The Alaska prospector., 1904-01-21

Yukon wagon r"ad, the great Copper River valley will ie opened by a great national highway from tidewater to the Yukon river at tl,e boundary liue.
 In view of the fact that all the arabic land of the United States is ta ken, 1t is good advice for yonng married men who desire to live independently and in few years retire with fortune, to follow the crowd when jt starts to the great Copper River Valley, via Valdez.
 Quitting Advantages At Valdez.
 YJ. G. SNYDER. GENERAL MERCHANT.
 ProspectOrs outftting at Valdez have many advantages over those who purchase their goods in the States and carry the shipping risk. The merchants make it Il point to keep in stock the things most needed by the prospector and miner. A few of the stores carry Il special line of goods, but the general store pretlomnates. The prosrcctor outiitting here selects from a stock which has leen carefully purchased in the season when prices were lowest, and the prospector buys these goods for very little more than wholesale prices with freight added, and saves himself all the trouble "i shipping bills, wharfage, etc. If he buys his outfit here he puts it on the sled at the store, and can see that every thing is all right. If he buys in the states it frequently occurs that things get lost, or are damaged in shipping. It is to the advantage of every prospector and miner to outfit with good quality of goods as near as possible to the place where he in- tends to operate.
 Valdez by its location is the outfitting city for central Alaska. Its merchants are outfittcrs of necessity. and prospectors and miners should outfit here for their own convenience and profit.
 Real Estate Advantages in Valdez.
 BY JAMES FISH. sk
 People interested in real estate as an in vestment or speculation have peculiarly attractive field for their speciality in Val dez. Prior to 1898, what is now the town site Was practically untrodden. To-day over a thousand people make it their home, and lots of 90 feet frontage which were had for the locating are now worth thousands of dollars. Since the discovery of gold, copper and other valuable minerals in the adjacent country the growth of the town has been steady and continuous. Valdez has two wharves, two banks, a sawmill. d brewery, and an electric light and telephone plant, besides a connections school house, two churches and Ia hospital. A court house and jail are to be immediately erected, and movement is on foot to make Valdez the headquarters of d judicial district.
 Capitalists and mining experts who have been looking into Valdez resources, are of the unanimous opinion that the country is fabulously rich in mineral wealth, and that Valdez is the only possible gateway to the thousands of square miles of mineral and agricultural lands comprised in the Copper River country.
 With advantages such as enumerated, what can prevent the town being in the near future vertable Bonanza to the for tunate owners of real estate?
 The Copper Deposits Adjacent to Valdez
 All along the coast and on the islands of Prince William Sound deposits of copper have been found. The Gladlaugh mine at Ellamar, about twenty miles south of Valdez, is the heaviest producer, having shipped some 10000 tons during the past year. The Bonanza, on Latouche island, is also regular shipper, while many other properties, notably the SimOnstadt group at Galena bay, are being opened up. The coast deposits are sulphides, of compara- lively low grade. in large ore bodies and carrying some gold.
 The copper of the interior is of high grade and occurs in large bodies. The Bonanza has been pronounced by many mining engineers to be the greatest deposit of chalcocite in the world. This property has been in litigation, but the courts have now determined the ownership, and the mine will be operated during the year 1904.