SEWARD DAILY GATEWAY
OF SEWARD, ALASKA
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ALASKA COAL INCREASE
The coal figures revealed in the ar
ticle published in today’s news Col
umns of The Cateway, reveal that
Utah coal is being consigned to Seat
tle from the mine, at a freight charge
per ton of §5.25 to the U. S. Smelter
& Refining Co., the greater portion of
the tonnage which runs into the thou
sands of tons and which is tranship
ped by boats to the company’s mining
properties in Alaska and also, for lo
cal consumption at Nome.
Alaskan coal operators, the Healy
River and Matanuska regions, are
slowly but surely forging ahead to the
point that it will be only a matter of
a short time when production will be
on a basis where they will be able to
go out after the entire territorial coal
business. And it is a certainty, with
the installation of modern coal-mining
machinery, which is now under "way,
the quantity of production will in-1
crease and the cost of operation will
automatically decrease.
On the face of it, facts and statis- j
tics which are as plain as the well- •
known writing on the wall, Outside j
coal will not be able to compete with
Alaska coal, in Alaska, but Alaska
CAN compete in the open market with
the various coals mined and marketed
in the States. In the first place the
older a coal mine gets, in age of oper
ation only, the more costly is the ov
erhead, due to the more power neces
sary to operate, the longer hauls—un
derground and above—and the unceas
ing development work on a huge scale,
in order that a sufficient quantity of
production is always in sight.
In comparison with just these two
facts, the Alaska coal mines are vir
#fln, writh short hauls, and with little
development work, millions of tons
are available.
The w'heels of progress move slow
ly, BUT THEY MOVE. Figures re
cently, computed and published by the
Gateway, brought to light the fact
that shipments of Outside coal to Al
aska has decreased this year and the
output of the Alaska coal mines, in
creased. -
CONDUCIVE TO TRANSPORTATION
Alaska has millions in known but
undeveloped mineral wealth, that re
quires weeks to get to and that is im
possible of moving out even if mined.
Airships will solve all that and more.
For there are thousands of actually
rich placer and gold prospects that are
not known at all except in a general
way due to dangers and hardships of
prospecting, let alone mining or mov
ing of ores. Airships are ready and
able to meet such situations. Remem
ber that as little as 100 years ago we
did not even have steamships. Alas
ka had them, from the start. We did
not have railroads, or telegraph, or
radio or typewriters or motor boats
or motor cars 100 years ago and many
of those things were unknown 25 years
ago. Airships will do more in the
first five years than was done in the
past century. The wealth so near at
hand is hard to imagine but that is be
cause it is so very real and so very
near. Just think what a native of 100
years ago would have done to you if
you would ask to use his telephone.
What if you had wanted to send a tele
gram. After all is it not very reason
able now to do all those things, and
why not add the airship, which pleads
to answer Alaskan problems and bring
forth wealth such as was never known
before.
A NEW STARTING POINT
Inveterate readers of fiction often
pause, when in search of a new novel
or story, turning their memory back
in an effort to recall whether or not
they have read the book. So when one
comes" to a phrase, in opening chap
ter, or in the foreward, ‘since the
world war’ no apparent effort is need
ed to realize that you have either read
the story or you have not. In Nome
they sa^, ‘since the epidemic.’ But
! on the other hand, if no such phrase
j is forthcoming, the inveterate reader
jhesitates, is undecided, and generally
j has to spend a number of minutes in
jglancing over the volume before it is
(definitely realized they have not read
lit, in the years gone by.
One who loves to read all sorts of
things, as they grow older, will have
read thousands of stories and hund
reds upon hundreds of bound books.
It is their manner of recreation or for
absorbing knowledge. As a sugges
tion to assist the thousands of readers
who after reading a fewr chapters of
j some book, come to the disgusted con
| elusion they had previously read the
I yarn, might it not be a good idea for
! publishers to print on the inside of
| the cover somewiiere, that the story
first saw the light of day during a
(certain period? We think it a splen
did idea.
NOME BULLION
ON BOARD THE
S. S. VICTORIA
A quarter of a million of dollars
in bullion, slipped thru Seward early
Monday morning, when the steamer
Victoria arrived from Nome and de
parted for Seattle. This represent
ed one of the last cleanups of the
season from the Nome camp. No
reindeer carcasses were on the ves
sel, it wTas stated, contrary to previ
ous reports, but will be shipped
south on the steamer Alameda.
No duplicate copy of the passen
ger list was available but it is stat
ed that there were 250 passengers on
the big liner. A few disembraked
at Seward while a number of south
bound reservations were made local
ly, mostly from Westward folk.
The vessel stopped in at Akutan
whaling station, the largest station
of its kind in the world, and loaded
1,700 barrels of whale oil. The ves
sel came around the point, dowm the
bay at about 12:45 I^onday morning,
docking at 3 o’clock. A little diffi
culty was encountered in making a
landing owing to the long length of
the craft, a strange dock to the skip
per, and the close proximity of the
Starr, already berthed alongside the
wharf. The Victoria was finally
warped in and everyone on board
the vessel, or apparently all the pas
sengers, came ashore and stretched
their sea legs, for the twTo hours the
vessel remained. Though the town
was in total darkness, due to the
power plant being out of commis
sion, this did not hold the travelers
back, who strode the streets until
the last whistle blew.
The local reservations were as fol
lows;
J. W. Mason, Fred Mason, J. A.
Rasmussen, Axel Anderson, Florence
Anderson, Joe Utheim, Phil B. Reed,
R. P. Miller, Frances LeMar, Cecil
Lindberg, Ray McCreery, Frank Bow
man, Jos. F. Collins, Frank Kennon,
Cedric Tebbs, Aruthur M. Alexander,
W. H. Oustad, A. S. Jones, W. P. Sy
phert, Carl A. Schrenber, Stanley H.
Heiberleln, B. A. Fautz, William Hill,
A. E. Mowre, George McCoy, Leslie
Wooten, Mrs. Theresa Hayes, Flor
ence Hayes, Dr. H. Johnson and Ro
bert Anderson.
The trip to Seward from Nome was
marked with bad weather, according
to the passengers, especially in the
Bering sea where a storm, such, as is
seldom encountered, prevailed.
The Victoria, which, since her re
cent remodeling, is now considered
one of the sturdiest of vessels in the
Alaskan service, proceeded to La
touche from this port where about
twenty reservations had been made.
From Latouche the vessel was sched
uled to sail direct to Seattle, via the
Outside Passage.
The City Council meets tonight at
the Fire hall, at 8 o’clock sharp.
Council Meeting Tonight.
Petition Filed Monday
Excluding School Area
A petition was filed in the local
court Monday, for excluding an area
at the Jesse Lee Home site, from the
tcrwn of Seward. This will enable
the home to secure a Territorial
school, it is stated, and it was only
by this method whereby a school
could be obtained for town school
quarters and conditions absolutely
prohibited an increase in enrolment.
DETROIT. Mich., Oct. 20 (/P)-Wm.
Livingston, 81 years of age, a banker
and ship owner, president of the Lake
Carriers’ Association, died suddenly
yesterday at his office here.
NOTICE
No. S
In the District Court for the Terri
tory of Alaska, Third Division
In the matter of the exclusion of cer
tain territory from the City Limits
of the Town of Seward, Alaska.
To whom it may concern:
Notice is hereby given that a pe
tition praying for the exclusion of
certain territory from the city limits
of tbe Town of Seward, Alaska, has
been filed in the above entitled court
on the 19th day of October, 1925, and
the Court on said daje has fixed the
time and place of hearing on said pe
tition at the hour of 2 o’clock, P. M.
on the 17th day of November, 1925, at
Valflez, Alaska, when and where any
pej§;on interested may appear and
show cause why the said petition
should not be granted and the'court
aider and election on the question of
the' exclusion of said territory from
the city.limits of the Town of Sew
ard, Alaska.
The area sought to be excluded by
said petition is described as follows:
“Beginning at a point 266 feet east
of the N. W. Corner of the Townsite
at a point ■where the center line of
Harold Ave., Bay View Addition in
tersects with the northern boundary
of the Town of Seward, thence 270
feet in a southerly direction along
said center line of Harold Ave.,
thence 668 feet east along the line
separating Lots 15 and 16 and Lots
10 and 9. Block 4, Bay View Addi
tion, thence north 270 feet to the
northern boundary of the Town of
Seward, thence west along said north
ern boundary 668 feet to place of be
ginning.”
WITNESS the Hon. E. E. Ritchie,
Judge of said Court, this 19th day
of October, 1925.
(Seal) W. N. CUDDY,
Clerk of the District Court, Third
Division, Territory of Alaska. 3-t.
Publish, Oct. 20, 27, Nov. 3, 1925.
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THE GOLDEN BELT
To the end that the countless places of scenic and other inter
ests in the Territory may be thoroughly enjoyed and understood, and
to enable them to acquire first hand and accurate information con
cerning all Alaskan activities and development; travelers to the
Northland are urged to visit
ALASKA’S “GOLDEN HEART”
Interior Alaska and places en route—including Kenai Lake, the
“Loop District,” Spencer and Bartlett Glaciers, Turnagain Arm, An
chorage, the Matanuska Valley, Curry, Nenana River Canyon, Mt. Mc
kinley National Park, Nfenana, the Tanana Valley and Fairbanks, hold
much of interest to everyone, whether on business or pleasure bent;
and a tour through these regions creates a true conception of the
good things that Alaska has to offer.
For train and automobile schedules, passenger rates and other in
formation, confer with any steamship agent, or
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