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TRYING TO UNLOCK ALASKA
Efforts by the delegate and chairman of the coal pro
duction committee of the National council of defense, to
unshackle Alaska may jar on the sensibilities of the ultra
conservationists, but they make the tinkle of sweet music
in Alaskan ears.
Locking up Alaska, was once a popular pasttime and
most everyone looking to please the public had a hand in it.
Conservation is a great thing, but the only idea of con
servation as practiced by the redoubtable Pinchot, was to
tie up all undeveloped resources of the west and Alaska,
while the owners of the eastern resources waxed fat and
wasted riotously. It never seemed to have dawned on
folks until just recently that conservation of natural re
sources can be practiced both in thoroughly developed as
well as new land.
Just so much coal is needed, regardless of whether it is
mined in Oregon. West Virginia or Alaska.
True conservation means mining of that coal at a
point nearest the places of consumption, thus conserving
the waste of rolling stock on the railroads for unneces
sary long hauls.
True conservation means utilizing the coal and not
wasting its products.
The greatest waste of coal in the western hemisphere
occurs in West Virginia and Pennsylvania fields, where
old-fashioned coke ovens are used. Millions upon millions
of dollars’ worth of gas and other by-products of high
grade bituminous coal are allowed to filter into the upper
atmosphere, there to produce coke at about $2 per ton.
Probably the men responsible for this waste were the
greatest boosters for conservation in Alaska—here where
we are still paying $17 per ton for an inferior product
hauled 2,000 miles to the terminal of the government rail
road, soon to be completed, 191 miles from the richest coal
field on the western coast of North America.
Congress might well hop on the coal barons of the
East and force them to erect by-product coke ovens.
A little more liberality in dealing with those desiring
to open Alaska resources would enable delivery of high
grade coal on this coast and relieve ships and cars used in
hauling fuel from the eastern fields.
More power to the men engaged in trying to turn the
kev in the lock on Alaskan resources.
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.ALASKAN EXPORTS
The greatest trouble with Alaska in an economical
sense is that it exports too much raw material and spends
too much money in other ways outside. The government is
now cruising for pulp wood an diet us hope that when the
time comes to make the pulp the wood will not be shipped
outside but will be manufactured into the finished product
right here. This will make the pulp cheaper and will keep
the money in the territory. The same hope holds good with
respect to the manufacture of aeroplanes from Alaska
lumber. In buying goods out merchants have to buy from
middlemen very often, or from commission men and our
fishermen have to sell to middlemen instead of getting
more of the benefit of the final price of the fish. Even our
copper ore is shipped outside to be smelted. Our furs are
shipped out in the raw state and treated outside. Hun
dreds of other drains could be mentioned but they are
mostly unavoidable in a rather remote and new country,
although the government could aid quite a bit in stopping
this drain by building its own smelter, its own pulp mill
and in other ways. Indeed, if the United States wants an
other empire added to it quickly it will pay more attention
.0 such facts.
The importance of having pulp, for instance, manu
factured her instead of merely shipping out the timber, is
shown by figures of the paper and wood pulp industry. The
value of that product in the United States is two hundred
and sixty-seven million dollars annually, and the value ad
ded bv the manufacture is one hundred and two millions.
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Resurrection Valley I therefore invite
inquiries from those that contem
plate the purchase of any number of
acres. The success with which all of
those who have already bought
acreage in the Ole Martin homestead
are meeting in cultivating these lands
is the best evidence you can secure of
what the soil can do.
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8 l-2c pound for lead.
$2.75 a hundred for rags.
$33 ton for cast iron.
27 l-2c pound for copper.
5c pound for rope.
18c pound for brass.
7 l-2c pound for rubber.
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SERVICE
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. Sailings from Seattle: Northwestern .June 10
^ Alaska .June 7* Alameda.June 25
Mariposa .June 13 Alaska .June 30
All ships go through to Anchorage.
All passenger ships will touch at Skagway northbound. rl he Alameda
and Mariposa will be the only ships to call at Skagway southbound.
For further particulars of service, rates, apply to Agent.
A. H. MCDONALD, Agent.
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General and Seward in Particular an
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ing information as to tin* value of real estate and business opportuni
ties are requested to address their communications to
INFORMATION DEPARTMENT, SEWARD
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C. E. ORLANDER
SUCCESSOR TO
GEORGE THE JEWELER
Notice to Creditors of Charles James
Alexander, Deceased
The creditors of the state of Charles
James Alexander are hereby notified
that the undersigned, J. Lindley Green,
has been appointed administrator of
said estate and all creditors of said
estate are hereby notified to present
their claims, with the proper vouchers
attached, to me at my office, over
Bank of Seward, in Seward, Alaska,
within six months from the date of the
first publication of this notice. Date
of first publication June 10, 1017.
J. LINDLEY GREEN,
July IS Administrator.
CHARLES CRAWFORD
GENERAL BLACKSMITH
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The Gateway of
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TERMINUS U. S. GOVERNMENT RAILROAD
Best Harbor on the Alaska Coast
Big Game Paradise of all Alaska
Future Fishing Center of Alaska
Gateway and Distributing Point for Central Alaska
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These Facts:
SEWARD is the inevitable metropolis of Alaska; has a first flaw
Public School System; is the principal city on the Kenai Penin
sula; the outfitting point for all big game parties; the natural
Gateway to all of Interior Alaska; has the finest harbor on the
coast—bar none; the most advantageously located townsite in
Alaska; a fishing industry that alone will moke a wealthy town;
a modern and complete cold storage plant and cannery; will hove
one of the finest Radio Stations in the North Pacific,
SEWARD has a first-class gravity water system, modern electric
light and power plant, has twosolid financial institutions and is
the selected site for the North Coast Government Coaling Station,
the SALT WATER TERMINUS of the Government-built railroad,
the nearest port to the GREATEST HALIBUT BANKS in Alaska
and is tributary to the great mining districts of Alaska.
For further information regard Seward, Alaska, or
your own particular business, address
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