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SEWARD, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9. 1916.
The establishment of a mill of forty stamps capacity on the Independ
ence mine on Willow creek is one more circumstance going to show what
great poss ibilities the future holds for this region. No matter what we might.
say about any other industry mining is the easily greatest resource of this
territory. The Independence mine has been operated on a small scale for
years and now it has been found worthy of the investment of the large sum
of money which such a mill entails, a fact which points out again the old
truth that time is required to prove a mine and that we have the mines to
prove.
This part of Alaska is unquestionably the greatest of all in mineral
resources. Perhaps there has never been in this or any other territory so
generally mineralized countr\ as we can boast of. C»o where you will we
have quartz prospects, and even placer prospects, which would cause stam
pedes ir any other section anywhere. It sometimes seems as if we have too
many prospects anil too many ledges in sight. Many a man in the stampede
days lost fortunes because he was unable to settle down to prospect one bit
of ground owing to the tantalizing number of claims he could choose from.
Right in this section now we have too many promising quartz properties for
the number of miners at hand to prospect them, but that day is coming to
an end.
If there k anything required more than another to hasten the day of'
real mining in this region it is the proving of the value of one mine as that
of the Independence has been proved. Get one really successful mine and
the rest will follow, and the country tributary to Seward is on the threshold
of proving many more than one.
At the Empress Theatre here some days ago were shown most interest
ing pictures of the sea lions or hair seals, or whatever is their proper name.
Out at the entrance to Resurrection Bay those scenes may be witnessed.
The place is said to be literally teeming with the animals but the most in
teresting fact connected with them is that they are accused of keeping the
fish out of the bay. It has been suggested that they ought to be destroyed
and the idea is a good one if the means for doing so could be supplied. To
kill brutes that can take to the water so easily looks like a grownup man’3
job. They could be poisoned, of course, but it would probably require hun
dreds of men with guns to kill them. Ah, well; some day we shall have
those fortifications here and a few 72 centimeters can be turned on the sons
o’ guns. The only thing is the diving; but then the city council or some other
public body could pass a few' resolutions and get a fleet of submarines sent
up. The government doesn’t care a hang about the sea lions or the Japs.
‘Tis the resolutions that scare it to death.
Athletic Jersey sweaters, assorted I
colors with contrasting stripes; just
the thing for winter wear, $3.30 each, j
Brown & Hawkins, “Quality First.” j
Diamond “W" and Magnolia brands
steel-cut coffee.—URBACH'S.
Dry goods at Butta.
A NEW DISCOVERY
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Stampede to the Miner's Store and stake a claim while
you have 3 chance to get in on the pay streak. We just
opened a new one when we unpacked our new line of
Schoenbrun samples for Spring and Summer 1916. There
has never been a better line of samples exhibited in Sew
ard. The styles and fabrics are strictly up-to-date and
the prices arc within every man’s reach. Come in and
prospect the line N 0 W and we can take your measure
anytime.
While you are getting to bedrock on the suit proposition,
better have your partner do a little prospecting on the
benches. He’ll make some discoveries there in A L L
KINDS OF MEN’S FURNISHINGS that will
not only be interesting, but will mean a grub stake saved
for both of you when you get ready to outfit
We handle a complete line of furnishings for every man,
no matter what his profession may be.
Don't stake any claim in the clothing line until you have
prospeetd our store.. The quality of our goods will speak
for themselves and the prices are RIG H T.
THE MINER’S STORE
FRANK J. COTTER, Manager
Phone Adams 131 “Don’t Forget the Parcel Post” Seward, Alaska
BIOGRAPHIES
OF CONGRESS
I I .!■ —
PATRIOTS BEGIN TO CUT OUT
ALL THE ROT ABOUT
FARMS.
(Special to Gateway by United Proas)
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2. — The
gentle gilx's of the heartless scribes
in the house and senate press gal
leries, the scribes aver, are respon
sible for the almost total absence
from this year’s Congressional direct
ory of the once numerous annual crop
of autobiographers of “self-made"
solons. Mighty few of the extraor
dinary large number of new congress
men this year dwell upon the days in
the log cabin and tho hardships of
early youth. Some men who former
ly took much space to tell about
themselves now win distinction by go
ing to the opposite extreme.
Minority Leader Mann made one
mistake in his brief description of
himself. He wrote: “James R.
Mann, Republican, of Chicago, was
born in 1856; elected to the fifty-fifth
and succeeding congresses. Member
of hte Banking and Currency Com
mittee." This last statement got in
to the proof sheets of the directory,
but the committee makers did not put
Mr. Mann on the B & C committee.
Here is a notable sample of
Brevity.
"Thaddeus H. Caraway, Democrat,
Jonesboro.”
This is a whole story of the life of
the Representative of the First dis
trict of Arkansas as told by the mem
ber himself in the directory.
The member from the Fourth dis
trict of the same State says of him
self:
“Otis Wingo, Democrat, of De
Queen, member of Sixty-third Con
gress, re-elected to Sixty-fourth Con
gress.”
There is another brief sketch in
the directory which records modestly
the story of the rise to political fame
of a Western Senator. The story' wa»
first told with more regard for detail.
Then somebody gave him a “hunch”
and he beat the jokesmith to it by a
neck and stopped the proofs and now
three lines tell the story*.
Colorado has a delegation in the
House that reads like this: Repre
sentative Ben Clark Hillard “was
born in a log cabin on a farm eight
miles north of Osceola, Clarke
county, la.’*
Representative Charles Bateman
Timberlake: “His boyhood was spent
on a farm.”
Representative Taylor: “Spent his
oarly life on a farm and stock ranch.”
Probably the lhost interesting nar
rative of one’s self in the director}' is
that of James Harvey Davis of Texas,
“Cyclone” Davis, as he i« technically 1
known in the nomenclature of politi
cal explosives. Mr. Davis takes up
some space to tell about this matter
as follows:
“In debating the money question
with Gen. Watt Hardin in 1892 at the
Captitol Building in Frankfort, Ky.,
he was reported by the Cincinnati In
quirer and Chicago papers as “Texas
Cyclone,” under which title over half
of his mail is now received.”
The final triumph is recorded as
follows:
“Was elected to the Sixty-fourth
Congress with the Hon. Jeff Mc
Lemoro (chosen to fill a temporary
vacancy) a colleague, receiving some
200 votes less than his colleague, an
alleged penalty for not having always
been a “collar’ Democrat, and heavily
scratched by rabid antis.”
The “colleague” to whom Cyclone
Davis refers adds a bit of spice to
the Texas delegation chronicles. “Jeff
McLemore,” as he signs himself,
pleads guilty to having been born “on
a farm two miles west of Spring Hill,
Maury county, Tennessee. “He adds
that the event occurred on “Friday,
the 13th of March,” and “who’s afraid
“in a storm.”
“He is a bachelor and a newspaper
man.” says he.
“Had but little schooling,” writes
Jeff McLemore, “because of his aver
sion to teachers, and as a pupil never
saw the inside of a school room after
he was 14 years old.”
HENRY FORD.
Henry Ford has been called a jack
: ass and a clown because he hired a
| ship and sailed across the sea to
stop the most frightful slaughter the I
world has ever known. The big thing
in his action is not the question
whether he will or will not stop the
: war, but the fact that he is willing to
try! It was by trying that he got:
i
j where he is. But still he keeps on
trying.
In the face of overwhelming odds,
in spite of a world-wide criticism, he
is willing to undertake the greatest1
job that ever fell to the lot of a
human being in the world’s history.
He brushes aside the thousands of!
columns of newspaper criticisms, he
i ignores the public utterance of so
called statesmen, he sets his face to
ward the most glorious goal that any
mail ever hoped to achieve—and goes
on his way Trying.
So far, he is the only person who
has taken a definite step toward end
ing the war. True it may not be the
right step, you get that by trying.
The men who sit in swivel chairs and
sneer and make funny jokes about
j that man Ford are not taking steps of
| any kind to end the war. The job
i looks too big and too hopeless to
! them. It looks big to Ford and may
| be it looks hopeless to him. But he’s;
got the nerve to try and spends his
own money. Asking aid of no man.
What a nation this would be, if each
industry could be headed by a Ford
who was willing to try, what chance
would any other nation under the sun
have with us. What if more of us
were willing to try and less of us
were slaves of convention and
creatures of habit. There is a word
in the dictionary’ called can’t, leave it
there. Never use it. Well we’ve been
“Henry Fording’* it for the past
twelve years, and expect to keep right
at it, until the Powers that be, ami
the Engineers that direct it, awaken
to the fact that Seward is the Begin
ning and Final jumping off place of
construction of Government railroads
in Alaska. In the meantime, we have
plenty time and help to serve you.
Best treatment, best price, and sure
ly the Best Goods.
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Long distance telephone booth at
The Branch.
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Seattle, Wn.
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ALASKA ELECTRIC CO.
S. M. CIRAFF
President and General Manager
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J. M. SLOAN, M. 0., C. M.
OVER GATEWAY
Office Hours, I to 3 and 7 to 8 P. M.
Formerly or Nome.
M. 8. COBLE, M. 0.
Physician and Surgeon
OVERLAND HOTEL
PHONE MAIN 120
J. H. ROMIG, M. D.
OFFICE THIRD AVENUE
Phone Main 48
DR. O. J. KEATING
Dentist
Office Over Harriman National Bank.
Hours I) a M. to 5 p. M.
JAMES McCOY
Mines and Investments
Fourth Avenue
SEWARD, ALASKA
F. A. Stkvkns O. J. Van 1‘ki.t
STEVENS & VAN PELT
Attorneys at Law
SEW Alt D, — ALASKA
LEANDER L. JAMES, JR.
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Otfer Bank of Seward
SEWARD. - ALASKA
WM. D. COPPERNOLL
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Daooett Block, Seward, Alaska
THE ALASKA HOUSE
ANCHORAGE. ALASKA
Warm Rooms First-Class
Rates Reasonable
BILLY PETERSON & D. TURCATTE, Props.
Seward Water
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Power Company
John A. Nelson, Manager
Office-Bank of Seward Building
SEWARD. - ALASKA
ROMIG & ROMIG
REAL ESTATE AGENTS
Houses for Rent, Rents Collected,
Titles Examined, Lois for Sale.
Large Listing.
Phone Main 48 Seward, Alaska.
Igloo No. 9,
Order of Pioneers
Mectn the First and Third Tuesday Nitfhts
of oaoh Month at the Pioneer Hall.
LEANDER l. JAMES, Jr. ISAAC EVANS,
Preside.', Secretary
Arctic Brotherhood
Camp Seward No. 21
Meets every Monday at 8 p. m. at theti
Bail, Cor. WashintrtoD and .5th Ave.
PERCEY PULLEN. F. 0. ENNIS.
Arctic CWef. Arctic Recoidrr
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Contractors and Builders
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SEWARD, • • ALASKA
Choice Fresh Meats
Hams, Bacon and Lard
Butter and Eggs
ASHCROFT HOME BAKERY
Bread, Rolls, Doughnuts, Cakes, Pies, Pastry
Only Unbleached Flour Used, which Insures Bread without any
Chemical Impurities.
PHONE YOUR ORDER_ PHONE ADAMS 115
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Headquarters for Mining Men
SEWARD, - - - ALASKA
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Hotel > N0 BAK
L/WX j Accommodations for Ninety Guests
f. u. cannon, Prop, j Large General Lobby
ICtllk Private Lobby for Ladies
* • - ; Best Rates : : Best Treatment
/\1QSK3 Best Accommodations
ADELMAN & QIILTY—SEWARD DAIRY
MILK AND CREAM
Cottage Cheese and Butter
YIILK STATIONS AT BOTH BUTCHER SHOPS
THE SEWARD LIGHT AND POWER CO.
Incorporated November 1905 under the Laws of the Territory of Alaaka
S. M. GRAFF, President and General Manager
Oontroctora and dealer! In Electric Suppliei and Apparatui
onic# At the Station. TELEPHONE MAIN 12S
H.V. HOBEN A. F. DAVIS
ALASKA TRANSFER
H. V. HOBEN, Manager
-Dealers in-—
COAL, WOOD AND ICE
General Transferring Phones, Main 17 and 41
ALASKA WSSST.. W
Steamers Alameda and Northwestern sail from
Seattle at 9 p. m. the IOth, 20th and 30th of each
month tor Ketchikan, Wrangell, Juneau, Cordova,
Valdez and Seward.
DORA leaves Seward about the 17th of each month for llnalaska, and In
May, June, July and August she floes through to Nushagak.
Regular freight service for Ketchikan, Wrangell, Juneau, Thane,
Treadwell. Douglas, Skagway, Cordova, Ellamar,
Valdez, Latouche and Seward
Freight Steamers sailing from Seattle each month: S. S. Seward. 5th;
S. S. Latouche, 15th; S. S. Cordova, 25th
(S. S. Seward carries Explosives)
C3TRight reserved to change this schedule without notice-^
F. B. TRACY, General Agent A. H. Me DON A LD, Age-1
ORE TREATED
H. E. ELLSWORTH, Assayer and Chemist
A Complete Equipment for Mining A I rK k /I
and Technical Determinations Ov
FURNITURE AND HARDWARE
COAL MINLR’S AND COLD MINER’S SUPPLIES
Doors 8l Windows Gasoline R,f!e*
Lang’s Ranges Gas Engine Oil Shot Guns
I XL Parlor Heaters Marine Engine Oil Ammunition
Gasoline Stoves Valve Oil Pishing tackle
Cook Stoves Elaine Oil Giant Powder
Camp Stoves P'loor Oil
Air Tight Heaters Linseed Oil ruse
Oil Stoves Cup Grease Bench Forges
Alcohol Stoves Paints Blacksmith s Coal
Spark Plugs Lacquerct Paint Bellows
Jump Coils Asphaltum Paint Wheel Barrows
Batteries Brushes Cutlery
Granite Ware Varnishes Fi**® Clay
Aluminum Ware Turpentine Pire Brick
Asbestos Japan Lime
P <fe B Paper Denatured Alcohol Cement
Makhoid Roofing Coal Tar Glass
Tar Paper Lamps Rope
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