SEWARD DAILY GATEWAY
OF SEWAllD, ALASKA
Established, August 19, 1904
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FARMER’S MONEY BURNED
Another striking illustration of the i
folly of keeping large sums of money
about the house or in other insecure
places comes from Corinth Miss, where
seven thousand dollars in currency
was burned in a fire which also de
stroyed a farmer’s house.
T. M. Nelms of that place took the
precaution to insure his cotton when
it was stored in a compress, which
burned a short time later. But when
lie received his insurance money, in
stead of depositing it in a bank, he
kept it in his home.
The house caught fire at night, and
although Nelm’s son was badly burned
and nearly lost his life in an attempt
to save his money, it was all consumed
by the flames.
Inumerable cases of loss occure thru
fire and theft as the result of failure
to use the banks for safe-keeping of
cash and other valuables. Unfortu
nately such losses usually fall upon
those least able to stand them.
MERITED RECOGNITION.
The nominations of Judge E. E.
Ritchie and Marshal H. P. Sullivan,
of this division, to succeed themselves
is very pleasing to friends of these
popular Federal officials. No resi
dent of the Third division, unless seek
ing office for himself, can find a word j
of criticism against the official acts of
these men, their records being clean
and above reproach. It is therefore
gratifying to residents of this section
that they are retained in office, despite
the great number of seekers after
these official plums.
PATRONIZE YOUR BANK
Another striking illustration of the
folly of keeping large sums of money
about the house or in other insecure
places comes from Corinth, Miss.,
where $7,000 in currency was burned
in a fire which destroyed the farmer’s
home.
T. H. Nelms of that place took the
precautions to insure his cotton when
it was stored in a compress, which
burned a short time later. But when
he received his insurance money, in
stead of depositing it in a bank, he
kept it in his home.
The house caught fire at night, and
although Nelms son -was badly burned
and nearly lost his life in an attempt
to save the money, it was all consum
ed by the flames.
Innumerable cases of loss occur
through fire and theft as the result
of failure to use the banks for the
safe keeping of cash and other valu
ables. Unfortunately such losses usu
ally fall upon those least able to bear
them. And in addition, the men who
are most adverse to keeping their
money in banks are those who have
large sums but temporarily.
COMMUNICATION
“Central, give me long distance ”
Long Distance: “Hello, this is long
distance. Give you Seward; you bet
and very long, too. Can you locate
James McConnell, formerly of Pitts
ville, Wis.?”
“Yes, sir; he is right here.”
“Hello, Mr. McConnell; I want to
ask you a few questions in regard to
that railroad that runs out of Sew
—ard that road that you boosted for.
uln our last conversation you said
that this road you Alaskans boosted
for so much runs out of Seward. Now,
if it runs of of Seward where does it
run to? Out in the woods and stop,
or out in the Bay? What are the re
sources in the country it runs thru?
I have just read a letter from a U. S.
senator, I have forgotten his name,
saying that your railroad will not
amount to anything. He advocates
pulling up the rails and making a
wagon road out of it. Now how about
that. I want to know the truth.”
“Well, now, do not hang up disgust
ed. If I must tell the whole truth it
will take some time. You see, we
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BOOKSELLERS STATIONERS NEWS DEALERS
have a railroad which runs out of
Seward about 500 miles through one
of (he richest countries in natural
wealth in the north. It is rightly
named the storehouse of the world.
Seward is located on Resurrection
Bay, and is the terminal of the Alas
ka! Railroad. Now, come with me and
let us take a ride over the line and
see for ourselves. Now we are off.
The first stop we have is at Mile 2.5.
This is a gold mine that has yielded 1
good returns for the money invested.!
Now we come to Resurrection river.
This is a large stream for this part
of the country and has a bridge of
about five spans to cross it. Now off
up here to our left we can travel west
50 miles to Kenai river, flowing very
near south; a country 50 or 100 miles
in length and 20 miles in width that
has been prospected and has at the
present time several good paying
mines. This whole country is all gold
bearing quartz and placer. You will
probably ask me, why is it not opened
up. It takes money to open up a mine
and if the Senator you speak of and
others like him would only tell the
truth and not attempt to write or
talk about subjects they know noth
ing off, and leave our railroad to be
run by the present management, the
road would soon be on a paying ba
sis. Now we will stop at Mile 8.
There is another mine up in the hills
from Mile 8 called the Brewer-Hay-1
den property. This mine is not run-'
ning now simply for the reason that!
the men at the head were promoters I
and not miners. There is gold there, j
and lots of it. Now there are several
good prospects between where we are
now and our next stop which is
at Mile 15 on Lake Kenai. This mine
has been run for the past six or eight
years, and is a good paying, high
grade ore, and is a stock company.
It seems the men on the board are pro
moters and not miners, and conse
quently the mine got into litigation.
The gold is in the country and if
the right men come along, it will be
developed. Old prospects are open
ing up every day and with our railroad
running as it is run now the whole
a beehive of industry. Now we are
at Kenai Lake, where the Kenai river
rises and flows south of west down
to the ocean. It flows through a low
country that is a placer miner’s par
adise. I was employed on a drill
down in that country about eight
or ten years ago, and the Kenai river
banks were staked on both sides for
a mile back and 100 miles long. There j
is one little incident happened here.
One day a would-be-promoter came
along and said he would like to
strike some rich country where there
were some miners at work. He never
saw a pan of dirt panned in his life.
He would like to see one. One of the
boys that was present at the time
said, ‘Well, my friend, you will not
have to say that again.’ We were on
the banks of the river at Schooner
Bend. He stooped right where he
stood and scooped up a pan of gravel
and washed it out, and got two as
nice colors as a man could wish to
see.
Now, remember, these senators!
who come up here and ride over the 1
railroad in Pullman car and never
see 50 feet of earth on each side of
the track, they wrnnt to tear up the
track and put in a wagon road in its
place. I have been in Alaska about
20 years and from what I have seen
of Alaska in the past and judging the
future by the past, the Alaska rail
road and its present management, if
given the right kind of support by
the government and the people of
The Alaska Railroad
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LIBERTY
ONE SHOW TONIGHT—8 SHARP
The greatest character actor of the age
SETS A NEW MARK IN
“HE WHO GETS
SLAPPED”
A Clown’s Love Story.
A feature entirely out of the ordinary run
All the beauty of a fairy tale, and tragedy of life.
Mostly staged in one of the greatest circuses
on earth
With LON CHANEY ARE TWO STARS
JOHN GILBERT and NORMA SHEARER
A very unusual play and something you can’t
fail to enjoy. Don’t miss it.
With it we will give you a 2-reel comedy:
“SUNDAY CALM”
played by Hal Roaches’ Rascals
“OUR GANG”
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Alaska will make of it as good an
investment as the purchase of Alaska
was when we bought it from Russia.
Now we are clown Kenai river. The
whole country is every direction is
gold bearing. Now, we will go to Mile
18 and 29. More gold mines. Now
Hope and Sunrise are little mining
centers. Everybody mining on a
small scale but all the time increas
ing. There is a gold mine every few
miles on Ground Hog and Crow
Creek and the tributary creeks clear
from Mile 29 to Sunrise.
“Now we reach Anchorage. We
come to a farming country. The
black loam soil with the Matanuska
Valley, a country with black loam soil
with the Matanuska Valley and Tan
ana Valley. The latter valley lies
in the Fairbanks country. It would
pay to run the railroad for these two
valleys alone and the coal that is
tributary to the road. It might be if
you talked with this Senator friend
of yours he might enlighten you as
to why the government went to so
much expense providing fine hotels
at some of its mines. To my certain
knowledge at Eska, one of the gov
ernment mines there is a bunkhouse
or rather hotel, two stories high, and
150 feet long with 70 or 80 rooms in
it and cost about SS0,000.
At Cliickaloon, a few miles further
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In extending the Season’s Greeting to all its
E friends and patrons, The Alaska Railroad takes oc
E casion to announce a
E .. CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEARS
| EXCURSION FARE
I of one and one-third the regular one-way fare, for
| round trip, between all stations. Reduced rate tick
| ets may be purchased at all agency stations Decem
| ber 21st, 1925 to January 1st, 1926, inclusive; final
| return limit January 5th, 1926. Passengers board
II ing trains at non-agency stations may avail them
| selves of this Special Excursion Rate by purchasing
| reduced rate tickets at first agency stations.
| It is the sincere wish of The Alaska Railroad
| that the year 1926 will be most progressive and pros
| perous for all Alaskan activities, and towards the
1 accomplishment of this purpose The Alaska Rail
5 road will continue to lend its earnest and whole
§ hearted cooperation at all times.
department of the interior
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