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cost $70,000,000 and a little more. They
were just about 100 per cent out of the
way. Conditions have changed, and know
ing that we would have to pay high prices
for everything now, this $5,000,000 esti
mate, in my judgment, might have to be ex
panded to $10,000,000 before you got thru.'*
Showing the economic shortcomings of the
proposal, the Delegate continued,"and if
you figure the interest on $10,000,000 -
and you have to sell bonds to get the mon
ey - you would have to pay until it is
finally liquidated, it will amount to more
than the expenses of maintenance of the en
tire routs from Mile 64 to Seward, year af
ter year. So there would not be any sav
ing, even without considering the fact
that your capital investment would be gone.1
HARDSHIP WOULD BEFALL SEWARD.
Describing the hardship that would be
fall Seward if the route were changed, he
said, "Property rights, perhaps not so very
large in these expansive times, have been
built up at Seward. Many men have put ev
erything that they have into the town of
Seward. To make the change now would ruin
half the people of the town." Delegate
Dimond also expressed much doubt whether
many of the people of Seward would be able
to reestablish themselves at Portage Bay,
even tho it should be financially possible
for them to do so, because, as Col. Ohlson
had previously admitted, while there is
sufficient room for railroad terminals and
railroad yards there, the question as to
whether Longfellow Glacier will advance or
not seriously limits the area at Portage
Bay that might be used as a town-site.
"Before any suggestion of having the
terminal change is seriously entertained,"
Mr. Dimond said,"certainly some members of
the committee should go to Alaska ... to
make a thoro inquiry and examination of
The Alaska Railroad." The Delegate said
that this "would be very valuable, not enly
to the committee, but valuable to the Uni
ted States Government and to the Treasury."
SHOTS VfflERE MILLIONS CAN BE SAVED.
The expenditure of $1,000,000 on the
"present road between Seward and Portage,
Portage being the point from which the pro
posed new route would go, would put that
road in such good condition that we would
not have any serious trouble with it for a
good many years," according to the Delegate)
and this expenditure was his recommendation
to the committee in place of the proposal
to spend between $5,000,000 and $10,000,000
on the junction to Portage Bay. He strongly
supported expenditures planned to provide
capital improvements in the nature of steel
bridges and better road-bed for The Alaska
Railroad.
Jack English, Mr. and Mrs. Ives and
their daughter, Mr. and Mrs. ’.V.Shellhorn
and Mrs. Merritt Shellhorn were among tfte
Seward people who attended the dance at
Hielo’s Roadhouse Saturday night.
BY M.
R.
S.
The dull time of the year is here?
A time of lagging interests* drear*
In themes for worthy striving,
Pleasures, purpose, past contriving?
Turn to the wind that has come from the
South,
Breaking the cold that has lowered its
drouth
Of fierce, drying atmosphere ever the
land,
Striking out sharp, with a firm, icy
hand.
Think of the days of the lengthening sun
Telling that Spring has already begun,
Harbingering gifts of the garden, the
swallow,
Green birch and cottonwood, fragrant and
mallow.
Time when the future is buoyant with hope.
Clearing our vision, extending its scope
To a distance unbounded by man's feeble
vision;
Releasing the senses from winter's dark
prison.
Can you say that the time is dull?
| This time we are given for thought?
| A time we can live to the full,
A privilege not to be bought 1
March 9, 1939,
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BUILDERS SUPPLIES
MINE SUPPLIES, RAILS, RAIL BOLTS,
RAIL SPIKES, WHEELBARROWS, DRILL
STEEL, BLACKSMITH COAL, CEMENT,
BRICH, PLATE AND WINDOW GLASS,
AND COMPLETE STOCK OF BUILDERS'
HARDWARE.
LET US KNOW YOUR NEEDS.
SEWARD ALASKA
Charles (Chuck) Whitmarsh returned on
the as Mount McKinley Tuesday from a trip
to Rexford, Mon.
Ray Stafford has further improved his
property by building a storage cellar un
der the house.
Mrs. Charles Davis of Hope will soon be
able to return to her home from Seward
Genaral Hospital.