SEWARD WATER &
POWER COMPANY
SEWARD, ALASKA
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“Good Water a Necessity in Every Home”
JOHN NELSON, Manager, WAYNE BLUE, Agent
OFFICE ARCADE BUILDING
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Clean, Sanitary Bath*, Expert
Barbers and Reasonable Prices
Keep Us Busy.
LANDERS A 8WANS0N
PIONEER CLUB
John Nash, propr.
SOFT DRINKS, CANDY
CIGARS AND FRUITS
CITY EXPRESS
Billy Patterson
Meets All Boats and Trains
A
MOORE & BEAULIEU
Gore Bldg. Adams 145
WALL PAPER PAPER-HANG
ING, and PAINTING
TINTING
FRESH MILK AND
CREAM—
and all
Dairy Products
Our Motto:
“THE BEST”
SEWARD DAIRY
TAILORING
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a Suit. Guaranteed Fit.
C. HENNING
Seward, Alaska
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Or. i. A, Baughman
Phyeioian and Surgeon
' CHRONIC DISEASE8 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
SEE
Curtis R. M or ford
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 Benso.* 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
Clean, Comfortable
Rooms and Baths
HOTEL
Furnace Heat
Mrs Hilda Wanamaker
HOTEL SEXTON
GEORGE SEXTON, Proprietor
SEWARD'S HOMEY HOTEL, WHERE THE OLDTIMERS
r MEET
VAN GILDER HOTEL
HOT AND COLD WATER IN EVERY ROOM
STEAM HEAT
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HOTEL SEWARD
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HOMEY, COMFORTABLE ROOMS AND BATH
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When the order of Red Men gav
a mimic representation of burning
paleface at the stake at Arlingtor
Va., the victim’s trousers accidental!
caught fire and he was badly scorch
ed.
GEO. ANDERSON
Piano Expert
Will be In Seward In the near
future. Pianos, Grands and Up
rights; Pianos For Rent and
For sale. Fine Violins and
Strings, Musical Merchandise.
ANDERSON MUSIC SHOPPE,
Juneau, Alaska.
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Meets every first
and third Tues
day, each month
at 8 p. m., at
Odd Fellows
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i n g members
welcome.
PETER N. ANDERSON, Dictator.
M. A. HORNER, Secretary.
SEWARD LODGE NO 219, F. & A. M.
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'^KMf’and third Wednesdays of each
/\r\ month; visiting brethren wel
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Painter, Secretary.
RESURRECTION LODGE NO. A-7,
I. O. O. F.
Meets every Thursday at
p. m. in Odd Fellows’
Hall, next to th8 postolfice. 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.
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OF EASTERN STAR
Meeets the second and
fourth Mondays of each
month in Odd Fellows’
Hall at 8 p. m. Visiting
members always wel
come; Goldie Blue W. M.
Mrs. Viola T. Swetmann, Secretary.
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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
come. Mrs. John
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: REPORT OF ARCTIC
: SURVEY, 7000 SQ.
MILES MAPPED
THRILLING EXPLOITS IN ICV
RIVERS AND LONELY TUN
DRAS IN DESCRIPTION
Additional details with reference
to tlfe recent dispatch published in
The Gateway, relative to the arrival
at Seattle oif the Gerald FitzGerald
party of government survey men from
the Arctic slope, is republished from
the Seattle Daily Times of recent
issue.
The article in question follows:
Back from a hazardous exploration
trip in the ice-bound wastes of Arc
tic Alaska, where they mapped 7,000
square miles of territory, the great
er part of which had never been seen
before by a white man, members
of a United States Geological Survey
party, sent out from Washington 'D.
C., have just filed their report in
the capital.
The party was sent north under
auspices of the Department of the
Interior, as the request of the Navy
to continue a survey of Naval Petrol
eum Reserve No. 4, on the Arctic
slope. The members sailed from Se
attle last February and returned here
September 16.
Gerald FitzGerald, topographical en
gineer; Dr. Walter R. Smith, geolo
gist, and Faye Delezene and Walter
R. Blackenship wrere the men "who
spent many weeks in the snowy
■wastes. How they penetrated farther
northward than the natives dared to
go, made perilous trips in canoes in
ice-choked streams, fought their way
through blizzards and over the snow
in below-zero temperatures—all the
while out of communication with the
rest of the world—was recounted in
a matter-of-fact manner in their re
port.
Dogs Were Snow Blind
Sailing from Seattle, the explorers
went to Seward and theu inland over
the Alaska Railroad to Nenana. Then
began a long journey down the Tan
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ana and Yukon Rivers to Norton
Sound and across the baseof Seward
Peninsula beyond the Arctic Circle to
Kotzebue Sound. • This journey of
700 miles was accomplished by dog
•team in twenty-six days.
First the weather was warm. Then
the temperature dropped to 30 de
grees below zero. On man was frost
bitten. The dogs were snow blind at
times and it was necessary for a
man to go ahead to aid the lead dog.
At Kotzebue the party obtained
supplies fqr the summer and hired
more teams to freight the provisions
and canoes up Notak River and across
the De Long Mountains of the Brooks
Range to the Arctic slope.
After leaving Kotzebue the party
camped in tents except one night,
■which they spent at the native vil
lage of Notak. There is not a single
white man in this village and not one
of the 250 residents uses tobacco.
Eskimo drivers refused to go farther
northward than the head of the
Utukok River, for fear the snow
would melt before they could return,
but the whit emen pushed on.
Topographic and geologic mapping
as begun from earlier surveys on
the south side of the range and car
ried across to the headwaters of the
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Utukok. As fast as the weather per
mitted, the supplies were relayed on
toward the head of Colville River.
Several times the river opened and
froze again during heavy storms, but
on May 30 the boats were shoved out
in the swift current, and the actual
exploration of the upper Colville was
begun.
Over white rapids and dangerous
whirlpools and beneath undercut
snowbanks, the little group floated
on, never knowing what would hap
pen around the next bend but realiz
ing that, if a boat should upset, it
and its contents could not be regained
or replaced, and that if anyone was
injured, there would be no hospital
or physician. Sometimes the boats
would strike a rocky bar and would
have to be lifted across. The dogs
followed along the bank but, in try
ing to keep within sight of the boats,
they would swim across the river
many times each day.
Deserted Igloos Found.
The party followed the river for
more than 100 miles and mapped an
area from twenty to thirty miles wide
on each side. In making the trips
over the rough tundra away from the
river the dogs were used as pack ani
mals, carrying packs of twenty-five
or thirty pounds for distances of
eighteen to twenty-eight miles a day.
During one of the side trips toward
the north from the Colville the head
waters of Meade River were discov
ered.
Snowstorms were frequent, but the
snow did not remain on the tundra,
and by the middle of June the hills
were dotted with flowers of many
species and colors. Caribou were seen
in small bands every day, and enuf
were killed to supply the camp with
fresh meat. The country along the
upper Colville is not thickly popu
lated with small animals and birds.
Formerly the Eskimos lived along the
banks of the Colville, and their old
igloos, pieces of clay pottery and
broken bone implements were found.
On July 13 the work was tied in to
a previous survey of the central part
of the Colville Valley, and the party
turned south up Etivluk River, a big
tributary of the Colville. This river
was ascended about eighty miles to
its source, at the summit of a low
pass in the heart of the Brooks range.
The Etivriluk is a swift, turbulent riv
er, flowing over many rapids and
bars.
Dogs Tow Boats Up River
The dogs proved useful in towing
the boats, but many times a day for
fifteen days the entire party waded
in swift ice water above their waists
in order to get the boats across the
rapids. A maximum airline distance
of ten miles a day was made in this
upstream travel.
A low, broad pass was found at the
head of the Etivluk, and a portage of
[ess than one mile put the explorers
Du Nniuk River, one of the main trib
utaries of the Noatak. The party de
scended the Aniuk about fifty miles
and closed the new surveys by tying
n to the earlier survey of the Noatak.
The return trip was made down the
Noatak to Kotzebue, thence to Nome
md Seattle, where the ipartv arrived
3eptmeber 16, a month earlier than
vas expected, owing to the short
>ortage in the Brooks Range and fa
vorable boat connections at Nome.
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