UNITED AIR LINES
proposes
mainliner service
for Alaska
Photo of United's proposed postwar 4 engine plane for Alaska service
As part of its broad postwar expan
sion program, United Air Lines has
applied to the Civil Aeronautics
Board to serve Alaska ... a terri
tory already familiar to veteran
United personnel flying for the
Air Transport Command. Hun
dreds of wartime flights have been
operated from Seattle to this great
region.
Today, of course, United’s objec
tive is to do its share in a tremen
dous war job. In addition to con
ducting its Coast-to-Coast and Bor
der-to-Border domestic airmail-pas
senger-express services, United is
mighty busy fulfilling its military
contract services.
At the same time, however, we’re
looking ahead with Alaska. In the
peacetime to come, expanding Alas
ka and the West will need more
and faster air transportation. The
map below shows how United’s
proposed, strategic route would
offer speeded-up travel advantages.
If United’s application is ap
proved, Fairbanks, Anchorage,
Yakutat, Juneau and Ketchikan
will have fast, through service in
huge 240-mile-an-hour, four-en
gine Mainliners to Seattle-Tacoma
airport... thence south to California
or eastward from Seattle-Tacoma
Airport over United’s nation-wide
system.
At Fairbanks and Anchorage.
United’s proposed direct east-west
route would serve the existing net
works from the East, West, South
and North—and, at Juneau, exist
ing lines from the North.
UNITED’S PROPOSED
POSTWAR 4-ENGINE
MAINLINER SCHEDULE
Seattle to Ketchikan 3 hrs. 18 mi*.
Seattle to Juneau . . 5 hrs.
Seattle to Anchorage 9 hrs.
Seattle to Fairbanks 10 hrs.
United’s contemplated Mainliner
fares will be no higher than pre
war steamer cabin fares.
UNITED AIR LINES
SEATTLE—1207 Fourth Ave.
VANCOUVER—Georgia Hotel
{Sees Future In Cattle
Arthur J. Harris, of Unalaska,
en route to the states to investi
gate the possibilities of Hereford
cattle, believes there are unlim
ited possibilities in the Aleutian
area for persons with capital, ac
cording to an interview in An
chorage.
Harris, operator of a lunch
counter at Unalaska, was former
ly with the Alaska Livestock and
Trading company.
“Meat can be produced cheap
er in the chain than' anywhere
else in North America,” he said,
“and I can see no reasoD for the
necessity and high cost, of shipp
ing it from the States.”
To show adaptability of cattle
to the terrain he cited the in
stance of two head at Chernofski
harbor which were left to their
own resources when the Western
Pacific company went into the
hands of receivers in 1932. By
1941 the pair had produced 14
offspring which were thriving on
the country, although extremely
wild.
Mr. Harris said he believed
cattle w'ere the better invest
1 ment in the long run, although
sheep will provide a quicker re-1
turn.
Sheep raising has been an in
dustry of the region for many
years, taking its start in 1917
when Dr. Andrew C. Smith and
William Macintosh of Portland,
Ore., shipped 50 head to Dutch
Harbor, the following Spring
adding 500 more to the original
herd.
After a severe winter which
caused the loss of many of the
animals half of them were taken
to Umnak and the other half to
Chernofski harbor At the pre
sent time, according to Mr. Har
ris, there are approximately 3000
head of sheep at the latter point.
Before the war there were 12,000
head at Umnak.
Two former Kodiak residents
were recent visitors in Kodiak as
boats they work on stopped over
briefly in Kodiak.
Lewis Clark, former bartend
er, was on an army vessel e»
route from the Aleutian area to
the States and Joe Guthrie,
former owner of Dell’s cafe, is a
crew member of an Alaska
Steamship freighter that stop
ped here recently.
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