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VOLUME XV. NUMBER 65.
SEWARD. ALASKA, SATURDAY, MARCH 22, 1930.
PRICE TEN CENTS
forestry Program
for this Season
an Active One
ONE HUNDRED MILES OF TRAIL WORK SCHED
ULED FOR THIS SEASON BETW EEN SEWARD
AND ANCHORAGE—$100,000 WORTH OF TIES
CUT IN THIS AREA DURING THE FAST YEAR
—COULD BE INCREASED 100 PERCENT—65
PERCENT OF FORESTRY MONEY IS SPENT
IN THIS REGION WITH BALANCE GOING TO
ANCHORAGE
COOPERATION OfPllC APPRECIATED
Policy of the Forestry Department is not that of con
servation, asserts local official, but one of harvest
ing forest crop systematically the same as any farm
er—hearty cooperation always given to the public
every way possible.
For two and a half hours Thursday afternoon W.
M. Sherman, forest ranger in charge of this area of the
Chugach National Forest, dwelled enthusiastically upon
the activities of the department for the coming season.
Editorially speaking, it occurred to the writer, while
istenim? to Mr. Sherman, that here was one of the most
since rest workers for Uncle Sam it had been our pleas
ure to encounter. Statistics, a mile long, flowed vith
rapidity from the lips of this ardent young man who,
without question, loves his work upon which he has been
engaged for eicht years. It’s a rare pleasure indeed
to meet a chap so enthused in his chosen field of en
deavor.
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Projects Inumerated
Tlie trail work for the season
r braces cvr struct ion of five
iur» F . .-si..- i cr from a
ro Windy Point.
Continuance of the Resurrec
tion Creek trail, at Hope, skirt
ing at Juneau Creek, on Kenai
River, for a distance of approxi
mately five miles.
The department will put in a
switchback at Schooner Bend,
which will facilitate the travel to
Russian River, another project
which has been sought for a long
aeriod
Three miles will be built onto
.he Virgin-Wimmer trail In the
Gird wood district.
Completion of the Crow Creek
caterpillar trail of about four
miles. Tills will be a seven-foot
road with a six percent grade and,
will be built in cooperation with j
;he mining properties in that]
area.
In addition to the above men
tioned projects maintenance of 100
miles of trails already constructed
.will be carried forward.
These trails, primarily, are built
for the purpose of affording in
gress and egress to forest fire j
rrues but at the same time the j
consideration of the needs of the j
immediate district are gone over i
carefully and wherever justified
trails are generally built providing
sufficient appropriations are avail
able.
Can Doable Output
Ranger Sherman stated that last
year the sum of $100,000 was spent
for ties and, as far as present
indications pointed, a like amount
would be expended this year. That
65 percent of this money came
toward Seward, the remainder go
ing to Anchorage. He added that
this amount could be increased by j
installation of portable mills, sit-!
mated advantageously to cutting!
and haulage- That each year the
Alaska Railroad purchases $185,
000 worth of ties and timber and
of this sum 80,000 ties are pur
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chrsed locally. Ho is confident
•'.t ?"lde from the supolyinc of
ties, the building lun ber and pil
;m:r output can be increased to a
m-rwdunbie extent.
mm1 e of what could be ac~
* PrVrt bv an:one endowed
vi h good business judgment and
- n.-d work. Mr. Tessier has done
w; aider fully well, thus far, and
b:\s just recently made applica
tion for a large tract of timber
on the south fork of Snow River
and it is proposed to install there
on a portable saw and tie mill.
Over at Girdwood, E. L. Range,
a comparative newcomer in the
field, is making good. Though no
credit is taken by the Forestry
department for his success, yet it
is a fact Mr. Range asked and
received every cooperation at their
command; the Forestry depart
ment is very appreciative of the
opportunity to dispose 01 its ma
ture crops. And, of all the reve
nues thus accumulated, 35 per
cent of the gross income is re-;
turned to the Territory for schools
and roads.
Mr. Range is located on Glacier
Creek. Mr. C. A. Berg, another tie
contractor, will soon have cut
about 200,000 feet of lumber and
will probably have about 2,000 ties
ready to turn over to the railroad
within a week.
In Monday’s issue will be set
forth Ranger Sherman’s remarks
about growing trees being poten-1
tial resources, encouragement of
settlements, water power, trail
and road building, fire patrol and
equipment, number of men em
ployed this coming season and
how, through the cooperation of
the Alaska Railroad, the public
in general as well as the Forest
service fire fighting organization,
set a record in suppression of*
fires last year in this area of the
forest.
GROUND SINKING A PUZZLE j
NEW YORK, Mar. 22. (/P)—Sink-'
ing and other movements of the
ground above mines is little un
derstood, says a report to the
American Institute of Mining and
Metallurgical Engineers by Robert
E. Palmer of London.
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TWO GUARDS M
CONVICTS MAKE ESCAPE; ONE
KIIJLED LATER IN GUN BAT
TLE, OFFICERS
SPEIGNER, Alabama, Mar. 22.
(/P)—Two guards in the State pen
itentiary were shot and seriously
wounded by two prisoners who r
ened fire with pistols as the shifts
were being changed in the prison
cotton mill.
Confusion followed and both
convicts escaped through the pri
son gates.
B. Baltzer and J. R. Richardson
were the guards shot; the pri
soners were Lee, serving a two
year sentence for bank robbery
and Tern Barnes, 35, a bank rob
ber.
They stepped from line and op
ened fire without warning. Bleed
hounds are trailing the fugitives,
d unes was killed later in a flgh*
with county officers, near Mont
gomery.
INTERNATIONAL EFFORT MAY
BE MADE TO KEEP KILLINGS
BELOW DANGER POINT
WASHINGTON, March 22 (/P)—
Because of the possibility of com
plete extermination of whales
through increasing slaughter,
conservation of the largest mam
mal becomes a subject concerted
international effort, Dr. Reming-i
ton Kellogg, Smithsonian mam
alist, announced.
He will leave New York Mon
day for Berlin to attend the in
ternational conference on whale
conservation to begin April 3.
It is expected that the findings
of this gathering will embody
recommendations seeking uni
form legislation among nations;
to keep killing of whales below
the danger line- Dr. Kellogg
will attend in a personal capacity
rather than as a government
delegate.
About 30,000 whales were killed I
last year, he estimated, and 500,- j
000 since 1900.
DOHENY ACQUITTED
WASHINGTON, Mar. 22. (/P>—Do
heny was acquitted of the charge
of bribing former Secretary of the
Interior Fall.
WASHINGTON, March 22. (dP)—
W. E. Moore, pcrsonel representa
tive of Claudius Huston, told the
Senate lobby committee that he!
bought and sold stock at Huston’s j
direction from the latter’s New
York brokerage account.
He was questioned with regard
fo two chocks given Huston b'r|
the Union Carbide Company for
the Tennessee River Improvement i
Association which was deposited i
itli the brokerage firm of Biyth j
and Bonner.
Moore said the funds were used j
in buying and trading stocks.
NUMBER OF SEWARD CITI
ZENS RETURNING, ALSO AN
CHORAGE AND INTERIOR
RESIDENTS
SEATTLE, Mar. 22 (A1)—The
| S. S. Northwestern of Alaska
Steamship company, sailed at 9
a. m. today and carried 237 pas
sengers, 62 of whom are for Sew
ard, as follows:
Samuel B, Weiss, William D
Ccppernoll, J.L. Luckey, Ed Bar
rett, J. E. Miller, T. E. Gardner,
William Sabey, R. R. Jacobs, A.
B. Cummings, Mr. and Mrs. Ar-’
chie Lewis, H. Smith, Carl Frank, ‘
Mrs. F. Miller, Mrs. Lois McGar-f
vey, A. Hagen, Gunnar Gubrilson, *
Harold Hart, Joe Negrosse, Tim j
Gallingotte, J. B. Wickstrom, j
rtugust xsosLrum, u. weison, Mr.
and Mrs. A1 Jones and daughter. \i
Nick Vanchelos, D. S. Mac-’i
Donald, Grant Murdock, William
Gill, Martin Nelson, J. J. Moore,1
Mr. and Mrs. Luke Elwell, Mr. I
and Mrs- C. M. Priess, Carl New
comb, H. Fienwall, B. B. Mozee,
George R. Jackson, Mrs. Myra
Opdyke, baby; A. Running, Street
Dockah, John F. Bigelow, H. N.
Bigelow, H. N. Oliver, Mrs. O. O.
Krogh, Mr. and Mrs. J. H.
Groves, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Mc
Intosh, Mr. and Mrs. O. L.
Spraul, Mrs. H. Manschrek, Wil
liam J. Campbell, O. Sandvick, D.
Kelly, J. McCully, J. Scott, Wil
liam Pesterkoff, C W. Geise, E.
Anderson and 10 steerage.
WASHINGTON, March 22 (/P)—
A program calling for the com
pletion of all amendmenta to the
tariff bill today, but postponing
the final vote until Monday, was
outlined to the senate by Watson,
republican leader.
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TOKYO, Mar. 22. (IP)—An agree- j
tnent has been reached between
:he Japanese and Soviet govern
amts for an interchange of mili
tary officers between the govern
ments.
The interchange of military of- ,
fleers will be between the two
armies whereby Japancs officers
.- ill be attached to certain Soviet
.v its and vice versa.
JUNEAU, Mar. 22 (/P)—A pro
posal to change the name of Cop
per Mountain, McKinley National
Par!-:, to Mount Eielson, In honor
of the late colonel, was made
bi a resolution introduced to the
United States senate by Senator
Nye of North Dakota, according
to advices received here from
American Le ion posts in Alaska
urging this support. Colonel Eiel
son landed the first plane in the
park at the foot of Copper moun
tain.
LYNN B. HIT DIES
ST LfiS ANGELES, WELL
KNOWN i ALASKA
JUNEAU, March 22 (fP)—Lynn |
B. Adsit, who died this morning j
in Los Angeles, where he went;
about a week ago for cancer ser
um treatment, was known
throughout Alaska as a traveling
man, having represented various
mercantile houses in the states.
He has been ill for the past |
two years and went south in
copes the serum treatment would j
;ave his life. The trip weakened j
lis condition.
He was 46 years old and came |
;o Alaska In 1921. He leaves a !
vidow here and a mother and
ster at San Diego. He was a ,
ife member of the Juneau Elks.;
THREE SETTLERS ARRIVE
Three fine, husky appearing!
roung men from Texas and Cali- '
ornia arrived in Seward today
vith the avowed intentions of
jecoming Alaskans. In charge
>f H. G. Ilderton of the Alaska
Railroad, the young chaps, Vic
or and Raymond Morgan and j
>. Qulncey, are being taken over |
he railroad belt and whatever |
joint looks good to them, there j
s where they will unpack and j
ettle. They are among the first |
o come North in response to the j
fforts of General Manager Otto
^ Ohlson of the Alaska Rail
oad, to colonize this section of
he Territory.
! SEWARD SMS
GROWTH OF 180
RECEiT CEB
PRELIMINARY FIGURES RE
LEASED; RECORDING PRE
CINCT COMPUTED AT 1,269
Special to the Gateway.
JUNEAU, March 22—The pop
ulation of Seward Recording Dis
trict, as shown by a preliminary
count of the returns of the Fif
teenth census, taken as of Oc
tober 1, 1929, is 1,269. These fig
ures are preliminary and sub
ject to correction.
The number of farms enumer
ated in this area at the Fif
teenth census was 14.
The populatcn of Seward Town
(incorporated) as shown by a
preliminary count of the return*
of the Fifteenth census, taken as
of October 1, 1929, is 832, as
compared with 652 on January 1,
1920. The 1929 figures are pre
liminary and subject to correc
toin.
The number of farms enumer
ated in this area at the Fifteenth
census was 1.
The population of Jessie Lee
Home, as shown by a preliminary
count of the returns of the Fif
teenth census, taken as of Octo
ber 1, 1929, is 142. These fig
ures are preliminary and subject
to correction.
The number of farms enumer
ated in this area at the Fiftenth
census was 1.
INDICATIONS PORST TO PAY
will uu ro: : > in hole
ABOVE THE Dl \COVFRY
RUBY, Mar. 22 (VP)- -Very goed
prospects but not pry was the re
sult of the hole sunk on the lower
end of three above the discovery
on Beaver Creek, but indications
are that pay will be found in the
next hole, on this claim.
This prospect is a mile above the
rich hole on Discovery. Indications
are another lease on Moose Creek
will also prove a winner as a tun
nel, now being run, averages 10
cents to the pan.
Seven holes have been sunk
since last reports on the above
with net favorable results. Cold
weather, shortage of supplies and
a tendency towards lack of water
has been delaying prospecting and
will retard development of the
field.
HIGHWAY INVITATION
PORTLAND, Mar. 22. (A5)—W. G.
Ide, manager of the Oregon State
Chamber of Commerce, announced
that all persons interested in the
proposed Pacific Highway from
Alaska to South America are in
vited to attend the conference
here April 14.
REPORTER GOES “HAYWIRE”
JUNEAU, Mar- 22 (A5)—Robert
Proper, son of the Des Moines.
Iowa, magazine publisher, and
a former reporter on a local
weekly newspaper, confessed sev
eral days ago to robbing three
mercantile establishments. He
was held on $5,000 bail and was
indicted by the grand jury to
day.
Lynn Smith, popular U. S.
marshal of the Fourth division,
returned today from the south,
continuing on north to his Fair
banks headquarters.
George Heldman, who spent the
winter in Nenana, left Nenana for
the Hot Springs district recently.
He has some mining ground in
that section.