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Show I COPPER RIVER LOOKS LIKE COMING REGION Charles S. Chandler, the senior moni-er moni-er of the law firm of Chandler &: Quavle. lttorneys for the Nevada Consolidated ' ind other allied Interests, accompanied I his wife, arrived In Ely last night I .rom a three months" vacation trip to klaska. IJnrlng his absence he spent tho t cater pari of his time at Valdez and in the Copper river country, where a umber of Ely people are now operating, lavs the Ely Expoultor. "There Is -a good deal of activilv on i'ie Copper river now." said Mr. Chandler .o an Expositor reporter, "but the ooun-'ry ooun-'ry has not yei been sufficiently devel-i devel-i tped. The Great Northern Development tympany. In which James Thllllpe. Jr.. if New Yoik, u large stockholder inthe Tevarta 'I'lnsolldalod, Is heavily Inter- isted is cluing a great deal of woik there, Mid if plenty of claims wl'il Insure dlvl-'ends dlvl-'ends all the stockholders are destined to become rich. . Edward F. Gray, formerly uipcrlntend-( uipcrlntend-( ml of the Nevada Consolidated. Is gen ial manager of that concern, and James t ''. Gasklll, a nephew of James Phllllns, i-ho wan also connected with the Ne-L Ne-L -ada Consolidated. Is assistant, manager; r I lex McCormack. W. B. Buntln, C. K. Bryant and Hoone are among the other Uly people there. The Guggenheim also tavo large Interests at Copper river, but L iey are not associated villi Phillips. In j lis compnr.v, and I believe that they l .ave valuable ground. "Copper river will not lack railroads, i . 'or four are headed that way now. The I i'nggcnhelins arc fighting to get a road I ;ito that section, and they have started I build from Vnlde:: and another point. j'o Interfere with their p'sns axioliier big I 'orporation Is building roads from the I tame points." |