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Each Week.
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FOOD FOR THOUGMT
Approximately four billion feet of
timber was used last year to
replacb wood destroyed by decay.
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& CO.
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SEWARD, ALASKA
“Good Water a Necessity in Every Home”
John Nelson, Mgr. Wayne Blue, Agent
Office, Arcade Building. Phone Main 17
Capt. 0. A. Johansen.
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FOR BRISTOL BAY SEPT. 6
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PHONE MADISON 139 SEWARD, ALASKA
ALASKA STEAMSHIP CO.
Vessel
Alaska
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Alaska
Lv Seattle
Northbound
Aug. 28
Sept. 4
Sept. 11
Sept. 18
Sept. 25
Oct. 2
Oct. 9
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Southbound
Sept. 5
Sept. 11
Sept. 18
Sept. 25
Oct. 2
Oct. 9
Oct. 16
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J. H. FLICKINGER, Agent.
S.S. ADMIRAL WATSON
Leaves
Seattle
Aug. 31
Arrives
Seward
Sept. 7
Sails South
from Seward
Sept. 15th
Aug. 17
S.S. ADMIRAL EVANS
Aug. 24
Sept. 1*
(*) Connecting with train
WAYNE BLUE, Agent
Telephone Main 81
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Residence Madison 40
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H.F. ALEXANDER. PRESIDENT
jrL.fc.NTY OF Mluiv
Holstein cow owned by S. W. Detericb, Colville, Washington,
gives nine gallons of milk per day. It is necessary to milk her
morning, noon and night.
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among which are the lack of adequate
transportation facilities. This can
not be provided at once. Its growth
will be slow and only as demand re
quires but the first logical step in this
direction is for the government to ex
tend as rapidly as possible the hydro
graphic surveys to this section and to
provide lights, lighthouses and other
aids to render navigation of these wa
ters reasonably safe both summer
and winter.
“It is difficult for the mind to grasp
the tremendous coast line of Alaska.
Figures may help to convey some idea
of its vast extent. Measured by a
three mile unit. Alaska’s cpast line
extends a distance of 15.132 miles
while, measured by the same unit, the
coast line of the United States bor
| dering on the Atlantic, the Gulf of
Mexico and the Pacific extends a dis
tance of 12.S77 miles. That the gov
ernment has not done its full duty
towards Alaska in the matter of coast
line surveys, necessary to safe naviga
tion, is shown by the fact that while
we have owned Alaska for 59 years
there is only nine per cent of its
coast line surveyed while the coast
line of the Philippines that we have
owned for about 28 years has 64 per
cent of its coast line surveyed. In
cluded in the 91 per cent of the un
surveyed coastline of Alaska is the
southern and southwestern part. The
coastline of Alaska is too vast for one
lighthouse district. An additional
lighthouse district should be created
for southern and southwestern Alaska
with headquarters at Seward or Ko
diak and a lighthouse tender assigned
to it. When adequate surveys, lights
and other necessary aids to navigation
are provided rendering the plying of
these waters reasonably safe for life
and property it will be a step towards
the ultimate settlement and develop
ment of a section of the Territory of
great potential wealth. Seward, it
seems to me, should take the lead in
the agitation for the establishment of
such a lighthouse district.
“One of the infant but growing in
dustries of Southwestern Alaska is
fox farming. Heretofore, except in
the National Forests or Bird reserves,
there has been no way for the fox
farmer to obtain a lease or even a
permit to occupy the public domain.
All he had was a squatters right and
that was not exclusive. But the bill
prepared by the Department of the
Interior and introduced by Mr. Sin
nott of Oregon, chairman of the Pub
lic Lands committee of the House and
which has now become a law, pro
vides for the leasing of the public do
main for fox raising and other pur
poses and will undoubtedly encourage
REV. 0. HOTQVITSKY
IMPROVES VILLAGE
—
RUSSIAN PRIEST BUILDS ONE OF!
MOST MODERN VILLAGES
IN TERRITORY
Reverend D. Hotovitsky, Russian
priest, ■well known throughout south
western Alaska, came aboard the
Starr at Belkofsky where he has been
stationed for several years. Recently
he purchased a large gasboat and
has been actively engaged in fishing
salmon, his catch finding ready sale at
King Cove.
Due to the efforts of Rev. Hotovitsky
the little native village of Belkofsky,
population about 100, has become one
of the most modern in the Territory.
All homes are equipped with electric
lights, sanitary conditions are excel
lent, and the town is well laid out
and neatly painted. Under Hotovits
kv’s guidance, the natives have pros
pered. all of them having incomes of
more then enough for every need.
FALSE PASS CANNERY
EAST WORD MODERISM
_
The E. F. Harris cannery at False
Pass had packed 110,000 cases up to
Aug, 14, an exceptional pack. This
cannery is one of the best equipped
in the world, being the last word in
modern equipment and efficiency.
and promote that industry and put it
on a more stable basis.
“I expect to see the day when
Southwestern Alaska will be a very
! important part of the Territory from
the standpoint of permanent popula
tion and commercial prosperity.”
Mr. Marquam departs for Fairbanks
tomorrow where he has been invited j
to deliver an address during the Tan
ana fair which began at Fairbanks to
day. From the Interior city he goes
i to Anchorage where he also received
i an invitation from the Southwestern
■ Alaska Fair association to make an
address next week, at which time the
Anctforage fair opens. Mr. Marquam
has not yet decided just what itiner
ary will be, following his Anchorage
visit but may take a brief run down
Cook Inlet.
Yesterday he was a guest at the
Seward Chamber of Commerce lun
cheon and business meeting, which
was held at Fisher’s cafe. There he
gave the large gathering an interest
ing account of his recent trip on the
steamer Starr in which he pointed out
many of the vital needs of those dis
tricts and of the importance of local
co-operation in furthering Westward
development.
Fruit Jars at J. L. Graef’s.
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FRESH MILK AND
CREAM
We ought to drink
some milk each day for
would surely make us
healthy,
and after we get old
and grey our health
would make us wealthy.
A glass of milk three time a day
Takes many of your cares away.
SEWARD DAIRY
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The New Howard-Jesson
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Run
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