The Cordova daily times., 1915-07-19
RECEPTION HELD FUR G0V. AND
 MRS. STRONG

The people of Cordova gathered in Masonic Hall to greet Governor Strong and his wife Saturday evening, and for two hours the chief executive of the Territory was busily and hap oily engaged renewing old acquaint- anceships and making new ones. The hall was tastefully decorated with potted flowers for the reception, and the committee of ladies who took charge of the arrangements, and re- lieved the committee of the Chamber of Commerce, are to be congratulated on the success of the affair.
 The governor spent the afternoon at the glaciers with the other excur- sionists on the Alameda, and Mrs. Strong being somewhat fatigued, it was not thought best to commence the reception until an opportunity for short rest had been afforded her Accordingly the automobile did not go to the dock after the citys guests until 8:30 o'clock.
 On arrival at the hall the receiving line was formed with Governor and Mrs. Strong, assisted by MT. and Mrs. Adams, MT. and Mrs. H. A. Slater, MT. and Mrs. w. H. Chase, and Mrs. &. Blum The governor soon found that he had lots of old friends in Cordova, who worked with him in the early days of Katalla, where the governor spent two years publishing the Katalla Herald. Many of the tourists on the Alameda attended the reception, and embraced the opportunity to get acquainted with Alaskans.
 For almost two hours the dis tinguished guests delighted the peo- pie present with their genial and un- affeeted simplicity of manner, ,the governor having a pleasant word for everybody, and Mrs. Strong proving herself to be in truth the first lady of the territory. Towards the close of the reception, the gathering was called to order by E. F. Medley, who asked the governor to tell about his trip throughout Alaska. The governor gracefully responded and for 20 min utes charmed his hearers with the story of his journey. He said that he found the people of Alaska ever cour- ageous even under the most adverse conditions. The interior country was quiet owing to the exhaustion of the richer placer gravels, but that never theless considerable gold was still being produced, and with better trans portation facilities the lower grade grayels would be worked, and in the end would result in a large increase of production.
 He told about being stalled or ] sand bar on the Yukon river for five days with a large party of eastern tourists, and how the customers be- came educated to the real Alaska weather, as the sun shone down upon them so warmly that they were un- comfortably hot in this land which they had always looked upon as the countryaof snow and ice. He said those tourists, who had all brought their fur coats along with them to withstand the rigors of an Alaskan summer, would go back home and tell their friends that Alaska was far diff ferent than what most people imagined.
 The governor said kind word for Cordova and the Copper River valley, and expressed his wonder on learning that Cordova was monthly shipping to the states $2,0O0,OO0 worth of cop. per, besides thousands of cases of canned salmon. He predicted bril- liant future for this section of Alaska and confidently predicted that we would become the premier copper producing district in the world.
 He closed by saying that he in tended to live here good many more
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