SEATTLE CHAMBER
CONVENTION IS
NOW UNDER WAY
JACK McCORD, SEWARD REPRE
SENTATIVE ON HAND TO
VOICE COMMUNITY
SEATTLE, Wn, Dec. 7. (/P)—The
prosperous pulse of western business
is felt in the volume of reservations
made for the midyear conference of
the Chamber of Commerce of the
United States which opened in Seat
tle today, December 7 and 8. This
is the assertion of leaders in charge
of the meeting who report that a
record attendance is assured from
all of the eleven western states and
the Territory of Alaska, participat
ing.
The attendance interest is inter
preted by those in charge as being
a reflection of 'the appreciation of
the accomplishments of the two pre
vious meetings and the timeliness of
the program to be considered at this
conference. The meeting is in fact
the only opportunity afforded west
ern business for the expression of its
voice on vital issues affecting its
welfare.
Paul Shoup, vice president for the
western division of the National
Chamber will preside. The program
for today is as follows: Morning ses
sion—“Freight Claim Cause and Pre
vention and its Relation to Carriers
and Shipping Interests.”
The afternoon session—“Hydro
Electric Power Situation in the
West.”
Morning session, December 8—
'“Water Conservation and Flood Con
trol.
Afternoon session—“State and Lo
cal Taxation in Relation to Business.”
In addition to these business ses
sions there will be a number of
others functions outside of this pro
gram. One of these will be a lunch
eon meeting of the International
Chamber of Commerce at which
the principal speaker will be Henry
M. Robinson, honorary vice presi
dent of the National Chamber and a
member of the Dawes Reparations
Commission. Tonight the annual ban
quet of the western division will be
held with John O’Leary, Chicago
banker and manufacturer and pres
ident of the Chamber of Commerce
of the United States, as the princi
pal speaker. At this meeting Profes
sor Edward O. Sisson of Reed Col
lege, Portland, Ore., will speak on
“Race Relations on the Pacific”;
and, Jack McCord, representative of
the Seward Chamber of Commerce
will speak on the needs of Seward,
the Westward and Alaska in general.
Tomorrow morning, a breakfast
will be tendered by President O’Leary
to Chamber of Commerce officials.
In connection with this divisional
meeting a one-day session of Cham
ber of Comerce secretaries and pres
idents has been arrange on December
9, for a discussion of Chamber of
Commerce technique.
DRESSMAKING and all kinds of sew
ing done. Mrs. Fairman. Phone
Mad. 28 k31
Boys’ Winter Caps, Urbach’s. 323
Show Cards,
Posters,
Movie Slides,
Cartoons,
Advertising,
Publicity.
E. F. JESSEN,
SEWARD, ALASKA
Louis Larssen, regul'ar jailer at
the local prison, with an insane pa
tient and a prisoner In charge, left
Seward Saturday night on the steam
er Alaska for Valdez, marshal’s head
quarters. He is return next Saturday.
Pete Anderson is acting temporarily
as guard during his absence.
Sheaffer fountain pens and pencils
in beautiful gift boxes—Alaska Shop.
William Lodge, miner in the Ophir
district, was among those arriving
from the Interior Saturday, leaving
for the south on the Alaska. Mr.
Lodge will spend the winter with his
sister who resides in Seattle.
Smokers’ sets and fine merschaum
pipes with genuine amber stems—
$8 and up—Alaska Shop. tf.
John Hickerson, oldtimer from the
Flat district, Kuskokwim, who arriv
ed last Wednesday from the Inte
riro, departed on the Alaska for Seat
tle. Mr, Rickerson will spend the
winter in Missouri and Tennessee.
Fresh Haas and Johnson’s fine
boxed chocolates—Alaska Shop.tf.
Andrew Nerland, business man of
Fairbanks, wrho recently broke a leg
wThen he slipped on an icy street, de
parted from SewTard on the steamer
Alaska, for Seattle, wrhere he will
spend the holidays with his family.
Mr. Nerland is engaged in the paint
ing and wnllpaper business.
Cigars in boxes of twTenty-five and
interested in the Katmai Gold Mining
DELL E. SHERIFF, Alaska’s tuner
has gone North. Will return to Se
ward about Dec. 1. kl2
Harold Wig, who has been cooking
for the Ed Whalen mining camp, in
Nixon Forks the past season, passed
thru Seward yesterday on his way to
the States for the winter.
John Rippo, Ophir miner, who has
spent the past season propecting in
the Innoko district, left Seward on
the Alaska outbound for the win
ter.
Dr. A. W. Cassidy of New York,
left Seward on the Alaska en rjuie
east. Dr. Cassidy has been at Uyak
for tre past six months where he is
intereste din the Katmai Gold Mining
company.
In the third Peloponnesian war
the Athenian fleet was captured by
the Spantan commander Lysander at
Egospotamia.
CHRIS’ PLACE
Cigars and Tobaccos
Soft Drinks and Candies
CARD TABLES
Phone Madison 54
’ CHRIST LARSEN, Prop.
Next Door to Liberty Theatre
THE PALACE
John Mattich, Prop.
POOL, SOFT DRINKS AND
CIGARS
Furnished Rooms
Phone Main 55
CHOP SUEY, NOODLES,
OYSTERS AND SHELL
FISH—
Open Day and Night
Private Dining Rooms
SEWARD GRILL
Alaska Airship Co.
SEWARD OFFICE '
Box 1486 - • Seward, Alaska
KODIAK ISLAND
BEACHES MAY
RIVAL NOME’S
PROSPECTOR OF INTERIOR FOR
OVER TWENTY YEARS TO
INVESTIGATE ISLAND
BEACH HAS BEEN ROCKED
Beaches of Nome Discovered Many
Years After Camp Located—
Brooker Is Confident.
They may speak of stampedes to
the Kantishna region, to Valdez creek
and to other districts in the Terri
tory from which glowing newspaper
accounts have been broadcast for
some months past, but the placer
beaches of big Kodiak Island is the
magnet which has drawn one of
the best known of the old and real
“dyed-in-the-wool” prospectors of the
Interior, who will spend this winter
giving the sands of Raspberry Isl
and, near Kodiak, a thorough going
over. Few know or recall that in
the earlier days an approximate $1,
000,000 in gold dust was taken from
the Kodiak Island beaches.
Ed. Brooker, who for twenty-four
years never cast an eye on the
“bonny ” ocean, but remained stead
ily in the Interior mining fields, pros
pecting or, conducting come kind of
business or other, sufficiently long
enough to get another grub stake
together, says though gold was laying
in millions on the beaches of Nome,
Ion after gold mining had begun in
the tundra district, it took a sour
dough prospector to come along and
discover the real pay on the beach
line. “The greater portion of Kodiak
Island has never been prospected,’’
Mr. Brooker stated to the Gateway
representative last week during a
brief business trip here, “and, wrho
knows,” he continued, “but what
there is lying at the threshold of
this port, a placer field, which may
equal the famous find at Noime pre
ceding one of the largest stampedes
in Alaska. Fact is stranger than
fiiction and it is a real fact that the
ore bodies uncovered on Kodiak Is
land are of the main contact con
necting with Nuka Bay, Moose Pass
district, and so on, into the rich work.
For Electrical Work
CALL TOM OSBO
Residence—Madison 123
0. K. BARBER SHOP
Clean, Sanitary Baths, Expert
Barbers and Reasonable Prices
Keep Us Busy.
LANDERS & SWANSON
PIONEER CLUB
John Nash, propr.
SOFT DRINKS, CANDY
CIGARS AND FRUITS
CITY EXPRESS
Billy Patterson
Meets Ail Boats and Trains
When you have any work In
Plumbing or Steam
Fitting
NEW OR REPAIRS, AND
SHEET METAL WORK
R. F. HUMAN.
Back of Brown & Hawkins
PHONE ADAMS 80
ings of the Interior. And its a fact
that for years miners rocked the
sands of the beaches and extracted
fortunes.”
At the present time on the island
the Katrnai Gold Mining Company
have a crew of men doing develop
ment work. By spring the work will
be advanced far enough to ascertain
whether mining operations will be
carried on or, on the other hand,
discarded. For a number of years
past there has been one resident on
the island, it is reported, who each
year takes enough placer out to
keep him going for the cominig year
and often, a sum sufficiently large
enough in addition to enable him
to take a run Outside. In the mean
time Mr. Brooker has promised to
keep the Gateway advised with ref
ence to his activities.
Until last fall, Mr. Brooker con
ducted a restaurant at Kodiak. This
has been closed for the winter. Pre
vious to going to the island, a year
ago from Fairbanks, Mr. Brooker
operated a roadhouse in Friday
Gulch, Kantishna district. His son,
Ed., Jr., who worked for the Bureau
of Public Roads department in the
Moose Pass region last summer,
■spent some weeks with his “dad” last
summer. He left for California last
month to re-enter Stanford “U,”
where he has already completed four
years o«f a seveji-year course in met
allurgy and mine engineering. The
elder Brooker left Seward on the
Admiral Watson, a few days ago
for Kodiak where he will get to
gether his outfit and leave for Rasp
berry Island.
Chinese brass ware—Alaska Shop.
Subscribe to the Gateway.
MOORE & BEAULIEU
Gore Bldg. Adams 145
WALL PAPER PAPER-HANG
ING, and PAINTING
TINTING
C.M.B.
CAL M. BROSIUS
Builders’ Supplies
When things Look
BLACK Phone the
Seward Steam Laundry
Telephone Main 148
il
HOTEL ANCHORAGE
F, I. REED, Proprietor
Rooms with Bath. Sample Rooms in Connection
Strictly Modern Prices Reasonable
Steam Heat Good Service
HOT AND COLD WATER IN EVERY ROOM
Bus meets all trains and boats
ANCHORAGE, ALASKA
Piping and Fittings for
Power Plant Construction
5000 feet 2 1-2 double extra strong steel pipe, in random
lengths, 12 to 30 feet each; each length fitted with
square machined, four-bolt flanges. One end of run
grooved, opposite end and outlet tongued with steel
machined bolts, hexigon heads and nuts.
3000 feet 1 1-2 double extra strong steel pipe in lengths
12 to 30 feet each; each length fitted with square ma
chined four bolt flanges. One end of run groved, op
posite end and outlet tongued, with steel machined
bolts, hexagon heads and nuts.
500 assorted 1 1-2 and 2 1-2 steel four bolt flanges, elbows,
tees, crosses, return bends, divided return bends, re
ducing companion flanges, flange unions, globe and
angle valves, etc.
The piping and fittings are in first class condition,’ ready
for immediate delivery F. O. B. mail steamer Starr,
at Portlock, Port Chatham, Alaska.
Our price will be based up Walworth Manufacturing Com
pany’s factory catalog price F. O. B. Boston, Mass.,
thereby allowing the purchaser the cost of the freight
from the Aatlantic Coast to Alaska.
W ill sell all or part of above piping and fittings and fur
nish list of quantity of different sizes on hand, upon
request.
Alaska Consolidated Fisheries, In
PORTLOCK, ALASKA
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