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OR A SACK
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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
TEL MAIN 17
H. V IIOBEN
ARCADE BLDG.
A F. DAVIS
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CHRIS’ PLACE
Cigars and Tobaccos
Soft Drinks and Candies
CARD TABLES
Phone Madison 54
CHRIST LARSEN, Prop.
Next Door to Liberty Theatre
THE PALACE
John Mattich, Prop.
POOL, SOFT DRINKS AND
CIGARS
Furnished Rooms
Phone Main 55
CHOP STJEY, NOODLES,
i OYSTERS AND SHELL
FISH—
Open Day and Night
Private Dining Rooms
SEWARD GRILL
ANDY’S EXPRESS
MEETS ALL BOATS AND
TRAINS
Prompt and Reliable Service
Phone Madison 143
The Alaska Shop
When you have any work In
Plumbing or Steam
Fitting
NEW OR REPAIRS, AND
SHEET METAL WORK
R. F. TILLMAN.
Back of Brown & Hawkins
PHONE ADAMS 80
ARONERICSON
Painter and Decorator
SIGNS WALL PAPER
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Ice Cream
MADE DAILY
HIGH GRADE
Candies
FRAMED PICTURES, CURIOS
AND PHOTOGRAPHS
SYLVIA’S
Phone Adams 128
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THE SURROUNDINGS
Service and Food are the best at
FISHERS’ CAFE
PRIVATE BOOTHS DANCE ROOM
CHARLES FISHER, Prop.
Meat Buying
Made a Pleasure
OUR MEAT remains at its us
ual high standards. The only
thing cut about it is the price
—and that's so interestingly
done that you'll surely come
here.
CARSTENS PACKING COMPANY
E. KURTZ, Mgr.
MERTIE COMPLETES
SEASON’S WORK IN
INTERIOR REGIONS
LAST GEOLOGICAL PARTY THIS
DISTRICT ALASKA ON WAY
TO WASHINGTON.
On Yukon Sniail Boat
Conducts Investigations This Year
Between Nenana and Yukon
Rivers.
The work continued this year be
tween the Yukon and Nenana rivers
by J. B. Mertie, jr., geologist, in
charge of the Geological Survey par
ty in the Interior this season, was
but a continuation of the work car
ried on in previous seasons, accord
ing to Mr. Mertie, in an interview
granted the Seward Gateway. Mr.
Mertie, together with M. M. Knech
tel, his assistant, arrived in Seward
Wednesday evening from Fairbanks,
where the season’s activities came to
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Seattle, Wash.
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Lady Duofold or DoofoM Jr., $5
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included free.
Pack along a Doofold
on your vacation
Ask To See It At
ORLANDER, the Jeweler
an end.
Work Begun Yukon Territory.
“1 do not know just how it hap
pens but each season it seems my
party is about the last one of the
department that leave the Alaskan
field, Mr. Mertie remarked. This
year is no exception for I found
upon my arrival in your town that
I am just one week behind three
parties who recently passed thru
Seward.
Our party went in by way of Skag
way, last spring, June 1, and upon
our arrival at Dawson a small boat
was purchased. We had brought in
a small outboard motor which we at
tached to the small craft and set sail
down the Yukon bound for Forty
Mile where the work actually began,
in Yukon Territory. We were inter
ested in the geology in that region,
as it had a bearing on our work on
Alaska geology.”
Believes Good Country.
The North side of the river has
not been known, up to this date, as
much of a mineralized country and
on the past season’s work in the
small region covered by Mr. Mertie,
he saw nohing to warrant that it
was a mineralized region. The coun
try North, toward the Arctic range,
however, may be a mineral , coun
try, he continued. In the region tra
versed this year he visited numer
ous old camps. It is now a district
with relatively few people.
Little Change, 20 Years.
The Alaska Railroad, while it has
undoubtedly been of great assist
ance to the Fairbanks region and
down river districts, has not been
of any material benefit to the upper
river country, it is stated, for, prac
tically everything in the way of
freight and supplies is brought into
the upper Yukon river regions, via
Yukon Territory. While freight rates
and the cost of supplies have been
reduced a great deal along the Al
aska Railroad belt and at down riv
er points, freight rate and the cost
of an outfit along these upper river
SEAWARD CLUB
Under New
MANAGEMENT
OLD AND NEW
FRIENDS INVITED
ED ERICKSON
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OGLES GARAGE & FILLING STATION
Phone Madison 66
GASOLINE OILS GREASES VULCANIZING
Agent for Overland and Willys-Knights
Machine Shop in Connection
DAY AND NIGHT TAXI SERVICE
HUDSON AND STUDEBAKER CARS
Mattschei & Bolanv Machinists
Hardware -Stoves-Ranges
POWDER—CAPS—FUSE—MINERS’ SUPPLIES
SHIP CHANDLERY AND SHIP LINOLEUM
ANCHORS, ROPE AND TWINE
HALIBUT LINES AND HOOKS
Sheet Metal — Plumbing Shop — Gun Repair
J. L. GRAEF
PAINTS AND BRUSHES
BECK & WHITE
High Grade Line of
CIGARS, TOBACCOS, &
CANDIES
FINEST BILLIARD HALL IN ALASKA
points remain almost the same as
they were twenty years ago.
What that district needs, it is stat
ed, is roads and lots of them. It
is probably the one section of the
Territory where road construction
has been practically nill. The road
from Fairbanks across to Circle will
be of much benefit to the people
along the route the road passes thru
and also to the inhabitants at Cir
cle but, it is said, as far as being
of any particular worth to the hunt
ers, trappers and mining men, in
fact any of the residens along the
upper rivers, it will not be of much
benefit with respect to lowering the
cost of transporting in supplies and
material.
Member Arctic Naval Survey.
Mr. Mertie was a member of the
Dr. Phillip S. Smith, chief Alaskan
geologist, party which made an in
vestigation of the Arctic Naval sur
vey, petroleum reserve No. 4, last
year, accompanying Dr. Smith as his
assistant. The work was carried
on this year by Gerald FitzGerald,
who lately returned to the States
from Nome with his party.
Geologist Mertie has been associa
ted with Alaskan work intermittant
ly since 1911. In 1916, he compiled
a report on the lode mining in the
Fairbanks region. Prior to his ar
rival in Seward Wednesday, he had
just completed making a ten-day ex
amination of various mining proper
ties, lode and placer, more particu
larly of lode, in the Fairbanks and
Nenana districts.
With regards to his next season’s
work, it is not known as yet just
what region he will go to but there
are two regions he would like to car
ry on investigations. One of these
is the Salmon river country, in the
Porcupine country, and the other is
that section of country, near Forty
Mile.
The third member of the year’s
party, F. A, Swartmewont, cook,
passed thru Seward two weeks ago,
departing for Seattle on the S.S. Al
aska.
Mr. Mertie and Mr. Knechtel are
both guests at the Hotel Van Gil
der while waiting the arrival of the
steamer Northwestern, on which ves
sel they will leave on for Seattle,
en route to Washington, D. C.
| La Rochelle Sawmill
Begins Operations
The new sawmill of Camille La
Rochelle, on Bear Lake, was com
pleted a few days ago and is now
operating at full blast, with a crew
of four men. Mr. LaRochelle has
a number of good size contracts
which will keep the saw of the mill
buzzing for a number of months.
The Alaska Railroad will complete
the construction of a spur line road
to the mile site next spring, sur
veying having been completed.
Colored Man Hailed
Before Court, Charge
Flashing Knife in Fight
William Russell, colored, was ar
rested Wednesday by the marshal’s
office on a warrant charging him
with carrying concealed weapons.
In the Commissioner’s court, Russell
was fined $100 and given a 100-day
suspended jail sentence on condi
tion he would leave town on the
first boat. He has decided to leave
town.
Russell arrived in Seward over a
month ago from the Westward can
nery where he had been employed
during the past season. It is stated
he flashed a knife, with a blade five
inches in length, on a white man,
Tuesday evening.
Miss Helen McCumber of Chehalis,
Wash., spent the summer digging
medicinal roots and barks, which she
sold for enough to pay her first year’s
expenses in college.
Miss Millauro of London, not yet of
a%e, is considered one of the most ex
pert makers of artificial eyes in the
world.
Miss Annabel Matthews, of Gaines
ville, Ga., is the first woman to be ap
pointed an attorney in the office of so
licitor of internal revenue.
In the spring the young man’s fancy
lightly turns to thoughts of work.—
Arkansas Gazette.