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SEWARD GATEWAY
PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY
GATEWAY PUBLISHING CO»
SKWAKD. - - AhASKA.
Kilter* «l as Second f!ns% matter August Slth.
tail at ft* |s»stottlce at Scw&nl. Alaska, uti
i! r the .vet of t’otu ii'ss of March H. IKTI».
SIBSCRIPTION IMTtS
One Yctr i in ■' > >'• S3.00
Six Morths ... SI.501
Three M onths - SI 00
Kasicrn olticc ’i.' \tworth TKsMftnr Duluth.
Mttuicso a. (‘has. It Askc. nutWofixed ntrent.
KVITKDAY. SKI T KM HI! It !». l!HV» j
INSURES RUSH WORK
Two ste:un< rs canto to SoxVtml this;
\u'A with i - u ami mutoriftl which
•• j•. *> addition.d . .canty that construe*
: or. on the railroad is to he pU'h'Od to
• ue uttao't. !.*■" than a rmtnth am*
no cal» e br» It t he news that two
hi. contracts ha t hi*On lot for railroad
Work to contractor' wvll known on thej
North I'acitic coa't as extremely *U.C-!
cc"‘nl in tli t hii'i M 'S One week af«]
;ct the contract' wer< '..tied menthols
the contract A 'inns were on the’
wa\ to Sewa11i w ith equipment for the1
wot A. a ui hi >re a w< t v elapses from j
the i.ate of then* Ann n_ in S-ward j
their tasks wilt he under way.
More than h>k» men will he employee
w liter by t la- t ad roan. by Welch :
a..ti company at T.trnSjrain Arm, ami j
t-y Kick and Hart s in the IMacer river j
i itiia .'. It - uneece'siry to draw r
i airt atn to 'l ow w hat that means for
the tro.'th of Sew.ant and the entire!
t ”’ion tributary to rfw* ptitfttui route, t
With'.it a little more than thirty da\-1
■ .eve h y* freighters 1» >v* come to Sew-!
* i , . i > i o • >t carry, *»nd now a.
nth ha*' :-t., a charter* i. Kenat
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TALKING UP CONVENTION
i A’, 'k'l l':>pet's are 1
1 t1 •• ' s* iliti * ' 1' a con- j
. terests aa>I « -!u<' met hod of obtaining}
* iv* „ n4 ioi fro"; » ong'esS.
'some favor convention of the entire
r\ a: loth * o' Southeastern
A:. t.-ksi yro". . pf»'> >sing to include the
■ a st a* f.u*Seward.
S..eh a cotr. <• \ o id doubtless
compli'h '-me gtiml. At h tst it
. • ;Ki bring •> th* alt* lit I« • i of t <>n
■t ss the • ■ '■ i .a- tin:.: ne* (A of ;
A netietnl to tl«* ’■ rt> it ht be o!i- J
it- th Alaska .need* a delegate in j
i . ... :t i‘« pr- . ' • * ' ' • ' -
’ ■ i i**■ ai•** * *
An now the .fapa.i* *e via/ they ,
i * d to t /ht s, u e more. Hr s. ;
im t. * that th J: -ai t!;*• i • ■ irist- ,
1 t mow v i-r ..tut ioi« the Tartars,
ho see tit t" ha\" Arur where the
• I .;•*• Tat k* !• W '1 • aw twice the |
i ta as c» ns* j for BelmontA trol
v ne that h» would have net ived it
h l..ei ttrawji more votes than 'l’eiidy.
The goht s-rih- - *■ -or to 1 coning
* vav to m- ’ Aaska’s lit st hi/rail-1
•o i*i. The i i w *>tv s are all elo e to
th*- AL ska < * a?rAA chi '* n route.
s » Bock* f i r ! ■ * ■ ' ‘ l * lie
« * Miami III Wspap* r 'net,, lie must
li/tiring on a press hurt.au to offset
Tom Lawson and Ida M. Tarhell.
New Mexico is so close ’O TetfA it
might lxr expected to stir up a rough
house now ami then.
HAS BIG STEAM SCHAPER
Nome Man Working Device Which
Scoops Up Three Yards
Drowned'- steam scraper, which is
working on tin beach «t the cast end
nf Nome, i- an improved method dcvi-- !
-1 for working tic gold bearing sand. '
l iii- scrap- r. which i- built without a
«atom, never h avi - the ground, but
-drawn along the iKittom of the cut
mil up an incline to a dump box. It i
-.-unable of handling three yards of dirt
it every movement.
The slum ■ b xe- are i* inches in
w idtli. and tin dump box about 12 feet 1
»\ *i. \ powerful gasoline pump is op ;
■ rated for the purpose of obtahiing a
good sluie*- head.
Schooner Bringing fxpiosives
The schooner Voiante i- somewhere
«n the high seas between Seattle and |
eward with lot) tons of powder and
lUiam te for the Alaska Central rail
oad. She i- nearly due here now but
ompany officials take cognizance of
’ e uncertainty of a windjammer and
• xbvet her w hen she comes
GETS DIRIGO
FOR SEWARD
Alaska Commercial Company Chae
ters l>nn Canal Liner for a
Trip to this port.
The Mourner Dirigo, with a rapacity
of 1,000 ton*, has beeh chartered by
tin* Alaska f Vanniercial Company to
>:iil from Seattle September IT
with as much of the waiting freight on
tin* docks there destined for Seward as
she can carry. .1. .1. McManus, local
agent of the A. C. Company, received
the nows in a cable message Inst night*,
lie state* that the Melville Dollar will,
prohuhh make another trip to Seward I
as tin* freight for this port is increas-'
ing so great ly.
The Diiigo belongs to tin* Alaska j
Steamship Company and has been on
theSkagway run since shortly after
the Klondike strike. She is a passen
ger vessel. Her release even for a
single trip this way exhibits the grow
ing importance of S< ward as compared
with other Vlaska ports. I .very steam
er sailing for mont hs has left freight
on the Seattle docks destined for this
■ *!. ami tin* addition of other v< use Is
has become imperative, as shown hv
charter of the Kdith and Melville
Do Mar from >>< -at t le. as well as t lie Val
encia from San Francisco.
It has been learned from umjuestion'-;
able Seattl* authority that next spring1
s«*. • wo large and f. st steamers in
addition to ih»* present !l****t on the
r* k. alar Seward run h\ the outside pas-:
-i. *. The** steam**rj? "ill run direct j
i S**ward and will make the trip from ,
.Seattle in four days.
il\ sptita; also, it is expected that
Seward u iil he made a port of entry so j
that vessels coming and going from s
. y .out all ports can clear here "ith
l*1jr unu
more freight, several times over. Iris
cuttle t*i Seward than to all other ports
between Juneau and th** Aleutian
chain, yet nearly al vessels run into
Valdez lies! to dis Men***** a f>*w small
packag* s and thou com** on to Seward
wit.’i littiidt' <:> i,f toils. Seward is us
near Seattle »s Valdez and eonsigne**s
here can see no reason why vessels'
should land first at the minor port
when the distance is tin* same.
WHERE THE BIG STRIKE IS
General Description ot Region
Which is Present Rage
TC’ \"aid* z Prospector tints describe* i
the .v.-Mitv in v Idch have been made
th* p|:.*noni* n:d strikes which have so
*-.\ci:**d t he Tuna nut
••The i*i cent discoverin' Of gold in the
’ uana t< _Mon arc out nil* ;s and Gla
cier creek*. both of which are tribu
tat •** of !’>« arpaw cr* **k. which Hows1
.;;’*► the Kai tishna. wliich T turn flows
M.'o th** Tatiana at point about -On
mi!* s below Fairbanks. Hearpaw
creek is about !#oo miles long, and tin*
two creeks named above enter it about i
eighty-fit *■ ndhs :tho\ » its mouth, in]
a country little explored.
•'Tie* Kantishna head- in a large
lake, from which a low portage of nine i
miles lea*;- to th** head of th* east fork j
of th** Kuskok" im."
ALASKA PLACER MINING
Government Engineer Investi
gates and Makes Report
The Or* /on Mining Jouriiel says:
I’i. (.•!'!• mining in Alaska is atVeete*1!
In combtion< which are no* Combined!
in any other Held familiar to American j
miners. Many an old placer mirier oT ;
California ium come to grief in the
northern clime because he was unae \
quainte l with the peculiar conditions j
that exist tin re. During the last three]
vea»*s the Tinted State-Geological Sur
v. v ha- received numerous requests
for information regarding the cost of
•operating gold-bearing alluvial depos
i»- in Alasksl, and tie best irieans of!
work in*/ the claim in ’he various dis->
taicts. To collect data for a report j
which should embody such information; I
the Geological Survey sent C. W. Pur-!
ington. a mining engineer or Denver.
Colorado, to Alaska ouring the lielJ
season of l!H)4.
Tlic main objects of this report have
been to determine the most expeditions
way of getting out the auriferous ma
terial- -gravel, sand or bed rock and
the cost of so doing; the l*e-t methods
of hydraulic mining: the cost of remov-j
ing overburden under each set of con
ditions and of handling the tailings:
the capacity and cost of installing me
chanical methods; the cost capacity
and adaptability of the methods era
DR. C. T. DAS&'ETT
DENTIST i
S, E. Cor Fourth Ave. and WashiniAon St.
SEWARD »• - ALASKA
DR. C, L. HALE
DENTIST
Over Brown & Hawkihs’ stohe
j SltWA^D - - - ALASKA
H. R. HILDRETH
NOTARY PUBLIC
and CONVEYANCER
Abstracts of Vitle to Vb in in'/ ‘and town
property furnished Examination and
reports mude oirftnj property. _
SEWARD - - ALASKA j
_
CECIL H. CLEGG
A'ttokney-at-law
i Fourth Avonue. - Seward, Aka.
E. R. GRAY
NOTARY PI RLIC
S FAY A It I) ALASKA
O. LASCY
II. S. DTP. MINERAL and LAND
StRUYOR FOR U1F DISTRICT OF ALASKA
ri> i| Fn£itYetM\ and Land and Min
ing Attorney. Address Seldovia, I
Alaska, or in eare of Mail A«jent.
Si earner DoYa.
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FRANK H. LASCY
U. S. MINERAL and LAND
Surveyor for the District of Alaska,
and NOTARY PUBLIC
Addles; Seldovia. ( ook Inlet. Alaska,
or care Mail A«rent. Steamer Dora
ployed to thaw frozen gravel: and the
must feasible method of m'miny in little
de\ eh >ped dist riots.
Whih many of the figures presented
in this bulletin an* subject to lluctuut*
ion. vet as a comparative slddy of min
ing method'- Mr. PurirtgtotPs report
will undoubtedly he a valuable and
permanent contribution to mining lit
eratim*. It is published for general
distribution anu may bo obtained, free
of charge, on application to the direc
tor of the I'nited States (ieoluyical
Survey, Washington, 1). (A,
TRACK TO JOHNSON CREEK
Alaska Central Now Ha’s Rails
Laid Thirty-three Miles
Thirty-throe miles of track are now
laid ami in operation on the Alaska
i entral. the rails stopping just short of
Johnson creek, across which the bridge :
s not quite finished, (muling work is
proceeding rapidly in the Johnson creek
canyon and it is expected that track
will Im* laid to mile 45 by the middle of
Octobt-r. That will end track-laying
for this season, because between that
point and t h<* tunnels. whichareon mile
52. heavy rock work is encount
crod which will require several months.
The completion of the track for 45
miles will facilitate the carrying of
materials and provisions to the men .
engaged on the rock work just, beyond
and in the tunnels. Along the seven;
miles from the end of *he track to the
his' tunnel hundreds of men will he
employed all winter, hut it will nut he
difficult to furnish the iVc’,*>sary sup
plies which they will use, when tin*
roads run close to them.
With three engines, A Ad the addi
tional fiat.cars which came up on the
Kdith. supplies art* rushed through:
much faster th«n formerly. Still the
discharge of a big cargo like that of
the Melville Dollar makes lively
freight business for a few days. .
Joseph McDonald Dead
(nit idc newspapers bring the news
that Joseph McDonald, formerly super- 1
intendent of the Treadwell mine at;
Douglas island,* was drowned in aj
cloudburst recently in Mexico. He.
was a brother of Patrick McDonald,
who was fobnd dead in bed a few day-- j
ago :»t r’.imp 44 of the Alaska Central, j
Going to Knik?
'ihe shortest route to the placer ant*
quartz lields on the Matanuska. Knik j
;tr>d Sushetmi, hikers is via Knik Voo
can outtit at Knik (two stores) Provis
ions, Hardware, Camp outfits etc. Call
on the Knik Cash Store. Quality of
floods the best. Prices right, you save j
more tkun the freight. We sell at coast'
prices.
Ketchikan has organized a camp of |
the Arctic Brotherhood. It is num- 1
her 20. I
SEWARD ElEL COMPANY
COAL SHEDS AT FOOT OP SECOND AVE., SEWARD
Coal! Gasolene! Wood
Coal at shod $10.00 per tort bulk, or $! 1 00 sacked
Gasolene by the case $0.00; ft gallon can $d..">0.
PROMPT DELIVERY, Offices at Pier I or Yakotat Lmbr to.
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HOTEL McNEILEY
"■= EUROPEAN PLAN =====
ACCOMMODATIONS STRICTLY l«TRST CLASS
Rates 50c_to $2.00 per day
Will A. McNEILEY, Proprietor
FOURTH AVKltl’K SKWAIU), ALASKA ^
STOVES AND RANGES
. Wholesale and Retail
TIN, BRASS AND SHEET STEEL WORK
JOBBING AND PLUMBING A SPECIALTY
) It) Winchester Repeating Rilies. Axes. Saws
large Assortment of Tents. Granite and Tinware
I ! ft RAFF
. Ecaa. SEWARD. ALASKA
THE ALASKA TRANSFER
CHRISTIENSEN &. LAUBNER. Proprietors
Pianos and Safes Moved
Give us your qrders for Coal &. Wood
Gener^ Forwarders PHONE MAIN Seward. Alaska I
3 j inn O.CT r* The new Lumcer Yard hy
L U § v B EL n the Glacier Staeam.
Slock now complete liriek. Litrm, Commit. Windows,
Window Framos and Doors.
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|MORTHERN ftALOON~
WHITTEIYIORE, & SMITH PROPRIETOR
WjNES1_L!Q.UORS AND CIGARS
FOURTH AVE. SEWARD. ALASKA
HE COMMERCE
FOURTH AVENUE
! A (imitlmnan's Resort and Club Rooms.
FURNISHED ROOMS
We Purchase Gold Dust at Regular Rates
PETERSON &. BROWN, Proprietors
oard of Trade
I'ourtti iivcniK', Seward, Alaska
Only the choicest goods dispensed
Club Rooms in connection
Furnished Apartments up stairs
New. Neat and Comfortable. t- V. THOMAS, Prop.
MINING AND REAL ESTATE RECORDS
V* , *
He cord of Mining Locations, r «nsfer
Etc., Recorded in the Office ot U. S.
Commissioner
LOCATION NOTICES
A eg. :i Chas. A. Tecklenburg. 20
acre quartz claim Sunny bay. V.
C. Wulf, F. C. Thornton, Minnie E.
Thornton, Chas. Carstou, each 20 j
acre quart* claim, Sudny bay.
Aug. o W. W. McAlpine et al., 12o
coal claims. Anchor Point, Cook.
Inlet.
Aujfi 8—H. T. Hempstead, one coal,
claim, Anchor Point
/iSg. 14--Peter Jacobson, 20 acre
quart* claim, mile 18 adjoining
Alaska Central Railway track.
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Aug. lf> H. N. Anderson, 20 acre
quartz claim on Fall Creek near
Sunrise.
Aug. 21 Jas. Wilson. H. I*. Wybrant.
H, H. Hildreth', each 20 acre plac
er claim, Fresno creek.
Ang. 30 J. W. Sumrall. Ii. Anderson
and It. It. Abney, 7040 acres placer
ground, Kings Bay eight river.
Df*EPS
Aug. 12 F. L'. Balluine to M*. H. Parker
lot 21 blk„ 4 SeWaril, *300.
Aug. 14 U. N. Gravert to C. F. Hew
itt, one-fourth interest in ClitT
claims, No’s 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 0, ad
joining Seward.
Lot for rent or lease.—Mrs. Stull.