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A NOTABLE NATURAL ASSET SLUMBERING
Some day Seward will wake up to the fact that for
years past her most highly prized asset has been lying
dormant; referring to the Valley of Ten Thousand
Smokes.
When everything is said and done the Valley and Mt.
McKinley are the two most widely known attractions
of Alaska to the people of the United States. For that
very reason they should be capitalized. Providing there
were a regular boat service to the Valley coast, and
some sort of reliable accomodations enroute, a great in
flux of trade and tourirst would flow through this city.
If it were known the Valley of Ten Thousand
Smokes could be reached bv a regular service, the in
crease in travelers to the Northland would be stupen
dous. It is rather strange one of these large steamship
companies have been over-looking this bet for so long a
time. The initial cost would not be so excessive to
a company of ample means.
In anv case, the sooner such an outing and service
is established, the quicker this district will blossom.
The director of the annual high school play pre
sented at the Liberty theater last evening, Miss La Verne
Talbert, is deserving of sincere compliments for the un
ceasing toil devoted to training the student cast in their
several parts and for the excellent and interesting even
ing of entertainment. It was probablv the best amateur
performance ever presented in the city.
America has more trouble with her governors than
England has with her criminals.
There is no truth in the report the game commission
has declared open season on the Gateway.
Goodness of Tea Imparts Health
And Vigor to Exploration Heroes
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AQAINST THE AMTARCTiC 6ARRI^-(/NSET)- COM. VldlWQ £*, •
NEW YORK—In the drama of polar
exploration and adventure, tea has
played an important part.
Commander Richard E Byrd, the
first to pilot an airplane over the
North pole, and the second to attain
the top of the world will rely largely
on the refreshing qualities of tea to
sustain him and the members oi his
crew on their perilous Journey into
the south polar regions
Recognition given not only by Byrd
but by Peary. Amundsen, and othei
explorers, to tea as a sustaining bever
age. a bulletin from the Tea Associa
tion of America points out only goes
to justify its use by pioneers and
trail-blazers the world over
“Tommy Atkins, the Canadian lum
berjack the Australian bushwhacker
all have been great tea drinkers," the
bulletin declares “Peary on his dash
to the Pole over ice hummocks and in
I the teeth of blizzards, found in a cup
of hot tea the ‘punch needed to iorge
| another few miles onward With the
mercury registering 50 or 60 below
I zero the heroic Amundsen relied oo
tea to carry him forward on his con
quest oi the South pole
“It is significant that these explor
ers have depended on tea. rather than
rum m the attainment of their ob
jective. for If the last ounce of human
energy and courage is ever required,
it is on a dash over the polar ice
wastes
“Similarly, the American business
man and the American worker, when
! they find themselves losing heart and
! facing the zero hour, are coming to
' rely more and more on tea when the
I call comes to go over the top."
BEAR SITUATION
IS DISCUSSED BY
ALASKA FARM HEAD
DR ALBERTS ADDRESSES MEM
BERS AT CHAMBER OF
COMMERCE LUNCHEON
A glimpse of what the United
States government, thru the de
partment of agriculture, is doing
toward developing the farming
and cattle raising possibilities in
Alaska was given to an interested
audience at the regular weekly
business luncheon of the Seward
Chamber of Commerce Tuesday by
Dr. W. H. Alberts, director of the
U. S. experimental stations in Alas
ka.
Having been personally engaged
in supervising this work for the
past three years, and investigating,
himself, all conditions in the Terri
tory having a bearing upon the in
dustry which is first in importance
to any nation, as far as his time
would permit, Dr. Alberts laid his
finger on Kodiak Island as the re
gion destined to be Alaska’s live- '
stock center. “And in spite of the
witness of Kodiak Island,” remark
ed the doctor, “only a very small i
fraction of its area is suitable for ,
agricultural purposes.”
Those of the inhabitans of Ko
diak who are fostering the grazing
of live stock are, in spite of hazards
that must soon be removed, show
more thhan substantial progress
“To my own knowledge”, Dr. Al
berts stated, “the sheep herds num
ber up to 2,000 in a single herd, and
the cattle nearly as greatly. Un
like other industries, Kodiak live
stock raisers are not in dire need of
highways, as cattle and sheep can
be driven over trails very easity,
and a satisfactory system of trails
is now established, all leading to
the end of the five mile highway
into Kodiak.* Supplies and build
ing materials needed by the ranch
ers is best transported by small
boats from the town of Kodiak to [
the heads of the many bays that
serve as headquarters and home
sites for ranchers.”
Treating only lightly on the
brown bear menace, which is re
garded in different lights by sports
men than by ranchers, he said re
ports were not erroneous in that
cattle ranchers in the small sec
tion of Kodiak Island in which the
industry is being established, are
experiencing serious devastations
frequently, by the predatory habits
of the brown bears. Both sides of
the situation are fully appreciated, I
he said, and a plan is being worked j
out by the Alaska game commission
jand the U. S. department of agri- j
|culture whereby both interests are
to be fully appeased.
It is generally conceded that in
| the interests of agricultural ad- j
vancement and the raising of live
stock, the bears should go, if nec- !
essary. However, the opinion is
held by many, that to exterminate
the brown bears from the farming
and cattle grazing districts of Ko
diak Island, would scarcely dimin
ish to the Slightest degree the
abundance of these huge animals
that would still be left on the is
land for the sportsmen, not to
mention the bears of the Alaska
j peninsula which outnumber those
of Kodiak.
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; The Harper operations, it is un
derstood, will represent the only
activity on Resurrection creek this
vear and it is reported that opera
tions on other streams in that lo
cality are to be considerably cur
tailed this season.
High water 12:18 p. m. 10.8 ft.
Low water 7:08 p. m. 2.2 ft.
High water 1:35 a. m. 7.8 ft.
Low water 6:52 p. m. 2.1 ft. j
B. P. O. E. NOTICE
A business meeting of Seward
Elks will be held in the Arcade club
rooms Monday evening at 7:30
•• clock. Visiting Elks are invited
to attend. j
Chairman, Seward Elks, j
CLARKE ANDRESEN,!
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