By the Sack or Carload
The New Howard-Jesson
Coal—Try It.
Healy Lump, Nut or Mine
Run
Evan Jones Lump or Mine
Run
Nanimo Range Coal
In Sack or Bulk
WOOD, ICE, HAY AND
GRAIN
Transferring — Teaming
ALASKA
TRANSFER
Telephone, Main 17
ARCADE BUILDING
H. V. Hoben. A. F. Davis
Ice Cream
MADE DAILY
HIGH GRADE
Candies
FRAMED PICTURES, CURIOS
AND PHOTOGRAPHS
SYLVIA’S
Phone Adams 128
PIONEER CLUB
John Nash, propr.
SOFT DRINKS, CANDY
CIGARS AND FRUITS
CITY EXPRESS
Bill]) Patterson
Meets All Boats and Trains
F. B. MOORE
Gore Bldg. Adanis 145
WALL PAPER PAPER-HANG
ING, and PAINTING
TINTING
THE PALACE
John Mattich, Prop.
POOL, SOFT DRINKS AND
CIGARS
Furnished Rooms
Phone Main 55
THE SURROUNDINGS
Service and Food are the best at
FISHERS’ CAFE
PRIVATE BOOTHS DANCE ROOM
CHARLES FISHER, Prop.
SEWARD WATER &
POWER COMPANY
SEWARD, ALASKA
“Good Water a Necessity in Every Home”
John Nelson, Mgr. Wayne Blue, Agent
Office, Arcade Building. Phone Main 17
When things Look
BLACK Phone the
Seward Steam Laundry
Telephone Main 148
C. M. B.
Builders’ Supplies
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
Approximately four billion feet of
timber was used last year to
replace wood destroyed by decay.
USE SUPERIOR CEMENT AND
HAVE NO DECAY
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You’ll Enjoy our Bread and Pastry
Quick'Lunches Served at any hour
Seward Bakery
GETS CONTRACT
SUPPLY TACOMA
FIRMBIRCHWOOD
FIRST CONSIGNMENT BE SHIP
PED TO TACOMA NEXT
FEW WEEKS
CAMP AT CAMPBELL CREEK
Seward Wild Be Supply Point; Six
To Twelve Men Be Employed
By the Outfit.
Seward will be the supply point for
the logging camp of Gus Bystedt, lo
cated at Campbell Creek Mile 106,
according to announcement made yes
terday by Mr. Bystedt to The Gate
way. He returned to Seward from a
brief business trip to the States, a
couple of weeks ago, and in his pock
et was a contract from the Buffalin
Hardwood Manufacturing Company
of Tacoma, calling for 160,000 feet
of Alaska birchwood a month.
The first consignment of logs will
ibe shipped to Tacoma in about two
weeks, it is stated. Active logging
operations will begin within the next
few days and from six to a dozen
men will be employed at the camp.
The Tacoma firm will use the Al
aska birchwood for veneering purpos
es. The ever-diminishing supply of
eastern birch and other hardAvoods,
together with the fact that very lit
tle useful hardwoods grow west of
the Rocky mountains, has served to
draw attention to Alaska’s wonderful
supply of this most beautiful and
useful timber which is just begin
ning to be placed on the market, and
Dr. J. A. Baughman
Physician and Surgeon
CHRONIC DISEASES A SPECIALTV
Phone Madison 90. Seward. Alaska
W. D. Coppernoli
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR A1
LAW
Will Practice in All Courts of thr
Territory
SEWARD. ALASKA
SEE
Curtis R. Fdorford
FOR FIRE INSURANCE
Dr. A. R. Roberts
DENTIST
Dental and General
X-RAY WORK
New Tecklenberg Bldg.
Phone Mad. 108 - - - Seward, Alasks
Aaron E. Rucker
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Office in Benson Building
PHONE MADISON 114
IGLOO NO. NINE, PIONEERS OF
ALASKA
Meets every Second and Fourth Fri
day nights in Odd Fellows Hall; F. B.
Moore, President; C. M. Brosius, Sec
| retary.
SEWARD CHAPTER NO. 10, ORDER
OF EASTERN STAR
Meeets the second and
fourth Mondays of each
month in Odd Fellows'
Hall at 8 p. m. Visiting
members always wel
come; Dorothy Urbach,
W. M.; E. L. Sweek, Secretary.
SEWARD REBEKAH LOGE NO. 6-A,
I. O. O. F.
Meets the first and
third Mondays of
each month in Odd
Fellows Hall at 8:00
p. m. Visiting mem
bers are always wel
come. Mrs. Gust Peter
son, N. G., Mrs. Merritt, secretary.
SEWARD LODGE NO. 1425, L.O.O.M.
Meets every first
and third Tues
day each month
at 8 p. m., at
Odd Fellows
Hall. All visit
i n g members
welcome.
PETER N. ANDERSON, Dictator.
M. A. HORNER. Secretary
SEWARD LODGE NO 219. F. & A. M
Stated communications flrsi
^raa^and third Wednesdays of eact
'▼Amonth; visiting brethren wel
come, H. V. Hoben, W. M.; Elwyr
Swetmann, Secretary.
RESURRECTION LODGE
I. O. O. F.
NO. A-7,
Meets every Thursday at
8:00 p. m. in Odd Fellows’
Hall, next to the postoffi^e. Visiting
brothers welcbme. Ludvig Larsson,
N. G., Charles Lechner, secretary.
is destined to become in the near fu
ture, one of the important exports
of the Territory.
Of the one hundred and thirty-two
uses to which all the woods of Nonth
America may be put, but one, and
that birch, is useful for one half of
these commodities. 'Some woods are
restricted in their uses while others
are very versatile and may be used
in a variety of ways under their own
name, or as substitutes for other
woods. To the latter class belongs
birch, as Lt has the necessary hard
ness to make it desirable wherever
a hardwood is needed, either for its
strength or smoothness of surface;
and its beautiful grain and satiny
texture combine to make it one of the
most satisfactory woods for interior
finish, or for high class furniture.
Laboratory tests in the Forestry
Department have proven that Birch
is one of the hardest of all hardwoods
and is especially adapted to the pur
pose of flooring where a fine polish,
combined with long -wearing qualities
are desired. As proof of its desira
bility along these lines, reports of
building operations in the east and
middle west show an ever increasing
consumption of this valuable wood
for the above named purposes, where
the builders have had the choice of
all the hardwoods of the world.
As a cabinet wood Birch has few
equals, and no superiors, for in the
hands of the skilled craftsman, it will
show with perfection any finish, light
or dark, natural or stained, and its
wide range of grain furnish many
pleasing effects when properly handl
ed by the finisher. OWing to its fine
iexture and lack of coarse pores, it
furnishes one of the best bases for
white enamelled work.
Once thoroughly seasoned, Birch
does not warp, twist or split. The
texture always remains firm, the grain
does not rise, nor are there those mi
nute pores which are so common in
some otherwise fine hardwoods; and
which after a time absorb the finish
and cause the job to look shabby.
‘Mr. Bystedt said yesterday from
ten to twenty logs would average a
thousand feet, which would bring
the total per month, under the pres
ent contract, to around 2500 logs
per month. These will be shipped
to Seattle out of Seward on Alaska
Steamship Company vessels.
With the operation of this camp a
new source of tonnage, and revenue,
is afforded the Alaska Railroad. An
other birchwood outfit, a sawmill,
has been under construction at Anch
orage for some time past. There is
still another larger company, of which
Milo Kelly of Seattle, is associated,
which may at any time begin opera
tions along the railroad belt. But
aside from the sample shipment of
birchwood logs sent to the States
from Seward some years ago, credit
must be given Mr. Bystedt for being
the first actively engaged in the new
Alaska industry.
SUNRISE PLACER
CAMP ON EVE OF
RE-DISCOVERY
MIKE CONNELLY, OLDEST OF THE
OLDTIMERS CONFIDENT OF
FUTURE REVIVAL
LIVED THERE THIRTY YEARS
Pays First Visit To Seward In Four
Years; Asks for Cooperation
“Seward is the logical point of con
tact with development of the Sunrise
mining district and the residents of
our region look forward to all possi
ble cooperation from Seward citizens,”
stated M. Connelly, the oldest resident
of the once flourishing placer mining
camp but which of late years has
been more or less inactive with the
exception of work carried on by a
few of the original oldtimers. Mr.
Connelly arrived in Seward the other
day from Sunrise, paying his first
visit in four years. He is spending
his time in Seward renewing acquaint
' ances with old friends but tomorrow,
departs for home again. During his
brief stay here he is a guest at the
Hotel Sexton.
Mr. Connelly has been in the Sun
rise district for thirty years. “No.
doubt people have often wondered why
I have remained so long there but I
have had faith in the acmp, and es
pecially in my ground. This faith has
been justified for I have always taken
a sufficient amount of gold out of the
ground to mee^t all expenses, besides
enjoying a good living. Then again,
I am certain I am on the verge of bit
ing into exceptionally good dirt. This
assumption is made from recent show
ings.
“The development work I have ac
complished in years gone by could
have just as well been done in a year
or so providing a sufficient amount of
capital had been interested in the pro
position and gone ahead with modern
machinery and equipment. It is all
that the Sunrise placer mining dis
trict needs, capital. Of course I re
alize Alaska has always been handi
capped by a lack of capital but inas
much as the Sunrise district will
stand a rigid examination, extremely
favorable, if not better to certain por
tions of the Interior country where
the big companies have recently be
come interested, I have often wonder
ed if the citizens of Seward and your
Chamber of Commerce have not been
somewhat lax in assisting in the de
velopment of this district. There are j
far less difficulties to overcome, in!
a mining way, than there is in those
Interior regions. No ditches, hundreds
of miles long, and running into stag
gering amounts, have to be construct
ed in our region. An overabundance
of water is available and the placer
yield averages well in comparison with
any other district in the Territory.”
In six months 11,199 persons em
igrated from the United States to
Canada, while 18,282 Canadians re
turned to that country, after living
for a while in the States.
John D. Rockefelled has nonated
$250,000 for scientific research in
petroleum, the results of which are
to be freely available to the entire
oil industry and to the public.
CHOP SUEY, NOODLES'
OYSTERS AND SHELL
FISH—
Open Day and Night
Private Dining Rooms
SEWARD GRILL
The first Yale-Princeton football
game was in 1873, and was won by
Princeton, 3 goals to 0.
Walter Marks, junior class presi
dent, has been elected captain of the
1926 football team at the University
of Chicago.
Frank H. Sibley of Gary, Ind., has
ibeen elected to captain the 1926 Pur
due football team. Sibley plays left
end.
Edward S. Stimpson II of Chestnut
Hill has been elected captain of the
Harvard olf team.
Twentylsix Notre Dame players
have bene awarded monograms for
the 1925 football season.
Gene McCann has been re-engaged
as manager of the Springfield team
of the Eastern league.
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Jeweler
Dealer in Watches and
Clocks, Nugget Jewelry,
Did Ivory, Curios, and
a, full line of goods usu
ally carried in a first class
Jewelry store.
Watches Repaired on
Short Notice
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We have one of the neatest and cleanest mar
kets in Alaska—our meats, butter and eggs are
fresh and guaranteed in every respect.
Frye-Bruhn Co.
We have dileveries before and after school
Heat for the Winter!
If you figure on better and cleaner HEAT for the Winter, Investigate
our New Line of Heaters, made by the American Radiator Company.
Prices and Terms Right.
Seward Machine Shops
FORD AUTHORIZED SALES AND SERVICE
HOTEI, ANCHORAGE i
F, I. REED, Proprietor
Rooms with Bath. Sample Rooms in Connection
Strictly Modem Prices Reasonable
Steam Heat Good Service | ,
HOT AND COLD WATER IN EVERY ROOM
Bus meets all trains and boats
ANCHORAGE, ALASKA
HOTEL SEXTON
GEORGE SEXTON, Proprietor
SEWARD’S HOMEY HOTEL, WHERE THE OLDTIMERS
MEET
VAN GILDER HOTEL
HOT AND COLD WATER IN EVERY ROOM
•TEAM HEAT
J. S. BADGER
HOTEL SEWARD
OSCAR DAHL, Prop.
HOMEY, COMFORTABLE ROOMS AND BATH
Convenient to Depot and Dock