MANAGEMENT OF
ALASKA KAELROAD
LAUDED BY SOLON
(Continued from Pas« One)
homes.”
Congressman Murphy, who visited ;
the Territory last summer, further j
stated: “This railroad that we own
and operate in Alaska is said to be
running through or to operate
through extensive coal fields in
Alaska. The Geological Survey has
had many people in Alaska this
summer knocking off with their
hammers bits of stone here and
digging little holes yonder, seeking
to find out about the minerals in
Alaska. We were told that there is
much coal there. We were told that
there was anthracite coal there. If
any member of the committee
found one lump of anthracite coal,
I should like to have seen it. We
did not see any, although it may
be there.
“There is some coal in Alaska,
and it is being mined. Now, the
coal there does not lie in flat beds
like the coal that we mine here,
h but it runs diagonally up in the
hills, and it is very difficult to
mine. However, they are mining
it; and to our amazement we found
that there was no way at tidewater
for ships to take the coal shipped
on this railroad, as there were no
facilities for loading, so our com
mittee took the matter up while
there with the very, very efficient
manager of that railroad and when
he appeared before our committee
a few weeks ago he told us that he
was in favor of building coal bunk
ers at Seward. He said it would
cost $65,000 to build the bunkers
and he thought he could find the
money to do it with out of the
money he has which is unexpend
ed.
^ “Now, to think of it—they im
ported into Alaska some years as
much as 100,000 tons of coal; and
where do you suppose they bring
the bulk of it from? They bring
it from Utah, and we have a rail
road in Alaska that goes through
the coal field. They should have
provided facilities to load coal on
the small boats that ply here, there
« and yonder through the peaceful
islands off the coast of that splen
did country long, long ago.
“So, if we did nothing else last
summer during out visit there than
to open up the coal fields and give
them a chance to sell their coal
and give the railroad a chance to
haul it and to reduce these exorbi
* tnat rates they have placed on the
people, then, indeed, it was worth
while for our committee to make
the little investigation we did make
at that point.”
“Who was it that failed to pro
vide these facilities? A govern
ment agency?” asked Maurice H.
Thatcher, Representative of Ken
tucky.
“We are not here to make any
charges or find any fault,” replied
Mr. Murphy. “We are happy to
report to the House today that they
are going to provide bunkers there,
I and it is the unanimous hope of
the committee that there will be
coal in these bunkers sufficient at
all times to supply the need of
boats that may come to Seward
shdrt of fuel.”
‘‘Whose responsibility is it to
supply the bunkers?” interceded
Representative Thatcher.
“The railroad management,” re
plied Mr. Murphy, “but with a mil
lion-dollar deficit running (every
year, they hesitated to spend the
money to do this. There are only
28.000 white people up there, widely
scattered. There are only about
12.000 white folks, and when I say
white folks. I mean the kind oi
folks who live in cities and towns
and in the country adjacent tc
this railroad, that must pay this
additional freight, and it does not
seem right to penalize 12,000 pio
neer people to make good a deficit
on a government-operated rail
road.”
Seward Fralernsi Orders
BEWARE CHAPTER NO. 10
ORDER OF EASTERN STAR
Meets the second and fourth I
Monday’* of each montl
in McMullen’* HuiMing, at
* P- m. Visitlnsr member*
always welcome. Mrs. Haze)
Enfrin, W. M.; Mrs. Miriam
Painter, See.
Seward
L.
Lodge No. 1425
O O. M.
P Meets on every
f firet a*\d third Fri- I
day* of each month I
r *t 8 p. m. at I. I
O. O. F. Hall. All
welcome. Peter N.
Andereon, Director.
M. A. Horner, Sec
retary.
SEWARD REBEKAH LODGE NO G-A
J. O. O. F.
k Meets the first and third
k Monday* of each month
I in I. O. O. F. Hall at
f 8 p. m. Visiting mem
bers are always welcome.
Sylvia Sexton, N. G.
Ludvig Larsson, Sec’y.
RESURRECTION LODGE NO. A-7
I. O. O. F.
Meet* every Thursday at 8 p.
“• in Odd Fellows' Hall. Visit
D u_(■_brother* welcome. Gustave
~ ” G.? Ludvig Larsgon, Secretary.
THE AMERICAN LEGION
Seward Post No 5
Meet* firat and third Wed-1
> ne»«Uy at 8 p. m. in the
; Harriman Bank Building,
i P®»t Commander, Dr. A. R.
Roberta: Adjutant, L. J.
Chilberg.
SEWARD LODGE NO. 21»
P. * A. M.
Stated communications first end
third Tuesdays of each month
Visiting brethern welcome.
CLARKE ANDRESEN, W. M.
HAROLD E. SOGN. See’y.
ALASKA SS CO, (GENT
XTTACKS FOREIGN LINES
Assailing Canadian competitior
to American vessels on Alaska
runs, J. Henry Covington, repre
senting the Alaska Steamship Co.
urged the passage of the “fighting
ship’’ bill to amend the Shipping
Act which was recently considered
at Washington before the Senate
Merchant Marine Committee. He
said the competion had conceived
the very simple device of trans
shipping at Vancouver passenger*
from Seattle to Alaska
He added he understood that
some of the Canadian owners were
in the committee room at that
time and wondered what t h e j
would think if the situation were
reversed and Americans went tc
a foreign country to legislate.
Tonight is the last night for the
showing at the Liberty Theatre o:
the picture, “Gang Buster,” featur
ing the comedian Jack Oakie.
Km SALMON III
CANS PUT ON MARKET
or juneau men
“Alaska Kippered Salmon in
Cans” is a Gastineau Channel prod
uct now on the market. Two hun
dred cases are on sale in Juneau
stores. At least 1,000 more will be
put up this season, and most of
these will go to large cities in the
States, where shipments of the de
lectable commodity in previous
years have caused it to be in de
mand.
The fish are being packed by H.
L. Morris, long-time resident of
the Territory and for many years
a dealer in numerous articles of
food. The packing is being done
at the Douglas Island cannery at
j Douglas.
| The canned kippered salmon is
made of kings, and only of catches
taken in the fall, which are said
j to yield the best and fattest fish.
The fish are hand-butchered
brined and smoked. They are then
hand cut and hand packed. They
are vacuum sealed and finally are
1 cooked in the cans.
| The cases are convenient in size.
, | Each case, which is of corrugated
cardboard, c o n t ai n s one dozen
cans.
Mr. Morris’ salmon is the only
kippered salmon that is packed in
cans.
Several cases of Alaska’s latest
, canned salmon delicacy have been
received in Seward and the prod
uct has been found to be excep
, tionally palatable- A large and in
creasing sale is forecast by all those
who have sampled Mr. Morris’ de
lectable commodity.
Used sawmill products, engines
i and 45-foot boat for sale at J. L.
Graef’s.
Next Sunday will be a gala day
at the Community Church.
10 a. m. Sunday School. It is
a pleasure to see the large, order
ly attendance at Sunday School. A
substantial increase in attendance
has been shown during the past
winter. All who have been en
rolled and others who may desire
!to come are urged to attend Sun
day School next Sunday.
11 a. m. The Easter Sunday
Morning Service will be helpful and
the public is invited to attend. We
are glad to welcome the various
organizations which are forming
the habit of attending the Easter
Morning Service. Another oppor
tunity for Baptism of adults and
children will be given at this serv
ice. Those who are to be received
i into the church are urged to at
j tend this service if possible.
6:30 p. m. Epworth League.
I 7:30 p. m. A pageant portraying
1 the facts of Easter will be present
1 ed at the Evening Eervice hour,
j This will be the most beautifully
lighted pageant so far presented.
It will be a thing of beauty as well
as inspirational. Costumes depict
ing the period in which Christ lived
will be worn. Eighteen characters
will take part. A choir will sing
the special music. It is not often
that the people of Seward have the
privilege of enjoying such an eve
ning, and everybody is invited to
attend.
Olaf Olson, a well known oldtim
er of the Flat and Iditarod, was
drowned at Crooked C^eek Iasi
month, reports the Kusko Times.
Step out of Winter into Spring
with a straight, well finished new
pair of rubber heels... The feel ol
new heels is worth many times the
small price paid.
SEWARD LEATHER WORKS
LARGE NUMBER PEOPLE
EMPLOYED IN ALASKA
BY BUREAU FISHERIES
More than 300 persons and 24
vessels, exclusive of small launch
es, were employed by the U. S
Bureau of Fisheries in Alaska fish
ery work in 1931, says an official
announcement.
In 1931 there were 220 stream
guards and special employees and
nine chartered boats, manned by
12 persons, engaged by the bureau
in patrol and fisheries law enforce
j ment in various districts of Alas
! ka. These special temporary em
Iployees were stationed as follows:
1110 in Southeast Alaska, 19 in the
j Seward-Katalla district, 30 in the j
Kodiak-Afognak area, four a t j
j Chignik, eight in the Alaska Pen
insula area, 36 on Bristol Bay and
three in the Yukon-Kuskokwim
district.
Five of the chartered boats were
operated in Southeast Alaska, two
in the Seward-Katalla district, one j
on Cook Inlet and one in the Shu
magin Islands region. There were
76 stream guards who furnished
their own launches—54 of whom
were in Southeast Alaska, 12 in
Central Alaska and one in West
ern Alaska.
Fifteen special employees were
engaged in scientific work—throe
on herring and 12 on salmon inves
tigations—the work being carried
on mainly in Southeast and Central
Alaska.
In addition to the foregoing, 12
statutory employees and 14 bureau
vessels, manned by 53 men, were
engaged in fishery protective work.
These, together with the tempor
! ary employees and scientific inves
tigators, make a total of 312 per
sons and 24 vessels, apart from
i. launches, identified with fishery
work in Alaska in 1931, as compar
ed with 317 persons and 25 vessels
so employed in 1930.
STAMPS WORTH $10
It was unoffcially reported at
Cordova, says the Times, that the
air-mail envelopes having cancell
ed stamps which were used by C.
L. Scott in taking the first com
mercial air-mail across the Gulf of
Alaska from Cordova to Seattle in
1929 are new worth $10.
MANY BATTLES FOUGHT
MUKDEN, Manchuria, Mar. 25.—
The Japanese military headquar
ters here announced that during
the month of February Japanese
troops had engaged in 47 battles
with Chinese rebels and had routed
and dispersed thousands of the
Chinese “rebels.”
ATTEMPT SECURE FREEDOM
WASHINGTON, D. C., Mar. 25.—
The Federal government announc
ed that attempts had been made
by criminal organizations in Chi
cago to secure the release of “Scar
face” A1 Capone from prison thru
the criminal organizations control
of public officials. Federal offi
cials, however, have been expect
ant of such moves and no successes
have yet resulted in securing Ca
pone’s freedom.
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