,
to-wit: within ninety (00) days
after tho 10th. day of April, 1012,
you oontribytA#otic portion of tbe
oxpenrfhs afores&la'flYlntfftl
labor for said year, your interest
in said quart* claims will bo for
feited and become the property of
tho undersigned,, who are your co
ownert.
mdKf°K
Date first pub. Jan. 11, 1012.
Date last pub. April 11, 1012.
THE INDIAN.
The greatest or them til. The rol*
lowing: is a lift of the latest mod
els and prices. You can't buv this
machine any cheaper. All agents
have the same price.
, 4 to. p. single cylinder chain <or belt
drlye, $815.00.
.4 h. p. single cylinder, tourist
tropny. chain drive only, |965.0d.
4 h. p. single S. S. two speed, chain
drive only. #990.00.
'7 h. p. single cylinder, chain drive
only, »265.00.
7 h. p. twin cylinder, chain drive
only, tourist trophy, 1315.00.
7 to. p. twin cylinder, chain drive
on./rf ^tourist trophy, two speed,
Tandem attachment Tor carrying a
, passenger, *10 extra.
AL. WHITE, Agent.
New Wall Papers.
Just recoivod n large shipment
of wall papor on tbo Nprlbwest
orn. All Iho latent patterns. Now
bemfe opef>od, Oorflfc-lm «ffd
thorn. G/C.RUBoLPH.
Look I Look I Look I
Ladios and gents, black'and tan'
shoes cloaned and sbiped,, k Sqel
Johnnie, tho bootblack, Pioneer
Barber Shop.
MINER FAVORS
LEASING SYSTEM
Old Alaskan Says System Favors
Prospectors and Compels
Development
|
Anthony KIITiht, an old-linn*
Alaskan, writing to (lie Mining
ami Scientific Press, from Sul
phur, Nov., contributes tli«> f<>I—
lowing interesting communica
tion on the subject of the "leas
ing" system as it will apply to
Alaska:
The letter from Julius Thomp
son, and the comment thereon
by H. Foster Bain, both appear
ing in your issue of February 17,
have aroused a desire on my part
to add some remarks to the dis
cussion of th«' contemplated
change of the national mining
laws from the viewpoint of a
prospector.
Mr. Thompson contends that,
in order to promote I tie further
development of Alaska, the pros
pector must be given the utmost,
facilities for acquiring mineral
lands, and that it' lie cannot ob
tain title In these, and if he
should be forced to lease from the
government, lie will eease to
prospect, and mine in Alaska. I
do not agree with him in any of
these content ions. 1 have some
personal knowledge of the special
conditions retarding operations
in that country, gained during
a six years' residence there, he
ginning in the days preceding the
Klondike boom, when all the dis
advantages of that, remote reg
ion existed to a considerably
greater extent than at the pres
ent time. "Miner's Law" ruled
the land then, and it may be safe
ly assumed that. regulations
adopted hy a small body of men
for their own government express
with tolerable accuracy the dom
inant ideas and wants of the in
dividuals. They invariably lim
ited individual holdings by cut
ting down the size of claims, by
allowing only one claim in a
district to each person (except
the discoverer of new deposits,
who could hold two claims), by
not tolerating locations by proxy,
and in a number of other ways.
If prospectors who have every
thing so entirely their own way
as these Alaskan pioneers had it,
do not become land-grabbers, it
would appear extremely unlikely
that they would at any lime make
much of an outcry for more land.
Whoever knows the real pros
pector in his haunts knows al
so thai he is usually too busy
trying If) develop his discovery
to bother about adjoining land,
and that he always welcomes
neighbors who will get in and
dig and by their additional finds
enhance the value of bis own.
If he could eliminate those oth
er "prospectors" who will sur
round his discovery locations
and, without making the slight
est effort to contribute to the de
velopment of the country, await
an unearned increment accruing
from the prospector's labors, he
would ho quite content with a
minimum acreage, so 'long as it
included his orebody.
j,rasing was in vogue on every
crock along the Yukon that had
enough "pay" lo justify it, and
it is astonishing to learn from
Mr. Thompson that 90 per cent,
of the present population of
Alaska condemn the practice as
un-American. The natiiral infer
ence is that now only 10 percent,
of tho residents of Alaska are
prospectors and miners, as these
take kindly to leasing wherevor
they go, and, providing the terms
are otherwise favorable, it is
hardly conceivable that they
would develop a prejudice
against leasing from the govern
ment. Of course, laws which a
great majority of an American
community do not want should
not bo forced on them, but on
the other hand, a geperal objec
tion to tho passage of new laws
should not be assiimed merely on
tho ground of a few assertions
which are emphatically contra
dicted by the past actions of the
persons about whom Miey- ure
made. In my opinion, tho state
ment is also qulto unwarranted
that nothing hut title to tho land
will satisfy the prospector. Ho
Very rarefy obtains a United
States patent, ftnd the possessory
litlo under which ho usually
holds his claim docs not givo such
absoluto security of tenure that
it could not easily 1j«s improved
upon under a lousing system.
It appears lo lie generally eon
ceded that the development of
the country's resources must he
encouraged by all means, and al
though the present eonservalion
movement senilis to be a step in
I lie opposite direction, its sole
aim undoubtedly is the preven
tion of wasteful exploitation. The
enforcement of sucli a policy
does not preclude a simultaneous
encouragement of diligent search
for new deposits. It. should be
quite practicable to so frame the
proposed new enactments that
they would olVcr as great induce
ments to the prospector as do the
present laws, and to reward in an
adequate manner the discoverer
of mineral resources which add
to the present or the future
wealth of the nation, and to abol
ish at the same time existing
abuses. The principle of dis
covery, upon which our present
mining code is based, seems to
he sound and should be retained,
although it has in the past been
honored in the breach rather than
in the observance. The trouble
was probably caused largely by
the dilliculty of arriving at a sat
isfactory definition of what con
stituted a discovery, and instead
of attempting a solution of this
problem, a number of makeshifts
have been provided to regulate
the evasion of the llrst requisite
of a legal entry. The next prin
ciple involved, that of use, or oc
cupancy, has been nominally ad
hered lo by requiring a certain
minimum performance of labor.
In practice Ibis has been quite
futile in its effect, and has never
prevented the holding of mineral
ground for purely speculative
purposes. The advance of scion
titie and praclio.il knowledge
since I lie enactment, of I he pres
ent mining laws should make it
possible to define the word "dis
covery" in such*posilive terms as
would leave little or no doubt of
ils construct ion. Then il should
be possible to provide liberally
for the recognition of the discov
erer's service, perhaps by giving
liiiu an equity in future royalties
and, of course, a preferred right
to a mining lease, but it seems
|o me that, under a leasing sys
tem, rights acquired through a!
duly verified discovery should not
be made eonlinge.nl upon use or
occupancy. The idea is obsolete
and does not fit well with mod
ern mining conditions. Its pres
ent enforcement results largely
in a waste of time and labor and
lends to retard rather than to ad
vance development, especially in
tile case of those types of depos
its which are not immediately
productive but which are of great
potential value, as judged by geo_ ,
logical evidence.
I can see nil reason why t h<* j
proposed change to a leasing |
system should be condemned in j
advance, although I realize al
so that the new laws be made e\_ i
Iremely distasteful to the pros-'
peclor.
LOCAL ITEMS
FOll SALE CIIKAP—Power |
dory. Apply 1***11? Cashman.
SluM's jowolry store will bo
closed until further nolico. If
you wish anything from I he
stock make appointment with
Adam Swan or call up Dr. Dag
gett, 'phone 8.'{.
J. I). Menaeh will he a through
passenger on the Northwestern
for Seward.
Mrs. E. Winter will receive on
first boat another assortment of
spring hats.
FOR SALE—All my household
furniture. Houso for rent after
May 1, 101SS Edmund Smith.
Cream waffles and honey 25c at
the Valdez Cafe.
FOR RENT—Light and warm
room at the Reynolds House. Mrs.
L. A. Depuy, Prop.
See Gorman, the dentist, over
Owl Drug Store. Examination
free. 'Phono 19.
The Seward Gatoway is on sole
at the Valdoz Drug Co. tf
Genu ino Cblnoso chop sucy and
noodles at thfr Vflldo* Cafe.
■ 1
It costs no moro to got yonr
clothing cleaned and pressed at
Silverman's. Phone i&8,
n ftayl
Tho Vald'ei Cftfo is one good
place to eat.
The annual school election wm
THE ORPHEUM
PHOTO PLAYS
Latest Released Films on every
Boat
CHANGE OF PROGRAM EVERY!
SUNDAY, TUESDAY, FRIDAY
Illustrated songs by Mr. T. F. Gillies
Orchestra of Four Pieces
One show every evening 8 p.m.
Two Shows Sunday, 8; 9:30
For the Winter Months
A. H. PINKUS, Prop.
PROFESSIONAL
L. V. RAY
ATTORNEY AT LAW
SEWARD, - ALASKA
Patents Mining Incorporations
CHARLES G. GANTY
FRANK H. FOSTER
Lawyers
Alaska Securities Bl'd'g Valb<jz
DR. GERMAN
Phone .9 THE DENTIST
Oftlce rooms over Owl Dm* store. Ofllce hours
9 a. m.. to 6 u. m.. 7 i>. m.. to 9 ra. Sundays
by ui>|iointiueiit AH work tcuuruniced.
held :i( Latouche on Monday, re
sulting in tIk* <* 1 •*<*t j>111 of Charles
Kngberg, Victor K. Warner,
Ircasun'r, ami Frank Schumacher
clerk. There was no contest
Horse Races.
Creat horse ran* picture al I hi*
Orphcum tonight. Show at H p.
in. sharp, so those attending will
have plenty of time In attend the
A. It. ilanVe.
In Bankruptcy.
In the United States District
Court for the District of Alas
ka.— In Bankruptcy.
In the matter of Alaska Drug
Company, Bankrupt.
To the creditors of Alaska Drug
Company, a corporation, organiz
ed and existing under the laws of
the District of Alaska, with prin
cipal place of business at Valdez,
in the district aforesaid, a bank
rupt.
Notice is licrchv given that on
I tie l'OI h day of March, A. 1). MM 2,
the said Alaska Drug Company
was duly adjudicated bankrupt;
and that the first meeting of its
creditors will he held al (tie office
of Olias. C. <iaiily, in Valdez,
Alaska, on the Kith day of April.
A. D. I'.M'J. al two o'clock in the
afternoon, at which time (lie said
creditors mav attend, prove their
claims, appoint a trustee, exam
ine the bankrupt, and transact
such other business as may prop
crlv come before saiil meeting.
Dated at Valdez, Alaska, Ibis
nib day of April. 1912.
('.HAS. <;. CSANTV,
lleferee in Hankruptcv.
ASSAYER
Geo. f. white
The Assayer
Twi'lvi! years at Tacoma Smelter
Opposite Electrie Light Ollleo
All Work Guaranteed and Promptly Attended To
VALDKZ, ALASKA
CYRUS W. HARRINGTON
Mining KnjriiUM-r sind
U. S. I)ep'y Surveyor
Assay Odlfc in • Vuldcr.
t.'onnrciion AlusUu
Mail Order* Promptly Attended to
VOLL & BARKER
CHKMISTS, ASSAYKRR AND
MINING KNCilNKKUS
Established 1881
Two doors Helow Stock Exchange
Valdez, Alaska
A. M. Dieringer
VALDEZTRANSFER CO.
General Trucking and Freighting
to all parts of the interior.
Positively no coal delivered un
less paid for In advance
Office on Wall St . Phone GO
Beaver Dam Roadhouse
NELS JKI'SOM. Pkop.
■II Miles from Viililrx
OUTFITS FOR PROSPECTORS
First Class Accommodatios.
Ample Stable Room
QR. H. COCKERILLE
Dentist
Whaling Building VALDE2
Clark & Wright
LAWYERS
WASHINGTON, D. C.
Public Land Matters: Final Proof.
Dosert Land*, Contests and Mining
Cases. Scrip.
ASSOCIATE WORK FOR ATTORNEY
YOU GET
All the News
IN THE PROSPECTOR
VALDEZ DRUG CO.
Drugs and Druggist Sundries
PRESCRIPTION SPECIALISTS
Telephone Orders Solicited Free Deivery
INDEPENDENT MESSENGER Co.
and
VALDEZ VACUUM CLEANING Co.
LA TOUCHK A PECK. Mgr*.
Offico Sajtkk't Tailor Shop PkoooMOZ
Strrkt I* Al Farti af Tm. Calk AttwrW Piio
CwfhkelWI
House and Carpet Cleaning
Notloe of Forfeiture.
To Ambroso Bell and Norman
Merchant: You aro hereby noti
fied that I have expended one
thousand ($1,000) dollars in la
bor and improvements upon the
Peerless, Lincoln, Clara Bell,
Mammoth and Gravina, claims of
the Peerlesrf group; the Isabella
find Humdinger of the Isabella
frronp; tho Badgor and Hawkeye
af the Badger and Hawkevo group;
Ihe Pearl claim located in tne
Kotsina river drainage Chitina
11 strict.
In order to hold said promlsb.
under the provisions of» section
2324 Revised Statutes of the Unit
ed States, being tho amoufit re
quired to hold the same for the
year ending Jan. 1. 1912. And/f
wi»,hin.&0 day* after tbis notice
&y permeation you fail'or refuse
to contribute your nrotioFlton'. of
luch expenditure a» eo-rtmrnfcrs
Eur interest in said claims will
come the property of the sub
icribcr under sald *•
Mhr Larson,^Sforney In fact.
pub. Jan. 13, 1912.
Ifiurt. pBib* April 14, 1012.
Weather Ffeport.
llaroiiH'tir pressure 20.732
Temporalur» nt () p m....3i
Mnximum temporalure... . 47
.vtimmum temperature....2D
Moan temperature
Precipitation 32
Clrudy, calm. •*
E. M. BLADE, Observer.
Notice of Forfeiture.
To William M. Conlev: You
are hereby notified that there has
been expended during tho year
1911 ill labor on these certain
quartz claims, known as the Alas
ka Belle, Jackpot and Snowflake,
lying, being and situated in the
Valdez mining district, in the re
cording precinct of Valdez, in the
District of Alaska, the sum of
three hundred dollars, lawful
money of the United States, the
a"mo(int required bv law to hold
said claims for tho year, follow
ing the performance of the an*
nnal labor; that said expenditure
for lab r. as aforesaid, was made
by J. W. Little. And unless with
in ninety days afler the comple
tion of tnriiJfcubkicaUtm ()f this no
tice to-wtt?# jtfllbin ♦Titaety days
afUnp the .*fc4th -'day of April,
1672, yon contribute your portion
of the expenses of the aforesaid
annual labor for said year, or
your interest in said quart*
claims will be forfeltt and be
come the property of the under
signed, who Is your co-owner.
J. W. LITTLE.
Fiist pub. Jan. 24, 1912.
Lm( pub. April 25. 1912.