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FOR HIRE OR CHARTER
MOTORSHIP DISCOVERER
Leaving Seward for Cook, Inlet, Iliamna, Kenai and other
ports: Aug 25; Sept. 8, 22; Oct. 6, 20.
Capt. Heinie Berger Seward, Alaska
The Alaska Railroad
(Mt. McKinley Park Route)
TRAINS ARRIVE TRAINS DEPART
Each Thursday 6:30 p. m. Each Friday 9:00 a. m. Mc
•i Kiniey Park and way points.
Each Friday 6:30 p. m. Each Saturday 7:30 a. m. Fair
banks and way points.
Mixed train from Anchorage and intermediate points ar
rives each Wednesday p. m.
Mixed train for Anchorage and intermediate points leaves
not earlier than 10:00 a. m. each Saturday.
Mixed train carries a coach and handles passengers.
Alaskan Airways
Serve All Interior Alaska
Weekly Schedules from Anchrage with U. S. Mail
For Information, rates, etc., see—
Elwyn Swetmann
SEWARD REPRESENTATIVE
KARL K. KATZ
"Manager
ANCHORAGE BASE
Matt A. Nieminen
Chief Pilot
ANCHORAGE BASE
STEAMSHIP STARR
CAPTAIN C. E. ANDERSON
NEXT SAILING SEPTEMBER 1
SAN JAUN FISHING & PACKING
COMPANY
Chas. A. Jansen, Agent
Phone Madison 139 Seward, Alaska
£
r
Travel by the
Dollar Steam
ship Line from
Pacific Coast
ports to New
York via Pana
ma Canal.
Vessel Seattle
Leaves
Watson .. .Aug. 26
Evans Sep. 2
Evans Sep. 23
Arrives South
Sewrd Seward
Sep. 2 Sep. 7
Sep. 9 Sep. 14
Sep. 30 Oct. 5
THEAfc®k\^E
Steamer
Lvs. Seattle
Northbound
ALEUTIAN .Aug. 22
YUKON .Aug. 29
ALASKA .Sept. 5
YUKON .Sept. 12
ALASKA .Sept. 19
Northwestern ....Sept. 26
YUKON .Oct. 3
ALASKA . Oct. 10
Northwestern ....Oct. 17
YUKON .Oct. 24
Lvs. Seward
Southbound
Aug. 28 9
Sept. 4 9
Sept. 11 9
Sept. 19 9
Sept. 26 9
Oct. 3 9
Oct. 10 9
Oct. 17 9
Oct. 24 9
Oct. 31 9
R. A. Hall, Acting Agent
PHONE MAIN 125
Alaska Steamship Co
PELTS FOB COATS
U NAVY TRANSPORT IS IN PRIBI
- LOFS LOADS SEAL SKINS
|| WORTH $2,000,000
Sealskins by the shipload! En
ough to make rich black, golden!
chestnut or logwood brown fur coats j
or jackets for more than 7,000 wo- j
men! That will be the cargo of the
United States Na7y transport Vega, j
due in Seattle September 15 from
the Pribilof Islands of Bering Sea.
The Vega sailed from Seattle July
24 with 4,000 tons of supplies and
I coal for the Pribilofs. She arrived
_ off St. Paul Island of this group
■ August 6 and landed her cargo in
bidarrahs, surf boats made with
wooden frames covered with sea
lion skins. There are no docks in
the islands capable of accomodat
ing large vessels. As soon as she
gets her cargo ashore the Vega will
load 49,515 Alaska sealskins for
Seattle discharge.
VALUE NEARLY $2,000,000
Officials of the United States Bur
eau of Fisheries estimated that the j
cargo of the transport at present!
market conditions, would be valued j
i at nearly $2,000,000. It takes from
six to eight sealskins for a fur coat,
so striking an average of seven, the J
cargo of the Vega would make gar- i
ments for 7,073 women. The skins
should bring $4 each, which, to be
exact would make the vessel’s cargo
worth $1,980,000.
If you went to the Bell Street Ter
minal of the Port Commission,
where the Vega will discharge, to
see this huge fortune in furs put
ashore, .you probably would be dis
| appointed. Instead of bundles of,
sealskins, you would see hundreds |
I of barrels being discharged in cargo
slings from the transport, the ship
ments having much the appearance
of a consignment of herring or sal
mon. The skins are salted down in
barrels and shipped to St. Louis
j where they are dyed and machined.
; This winter they wil be part of the
| garb of well-dressed women in the
! big cities of the country.
FUR EXPERTS RETURNING
The U. S. Bureau of Fish- j
I eries tender Crane arrived in Seattle j
last week from the Pribilofs with j
12 experts from St. Louis who had !
• charge of the work of skinning the !
: 49,515 members of Pribilof Island I
| herds and providing the cargo of |
I the Vega. The 12 men went to the
! islands early in the summer on the
j motorship Penguin.
“The take of seals in the Pribilofs I
| this summer was the largest in any j
season since the government took I
over the herds in 1910,” said J. R.
; Russel, field superintendent of the
United States Bureau of Fisheries
with headquarters in Seattle. “From
that time the killing of seals has
been regulated by the government.”
Only the males three years old
are taken which causes no injury to
the herds. Crews of natives wielding
clubs which have the appearance of
baseball bats, dispatch the seals.
Since 1910 the seals of the Pribil
Orlander
Jeweler
Dealer in watches and
clocks, nugget jewelry,
old ivory, curios and a
full line of goods usually
carried in a first class
jewelry store.
Watches repaired on
short notice
ofs have increased from 132,000 to
1,250,000. The herds as a source of
revenue to the government have
brought several times the price paid
for Alaska.
HIE SCHOOL FOUND
TO BE OVERCROWDED
On his recent trip of inspection
which included Westward schools,
W. K. Keller, Commissioner of
Education, found that the Uiznkie
school was badly overcrowded, 38
students being enrolled. Each year
sees this total further increased.
One teacher has charge of all the
classes and all the grades.
Owing to the Territorial fund be
ing low, no building can be erect
ed this year, but arrangements
have been made with the cannery
at Uzinkie for the use of a build
ing for school purposes for the
coming school year, reports the
Ketchikan Chronicle.
Mr. Keller recently visited Ket
chikan on an inspection trip.
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Seward, Alaska
“Good Water a Necessity in Every Home'*
Wayne Blue, Agent
Office, Arcade Building. Phone, Main 81
Overland
Hotel
On the Main Street
Seward, Alaska
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