Seward Daily Gateway
OF SEWARD. ALASKA — Established August 19, 1904
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THE NORTHERN STAR BECKONS
Surely it was not intended that any man or woman
bora should sit with folded hands and starve while all
about the potential wealth of nature beckons as it
does in Alaska. There is in heaven a star, the radiant
star of Hope.
“Not in vain the distant beacons, forward let us range;
Let the great world spin forever down the ranging groves
of change.”
But those poor unemployed souls in the States,
countless thousands, should look to the heavens—at the
Northern Star—and set their course for the Territory
of Alaska whose golden heart and welcoming arms will
enfold them.
Alaska has room for many of those countless thou
sands; as good as you and I, but by force of circum
stances, penniless and out of work. They are of the same
blood which hewed this nation from out the wilderness.
Population will cure every alleged Alaskan ill; here’s an!
opportunity to get hundreds of thousands, but how to !
get 'em up here—transportation—is the difficulty.
IN VEST IN ALASKA
Perhaps many good citizens will take exception to j
the following; if so, too bad.
We have often pondered over investments of sav- j
ings of Federal employees; on one hand we know of
scores who have every surplus dime they possess invest
ed in some Alaska enterprise or property while others
who own in Alaska neither a stew pot or a window in
which to toss it out, hoard up their savings for the day
when they move back to the States to which they con
stantly look forward to with a calf-like look on their
face^ when they voice their ultimate hope.
The only point in question is that we feel if the Ter
ritory is good enough to accumulate money in, it cer
tainly is also worthy of investments. Alaskan invest
ments are propably sounder than the majority of gilt
edge (?) investments Outside.
BOOST THE HIGHWAY!
It seems as though The Gateway has another task j
to perform for the entire Territory, that of talking up
the proposed Pacific-Yukon Highway; keeping the sub
ject alive. Some Alaskan editors don’t even know its
proper name, let alone boosting the idea along. Yes, we
mean principally, Fairbanks, one of the proposed term
inal points. Together with the father of the idea, Don
ald Macbonaldr Alaska Road Commission engineer (not
the Premier of England) The Gateway sold his brain
child to the United States and Canada. Other papers
followed.
We’re proud of it, yes sir!
But we would like to see other papers help to keep
the subject alive; here’s a way to bring people to Alas
ka and once they come up, many will remain.
If they can’t boost it, knock it; say something!
Every time we think of those -cracks” by the Ju
neau Chamber of Commerce and the Anchorage Times
in taking issue with Secretary Wilbur of the Department
of the Interior, we want to say something real mean.
The Gateway has informed them editorially that this
paper stands behind Mr. Wilbur 1,000 per cent in his
efforts to* induce people in the States to come to Alaska.
Laws cannot make a people virtuous or happy.
National Editorial Association
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ALASKA ANTIMONY
Mr. Alfred H. Brooks, in United
States Geological Survey Bulletin
Number 649, says: “There are three
principal groups of antimony de
posits in Alaska:
1. Siliceous gold-bearing stib-j
nite lodes.
2. Stibnite-cinnabar lodes.
3. Stibnite-galena lodes.
Mr. Stephan R. Capps. U. S. G. S., j
Bulletin 687, describes the Kantish- J
na region of Alaska and on page
106-9 he discusses antimony lodes.
Director Mendenhall, U S. G. S.,
advised me on April 14, 1931: “This
district was visited in 1930 by Mr.
Moffett of the U. S. G. S. and his
report is about ready for publica
tion. There is an important out
crop of antimony ore at the head
of a western tributary of Slippery
Creek, but it does not show such
an exposure as that on Stampede
Creek/' j
Capps says of the Stampede
''•’-eek lode:
“In the floor of the open cut and
at its face is a large body of near
ly pure stibnite apparently at least
12 feet thick. A sample of ore from
a side vein is reported to have
shown on assay content of 69.8 per
cent antimony, 1 per cent arsenic. ,
and no silver or lead. Some of the j
other lodes of antimony in this
vicinity contain small amounts of
gold and silver.”
In 1915 over $74,000 worth of
crude antimony ore was shipped
from Alaska and sold in San Fran
cisco at $86 per ton.
The prices in 1914*15 ranged
from 6 cents to 40 cents per pound
because of limited available pro
duction facilities, etc.
Antimony is used extensively as
white metal base for silver plating
and is also used considerably on
coffins and in battery plates. Its
use for sheathings for telephone
cables is increasing and has promise
of further extensions, but I believe
one of the best outlets for cheap
antimony is to produce white paint.
The covering power of paint manu
factured from antimony oxide is
said to be twice that of white lead j
Antimony white paint withstands
the action of water, is as opaque
as white lead, is but slightly acted
upon by sulphurous fumes, is dur
able and is not poisonous. It is sair1 j
to possess more body and more!
zinc white, covers better and cheap- :
Vessels in port today included
the SS Admiral Watson, Joan,
; Roy, Marian, Bill, B. M. M., and
j the “Hell-Diver.”
OGLE’S GARAGE
Buick and Chevrolet Dealer
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INVITATION FOR BIDS ON
COMPLETING DORMITORY
AT EKLUTNA, ALASKA
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Sealed bids will be received at
the office of the Bureau of In
dian Affairs, Anchorage, Alaska,
until 2 o’clock p. m. Saturday
May 23, 1931, and then publicly
opened, for completion of con
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Let us plan a trip for you anywhere.
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A'
struction of Girls’ Dormitory at
Eklutna, Alaska requiring con
j crete work, erection of brick
! c h i m n e y, painting, plumbing,
heating plant and laundry boilers.
The entire work will be in
cluded in one contract. Bids on
items only will not be accepted.
Copies of specifications and
prescribed form of contract may
be obtained and plans of the
building may be inspected on
application to the undersigned.
Bids should be forwarded in
sealecf envelope addressed to the
Bureau of Indian Affairs, Anchor
age, Alaska, and marked “Bid on
Completing Dormitory, Eklutna ” ^
The right is reserved, as the
the interest of the government
all bids and to waive any infor
mality in the bids received.
Arthur H. Miller, Acting Dis- 4
1 trict Sup’t. of Schools.