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a considerable initial outlay of
capital before any income is
realized. In quartz mining, a
gold-bearing rock must be drill
ed and blasted out of the side of
a mountain, and this must be
turlher sorted and refined be
fore it can be profitably trans
ported to a smelter. Mining en
gineers and other highly skilled
employees are essential to suc
cessful quartz mining, and cost
ly machinery must be pur
chased and often transported
to points far beyond road or
railhead. All this was important
to the growth of Seward. In
stead of supplying “grubstakes"
to a horde of nearly penniless
prospectors, Seward became a
supply center for well-capital
ized scientific mining opera
tions. Food, clothing, tools, fuel,
machine parts, building materi
als, all manner of merchandise
must be kept flowing to a busy
quartz mine, and Seward firms
soon found a good market for
their stocks.
As early as 1904, the Record
ing District was moved from
Hope-Sunrise, to the new town
of Seward. When the Bank of
Seward opened its doors in
1905, it did a brisk business
in gold dust. You can still see
the letters on the 4th Avenue
side of the bank reading “Gold
Dust Bought.” Formerly, the
office in the rear of the Bank
of Seward was an Assay office
in charge of W. A. Hesse.
This made Seward doubly
important to the mining indus
try, not only as a source
of supply and of transportation
to and from the Outside, but
as the place where all claims
must be filed, and conflicts or
disputes over claims adjusted.
Legal work in connection with
mining soon became one of tire
main sources of income for
Seward’s early lawyers.
Here are 'some of the names
of men active in mining devel
opments in the Moose Pass rail
belt area, about whom little
else is known today. Grimes,
McCartey, Nelson, Robinson,
Calwel, Schmiesser, Michelson.
Lcchner (not related to the pres
ent Lechner family of Seward)
Trebesco, Gramwaldt, Baugh
man, Higgins, Gayden, Iverson,
Peel, Totten, Slater, Snook, Old
hams, Braniau, Wybles, Quarelli,
Spillum and Sprague.
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W. W. Sipprell. Gen. Agi.
Dr. D. H. Sleem, one of Sew
ard’s first physicians, was in
tensely interested in mining,
and himself prepared a mining
map of the Northern Kenai Pen
insula Area, which he had copy
righted in 1910. Several copies
of this map are still in existence.
Summing up the effect or
mining activity on the town of
Seward, it should be pointed
out that as each mile of rail
road was completed, new mines
opened up, and with them, small
but sorely needed revenue for
the hard-pressed Railroad Com
pany. Also, new markets for
Brown and Hawkins, the Alaska
Transfer, and the Bank of Sew
ard, to mention just a few.
No v let’s turn back to the
year 1906 again, and pick up
a few more important events
of a general nature. The Sew
ard Volunteer Fire Department
was organized in 1906; the mili
tary cable to Valdez was opened
for business in August of that
year, and during their first 12
months of operation added up a
nice little gross of $26,000 worth
of messages to and from the
town of Seward. But the big
event of 1906, was the visit of
Governor Hoggatt, who made
a tour of Alaska during the
first year of his office as Gov
ernor of the Territory. Hopes
were high that this appointee
of Teddy Roosevelt would do
much for the development of
Alaska. All Seward turned out
to greet the new Governor, and
P
to make as good an impression
on him as possible. We’ve been
doing this same sort of thing
ever since then, for a list of
VIP’s ranging from President
Harding on down.
(Next week: The Beginning
of the Great Coal Controversy;
The first lesson any young
man has to learn is to create a
plan, set his goals, then do his
level best to live up to them.
Shifting our responsibility can
make democracy lose balance.
DICK DANGLER DROPS
IN UNEXPECTEDLY
Dick Dangler walked into the
newspaper office at noon today
and called his Mom who did
not know that he was coming
home.
Dick is a Naval R.O.T.C.
student at Leland Stanford Uni
versity. He worked at the Record
during his high school days.
“Sure is good to be home
again,” he said as he gazed at
old Marathon.
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