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OF SEWARD, ALASKA — Established August ID, 1904
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SHOULD BE A PROSPEROUS SUMMER
There is every reason to believe that the coming sum
mer will be one of the most prosperous in the Railroad
Belt owing to the prospective industrial progress looming
on the horizon and the many activities that will begin to
bear fruit.
And the influence will not only be felt in Seward, but
from one end of the railroad to the other. Beginning at
the northern terminal, Fairbanks, great development is
under way in the placer fields, while quartz mines are also
approaching the productive stage. Further along, the
Bonnifield placer and quartz district is fast adding to the
productive gold areas. The Healy River coal fields will
be employing many men in extracting coal for the Fair
banks enterprises and interior consumption, along with
supplying the northern end of the railroad with steam
fuel. Quartz operation in the Valdez Creek district,
where additional capital has been enlisted* promises to
rejuvenate that field. Development of lead and silver
jDrospects in the Broad Pass region should serve to at
tract additional capital and soon produce operating
mines. Coming to Talkeetna, the gateway to the great
placer fields of Cache Creek, Peters creek, Fairview dis
trict and the upper Yentna country, the outlook is better
this season than ever before. More outfits will be op
erating that in years past w7ere engaged in purely pros
pect work; new areas, never before prospected, are be
ginning to show great possibilities with the introduction
of machinery, and added transportation facilities are en
abling undertakings that were prohibitive before.
Plans for exporting coal are rapidly being con
summated and upon completion should add many hun
dreds of men to the productive forces of the Matanuska
fields. This will in turn, call for additional train crews
and shop forces, along with added facilities for handling
this additional big tonnage.
With any forward movement in a distinctive line al
ways comes consideration of other avenues of industry*
and there is reason to believe that it will come to those
mining regions lying between the Hope district and Sew
ard, including Moose Pass on the railroad, and Nuka Bay,
to the westward.
The strongest influence that could be brought to bear
to hasten the era of intensive activity is roads and more
roads. These are essential to bridging the gulf which
now stands between failure and success, especially in the
quartz mining field. The item of a few cents per pound
in freight rates often is the line of demarkation between
development and stagnation. This is shown in the Cache
Creek district, where claim-owners were compelled to
mark time until the Alaska Road Commission gave them
the relief they needed.
With the natural flow of business accruing to Sew
ard will come additional contributions, the outcome of
this general development. Thus there is no room for
pessimism, but rather cause for elation.
CONSTRUCTIVE PIONEERS
Just so often flashes of the constructive pioneer spirit
that has builded great States and which is destined to
eventually fructify in creating of Alaska a vigorous
young State in the great American family, stand out
prominently, indicating that while there is evidence of
the gradual dying out of the old spirit of self-sacrifice,
adventure and constructive energy such as characterized
the age when Alaska was born, there still come to us
young men whose presence is having a salutary effect
upon the progress of the Territory. This is evidenced in
the co-operation given by the Signal Corps, that fine body
of youth and energy, which has pioneered and is still pio
neering the lines of communication of the great North
land. Wherever set down, though their tenure is but
for the period of their assignment to duty, the Signal
Corps immediately becomes a part and parcel of the com
munity, bringing the energies and alertness of youth and
enthusiasm to almost every line of endeavor. Today they
are engaged in keen rivalry in athletic sports, wherein
the great spirit of fair-play and goodfellowship is inter
DRAWING FOR RADIO SET
MS PLACE TONIGHT
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Someone is going to be presented
with a beautiful cabinet radio set
this evening at the Liberty Theatre
when the drawing of the Holiday
Club takes place. Naturally, some
one is also going to be made very
happy. The set, which was donated
last December jointly to the fire de- j
partment and the Seward Athletic
Club by Schallerer’s Alaska Shop, is
of the latest type and in perfect con
dition.
The drawing will take place prior
to the feature film. Announcement,
as to details, was published in yes
| terday’s Gateway.
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HIGH SCHOOL DEFEATED
The City basketball team decively
defeated the High School lads last
evening by a score of '54 to 22. The
girls game between the High School
land the City ended in victory for the
students who emerged on the long
end of the 18 to 7 score. Lots of
action marked both games and the
spectators fully enjoyed both con
tests.
BALLET REMAINS SPECTACLE
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MOSCOW, Feb. 9. (/P)—Russia, the
land of the ballet, maintains its danc
ing spectacles unimpaired in beauty
and originality, even though the seats
are beyond the reach of the average
citizens.
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“A good laugh is the greatest tonic J
in the world. People should laugh J
more. They will be healthier if thev f
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So saitli Edward Everett Horton, *
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start of the stage and screen, who con- J
tributes to the comedy moments in J
James Cruze’s amusing rural ro- *
mance, “Marry Me!” coming tonight j
to the Liberty. 1
Horton is himself a living example j
of the efficacy of laughter. j —
Yet, paradoxdoxical as it may sound, I
his part in “Marry Me ” is that of a i
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chronic crank, whose disposition and j
stomach have been soured because of
impure food. In the course of his
legal fight on the commission mer
chants who sold him cold storage
eggs, he enlists the help of a pretty
school teacher, and thereby gets him
self ito all sorts of romantic com
plications.
The story wTas adapted from “The
Nest Egg,” a famous Broadway stage
success by Anne Caldwell. Florence
Vidor has the leading feminine role
opposite Horton, and the other fea
tured players include Helen Jerome
Eddy and John Roche.
The World’s smallest phonograph,
only 4 inches in diameter and less
than 2 inches high, is the product of
a Swiss inventor.
The Candy Cottage, the
home of Velvet Ice Cream,
the best on the market.
Coleman’s Gas Lamps and
Lan
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terns. J. L. Graef.
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LIBERTY
THEATER
8 O’CLOCK — ONE SHOW — 8 O’CLOCK
The Big Comedy Hit
“Marry Me”
Full of Fun from start to finish
FLORENCE VIDOR—EDWARD HORTON
the Stars
Adapted from the famous stage play ‘The Nest Egg’
With it there will be Author Stone in the two-reel
Comedy
“ARE BLONDE MEN BASHFUL?”
A Laughing Thriller
A full comedy program that you must not miss
SPECIAL NOTICE
The awarding of the big radio set by the Fire
men, will take place tonight, here, between the come
dy and the Feature
JOHN C. WHITE
& CO.
High Grade Line of
CIGARS, TOBACCOS, &
CANDIES
FINEST BILLIARD HALL IN ALASKA
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Seward Machine Shop
Chas. Lechner, prop. Seward, Alaska
MARINE and STATIONARY
GAS ENGINES SOLD AND REPAIRED
Ford Sales and Service
WE SPECIALIZE IN SANITARY
ENGINEERING, PLUMBING and
HEATING INSTALLATION
Sheet Metal Work and Stoves Repaired
Pipeless and Hot Air Furnaces and Circulating Heaters
Sold and Installed
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INDUSTRIAL SEWARD
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Tiie Gateway leads—others follow.
mingled. Tomorrow they are contributing of their tal
ents and training in some civic movement. Among the
latest of these departures is the organization of a band
in Seward, something beyond the bounds of the rank and
file of citizens because of expense and lack of time to de
vote to the! development of the arts.
The natural pride Seward feels in the fine set of
young men Uncle Sam has sent us to preside, over the
lines of communication, is accentuated in considering this
latest addition to the city’s life, and all will vouchsafe
every encouragement to the boys and join in appreciation
of their thoughtfulness.
THE NEWEST SPORT
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Feb. 10. (/p)
—Champion pie and oyster eaters
and other gastronomic and bibulous
marvels are familiar figures that are
not without honor of a sort in the
United States and elsewhere, but cof
fee drinking contests have a greater
flavor of novelty. At present the
championship in this “sport” seems *
to be held by a Minnesota man, with
a record of 85 cupfuls in seven and a
half hours.