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PAGE THAT PRIMROSE MINE
ROAD APPROPRIATION
Among the campaign data of a can
didate for reelection to a territorial of
fice in this district, published recently
in a local paper, mention was made of
the things said candidate had accom
plished for this District.
An appropriation for a road to the
Bluebell and Primrose Mines, was en
umerated as one of the gentleman’s
past achievements. The statement
evoked considerable surprise in the
vicinity of the Primrose Mines.
If such an appropriation has been
made, the owners of the Primrose
Mines have not heard of it, and there
is no evidence of its having been used
toward building a road to the Blue
bell and Primrose Mines.
It has occurred to the writer, that it
is possible, reference was made to the
Seward-Kenai Lake Highway. If so,
the facts are being stretched consid
erably by anyone claiming credit for
getting a road to the. Primrose Mines;
for the Seward-Kenai Lake Highway
does not come to within four miles of
the Primrose Mines, and it will never
serve these mines in any practical way
so far as solving the problem of get
ting the mining equipment to the
mines or assist in any way, in getting
the property in shape to operate. This
fact is well-known in Seward. The
owners of the Primrose Mines have
said repeatedly, that what they need
ed—and must have, if they were to
operate their property, was a road
from Kenai Lake to the mines. Not a
Highway from Seward to Kenai Lake.
Furthermore, the Seward-Kenai
Lake Highway was never built for the
benefit of the Primrose Mines; but to
furnish the Seward people and the
Tourists with a pleasure boulevard, to
be used for driving out in their auto
mobiles, and to connect up with boats
from down the Lake, making it more
convenient for fishing and other pleas
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ure parties to go down the Lake. It
was not until Seward people began to
buy automobiles, and found them
selves confined to three miles of drive
way, that they made a special effort to
get to Kenai Lake. Then many of
them advocated its being on the oppo
site side of Lake Kenai from the
Primrose Mines . In order to get the
road to the Lake, Seward people did
use, as a matter of expediency, the
Primrose and Bluebell mines as a basis
of argument.
The owners of the Primrose Mines
are happy to have served the people
of Seward in helping them to get their
eighteen miles of pleasure boulevard.
But they would be happier, had the
Seward people gone a bit farther and
helped them get the four miles of road
from Kenai Lake to the Mines, which
they are so much in need of.
This road is a vital matter to the
owners of Primrose Mines—a pivot on
which hangs their future business suc
cess or failure—and not a question of
having a boulevard over which to drive
Out pleasure seeking in summer. Refu
tation of the statement that Primrose
Mines has a road, is made in self-pro
tection. The owners of Primrose
Mines are still endeavoring to get an
appropriation for their road to the
mines; and to have broadcasted about
at this thime, that the matter has been
settled—an appropriation already made
is both confusing and embarrassing to
, them, and may serve as a handicap or
•even prevent their getting further ac
tion or attention.
Delay and Losses Due to No Road
The owners of Primrose Mines have
endeavored to get a road from Kenai
lake to the mines—a distance of four
miles—for several years, but up to the
present time, have been unsuccessiui.
i Failure to get a road to this proper
ty has made the work of transporting
machinery and equipment to the mines
so heartbreakingly slow and tedious,
that the losses to the owners of the
'property, through increased costs in
transporting this stuff over a bad trail
with subsequent delays, is difficult to
estimate. It has meant the loss of
two season’s operation.
Approximately $30,000 worth of
machinery and other equipment, in
cluding a complete milling and com
pressor equipment, purchased in 1921,
is still lying at various points along
the trail between Lake Kenai and the
Primrose Mines, where it has been
taken when favorable seasons of the
year made it possible to move it ovei
the trail. In order to move this mach
inery at all, it was necessary to do
considerable work on the trail, which
had to be widened the entire four miles
and several bridges had to be built, a
great many trees, roots, etc., had to be
cut out, and some grading done. To
do this road work, both time and funds
that were needed for installation, was
j converted to road-building, which re
■ suited in crippling and holding up the
project, since there were insufficient
funds for both road-building and in
| stallation. At the present time, the
I only means of transporting supplies
from the Alaska Railroad to Primrose
j Mines in summer, is by pack-horse.
The lack of road from Lake ivenai 10
the Primrose Mines—and nothing else
—has prevented this property from be
' ing equipped for operation, and on a
| producing basis today; kept it fiom
being numbered among the paying
! gold mines of Alaska.
Think Tanks Superseded by Flivvers—
What?
The owners of Primrose Mines have
! not received the support from Seward
which they feel they have a right to
expect—in view of the unquestionable
j benefit Seward would enjoy through
! the successful operation of the Prim
jrose Mines.
“It’s not my lunerai, wnemer ui«c
miners get road or not says fiiend
Sewardite. Let us see if it is 01
is’nt: To ignore the welfare of the
miners in his district may be homi
cide—and it may be suicide, Time will
tell. Some Sewardites tave a peculiar
mental slant toward this road ques
tion, For Instance: One man said,
when the subject was broached to him.
“Well, that road would serve nobody
but you people at the mine.” And yet
this man enjoys a regular revenue
from the patronage of the Primrose
Liberty Theatre
2—TWO SHOWS—2 8.45
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TOMORROW AND WEDNESDAY
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The Valley of
Silent Men”
IN SEVEN REELS
from the story hy James Oliver Curwood
Starring Alma Rubens and Lew Cody
Come along to the White Land,
where courage and daring rule, and
see the battle for life and love!
See the greatest Curwood drama
ever written, a thrill with the star of
“Humoresque” and others in the bril
liant cast. A picture you will be proud
to talk about.
Curwood’s stories of the North are
more true to life than any others, and
each detail of the plot is carefully fol
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—also—
A LATE PAT HE NEWS and
a Vodvil Movie
7:00 TWO SHOWS 8:45
Watch for Enid Bennett in “Your Friend and Mine”
Mines owners; a modest one to be sure
—but a regular one.
This tendency on the part of many
Seward people to minimize the im
portance of the success of the Prim
rose Mines to the business and finan
cial interests of Seward, has been larg
ely responsible for the luke-warm at
titude shown in the matter of assisting
in getting a road to these mines. To
dissipate these misapprehensions, and
to show that not only Primrose Mines
but any operating mine in the Seward
District would be an asset to the town
worthy of note, some figures taken
from the Primrose Mines’ accounts are
given, as follows:
Between December 1921 and Sep
tember 1923—a period of twenty-one
months—out of $35,000 expended in
the equipping of the Primrose Mines,
$10,000 was dropped into the lap— or
into the pockets—of Seward People.
None of this money was spent for
machinery; all mining machinery be
ing purchased in the States. This
$10,000 was divided among the hotel
keepers, grocers, hardwaremen, trans
fer companies, and numerous and sun
dry other business houses, profession
al men, etc., in Seward. Aside from
mining machinery, all of which had to
be purchased in the States, only $891.
115 went to business houses in the
! States for miscellaneous items.
The foregoing ngures wouiu seem
to prove, that as a business asset to
the town of Seward, a producing mine
like the Primrose could hardly be
scorned with any degree of good sense.
If Seward enjoyed a revenue of $10,
000 in a period of twenty-one months
from this mine when it was in the un
certain stage of equipment; it could
reasonably hope and expect to receive
a more substantial revenue from the
mines when they were in operation
and producing.
What have Seward businessmen
done with their Think Tanks? Put
them in Cold Storage or traded them
off for Flivvers to use on their new
pleasure boulevard—which some Sew
ard citizens naively declare they got
for Primrose Mines. Certain it is,
that no active or practical use is being
made of Seward Think Tanks or
more vrould be done to stimulate gold
mining in the Seward district. As the
writer has pointed out before, one of
Sev-ard’s most potential industries is
her Gold Mines.
The general rule today seems to be,
“Everybody for himself and the Devil
take the hindmost.” Judging from
their attitude toward some of us, Sew- j
ard’s populace reasons from the hypo- j
thesis that the Goldminer is the “hind-i
most” and the Devil may take him for |
all of them.
If, however, the miner by hook or
crook—or back-breaking labor, gets
hold of a dollar, it is his duty as an
Alaskan, to spend it in his home town,
while his home-townsmen play tag
with the Tourist and expend their en
ergy and influence getting pleasure
boulevards; leaving Friend Miner to
worry along as best he can with his
pack-trail, etc. Which may be all
right. Just how right depends on the
point of view.
The writer merely states the forego
| ing as facts, and not to criticize Sew
I ardites. Theirs is not the blame for
| seeing things according to their lights,
I but theirs will be the loss if their
j lights shine not brightly enough to ^
show them to the roost of the goose j
that lays the golden egg.
L’Envoi
“When the Gold-diger hits town with
his well-filled poke,
i We’ll sell him a grubstake—some mule
and a smoke;
i Potlatch him a smile—well flavored
with guile,
And send him back to the hills when
he’s potlatched his pile.”
—Ora B. Hubbard.
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