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SEWARD. ALASKA, WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 6, 1915.
Why should Seward not ask for a public government building? A dis
patch of two days ago to the Gateway told that the government hail bought
out the bank block in Fairbanks. Cordova is in line for a building and
Seward as the ocean terminal of the government railroad ought certainly
be as much worthy of a government building as any of her sister cities. It
takes a long time to get an appropriation. a> suggested in yesterday's paper,
so Seward ought to get to work.
The horrible murder on the White Pass railroad, told of in Monday’s
Gateway, recalls one peculiar fact about Alaska to mind and that is that with
a white population that would make only a very small city an awful lot of
tragedies occur in the territory. The unfortunate wretch who killed the sec
tion foreman and three others was probably mad and the act was hardly a
murder in the real sense of the word, but so many accidental and other
tragedies happen in Alaska that one is forced to the conclusion that tragedies
happen rather in proportion to the size of the territory than in proportion to
the size of the population. Is there some psychological phenomenon suggest
ed by these facts?
The Juneau Empire has just produced a special development number of
which all Alaska ought to be proud. There is nothing that hurts a country
so much with outsiders as slipshod and cheap and faking newspapers and
publications. On the other hand there is nothing so well calculated to ad
vertise a country as publications of the worthy kind. For this reason the
Juneau Empire has conferred a benefit on the whole territory by its splendid
special issue. Thi> special number has forty pages, each the size of a page
of the Seward Gateway. It has articles from Governor Strong, B. L. Thane
and numerous others who know whereof they speak. Of course, the issue is
mostly devoted to the capital city and the surrounding district but anyone
who w ishes to understand what that great disriet and all Alaska means should
send for a copy, and anyone who sends a copy outside will aid the territory.
The issue is beautifully illustrated. Well done, Empire!
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Legal Blanks and Location Notices at Gateway
ANCHORAGE EXCITED BY
ITS COMMERCIAL CLUB
The Great and Only Political Struggle
In That Burg Centers on the
Business Organization.
Word from Anchorage yesterday
was to the effect that the whole city
was terribly exercised by the fight
proceeding over the election of officers
of the Commercial Club, which elec
tion was to have taken place last
evening. It is said that the chief bone
of contention in the new railroad city
is the attempt of the residents of each
end of the that own to make their
own extremity the Grand Hiu Termin
al for all industry and business. A
flippant individual recently described
Anchorage as a town built in the
shape of a dumbell, heavy at either
end and slim in the middle. It is
hoped still by some of the Anchorage
people that the club, instead of try
j ing to further divide the city, will fill
it up in the place that corresponds to
the stomach in physical arrange
ment. Seward, joking aside, wants to
see Anchorage and Seward friendly,
and both prosperous.
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WAR ODDITIES.
LONDON.—Word from Northern !
France says that three cannon balls I
have been dug up near Ypres by
British soldiers, doubtless relics of
the seige by the French in 1794 when
the Austrians were vanquished.
NORTHERN FRANCE. — British
sappers, mining under the German
trenches, burrowed into a German
mine, cut the wires and “stole” a tqn
and a half of high explosives.
LONDON.—Only two cases of
drunkeness among a population of
100,000 have occurred in the Mid
Tyne area since the Liquor Restric
tion order was put into effect, it is de
clared.
OAKLEY CLEARED OF
CONSPIRACY CHARGE
JUNEAU.—According to a notice
received in the local land office, the
commissioner of the general office has
affirmed the decision of the local offi
cers in regard to the case of the
United States against Horace Oakley
and George M. Seward, two claimants
of the Watson group of coal claims in
the Matanuska district.—Empire.
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THE MINER’S STORE
FRANK J. COTTER, Manager
Phone Adams 131 “Don’t Forget the Parcel Post” Seward, Alaska
KENNECOTT IS
ONE OF WORLD’S
BIG PROPERTIES.
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(From The All-Alaska Review.)
BOSTON, August 30.—One now
must have a very broad view to keep
well informed on the copper world.
For many years American investors
have looked to this country alone as
dominating in the red metal market
because the American production was
two-thirds of the world output and of
! this we exported about 60 per cent.
We have grown confident in our
position because the big deposit in
Australia requires seven year’s work
to bring it to a producing basis, while
, more than seven years' work in Cen
; tral Africa has failed to bring out
Tanganyika as any effective factor in
the metal market. South America
; has had a record of past perform
ances.
Now South America is likely to
come forward in the copper world
with the latest Chilean development, ;
but Alaska bids fair to rival Chili as
the new source of copper supply.
We paid $7,500,000 for Alaska, or j
about the same amount that Boston j
: people and their associates have put
in rash into a single gold mine—Al- |
aska Gold, about 750,000 shares with
a par and cost of $10, now selling at
more than three times this amount.
Recently the reports from Alaska
of copper expansion were so large
that we refused to print them until
we had made further investigation.
Henry Krumb reported on the Al
aska copper field and it was upon his j
report that .$22,000,000 was put into j
a railroad in Alaska to open up this j
field, as Engineer Pope Yeatman ad
vised.
AM sorts of difficulties stood in the
way of this railroad and within three
years a western mining man reported
that the copper field would just about
return the cost of the road.
Engineer Henry Krumb on July 20
wired to the bankers who put the
money into the building of the road
and the development of the Kennc
cott mine:
“Ore showing is the greatest in the
history of mining and has wonderful
possibilities.”
On the 10th of August Krumb
again wired:
“Conditions greatly changed in nine
years. Kennecott a world beater.”
These telegrams are believed to be
based on the showing of one of the
company’s mining veins on the r>00
foot level, where for a width of Cl
feet the copper ore assays 70 per ernt.
This of course, means that where
in the Butte mining camp, the Bon
anza or 70 per cent ore was found for
a few feet in the center of a vien 100
to 120 feet wide, Alaska has gone the ,
Butte camp and the famous Anaconda
several times better.
Copper matte from the smelter usu
ally assays from 55 to 65 per cent.,
and when the Anaconda, the greatest
silver mine in the world, struck a ^
■
heavy black ore of very much the ap* !
pearance of anthracite coal, and made
its first shipment of a carload to 1
Swansea for treatment and report,
the reply was, “unusually high in
copper, about 66 per cent. How do
you make such a grade matte?” and
it took several days of correspond
ence to convince the smelters of Old
Swansea across the ocean that they J
were receiving ore instead of the pro- {
duct of a smelter.
Henry Krumb was the field engin
eer who reported on Utah Copper,
the Nevada Consolidated, and did the
drilling and reporting on Kal, and the
drilling and reporting on Inspiration,
which latter company will soon come
intj the copper world with over a
hundred million pounds of copper and
may rival the famous Utah Copper
mine with its 160,000,000-pound pro
duction.
The problem now is, what does
Krumb mean, as a conservative min
ing engineer, when he reports Kenne
cott a world beater and its ore show
ing the greatest in the history of min
ing.?
His detailed report and personal |
observations are awaited with conoid* j
erable interest by the men in i'-wj
Yore who have been identified with
! the building of the railroad and th?
i development of Kernecott Copper.
Besides the above dispatcher, which
were too strong for print, even
AN EXAMPLE OF SEWARD’S PROGRESS
Showing How a Great Business Was Created in Twelve Years
Sion Told by Pictures of llie Stores of
Brown <X Hawkins
The Beginning of Brown & Hawkins
Stores Growing
Stores of Brown & Hawkins as They Appear Today
(Note—Full story of this business house will be told in All-Alaska Review.)
though from an engineer with .. jeh a
record behind him, the real news is
that the capacity of the smelter at
Seattle has been ordered expanded so
as to make a product of 90,000,000
pounds of copper per annum from
Kor.necott.
Tlitre are $10,000,000 Kennecott
bonds covering the mining property,
and (ne-half the net earnings mut
be devoted ot the ertirement of these
bonds, but the whole may convert at
| any time after June 1, 1K17, into
i stock at ?25 per share. There are
! now outstanding 720,000 shares, with
1 out par value. It is believed fror
' present indications that all the l.on i
will take the first opportunity to con
vert, but meanwhile or for a year and
a half after next January, one-half
the net ca*nings must go into a s ‘*k
ing fund for their retirement but
tiny : re neither convertible nor cal
lable i i:til June •, 1*917, v.h'n they
may be converted a. above or call'd
at J 05.
Therefore we must figure on the
conversion of ab the hoods, as tin
trustees may be unable to cal’ any
in before June 1, 1917. At $45 a
share the mine has a market value
of about $50,000,000.
As this company has now the low
est cost sheet in the world at 'in ler
5 cents per pound, the question of
dividends upon its shares is already
' under discussion and in some quar
ters predictions are made of $0 a
share for a beginning—(Boston Now
Bureau.)
FORMER YUKON l.AWA ER
IS GOING TO W VR
Whitehorse Star: Attorney .J. II.
Pattulo, now of Vancouver, but at one
! time among the most prominent of
his profession in Yukon writes the
editor of the Star that he had enlisted
in th< 72nd Overseas Battalion and
will go fight for his country.
Figures compiled from available
sources show that British Columbia
and Yukon have furnished 21,161 men
for the war.
IRON PRODUCTION GROWING
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Oct. 1. -
Several additional smelting stacks are
being “blown in" as a result of the
activity in iron production here, the
September output of which is expect
ed to exceed by more than 16,000
tons the August production. Coke is
becoming scarce, and the Virginia
product is being called on. Coal is
i also feeling the effect of furnace op
erations and both output and move
ments are increasing.
“BANKSI.AND” NOT
A NEW DISCOVERY
According to late Nome reports, the
‘Banksland,* mentioned by Vilhjalmar
Stefanson in his dispatches to the
Canadian government, telling of hi*
safe arrival there, is not new land,
and it is indicated that Stefansson
meant he had found land other than
that which he mentioned.
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A great many people outside and
inside Alaska are now anxious to get
any news they can of the place where
the government railroad will be. lo
save writing letters you could Bend
the Gateway, either your own read
copy or get another.
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
Department of the Interior.
U. S. Land Office at Juneau, Alaska
September 23, 1915.
NOTICE is hereby given that Ole
Martin, of Seward, Alaska, who, on
May 21, 1915, made homestead appli
cation, No. 01724, for EVaNWV4 F.1 i S
WVi, Section 26, Township 1 N,
Range 1 W, Seward Meridian and the
E. 24 rods of the WVi NWVi, VV S.
WVi said section 26 has filed notice of
intention to make final five year
Proof, to establish claim to the land
above described, before the U. b.
Commissioner M. J. Conroy, at his
office at Seward, Alaska, on the 17th
day of November, 1915.
Claimant names as witnesses:
C. T. Daggett,
George Sexton,
Peter Anderson,
W. A. McNeiley all of Seward,
j Alaska.
C. B. WALKER,
Register.
I First publication Oct. 4, 1915.
Last publication Nov. 10, 1915.
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