Seward Weekly Gateway
—“T SEWARD ALASKA. SATURDAY, APRIL 28, 1906.
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TUNNEL BORING
GOES ON WELL
Each Week finds the Bi£ Holes
Many Feet Farther in on
the Railroad Line.
SHORT ONES NEARLY DONE
Rock Work on Turnaqain Arm Now
Tmplojs 350 laborers Besides
loqqers and Mill Men.
Boring on tin* series of seven tun*
eels between miles 4i» and 55 of the
railroad is proceeding at a rate which
will finish all but the first, middle and
last before many weeks elapse. I he
longest of the series tlu* third which
« to be about ItXX) feet in length, is
•early half bored. Work has just be
gun on tlu* sixth tunnel and the font t It
and seventh are not yet begun.
Work is proceeding briskly at the |
farther end of the first tunnel, which !
is on mile 10, but as nothing can be!
done at the north end because of the
constant danger of snow slides for
several weeks yet it is making less
•>ogress toward completion than those
which are being perforated at !*» .
•mis.
The weekly rc{R>rt of last Saturday
u> the city office of the engineer of j
construction slums he number of feet
bored in tlu v;t mu tunnel' a: ’ •’
time. The boring is done on two
levels, the upper half being taken 1
| st a! ’ he ; aver ; If a ie1 e i: ;
i)1t. we* r* the upper half. •
level' ar known respectively a* the
beading and t ie b neh. I In a i*
fated figure' follow, with the total'
let eg! \\ fe Oieeteb:
Total
Tunnel. Bettcii. Heading, iengtb.
1 southern! 2b5 22" 71"
«
5 sotu i etnl 2' * *51 l"""
3 north * ltd "2 hi"
4 Borin', me: b* ;un
k south end l"7 142 •'•'*>
» north end
I south end 2 *
7 Boring not begun
This shows that the second tunnel
will soon lx* finished, as the bench will
be through within i few days. The
i/th tunnel will also be finished in a
short time. Outside work is prac
tically complete on the fourth and
seventh tunnels and boring will lx*
coder way soon enough to finish them,
probably, as soon as the first tunnel is
bored unless work fx'gins soon at the
south end of the latter.
Over on Turnagain Arm rock work
t» going on steadily and the men en
gaged will be largely re-inforced very
soon, now that the Cook inlet boats
are running. Welch & Co. have
250 men employed on their thirty-mile
contract, which extends from mile 75
V> 105, and about 100 are employed by
ihe railroad company between 65 and
75. a stretch which is also heavy rock
work. Besides this a large number
•f men are engaged in the logging
cctup and mills near mile 75. The
Welch laborers are engaged between
Indian creek, on mile IX), and Rainbow
creek, on mile "2.
Steamer for kuskokwim Run
The steamer Francis H. Leggatt has
keen chartered to run between Seattle
am! the Kuskokwim river This, sum
mer. She is a 12-knot boat with a
freight capacity of 2500 tons and a
passenger capacity of The steam
er will sail on her first trip al*>ut May
Jo and it is believed that growing
developments on the Kuskokwim will
keep her busy all through the season.
O. (i. herning does to Knik
O. G. Herning. with Mrs. Herning
and their children, will -.ail westward
•n the Portland. At Seldoviu they
will take an Inlet boat for Knik. where
ihe\ will spend the summer. Mr.
Herning has a store there and i> also
superintendent of the Boston Mining
Jr Milling Company on Willow creek,
north of Knik Arm.
Farallon Sails Southward
Steamer Farallon reached port from
the westward shortly before midnight
Saturday anil sailed for the south a
few hours later. Much disappoint
ment was occasioned to the Kenai
Lumber A- Fuel Company, which had &
cargo of 30.000 feet of lumber on the
wharf to be shipped to Kyak, the ter
minus of the new railroad near Orca,
and to W. M. Sauers, who had a stock
•f goods on the dock destined for the
same place.
WANTTO REACH
HEAD 8F INLET
Railroad Officials Direct Efforts
to Extending Track to
Turnagfain Arm.
HEAVIEST WORK AT TUNNELS
General Manager Poland Will Make
Little Change in Present
Construction Plans.
Construction on tin* Alaska Ceutral i
during tin* summer " ill he directed
chiefly with tin* object of getting the
track to the head ot Turnagaiu Arm,
as soon as possible. This is tin* state
ment authorized by the general man
ager and chief engineer. W« Ik Po
land, today.
A> many men as can he employed to
advantage will be kept at work on tin* ]
tunnels and the intervening sections
of the grade from mile 4U to mile '>4.
At the latter point the seventh tunnel
ends and the line enters the open val
ley which stretches from the mouth of j
Placer river canyon, where the tunnels j
are located, to the head of the Arm.
Much of the grading on this level |
stretch between mile ’>4 and mile *»«»;
was done last fall and it will be an j
eaay task to complete it.
heav y Bridge Work
le t w.-en the first tunnel on mile j
itu tue string which begins on utile 1
a tv several high bridges andtn—i
ties, including “the loop.' Mr. Poland j
says < h>'->e can bt completed hv thoj
time tie* tunnels are bored unless tliej
work i- held hack by difficulties in
,■!! it tint her. This he does not an- ]
tieioat . Watson A Snow have the
J>•• <i _t■ eontraots. They at -' expert-j
rixccu bridge builders.
Mi . Poland who returned to Seward,!
Vi stetday. spent some tunc in Wash-,
ingti ti this winter. He reports that
the te* ing in congress towanl Alaska i
i> rctnely friendly. Although con
>iut ration (>t the Lovering hill to
guarat.tee interest on Alaska railroad
bonds was atone time laid over until
next winter it has been taken up again
and Mr. Poland says its advocates
were hopeful that it might he put
through this session.
More Time for Location
By Cable to The Dally Gateway.
Wasbi igton. D. C., April 27 Sena
tor Piles of Washington introduced a
bill in the senate yesterday to allow
three years more time to the Alaska
Central Railway Company to tile maps
of definite location of its line and per
mitting it to purchase a tract of land
on Resurrection hay at Seward, for
terminals at $1.25 an acre. Also to
allow the company to take up tracts of
160 acres each at intervals of 100 miles
along the line for division terminal
grounds.
Working for Railroad Bill
By Cable to The Daily Gatoway.
Washington, D. C., April 26 The
advocates of federal aid for Alaska
railroads are still working and claim
to have some hope of success. They
are trying now to enlist the active
assistance of President Roosevelt, who
is favorable to the project. Senator
Burnham of New Hampshire called on
the president yesterday to ask him for
help in pushing the measure through.
The general subject will l>e taken up
again in the house committee on terri
tories next week and the advocates of
aid to railroads will make a united
| effort to obtain a recommendation of
the hill giving a federal guaranty of
the interest on Alaska railroad bonds
s to he passed at this session of congress.
ALASKA TRADE
GROWS RAPIDLY
Ey Cable to The Daily Gateway.
Washington, D. C., April 23 Shij>
raents of domestic merchandise from
the United States to Alaska during the
1 first eight months of the fiscal year
averaged more than $1,000,000 per
month. This is an increase of more
than 00 per cent over the aggregate
during the same period last year.
Shipments of Alaska products from
' the territory were less than in the pre
ceding year because of the smaller
salmon pack. This does not include
the shipments of metals, which show a
heavy increase.
DELEGATE BILL I
GOES THROUGH
Measure for Alaska Representa
tion in Congress Passes
Both Houses.
NOW IN HANDS OF PRESIDENT
Acceptance of Conference Report|
Pats District With Other Ter
ritories at Capital.
By Cable to Tit Daily Gateway.
Washington, IX April 27 The
Alaska delegate bill was accepted by
l>oth the house and senate yesterday
afternoon and the bill is now in the.
hands of the president for his signa
ture.
The conference l»i 11 is practically the j
measure introduced in the house by
Congressman Cushman of Washington j
and passed by that body. The tirst i
election will be hold the second I ues
day in August 1000 and a year’s con-j
tinuous residence in the territory is a ,
necessary ^ualiticution of voters.
TO BRING JEWS TO ALASKA;
Abe Spring Has Plan to Settle Farm
ers In This Territory.
.XU Spring of Fairbanks has a plan i
iv> aid in the develomnent of the
agricultural n-ources of Alaska and j
at the >:uih time find free homes for;
the pm-secuted Jews of Russia, his
native land, by bringing' them to this'
territory to locate on farms, He pro-j
sented t hi"'plan recently to a vnato |
commit?' e and to emim nt !lobrews of 1
the east and believes that be can in aj
short time have tlie beginning of such
an immigration under way. In Seattle.
Mr. Spring made tins >ta:etuent to a ,
reporter for *he i’<**♦-!ntTsJigengijr;.
“The* genoral iit<*a has met with ap-j
proval. and 1 have no doubt* whatso-j
ever but that a few years will see j
the plan a working success. Interior!
Alaska presents less natural hardships!
than tin Jewish peasant is confronted j
with in Poland and Russia. The;
weather is not as severe and the im
migrant will have the advantage of
being a personally free man. My idea
is not to colonize for I do not believe
this can he done successfully.
“My plan is to induce a score or
more healthy, intelligent young Jews
to go to the Tanana valley and remain
there. It will be but a short time be
fore they bring others. The philan
thropic societies of the east can then
aid the sturdy members of the race
who wish to come. I believe central
Alaska can and will be developed by
the class of Jews I desire to interest.
They can take over the farming and
stock raising and ho the home build
ers. I believe a great future exists
for them in the vast valleys of the
north land."
SECRETARY HITCHCOCK
AGAINST FISHERIES BILL j
Opposes the Aleasure Which Would :
Leave Only $20,000 for Alaska
Schools and Insane.
Washington, 1). C.— Secretary Hitch
cock has declared himself as opposed
to the Alaska fisheries bill unless radi
cally amended, or assurances are given
that the schools and insane persons in
the territory will be cared for by direct
appropriation. The secretary has
Ijointed out that if the fisheries bill
goes through, only a small proportion
of the tax fund will be left for the two
purposes named.
The total amount of taxes collected
outside incorporated towns and muni
cipalities last year was about $110,000.
Of this $90,000 comes from fisheries.
If the fisheries bill passes, money col
lected on that account will go into the
fisheries fund, leaving only $20,000 fori
the support of the schools and the care j
of the insade, not to mention road con
struction. _
Alap of Alt. HcKInley District
Capt. Swift sends the Gateway two
copies of a new blue print of the Mt.
McKinley district, which he has re
cently had made in Seattle from the
most exhaustive information obtaina
ble. _
The Nome News states that Louis
Lane reached that town in February
with a gold brick weighing fifty
pounds from the Big Hurrah mine.
Venezuelan bonds went up when
Castro quit the presidency.
POSTPONES CASE {
OF W1CKERSHAM
At Request of Nelson Senate
Continues Confirmation of
Alaska Judge.
WANTS TO PRINT TESTIMONY
Minnesota Man Insists Judiciary
Committee Offered Personal
Affront by Its Report.
BCable to Tlio Daily Gateway.
Washington. I>. (April 27 Sena
tor Nelson succeeded again yesterday
in delaying action upon the nomination
of Judge VVickersham to succeed him
self as judge of the Third judicial dis-i
triet of Alaska. He said the confirma
tion of VVickersham would i>e a per
sonal affront to him and asked that the
senate wait until the testimony in the
committee hearings could be printed,
in order that it might he carefully con
sidered by the whole senate. The j
senate finally consented to the post-j
pone meat. J
Consideration of the Wiekersham1
case occupied the whole time of the
senate during yesterday afternoon.
Nelson was assisted in the debate by >
Senator McCumber of North Dakota.
The Minnesota senator asserted that
the judiciary committee had offered a
personal affront to him in recommend
in'confirmation of Wiekersham over)
his opposition, in view of his greater'
familiarity with the facts.
TO BUILD RIVER BOAT
F. Ci Woolsey Brings Material for
Construction at Seldovia
; . Woolsey is a Seldovia pas.-en
um tin- Portland with material to!
hiii.il jtjhoat(!it Seldovia for the Y«-.nt j
* in. Ho is an experit
shipwright and for the past seven
years 1ms been an inspector at the
Puget Sound navy yard. Not. only is ;
he a t rained boat builder but he is an j
Alaska sourdough, having been a mail j
carrier in the territory. He carried
the first mail to Circle City.
The boat which Mr. Woolsey will
construct will he 48 feet long with 10
feet beam. It will have a 15-horse
power gasoline engine and he expects!
to be able to carry ten tons of cargo.
Mr. Woolsey reports that another
man is coming up soon to build a
smaller boat for operation above the
rapids of the Yentna, which are about
sixty-five miles from the mouth of the
stream. _
BOATS FOR THE YENTNA
- j
New Company Formed for Freight
ing to Interior Gold Districts
Prospects for business in the Yentna
and Susitna districts have proved so j
alluring that a new company has been
formed which is known as the Susitna
& Yentna Transportation Company.
In order to handle the freight and
passenger traffic on the rivers one
steamer which will be built here
will be transported to Seldovia and
from there to the mouth of the river.
Material for three more boats to be
sent North is also being secured. The
exact model of the kind of craft will
not he determined till H. Woolsey,
one of the members of the new com
pany who is now goingover the rivers,
returns. The fact that these rivers
have not been explored and that hut
little is known of them, has led the
company to refrain from build
ing steamers till Mr. Woolsey
reports on the kind needed.
According to the statements of A. I).
Barthrup, at least one of the steamers
will he ready to run up the rivers as
soon as the ice breaks. The river
steamers will connect w th the boats
of the Cook Inlet Transportation Com- \
pany. Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
Prints Map of Central Alaska
O. G. Horning has compiled and
published a map of Central Alaska
from Seward to Fairbanks, showing
the Susitna valley and the Mt. McKin
ley gold districts, including the
Yentna and the Kantishna. It is
drawn from the best information ob
tainable from railroad surveys and re
ports of prospectors and by the aid of
old maps.
The Washington block at Fairbanks
burned April 8, entailing a loss of
$62,000. Fast work by the lire depart
ment prevented the blaze from spread
ing.
MINERS STAKE !
WHOLE CREEK!
I
Dr. Green Says that Locations on
Lake and Kahiltna Are Two
and Three Deep.
i
ONE MAN RUN OUT OE CAMP
Many Prospectors in the District
and Good Order Generally Pre- !
vails in Spite of Jumping.
Lake creek is staked from end to
end and in many places the locations j
are in layers of two and three, accord-j
ing to the report brought in last night
by Dr. E. I. Green, who came straight j
from the district.
Dr. Green says the country is full of |
men who are busily exploring on all j
the creeks and locating by wholesale.
Little mining work can be done unt il
the snow is off and the legitimate min
ers who already have good claims are
getting out timber and in other ways
preparing for summer operations. The
newcomers are hustling for ground.
So fur good order has prevailed in
spite of the numerous conflicting loca
tions. Only one application of ’’the
higher law" has been made, according
to Dr. Green. He was informed that
one man who already had some good
property got so busy staking every
thing in sight regard!' -- of priorities
that he was run out of the country.
When it was noticed that this man
was -o near-sighted that he could not
see other men's stakes, with the re
sult that he was continually running
against them and knocking them over,
allowing the wind to trille with the
location notices, a rope with a noose
in it. was held up so closeiy before his
eyes that he could see it distinctly and
lie was told that if In* wanted more
room for swallowing th‘*u he could get
it ihe noose was contravled arounu ni
neck he had better travel, fie did so
without delay.
Dr. Green went into the Yentna in
March hut when he reached Kahiltna
and Lake creek he found them so
closely plastered with locations that
he mushed on up the river and ex
plored a new creek, where he located
a group of claims for himself and sev
eral friends who had outfitted him
with powers of attorney.
As the ground is deeply covered
with snow the doctor was unable to
prospect much but he sunk a shaft in
a likely looking place and obtained
cold's which he decided justified him
in calling the spot a legitimate dis
covery and he staked the group there.
He will go in again with a larger out
lit as soon as river navigation is open.
SEWARD RAISES
S800 FOR FUND
Seward camp of the Arctic brother
hood voted $150 for the San Francisco
relief fund at the regular meeting Sat
urday night and personal subscriptions
from members brought the total up to
$480. The chamber of commerce had
raised upward of $500 last night. The
whole amount will be sent to Seattle
today.
The funds contributed by Seward
will be sent to the Alaska committee
appointed by Gov. Hoggatt at Seattle
to receive Alaska subscriptions and
place them in the proper channels for
disbursement.
Governor Appoints Committee
Alaska cable offices Saturday night
received the following message from
Gov. Hoggatt at Seattle:
“At the request of Alaskans in Seat
tle I have named the following gentle
men to call and disburse funds con
tributed by Alaskans for the relief of
the distressed in San Francisco: Ed.
U. Dunn, chairman: J. M. Davidson,
secretary and treasurer; Carl M. John
son, Jack Dalton and J. D. Meenach.
I request therefore that money con
tributed by Alaskans be sent to the
banks of Seattle to be sent to the
treasurer San Francisco relief com
mittee, J02 Globe building, Seattle,
Washington, that they may purchase
such supplies or contribute such relief
as the situation may warrant. If the
distribution is left to the committee
quicker and more suitable contribu
tions can be made for the sufferers
than in any other way.”
Germany spends $672,588,000 annual
ly for liquors of all kinds.
SAN FRANCISCO
AID PILES UP
Supplies Received livery Hour and
Money Already Totals
$4,500,000.
SICKNliSS ON THli INCREASE
Engineers Planning to Rebuild and
Report fifteen Square Miles
Burned Over.
By Cable to The Bally Gateway.
San Francisco, April 21 N< u
$•1,.">00,000 has been received by tin i
lief committee and supplies arc arriv
ing every hour. The distribution i
entirely in the charge of the army
quartermaster and hills are audited by
a committee of citizens. The legisla
ture of the British Yukon -cni '‘••(ton
today.
Kngineers are busy with plans fo1
rebuilding tlie city. They report tha
they find the surface of the ground not
sunken in the least, contrary to gen
eral belief. Their statements show
that 10,000 acres, or more than lifte*
square miles of tin* city's area, w -
burned over.
Mayor Schmitz appealed t,oda\ to al!
coast towns to send nurses immediate
as sickness is increasing. Be advis<
that shipments of lumber fromOregoi
Washington and British Columbia b<
made as early as possible.
Gov. Pardee refuses to withdraw tb
i state militia I'rom the city, lie d<
I fends tin* organization from the attack
upon it and says the soldiers <ii<! in;..*
j nilicent work during tie day>
j ,ir“'
Plunged Into Darkness
San Francisco. April -1 1
i o'clock last night tin* city was plunge*
into absolute darkness except so f:*
j .is liguieU t»y names, the li-i •>: ">
lighting plants being consumed. Short
l
j ly afterward a gab* sprang up am
tlanu s fanned from Nob Hill swept th<*
north beach section completely, tin-:
steered south and licked up the tm
mense sett wall with sh**ds, grain
stores and warehouses. It then lira*
ed for the immense ferry buildings
and Southern Pacific terminal sheds.
Panic resulted from the genera
darkness. The officials in charge
swore in 1000 special policemen and
armed them with government ritfes.
Three more companies of National
Guards arrived this morning.
Lust night 200,000 people slept in
Golden Gate park. Food trains are
beginning to arrive this morning, the
Southern Pacific tracks having l>e<*n
repaired. The people art; almost
famished. In the Presidio ’>0,000 peo
ple are being- cared for and 40,000 in
Oakland. In Oakland no tents havt
been set up yet and as a heavy fog is
sweeping from the bay much pneu
monia and other diseases are rapidly
developing, both at the Presidio and
in Oakland.
Dynamite Scatters $2 000,000 Gold
Dynamite blew to the four winds
92,000,000 in gold coin belonging to the
Leland Stanford estate, which was de
posited in a trust vault to await divis
ion among heirs by order of court.
The building was dynamited to check
the progress of tire.
The debris of Chinatown sunk in
some places 100 feet into the earth,
revealing underground passage way
never known to white men, even tin
police. Many slave women kept there,
who never saw the light of day, were
•rushed to death and then incinerated.
Order Succeeds Chaos
San Francisco, April 23—Order i>
succeeding chaos and every part of the
city is a scene of strenuous ial>or.
Street cars are now running on Fill
more street and other power lines will
start service before evening. Hors«
cars are running on several street
where the tracks are intact. Food
supplies are pijing up in Oakland and
additional help is needed to bring pro
visions over to this side of the bay.
Everybody in this city is at work.
The total number of bodies recov
ered and buried up to last night wa
519. Of these more than 200 were un
identified, being merely charred re
mains. The loss of life in the cheap
lodging houses will never be known
accurately. Many of these houses
were crushed by the first earthquake
shock and then burned completely.
The sanitary officials are isolating
all cases of smallpox and typhoid twi>
miles from the city. So far about a
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