Seward Daily Gateway
OF SEWARD. ALASKA — E*tabliihed Auguit 19. 1904
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HOWELL’S PECULIAR ASSERTION
The Fairbanks district is said by experts to be the
greatest placer area in the world. Few people in Alaska
realize that fact, especially political Washington.
And the Alaska Railroad traverses what is said tc
be the most extensive mineral belt in the universe.
The Geological Survey, one of the most conserva
tive branches of the government, and also, one of the
finest, practically admits the above statements.
Yet Senator Howell, of last summer’s special inves
tigating committee, said, in effect, that Alaska’s mining
industry is nothing but a vague dream. And in the face
of the annual production running into the millions.
What is the so-called colored gentleman in the wood
pile?
GIVE ‘EM HOMES OR BEARS
The drought situation in the States teaches us £
great lesson. The law which President Hoover sought
to have passed to ameliorate the condition of the drought
sufferers clearly afforded relief to animals, plowing
mules and cotton-hauling horses, but failed most lament
ably to give food to the hungry, the starving and th<
foodless. However, Mr. Hoover did not have his entire
way, thank goodness, with the result that the huinar
is now by law placed on the same basis, even if no high
er, than the mule and the ox. ,
So it is with the bear situation to the Westwarc
Those whose gastric juices mix freely with rich anc
luscious foods and whose pathway through life is made
easy by their wordy pens, feel that the Kodiak browr
bear is so important in the scheme of life that he shoulc
be preserved, protected and watched over by all those
who feed at the various government troughs and at the
expense of the lowly person who, by his industry, hi:
adventurous spirit and his indomitable courage, tries tc
carve out for himself and his family a modest home ir
the land of the setting sun.
Either those good people in the Westward mus
have home protection or their homes must eventually
consist alone of the stuff of which dreams and fanciej
are made. It is either brown bears or American homes.
We have no objection to sportsmen killing them
the entire United States Army could not exterminate
them, regardless of what Robert Frothingham or Edit
or McGuire of Outdoor Life say in reply to The Gate
way. Some restrictions have been lifted, owing to Th<
Gateway's leadership. But the Game Commission shoul<
go all the way. They should decide that Amercian home!
are more important than the bellowing, blowing browi
bear. Give the Westward homes or give them bears.
There is such a thing as carrying precautionary
measures too far. A Juneau man, arrested for running
down a pedestrian, pleaded in extenuation that his vis
ion had been obscured by a large “safety first” stickei
which someone had pasted on his windshield.
A federal board of investigation has recomraendec
that public lands held by the national government b<
turned over to the states. In the natural order of things
it seems as though a state or territory should have con
trol of the land within its borders. Local needs, as point
ed out many times by Alaskans, are best understooc
by local powers, and vacant land is a very effective
means for ministering to local needs.
The present move in raising rates over the Alaski
Railroad is just one more effort to discredit the system
If it is for the purpose of eventually giving it away t<
private interests, Alaskans should rejoice.
What’s the matter appealing to the thousands o
Alaskans now residing in the States to come back hoim
and gain help to make something out of the land?
Alaska should raise more pork and fewer politicians
MOOSE PISS FOIK
WORKING ON ROUTE TO
ELIMINATE RAILROAD
The residents of Moose Pass are
removing the boulders from the
• river channel between Kenai Lake
and Lower Trail Lake and also
between Lower Trail Lake and the
Upper lake, according to word
. sent The Gateway.
When the job is finished it will
be possible to run a motor boat
. from Mile 18 on the Seward-Lake
Kenai Highway, to Mile 34 on the
Alaska Railroad.
It is estimated this work can be
i completed at a cost of less than
.! $1,000 and will make the residents
'of the Moose Pass district inde
pendent of the railroad so far as
passenger travel and light freight
1 | is concerned, during .the summer
|months and until the lakes freeze
in winter.
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; SEALED BIDS CALLED
1 FOB Df COMMISSION
| DREDGE LOCAL PROJECT
j Superintendent M. C. Edmunds,
iof the Alaska Road Commission,
j received a telegram yesterday from
; the Juneau general headquarters to
| the effect sealed bids will be re
j ceived until 2 p. m. on April 29 and
jthen publicly opened for fumish
1: ing all labor and materials, and
;; performing all work for dredging
• a harbor of refuge for small sraft
. in Resurrection Bay, Seward.
This work consists, Mr. Ed
munds said, of removal of ap
‘; proximately 126,000 yards of silt
)\ and sand. Further information
i | may be obtained on application to
. jthe u- S. Engineers Office at Ju
, neau, Alaska Road Commission.
; ft is said that it is doubtful any
l; local bids will be made for this
| j work as no one here has the nec
> | essary equipment for it and if it
'!were purchased, little other use
j could be made of it.
; New as.somm-nt of beautiful Easter cards
i j naw display at the Alaska Shop
LEGAL NOTICE
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List 8-130-“C”-MAM
1393678-1407135
REi> TO RATI OX TO ENTRY OF LANDS ...
NATIONAL FOREST
Notice^ is hereby given that the lands de
«T.hed below within the Chugach National
1 orest. will be oi>en to settlement and en
try at the United States Land Office An
choraKe, Alaska, under the provisions of
the homestead law and act of June 11, 1906
t>tat., 233), of entry by persons com
ing \vithm either of the two following classes:
(1) I ersons named after each tract upon
whose application the lands were listed, it
any, who, in order to avail themselves of
the preference right, must file their appli
cation within sixty days prior to date of
opening; (2) Ex-service men, who. in or
der to avail themselves of the preference
right conferred by Congress under public re
solution No. 86. approved June 12, 1930, may
file application within one hundred ten days
P.r,or *° date of opening. All such applica
tions filed within the first twenty days of this
period will be treated as simultaneously filed
at 9 a m. on the ninetieth day prior to
date of opening. Applications by ex-eervias
men thereafter, but prior to date of open
ing. will ne treated in the order in which
filed.
The general public may file applications
within twenty days prior to opening date
These will be treated as simultaneously filed
at 9 a. m. on date of opening, but no ap
plication will be allowed prior thereto.
A tracfc °* 7-29 acres. more or less,
described by metes and bounds as follows:
Beginning at Cor. No. 1, at a point on
n°rtb shore of Kenai Lake, approximately
2% miles from Lawing Station on the Alaska
Railroad, being a cottonwood tree squared
to 4” and cut off 3 fe. above ground
and marked H|I MC, whence a cottonwood
tree 10” diameter bears N 71° W 13 links
distant marked W Hjl MC in blaze; a cot
tonwood tree 8” diameter bears S. 10°
E. 14 links distant marked W Hjl MC in
blaze. Thence by meander of said lake at
line of. mean high tide S 64° E. 0 71 Cha.,
S. 76° E. 1.51 Chs, N. 60° E. 1.01 Chs„
N. 68° E. 1 36 Chs.,*N. 78° E. 1.09 chB„ N
53° E. 1.24 chs.. N 80° E. 1.01 chs., N; 72'
E., 1.61 chs., S. 86° 30' E. 0.63* chs. to
cor.. No. 2 and M. C. Thence N. 13° E.
6.18 chs. to Cor. No. 3. Thence West 10.65
chs. to Cor. No.‘ 4. Thence South 7.95 chs.
to Cor. No. 1, the place of beginning. List
ed upon the application of A. C. Witt’ner of
Lawing, Alaska, List 8-130.
Feb. 17, 1981 D. K. Parrott
Acting Assistant * immiesioner
First Publication March 17, ’OSl.
Last Publication April 7, 1931.
Pub. D—Mar. 17, 24, 31, Api 1 7, 1931.
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