The daily progressive-miner., 1916-01-15
WHAT F. CARPENTER
 SAYS OF kETCHIKAN
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rhs most of them are on the wafer front, built upon piles that rest on ths rocks. Several concrete build lnss are HOW going up, and there is g concrete department store thai has a stock shas would be consider ed lalge III any New England to@n vt five times aS o'g as hetehlSar, The city has !ewe.ry StOrsS, grO<- sr, SGOrs :. hardware tsneS. plumbing establishments an ll..sh h.ue shops lac s.Qls< have g.='s s1ass windows and sa.s goods ar @ell displayed In ors window , Sl-. 8 full linz of electrical apparatus, including elec- .rse lrunS. coasters and heaters An other shows large supply of ther- mos bostles and ta3y carriages The butcher shops have of red oses ;a<e n froua Seattle and 1he frIl. stores sell raSpbsrr5es and straw herr5s> frozm Alaska. oranges ans. Eses from California and apples troul Washington. Oregon and British Columbia Ths supply of easables : quite Us good as thar of tise provision ssores m ke States, and the prlces are no. much higher. In deed. I believe one can live almost as cheaply in keechikan as n Cleve- land. Kansas Ci.y Cf Kalamazoo
 ! find katch5San ap 10 date l, ms only 1000 inhabitants. but !. has daily neyESpa pers, with te,e- grams from all pa-.s ot the world II has Sawzsil ard iron works IT has seven salmon cannerie<. and is s mining center for silver, cop per and gold l. ms 2 public library bcard of trade several moving picture shows and h2f [ dozen 7rsll-ae.az5aG csurchss. The pao- pie look abouE tha same s those yoa see 5n tke States. save tha- there are many Indians and some Chinese an1 Japanese. The Indians Chinese a1i Japaaese dress like the whites. ard abaa- sts only differ erenea is r thz t4cs. which have tka racial features at their owpers.
 keechlkan has a2 excellen. water supply. ' ccnss trezr a lake high uu U the n1ouz.az-s. and is % piped thar the town has a.l 5e can use and can sill keep i-s sanitary drinking fountains. n.ads q porcelain perpet- uzllg buba-ing. There are such places scattered throughout the citE. A=teEiksn aas tszr-esa saloons. b-, -he man or ehsl5 wzo wants drink 0t pure mountain Fva.er las only -o :. 1ls n111-1 ovsr me llezl= china o.swl 2. any zere=s corner ard ,zke IT 4zl Ee @il.
 . addition - t1e lake, ketcli'kAr. z4s 2 rushing stream tLa7 flows in sz4sc4adzS and rapids righs through ths esv1- n shs salmon season thiz stream $ e-e mass of fish. and lts col9y s-cz bank D hank is al pink znz slv=r. Taz fish come oy t1= -lae1s4n1s and swim p ths stream % spawn. .1ilnz 1hezr way through -As rap.5s 4-5 jumping ths falls At .L4z season ang oze nay have fish For zhs taking. ard vast quantities 4r= z4v=1 for sas cz1ns-ies-
 Tz= s.r=zI ! have referred 70 furnishes EEs cszg it's electric power, a11 r uas tls s-z=es lights and -=-eghoz=s | gives electrie hez. 10 some q -1s houses During ny say ! have hz5 dinn=r with one q cze leading c5tizazns. Ills home E 5=zz-itzl lazse at ten roonz. -iga-sd azd heated 5y electricity. Es has . hoz-w4-sr p.4zs. but the wzter z kap- h9z 5y zEs e.eczric hez1 from the csr-ral roNa- plant, and tl= same plant supplies ais c9ek stove. H= 5el-z ms tha1 his 5ill for lig7t- ing and heating even in nicwintel are not na9re than sI8 Q month