SEWARD DAILY GATEWAY
OF SEWARD, ALASKA
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AMAZING STORY OF OIL
Next month the fiftieth anniversary
of the discovery of oil at Bradford,
Pa., will be marked by a celebration
and Old Home Week, which will at
tract former oil men of that section
-who are now scattered among practi
cally all important producing fields in
America.
The rise of the oil industry is one of
the amazing phenomena of present
<lay civilization, parallelling the de
velopment of the automobile, with
which it has gone hand in hand.
As far back as 1814 petroleum was
found in certain brine -wells in Ohio,
which were abandoned as worthless,
because of the oil. Later some of the
oil was bottled and sold as a liniment
-and in 1851 pioneer efforts at refining
small quantities for use as an illumi
nant were made.
But it was not until August, 1859,
that attempts were bgun to drill wells
for oil as a commercial proposition,
the first being the historic Drake well
near Titusville, Pa., a small producer
brought in at a depth of only 34 feet
in that month. The Bradford field,
discovered in 1875, was for1' several
years the center of the industry in the
United States.
At first crude oil wTas used princi
pally in making kerosene, the elements
from which gasoline is now produced
being discarded as worthless. A small
quantity was refined and sold as ben
zine. The list of useful products grad
ually developed from petroleum is a
long one, of which gasoline is now the
most important.
From an insignificant consumption
25 years ago the use of gasoline has
increased to the enormous total of
eight billion gallons a year in the
United States alone. This has been
made possible by the discovery of new
oil fields and improvements in refin
ing processes which have enabled pro
duction to keep pace with consump
tion.
The highest daily production of
crude oil in the United States so far
was 2,347,894 barrels on May 30 of
this year. A slight decline has since
taken place; and the output at present
is falling a little behind consumption
which probably will be more than 25
per cent greater this year than last.
Thousands of oil men are wrorking
with feverish haste to bring in new
wells to take the placfe of those being
depleted and abandoned. Whether
they will be able to keep pace with
the ever-increasing demand is one of
the important problems of the imme
diate future.
A REAL CHURCH CRISIS
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It is not within the province of a
secular newspaper to take part in re
ligious controversies, yet it may not
be amiss to point out the fact that a
real crisis now confronts the Protes
tant church as a result of the so-called
Fundamentalist-Modernist battle.
Every church convention held this
year has been more or less torn by
dissension over matters of doctrine
and each day sees the lines of battle
becoming more sharply drawn. While
these are not yet entirely distinct, and
while they vary more or less accord
ing to local conditions, two great divi
sions of ProtestEfits are aligning them
selves approximately as follows:
The Fundamentalists stand by the
old faith in the inspiration and infalli
bility of the Bible literally interpre
ted, which includes belief in a direct
and separate creation of man, the deity
of Christ, his virgin birth, sinless life,
sacrificial death, bodily resurrection
and ascension, and expectation of his
second coming.
The Modernists, while accepting
the Bible as the rule and guide in
spiritual matters, do not demand ad
herence to the beliefs above enumer
ated as essential to Christian fellow
ship. Each individual is permitted to
accept or reject the various articles
of the old creeds so long as he recog
nizes the fatherhood of God and pro
fesses discipleship with Christ. As a
matter of fact, the ultra-Modernists
have no creed beyond this. Practi
cally all modernists accept the doc
trine of the evolution of man.
Those who keep themselves inform
ed regarding the present trend of re
ligious thought may readily see that
there can be no possible reconcilia
tion between Fundamentalists and
Modernists. When the smoke of bat
tle has cleared away, Protestant Chris
tianity will probably be found perma
nently divided into these two great
camps, each working in its own way
for the glory of God and the better
ment of humanity.
SEATTLE LAWYER
BRIEFLY WRITES
OF TERRITORY
HISTORICAL LORE IS ONE OF THE
OUTSTANDING FEATURES OF
ALASKAN HISTORY.
Made Recent Westward Tour
Prominent Fish Lawyer of Seattle
Contributes Interesting Article
To the Seward Gateway.
By EDWARD W. ALLEN
Three remarkable features of Al
aska are its stupendous scenery, its
enormous resources and its little
known known but fascinating history’.
Tourists extol the scenery; boosters
dwell upon the economics, but the
study of the past has been sadly neg
lected. To the true lover of Alaska
its history has a; sentimental appeal
Even those, however, who gauge ev
erything in dollars should appreciate
that to w’eave a veil of romance
about a place is to make it a Mecca
for tourists.
None of the much complained ol
short sightedness of Congress wTas
worse than that of the people of Sit
ka, when, a few years ago, they
permitted their last Russian block
house to be demolished.
Prince William Sound, Cook Inlet
and Westward Alaska are rich in lore,
yet except in fiction like "Rocking
Moon,” and "The Iron Trail,” it is
practically unknown. Much of this
lore will be wholly lost unless soon
gathered.
Recently when the writer crossed
the Iliamna trail and descended the
lake of the same name, and the Kvi
chak river, he found much to carry
the mind back to Russian days. One
native told how his grandfather, a
Russian, had been a member of a
party of Russians sent from Kodiak
to the Kuskokw’im, via Iliamna to
avenge the death of a Russian
priest whose brutal killing is refer
red to in Bancroft’s History of Al
aska. This party arranged for a
meeting with the natives but found
them hostile, and hastily heat a re
treat. They ran out of food, were
so w’eak that they could only crawl
on their hands and knees, and al
most died of starvation when a lucky
shot brought down a caribou and
their lives were saved.
The native boy also said that his
uncle at Iliamna Village could tell
much more providing he could be
induced to talk. The uncle is very
old and will not live long. Some
one should get his story before it is
too late.
Some day the Iliamna Trail will
become a road. Some day visitors
will marvel at the magnificence ol
Lake Iliamna, and the huge, white
guardian volcano whose massiveness
strangely enough, becomes more im
pressive as one travels further from
it do-wn the lake. Some day the
true history of Iliamna if preserved
may have both a commercial anc
historical value.
John G. Brady, district forest ran
ger, wms a Seward arrival last nighi
from his Anchorage headquarters.
More Rarbor Work
Is Easy To Secure
Says Cordova Visitor
(From Cordova Times)
If Cordova wants some rocks pull
ed out of its harbor near the ocean
dock so that steamer can turn about,
now is the time to get busy with a
petition to Washington, according to
General Harry P. Taylor, head ol
the United States engineering depart
ment, who passed thru Cordova the
other day. He has just accompanied
General Wilds P. Richardson of Al
aska highway building fame, and Col.
James G. Steese, president of the
Alaska Road Commission, on a tour
of the interior.
General Taylor is much interested
in rivers and harbors improvements
in the north and advised local peo
ple to petition for their share. He
said Delegate Sutherland could get
the matter before the proper authori
ties and that he personally is in
favor of helping out this port. He
would like to see such improvements
pushed through in the same way that
the clearing of Wrangell Narrows is
being accomplished. The work at
Wrangell, he pointed out, would ben
efit all Alaskan ports.
General Taylor, according to Col
onel Steese, was favorably impressed
with the work on the Richardson
Highway and will speed up improve
ments. He suggested that, as tour
ists go over it so rapidly and are
sometimes prevented by bad weather
from seeing the country at its best,
tourist agencies should establish a
camp on the summit and give vis
itors a chance to lay over for fish
ing and other diversions at this
point.
It was agreed that the road from
Chistochena to Gulkana would be
hurried along, also that from Mc
Carthy to Nizina.
Steamer Yukon Due
In Seward Tomorrow
Afternoon, Says Wire
The flagship of the Alaska Steam
ship Company, the steamer Yukon,
is due to arrive in Seward from the
South, tomorrow afternoon, accord
ing to the latest advices received
from the vessel today. The Yukon
left Valdez this morning at 5 o’clock.
Mrs. George Colwell and two small
children departed this morning for
Tunnel, (Mile 52) where Mr. Colwell,
roadmaster. of this division of the
Alaska Railroad is stationed.
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you have lost any keys lately come
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Cabin for Rent
On Fine Trout Stream
Bungalow with fine fire
place. large living room,
furnished for six persons,
plenty of bedding and
essentials, stove and all
cooking utensils. Will be
rented by the day or week
end to responsible parties.
Good fishing in lake and
stream and hunting in
season. .
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