Seward Daily Gateway
OF SEWARD, ALASKA — Established Aupwst 19, 1904
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CALIFORNIA’S OPPORTUNITIES IN THE
RAILROAD BELT OF ALASKA
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one-third less to manufacture than pine and spruce ve
neers. Since two-thirds of the packing crates are in the
form of veneer, amounting to something like 600,000 tons
of veneer wood used in the California packing industry
every year, a saving of $3 per ton in first cost would net
another $1,800,000 more.
But will that difference in freight saving be bal
anced or over balanced by the cost of shipping the poplar
and cottonwood shocks and veneers from Seward to San
Francisco? It will not. Inquiry at transportation sources;
of information quickly discloses that the cost of shipping
pine and spruce shooks by rail from British Columbia, i
Washington and Oregon to California is greater than j
the cost of shipping cottonwood shooks by water direct j
from Seward to California. There should be a substan
tial saving in that comparison also.
The Alaska packers of salmon, many of them resi- i
dents of California use 24,000.000 board feet per year in j
their crates for an average pack of 5,000,000 cases. They
should be able to buy all of their crate shooks here in Al
aska, manufactured at Seward out of poplar and cotton
wood, saving both the cost of freight on pine shooks'
shipped from the States to Alaska and one-seventh of the j
cost of the freight on the weight of their 5,000,000 crates ^
containing salmon shipped to the markets of the world.
Their savings in this might easily run into several hun
dred thousands of dollars per year.
The forests of poplars and cottonwoods tributary to
Seward in all the valleys of Central Alaska served by the
Alaska Railroad as far north as the Yukon River cover
no less than 300,000 acres, possibly twice that much, and
are incomparably the best and the most valuable of their
species in all the United States. Their total measurement
is estimated by the Forest Service, of the Department of
Agriculture, to be all of 10,000,000,000 board feet. The
trees of those species grow to maturity in the shortest
time of all forest trees—20 to 30 years. The constant
coming of new trees therefore makes the supply perpet
ual.
The development of this industry at Sew^ard would
be limited only by the demands of the stupendous markets
hi California and other States. It would supply a volume
of freight from Seward for California sufficient to main
tain a direct steamship service of frequent sailings be
tween San Francisco and the Alaska Railroad belt at
Seward. It would stimulate other kinds of business de
velopments, such as an exchange of large tourist travel
from Alaska to California in the winter, and should be
the means of supplying increased business of many kinds
for the Alaska Railroad on a scale so large as to solve all
of its problems of public service and financial independ
ence.
If the Caifornia interests will do their part in this
wide field of limitless possibilities, they will receive a will
ing response and hearty cooperation on the part of all
Alaskans in the Alaska Railroad belt of 400,000 square
miles, in the present and for all the future.
CHANGING THE SUBJECT
A lot of “hooie” is being broadcast these days from
Washington but at this particular time the Navy Treaty
row is in the limelight. It seems that each time a national
election is about due, the more serious major issues are
shoved back while some other subject, while important
but not, for instance, as the unemployment situation, is
brought out from the archives over which long-winded
verbalbattles are fought. Perhaps the psychology of the
thing is correct at that; while the politicians rant about
armaments the “sheep” perhaps may forget their fodder.
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National Editorial Association
ALHSKAN JlinWJIYS NOW
HIVE FIVE PUIS
! FOR IFISKI SERVICE
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I An airplane, billed for the Alas
| kan Airways, arrived in Seward on
' the SS Admiral Evans. The plane
| is a Pilgrim 71 and was flown from
j New York to Omaha, where the
j plane was stormbound for a few
j days before it was able to continue
; its flight to Seattle.
! With the addition of this plane
j the Alaskan Airways now have five
j Pilgrims. The fourth Pilgrim ship
| was added to the fleet a couple of
! weeks ago when was flown from
• Valdez to Anchorage and from An
| chorage to Fairbanks where it was
, to be stationed. The fourth Pil
; grim ship was also flown from
' New York to Seattle but instead of
being routed to Seward it was
! shipped to Valdez and there as
sembled.
The Pilgrim planes were former
ly named Fairchild, but that class
of ships is now licensed under the
name Pilgrim, the change having
been made when the Aviation Cor
poration bought control of the i
manufacturing plant.
It is not known where this fifth j
Pilgrim plane of the Alaskan Air- j
ways will be based.
The plane was taken off the Ad- j
miral Evans today and was towed I
up to the Seward Machine Shop
where it will be assembled. It is
proposed to fly the plane from Sew
ard to the Interior. The plane is !
on wheels.
Members of the Seward Golf I
Club are asked to please not forget \
the banquet Friday night in the j
Electric Bakery when the Presi- 1
dent’s Handicap Tournament Cup !
will be presented to the 1931 win- |
ner—“King” D. E. Valade.
NOTICE
The American Legion Auxiliary |
will meet Wednesday afternoon at j
2:30 at ihe home of Mrs. A. H. i
Thody.
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Mrs. Chas. B. Taylor, of Seattle, j
was among today’s arrivals on the J
SS Admiral Evans and is enroute i
to Anchorage where she will join !
her husband, who is a member of
the mechanical staff of the An
chorage Times.
SUBLIME PURPOSE
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 1. (/PJ—Ma
yor James Walker replied to crit
icism made against him in Cali
fornia newspapers by declaring on
the eve of his appeal in behalf of |
Tom Mooney, that he is in Cali- j
fornia “ for a definite sublime pur- j
pose.” The mayor expects to be \
j sufficiently recovered from his cold
| to appear personally before Gov
| ernor Rolph.
.. .Fifty per cent off on all clean
ing and pressing work (not rush
work) received on Monday. Sew
ard Steam Laundry.
Try our HORLUCK’S Danish Ice
Cream. There’s none better. Candy
Cottage.
Motorship j
Princess Pat I
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Serving All Cook Inlet ;
Points and Connecting !
Weekly with Admiral !
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Towing and Special Trips »
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CHAMBERS & COLWELL
Seldovia, Agents J
FRED M. O’NEILL, Skipper ■
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ANOTHER OP THE WONDERFUL
JUNGLE PICTURES
“Rango”
A Beautiful Picture of Primitive Life.
Man and the Animals in the
Great Forests.
No White People—Staged in Sumatra
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With This Picture We Will Show a Fast Actum
Two-Reel Comedy—
“HONEYMOON ZEPPELIN”
There Will Also Be an Interesting News Reel and
A One-Reel Comedy.
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