Seward Daily Gateway
OF SEWARD, ALASKA — Established August 19, 1904
Published Daily except Sunday by
THE GATEWAY PUBLISHING COMPANY
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H. V. HOBEN and E. F, JESSEN, Proprietors
E. F. Jessen Editor and Manager
Ott» G. Samlbeek. Associate Editor Bdwin A. Sandbeck. City Editor
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ITS TIME TO BATTLE!
It is quite evident the Bureau of
Public Roads does not wish to build
the “Missing Link” road either next
year or at any time in the near fu
ture if such action can possibly be
avoided. The Bureau’s policy, as
m the past, will be to construct
roads where they want to build
them; in remote unsettled areas
with no connection with major
systems.
Each year Seward and the resi
dents along the route of the long
hoped for proposed Sevrard-Moose
Pass road have listened to a lot of
“banana oil” about more surveys,
investigations, ad infinitum, until
they are sick of it. The time for
diplomacy has passed!
Past observations brings to mind
few projects have been secured lo
cally until the “stink pots” were
touched off and everything but the
cuspidors hurled. This. is regret- 1
table but a fact.
In the meantime Seward cannot
lose a thing by talking plain Eng
lish, straight from the shoulder
and to the point. Seward will never
accomplish anything by being
meek and carrying on like gentle
men.
Seward has always stood alone,!
constantly fighting for every proj
ect and every step forward in the
march of progress.
Now is the time to throw aside j
the ridiculous role of suave, diplom
acy and fight. We got the reputa
tion of being a bunch of hogs,
skunks or something like that, so
let’s live up to our reputation.
This viewpoint is not entirely
The Gateway’s; several members
of the Seward Chamber of Com
merce similarly expressed them
selves at the last meeting of that
organization.
GATEWAY SCORES AGAIN
Tiade Extension Bulletin No. 147,
a 49-page volume, issued by the
Los Angeles Chamber of Com
merce has this to say with respect
to Alaska:
•The Seward Gateway, (jne of
the most enterprising of the Ter- i
ritory’s newspapers, gives the fol
lowing summary qf public im
provements scheduled or under
way:”
It then produces The Gateway’s
compilation of federal expendit
ures for this year showing a total
of approximately $7,000,000 to be
expended and its distribution.
The Gateway boasts the dis
tinction of being the most gener
ally quoted newspaper in Alaska,
because it publishes facts for
which the outside world is look
ing.
According to figures compiled
by Seattle wholesalers the pur
chasing power of Alaskans is five
times greater than that of a giv
en population in the United States.
Which shows what we have long
believed, that the Seattle racket
eers are soaking us just five times
what they “orter.”
SPECULATION IN FOODSTUFFS
In tackling the problem of suppressing bear raids on
the wheat market President Hoover displays a laudible
courage, and initiates a movement which promises to
have more far-reaching effect than all efforts at stabili
zation by the Farm Board.
Most everyone is infected with the gambling spirit,
and with it properly applied it becomes one of the most
potent forces of progress. Yet there are limitations to
which it may go before it encroaches upon dangerous
precincts. Juggling with a man's bread it one of them.
There is a marked distinction between speculating
in stocks and bonds and manipulating the basic elements
in man's daily life. In this latter respect the President is
aptly fortified through his experience in contact with
famine and hunger in Belgium, an experience few of
those who make pawns of vital necessities of life have
undergone.
In the palmiest days of frontier gambling even the
hardest dealer refused to allow the man of family to gam
ble with the bread of his children. But the food specula
tors have not reached this human equation.
While the Farm Board is an experiment in an un
usual situation, and has fallen short of what was hoped
for it, the foundation has been laid for the creation of a
liason between producer and consumer by which both
will secure advantages.
Maybe the reason those thugs lingered too long at a
fashionable Chicago home that they were surprised by the
police was that they were absorbed in hearing friend wife
tell friend husband what species he belonged to when he
trumped her ace.
It will soon be time for politicians to try and buy
your vote with a cheap cigar.
National Editorial Association
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ANOTHER SHIPMENT j
! OF NUKA BAY ORE IS
! ENROUTE SMELTERS
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Capt. Pete Sather brought his
staunch vessel, the Rolph III, into
port Saturday afternoon from Nuka
Bay. Captain Sather brought Mr.
and Mrs. Mike Deegan in from the
Nuka Bay country where they have
been for .some time on the Mike
[Deegan and Fred Johnson quartz
I property. Eighteen tons of ore
! were also brought in from the
mining camp, 13 tons from the Bab
cock and Downey mine and five
from the Deegan-Johnson holdings.
The ore is to be shipped to Out
side smelters.
Captain Sather said that owing
to the weather conditions he
was able to pick up the ore at the
Babcock and Downey mine this time
of the year as the ice had been
cleared out of that bay. According
to Mr. Sather, he may not be able
to go into there now as the wind
may have changed and swept the
ice back into the bay.
A quantity of Christmas mer
chandise was to be taken cut to
the various Nuka Bay residents on j
the Rolph which was scheduled to j
depart this afternoon but found it *
was unable to leave because wea- j
ther conditions did not permit the j
unloading of the cargo of ore to- j
day. It is expected that the Rolph j
will get away as soon as the wea- !
ther moderates so that the ore can {
be unloaded.
Saturday and Sunday hotel reg- *
istrants were Mr. and Mrs. Miks c
Deegan, at the Seward Hotel, and *
John Halferty at the Overland
Hotel.
Christmas trees have begun a (
march on Seward and have made (
their appearance in many homes, £
hotels and store wdndow displays. (
Each day sees more of the Yuletide (
symbols brought into town and is ^
indicative that it won’t be long .
now before Christmas is here.
$100,000,000 FOR TERRITORY (
HALIFAX, Dec. 21. {&)—The gov- {
ernment of Newfoundland has of- {
ficially offered Canada $100,000,000 ^
net for the territory of Labrador, .
Sir William Coaker announced on j
his arrival from St. Johns.
Kiddies Toyland at Alaska Shop. (
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extra good; one a comedy DIALOGUE REEL;
a MUSICAL FABLE and an interesting
NEWS.
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