The Ketchikan miner., 1907-08-24
(From Fridays Daily)

.. w. fflme, or bne bdluWln 1udFDlt quarry, was passenger for Dolomi this morning.
 The westward steamer Bertha went 1 through southbound without stopping, about seven o'clock this morning.
 O. R. Symonds, in charge of Heck mans furniture department, was a passenger south on the Princess May. Alfred Berget, of New York, left for Seattle on the May. Mir. Berget was here in the interest of eastern capital.
 Alex. Guthrie and wife sailed on the Princess May this morning for Port Essingtoa ~h e they will visit friends.
 L. A. Franke,.hcrg, of Columbus, Ohio, who has heen examining some properties on the !, est coast of Prince of Wales Island. was a passenger south on the Princess May this morn- ing.
 The Marion cleared for Maple Bay, British Columbia, this morning with N. O. Lawton, manager for the Brown Alaska Co.,, on board, accom- panied by A. A. Wakefield, the SUD- erintendent at Maple Bay, and his family.
 The Haldis passed up early this morning carrying what is probably the largest cargo ever consigned through Skagway to the interior. She had 900 tons of general merchant disc, g carloads of piping, and eight carloads of machinery. All told her cargo measured over 4000 tons. The c. LIP. x W. Co.,, (that means Citizens Light, Power and Water Company, only the darn thing is too long to write) are installing the new shunt coils on the city lighting system to enable them to turn the street lights out, and will have them all in place by the first of the month. At the Valparaiso Mir. Eardley has force of about 20 linen employed in sinking and drifting and is making good progress. This is one of the most promising gold quartz properties in all Alaska. and is certain to give good account of itself when adequately equipped and in good working order MT. Eardley is not fretting his horses, but is content to place his reliance on a systematic development along conservative and economical lines.
 L. NJ. Grider, of Los Angeles, who was recently here and made hunting trip to the Bradfeld canal and river section, in an article contributed to the Los Angeles Times says that Alaskan tourists make great mis- take in buying their outfits before leaving Seattle, for all the equipment needed can be purchased just as cheaply in Alaska. He brought with him an extensive outfit of heavy cloth ing, overcoats and furs as a protection against the cold, but found the days as warm as in Los Angeles and the nights not chilly enough to be uncom- fortable. He is enthusiastic over what he saw of the country, but not altogether accurate in his description of the Alexander archipelago, which he says is 150 miles long, eighty feet wide and traversed by several wide straits.
 The More the Better. The Alaska Steamship Company, as it promised last year, through Charles E. Pea body, its president, has been making an effort to induce tourists and pleas ure-seekers making the Alaska trip to stop over at various points long enough to see whatever there may be 10 interest them. In making the round trip tourists see very little of interest to them, other than that which is to be viewed from the deck of the vessel on which they travel, and consequently miss practically everything except that which affords other than merely transient pleas ure. This fact has been in the past largely, if not wholly, due to an impression that there were few, if any, comfortable hotels, condition which no longer prevails, all the principal towns now being we'll sups piled in that particular. In conse- quence of the latter fact the steam ship company mentioned is meeting with some success this season in its effort to induce people to finger long enough to see at least part of the country and make an intelligent in- quiry into it's resources of whatever kind or character which most appeals to them. Thus, one party of twenty one persons now in Alaska. headed by Prof. C. Cowles, of the University of Chicago, is putting in week of their time at Skagway, Sitka, Juneau and Ketchikan, each, studying the flora of the country, and this may properly be considered as beginning of other similar expeditions to follow, bring ing hither college professors and stud erts from all over the world.