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SEWARD, ALASKA, FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 17. 1913.
All the strikes made in Alaska were made by men who were out of a
job. If all the nun in Alaska had been profitably employed all the time the
country would never have been developed even to the present extent. It was,
indeed, once said wittily that a prospector in Alaska is a man out of a job.
You will notice all the time that when a man has no employment he calls
himself a miner. In doing so he is telling a lot of truth because when a man
has no employment in this northern territory he turns to the hills and creeks,
ami he may turn to them for more than one purpose. He may go out and
prospect or he may go out and pretend to prospect to make his credit good.
In the Atlin country in the old days when the pay was very slim the phrase
“standing off the grocer” was a regular synonym tor prospecting or even
mining.
These are some of the little things which one has learned by long years
in the territory. They are things which new arrivals cannot see. and no one
could expect outsiders to see them, so the result is that people who do not
know Alaska are the people who warn men to keep out.
It might be respectfully suggested to Secretary Lane that the best way
in which to develope the country around the railroad would be to send as
many broke men as possible in there. That is men who, though broke, have
a backbone that isn’t broke. That is an exaggerated way, perhaps, of point
ing out a lesson but there is a lot of reason in it as most thinking sourdoughs
will tell you. A wealthy man never made a discovery in Alaska. It is pretty
safe to say that, and it is even safe to say that no men who ever had a job
in Alaska ever discovered anything.
Dawson was discovered by a squawman. Nome by herders, Fairbanks by
a Jap and so on almost all the way down the lino.
To go back to a subject which is often dwelt upon: Do the mining men
of the Kenai peninsula and the other districts around it ever feel that some
M»rt of an organization of themselves would aid in the development of the
country ? At a first glance, at least, it looks as if a well organized body of
men who are engaged in mining could perform an immense lot of good for
the district and, therefore, for themselves individually. I he first great dif
ficulty in all mining camps is to get the first representatives of great capital
interested. It has been seen in the Iditarod, Ruby, Nome, Dawson and various
other places that very great capital is slow to take hold. Its speed, indeed,
seems to be in inverse ratio with its bulk, so to speak. The greater the capital
the slower its action, as in the case of heavy animals, and the more cautious.
Depending on individual action owners of mines ami districts have had their
development delayed unnecessarily, lhe country tributary to Seward has,
r.nyhow outside of Juneau, the finest quartz prospects in Alaska. Now, min
ers: Wouldn’t organization and concentrated action bring quicker results ?
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THINKS WELL OF
BROAD PASS COUNTRY.
William Singer, one of the best
known mining men in the western
country, who has passed the past
seasons in the Broad Pass country
where he has claims, writes his
friend W. E. Ervin that he has faith j
that the Broad Pass country will turn
out allright. Transportation is the
thing nece>sary for the development
of the camp, in his opinion. He say*
there is plenty of ore in sight. The
thing to be definitely determined is
the matter of values contained in the
ores. The Guggenheims, he writes,
have not done enough work to deter*
mine, one way or another, as to the
merits of the district. Mr. Springer
is expected out from the Broad Pass
any day now.—(Pioneer.)
The tax roll for 1915 of the town of
Ketchikan shows a total assessed
valuation of property of $1,172,750,
an increase of about 100 per cent in
the last six years.
Rainproof clothing. Urbach’s.
COOK INLET PIONEER
BUYS CORDOVA ALASKAN.
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Editor Shaw Makes Deal with Will
Steel and Anchorage, will
Have a Dally.
L. F. Shaw, editor of the Cook In
let Pioneer, and formerly editor of j
the Seward Gateway, left on the1
Farragut last evening to take pos- :
session of the plant of the Cordova
Alaskan which he has purchased from
Will Steel and which will be shipped
to Anchorage for the purpose of con
verting the Pioneer into a daily pap- ;
er. Mr. Steel passed by on the last,
boat and probably would have started !
a daily in the new railroad city him
self had not the owners of the Pioneer
decided to take his plant. Now, how
ever, he will give up the idea as he
feels that none of these towns have
reached the two daily paper stage at
present. He concluded the same
about Cordova and developments
have proved him right. The plant of ,
the old Cordova Alaskan will be
brought at once to Anchorage and the
daily paper will soon be issued. The
Gateway and the Pioneer have mad*
arrangements by which they become
mutual correspondents.
TAKE FIRST STEP FOR
NATION’S NAVAL DEFENSE.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 16.—Presi
dent Wilson, Secretary Daniels of the
navy department and the chairman of
the house naval committee will hold a
conference on Saturday at which will
be decided the first step to be taken
for the increase of the naval defense
of the country. It is expected that
the question will occupy very largely
the attention of congress at the com
ing session.
Miss Matilda Krogman, a pretty
round tripper from Ia)s Angeles on
the Farragut, came to the Gateway
last evening to enter a protest be
cause the vessel visited Seward at i
night going both ways. “To think”
quoth she “that I visited Beautiful
Seward twice and cannot see it, and j
Seward the most famous of all the j
Northland places.”
New consignment of Libb's apple
butter—twenty-five cents per can.
Brown & Hawkins, “Quality First.”
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C()NTENTS — September Number
Special Articles
GOVERNMENT RAILROAD—By Thos. Riggs, Member Gov't. Engineering
Commission.
PEN PICTURE OF VAST ALASKA—By William Sulzer, Former Governor
of New York.
MINING DEPARTMENT.
Mine* in Alaska are Given Review.
Mining at Port Wells.
Review of Work in Chisana.
Review of Quartz Mines Along {'oast.
Gold Handled by Assay Office.
Willow Creek Work.
Sulzer Copper Property.
Copper Activity Boon to Alaska, etc, etc.
OPINIONS OF ALASKA.
Editorial Expressions of tho Papers of the Territory.
ALL-ALASKA.
Condensed News From all Parts of the Territory.
THE FUR INDUSTRY.
Review of the Conditions Shown by Latest Fur Sales.
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FISHERIES.
Westward Fishing Had Poor Season.
Ships Lost in Alaska Waters—The Antiquity of Alaska— Discovery of the
Klondyke—Meanings of Indian Names in Alaska-—Number of Passengers
to Alaska, etc, etc, etc.
EDITORIAL.
News of All Parts of the Territory Price, $2.50 Kiu
The Place Where Men Outfit
In an affair of this kind we be
lieve it is well to take the public into
our confidence and tell them the truth
and all of the truth. On next
Monday, September 20th
wc have decided to offer to the public our entii e
stock of high grade merchandise at practically
landed cost. The truth of the matter is just this:
We Are Overstocked
All this past summer we have been expecting the big
gest kind of a boom, and to be in a position to take
advantage of this boom when it arrived we have been
ordering—and ordering plenty of the best in every line
that it has been possible to buy. We have no old stock
on hand, all new, clean, high grade merchandise, and
and we tell you frankly that there is not one article
that is offered for sale that we do not personally guar
antee, and our personal guarantee means money back
if the goods are not just as we represent them to be.
NOTHING HELD BACK-EVERYTHING GOES
The reduction in prices applies on everything in stock; there are
no “hold outs,*" and we guarantee the bona fidenets of the sale
as we guarantee the goods we are offering for sale.
OUR STOCK INCLUDES:
Dress Shirts flannel Shirts Stag Shirts
Working Shirts Summer Underwear Winter Underwear
Union Suits Collars Ties Suspenders
Handkerchiefs Gloves Mitts Hats Caps
Toques Scarts Woolen Sox Lisle Sox Cotton Sox
Cashmere Sox Mackinaw Coats Sweater Coats
Jerseys Sport Coats Kenyon Raincoats Balmacaans
Weatherproof Coats Overcoats Stein Bloch Suits
Shoenbrun Suits Canvas Duxbak Corduroy
Moleskin Whipcord and Tin Pants
Hipress Rubber Boots and Shoe Pacs
Gold Seal Rubber Boots and Packs
Shoes for Dress and the Hills
Blankets Quilts Tents Tarps Etc. Etc.
For Prices See the Gateway Saturday
THE MINER’S STORE
PRANK J. COTTER, Manager ,
Phone Adams 131 “Don’t Forget the Parcel Post.” Seward, Alaska
THURSDAY, SEPT. 30 sale closes THURSDAY, SEPT. 30TH