ELLIS BALL
CHILI NILL
The mill that takes the pros
pector off the labor market.
Cheaper than an trastra, more
efficient than a stamp mill.
MADE IN SIZES FROM
TWO TO FIFTY TONS
DAILY CAPACITY
Priced $150 to $1989
Investigate the Ellis Mill First
NELS HAGEN
ALASKA AGENT
P. O. Box 1105
SEWARD. ALASKA
COAST POWER TUNNEL
BORED THROUGH SOLID
STONE IS COMPLETED
(Ply Associated Tress)
LOS ANGELES, Mar. 33—Tne
Florence 3 ake Ru:n< 1. 1* fv.<U high
and the same width, extending more
than 13 miles, mostly through solid
granite in a snaky line under the
high Sierras, is a construction feat
that has drawn the attention of the
i engineering world. It has just been
; completed.
The tunnel is one of the most im
| portant works in the Big Creek-San
I Joaquin River project of the South
ern California Edison company . The
entire project will bring in 1,407,000
horsepower, and, with its transmis
sion lines, sub-stations and accessor
I ies, will cost $375,000,000.
| The tunnel itself cost $17,000,000.
It was started in the fall of 1920,
j and since then without a stop the
i work has been maintained in relief
I shifts. The scene of operations is
| 250 miles north of Los Angeles and
35 miles south of the Yosemite Yal
| ley. The purpose of the tunnel is
| to convey water from the Florence
| Lake watershed, source of the south
; fork of the San Joaquin river, thru
; the barrier of a 10,000-foot mountain
! ridge into the watershed of Hunt
I ington Lake. Huntington Lake is
! the reservoir of supply for the four
j years’ progress in the Sierras. The
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High Grade Line of
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Tel. Adams 80
Seward
Plumbing
Company
Every day in every way
You enjoy your meals
AT
THE FISHER CAFE
Seward, Alaska Chas. Fisher, Prop.
Bread—two loaves for 25c
The “Saturday Evening
Roast”
GET IT AT
Carstens Packing Co.
E. E. KURTZ, Manager
Free Delivery Phone Main 130
13-mile bore was divided into three
sections, with two lateral adits cut
into granite slopes and a crew work
ing each way from each adit. The
bore was completed a year and a
bait’ sooner than the most optimistic
estimates contemplated when the
tunnel was started.
The completion of the tunnel will
be followed by the creation of Flo
rence Lake, to store 31,000 acre feet
af water at an elevation of 7,300
feet. The total drop from Hunting
ton Lake through a chain of tun
nels and power houses to the low
est power house about 6,000 feet.
The whole project when complete
will have *6 miles of tunnel, with
about 18 power houses. The origi
nal development in the Big Creek
project, started in 1912, consisted of
two power houses developing 88,000
horsepower.
A 220,000-volt transmission line
conveys the power generated by
these plants 270 miles to Los An
geles.
Gas Consumption Indicates
English Cooking Hours
'(By Associated Press)
LONDON, Mar. 13.—The hot Sun
day mid-day dinner is still a fetish
among the majority of English peo
ple, says a report on gas consump
tion, which in England is at its
maximum between 11 o’clock in the
morning and 1 p. m. on Sundays.
Close observers of gas cosumptior
say that the hours of cooking varj
in different towns. Brighton, for in
stance, spends more time on the sea
front and pier and goes on cooking
until nearly 3 p. m. Nottingham in
dines to the Continental style and
uses more gas for cooking in the
evening. Scotland, with stricter ob
servance of the Sabbath, does mos
of its cooking for Sunday on tin
previous day.
Gateway want-ads bring results.
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Ice Cream
MADE DAILY
HIGH GRADE
Candies
Framed Pictures, Photog.aphs,
Curios
SYLVIA’S
Phone Adams 128
TAILORING
Come In and Get Measured for
a Suit. Guaranteed Fit.
C. HENNING
Seward, Alaska
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THE FUR FARMER
MAGAZINE
and know the fur business. It
deals with every phase of fur
farming. Learn how others made
a success of farming fur bearing
animals.
Address
21 COLMAN DOCK
Seattle, Wash.
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HOTEL OVERLAND
GORDON SHEA, Propr.
SPECIAL RATES BY WEEK
OR MONTH
New Heating Plant Just Installed
K-3
PIONEER CLUB
John Nash, propr.
SOFT DRINKS, CANDY
CIGARS AND FRUITS
Playful Elephants Delay
Travelers In Sumatra
(By Associated Press)
THE HAGUE, Mar. 13.—Further
reports received here concerning the
mysterious deserted city in the Up
per Langkat region of Sumatra state
huge quantities of elephant's hones
have been found there. This gives
rise to the belief that here may be
one of the hidden places to which
elephants retire when thefy feel
death approaching. African and In- j
dian elephant hunters agree that
sick elephants withdraw from their
herds to some remote spot only
known to themselves to die alone.
Elephants seem to be on the in
crease in Acheen, the Sumatra Post
observes in this connection. A light
railway train which runs along the
edge of the jungle was held up the
other day by a herd of 40 big tus- j
kers which leisurely amused them- j
selves by pulling up all the fencing j
and boundry posts in sight before j
they deigned to move on.
LOW BIRTH RATE MENACES
OLD AMERICAN FAMILIES
j -
URBAN A. March 13.—The size of
1 the American family of native stock in
one generation has decreased 3S 1-2
per cent, according to R. E. Baber pro
fessor of sociology at the University
of Illinois, who added that today the
native stock family has less than three
j children, while it requires four, under
: the present mortality and marriage
: rate, to replace the stock without any
increase.
“It is not necessarily a tragedy that
much of our native stock is dying out
| and that our increase comes wholly
| from foreign stock, for foreign is cer
j tainly not synonymous with inferior,”
J said the professor. “Yet few will admit
I the desirability of such rapid replace
! ment of our native stock, for it con
j tains some of our most precious pop
1 ulation elements. When we see 13
| per cent of our native families child
! less, and IS per cent more with only
I one child each, it seems to lie signifi
| cant.”
j Turning to the educational side of
: the situation, Professor Barber declar
j ed “far too many of our educated peo
! pie either sidestep marriage or marry
too late in life to have a family. From
| one-half to three-fifths of our best
| educated women are having no share
j in producing the next generation, due
either to non-marriage or childless
marriage.”
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ARON ERICSON
Painter and Decorator
SIGNS WALL PAPER
THE PALACE
John Mattich, Prop.
POOL, SOFT DRINKS AND
CIGARS
Furnished Rooms
Phone Main 55
NEW LAW BARS
WOMEN FROM
MEXICAN ARMY
MEXICAN MILITARY ORDER UN
POPULAR WITH SOLDIERS—
WILLING FACE DEATH
MEXICO CITY, March 14.—There
is great dissatisfaction in the Mexican
army because of a hard-hearted, army
order which suppresses the timeworn
custom of women entering military
barracks. They shall no longer be
permitted to do so.
Camp Outside Barracks
The women folk of the Mexican mil
itary rank and file have for years been
almost unique. They have suffered
danger without fear; forming a sort
of combined medical and commissar
iat corps, with babes in arms or slune
over their backs.
Now that the unpopular order has
been issued, the ragged vivandieres
are bivouacked outside the barracks
entrances where, faithful to the men
within, they have set up their kitchens
and spend the greater portion of the
day cooking the dainties which keep
the Mexican soldier alive.
KILLS SELF RATHER THAN
BREAK VOW TO DEAD WIFE
WILMINGTON, Del., March 14.—
Rather than break a vow made to liis
dead wife, Harry Ziegler, of this city
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committed suicide.
Ziegler, two years ago promised his
wife, just before slie died, that he
would not remarry. Recently he fell
in love with another woman, however
Their wedding date had been fixed
when Ziegler remembered his vow.
; and torn between faihtfulness to his
dead mate and love for his sweetheart
! killed himself.
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i Boy Scouts of Kansas City have
' been forbidden to act as caddies,
because it is claimed golf player
use language unfit for the lads to
i hear.
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OIL ENGINES
FLtLL Deisel Engine working
at fuel pressure of only 20
to 30 pounds. No wires or
electrical apparatus, no heating device,
no high pressure ignition, no tricky
valves, no inaccessible parts, and no
carbon trouble. Amazingly low cost
of operation from any free flowing oil.
12 TO 75 HORSEPOWER
Prices for complete outfits, including
shafting, air starter and propeller, f
o. b. Seattle.
12 1-2 h p $1150.00
25 h. p.-.2200.00
37 1-2 h. p. 3150.00
50 h p. 4300.00
75 h. p. 6100.00
C. W. SNOOK, Agt.
UNGA. ALASKA
HEALY LUMP, NUT OR MINE RUN,
BAXTER NUT OR MINE RUN
EVAN JONES LUMP OR MINE RUN
NANAIMO RANGE COAL
IN SACK OR BULK
THE ALASKA TRANSFER
WOOD, ICE, HAY AND GRAIN,
TRANSFERRING AND TEAMING
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ARCADE BLDG.
A F. DAVIS