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Hairy V. fiobea, Ownor —-F. B. Camp, Editor.
Entered aa 3iwi -Claie Matter September lad, 1915, at Hit Foot Office «t
Seward, Alaska, Under the Act of March 3, 1379.
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Work of completing buildings and
installing machenery is progreasig so
favorably that the first paper pulp to
bo manufactured in Alaska will be
turned out about Christmas time by
the Alaska Pulp A Paper Co, Snettis
ham, Alaska, according to announce
ments received by the Alaska Bureau
of the Chamber of Commerce.
Extensive plans for development of
the present plant during the coming
year have already been announced by
the company, and include installation
of a now mill five times as large as
the present unit, E P• Kennedy, Presi*.
dent of the Speel River project, is
preparing plans for additional financ
es required for the new mill, which is
to have a capacity of 100 tons. The
company expects to be manufacturing
paper within a year.
Che new plant will be operated, ac
cording to plans now developed, bj
additional water power to be developer
by the Speel River Project. This pro
ject has a potential water power ol
30,000 to 40,000 horse power and is
conceded to be one of the best ir
southeastern Alaska. Only a smal
part of the water power of the project
has been utilised for the plant erectec
this year.
The Department of the Interior ha*
forwarded to the register of the gov
ernment land office at Juneau thirteen
oil leasing and prospecting permits
totaling 28,680 acres, land situated ir
the Katalla, Yakataga and Cold Bay
districts, while the total acreage ol
claims covered by the 300 applicants
for permits filed in Alaska since the
passing of the new oil leasing law last
February' covers 690,333 acres, more
than half of which is located in thf
Cold Bay district, the Alaska Bureau
is advised. In Juneau it is predicted
that spring will see a large number of
prospectors scattered westward from
Cook Inlet, as men intent upon making
oil locations are ready to go into thf.
country.
Five fields are represented inlast
month’s filings . These are Cold Bay
45 claims for 115,200 acres; Iliamna,
seven claims for 17,920 acres; An
chorage, five for 12,800 acres; Katalla,
seven for 10,460 acres, and Aniakchak
Bay, two for 5420 acres . It is known
that in the Aniakchak Held there are
a number of claims located on which \
no applications have yet been filed,
*24 being in a single group. There are
also a large number of preference!
right applications will be Hied of a|
million acres in all Helds have bean
located by oil prospectors.
The Platinum P&lladiunf Producing
Corporation has incorporated with J.
E. Chilberg.' H. R. Chilberg, B. J.
Potheringham, W. L. Grill and Robert
E. Bronson, directors. A. R. Larson of
Ketchikan is Alaskan represntative.
Healey river coal at $9 per ton is
replacing wood at Fairbanks, where
wood now sells in four foot lengths for
about $11 per cord.
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WATER COLOR ENLARGEMENTS
OF ALASKA VIEWS AT SYLVIA’S
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November reports from the office
j of the U. S. Collector of Custom’s at
j Juneau, Alaska, show cdnmerce for
the month amounting to $6,546,457.
With the decrease in salmon ship
j ments, the total commerce of the ter
i ritorv for the month has shown a cor
i responding decrease. November figur
es howevef still show salmon leading
in the vqlue of shipments, with copper
a close second. Twelve thousand
pounds of copper valued at $2,168,584
were shipped south during November.
Shipments of tin ore and concentrates
valued at nearly $10,000 were a feat
ure of Alaskan commerce for Novem
ber. .
New winter mail service has been
inaugurated for Petersburg to consist
,af ten trips between Petersburg and
.Wrangell and Ketchikan before March
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The 1920 annual report of the Gov
ernor of Alaska has just been received
for reference at the library of the
Alaska Bureau, together with latest
, report of the Alaska Agricultural Ex
perimental Stations. The following U.
S. Geoglical Survey bulletins have also
been added to the list available at the
Alaska Bureau:—
443—Mineral Resources of Prince
William Sound, 1910.
>33— Nome and Grand Central Quad
rangles.
538— Geologic Reconnaissance Circle
Quadrangle.
305— EUamar district.
667— Cosna Nowitna region, 1914.
368— Xelchina Susitna region.
599— Porcupine Gold Placer region.
Copies of these reports may be con
flated at the Alaska Bureau of the
Seattle Chamber of Commerce. .
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The business men of Ketchikan
have subscribed $2,500 with which to
send a representative to Washington,
D. C., to induce the department of
justice to support a request for a di
vision of the First Judicial District of
Alaska.
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At the present time all of South
eastern Alaska, otherwise known as
the Panhandle, extending from Skag
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ray on the north to Cape Fox on the
&uth, is served by one federal court.
The court is behind with its work both
it Juneau and at Ketchikan, and it is
cVmed that there is sufficient work
to k< 'p two judges occupied.
The Seattle Chamber of Commerce
is to be asked to aid Ketchikan in se
curing the division of the district.
Reports that natives on the Kusko
kwim River in Alaska are starving are
being investigated by government
agents, according to advices received
by the Seattle office of the Alaska di
virion of the United States bureau of
education from W. T. Lopp, chief of
the bureau, who is at Washington, D.
C.
SPOKANE, Dec, 28— den Hutton,
a junior t Spokane university and
captain of the football team during
the 1220 season/ was reelected grid
tepn leaderW 1921 at a meeting of
school tetter men held here recently.
No candidate opposed Hutton’s race
for the captaincy. He lives at Garfield
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PERT PARAGRAPTHS OF SENSE
AND NONSENSE FOREIGN AND
LOCAL, CAUGHT ON THE
FLY BV “THE HUMAN
TOOTHPICK ”
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In our haste to accumulate wealth;
we have accquired the habit of leaving
community affaire almost entirely to
our elective officials, contenting our
selves with a perfunctory kick when
things dojiot go to suit us. We should
leave the beaten path and take some
,jt* this responsibility upon our own
shoulders. It would be good for the ;
. .mity and even better for us.
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” No man is really rich who is not
greater than his check book.
It looks as if most women had high
ideals when it comes to skirts.
F. 0. B. seems to have arrived in
society. It means,” fetch your own
boose.”
If a girl wants to attract attention
and still not wear extremely short
skirts, she can do it by wearing yellow
spats.
People who live in glass houses
shouldn’t make spectacles of them
selves. •
The fellow who wears a path from
his work to his home will soon wear
himself out
Note:— The following article was
handed to the editor of the Gateway
last night. Mr. Lineke was until re
cently with the Capital at Juneau.
(By Jack Lineke) .
Progress in Alaska during the next
year will be gauged by the measure of
effort exerted by its popuation plus a
measure of government aid calculated
to release the resources of he territory
and place them within the reach of
Alaskans and outside capital. Without
entering into paternalism that would
rob the individual of initiative and
self-reliance it is encumbent upon the
government to exercise liberality in
its dealings with the men who really
have a desire to develop the country,
and suit ts activities to the needs of
each and every center of population
and source of natural resources.
Coincident with this will be neces
sary for each community to inquire
within itself as to just what resource
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is •available for develop ment It will
be necessary for someone to take the
leadership, survey the field and bring
prominently to public notice some
especial resource or industry that may
be made quickly to exert its influence
upon that individual community.
In line with this program the city
of Juneau has just set its frice to the
erection of a great cold storage plant,
and after groping through a mate of
difficulties finally found a way to in
duce outside capital to come in. Next
spring a plant costing in the initial
expenditure $400,000 will be erected.
Bach city and town has some nat
ural resources nearby worthy of con
sideration, and which may Be the key
to prosperity individual and collect
ively. Juneau’s is the halibut industry
as well as the great mines on Gssti
neau Channel. Seward’s maybe some
thing equality as ixapot^at It means
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for sonmeone to discover it
in the absence or iuu lniormauon,
but guided by verbal reports, it would
appear that the city offers opportun
ity for developing natural gas in com
mercial quantities. This would proviso
incentive for the establishment of
some industry demanding cheap fuel
and power. Fishermen report that
crab may be found in sufficient quant
ity to justify a crab canning plant.
Others report the halibut banks suf
ficiently close to warrant their con
sideration in connection With cold stor- ;
ige . Thi 1 there is the codfish induct- j
ry calling for curing and marketing
dried codfish and smoked codfish,
which is rapidly challenging finnan
i a<idie as a smoked f? sh, and which :s
being substituted for finnan haddie in
eastern markets.
Added to these possibilities is timb
er suitable for wood pulp. By proper
logging methods it will be possible to
secure a supply of raw material and at
the same time allow for reforestation
which wil produce timber of better
quality than the present ancient grow
th.
Standing back of these resources ’
nust be a spirit of co-opperation and
esprit de de corps wherein every cit
zen, regardless of his financial stand-■
ing in the community, is willing to
lend financial and moral support to
the man who is trying to solve the ro
blems.
Every indication points to a great
influx of people from the outside dur
ing the coming summer. It will be nec
essary to work out the problems and
have whatever is to be developed in
concrete form for the possible invest
I or. During the quiet winter months
there is ample time to get together
and thresh out the questions involved
and when the steamships begin un
loading their human freight in Seward
there will be something awaiting con
sideration of the man seeking invest
\ent.
In the masure a community exerts
itself in securing capital will remain
the success of its achievement. But
homogeny of effort will prove one of
tiie most valuable assets in its accom
plishment
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Northwestern Dec., 5th via Inside Passage Dec. 11th.
Victoria Dec., 17th via Outside Passage Dec., 22nd.
Northwestern Dec 30th via Inside Passage Jan.; 4th.
Victoria Jan., 10th via Outside Passage Jan., 15th.
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