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OF SEWARD, ALASKA — Established August 19, 1904
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“The People that Walked in
Darkness”
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(Continued from Pace One)
With such depressed conditions in the coal industry
elsewhere, what of Alaska’s coal and coal trade? Hin
dered and upset in the past by various factors, which
are well known and need not be named here, is it not
now going through a phase which has obtained else- j
where in the trades infancy, in its efforts to create and i
foster markets for Alaska coal?
Alaska has untold millions, probably billions of tons
of available and usable coals (any estimate of the
amount would be a wild guess) but markets must be
sought for and transportation facilities secured. “If a
man wants to shoot game, he goes after it—he doesn’t
wait for it to come to his back yard.”
Last, year there were about 55,000 tons of coal
brought into Alaska from British Columbia and Wash
ington, none of it better in heating value than the Al
aska product, when properly prepared.
Can not such a movement of outside coal be stopped?
It can, if the people of Alaska w^ant to stop it.
What the Alaska coal industry needs most today
and will always need in the future, if it is to increase in
importance, is a greater degree of cooperation—coopera
tion between producer and seller with the consumer; in
fact, between all who have the best interests of Alaska
at heart. It is for the Alaskan people and their true
friends to bring about such cooperation.
Alaskan coal for the Alaskans and those doing
business in Alaska.
“The people that walked in darkness have seen a j
great light.”
Will that prophecy be fulfilled in Alaska?
ALL’S WELL THAT ENDS WELL
The announcement that the Alaska-Game Commission
has lifted the ban upon beaver and marten will be re
ceived with deep satisfaction by trappers and business
men. It means the difference between making both ends
meet by the trapper and the turning of more than a mil
lion dollars into the channels of trade along the railroad.
It has an effect upon the railroad itself.
But the monetary element in the situation is not the
most important. The action of the commission has laid
the foundation for a reapproachment between trappers
and all those interested in harvesting and conserving fur,
and will rebound to the mutual benefit of all. Fur con
servation will be volitional rather than compulsory, now
that the trappers and the Alaska Game Commission have
come together on mutual ground, and out of the situation
what was a wide breach, has been healed.
Unforunatelv, the Kenai Peninsula is excluded in the
open season on beaver south of a line following the north
bank of Portage Creek to its head, thence easterly to the
head of Portage Canal. Yet there is no restriction against
trappers of this region going elsewhere to take their pelts.
With provision for greater convenience in having
skins sealed, the last remaining objection of trappers has
been removed.
The trappers have pledged themselves to refrain from
poaching and to cooperate with the Game Commission in
preventing those who are tempted to exceed or violate
the law from so doing.
At least there is consistency in Juneau’s (or was it
Ketchikan’s) sequestering a railroad magnate’s liquor
found on his yacht. There is nothing like stickling for
buying at home.
/^Member 1q31^
National Editorial Association
PUBLIC LIDS SURVEYORS
IN SEWADD ON MS YDKOBI
After a season’s work which has
taken them thru the waters of
three oceans, the Arctic Ocean,
the Bering Sea and the Pacific
Ocean, the MS Yakobi, Capt. Tom
Smith, master, is in Seward en
route to Juneau. The vessel has
a party of surveyors aboard who
have been surveying school sites
during the season for the U. S.
Land Office, Department of Pub
lic Survey.
The MS Yakobi and members of
the survey party did extensive
traveling in the Bering Sea and
Arctic Ocean and their work took
them to St. Michael, Nome, Point
Hope, King’s Island and over fc
East Cape on the Siberian side.
Coming down the vessel visited
Cook Inlet and the Kodiak Is
lands where more sites were sur
veyed.
While cruising in the Bering
Sea region the Yakobi picked up
a great deal of fossilized ivory.
There are six men aboard the
vessel and they include Floyd
Betts. Carl Collins, Forest Gard
ner, Leonard Berlin, Thomas Mc
Cortnev and Capt. Tom Smith.
The MS Yakobi left Juneau in
May and since that time has cov
ered about 7,000 miles They re
port having had good weather for
most of the trip
Some real adventure was af
forded the crew when they were
eiven the opportunity of catching ]
w'alrus with pike poles. They a'-o ,
had the thrill of passing thru
great herds of seals. Ranging or.
the shores of the waters thru
which they passed they often sav»
large herds of reindeer
The Yakobi did not escape the
rigors which all Arctic s -a *acn
have to fight—being cauv:'c .0
the ice pack. The vessel was
caught for a time in the ice pack
up near East Cape. The Yakob;
is going to Juneau where it will
be placed on drydock. Among
other things the bottom is to be
scraped.
The Alaska Railroad crane went j
out to Snow River where it will
free the drift wood which has
been lodged in the bridge piling.
The river is said to be very high.
FINDS NO TRACE
Wiring the Anchorage base of
the Pacific International Airways
from Bethel, on the Kuskokwim
River, Chief Pilot Harry Blunt
said that he has scoured the Bris
tol Bay area and the eastern Ber
ing Sea without finding any trace
of the small vessel whose distress
signals he was sent out on an
emergency flight to answer
Thursday morning. Piolt Blunt
said in his message that he was
flying to Hagemeister Island, 100
miles west of Dillingham, and
Jack Smith Bay where fishermen
reported finding wreckage.
Passengers from the Westward
on the SS Admiral Evans which
arrived in port Sunday, included:
Mrs; Josie Sanvick, B. Hansen, M.
Johansen, Lyle Hebert, Miss A.
Heitman, Mrs. N. Johnson, Mrs.
A. Morehead, Chas. Rogers. The
SS Evans departed for the south
at noon Sunday
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Both the dances given on Sat
urday and Sunday evenings were
well attended by the people of
Seward and the members of the
boats in port during the time.
Autos are now driving regularly !
across the new lagoon road. How
ever, the road is as yet narrow in '
some places and will permit only
one-way traffic.
AFTER FORTY YEARS, Ency
clical of Pope Pius XI on Labor
and Capitol, available at Alaska
Shop. 10 cents per copy.
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