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FOUND
FOUND—Bunch of keys. I *>ser call
at The Gateway ami pay for this
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FOR RENT — Furnished house; two
rooms and bath. See Dougherty, tf.
2 C. Kodak, Jr., Kodak $12.«H>—
Seward Drug Co.
ANTON JOHANSEN
Seldovia. Alaska
First-class merchandise at rea
sonable prices, prompt service.
Piano T uner
Geo. Anderson. Expert, is in
Seward and is making: his head
quarters at the Overland Hotel.
Orders taken for Pianos and
Player-Pianos. Pianos for rent.
Expert work guaranteed. Main
pjO. Address orders, Juneau,
Box 001.
CHARLES CRAWFORD i
GENERAL BLACKSMITH
Horseshoeing Wheel wrigh ting
The Carstens Packing Co.
Wholesale and Retail
Beef, Pork, Veal Mutton, Poultry ;
Lard. Hams and Bacon.
Butter and Egg*
Orders from the Westward and Cook
Inlet Given Careful Attention.
BROADWAY AVE SEWARD
PROFESSIONAL
j. a. ROM1G, ML l>.
Office on Broadway
Residence Third Ave.
Phones: Office. Adams 93; Resi
dence, Adams 48.
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L. R. C. P. & L. R. C. S. Edinburgh
L. E. P. & S., Glasgow.
J M. SLOAN. M. I)., C. M.
Van Gilder Building
Office hours: 1 to 3 and 7 to 8 p. m.
Formerly of Nome, j
DR. O. J. KEATING
Dentist
Office over Bank of Seward
Hours: 9 a. tu. to 5 p. m.
Phones:
Office, Mad. 76 Res., Mad. 58
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FRATERNAL |
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L. O. O. M. 1425
Regular meeting ever;, Friday
night at 8 o'clock in A. B. Hall.
Visiting brothers invited.
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ODD FELLOWS
Resurrection Lodge No. 7
Meets 8 P. M. every Thursday
Visitors Welcome
Charles Lechner C. E* Mullin
Noble Grand Secretary
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PIONEERS OF ALASKA
IGLOO NO. 9
meets on 2nd and 4th Saturday
each month, 8 p. o., Pioneer Hall
WATCHES
Howard
Hamilton
Verithin Gruen
Full Line of Nugget
Goods
Special Order Work
Promptly Executed
C. E. ORLANDER
SrCCKSSOR TO
GEORGE THE JEWELER
U. S. RAILROAD RECORD
Vol. 1. All the news of the line from Seward to Fairbanks. No. 105
PROGRESS ON
0. S. RAILROAD
The August number of the Railway
and Marine News, published at Seat
tle, has the following to say regard
ing the progress made on the railroad
by the Alaskan Engineering Commis
sion and the industries in and about
Seward:
At Seward the San Juan Company
has built a line cannery for salmon
and has a told storage house for fresh
fish. At Mile 21) a new mining com
pany has started work. Here begins
the road to the Sunrise district and
th*‘ Alaska Road Commission has be
gun work on the new wagon road
, which will prove a feeder to the rail
road. This commission is also con
structing a fine roadway out of Sew
ard. which is much appreciate !.
At Seward also the Midnight Sun
Products Company has been organiz
ed for a general fishing business. It
is under the direction of Frank G. En
nis. president, and Max Poehlman,
manager. It may read like a fairy
story but this company is successfully
extracting oil and bi-products from
mud sharks, while the skin, when
tanned, is a fine substitute for leath
er. It will also catch the hair seals
for “leather” and oil and deal in fish
generally.
l our applications for leases ot I
warehouse sites on the railroad re-j
serve at Wasilla, the railroad station
of the future for the Willow Creek
mining district, have been filed. The
leases will probably be for a term »f
five \ears. The concerns which have I
applied rre Howard Wilmoth, general j
merehandist ar.d postmaster at Wasil-i
la; McNally & Maitland, lumber deal-1
er* of Anchorage; Oliver G. IU lining,
of Knik Trading Company, Knik, ardj
a combination of mining concerns, the
Mable Mining. Milling & Power Com
pany. Talkeetna Mining Company amij
William Martin, all of the Widow
Creek district.
The l . S. Department of Agricul
ture has started its experimental farm
in the Matanuska section and Dr. C.
C. Georgeson, head of the Alaska bu
reau. speaks enthusiastically of the
possibilities of the region.
In the interior the commission has
taken over the Tanana Valley railroad,
which is to remain as a narrow gauge
for the present. Here the chief scene
of activity is at Nenana where many
improvements have been made and
work is being pushed on the construc
tion of the line to the Nenana coal
fields.
T*o Small Mines Opened
Many people for some time have
been burning coal from Alaska mines,
the local supply coming from the Do
merty and the Eska mines. Neither
of these properties is located in the
Malanuska field proper, but are some
miles from Chickaloon. They can,
however, supply a limited tonnage and
the commission recently purchased the
Eska mines from William Martin of
Seattle and proposes to develop them
so as to increase the supply this year.
No information was obtainable as
to any big leases in the Matanuska
field proper but from the tenor of a
Washington press dispatch saying that
an additional $4,000,000 had been
asked and granted this, month by'
Congress for building to Chickaloon
and completing the Turnagain Arifi
district, it might be reasonably de
duced that a movement is on foot to
develop those fields, their existence
being one of the leading arguments
put forth in behalf of the govern
ment’s project for building a railroad
in Alaska.
The government railroad in Alaska
is being built upon substantial lines
and as the work progresses permanent
structures are being erected, while the
telephone and telegraph wires closely
follow the graders and track layers.
Seward, just as soon as the gap is
closed, will become the ocean terminal
for the railroad and here will embark
and disembark all passengers and here
will be handled all freight. It is in
evitable, therefore, that all commercial
steamships will soon cease to make
the run to and from Anchorage as
there will he practically no traffic for
them to handle and to operate under
such conditions would mean a tremen
dous loss. In fact, passengers, ex
press and mail will be handled be
tween Seward and Anchorage this
winter over the short gap anti the lat
ter point will not be so isolated as
heretofore. Early next summer it is
expected that through trains will he in
operation from Seward to Anchorage
and the front, at which time Seward
will take on added importance.
The dock at Seward has been im
proved* and much work accomplished
in generally bettering all terminal fa
cilities, general office buildings and
shops.
lhe telegraph and teiopnone system
is being operated between Seward and
Anchorage and is steadily extended to
the front. It is already proving a boon
to all the people along the route.
The commission operates the entire
city of Anchorage and that place
shows much improvement over last
year, while the comparison with its
appearance in the tent town on the
flats two years ago is marked.
A moving picture house with an ex
pensive pipe organ, some attractive,
residences for officials, an apartment
house with electric light, steam heat,
hot and cold running water, many fine
stores and offices give to the place an
air of prosperity and activity little
dreamed of by those who attended the
auction sale of lots July 9, 1915, and
the first lot sold then for $825 recent
ly was transferred at a figure throe or
four times as great.
Other towns are being located on
the main line and a sale of lots was
recently held for Wasilla townsite.
These towns, during construction days
especially, will no doubt enjoy a share
of the prosperity and when the track
reaches Susitna it is expected that the j
busiest tent city of them all will arise
at some point not as yet designated.
The railroad construction is natur-j
A Through Ticket ;
Via
CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE &
ST. PAUL RAILWAY
Saves Money
Insures Comfort
By buying a through ticket you
save from $10.00 to $15.00 as
against buying to Seattle and
rebuying there.
By buying over the C., M. & St.
P. Ry. you are assured the com
fort that comes from riding be
hind an electric locomotive—the
most powerful in all the world—
and that personal attention
which is a feature of “Milwau
kee” service.
For tickets, berth reservations
and other particulars consult
your nearest Steamship Agent.
A. P. CHAPMAN, JR.
Ant. Gen'l. Paeeenger Agent
Seattle, Wash.
J. F. BAHL
City Ticket Agent
Second and Cherry
Seattle. Waah.
AU Alaska News
John M. Higgs, an old-timer and
one of the first on the Dawson trail
in '97, passed away in Seattle at the
age of 73 recently. He made his home
in the Northland for 18 years and was
very much interested in Alaska and
! her future up to the time of his death.
(Jus M. Stepovich, a pioneer Alas
kan, was a recent passenger to Cor
dova from Anchorage. He has been
interested in the Frisco Cafe and the
California pool hall and recently ereet
the Union Cigar Store. He camr
directly to Alaska from Siberia in
1908.
A man known only as “Van" and
formerly employed as janitor of the
skating rink at Anchorage, was hit
on the head last week with a skate
held in the hands of the manager. Van
had come into the rink shortly before
the close of the afternoon session to
ask a donation for a fund being raised
to pay the fine of a man in jail at
; Fairbanks. Sharp refused, saying
that if his Fairbanks friends couldn’t
raise the money the man probably
belonged there. Van became abusive
and challenged the manager to put
him out. In the light which ensued
Van was slightly battered.
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Three white men and two Indians
recently reported having struck it
rich in the Hutshii Lake region and
left Whitehorse well provisioned to
stake their claims. After a long trip
they reached the place where the riv
er bottom was apparently covered
with gleaming particles of gold. They
at once staked the claims and drove
a shaft, being of the opinion that
where there was so much gold on the
surface there would be infallibly vast
quantities at bedrock, which was
reached about twelve inches down
Then they discovered that all that
glistens is not gold, for their precious
metal was nothing but mica. On their
return they found a party burning
the wind to get in on the new stam
pede and after considerable pursua
sion got them to return.
ally the chief support of the popula
tion along the entire route, but the
people of Seward and Anchorage par
ticularly are doing everything in their
power to develop permanent indus
tries.
TIDES FOR SEPTEMBER
Monday, September 21
First high tide, 6:21 a. m., 11.3.
Second high tide, 6:08 p. m., 13.8.
First low tide, 12:07 p. m., 6.3.
Tuesday, September 25
First high tide, 7:52 a. m., 11.7.
Second high tide, 7:43 p. m., 13.8.
First low tide, 1.18 a. m., 2.3.
Second low tide, 1:40 p. m., 6.1.
Wednesday, September 26
First high tide, !>:06, 12.9.
Second high tide, 9:05 p. m., 14.6.
First low tide, 2:40 a. m., 1.7.
Second low tide, 3:01 p. m., 4.8.
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Waterfill and Frarrer whiskey at
the Branch.
This week for cash only
we offer you 25 per cent. •
off on all Silk Afternoon
and Evening Dresses.
Also all Cloth Coats.
AT
Ellsworth’s
Special Sale
Two doz. pretty Hats at cost.
Just three Winter Coats left,
to go at cost price.
Black shoes, with white tops,
at a bargain.
Will pay you to call early.
HALLETT & SCOTT
(Of Courae)
$20,000 Worth
Ladies Crosset Shoes
Men’s Crosset Shoes
SEWARD COMMERCIAL CO.
WANTED—Five cents a pound will;
be paid for good, clean, cotton ruga
by The Gateway. tf
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Proof of labor blanks for sale at
| Gateway.
Ask Seward
| Bakery Bread.
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We carry Symphony Lawn Station
ery. Seward Drug Company.
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FOR RENT—Four-room house on 5th
Avenue. See Cooper. tf
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Long distance telepnone booth at
The Branch.
THE
HOTEL
SEXTON
GEORGE SEXTON. Proprietor
Most Comfortable
Hotel in the City
Local and Long Distance Phones
Modern Bath Rooms Rates Reasonable
HARDWARE, STOVES AND RANGES
RUBBER BELTING
Doors and Windows Gasoline Stoves Oil Stove* Ammunition Gaaolin#
IXL Parlor Heaters Deadening Felt Spark Plug* Bonch Forge* Bellow*
Air Tight Heaters Weather Strips Jump Coils Brushes Cutlery
Aluminum Ware Blacksmith's Coal Batteries Varnishes Fire Clay
P. & B. Paper Wheel Barrows Asbestos Turpentine Rifles
Malthoid Roofing Fishing Tackle Tar Panel Japan Fire Brick
Marine Engine Oil Alcohcd Stoves Valve Oil Coal Tar Lime
Gus Engine Oil Seine Twine Floor Oil Lamps Cement
Lacqueret Paint Granite Ware Linseed Oil Lanterns Glass
Denatured Alcohol Cook Stoves Cup Grease Tent* Rope
Lang’s Ranges Camp Stoves Paints Shot Gun* Mercury
Phone Main 8/ J. L. GRAEF Seward, Alaska
SEWARD WATER and POWER COMPANY
JOHN A. NELSON. Manager
Office- Bank of Seward Building
SEWARD ALASKA
For Spring Cleanup Use KRESO Disinfectant
Lime Chloride and Sulphur
SEWARD DRUG CO.
Open
M Day
b and
^ Night