WHERE ALASKANS MEET
HOTEL ATWOOD
Ted Taylor, Prop.
1st AVE. & PINE STREET
SEATTLE, WASH.
Rooms W’ithout Bath
From $1.00 Per Day
Rooms With Private Bath
\ From $2.00 Per Day
=] Rates by Week or Month
;!
Samples and price of Alaskan products such as Hay, Furs,
Grain, Coal, Meats, Hides, Lumber, Wool, Pulp, Salt Fish,'
Kelp, Bear Gall, Etc., wanted by the undersigned for ex
port from Alaska
Xawabe Investment Co.
Harij Sotaro Kawabe, President and Manager
IMPORTERS and EXPORTERS
Seward, Alaska P. O. Box 132
Write for additional information *
Branch office in connection with the UNION TRADING CO..
Osaka, Japan; PACIFIC TRADING CO., Tokyo, Japan, and
802 American Bank Building, Seattle, Washington.
reiephone Main 34
M’Mullen’s Grocery
FOR PROMPT DELIVERY
STAPLE AND FANCY GROCERIES
MAIL AND PHONE ORDERS PROMPTLY
ATTENDED TO
BILL JONES
NEEDS MOB] KOU
Winter is approaching and the
children’s school expense will be
higher this year than last. Bill
looks forward to less income in
the regular way. Many industries
have shifted to the “zigzag” plan
for their employees in an effort
to help everyone thru the winter.
This means that each employee
will have about half as much in
come. Prices of clothing and food
have come down some, but not in
it isn’t bringing him any income
There will be just as much coal to
buy and rent to pay. Bill must
have more money than he can
expect from his usual sources.
He has some money in the sav
ings bank drawing 3 per cent in
terest. While it is true that money
was put there for a “rainy day”
i isn’t bringing him any income
worth mentioning; and $20 or $40
or even $100 of that wouldn’t go
very far on a “rainy day.” He
needs more money coming in.
Bill Jones is the average Amer
ican. He knows that many a man
in exactly his financial condition
has invested part of his money
and has made enough return to
give him the added income he
needed. But Bill knows there is
some speculation with every in
vestment, no matter what it is or
how good it sounds.
He doesn’t know whether he
should take any chances on either
his savings account or his present
income. Of course his savings ac
count is not absolutely safe; he!
realizes more money has been lost
by depositors thru bank failures
during the last 10 years than
1ST ME HOTELS
| SEWARD — Mrs. Andy Simoi
1 Jack Wheaton.
OVERLAND—Joe Belseo.
thru any single line of investmei
'other than the stock market era*
in 1929. Being a true America
and realizing that “nothing riske
nothing gained,” he likes to tal
a chance. Bill is a cautious fe
jlow and wants to speculate, bi
ihe doesn’t want to lose his mone
; So he tosses aside all the “wile
! eyed” promises and impractic
! guarantees that flood the mal
land seeks out a chance to speci
I late with the safety of a flowir
oil well to fall back on if tl
i well he bets on turns out to 1
; dry. If the new well comes i
big, Bill should make a prof
| of 10 times his investment.
| he doesn’t he still has his mom
where it should pay him dividend
over a period of years, twenl
! times larger than the savin*
bank interest. And he has tt
speculative chance of making
real fortune if the new well com<
in good. He wants to speculal
with his "fingers crossed,” as
were, and that is exactly wh£
he does when he accepts our spe
cial Pool offer, and shares in on
gusher while we drill for anothe
Write us for full informatioi
but better still—mail us $20, $10<
or even $200, and share in oi
next dividend. If you are lik
Bill Jones, we might help you
E. M. Thomasson & Co., In<
Patterson Bldg.,
DENVER, COLORADO.
Colorado Securities Act complie
with.
it
ih
n
d,
;e
L
it
y
i
ii
Is
l
g
le
>e
n
it
[f
y
s,
y
;s
e
a
IS
e
it
! UNIUHHEU TLU Hi
US TO HEIGHT OF U
KINLEY, DISH LIBEL
The recent airplane flight
across Mt. McKinley has aroused
much interest among Alaskans
everywhere, and the published
single, uncorrected record of a
; barograph attached to the wings
! of a plane, giving about 22,000
' feet as the height of the Big
J Hill is a dirty libel, asserts D. E.
Stubbs, of the McKinley station,
who informs The Gateway that:
“I was in Fairbanks when the
plane left on the trip and when
it returned, and protested stoutly
giving out the incorrect reading
of one instrument as truth of the
height of hte mountain, but was
height?
“The following article w*as writ
ten to offset the libel, and to
give Alaskans the low down, and
to explain the manner many so
called scientific facts are cooked
up, and for want of any explan
ation are believed.
“There is just about as much
reason to believe the Big Hill is
nearer 26,000 feet high than any
other number.”
e
r.
h
),
r
e
Now that observers have cross
ed over Bulshaia Gora, now call
ed Mt. McKinley, it has revived
an old discussion on two points:
(1) Was Mt. McKinley scaled
in former years? and
(2) What is its probable
d
heighth?
As to height. Many years
ago old-timers and others called
its height 24,000 feet. This
elevation was generally believed
to have been found by the early
Russians, who were making maps
of this region.
Later, and about the years 1906
;or ’07 a rumor gained currency
that some one out of uncharter
ed space had found the height
of the Big Hill to be 20,464 feet.
The modesty of the author, who
was apparently on a ship at sea,
! seemed to be the only reason for
| not attaching a few inches to
I his answer.
The use of three uncertain
i figures is misleading, indicates an
accuracy that did not exist, and
>a reflection on the intelligence of
'the observer.
i CALL FOR BIDS TO FURNISH TIES
Sealed bids will he received by The Alaska
! Railroad up to 2:30 P. M. on the Third Mon
| day in each month, for furnishing Standard
Mountain Hemlock Cross Ties in lots of 10,000
or less. Specifications and other particulars
may be obtained from D. W. Metzdorf Gen
eral Storekeeper, Anchorage, Alaska.
Pub: Mondays, beginning July 27, 1931.
j PROFESSIONAL CARDS
Dr. A, D. Haverstock
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON
Seward General Hospital
E. P. Harwood
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Johansen Building Seward, Alaska
FOR FIRE INSURANCE
SEE
Curtis R. Morford
Dr. A. R. Roberts
DENTIST
Phone Madison 108—Tccklen berg Bldg._
Donohue & Dimond
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
OFFICES
VALDEZ AND CORDOVA.
F. W. Williamson
U. S. Deputy Mineral Surveyor—U. 8. Land
Surveyor—General Surveyor
Seward, Alaska—Inquire Seward Gateway
THE PALACE
POOL. SOFT DRINKS AND
CIGARS
Furnished Rooms
John Mattich Pan! Svedeen
Proprietors ::
Phone Main 55
All Work Guaranteed
Now open for business un
der new management
AMANDA’S HAND
LAUNDRY
Phone Madison 126
MRS. B. R. NICHIA, Prop
•me neignt oi zu.siu ieet was
in use around 1909 or '10, and
20.300 feet has been in some Gov
ernment and other publications
since.
Tables for curvature and re
! fraction corrections have only
been worked out by the Govern
j ment for distance of 66 miles,
j < Correction to be added for this
distance is 2,500 feet.) The early
observations were made from
either Valdez, Coast Points or at
sea, and distant from Mt. McKin
ley 100 to 2200 miles or more.
Readings on points more than 66
miles are frowned on by the Gov
ernment as of no merit.
The official figures and data
relating to the recent flight
across the Big Hill are retained
by the Weather Bureau and will
not be released until next Octo
ber.
The plane crossing Mt. McKin
ley carried attached to a wing
i an altitude recording instrument
! called a barograph. Since some
have expressed a child-like faith
in the uncorrected recorded fig
ures indicated by this barograph,
I would like to quote a few facts
from Government and other
. sources on this means of deter
mining elevations.
The instruments most used for
determining elevations, the re
sults being mostly rough esti
mates, are variously called the
aneroid barometer, weather glass,
altimeter, barograph, etc.
The construction of all consist
essentially of a corrugated metal
box, partly exhausted of air. This
box expands and contracts with
changes in atmospheric pressure.
This movement is greatly multi
plied through a lever and chain
to an index pointer moving over
a scale on the face of the in
strument.
These are instruments for
weighing atmospheric pressure,
which at any point is constantly
changing. Altitude has no bear
ing on the reading of the needle.
That is, the elevation of the
same place as indicated by the
I barometer at two different times
| may change as much as 2,000
i feet. Barometer readings taken
: at same hour at two different
places may be exactly the same
i and yet elevations of the two
(Please turn te Pajre Seven)
NEW YORK
Wants Your
FURS
The purchasing power
of the American fur in
dustry is concentrated in
New York, the fur center
of the world. Offer your
raw furs to these buyers
through the NEW YORK
AUCTION CO., INC. This
is the safest and best
method of marketing your
merchandise.
Let us put you on our
mailing list. Write us
today.
[NEW YORK AUCTION Cl
locoriMtratrd
226 West 26th Street
NEW YO»K
Miller’s Barber Shop
Shower Baths
Seward’s Pioneer
and Expert Barber
Fred C. Miller, Prop.
('□•ton tanner*
of for akin* and
buckskin v Taxi
dermist on bin,
fame rugs, wall'
aaounta. M ana
fa c t a re r of
chokers, coats
and gloves of
I a t e a t styles.
Send for our'
—W« bar teeth for moantin*—
W. W. WEAVER. Reading Michigan
i Traps, Trap Tags, Scents, Trap*
| ping: equipment. Quick service.
Write for new catalogue.
HOWE FUR COMPANY,
Coopers Mills, Maine
ATTENTION PIANO"
OWNERS
Expert piano tuning and
servicing... Alaska agent for
Kohler-Brambach pianos, for
sale and rent.
Servicing Alaska for 25
years successfully—There’s a
reason. Phone, orders to
GEORGE ANDERSON
care of SEWARD HOTEL
(In Seward Soon)
Have you heard he new “OKEH"
records at Sylvia’s. They are won
derful.
FAST SAFE
Fly With the
NORTHERN AIR TRANSPORT, INC.
NOME AND FAIRBANKS
WRITE OR WIRE
Airplane Service to All Parts of Alaska
COMFORTABLE CABIN PLANES
■ -1
JOHN e.
WHITE and CO.
High Grade Line of
CIGARS
TOBACCOS
CANDIES
FINEST BILLIARD HALL IN ALASKA
KODIAK, the Home of the World’s Largest Bear
World's record bear was killed 5 miles from the town of Kodiak and measured
13 feet, 6 inches. THE GENUINE KODIAK BEAR (Ursus Middendorfii) ARE
ONLY FOUND ON KODIAK ISLAND. THE GREAT ALASKA BROWN BEAR
(Ursus Guyas) ARE FOUND ON THE ADJACENT MAINLAND AND PARTS
OF THE KENAI PENINSULA.
World’s record moose, with
a spread of 78*4 inches, was
taken on the ICenai Fen
i'isiita. SEWARD is th»
Gateway to the world
famous hunting grounds.
KODIAK GUIDES ASSOCIATION
Chas. Madsen, Field Mgr.-KODIAK. ALASKA