Seward Daily Gateway
OF SEWARI), ALASKA — Established August 19, 1904
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BEAUTIFY OUR TOWNS
Ugliness seems to be indigenous to frontier towns.
Invariably they pass through a period when there ap
pears to be a deliberate determination to erase every ves
tige of natural beauty that lies in their settings. Is a
town established on a beautiful and sightly point of
ground? Immediately axes are set to work hacking
down the trees, uprooting the shrubs, “clearing” the
land, until every stick of timber remains but a jagged
stump, every shrub a ragged hole in the ground, and
the area turned into a scarred and barren slope.
Just why a townsite should be shorn of its natural
beauty is something no man seems to be able to explain.
Utility, of course, is the keynote in the construction of
all new settlements* but what utility is served in whack
ing away from dwelling sites, the trees that protect and
adorn them ? Where is the economy ?
For no sooner have the rigors of pioneering eased
up than the necessity of having some beauty sends the
settler to putting out trees and shrubs, usually import
ed from elsewhere, in an effort to bring back the gar
den which Nature had already so prodigally prepared.
Alaska is a land of abounding beauty. Its forested
slopes, inset with rollicking streams and jewel lakes, and
fronted by towering, white-crested mountain peaks,
are areas of moving splendor. Why should the only
blots on these magnificent landscapes be the scarred
slopes where men have built their towns? Thoughtless
haste and reckless extravagance!
There is no reason why all Alaskan towns should
not be as picturesque and beautiful as the villages of
New England, the little towns in the Southland. Sur
rounded by forests and luxuriant undergrowth they
should be rich in greenery. Their streets should be bor
dered with trees, their yards colorful with shrubs and
flowers.
Of exceptional interest to Alaskans are the weekly
news letters from Delegate Wickersham’s Washington,
D. C., office pertinent to Alaskan affairs. From com
ments made to The Gateway, the items are eagerly
awaited and read from top to bottom. The service is ap
preciated.
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The trouble with the general public is not that it
does not learn the lesson of experience—it has done so
since September 1929—but that in three or four years
it forgets it as completely as it forgot in 1929, the lesson
of 1920, and in 1907 the lesson of 1893.
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A salesman making Seward got two orders yes
terday. One was to “get out” and the other, “stay out!”
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Judging from the number of applications from the
States for work on The Gateway, the thoughts of many
people are certainly turning toward Alaska. But they
want a sure thing! Why don’t they come up and take a
chance like the rest of us?
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The Alaska legislature put through a neat bunch
of minor measures Wednesday; and practically all of
them will benefit the majority.
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A visitor in Seward the other day wanted to know
if the whales blubbered as they swept past the dock.
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There are two kind's of wild life in Alaska; out of
town and in town.
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Only five days more then the Alaska solons will
fold their tents and homeward go.
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National Eoitof1 i Association
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I Announcement was made by
; Charles J. Goodall in Cordova that
; work would start soon on a two
. I story and basement apartment
land store building on First Street
| on the side of the old Borden
I Building, for William Urquhart,
’says the Cordova Times,
j The new building, Mr. Goodall
j said, would be of frame construc
jtion, 25 by 100 feet, strictly mo
i dern in every detail with a store
; on the first floor above the street
>and four or five apartments on
i the second floor. Arrangements
j for the occupancy of the basement
| have not been completed as yet.
I In connection toith the building
announcement Mr. Goodall, who
! recently returned from the west
ward, declared that conditions in
I Cordova were more satisfactory
; than in any other Alaskan town
he had visited. Seward and An
j chorage are optimistic he said,
• and will work hard for their own
development. They feel that the
increase in the railroad rates will
tend to create a further deficit
rather than lower the loss but
they are not going to permit them
selves to be discouraged through
this.
An accident in which Thomas
Williams was fatally injured, oc
curred recently in the Lucky Queen
Mine, on Keno Hill in the Dawson
district* when he slipped and fell
! down a shaft. Williams had fol
lowed the mining game all his life
reports the Dawson News.
With the prospect of another
hundred or more boats to winter
at Ketchikan by reason of the
improvement to Thomas Basin,
another employee is to be added
to the U. S. Customs Office in
that city, reports the Chronicle.
What is to be one of the largest
shipments of halibut to have been
sent out of Cordova since the es
tablishment of the industry
was sent to Seattle on one of the
last boats. Eighteen thousand ,
pounds was the amount of the j
shipment say the Cordova Times. |
EX-SERVICE MEN and DEPEND- :
ENTS of WORLD WAR
KNOW YOUR RIGHTS!
Pensions, compensation, insur
ance, soldiers’ homes, hospitiliza
tion, bonus, funeral expenses, etc.
Methods of obtaining th£se and
other benefits covered in our
Manual. One Dollar.
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LEGAL NOTICE
. V. 8. LAND OFFICE
Alaska March 10, 1«31.
notice FOR PUBLICATION
Notice is hereby given that Marguerite
wid^ f* *■ C. Lowe, deceased, has
made application for a soldiers' additional
homestead serial 07262. for a tract of land
embraced in U. S. Survey No. 1921. situate
on the north shore of Nushagak Bay near
Point east and adjoining U. S. Survey
No. 1930, from which corner No. 1 of said
survey No. 1921, U. S. I. M. No. 13A bears
/wwJ3 23> chains, containing
0.06 acres. Latitude 69° 02' 21" N. Longi
tude 168° 26' 19" W. *
Any and all persons claiming adversely
and of the above mentioned land should file
their adverse claims in the U. S. Land Of
fice. Anchorage, Alaska, within the period
of publication or thirty days thereafter or
they will be barred by the provisions of the
Statutes.
J. Lindley Green,
Register.
Date first publication April 18, 1931.
Date last publication June 13. 1931.
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