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VOL. 1 SEWARI), ALASKA, SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 21, 1905 NO. 00
Will ADD TO
WORKING FORCE
Seventy Men now on Way to Seward
and Railroad Company Agent
Promises More.
The railroad company expects soon
to have its working force largely in
creased. Thirty men are on the
Bertha,and the Santa Clara will bring
forty more. Frank Kelly, who was
sent to Seattle by the railroad company
to secure men for the grade, wired a
day or two ago to J. B. Cameron,
engineer of construction, telling of his
success in getting men to send on those
two vessels, and stating that he be
lieved he could send a steerage load on
every steamer.
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Mr. Kelly will remain in Seattle for
some time to employ men for the rail
road. The task will be easier from
this time because hundreds of men
float into the Sound cities from the
harvest fields of Eastern Washington
in October and November, and the
number always exceeds the demands of
city contractors engaged in street im
provements. In the summer the con
tractors often find it hard to get men
enough but in winter there is always a
surplus of laborers.
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FOUND MOUNTAIN OF ORE
H.N. Coleman Says there is Noth
ing but Copper at Latouehe
“ I have heard of a mountain of ore
but 1 never really saw it until I went
up the hill at Latouehe, back of
Beatson's tidewater mine/' said II. N.
Coleman a day or two ago. Anywhere
the surface is scratched copper ore is
in sight. A string of claims which
had only been prospected was sold
recently for $45,000. A man named
Falls bought it and next year will put
in machinery to work it. He repre
sents eastern capital and is living on
the island now to look after the de
velopment work.
“This property was located several
years ago by a prospector named Axel
Linn. He worked at it a little to de
velop it and a foreman for Beat son
went in on it, taking about a one-fourth
interest. They have never spent much
on it, and the $45,000 is nearly all vel
vet to them.
“ 1 agree with the experts who say
that Prince William Sound is banked
with copper ore. It sticks out every
where. The islands adjoining Latouehe
have the same formation and a little
digging anywhere shows copper ore.
Lt looks as though the Held is almost
limitless.’'
father Turnell to Leave
Rev. P. H. Turnell, S. J.. who has
been in charge of the Catholic Church
of the Resurrection since last spring,
will go to Valdez on the Bertha next
week. After a short stay there he will
proceed to Juneau and will probably
iro to Seattle for the winter.
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FIVE STEAMERS
DUE NEXT WEEK
Seward Harbor will Have One or
More Vessels at the Docks
for Several Days.
Next week will be steamer week in
Seward. Four vessels are due to ar
rive in port from Seattle and one from
Nome not later than next Saturday.
These are the Santa (Mara, Santa Ana,
Edith, Dora and Corwin, the latter
from the west.
The Edith should he the first one in.
She is reported to have left Seattle
October 12, but it is understood that
she was to stop at nearly every port on
the coast west of Cross Sound. Her
principal cargo is steel, rolling stock
and explosives for the Alaska ( entral.
She has 1,000 tons of steel rails and
several cars. Hesides the* railroad
cargo, however, she has explosives for
various other ports and these will re
quire great care and extra time for
their discharge.
The Santa (Mara sailed from Seattle
last Wednesday, and should reach
Seward by the outside passage next
Wednesday. Santa Ana sailed the
nju*ht before, but as she comes inside
she cannot reach Seward until October
27. The Dora will follow close behind
the Santa Ana, as she is going back on
her regular run to l nalaska. She was
advertised in Seattle to bring explo
sives, but she cannot carry any beyond
Valdez, as she is a mail and passenger
steamer on the l nalaska run.
Much interest attaches to the arrival
of tlie Corwin as she is expected to
bring a large number of passengers for
Seward. Many of these will be rock
men who will seek work on the rail-j
road tunnels, and some business men j
and mining speculators are known to j
be on the steamer. They are coming j
here to study the possibilities in their j
lines and may remain permanently. It ■
is taken for granted also, that some I
sporting gentlemen will come in order)
to be able to reach the outside when
ever they maybe so disposed. In Nome
thev would be bottled up until next
.Tune unless they should see lit to mush
overland a few thousand miles.
Steamer Bertha Still Expected
Steamer Bertha is still expected.
She has been expected since early
morning. The exact time when she
left Valdez is not known, She arrived
there yesterday morning and it was
then announced that she would sail in
the afternoon. This should have
brought her into Seward before noon
today. It is supposed that she had a
lot of cargo to discharge at Latouche
or Fort Liscum, and it is* a slow job at
either place.
The new schoolhouse on Second
avenue is finished and ready for occu
pancy. Miss Kilpatrick will open
school in it Monday. She has upward
of twenty pupils now. '
CABEESHIP AT
WORK OK LIKE
Burnside Testing Wire Below Sitka
and no News will Come to
this tnd until Monday.
No news came over t lie cable today
because the cableship Burnside is test
in<r the wire below Sitka. She has
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been at work there for several days
and this was the cause of the failure
to receive press messages in Seward
Thursday. Repairs will probably be
completed by Monday, in which case j
there will be no further interrupt ion of
t lie-service.
The Burnside lert Seattle some days
ago to make an inspection of the
Alaska cables, as was announced at the
time in the cable news, it is now just
after the period of submarine storms,
which are liable to injure the cable,
and the line has not been tested
throughout since it was laid last year.
Part of the line below Sitka has not
always worked in a satisfactory man
ner and the cableship experts are in
structed to examine it carefully and
perfect it.
The Burnside will come up on the
line as far as Valdez on its inspection
tour. It will not be necessary to come
to Seward because the line was laid
less than ninety days ago and has
always worked to perfection.
The people of Seward are not likely
to see the cableship again before next
year, when it may come here to extend
the cable to the westward. An effort
will be made to have the next Gon
gress appropriate the gross proceeds
of the AlasKa cable and land wires
and the wireless service across Norton
Sound from Nome to St. Michael for
the further extension of the Alaska
telegraph service. This has been
recommended by Maj. Glassford, Gen.
Greelv and Gen. Williams, com
rnrnder of the military department
which includes Alaska.
If this i> done the cable will be ex
tended n£xt year from Seward to
Dutch Harbor. Gen. Greelv has also
suggested a wireless service from
Seward to St. Michael as more feasible
than a land wire.
Return From Trip up the Line
J. B. Cameron and C. H. Clegg re
turned last night from a trip up the
railroad line. They went as far as
mile 5b, nine miles from Turnagain
Arm, where a grading camp is estab
lished. Mr. Clegg came back li 1 led up
with admiration of the progress made
in construction and grading during the
past few months.
The steady, warm rain of the past
two days has taken the snow from the
peaks adjoining town, which had just
begun to show.
Judge—It is your duty, gentlemen, to
reason with one another. The Fore
man-Some people can’t reason, judge;
they can only argue.—New York Press.
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WILL DEVELOP
PENINSULA COAL
Syndicate Which Located Lands
Above Seldovia Proposes
Immediate Work.
Representatives of the syndicate of
Detroit capitalists who located 12')
coal claims above Seldovia on the east
side of Kenai peninsula last summer
will arrive in Seward in a few daws and
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will proceed to the property and ar
range for development work on an ex
tensive scale. Several men have been
working there since the locations were
made, to expose the outcroppings more
full v.
One of the men. S. Wilcox, has been
in Seward several days to meet his em
ployers. He says the little work done
so far shows that the coal veins are
extensive and probably of first-class
quality. Hart of it is cannel coal. He
says that much of it is good coking coal.
He considers the deposits of better
quality than that now being mined back
of Seldovia, which is a very good heat
ing and steaming coal.
Two other syndicates have located
coal claims in the same vicinity. One
of them is composed of Knglish capital
ists, who are also understoo 1 to be
planning immediate development.
PRECIOUS METALS IN 1904
Director of Mint Gives Out Gold
and Silver Production
Following is the official statement of
the gold and silver produced in the
United States during the calendar year
1904, as furnished by the director of
the mint at Washington, I).
Gold. Silver.
Value. Fine oz.
Alaska .$ 9,034,200 210,800
Arizona . 3,343.900 2,744,100
California . 19,109,000 1.532.500
Colorado . 24,395.800 14.331,000
Idaho . 1,503,500 7,810,200
Montana . 5,097,800 14,008,100
Nevada . 4,037,800 2,095.100
New Mexico ... 381,900 214,000
Oregon . 1,309,900 143,200
South Dakota .. 7,024,000 187,000
Texas . 2,300 409,000
Utah . 4,215,000 12,484,3(H)
Washington ... 327,900 149,900
Wyoming . 10,400 4,400
The total gold production was 80,
723.200: silver, 75,780,100 tine ounces.
The total amount of gold mined was
3,904,980 ounces, and the commercial
value of the silver purchased was $33,
515,938 making the total value of the
two metals $114,239,138. These figures
show an increased production over the
calendar year 1903 of $7,131,500 gold
and 3,480,000 line ounces of silver.
The Seward dancing club gave its
regular fortnightly dance last night in
Moore's hall.
Temperature at 3 p. in. today- 49.