Valdez daily prospector., 1912-02-14
OUR ANNIVERSARY.

J. II. Bourke and II. II. Hildreth as owners, editors, cOmpOsitors and prcSSmcn, and has been con- tinucd without interruption since that date, growing as the town increased in population from a weekly to d daily sheet of equal size to the carly issues of the weekly.
 A few days prior lo it's sixth birthday, February $, 1908, the ProSpect0r plant was destroyed by fire, but due to the hustle and enterprise of F.. F.. Rilchic, the then editor and manager, the pa per for that day was photograph ed from a typcwriltrn sheet and delivered to it's patrons as usual. By the next day new quarters had been secured, d case of type and d job press set up, and the paper gotten out as usual. though re- .ducrd in size.
 Today the PraSpcclOr has one of the best equipped plants in Alaska, and, We feel We are jus flied in saying, is giving the pcu- pie of Valdez as good and ncwsy sheet as is published iu Alaska.
 During the ten years of it's cX- iStrncc the town i!dS grown from q small village, whose inhabitants $ were largely composed of pros pectOrs, Who each summer made trips to the interior in search of placer gold or copper, and the miners of the Slate creek dis trict, then but newly found, but wing promise of yielding large returns, which promise has since been fulfilled. tn one of the most thriving towns in the north.
 And vel, while the town has grown iO many times it's size when the first issue of the PrOSpcctOr appeared, the change in the bus mess houses have been cOmpar- atively few, except for the fact that new ones have hrcn cStab- lished anal the older ones have grown from comparatively small concerns in some instances 10 mercantile houses carrying stocks rquallrd only hy houses in some of the larger cities of the states.
 In looking over a copy of the first issue of the Prnsprctor we find the names of A. l.. Levy & Co.,, now the corporation of $. Blum X Co.,: J. G. Snyder. still doing business here: Grand hotel, Adam Swan. Prop. Meals 35c, three for $i. Lodgings soc and Si per week if you furnish your own blankets" Mr. Swan no longer runs the Grand. being an amateur iewrlrr. but the hotel is still doing business under other management.
 w. C. Stull, jcwclcr, was an- other advertiser, and has remain ed here until a few weeks ago, when illness caused him lo leave for the states.
 Pioneer Barber Shop, Cameron x Golden, Props, is still doing business at the same old stand, except that Wm. Giineau, then proprietor of the Dawson Barber Shop. has succeeded Mr.. Gamer on.
 Hotel Si. Elias, Dcbney & POOi, is also found among the advcr- iiscncnls of that day, and the ho- tel is still owned by Mr. Foot, although not now under his man. agcmcnI.
 Valdez Sheet Metal Works was then owned by J. J. Yakshaw, but, through his death, has passed in lo other hands.
 The Montana saloon. another advertiser, iS still doing business under the same management, Alex. SinRlcfary having started the place the year before and still runs it.
 Olson brothers, contractors and builders, gambling tables made Io ordcr," is still in existence, though by reason of the hostile attitude of the Department of Justice at Washington, gambling tables arc not in great demand al present.
 Dgarf x Mcintosh was the firm name of the blacksmithing cstab- lishment here in 1902, and Gus Dearf IS still carrying on the bus mess.
 or the concerns now no long er in business who were advcr- tisers in those days were Valdez