Seward Daily Gateway
OF SEWARD, ALASKA — Established August 19. 1904
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NEED FOR DEVELOPMENT PLAN
No town, city or community has progressed without
some definite plan of action seeking to interest the re
mainder of the world in the resources or advantages of
participating in what they have to offer.
Sometimes some sudden, startling episode will stam
pede man into reckless plunging, but it is the natural,
practical program that eventually succeeds.
Take Seattle, for instance. It was a little settlement
relying upon what nature had to offer in furs, fish and
surrounding agriculture, the latter affording nothing bet
ter than a bare existence because the timber must first be
removed.
Then came the Klondike rush. With the gold taken
from Alaska, Seattle began to look afield for other means
of development. Timber came into the market along with
a multiple of industrial activities which attracted others
to enlist in the work of finally completing the structure
which stands as the metropolis of the Northwest.
Seattle was just as crude as any Alaskan town when
the first settlers hewed their homes from the wilderness.
But it was the spirit of progress rather than fortuit
ous circumstances which carried out the work. There
was a sublime faith in the resources back of Seattle, and
men of vision capable of presenting them to the investing
world.
That is what Seward needs at this writing—a devel
opment plan calculated to reach the great marts of fi
nance and convince the man of dollars that there is some
thing for their employment.
Generalities, such as “a treasure-house of wealth,”
will not serve. A salesman stresses the quality of the ar
ticle he seeks to dispose' of. He does not merely open his
samples, spread them and say take your choice. He knows
his goods, of what they are made, and their intrinsic
worth. He is the liason between the manufacturer and a
public willing to buy.
That is what is our most crying need—an organiza
tion, spurred on by a consciousness of the value and de
sirability of our mine prospects, prepared to make appeal
to the investing world. It is a case of taking Mahomet
to the mountain. It can be done.
These treasures will remain dormant until someone
presents their desirability to the man of means seeking
to put his surplus capital to work. This capital is not
available locally, but is abundant in the States.
There should be no waiting for the Federal govern
ment to assume the full responsibility for this progressive
Work. There are limitations to which it may go without
intruding too deeply into the field of private initiative.
It can only assist. It is assisting by gathering correct
information as to the value of mine prospects in the Rail
roa 1 Zone. But it cannot be expected to become salesman,
By so doing it steps in the way of the individual.
An organization capable of segregating and classify
ing prospects, and presenting them in their best light tc
capable will have furnished the key to those communities
which wish to have an unlimited field rather than Federal
appropriations from which to draw their revenue. This
not only affords opportunity for individual monetary suc
cess but guarantees to the community an equal success.
STAND ON OWN FEET y
The old parochial view of politics which certain pio
neers retained many years because of their negligible
contacts with the world, the problems of their small com
munities being so standardized and simple that they sav
few difficulties in the way of being provided with whal
they wished by government, is slowly being relegated tc
the background. Alaskans, as a whole, are beginning tc
stand on their own feet.
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CHIMBER WORKS FOB
BOBO ENDORSEMENT
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j Urging their support and en
| dorsement of the local “Misusing
Link” road, the Seward to Kenai
Highway construction and local
facilities-coa.1 bunkers-the Seward
Chamber of Commerce recently j
addressed letters to the following: |
Hon. Arthur M. Hyde, Secretary j
of Agriculture; Hon. Robert G. i
Simmons, U. a R.; Senators Wal- |
cott and Norbeck, Representatives j
j Murphy, Byrnes and Carter, Con- i
gressman Ralph Horr, Delegate J. |
Wickersham and to Ernest Walker j
j Sawyer, special assistant to Sec- i
retary Wilbur of the Department \
I of Interior.
All details of the proposed pro- j
jeets have also been forwarded. i
8I0S BEING CULLED FOB i
CONSTRUCTING HSNGBR j
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The Executive Committee of the i
Seward Airport is calling for bids |
for the building of a hangar, 50x60 J
feet, on Seward Airport and the j
bids will be opened on December 2, i
j 1931, at noon at the Bank of Sew- j
j ard. Bidders, for further informa- |
! tion and specifications, should call j
! at the office of Brown & Hawkins, i
i The committee recently called J
| for bids for the clearing of the site |
I for the hangar at Seward Airport i
and the clearing is to be completed i
by December 5. J
R. W. Johnston, local resident,
was the successful bidder for clear
ing the site and he has the clearing
work well underway. It is thought j
that the construction on the han- i
gar will be begin on December 5. J
Mel Holben, of the Electric Bak
ery, announces that he serving
regular 50-cent meals for 40 cents
at the Electric Bakery and other
dishes at similar low prices.
, SNOWSHOE WIRELESS’
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| Sourdough Bill found a cart
ridge for a small calibre gun on
his desk this morning. After read
ing about some one sending Ma
hatma Gandhi a rope with a note
telling him to go out and hang
himself, Sourdough Bill is won
dering why the cartridge was so
promisculously placed on his desk.
He thinks that perhaps the sen
der meant for him to keep it on
hand for emergency use should the
rioters at Paris unofficially decide
that the world shall have total
disarmament. Sourdough Bill has
dispatched a special investigating
committee with the admonition
that they must turn in a 6,515,- i
:page report. j
J On the other hand, come out in
the alley and fight like a man.
... 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.
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