ALASKA WORLD
LURE SAYS BIG
SEATTLE PAPER
SEATTLE IS DOORWAY TO THE
TERRITORY WHICH IS SAID
TO BE TREASURE VAULT
Territory Is Forging Aheat
Revival of Mining and Expansion 01
Numerous Industries Assure
Prosperity
Alaska, a treasure house of the
world, marvelous mecoa for tourists
whose brilliant future has only begun
to unfold, has its gateway from the
United States in Seattle, announces
the Seattle Daily Times, of recenl
date.
This year with the revival of mining
noticed some months ago, with plans
for the expenditure of approximately
19,000,000 in Fairbanks by a new gold
dredging company and of $10,000,006
for a paper mill at Seward, with the
outlook for fisheries improved and
increasing timber business, is expect
ed to set a record in Alaska trade
The bulk of it will move through Se
attle.
Since Alaska was purchased in 1867
up to January 1, 1925, the Territory
has exported products valued at
$1,236,469,345. Last year its products
were valued at $61,317,370, a slight
decrease of the total of 1923.
Alaska this year is expected to reach
20.000 persons, eclipsing all records
The expenditure of $11,000,000 by the
government for the development of the
Alaska Railroad during the next six
or seven years is the program advo
cated by Noel W. Smith, new general
manager. The first million is now be
ing spent for steel bridges for the en
tire system.
Palladium Mine Operates
Last year the first palladium mine
opened on Prince of Wales Island
shipping $111,911 worth of the pre
cious metals. This year Mr. Smith be
lieve the first birchwood shipments
will be made to the states over the
railroad for furniture manufacturing
In mineral production last year cop
per was foremost with a valuation ol
over $11,241,264, a reduction of nearly
$2,000,000 over 9123. Gold was sec
ond ift value with $6,500,000 showing a
slight decrease over 1823. In the Fair
banks district where the new dredg
ing company will operate more exten
sively this year the gold output ex
ceeded last year’s,
hundred! tisasE
Revenue of the Alaska Railroad foi
the fiscal year ending June 30, 1924
was $907,173.88, compared with $785,
031.38 for the preceding fiscal year
Expenses for the 1924 period were
$2,727,612, including river steamers.
Twenty-five dredges produced $1,
565.000 worth of gold in Alaska last
year, fifteen of them being in the
Seward peninsula district. Twenty
quartz mines produced $2,750,000 gold
iuucaoc \JL 9<1VV,VVV UVt?r ±V6d,
Oil drilling by the Standard, Gen
eral Petroleum and Associated Oil
companies continues with promises oi
success. Last year as before, petro
leum produced in Alaska came from a
dozen small wells in the Katalla field.
The drilling by the large companies
is in the Cold Bay district where test
wells have gone more than 3000 feet
deep with showings of gas and oil.
Protection Given Fisheries
The outstanding achievement of
1924 to the territory, as seen by for
mer governor Scott C. Bone, was en
actment of congressional legislation
to conserve and protect the fisheries.
As a result increased activity was no
ticed when the closed period was over
in February this year. Former Gov
ernor Bone recommended other legis
lation for development of the terri
tory, including: Grant of 160 acres of
land in Alaska to Alaska ex-service
men, extension of the Federal High
way Act to Alaska, turning the sur
plus revenue from the Pribilof Isl
ands seal industry into the Alaska
Fund.
Noel Smith, manager of the railroad
has recommended opening of land to
settlers along 350 miles of the rail
way, covering a five-mile strip on
each side, and a bill to provide more
liberal rights to reindeer hefders on
the public domain.
Many Men Used by Alaska
During the season, from April to
November of each year, Alaska re
Quires and uses 17,000 men in the fish
ing industry, 5000 in mining and 5000
in other industries. The fisheries pay
roll last year is estimated at $8,160,
000, and the mining at $6,380,000.
Fishery employes increased 16 per
cent over 1923 and the wages paid in
creased 19 per cent.
For t,he tourist there is unlimited
■ opportunity in Alaska. In or near Mt.
McKinley National Park are the
brown bear, moose and caribou, moun
tain goats and sheep. The hunting
I season is from August 20 to November
15, the best fishing from July 1 to
August 15, and the water fowl season
from September 1 to December 15.
The national park with its 3,000
square miles of marvelous, almost un
explored beauty has a hotel of native
spruce logs at the railroad entrance,
and many miles of new trails and
roads were constructed last year.
BIG MISSOURI
MINE IS SOLD
TO TAC0MANS
MOST PROMISING PORTLAND CA
NAL PROPERTY NEXT TO
PREMIER IS SOLD
H. A. Henton of Tacoma and asso
ciates have purchased the big Mis
souri, said to be next to the Premier,
possibly the most promising property
in the entire Portland Canal district.
The Prince Rupert News of July 24,
gives the following account of the
Utfcll .
“Purchase of the Big Missouri mine
on Salmon River in the Portland Ca
nal area was announced by H. A.
Henton of Tacoma, Wash., head of the
Standard Mines Corporation in Van
couver this week. The concern also
recently purchased two large dredges
ing leases on McDame creek, Cassiar,
and machinery for the development of
that property is now on the way.
“Development work at the Big Mis
souri w’ill begin at once under direc
tion of Pat Daly who is credited with
being responsible for the famous Pre
mier Mine by inducing H. K. Neill of
Spokane to examine his theories re
garding it.
“Mr. Daly induced Mr. Henton to go
into the big Missouri deal. He had
made Mr. Henton the proposition he
afterward successfully made to Mr.
Neill on the Premier.
“The deal for the Big Missouri was
closed Tuesday by Mr. Henton and
1 Dan Lindeborg and a representative
oof the Stevenson and Proudfoot es
tates. A substantial cash payment
was made. The total price of the bond
was not made public.”
Wiseman Suffering
Shortage of Water
WISEMAN, Alaska: This camp is
suffering from a shortage of water for
mining purposes. The weather has
been very good and the gardens are all
doing well, however.
xiaiycx vvuiRinan uas sirucK gooa
pay on a bench which he owns on
Nolan Creek and is building a new
ditch in order to increase his supply
of water for sluicing.
Tom Brady on Swift Creek and
Watts and his partners on Hammond
have found a good pay streak.
O. V. Green, deputy marshal at
WTiseman, is now the proud father of
a baby girl, born on June 11.
Many local residents are now trav
eling to and from the railroad by air
plane, and from all indications the old
time musher is doomed.
Elliott Stewart Passes
Away In Portland, Ore.
A telegram was received from Miss
^Leila C. Howe, of Estacada, Oregon,
by Judge Ritchie Wednesday, stating
that Elliott Stewart had died in the
Portland general hospital Tuesday
evening, August 5, following a stroke
of apoplexy. The telegram stated that
a post mortem would be held Wed
nesday. Mr. Stewart will be buried
at Portland.
He was well known in Seward and
Valdez, having worked for many years
in both towns.
Mr. Stewart leaves a brother and
sister in Pennsylvania, and a cousin
in South Dakota.
Gateway want-ads bring results.
ALASKA SCENICS
EXCELL FAMOUS
MOUNT RAINIER
NEWSPAPER PUBLISHER FROM
LODI COMPARES ALASKAN
PRICES WITH STATES
More Fanners Are Needed
Alaskan Towns Too Small for Daily
Papers Says Owner of Small
California Town Weekly
“From a tourist standpoint, Alaska
seems to need more practical farmers,
for I cannot see any reason why vege
tables and berries to the value of five
million dollars should be shipped into
your country when all of this could be
shipped into your country, when all of
this could just as well be produced
here,” stated F. P. Roper, manager of
the Lodi Sentinel, a weekly newspaper
of Lodi, California, prior to his depart
ure! from Seward the first of the week
for the South.
“With my own eyes I saw merchants
in Alaska opening up box after box of
vegetables and berries which can be
grown in your back yards. All the
land required for individual agricultu
ral purposes can be obtained from the
government with little effort, and as
I have seen demonstrated at the vari
ous portions of your big country, which
I have visited on this tour, all it takes
on the part of the individual is just
a little work.
Compares Prices for Food
“I have paid particular attention to
the prices charged for meals thruout
the Territory and the result is I find
that Alaskan prices charged in all the
restaurants I have entered compare
very favorably with those in the
States. I fact, I can go so far as to
state that Alaskan prices for food
served in cafes are lower than what
one would have to pay Outside, and
the quantity per portion exceeds by
far that served in the States. As an
example right here in Seward I paid
75 cents for a dinner which I would
have been charged not less than $1.30
for in my own town of Lodi. This
meal consisted in itemizing the vari
ous items at Outside prices. Steak, 75
cents; soup, 10 cents; salad, 15 cents;
two cups of coffee 20c, and dessert,
10 cents; total $1.30.
Calls It Mountain Road
“The Richardson trail was not as
good as we had expected, and as an
other gentleman said, who made the
trip at the same time our party went
over it, the name of highway should
not be used, for your ^pitors expect
to find a good road and are therefore
disappointed somewhat. However we
traveled in comfort at a speed not to
exceed 15 miles an hour. This is very
slow traveling. Down in California
wre would call your Richardson road
a good mountain trail. The accommo
dations at the roadhouse were all one
could expect and the novelty of the
various situations we occasionally
found really appealed to us. The
scenery was wonderful and far out
classes that of Mt. Rainier in the state
of Washington.
Publishes a Tri-Weekly Paper
Mr. Roper expressed himself as as
tounded at the daily papers which are
published in practically all Alaskan
towns. His paper is the pioneer pub
lication of the town of Lodi, with a ,
population of about 2500, and the pa
per has been established for 50 years.
He stated that his circulation exceeds
by far the population of th etown, and
his advertising runs to about 65 per
cent of the space in the paper. He
said his plant is now making money,
since he threw out his job plant and
confined himself to the newspaper
business. Mr. Roper was surprised to
see the quality of the Alaskan daily
papers and naturally wandered how
they were able to exist. He was en
lightened. Seward he said, appeared
to him to be much too small a town
to support a daily paper, and he said
he believed that a daily could not be
made to pay until the population of the
; city reached over 2000.
Mr. Roper said he anticipated his
partner, Mr. Moore and family, would
make the Golden Belt tour next year. -
A baby girl was born to Mr. and
Mrs. Paul Nickelsen, Dr. W. H.
Chase of Cordova reports. Mr.
Nickelsen is employed at the Pioneer
Packing Co.
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Seward Steam Laundry
Telephone Main 148
HOTEL ANCHORAGE
F. L REED, Proprietor
Rooms with Bath. Sample Rooms in Connection
Strictly Modem
Steam Heat
Prices Reasonable
Good Service
HOT AND COLD WATER IN EVERY ROOM J
Bus meets all trains and boats
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GEORGE SEXTON, Proprietor
SEWARD’S HOMEY HOTEL, WHERE THE OLDTIMER8
MEET
VAN GILDER HOTEL
HOT AND COLD WATER IN EVERY ROOM
STEAM HEAT
J. S. BADGER
HOTEL SEWARD
OSCAR DAHL, Proprietor
HOMEY, COMFORTABLE ROOMS AND BATH
Convenient to Depot and Dock