Seward Daily Gateway
OF SEWARD. ALASKA — Established August 19, 1904
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TIMBER IN CENTRAL ALASKA
The Department of Agriculture tells us more about
the timber resources around Seward and in central Al
aska, tributary to the Alaska Railroad, with ocean out
let as Seward than the most optimistic of us had dared
to believe.
The information is contained in Technical Bulletin
..o. 226, by L. J. Markwardt, engineer or the Forest
Products Laboratory of the Forest Service, which is
just recently off the press.
The total amount of timber in the Chugach Forest
Reserve, of which Seward is the geographic center, is
given in the publication as 6, 260,000,000 board feet, suit
able for the best grades of newsprint pulp.
But the biggest surprise is the great amount of
timber in the Interior of Alaska, in the valleys, along
the rivers, lining the bases of mountains and covering
numerous ridges. The total in those combined localities
as estimated by the Agriculture Department, after care
ful surveys to be approximately 500,000,000 cords. It
gives 600 board feet to the cord. That makes the stu
pendous grand total of 300,000,000,000 board feet, in the
valleys and along the mountain sides of Interior Alaska,
of a quality suitable for lumber and newsprint pulp.
The total of pulp timber in Southeastern Alaska, in
the Tongass Forest Reserve, is estimated by this bul
letin at 73,000,000,000 board feet, of all varieties.. The
timber resources of the valleys in central Alaska are
therefore more than four times larger than the timber
resources of the great Tongass Reserve.
Few in Alaska realize that vast forests cover the
valleys of central Alaska as far north as the Chandlar
and the Porcupine, north of the Yukon River, and north
of the Arctic circle.
All the timber in those valleys can be rafted down
streams to the Susitna, the Tanana and the Yukon riv
ers, and brought out to Seward over the Alaska rail
road, for manufacture into pulp and newsprint paper
at this ocean shipping port.
Those resources are sufficient, in the aggregate, to
manufacture 1,500,000 tons of newsprint every year for
time indefinite, or more than 4,000 tons per day.
The different kinds of timber in the Interior of
Alaska are treated technically and scientifically by the
bulletin, including the spruce, hemlock, birch, balsam,
cottonwood and aspen. All of it is equal to the best of
its kind anywhere, on the authority of the experts of
the Agriculture Department, who tested the timbers, and
gave the results of their labors in this valuable Bulletin
No. 226.
Some day, when the high officials of the govem
xnen decide to develop the resources tributary to the
Alaska Railroad, or to put policies into effect which
will result in the development of those resources, the
Alaska Railroad will be the busiest and most profitable
little system of transportation in the United .States.
The Department of Agriculture says that the trees
of a forest return a ton of leaves to each acre of soil
from which the trees grow. In the long run, Nature
can be depended upon for a square deal.
A thirty-seven foot yawl has won a trans-Atlanti<
sailing race. Despite the attractions of golf and mo
toring, some of the stamina of the ancient Vikings stil
remains in the land which they discovered.
Cities that are known as progressive cities attrac
the attention of investors and homeseekers.
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SILVER IN CHI
IS DISCUSSED BY
SENATOR PITTMAN
SHANGHAI, China, Aug. 8. (A>)
—The need for an international sil
ver conference, which he believed
would be held after the present
debt negotiations in Paris are con
cluded, was stressed by Senator Key
Pittman at the end of his visit to
China.
Pittman told a gathering of
Chinese financiers, industrialists,
educators, journalists and officials
that both China and India would
benefit by a silver conference as
the Hoover moratorium would en
able England to extend a morator
ium to India on the latter’s debt
to England, thus relieving India of
the necessity of selling silver.
NEW ARIZONA MILE
PAYSON, Ariz., Aug. 8. (A*)—Ne
gotiations have been completed
for the erection of a $25,000 gold
mill at the Eighty-five -mine, ac
cording to the Denver Mining Re
cord.
TRY TO ‘STICK’ CAPONE
CHICAGO, Aug. 8. (A3)—Evidence
in beer conspiracy charges against
“Scarfaee” A1 Capone will be pre
sented in court Tuesday with the
purpose of getting a more specific
indictment and a heavier prison
sentence.
SOVIETS SQUASH INDUSTRY
MOSCOW, Aug. 8. (A5)—The Sov
iets squashed another private in
dustry by rounding up all boy
bootblacks in the streets, sending
them to reform schools. A total
of 653 urchins were arrested.
A man claiming to be a Seward
resident has been passing worthless
checks in Anchorage and upon in
vestigation it was found that the
party is a total stranger to this
part of the country.
The Alaska Pack Board — the
best pack board in Alaska. Man
j ufactured and sold by Seward
| Leather Works.
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Motorship
Princess Pat
SPEED — COMFORT
Serving All Cook Inlet
Points and Connecting
Weekly with Admiral
Line Steamers
Towing and Special Trips
By Arrangement
CHAMBERS & COLWELL
Seldovia, Agents
FRED M. O’NEILL, Skipper
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Goodyear All-Weather
at a NEW LOW PRICE!
OGLE’S GARAGE
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All Talking Pictures llieatre
SATURDAY 8 P.M. SUNDAY 7:30 P. M.
The Great Novel, “Louis Rerretti,” Made Into
a Fine Talkie and Renamed
“Born Reckless”
—STARRING—
EDMUND LOWE
Supported by a Special Cast
A New Type of Upper and Lower Strata of Society.
Showing Gangsters as They Sometimes Are and
Upper Class People as They Sometimes
Are. A Thrilling Play With a Dif
ferent Ending. i
We Will Show With This Program for the
First Tim© a “Topics of The Day” Reel. Also
an Interesting News Reel and one of
the Screaming Looney Tunes.
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steamers.
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