U. S. S. & R. CO.
SHIPPING COAL
ALASKA POINTS
PAY S5.25 A TON FREIGHT CHARGE
FROM UTAH MINE TO SE
ATTLE
TRANSHIPMENT TO ALASKA
Seattle Consumers Pay $6.80 per ton
Freight Charge, For the Same
Coal
In a lengthy article recently publish
ed in the Seattle Star, it is stated dur
ing an examination of freight tariffs
on coal entering Seattle, the follow
ing facts were disclosed. The United
States Smelting and Refining Co., pays
the Union Pacific railroad (the O. W.
R. & N. Co.) $5.25 for hauling a ton of
Utah coal from the mines to Seattle.
The Seattle coal dealer pays the
same railroad system $6.SO for hauling j
a ton of the same coal from the same •
mine to the same destination. The
difference is $1.55 a ton in favor of the
Smelting company.
The preferential tariff on Utah coal
went into effect last June and applies
to shipments from Utah mines of the
United States Fuel Co., a subsidary
of the U. S. Smelting & Refining Co.,
to Seattle, for transhipment by boats
to the smelting company’s mining prop
erties in Alaska, as well as for general
use at Nome.
The United States Fuel Co. main
tains an office in Seattle from which j
it wholesales the same coal to Seattle <
dealers. On the fuel distributed and ]
used in Seattle $6.80 a ton must be
paid in freight. '
Tf Seattle dealers were given the ]
same rate on Utah coal as the smelt- j
ing company enjoys, they could sell c
the fuel at a reduction of at least $1.50
a ton, placing! it on a competitive bas- J
is with local and British Columbia j t
coal.
It can be assumed that the lower
rate granted the smelting company is
a profitable one to the railroad, since 1
they proposed it and fought for its in- ?
auguration before the interstate com-1 ]
merce commission. They were re
sisted in their efforts by the Washing
ton Coal Producers’ association, whicl
sees in the 36.80 Utah rate an effective
protective tariff in favor of the north
west coal producers.
Both British Columbia and Utah coa
are sold along with locally producer
coal, in the Seattle market.
The rate was not granted becaust
of the volume of business it would ere
ate since the total movement of smelt
ing company coal at the low rate is not
expected to exceed 2,500 tons this year
while the annual movement of Utah
coal to Seattle dealers, for local con
sumption, at the high rate, is said to
average more than 60,000 tons.
The railroad’s explanation of its
fight to inaugurate the $5.25 rate for
the smelting company is that it enabl
ed them to divert the haul from San
Francisco to Seattle for trans-ship
ment, thus increasing Seattle’s off
shore tonnage. '
KATALLA BRIDGE
SWEPT AWAY BY
HIGH WATERS
BRIDGE FORMERLY CROSSED
BRANCH OF RIVER—OIL
COMPANY STRANDED
A telegram was received yester
day by J. B. Reher, highway engi
neer in charge of the Bureau of Pub
lic roads activities in the district, to
-he effect that the 300-foot bridge
icross a branch of the Katalla river,
it Katalla, has been swept away by
nigh water, caused by the record
ng breaking rains which have been
general thruout the Cordova, Val
lez and Seward regions, during the
>ast ten days.
The only producing oil fields in the
rerritory arelocated at Katalla. Mr.
teller could not say at this time,
ust what action would be taken re
;arding a river crossing at that point.
Mr. and Mrs. Gus Manthey attended
he dance at Mile Seven last night.
Wm. McConnel of Mile Five, is over
auling his home, in preparation for
lie coming winter. New floors have
een put in and the place enlarged.
Legal Blanks at the Gateway.
SEWARD STORM
RAVAGES ROADS
AND WATERFRONT
Power Plant Out of Commission Few
Hours—Roads Opened Again
Today
Weather conditions in Seward reach
ed a climax yesterday morning when
the electric light power was shut off
from 8 o’clock A. M. until about 4 P.
M., as a result of a small landslide
which swept down the mountainside
yesterday morning, putting out of com
mission a few lengths of the intake
pipe. A crew of men at once began
repairing the damage, completing it in
fast time.
The loose gravel this side of the
bridge at Mile Five, was swept away
Thursday night and part of yester
day by the rising glacier waters, but
late yesterday afternoon the local Bu
reau of Public Roads department, had
the road back in shape again, permit- j
ting the passing of traffic. At cer-1
I tain portions of this road Thursday
evening, it was stated the water was
so high over the road that it reached
the radiators on passing automobiles.
The continued rainfall, following the
heavy downpour and storm of Thurs
day evening, was the signal for the
City Council to have the glacial stream
patroled. According to Mayor L. V.
Ray, no cause for alarm was felt, but
the patrol was put on as a matter of
precaution. The railroad bridge cross
ing, especially was watched carefully,
and was kept clear of snage and trees.
Along the waterfront the bounding
billows assumed enormous sizes, the
breakers crashing on the beach with
a roar. Three small gasboats, the
Hazel, B. F. M. and the Chase, tied up
at the city float, barely escaped ser
ious damage. The starboard side of
the Hazel was stove in, filling the ves
sel half full of water.
When you think Oxfords, think Ur
bach. 229-tf.
Parkers’ “Big Brother” Eversharp
pencils, $4.00 at the Alaska Shop. tf.
FIVE MILES NEW
ROAD AT PASS
NOW COMPLETED
FOUR MILES IN NEW UNIT YET
TO BE COMPLETED—WORK
PROGRESSING STEADILY
Five miles of Unit No. 3, Moose
Pass road, has been completed, an
nounced J. B. Reher, highway engi
neer, in charge of the bureau for
this district, who returned to his lo
cal headquarters Wednesday even
ing from an official trip of inspec
tion of the project.
It is stated, however, that this five
miles of completed road, comprises
certain sections along the entire nine
mile unit, and does not represent a
successive five-mile stretch of com
pleted highway. The remaining four
miles ot road will link the finished
portions.
Weather conditions thruout the en
tire district has not been the best
but at the same time, Mr. Reher
said, the construction of the road
has not been hampered by the ele
ments for regardless of rain or shine, I
the road men have been on the job
continually. Though a considerable
amount of rain has fallen at Moose
Pass, the rainfall has been less than
in Seward proper. Work on the pro
ject will continue until the weather
prohibits it.
Starr Due To Arrive
In Seward In Morning
Sailing for Seattle
The steamer Starr is due to arrive
at Seldovia this morning, according to
local radio reports, which will bring
her into Seward late tonight. tl is
sxpected the Starr will sail shortly af
ter its arrival in port, for Seattle,
tvhere the vessel will undergo its an
lual overhauling, resuming its west
ward run out of Seward about Novem
)er 15.
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KENAI
FISHING AND HUNTING
PARTIES CARRIED DOWN
LAKE KENAI FOR THE
DAY OR TRIP. TELE
PHONE ARRANGEMENTS
TO MILE TWENTY
Louis Bell, owner
Alaska Interior Silver
Black Foxes, a limited
number of 1925 pups will
be sold this season. If you
wish good foxes to start
your ranch with. Let me
furnish you your breeders
Price $500 per Pair f. o. b.
Kasilof, Alaska
Kasilof Silver Fox Ranch
Louis Nissen, Propr.
Kasilof, Alaska
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of the
Seward Daily Gateway
been written^ are being written by TlnJ.^R Rehe^headtf ItteB&VRSfcRoSJ for thiSP
the Biological Survey and in charge of Alaskan fur and game animals; Supt- Snodgrass of the Matanusk?Exnerimenhfl ’^t^ f
Chas. E. Bunnell, president of the Alaska College; Jos. Imlach, the man who started the herring industry in Prince william ’
J. J. Corey head of the coal mining department, Bureau of Alaska; W. E. Calvert on the halibut indnXv R n dll T Sound;
eral activities of the Bureau of Mines, L. C. Pratt on Forestry; Cal M. Broshrs,iSrel Seward- S K'
eity on geneial mining activities of this district.- fur farming by Duke Stubbs- a historv of Seward hv Wm wnvn ^ migh
insices of Old Timers, by George Sexton; and numerous othera Letters ha^ clo JJ p^f ^ Rem'.
Governor Scott C. Bone, Col. Hartman^Dan Sutherland, President Coolidge, Henry O'Malley and others asking for snJnia?
cles. There is no doubt but that they will respond. John Coffey will represent Kodiak* Lester D Henriprcrm ^
side. Taking it all in all there will be dozens of special articled As to illustmtions the edTtion will be11nfVh£? Tehduca*on*
will contribute a number of fine cuts, and the Standard Oil and other industries will also have articles profuselv illustrated1 rpv
Tkey shou,d be °*red assesses, &
To be published December 5,1925