SEWARD
IS THE
GATEWAY
TO THE BEST PORTION OF
CENTRAL ALASKA
Through this harbor passes nearly all the tiuftii
of the vast region lying north of Cook inlet and
between the two mountain ranges which bound
the Susitna valley, an area as large as one of the
groat states of the Middle West.
In the Near Future
Through the extension of the Alaska Central
railroad, now building northward from Seward,
the territory tributary to the town as the chief
seaport of the southern coast will gradually ex
pand until it embraces the Tanana and upper
Kuskokwim. each a region of imperial extent and
resources.
Seward Already
controls the trade of the Yentna gold mining dis
trict. which old Alaska miners pronounce one
of th«* coming bonanza camps ot the territory.
It controls the trade of the numerous mining
camps along Cook inlet and its arms. 1mom it
start the prosjjectors who are constantly pene
trating and exploring the interior between Cook
inlet and the Tanana in the search for rich depos
its of the metals which abound in all its hills and
'streams.
Seward Outfits Miners
Kor all this territory. Krom this town leads the
l>est route to the new bonanza ffelds. They are
more accessible than any other great district of
Alaska, an important factor in their development.
Limitless Coal Deposits
lie at Seward's back door. They have been ex
amined and analyzed by the best experts and
rated by them with the best bitumenous coal of
the Atlantic coast. In another year this coal will
bo hauled to tide water over the Alaska t entral
railroad and can be mined in quantity to furnish
steam to all the ships that sail the North Pacific.
In a few years it will furnish coke to smelters
which will lx* erected at Seward to reduce the
copper ores of that bonanza field. Prince William
sound, whose richest deposits are within a few
hours sailing.
The Longest Railroad
in operation in Alaska lias Seward for its ocean
terminus and its track lengthens each month.
On the finest to w ns i to in Alaska, at the head of
the best harbor on the Alaska coast, ice-free every
dav in every year, Seward is building. The town
has water works, electric lighting, sewerage: and
its devilopment is based upon exhaustless re
sources.
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William Nelson ln^taatiy Killed
by Accidental Discharge
of Winchester.
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William Nelson shot and killed.him
self by accident or design, probably
tin1 former, in the office of thp water
company at 2 o’clock Sunday morning,
with a Winchester rifle. The ball
entered his mouth and shattered the
left side of his head.
John A. Nelson, brother of the dead
man, C. A. Carlson and Peter Ander
I son, sleeping in the room above, from
which William Nelson descended a few
! moments before, were awakened by the
{shot and hastened downstairs with a
| light to find the victim lying with the
i mangled side of his head against the
I floor and blood gushing from the
ghastly wound.
Although it was at first supposed that
Nelson look his own life careful in
vestigation bps convinced his friends
that ti>e fatality was an accident. He
, had no motive to end his life. His
business affairs were prosperous and
| he was on the eve of departure to the
f outside for a visit to which he was
‘ looking forward with eager anticipa
s lion. He had a ticket on the steamer
Pennsylvania and if the vessel had
sailed the afternoon preceding, as she
. was scheduled, lie would have been on
j board of her.
Suspected an Intruder
I After the men went to sleep upstairs
j William Nelson awoke and said he
thought he heard some one trying to
j get in i lie side door. John Nelson told
, him he was mistaken and John imnie
t diately went to sleep again. His next
conscious moment was when he was
I awakened by the shot which ended his
j brother's life. He believes that Wil
liam went down to see about the sup
posed intruder and shot himself aeci
. dentalh.
The gun was not loaded. William
■J had cleaned it the afternoon before to
a return it to George Sohns. the owner,
j and it had been left in the corner of
j the ent ranee to the stairway from the
' side door. Nelson took two cart ridges,
'placed them in the chamber of the
j gun and slipped one into a cylinder,
j which left the gun cocked. Then be-'
1 fore putting in the other cartridge he '
evidently made some movement which 1
discharged the gun. as the undis
charged cartridge was found in the j
j chamber. It is supposed that while he
| was loading the gun he thought he
heard the noise at the door and
stooped to listen, that the trigger of j
1 the cocked gun touched something and 1
I the hammer fell while the muzzle of
j the gr.i happened to point at the vie-!
! tiuis’ head.
Probably Somnambulism
It is supposed that Nelson was not 1
more than half awake. He had been a
somnambulist and once walked two
miles in his sleep. His friends cannot
believe that he died asuicide. He had
just returned from a prospecting trip
to Knight and Latouehe islands, where
' lie had spent several months with
I Peter Anderson. All his associates
i agree't hat since his return he had ex
hibited no symptoms of dementia or
I melancholia.
Funeral services were held this after-1
noon from the Methodist church under
I the auspices of the Arctic Brotherhood, ;
Kev. L. H. Pedersen, chaplain of thej
| camp, officiating, and interment made
j north of town.
William Nelson was horn in Sweden
t March 22, IStiJ. He came to the
Foiled States when a young man. A
few years later he was joined by his
j brother, John A. Nelson, and they had
been in business together ever since
along the great lakes and on the Paci
fic coast. In 1902 they came to where
Seward now stands and engaged in the
I lirst survey of the Alaska Central rail
road. They then went into the trans
i fer business, and later with Frank I,. •
Ballaine organized the Seward Water
«S; Power Company, which is still un-J
j der flic same ownership.
No demise in Seward has ever
! caused more general sorrow than that
1 of William Nelson. One of the found
ers of the town, he was known to near- j
; ly everyone and liked by every
acquaintance. He was quiet and re-1
: tiring but a capable and upright busi- j
ness man whose word was his bond, j
I The large attendance at the funeral
1 attested the esteem in which he was
j held.
“The captains of the whaling ves
sels.” said a man who has spent some
! years in their company, “follow a sort
j of spiritualistic, faith-healing religion,
j They cure sick sailors by a laying-on of
j hands; like-wise of feet, shod in he
| boots, and of ax handles, capstan
| and belaying pins.”
1 A large newspaper plant has been
1 shipped from Juneau to Cordova to
J print the Alaskan, which will here
; after be owned by the editor, Claud
j Kinney, and John Frame, editor of the
j Juneau Transcript.
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Death Brings Final Summons to
Noted Soldier i/i His Cali
fornia Home.
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By Cable to Tbe Dally Gateway.
Bakersfield, Cal., Nov. 13 — Gen.
Shafter died yesterday. The remains
will be interred in the array cemetery
on the Presidio at San Francisco.
William R. Shafter was born in
Galesburg, Michigan, Oct. 10, 1835.
He enlisted in the Union army as a
1st lieutenant in 1801 and served
throughout the war, becoming a col
onel and brevet brigadier-general.
When he was mustered out as a
volunteer in 1805 he joined the regular
army and became a brigadier-general
in May 1897. On the breaking-out
of the Spanish-American war in 1898
he was placed in command of the
American forces in Cuba. He.com
manded at the battle of Santiago, the
decisive battle of the war. He was re
tired as major-general June 30, 1901,
and had since resided in Bakersfield.
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ALASKA QUARTZ MINES
Expert Merely Guessed that Tread
well Was Only Dividend Payer.
All kinds of aut hority have come back
at Chester W. Purington, the govern
ment geologist and mining expert who
recently stated in a mining publication
that the Treadwall is the only dividend
paying quartz mine in Alaska.
Through the Alaska papers mining
operators are producing statistics to
refute the assertion. In the Ketchi- .
kan Journal Judge H. W. Mellon
makes an answer in which he says:
“Pot- instance the Juneau Alas
ka Gold Mining Company, the
Unga Gold Mining Company, the Ella
mar copper mine, the Jualin and the
Eagle River. There are many others
such as the Sheep Creek, Comet and
j Sumdum, in the Juneau district that
have produced several hundred thou
sand dollars which has and is being
put back into equipment and develop
ment of the properties.
“There are others, of which the La
touche copper mine is an example,
which have very large ore reserves
blocked out but which have produced
! very little. Aside from the Treadwell
mine the present ore tonnage per day
in Southeastern Alaska is approxi
I mately as follows:
“Coldstream 20 tons. Victory Copper
Company m tons. Matsdorf «v Newell 1<>
j tons. Gold Standard 10 tons, Copper
I City 5 tons. Moonshine Group 10 tons.
Cymru Copper Company .*>0 tons, Nib
! lack Copper Company 80 tons, Mamie
125 tons. Valparaiso .5 tons. Mt. Andrew
1.50 tons. Hadley Consolidated Copper I
I Company 180 tons. Alaska Copper!
i Company 80 tons. Alaska Industrial I
( ompany .50 tons, Alaska Metals Min* j
j ing Company 5 tons, a total of 1)10 tons
I per day, and with other mines with
'from 1000 to 5000 tons of ore on the
j dump awaiting proper tram equip- ’
I merit."
The Juneau Record-Miner comments:
I “Mr. Mellon does not take into consid
| oration the tonnage of the Elmer,
j Jualin and Eagle River mines, which i
1 would raise the aggregate to probably i
1750 tons daily. It will not be dis- J
puted, surely, that these are all divi-j
dend paying mines."
Gold Never Found Pure
Gold is never found absolutely pure, '
silver always accompanying it but in
no definite proportions. Copper usual
y occurs with the gold also, many
assays of the richest known gold show
ing a small percentage of copper. A
particularly rich gold specimen from
the i’rals gave gold 98.90 per cent,
silver 0.10 and copper in 100 parts.
The best gold known is from Australia,
where a specimen gave 99.01 per cent
gold. Some gold from Canada gavel
but ST per cent gold and as high as j
12.22 per cent silver.
A newspaper called the Diamond
Drill " ill soon be established at Ka-j
talla by C. S. Dech.who wasacomposi
tor in the Gateway otlice for several
months last winter, and has since been
in Juneau.
A test of Nome’s fire fighting appa
ratus shows that five strong streams
may be turned on a fire at the same
time. __
Fairbanks thinks it has figured out |
an eighteen-day trip between that city j
and Seattle.
The Anaconda copper mine is pro
ducing copper at a cost of 9{ cents a
pound and selling it for 22.
A strip of land on Front street.
Nome, sold for $37.50 per inch.
The Duke of Abruzzi has discovered
another big river in Africa.
Wheat continues to go down in price
while silver goes up.
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M tiumja m lUttnM i*
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the total cash receipts of one day during the
mouth pf November. This, is a bona fid#, propose
tion without any strings to it. Our object is to
stimulate CASH TRADE, wherefore this oflfar ap
plies,oply to Cash Purchasers.
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Wholesale and Retail.
Board of Trade
Fourth Avenue, • * Seward, Alaska
Only the choicest goods dispensed
Club Rooms in connection
Furnished Apartments up stairs
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SEWARD. ALASKA.
GREAT REDUCTION
Hardware, Paper, Locks, Nails,
Screen Doors and Windows
FOR CASH
Fine Stock of Clear Cedar and Sugar Pine
KENAI LUMBER & FUEL CO.
THE BANK THEATRE
Del Clark, Proprietor
Entertainments Every Evening
Best of Wines Liquors and Cigars at the Bar
CHAS. A. TECKLENBURG
THE SEATTLE BAR
-ONLY THE BEST
Wines, Liquors and Cigars
Bohemian and Olympia Beer
FURNISHED ROOMS WITH STEAM HEAT
Fourth Ave. and Washington St. Seward. Alaska.
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Type Writer Supplies Magazines Books Papers
Cigars Tobaccos Pipes Candy Fruits
Fourth Avenue Seward, Alaska
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(Incorporated November, 1905, under the laws of Alaska)
Office—Next to Bank of Seward. Seward, Alaska
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WINES, LIQUORS AND CIGARS
First Class Cafe in Connection
- Fourth Avenue Seward. Alaska