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OF SEWARD, ALASKA — Established August 19. 1904
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SEWARD—A GLIMPSE INTO THE FUTURE
A rthur Brisbane, the brilliant editorial writer, contrasts
** real estate values in San Francisco in 1927 and in 1847
in a manner that might startle residents of Seward and
other budding young cities of Alaska. In 1847, says Bris
bane, a German restaurant owner named Russ bought
two lots on Montgomery street, San Francisco, for $45.
Today, in 1927, the 88 story Russ office building is just
completed on those two lots, and for the next 99 years the
heirs of the original purchaser will draw rentals of six
percent interest a year on $2,000,000 a year from their
ground lease alone.
Eighty years ago, when Mr- Russ bought those two
lots for $45, San Francisco was a hamlet of a few dozen
population, and the whole of the United States contained
about 25,000,000 people.
Seward and other towns in Alaska are relatively far
ther advanced in 1927 than San Francisco was in 1847.
The vast wilderness that extended from the Mississippi
river to the Pacific ocean in 1847 is now occupied by 33,
000,000 people, and Alaska is the last frontier.
The increase in population of the United States in the
80 years from 1847 to 1927 was 95,000,000. The increase
during the next 80 years, according to estimates by ex
perts of the government census bureau, will be close to
200,000,000, giving a total population of 320,000,000
Americans within the next 80 years.
Where are these additional 200,000,000 people going
to locate? * *
Necessity will bring several million of them to the
wide and fertile valleys of Southern and Central Alaska.
The villages and towns of today along the Alaska
Railroad from Seward to Fairbanks will grow into cities
and industrial centers with the constant rolling of the
tide of population as surely as the vacant spaces of the
West have developed modern cities like San Francisco,
Los Angeles, Seattle, Denver, Minneapolis and hundreds
of others like them.
And in due time Seward, too, will have its office build
ings that will tell a romance as marvelous as the 38 story
Russ building of San Francisco.
WASTE ON FARMS
In this age of machinery on the farm, it is surprising that
* so many farmers fail to take proper care of their valua
ble machines and tools, but leave them exposed to the
weather with consequent deterioration and loss.
If a manufacturer were to pay as little attention to
the preservation of his machinery as some farmers do, he
would be headed for bankruptcy in short order- While
many farmers do care for their equipment in a proper
way, it is the testimony of many observers that these are
rather than the rule. Describing conditions on a middle
west farm, a writer recently said:
"I walked through the grove and orchard and found
more than 30 pieces of machinery exposed to the weather.
The hog house leaked and the corn-crib was full of holes,
yet there was an abandoned bam nearby the lumber of
which would have made the necessary repairs and covered
all the machinery.”
It is estimated that thewaste through lack of care for
farm machinery amounts to $100,000,000 a year in the
United States. There are other instances of waste al
most as appalling. Is it any wonder that some farmers
never appear to be able to get along?
The prize optimist of the year is a Republican who
still believes Cal will choose to run.
Husbands, beware! Pin money is sometimes the
seed that grows alimony.
If there is anything in association of names Hoover
ought to sweep the country.
Love’s golden dream is Saturday’s pay check.
LISTING ON S. 5. YUKON
The S. S. Yukon, Capt. Glasscock,
of the A. S. S. Co., arrived in port at
an early hour this morning completing
an ideal j,nd fast run from Seattle to
the Port of Seward.
The incoming listing of local passen
gers from Alaskan ports, other than
the Seattle listing published last Sat
urday, comprise the following:
A. D. Brooks, P. Ordenk, G. Hana,
S^m Mickalroff, D. C. Fairman and
wife, Mrs. M. Moore, J. E. Cahill, Miss
S. Landis, H. E. Rupert, A. C. Var E.
D. Diehl, Walter H. Hodge.
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SILVER CITY, IDAHO,
PROPERTY HITS ORE
WALLACE, Idaho, Oct. 22. (/P)—
An essay made by one of the local
essayers during the early part of
the week on a selected specimen of
quartz from the Owyhee Gold Mining
company operating in the Silver City
district, gave a return of 523.4 oun
ces in silver and 284.28 ounces of
gold to the ton, amounting in value
to $6161 to the ton.
This specimen was secured from a
four-foot vein at a depth of about
400 feet below the surface and was
brought to Wallace by John B. Platts
manager of the company, on his re
turn from a visit to the mine the
early part of the week.
The ledge, opened up for 875 feet,
is rather uniform in width, shows an
average value of about $33 to the
ton in gold and silver. Numerous
stringers of quartz scattered through
the ledge filling, varying in thjpkness
from a half inch to several inches, he
said, would essay from $100 to $1000
to the ton.
OF SCORES Of DEBUSSY
PARIS, Oct. 22. (JP)—Deep interest
has been aroused In Paris musical
circles by the announcement that a
number of posthumous works by the
great French composer, Claude L)e
bussy, have been found by his widow
among his papers. The first of
these, a suite for orchestra entitled
“Le Triomphe de Bacchus,” will,
shortly be issued by one of the lead
ing Parisian music publishers, the
others following as soon as they can
be engraved.
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lerer’s Alaska Shop.
DANCE TONIGHT
Admission Charge: Men
75c; Ladies 25c
MUSIC BIT
THE JOLLY THREE
ODD FELLOWS
/ HALL
TONIGHT 7 AND 9 SHARP
The Greatest Character Actor
in one of his greatest plays
| in which he wonderfully portrays the parts of two
□
Something Special
| He is supported by—
j —RENEE ADOREE — OWEN MOORE—
I Wonderful entertainment that no one should miss
1 ONE OF THE GREAT FEATURES
And a Pathe News
SUNDAY ONLY
GENE STRATTON PORTER’S great novel
“Laddie”
/
Given in a wonderful movie
Millions have enjoyed the book, and more millions
have enjoyed the play.
EVERYONE SHOULD SEE IT
With it there will be a beautiful Pathe Review, and
an interesting Pathe News.
An extra fine Sunday program
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