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SEWARD WATER &
POWER COMPANY
SEWARD, ALASKA
“Qood Water a Necessity in Every Home”
JOHN NELSON, Manager, WAYNE BLUE, Agent
OFFICE ARCADE BUILDING
0. K. BARBER SHOP
Clean, Santlary Bath*, Expert
Barbers and Reasonable Prce*
Keep Us Busy.
HARRY BOWERS, Manager
PIONEER CLUB
John Nash, propr*
SOFT DRINKS, CANDY
CIGARS AND FRUITS
CITY EXPRESS
Billy Patterson
Meets All Boats and Trains
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MOORE & BEAU
Gore Bldg. Adams 145
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C. HENNING
Seward, Alaska
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PROFESSIONAL CARDS
Dr. J. A. Baughman
Physician and Surgeon
CHRONIC DISEASES A SPECIALTY
Phone Madison 90. Seward, Alaska
W. D. CoppernoD
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT
LAW
Will Practice in All Courts of the
Territory
SEWARD, ALASKA
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Curtis R. Morford
FOR FIRE INSURANCE
Dr. A. R. Roberts
DENTIST
Dental and General
X-RAY WORK
New Tecklenberg Bldg.
Phone Mad. 108 - - - Seward, Alaska
Aaron E. Rucker
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Office in Bensom Building
PHONE MADISON 114
Hugh Dougherty
REAL ESTATE AND FIRE
INSURANCE
AGENT FOR
Equitable Life Assurance
Society
TELEPHONES
Bus. Adams 152 Res., Madison 58
For Electrical Work
CALL TOM OSBO
Residence—Madison 123
OVERLAND
HOTEL
Clean, Comfortable
Rooms and Baths
Furnace Heat
Mrs Hilda Wanamaker
HOTEL SEXTON
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GEORGE SEXTON, Proprietor
SEWARD'S HOMEY HOTEL, WHERE THE OLDTIMERS
MEET
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VAN GILDER HOTEL
HOT AND COLD WATER IN EVERY ROOM
STEAM HEAT
J. S. BADGER
HOTEL SEWARD
OSCAR DAHL, Proprietor
HOMEY, COMFORTABLE ROOMS AND BATH
Convenient to Depot and Dock
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GAME WARDEN OF
ALEUTIAN ISLES
HERE IN SEWARD
DONALD STEVENSEN, IN CHARGE
ISLAND WORK FIVE YEARS
RELATES FEW FACTS
WORLD’S BIRD RESERVE
Believes the Aleutian Islands Will be
One Day Center of Huge Stock
Raising Industry
The Aleutian island game preserve
is open to any progressive man who
wishes to invest and carry on a legi
timate business and contrary to the
common thought, there are no restric
tions of any kind, as far as the De
partment of Agriculture is concerned,
stated Donald Stevensen, U. S. game
warden in charge of the reserve, who
arrived in Seward yesterday on the
steamer Starr and who was one of the
guests in attendance at the local cham
ber of commerce meeting and lunch
eon, at noon.
Mr. Stevensen said it was his per
sonal belief that in the years to come
the Aleutian islands will be developed
into a thriving stock raising region.
From fifteen to twenty large concerns
have been granted land for stock rais
I ing purposes on the islands, but of
these only two actually made any ef
fort to carry on the industry. The
first results with sheep on the islands
were not as satisfactory as could have
been wished for but in the later years
and at the present time the result has
ben extremely encouraging.
For several months of each year,
conditions on the islands for the car
rying on of the sheep industry, are
ideal, it is stated. The remainder of
of the year, five months, those engag
ed in the business should be prepared
with regard to climatic conditions for
this varies to a considerable degree
for that period. As far as snow is
concerned Mr. Stevensen recalled a
two inch snow fall, since his five years
of residence to the Westward, but this
seldom lays on the beach or ground
for any length of time.
A large quantity of wool was recent
ly shipped to the States from the is
lands, on the steamer Victoria. The
approximate number of pounds ship
ped South was said to be 4.700 pounds
from the Western Pacific livestock
Company and about 5,300 pounds from
the Aleutian Island livestock com
pany. On the average about eight
j and one-half pounds of wool is clip
ped per fleece. It was noted on some
of the sheep which had been running
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.
A Stated communications first
''^roVand third Wednesdays of each
/lr\month; visiting brethren wel
come, J. P. Hannon, W. M.; Harold
Painter, Secretary.
RESURRECTION LODGE NO. A-7,
I. O.'O. F.
Meets every Thursday at
£^“^^8:00 p. m. in Odd Fellows’
Hall, next to the postoffice. Visiting
brothers welcome. Fred Martinides,
N. G.; Chas. Lechner, Secretary.
IGLOO NO. NINE, PIONEERS OF
ALASKA
Meets every Second and Fourth Fri
day nights in Odd Fellows’ Hall; John
Flowers, President; Coll A. McDou
gall, Secretary.
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
_ :ome; Goldie Blue W. M.
Mrs. Viola T. Swetmann, 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
some. Mrs. John
Rosness, N. G.
wild for years, that the wool measur
ed eighteen inches in length. The
wool is of exceptionally fine quality
and is said to excel! the majority of
others with the possible exception of
the dryness of it, or the limited
amount of oil. It is very clean and
free from dust:. Mr. Stevensen said
he had never seen the temperature
to the Westward on th islands, drop
below three above zero.
Transportation is the difficult prob
lem which confronts the Westward re
gion, and especially those engaged in
business. The cost of operating gas
boats is expensive and unless a man
has a business sufficient in size to
warrant the expenditure for a good
sea boat, he is handicapped to a con
siderable degree. To maintain a sys
tem of sea transportation, it is stated
a company should have at least a herd
of seven thousand sheep. It is thot
with a herd of that size, the operation
of boats by the company would be a
paying proposition.
With reference to the increase in
stock, Mr. Stevensen said, using one
of the two operating live stock com
panies as an example, that from a herd
of 550 ewes almost an equal number
of lambs were raised. The other com
pany had practically the same satis
fying results.
Poor Trapping Country
There is nothing to be made on the
islands from trapping, Mr. Stevensen
continued, though there are many trap
pers in this and other regions of the
Territory who have the idea that the
islands are a virgin field for this bus
iness, believing they have not been
trapped for years. Especially is this
misconception a fact in connection
with the Four Mountains region, in
which it has been thought no trapping
had taken place since 1914. Mr. Ste
vensen was there in 1914 and walked
across the island investigating the con
ditions. He saw but one fox and but
the tracks of four others. One of
the businessmen at Unga outfitted a
trapper, sending him to the island, but
all the returns he brought back were
twenty thin and old fox skins, all in
poor condition.
There are three or four islands on
which the Indians trap. The fox on
these islands were put there in the
early days during the Russian occupa
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tion. They are not, however, adapt
ed for fox farming. Aside from a
very few islands all of which are high
and rocky, and used as bird refuges,
the many other islands are open for
legitimate business pursuits.
The three or four islands set aside
for bird refuges are good for nothing
else, Mr. Stevensen stated. Mainly sea
birds, though there are huge quanti
ties of other bird life, such as mallards
and salt water ducks, eider ducks and
numerous others, make these islands
feeding places. Eel grass is found
in unlimited abundance in the many
lagoons and on this the birds thrive.
This grass grows under water and as
the tide recedes, foraging begins. Of
ten huge piles of this grass is found
adrift at sea, sometimes in size equal
to a hay stack. The birds settle on this
and remain until it is completely eat
en up. It is stated the Aleutian is
lands support practically the greater
portion of the sea bird life of the en
tire world.
PENINSULA AREA
FISHING BETTER
THAN ELSEWHERE
BUREAU OF FISHERIES MAN AD
DRESSES MEMBERS SEWARD
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
ARRIVES FROM WESTWARD
Packers Who Remained for Run of
Humpbacks and Silvers Have
Fair Success
L. G. Wingard, a member of the Bu
reau of Fisheries, who has been to
the Westward all summer, was among
the arrivals in Seward yesterday morn
ing on the Starr, and was a guest of
the local chamber of commerce busi
ness meeting and luncheon, held at the
Seward Grill at noon. Mr. Wingard
was called upon to address the mem
bers, responding by relating briefly
the fishing activities to the Westward
the past season.
Due to the fact this year was suppos
ed to be an off season for salmon, it
acted as a barometer for many years
of the packers to close down their op
erations earlier than they otherwise
would have done, Mr. Wingard stat
ed. Those who remained, and in
cases where the season had been a
financial failure, showed a profit, in
the packing of humpbacks and silvers.
As an example Mr. Wingard told of
one outfit which at the end of the big
run showed a huge loss totalling thous
ands of dollars, yet when they had
completed packing humpies and sil
vers, they showed a slight profit.
Preliminary to the run at Port Mol
ler the fish commissioner wanted an
investigation made of Bear and Sandy
lakes. This was carried out Mr. Win
gard stated, and disclosed the fact
that the escapement from Bear lake
totalled about fifty thousand where
ordinarily the escapement ran about
200.000. At Sandy lake the escape
ment of salmon was approximately
25.000.
At Squaw Harbor the pack was sat
isfactory and a splendid amount of
fine fish were caught. The run seem
ed to have more permacy than else
where, remaining steady throughout
the season. The Alaska Peninsula
district, as a whole, fared better, it
is believed, than any other portion of
the Territory, due solely to the fact
that some of the operators stayed and
continued operations.
William M. Liang, another member
of the fisheries department, was also
a guest of the chamber.
Cutter Bear Due In Port;
Jesse Lee Boys, Tonight
The coast guard cutter Bear is
expected to arrive in Seward this
evening from Unalaska, according to
radio advices received today. There
are twenty-four boys from the or
phanage at Unalaska on board the
Bear, for the Seward Jesse Lee
Home.
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LAUNDRY DONE ON SHORT
NOTICE
Special Care Taken of Silks and of all
woolens
AMANDA’S LAUNDRY
Next Door to the Belmont Hotel.
PHONE MADISON 126.