Seward Daily Gateway
OF SEWARD, ALASKA — Established Auprurt 19, 1904
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ALASKA WEATHERING DEPRESSION IN
FINE SHAPE
Business men, returning from the States, report mer-;
chants are walking the floor, wondering' if they will be in '
business on the morrow; of professional men wearing
frowns of anxiety and promise of longer breadlines next
winter.
And yet hardly a riffle has disturbed the placidity of
Alaska business, which fortunately is not dependent upon
continental prosperity for its volume. No bank has failed,
or Las experienced the slightest difficulty. Rather their
deposits and resources increased while those of the States
were crashing or wavering. This condition is attributable
to internal production, minus inflation or transitory
stimulants and the industry of the people, their self-re-;
iiance and close access to multiple agencies, any one of
which guarantees three square meals and a home of one’s •
own building.
The outlook for the winter along The Alaska Rail-*
road is more promising than at the same period last year
due to mine development. Practically ail of those dis
placed by railroad retrenchment have found employment.
One mine in the Willow Creek district, which employed
30 men last winter now employs 80 and is increasing as
rapidly as conditions will permit. Other properties, not!
operating last winter are carrying crews from five to a
dozen. Prospectors, stimulated by the favorable reports
at many points along the railroad, are preparing to spend
the winter in development against the time when scout
engineers begin coming in search of good prospects.
The Geological survey, just completed in the coal j
fields and in many precious metal bearing regions should j
begin to bear fruit early next spring when the informa
tion gathered by governmental engineers reach the hand
of mine operators in the States. Not only has coal been
found in great volume, but of a better quality than hither-:
to shown, which marks a break-down of antagonism exist-1
ing a decade ago, and presages definite steps looking to j
its marketing in the States.
This program cannot be completed without bunkers
at Seward, despite efforts to use the Anchorage harbor.
It is not likely the government will encourage or abet any
move that promises to take from the railroad the 114-mile
haul, which would be the case if coal were routed via
Cook Inlet.
The outlook is bright for a revision of fishing rules
in lower Cook Inlet that will give fishermen better chance
at king salmon and thus create a better spread of profits j
from that industry.
Demand tor hewn ties tor the railroad will aliord
employment for a large number of men.
The effect of the railroad’s campaign for securing
settlers is already manifesting itself in the Matanuska
agricultural area in the form of increased acreage and
new farms being developed from the rough.
A survey of the fur regions indicate that all varieties
of furred animals are increasing with the return of nat
ural feed, and if given a fair deal in the form of an ex
tended season instead of the 60 days allotted by the Game
Commission and privilege to take beaver and marten, the
trapper should emerge with a fair return.
No place on the American continent can boast such
a favorable situation, and so thoroughly withstand the
fickleness of fortune as shown in the overcrowded Unit
ed States.
But while this condition presents itself it must not
be taken by the Federal government as sufficient in it
self. There are as yet many raw edges to be ironed down in
the for mof recognized national obligations in the form
of roads, coast guard patrol, winter and summer, and bet
ter aids to navigation.
Fiery and spectacular Smedley D. Butler has retired
from the Marines to go into politics. The 13-gun salute
accorded him is believed to portend bad luck for some poli
ticians.
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Having abandoned hips, it is apparent that the new
generation has decided to scrap the hurrahs.
HUNTERS RETURN FROM
! THREE WEEK OUTING
Four mighty huntsmen, Walter
| Corliss, Walter Holben, Leo Doug-!
lias and Guide Mel Horner arrived
back in Seward at about 10 o’clock
last evening from a hunt in the
lower Kenai Lake country.
The hunters left Seward Satur
day, September 19, and went down
Kenai Lake, down Kenai River and
to Skilak Lake. Thrills, aplenty,
were experienced in going down the
river.
They camped on the shore of Ski
lak Lake and hunted bear in the
Bear Pass country and at the head
pf the King country. Many fine
specimens were seen and bagged.
From there the party went up
Kenai River, with Leo Douglas as
pilot, to Tom Towle’s cabin where j
they established camp for a moose !
hunt. Walter Corliss bagged a fine |
moose specimen and Leo Douglas j
bagged a bear. The black bear was !
one of the finest ever taken from I
that part of the country. Leo first I
crippled the bear and than forced j
it from the hemlocks and downed
it. Corliss is said to be the best
moose hunter in the country. He
goes into the woods and picks out
a spot where moose are very in- I
frequent. Then he starts yodeling.
Have you heard Walter yodel? Well,
in a little while the moose are just
swarming in the area and ail Wal- 1
ter has to do is to down one of !
them.
The party was awakened one 1
morning from their camp in the |
hemlocks of that country, Camp de i
Hemlock, they called it, by a pecu- |
liar thrashing about. Everyone
jumped up and peeked around and j
not over 100 yards away from camp j
stood a large bull moose. This was j
one of the largest seen on the trip !
and had a record head. However, j
it was still too dark to see the sights j
on their weapons, so Mr. Big Moose j
is still roaming in the hills.
I
AT IDE HOTELS
VAN GILDER—Frank Sidney, Gil
Rich, Byron C. Elmes.
SEWARD—Oscar Erickson, Ches- j
ter McAuley, Louis McAllister. Mr. j
and Mrs. Mullsey.
OVERLAND — A><f Alallah, N. I
Richard. J. L. Simpson.
SEWARD VANDALISM
Vandals are at work in Seward. ,
The other day Charles Lechner and
his staff came down to the Seward
Machine Shop to find that the
canvas top on the newly overhauled
motorboat — which is just outside
the garage—had several long knife
slits in it.
It is said that the USS Surveyor,
which has been charting the wa
ters off Kodiak Island, will make
the Port of Seward about Satur
day or sooner, having completed
this season’s operations in that
area. The Wildcat, auxiliary ten
der to the Surveyor, is also ex-;
pected. i
In response to a distress call
from a vessel in the Bristol Bay
district, Pilot Harry Blunt, of the
P. I. A., left Anchorage this morn
ing on an emergency flight to that
district.
The Seward Bakery is being dolled
up in a new exterior coat of paint.
Yellow trimmed in green are the
colors.
Pete Sather arrived in port this
afternoon from Nuka Bay.
LEAN TREASURY
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct, 1. (JP)
—Uncle Sam’s treasury will have 1
one of the leanest treasuries in .
years this year, according to an <
announcement by Treasury offi
cials. According to present figures
there will be a deficit of $400,000.
The “Majestic,” last word in mo
dern refrigeration, at Brown &
Hawkins.
Ladies —SPECIAL this month:
Yoar permanent $12.56 complete.
First following shampoo and fin
ger wave. free. SEWARD BEAUTY
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