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Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-05-14

weighing thousands of tons, broke loose
from the glacier. 1t seemed to hang in mid
air for an instant. 1t the3 plunged down in
to the stream with . thunderous roar, sendA
ing up high cloud of spray. A moment lat
er the mist had cleared away, aad the ice
block or berg could be seen rising and fall
ing, sending waves in pillows almost to our
feet
The breaking of the ice is caused by the
melting and also by the force of the great
ice river as it flows slowly down from the
heights. The movement of the glacier
varies in speed from time TO time. During
the years 1906 1907 and 1908 it came for
ward only two or three feet a day, but il
1909 its motion increased TO FIVE or six feet
and in August, 1910, it was advancing at the
rate OF so or 10 feet daily After that it be
gan to subside, and in June, 1911, it was
moving at less than two feet per day. Whea'
the motion was at its height the movement
OF the glacier was observed bv some OF tn
scientists Of the National Geographic society
who were sent TO Alaska to investigate anil
describe its wonderful glaciers. The invest
cations covered three wears and they were
made at a cost OF about Sl7 900. paid bv thar
society Their work has thrown a new ligh.
upon the ice age OF America and it has been
recently embodied in book entitled "Alas-
kan Glacier Studies. which is of the great.
est value
The scientists made careful observations
Of the Childs glacier and photographed il
from time to time when it was moving
along at the rate of thirty or forty feet dailvA
l,ra 1FN IL ~.
day to day They would come out in the
morning to find tons of ice resting where
their cameras had stood the day previous
and to see a great tree perhaps hundred
years old prone on the ground with its butt
beneath the glacier The night before the
same tree had been upright and the ice some
distance away. In this movement the ice
tore trees out by the roots. 1t acted like SC
many mighty plows ripping up the earth to
bed rock and carrying the turf and bushes
along level 10 or Is feet higher than that
of the plain.
1t was this movement of the Childs gla-
cier that was advanced as one of the reasons
why the United States government should
not choose the Copper River and North
western railway route as the best entrance
to the interior of Alaska The opponents OF
that route claimed that the glacier would
some time advance so as to cover the rail
road and wipe out the tracks. One end of
the glacier is now not more than 1900 feet
from the bridge, and I am told that the ice
has advanced that much in a single season.
If this is so the finger known as the north
lobe OF the glacier will some day swallow
the bridge. On the other hand, the adyo-
Gates of the Copper River valley route
claim there is little danger of such an event
and that it could be easily remedied should
it occur.
FRANK G. CARPENTER
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-05-14
or more.

The two mightiest glaciers OF the Copper
River valley are the Miles and the Childs.
Childs glacier is within quarter OF a mile
or so OF the track, and Miles glacier is i'll
plain sight as YOU sit in the cars facing the
Childs Glacier bridge. OF these two the
Miles glacier is by far the larger. It rises
in the snoWfelds Of the mountains and it is
probably 50 miles long Where it enters
the Copper River valley it spreads out in
great bulb which at the end is six and one
half miles across. 1t is about 12Is miles
miles around the whole front. The waters of
the glacier flow into the Copper river, but
there is also lake in front OF It which is
about two miles in width and four miles i'll
length
Our train stopped on a switch near the
bridge, in plain sight Of both glaciers, and
we had an hour or SO to look at the Chids
glacier which is within 10 minutes walk of
the railroad. We left the cars and made our
way over a trail through thicket of green
bushes.tWice as high as our heads. We
crossed open places where there were great
patches OF pink blossoms and ferns and
grass that reached to our waists. As we
went onward the stones and powders in
creased in number, and upon leaving the
bushes we entered the terminal moraine OF
the glacier which is made up of rocks OF all
sizes down to pebbles as big as pea.
The vegetation had now disappeared and
we stood ON the bank of a river whose gla
cial waters looked like skim mi. We were
right under mighty ice wall that assembled
straight up from the water to greater
height than that of the dome of our capitol
at Washington. This wall is washed by the
river It extends along the banks OF the
stream for a length of four miles and runs
backward for more than 10 miles up the val
ley It is composed of broken and uneven
cliffs of pale green ice, from which ice
masses are continually falling is esti-
mated that more than eight billion pounds
OF ice break off from it every year. That
would be enough to load train of cars 500
miles long, or enough to give 80 pounds to
every man, woman and child in the United
States and leave some to spare
We could sec the ice blocks breaking off
as we stood under the wall on the opposite
bank of the milky river. First came crack
ing, which sounded like a battery Of heavy
artilIsFy Then pass Of pure white.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-05-14

from the railway is Pickett glacier, an ice
tongue more than four miles in length And
then there are Saddlebag glacier. which is
south of Pickett and Goodwin glacier, which
expands into bulb of two or three miles ia
width where it enters the valley. The Nc
Pherson glacier, which can also be seen
from the railroad. is seven miles long, while
Goodwin has greater length by three miles
or more.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-05-14

It Taps the Rich Kennicott Copper Mines
1t Be Extended to Fairbanks and the Boring River
Coal Fields?- Travel Over the Road-The Miles
and Childs Glaciers and How the Latter is Nov
ing-Will It Swallow the Tracks7-A Railroad
Bridge Which Cost 81, 100000.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-05-14
! carload. Some of the
ay only 81 or So a ton.

Hment made for the Copper
was its accessibility to the
coal field, which is only thirty
from the present tracks and about
I've miles from Cordova. This is the
was so widely discussed when Mr..
Pinchot and others made their great
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-05-14

over, and is then used for skating and sleigh
ing. There is some fishing done at that
time through holes in the ice
Leaving the lake we passed through
dense forest of spruce, some of the trees OF
which were two feet in diameter We then
wound onr way over the Copper river delta
crossing stream after stream which come
from the great glaciers OF the interior. The
flats extend for a distance OF 10 miles east
andNest. wide eXpanse OF green level
land..half swamps, with water here and
there showing out OF the green There are
ducks and geese on the ponds They fly up
and away as the train eomes..We could
often see walls Of green ice from the train
The glaciers reached the clouds that dark,
rainy day There was dense forest be-
tween us and them The ice seemed to be
looking at us over the trees.
" rode by several fox farms. composed
OF cages of wire netting, with red and black
foxes within; and further on at one side we
saw the graves OF some miners who tried in
vai1lto get through by this way to the klon-
dixie in the gold rush Of 1893.
Some parts Of the flats are flooded by the
ocean at high tide. There are many bridges.
At Mile 10 the bridges seem to go from
island 10 island We are crossing the mouths
OF the stream. AS we left Round Island we
passed through SnoWsheds on the flats. 1t
IS an unusual thing to build snoWsheds on
the level. \ little further on we crossed
Long Island and at Mile 81 came to the Hot
IL I>r,,l IL HI 10,
cause party Of engineers were shut up
there during the railway construction and
for weeks had nothing 10 eat but hot cakes
They called the place Hot Cake channel,
and SO it is known to this day.
The road goes over flats like these all the
way to the foot of the mountains 1t winds
about through the delta, crossing the chan
nels.,The engineers had to wade through
the mud to lay out the route, and it was
hard to find solid roadbed At Mile % we
were only 81 miles from the Boring river
coal field, and 20 miles further on came to
the narrow passage through which the road
runs between the Miles and Childs glaciers.
Here the road crosses the Miles Glacier
bridge, which cost more than 81. 100000 to
build, and then goes on its way up the
mountains
Think of riding on railroad for two
hours or more with glaciers in sight almost
all the way The Copper River valley is a
great glacial garden. Just east of Eyak lake
is Scott glacier, which is mile wide and six
miles in length, 1t is only seven miles from
the track, but is of so little account that it
Sc Seldom nlaced on the man Sheridan fyla-
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-05-14

Nose to
a natur-
Interior OF
eEcopmcnt 81
he Copper River
Eirbanks in prefer
Z Alaska Northern,
Second road be built
Cook inlet and across
|ay of the Idtarod gold
opposed branch line to
Ial fields. The present adj
decided that the Seward
1is the better and the road
Butte il now being built i y
bble that the Copper River road
xtended at some time in the tu-
ing my stay in Cordova | have taken
over this railroad Its technical name
OODDeT NlNGI anu 4NOlllWSSlSlll AN'''i
The cars go smoothly. The passenger
>es are like those of the states. Their
I'll is oak and seats are upholstered III
Ywicker The road is we'll built and well bal
lasted 1t has the standard gauge track, With
seventy-pound rails similar to those on the
new government railway. The road crosses
the mountains by easy grades having
maximum of not over $40 or 9-lO per cent,
and it is so made that train load OF about
700 tons can be carried each way over It.
The construction of the road began in 1906
and was completed in 1911 Its cost, it is
said, is somewhere between fifteen and
twenty million dollars, and some OF its
building shows great skill and scientific en-
gineering. There are 196 miles OF road now
in operation and upon this there are daily
freight trains on the Kennicott branch, and
three trains a week between Cordova and
Chtina, the station from where it was pro
posed to extend the road on to Fairbanks,
The company has office buildings and ma
chine and car shops here at Cordova. 1t has
also built a large ocean wharf accessible to
steamers at all stages OF the tide. The cars
bring their freight right to the steamers and
are unloaded with the minimum of handling.
There are ample warehouses and facilities
for furnishing the steamers with fresh water
and fuel oil There is an automobile service
between the wharf and the town, which Is
about three-quarters OF mile away As
soon as our ship came to anchor the matches
were raised and we began to load copper
ore The ore cars were automatically dump
ed and the bags Of copper, each holding
about half-bushel were shot from the cars
right into the hold of the steamer. The load
ing went on for almost a day, and during
that time we took in cargo valued at about
$S00,000
i Among the arguments advanced in favor
j OF the government buying the Copper Riv-
er and Northwestern railroad was that the
traffic already developed would have made
& the railroad live working proposition from
the very start The route taps the Wrangell
& range, the richest known mineral section of
Alaska This range has gold, copper and
silver. 1t has the richest copper mines of
the world, and some which are now produc-
ing 60,000,000 pounds of copper year at a
cost Of less than 5 cents pound. The road
L il now bringing down from the kennicott
mines 200 car loads of such ore per month,
and its yearly revenue from that source is
something like S20o0,000 The ore is eharg-
ed freight according to its value, and that
now coming down averages over 20 per
cent pure copper and pays at the rate OF 4
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-05-14

The Copper River and Northwestern
road now reaches the town of Chitina, and
the extension from there to Fairbanks.
would require 3l3 miles more to be built
The cost OF this the Taft commission esti-
mated at something like Sl4.000,0OO. The
Copper River road, | am told here. was OF
Tered to the government at its physical val
uation, or at its cost to the owners, which
was something like Sl5oOO0OO making
total for the through line of S2o,O00,OOO The
extension of the road would have passed
through the rich farming lands of the Tan
ana valley, and the mineral regions develop
ed thereby would haVe.been greater, it is
said, than those reached by the extension q
the Alaska Northern Railway The Copper
river route to Fairbanks would have been
Is miles shorter than the road now being
constructed, and it would have had the adj
vantage Of a terminus 200 miles nearer
Seattle. AS it is now the steamers going to
Seward call at Cordova on the way.
The Copper River and Northwestern
railway is one of the picturesque routes OF
the world. 1t is the only railroad that car
3
eiers and allows YOU to examine these
greatest wonders of nature while the train
stops. Within an hour OF our arrival at
Cordova an excursion train started out from
the wharf and the tourists on board were
carried distance of about fifty miles up the
Copper River valley to the Miles and Childs
glaciers, two mighty rivers of ice that stand
almost facing each other OH opposite sides
OF the track.
Leaving Cordova the road winds around
the hills high over the water 1t hangs 10
rocky cliffs, which are covered with dense
vegetation. A little later it enters the
mouth Of the Copper River valley and skirts
Eyak lake, which fills depression scooped
ont by some prehistoric glacier. The lake
is star shaped and is almost entirely shut in
by high wooded mountains, which rise
abruptly from the waters edge. The road
goes for four miles along thesWinding shores
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-05-14

FRANK G. CARPENTER.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1916-08-31
PAGE SEVEN

One man voted against him because he had
demonstrated that Athens Street Railroad
bonds could be sold in New York, and the
others joined the lynching bee because Guyt
had not secured Port Rates.
Warner Hill did just the same that Me-
Lendon did, on the rate question, and was
elevated to the Supreme Court Bench by
Governor Hole Smith.
What was asked of the Commission was,
that it give to Buy-a-Bale McCord and some
other Atlanta jobbers a specially low freight
rate, not enjoyed by Griffin Macon, Waycross,
Augusta and Savannah.
McLendon and Hill refused to grant this
petition for special favors, with the result
that Hill went up to the Supreme Court and
McLendon went up Salt River
Such is life.
Let James Perry perseyere and continue to
prosecute his studies. He viii reach 1912 af-
ter awhile. When he does, he Will find where
a Railroad Commissioner, named James A.
Perry, mysteriously Topped Oh the petition
of the Georgia Electric & Power Company,
and gave the corporation vote that was
worth ten million dollars more than the other
vote he had so recently given.
flop that is worth ten millions, is a most
hill of flop, and when it is t years younger
than the old straw about the McLendon vote,
2chjch he did not change, it is a flop that needs
explanation.
Hurry up, Perry! Come on down the line
to 1912!
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1916-08-31

New Edition of THE Story of France" by
Thos. e. Watson. just off the press Two
Volumes $3.50 the set. Handsomely bound,
gilt tops, gilt lettered. This book is regarded
as standard by the French readers and schoI-
airs. The Jeffersonian Publishing Company,
Thomson, Ga
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1916-08-31

representative, who is an employee of the railroad
as attorney, to ride to Atlanta on his passes and
then step around to the State Treasurer's office
and draw his mileage when he has not spent
cent for mileage?
Where is the antipass law?
Yours very truly,
VOTER.
This embarrassing question comes from
Colquitt
A hand-bill signed by two labor leaders is
circulating in Augusta, calling on the qo0rh-
people to vote against Dorsey!
E't tn Brute?
So, it seems that Sig Montag, the Haas
Brothers, John Cohen, the Atlanta journal,
John M. Slaton, and these two Augusta labor
. leaders are all marching shoulder to shoulder,
against the fearless and tireless avenger of
poor little Mary Phagan.
The dallles which fought for Frank referred
to her, contemptuously, as only "a little mill
worker'
What do these two labor leaders hold
against Dorsey?
They allege against him nothing, except
that he had the decent gratitude to support
for the y. S. Senate the man who, as governor,
had appointed him Solicitor General.
The two labor leaders charge it to Dorsey
that Governor Brown allowed the troops
called out when the Mayor demanded it; and
both Brown and Dorsey are held responsible
for the blood shed by the soldiers
Ihe Mayor and the officers are responsible.
The Jeftersonlan condemned those officers,
at the time, and did so qUhe71 the 60cherS of the
teco labor leaders WE'RE SILENT.
Those officers wanted to send a file of sol
dlers to Thomson to arrest me, but Governor
Brown would not allow it,
Yet, in spite of this fearful episode, in
which | risked my life for the work people,
L supported Brown for the Senate, because of
my preference for him over his opponent.
| canot believe that the two labor leaders
represent the sentiments of the working class.
Do those two labor leaders recognize the
fact that both PottZe and Harris are AFRAID to
face the Roman Catholic issue, which Hugh
Dorsey has bravely faced? -
For months I have tried to draw Harris
out, as to the Catholic use of public school
money in Savannah, but Harris, like NJ L.
Britain, dare not express himself Neither
does Pottle.
Do the working class want to be understood
as lining up with the Roman Catholics, as to
using the States money, teaching the Pope's
religion in our public schools, and burning
the New Testaments which belong to Protest
ant pupils?
With few exceptions, if any. the Jews are
fighting Dorsey, because he defeated every
effort to save the Jew who assaulted and
murdered "the little mill-hand."
Do Messrs Frank A. White and c. Nc
Daniel want the mill people to join the Jews
against Dorsey? Yes.
With few exceptions, if any, the Catholics
are fighting Dorsey because am supporting
him, and because he stands boldly for Ameri-
canism against Romanism.
Do Messrs. White and Mcdaniel want the
work people to Join the Catholics in fighting
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1916-08-31
THE JEFFERSONIAN
In his Fort Gaines speech, Col. Nat said

"Let me tell you that in the crisis of the
State indicted King Alcohol, [ tried him, I
convicted him and put him to DEATH
In few days, [ will be 60 years old; and
because Of my lifelong stand for Prohibition,
l naturally came to know all of those who
were IN the same fight, aohen 1t acas q zoS17aq
fight
give you my word of honor I did not
know qohere Nat Harris stood on the Prohi-
bltlon question, until the Anti-Saloon League
took bodily possession Of him, in Atlanta. and
forced him to include Prohibition in the
Emergency CALL
Never in my life have known Nat Harris
to make speech or write an article, for Pro-
ha6at1On, until he saw that it was the big side
During all the years that Tilllnan Poole. c.
X. Prngle, NJ. }. Golfer, A. j. Hughes, Walter
Hill, Seaborn Wright Sam Jones' Warren
Candler and the Sibleys were breasting the
storm, and pioneering the way, Nat Harris
said nothing, wrote nothing and did nothing.
But after we who did the fighting had wen
the battle, up come Bosh Fielder, Eichel-
berger, Marion Harris, and Col. Nat c7ai1e-
ing all the credit.
Such is life
Negroes who never heard Of Loveioy, Gar
rlson, Phillips, Mrs Stowe, and Henry Ward
Beecher, believe that Abraham Lincoln Gin
him, and put him to DEATH
Col Nat admits, however, that in Shaving
King Alcohol, he did no more than his duty
[ feel sure that you will be pleased to learn
that the Devil is dead and that the old Col
onel is the man who killed him. and that he
isn't claiming another term on that account
The staying of the Demon Rum was merely
Incidental to the Colonel's militant career as
a slaughterer of Bears, "Painters," Jias-
cutuses, Griffins, Hobgoblns, and other wild
animals.
To those of us who have known the Col
onel, ever since we met him, SO years ago. his
posing as The Man who grappled with King
Alcohol, wrestled with him, took the ankle
twist on him, flung him flat of his back, and
choked his life out, is immensely funny
James Price says he is too busy to meet J.
j. Brown on the stump, and explain about
those travelling expenses, that Lee Worsham
defalcaton, and those tantalizing cotton seed.
All right, James Well excuse you from
speaking, if you will do some talking:
a. Did you send $50 bushels of cotton
seed to one candidate for office. this year. to
enable him to do some judlcious political
planting?
Just answer, Yes" or NO." James
You needn't make any speech.
Can you give us a list of 100 men to whom
you have given State seed
Just hand out the list, with the number of
bushels, and don't make any speech about it.
Did you give two offices to gentleman
from Jerusalem, named Louis Garfunkle, liv-
ing in Savannah?
Is he Pure-food Inspector and Fertilizer
Inspector, both, at 500 a month, each?
Just answer eyes," or "No:" we are not
asking for speech.
Your appointee, Mr.. Garfunkle, came out in
the Savannah Morning News, Sunday, en-
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1916-08-31
A Book All Young People Should Read

You hear so much about Caesar
wouldn't you like brief, up-to-date
sketch of his marvellous career, his
creation of the Roman Empire, his
murder and his great funeral?
Wouldn't you like to know about the
noble pair of brothers, the Graceful?
And about Marius and Sylla? And
about the Great instruction of White
Slaves led by Spartacuss
Also the immortal love-storv of
Antony and Cleopatra
All this, and much more you will
find in
The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1916-02-25
Notice!

have sold my agency for Dodge
Bros. Motor Cars IN this territory to
Messrs. Couch a Paxton. who will
In the future give you the same fair
treatment and service that | have
tried to give ycu in the past.
They are well equipped to ave
you the best service possible and they
viii handle a full and complete line
of parts for the Dodge Car.
| desire to thank you for the pa
tronage which you have given mo In
the past and beg to assure you that
this firm will always be ready to
serve you as have in the past.
Yours very truly,
81 FRED A GRAYUM.
The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1916-02-25
Speclul Announcement.

This is to advise the people OF
Snyder and surrounding country,
that while carry a full and COM
plete line of staple and fancy gro
cerles, ! am the only grocery store
that gives Free Mileage coupons on
all cash purchases, This is q new
plan OF profit sharing nature, which
has proven a great success all over
the United States. and II will be to
your interest to call and get the de-
tails of the proposition.
Thanking you for liberal patron
age In the past and soliciting con
tlnuence Of same, am yours truly,
j. w. TEMPLETON.
81.
The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1916-02-25

Mr.. Il. II. Brown who used to live
in Snyder and sell groceries to the
merchants all over this western eoun-
try has been here this week selling
all sorts OF paper. He spent Sunday
hero and had a Joyous time with his
old associations at the Baptist church.
The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1916-02-25

Mr. II. l.. Cox q member Of the
county Commissioners court Of
Wheeler county arrived In Snyder
last Saturday to visit his brother y.
u. Cox ad his sister Mrs. T. j. Black
burn.
The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1916-02-25

G. H. Leath has accepted posi-
ton with Joe Merritt as deputy Tax
Assessor and he and Joe have should
cred their outfits and are now busy
at finding out what the people Of
scurry county are worth.