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SEWARD WATER &
POWER COMPANY
SEWARD, ALASKA
“Good Water a Necessity in Every Home"
JOHN NELSON, Manager, WAYNE BLUE, Agent
OFFICE ARCADE BUILDING
Or. J. A. Baughman
Physician and Surgeon
CHRONIC DISEASES A SPECIALTY
Phone Madison 90. Seward, Alaska
0. K. BARBER SHOP
Clean, Santlary Baths, Expert
Barbers and Reasonable Prces
Keep Us Busy.
HARRY BOWERS, Manager
i PIONEER CLUB
John Nash, propr.
SOFT DRINKS, CANDY
CIGARS AND FRUITS
CITY EXPRESS
f Bill]) Patterson
Meets All Boats and Trains
MOORE & BEAULIEU
Gore Bldg. Adams 145
WALL PAPER PAPER-HANG
ING, and PAINTI. £
TINTING
FRESH MILK AND
CREAM—
and all
Dairy Products
Our Motto:
“THE BEST”
SEWARD DAIRY
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TAILORING
Come In and Get Measured for
a Suit. Guaranteed Fit.
C. HENNING
Seward, Alaska
C. W, Fetch, traveling salesman, de
parted for the westward last night on
the Admiral Evans.
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15c to read a late book. tf
When you think Oxfords, think Ur
bach. 229-tf
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cords. The Alaska Shop. tf
PROFESSIONAL CARDS
W. D. Coppemoll
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT
LAW
Will Practice in All Courts of the
Territory
SEWARD, ALASKA
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
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Office in Benson 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
SEWARD VISITOR
DESCRIBES TRIP
OVER HIGHWAY
SECOND OF SERIES OF ARTICLES
BY CALIFORNIA NEWSPAPER
MAN TELLS OF HIGHWAY
Miss Midnight Sun
Surprised At Thrifty Appearance of
Fairbanks—Says Interior Town
Has Dwindled Some.
The second story of the travels of
a newspaper man in Alaska, which ap
peared recently in the Lodi Sentinel
of Lodi, Calif., written by F. P. Roper,
and which are now being reprinted in
the Seward Gateway follows. Mr. Ro
per, accompanied by his wife were
visitors in Seward the fore part of
August:
Arrive In Fairbanks.
Fairbanks, July 29.—We arrived in
this beautiful little city after a very
enjoyable trip of three days over the
Richardson Highway. We left Strelna
on the Copper River railway, where
we had remained two nights, on a Ford
with flange wheels that runs on the
railroad track. The Ford clattered
down the track at a 35-mile clip and
brought us to Chitina, a distance of
Gram's
oCtnen dCa&n
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The Alaska Shop
SEWARD LODGE NO. 1425, L.O.O.M.
Meets every first
and third Tues
day each month
at 8 p. m., at
Q&d Follows
Hall. All visit
i n g members
welcome.
PETER N. ANDERSON, Dictator.
M. A. HORNER, Secretary.
SEWARD LODGE NO 219, F. & A. M.
Jk Stated communications first
^«H<and third Wednesdays of each
A^r\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
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 ol
each month in Odd
Fellows Hall at 8:0E
p. m. Visiting mem
bers are always wel
come. Mrs. John
Rosness, JJ. G.
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
15 miles. There we started out in
automobiles to make the 317-raile trip
to Fairbanks. Our machine was a
Studebaker Six.
Travel 100 Miles a Day.
The trip to Fairbanks was made by
easy drives of about 100 miles per
day, traveling at an average speed of
about 15 miles per hour. We passed
numerous crews working upon the
roads, graveling and smoothing down
the rough places, although at the
present rate of construction it will
take a number of years to place it in
first-class condition. Telephone and
civil service telegraph lines traverse
the highway, and reservations for
meals and night accommodations were
made by telephone along the way. We
found the roadhouse accommodations
very good. It is quite remarkable
what nice tables these people are en
abled to set in that seemingly isolated
section. At most of the places we had
fresh beef and vegetables that had
been shipped in cold storage from
Seattle. Many of the vegetables
came from California. At one place
we had caribou meat, which tastes
a great deal like venison. Although
it is out of season for this kind of
game, the authorities allow this road
house to serve it on account of being
too far away from civilization to get
other fresh meat.
Enjoyed the Scenery.
We had beautiful weather the first
day out and enjoyed the scenery of
interior Alaska. We all decided that
the only way to really “do Alaska” is
by taking this inland trip. Mt. Black
burn, Wrangell, Drum and Sanford,
each about the height of Mt. Shasta,
were passed during the first day.
After leaving the Copper river we
traveled up the Gulkana river to the
summit, then our course was down the
Delta river to the Tanana river, where
we ferried across the stream in a
barge that utilizes the force of tjie
stream as a means of motive power.
Other Lodians Passed Thru
We had lunch the first day at Ken
ney Lake, and noted by the register
that Mr. and Mrs. Geo. E. Lawrence
and R. E. Ryan of Lodi had spent the
night there on July 9th, and at the
Rapids on July 8.
We spent the first night at Sour
Dough, where I had my first fishing.
I came in shortly after 10 o’clock that
night with a dozen grayling, averaging
^rom a foot to 14 inches in length. This
species of fish, which abounds the
streams in this section, is very similar
to the mountain trout at Lodi. They
will take nothing but flies, and strike
and put up a fight exactly like trout.
They have scales like bass, but taste
like troute, only that they are a little
sweeter.
Through Rolling Country.
The country is rolling and flat a
great deal of the way between here
and Ghitina. Outside of the high snow
capped mountains, a few dead glaciers
and numerous lakes and glacier
streams, there is little scenery of note.
Most of the land is covered with
scrub spruce, cottonwood and birch
We passed miles of dead timber, where
a fire-a couple of years ago had killed
out practically all the vegetation.
Many of the trees in other places had
been killed by rabbits,, which have
eaten off the bark down to about two
feet of the ground. This bark is their
only food during winter when the
ground is covered with snow. The
entire surface of the ground for hun
dreds of miles around is covered with
green and caribou moss. The latter
affords food for the caribou and moose
during the winter. The ground thaws
! out only within one to two feet from
the surface in summer, below that it
is frozen to a depth of 50 to 60 feet.
All along the road were beautiful
pink wild flowers.
The only white children we saw
. were four little orphans, aged from 6
to 13, who had lived in that isolated
section all their lives. They seemed
happy and contented, telling us that
their chief amusement during winter
was with their dog team.
Very Little Game.
Caribou and moose horns were
strewn along the way, but we encoun
tered no wild game with the exception
of a red fox which came out to greet
us on one of the grades, and through
curiosity trotted up to within ten feet
of our machine.
Fairbanks Dwindled Some.
We are surprised at the thrifty ap
eparance of Fairbanks. During the
gold rush of 1904-10, this was a city of
20,000, but now it has dwindled down
to 1200 inhabitants. The principal
reason is the playing out of the placer
claims, the high cost of the produc
tion of gold and the low purchasing
power of gold. The entire farming
section about Fairbanks consists of
but a few small patches. One place
we visited is called the “Rickert Gar
dens.’' It is the show place of this
community. It consists of 85 acres
under cultivation, 12 acres of which
are devoted to truck farming. The
rest is in oats, wheat and vetch. Prac
tically all the land in this valley, 750
miles long, is open for entry and can
be had for the asking. Mr. Rickert,
who owns and operates the show gar
dens is of the opinion that there is a
profitable business here for 500 more
practical farmers. All vegetation here
grows prolifically during the three or
four months of summer. It is day
light practically all the time, and the
weather is warm and balmy. Vege
tation therefore grows practically 24
hours each day. We saw fine looking
cabbage, potatoes, carrots, turnips,
beets, cauliflower, brussels sprouts,
head and leaf lettuce, rhubarb, straw
berries, and raspberries growing in
the open. Altho the planting season
is later, the vegetables mentioned are
practically matured and have progress
ed as far as the same vegetables in
Lodi at this time of year.
There is keen competition here with
vegetables from the States which are
shipped in from Seattle at a less price
than they are profitably grown here.
The only market is local. Many of
the more delicate vegetables are rais
ed here in hot houses. We saw toma
toes, cucumbers, peppers, egg plant
and sweet corn growing to enormous
size in these glass houses.
Fairbanks is only a little more than
100 miles south of the arctic circle,
still it is a land of beauty and sunshine
during the summer, contrary to the
general belief that it is a land of per
petual snow and ice. It is extremely
cold here in winter, ranging between
30 to 60 degrees below zero most of
the time.
Last night just at sundown, about
10 o’clock every sled dog in the village
commenced yelping and kept it up un
til the sun had disappeared from view.
It is too late in the season for us to
witness the “midnight sun” which is
visible here best on June 21 and 22,
the longest days of the year. There is
about an hour of semi-darkness from
midnight until 1 o’clock and it is real
light at 2 o’clock in the morning.
Grand Master Masons,
Accompanied by Wife,
Departs for Interior
DURING BRIEF STAY IN TOWN
MR. AND MRS. GREGORY
ENTERTAINED.
The visit of Mr. and Mrs. Morton
D. Gregory of Tacoma, Wn., in Sew
ard since the arrival of the Yukon
until yesterday A. M. when the train
left for the Interior, was one of ex
ceptional interest and pleasure to
member of the Masonic lodge. Mr.
Gregory, who is Grand Master of
Masons for the State of Washington,
which has jurisdiction over Alaska
lodges, is making an official tour of
Alaska pertaining to lodge matter.
While in Seward they were guests
at a number of affairs, planned in
their honor, which included automo
bile trips, luncheons and dinners,
and on Saturday evening, a special
meeting of Seward Lodge, A. F. & A.
M., No. 219 was held.
Sunday afternoon, at the sum
mer resident of Mr. and Mrs. C. E.
Orlander, a five course dinner was
served, and Monday eve at the Metho
dist church, all the guests at the
dinner apid pther members of the
lodge, attended the services, at which
Dr. Stillman of Douglas, Alaska,
preached.
Guests attending the dinner at the
Orlander bungalow yesterday after
noon included: Mrs. Emily B. Wey
brecht, H. Hoben, Cal M. Brosius,
Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Orlander, Mr.
and Mrs. J. P. Hannon, Mr. and Mr3.
Leon Urbach, E. A. Rasmusson, Ray
O. Scott, Captain and Mrs. 0. A.
Johansen, Mr. and Mrs. P. C. Mc
Mullen, Dr. and Mrs. Stillman, E. L.
Sweek. W. E. Erwin, Henry Frost,
Mrs. Elwyn Swetman, H. G. Ilder
ton.
Nels Sorby, deputy marshal at Ko
diak, who has been in Seward for the
last week on matters of an official
nature departed for his westward of
fice last evening on the Admiral Ev
ans.
The Fall and Winter schedule of the
Alaska Railroad is now in effect.