The Chitina leader. [volume] (Chitina, Alaska) 1910-1928, 1915-05-18
EDITORIAL MMENT

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Our good friend Col Richardson has many calls him
for the expenditure of the two three hundred thousand
dollars available the building Of roads, bridges
He will have difficulty in satisfying the many requests but we
wish kindly suggest that the bridge the eacherous
Nizina river is much necessity 1t would
prove a life to and horses
When northbound steamer reaches Corova it reminds
somewhat the good construction days when hundreds
of arrived here for railroad work But then they knew
what they coming for, and got it.
1t is surprising the number of men who continue their
way the westward We fear although hope not that
with many it is Ship Creek-and bust.
Danvile has gone dry but Uncle Joe will spend most of
the next two years in Washington.
Senator James Hamilton Lewis for Vice President would
certainly lend color to the ticket.
Sightseeing the likely prove undesirable
and hazardous according the reports of the state depart
But sightseeing in the United States better
according all returns And that includes the pleasures and
marves Of an Alaskan cruise.
Alaska must be on the Of prosperity. Theatrical
companies beginning invade every section of the vast
territory And here the walking long and the water cold
and it's long way to Tpperary.
The serious forest fire Seward that nearly resulted
sweeping the town. should warning to careless
prospectors and hunters who take to the woods.
In Nome there hot contest the expression on
the granting of liquor licenses The vets out though
the labor unions made fight for dry.
Another of Alaska coal land have been dropped
The is recovering from the conservation with
pleasurabe dspatch-Ex
lot of Cordova people feel like taking outing this
at Ship Creek But they all calculate to in the
fall be when the reaches It's
certain to and cannot be much longer delayed If not
this then certainly look out for big things next
1t begins to look though there would not be much
repair work and betterments out the railway line this
and that fact conveys to many persons the idea that the
government is still negotiating with the G. r. & N. w
Railway Company and that they may yet take the
railroad
With the end of May the dispatch of the interior mail to
the Tanana from Cordova will 1t will then in and
out Dawson White Horse and Skagway. There will be
less passenger traffic autos during the SUMMER
between Chitina and Fairbanks.
AS Of the prospective investors return from
crowded Ship Creek and Seward they may find attractive
opportunities for investment in the neghborhood of Cordov
We are the gateway to mighty rich country.
Ship Creek will be the white tented city thie GUNNER,
with cabins and buildings going up toward fall It
likely to be good town for couple of years at least
1t reported that town lots be purchased your
price at Portage Bayonce the proposed terminus
of the government railway.
When you wish to address your friends at Ship Creek
remember that the postoce is designated Anchorage and
not Ship Creek Woodrow Creek The postmaster in
but Judge Wood of Seattle old experienced mail clerk
actually in charge of the office.
Latest reports indicate that Secretary Of the Interior
expects to come to Alaska sometime during mid He
not be able to get far into the Interior although he will
out the Copper River Northwestern
Railway He will also to Valdez Seward and Ship Creek
Seward doesn't think much of Vadezs idea that the
to get to Ship Creek is from Valdez go
Portage Bay and then mush the the Cook
Inlet terminal.
And after they arrive Ship Creek hundreds begin
to figure out where they at.