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FISH AND NUMBER TWO’S
Now consider fish, Alaska’s chief product for export,
of which the figure jugglers say we shipped some umpty
steen millions of pounds, cans, cases not to mention fresh,
smoked, whole, piece-meal and in salt last year.
Fresh fish is considered a rare delicacy in the inland
states, witness the fancy prices paid for our halibut and
salmon, while canned salmon is in demand the world over.
Locally some eat it as regularly and as often as other
foods, a few prefer it to other flesh, others do not like it
at all, which is quite natural. Tastes differ.
But the men building the railroad with the faithful
old No. 2’s just naturally don’t eat fish and don’t want it.
Experience of those supplying the camps is that a camp
of fifty men will use—under protest—fifty pounds of iish
per week, a pound per man. One meal of fish out of 21 is
less than five per cent of fish in reference to other flesh
foods.
What is the answer? Men in offices, who although
they may have been active with a No. 2 at some time in
their lives, cannot answer. The Gateway would appre
ciate a letter from any one on the line able to answer or a
letter from any number of men in one of the camps stat
ing the reason each man does not care for fish. Such a
letter will be a valuable addition to the fund of human
knowledge concerning food consumption.
A WORD TO THE WISE
The manager of the land and industrial department
while active elsewhere is neglecting the welfare of those
who purchased lots in the Federal and Cliff additions to
Seward.
Under recent order half of the money paid for all
townsite property is available for improvements within
the section in which the land is sold, either on streets, fire
protection, parks or other matters for the good of pur
chasers in general.
Possibly this gentle hint will be sufficient to attract
the busy manager’s attention this way for a few moments.
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ANOTHER ALASKA RESOURCE
The legislature of the Territory of Alaska calls the
attention of congress to the fact that there is no danger of
a famine in timber for the making of wood pulp, from
w hich paper is manufactured—there is an abundance in
Alaska. The national forests contain an estimated sev
eral billion feet of hemlock and spruce, and there is more
on the public lands. The memorial to congress urges that,
inasmuch as private capital has not been enlisted to de
velop this tremendous natural timber resource, the gov
ernment should establish pulp and paper factories on the
ground.
There is no practical reason, of course, why the appeal
of the Alaska legislature should not be favorably consid
ered if it is desirable for the government to expand the
policy of engaging in business enterprises, already in evi
dence in the Alaska railroad and the projected munitions
and nitrate plants. It would be interesting, meanwhile, to
know why private capital has not been encouraged to open
up the timber resources of Alaska. The water power
available for paper manufacture and the facilities for di
rect tidewater transportation, as well as the abundance
of timber, are said to duplicate those of Norway. The for
est service has recently reported that it would be entirely
practicable to manufacture in Alaska and deliver the
product at the port of New York, through the Panama
canal, at a cost far below present prices.—(Providence
Journal.)
FACTS IS FACTS
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A scholarly historian working as a reporter on the Se
attle Times wrote a piece for the issue of Sunday, May 27,
in which he tenders to the world the information that
“I’M AGAINST IT, TOO, BILL!”
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_pPtr'*>l' N**w Orl»*nn«i Times-Picayune
Alaska was purchased in 1867 by W illiam H. Seward, sec
retary of state under James Buchanan. Fhe public is
further informed in the same article that the country “was
then considered little less than an iceberg.”
The reporter does not say how very much less than
an iceberg Alaska was then “considered.” Probably folks
thought it was a chunk the ice the iceman leave. 1 hey
didn’t know everything in those days. In 1867 most peo
ple thought Andrew Johnson was then president of the
United States and a good many histories have had it that
way ever since.—(Valdez Prospector.) _
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For further particulars of service, rates, apply to Agent.
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c The Gateway of
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Best Harbor on the Alaska Coast
Big Game Paradise of all Alaska
Future Fishing Center of Alaska
Gateway and Distributing Point for Central Alaska
Completely endowed and equipped with Public
School, Hospital and Churches
If You Are Looking for a Place
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These Facts:
SEWARD is the inevitable metropolis of Alaska; has a first class
Public School System; is the principal city on the Kenai I cnin
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 make a wealthy town;
a modern and complete cold storage plant and cannery; will have
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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