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W OP SEWARD, ALASKA — Estai»liJ*hed Jku&ist 19, 1904 <v
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GOVERNMENT OPERATION OF RAILROADS
The Philadelphia Inquirer, commenting on what it
terms the folly of government operations of railroads,
says:
Ten years ago the Pennsylvania spent 71 cents of
each dollar received to operate its lines. When Mc
Adoo became the grand Poo-bah of the railroads, the
Pennsylvania operating costs leaped in 1919 to 94
cents out of every dollar. In 1920 it was 104, which
meant that America's greatest railroad was operated
at an actual loss. After the McAdoo nightmare
passed, the company began to cut out waste and op
erate along sensible lines. Last year operating costs
had dropped to 78 cents on the dollar and this year
the ratio may be still further reduced to about 75
cents.
Thus it has required seven years for the Pennsylva
nia to accomplish a reduction of 25 per cent.
Two years after The Alaska Railroad passed from
the construction to the operating department, expenses of
operation were cut 31 per cent, and revenues increased
24 per cent.
From time to time The Alaska Railroad has been sub
ject to attack by the leading railroad journals of the
United States and many of the newspapers, which take
delight in describing it as a great folly. So was Seward's
purchase of Alaska thus considered by the dwellers in a
‘‘hand-me-down" civilization with which they had nothing
to do in the building. McGuffy said the same thing about
the Oregon country when it was sought to be saved from
Great Britain. It is not surprising that the same distort
ed view should be taken with respect to The Alaska Rail
road.
From time to time rumors gain currency that certain
Wall street interests are looking with covetous eyes upon
The Alaska Railroad. If this is true, nothing would
please them better than to cripple the system. Such ref
erences as the Philadelphia Inquirer makes, are in line
with the propaganda .insididously directed against the
railroad.
When the Pennsylvania can make as good a showing
as was made this year by The Alaska Railroad and by a
former Pennsylvania railroad employ at that, it may win
the right to make a comparison.
South Dakota has repealed the law compelling seven
foot sheets on hotel beds. Any man with seven feet ought
to be put into the corral.
Alabama boasts the champion tightwad. When the
recent hurricane picked him and his bride up, immediate
ly after the wedding, and landed them in the next county
he turned to her and said: “Well, we done been on ouah '
honeymoon, so well walk back home.”
American tourists are rebating Europe’s war debts
at the rate of a half billion dollars a year, and still they
kick.
It is reported that American tourists spent five hun
dred milion dollars in Europe during the past year. They
must have purchased a pair of dress shoes apiece.
A man claimed to be a maniac, jumped on the running j
board of President Hindenberg’s automobile. It would ,
appear he was more of an acrobat than a “bat.” ,
With the arrival of ice skating, winter sports really
get under way. There is no outdoor fun so exhilarating t
and healthy as skating. If you don’t know how to skate ]
for goodness sake learn now. You’ll be glad. t
When a royal queen finds a drink of pure, cold water <
among the most appreciated things in America one be- 1
gins to appreciate the blessings of Alaska. Just suppose 1
Queen Marie could have stretched herself full length and
slaked her thirst in one of our crystal mountain streams!'.
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have already constructed a fine ditch
| which is provided with a good supply
of water and will be ready next sum
mer to mine on an extensive scale.
Billy Leavit on Gold Run, is report
ed as having a prosperous mining
season.
Jack Little on Glacier Creek, about
25 miles from Candle, is working with
a fine hydraulic plant and is reported
as doing well.
Ben Mace on First Chance, is pros
pecting and developing some likely
looking ground.
With upwards of $200,000 cleaned
up in Candle and vicinity this season,
with only one dredge wmrking for a
period of two months, and an unpre
cedented water shortage, it can read
ily be predicted that the Candle coun
try with the introduction of more mod
ern machinery and scientific methods
of ^handling and last yardage embrac
ed in this area, it will be one of the
great mineral producing sections of
the Seward peninsula.
Very little work around Jess creek
has been done this summer with the
exception of S. Sansoucy, who is op
erating on the Second Beach Line
about two miles East of Jess creek.
Win. Sheehan is preparing to sink
some deep holes on the right limit of
Penny river, this winter, and Chas.
Redding is going to prospect on the
upper part of Penny reivr.
John Glen Rose, the owner of much
valuable mining ground East and
West of Nome river, from the Second
Beach Line to the present beach, re
ports sinking a shaft a short distance
East of Martin creek. He claims to
have picked up an extension of the
Ben Gillet and Anderson paystreak.
James Corrigan, Charles Alexander,
Julius Patterson and Nels Peterson,
who have-been mining on Iron ereek
in the Kougarok section, are well
pleased with their season’s results,
considering the long period of enforc
ed idleness, occassioned by the dry
spell, which hit the Iron Creek section
bard.
Osborne creek which usually has a
plentiful supply of water, for the first
time in its mining history suffered a
shortage during the forepart of the
past season.
Much prospecting, it is reported,
will be done on the Bluestone and
Sold Run streams this winter. The
valid discovery of good pay on sever
il creeks by Tweets, O’Leary and oth
ers will no doubt give an impetus to
much prospecting in that section.
Otto Halla, pioneer mining man of
the Nome section, will open up a
prospecting camp on ground situated
jpposite No. 12, Little Creek, left lim
it. He intends to do extensive pros
pecting to prove up more definitely an
irea of ground, in. which excellent
prospects are reported to have been i
liscovered during the past summer.
Fred and Ed. Rohn, widely known j
prospectors and mining men, are j
making preparations for active pros- |
pecting on every favorably situated ;
ground south of the Otto Halla prop- |
;rty.
Rasmus Jensen and son have got j
:heir shaft well timbered and are |
pumping water. It is expected the j
ground to commence mining opera- |
ions in a short time. They are min- j
ng on the Second Beach Line east i
)f Nome and took out a fair sized i
lump in the same locality last win- i
er. *
Ben Gillet and Ed. Anderson, old j
ime mining men and operators of the i
'Some district, are mining on a small •
icale in the Eastern End of town, |
vith very fair results. The work is j
•pen cut work and operations are I
tampered to a large extent by lack of j
vater. ;
Chas. Calkins and Louis Nashen- •
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HltL^/ro SUCCEED BUTLER
NEW YORK, NoT. 23. C/P)—The N,
Y. American said Charles D. Hilleg
of New York would likely succeed
William M. Butler of Massachusetts
as chairman of the Republican Na
tional committee next spring.
Alaska split-stock fish 25c
pound. Seward Trading Co.
CAM CONFISCATE AUTOS
WASHINGTON, Nov. 23. (JP)—In
the Alabama-Washington cases the
Supreme Court upheld the right of the
government to confiscate an automo
bile used for rum running while being |
bought on installments.
Seward Weekly Gateway 12 pages.
Gateway.
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