SEWARD WATER &
POWER COMPANY
SEWARD, ALASKA
“Good Water a Necessity in Every Home”
JOHN NELSON, Manager, WAYNE BLUE, Agent
OFFICE ARCADE BUILOINO
Dr. J. A. Baughman
Physician and Surgeon
CHRONIC DISEASES A SPECIALTY
Phone Madison 90. Seward, Alaska
0. K. BARBER SHOP
Clean, Sar.tiary Baths, Expert
Barbers and Reasonable Prces
Keep Us Busy.
HARRY BOWERS, Manager
PIONEER CLUB
John Nash, propr.
SOFT DRINKS, CANDY
CIGARS AND FRUITS
CITY EXPRESS
Billy Patterson
Meets All Boats and Trains
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MOORE & BEAU
Gore Bldg. Adams 145
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TINTING
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CREAM—
and all
Dairy Products
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“THE BEST”
SEWARD DAIRY
TAILORING
Come In and Get Measured for
a Suit. Guaranteed Fit.
C. HENNING
Seward, Alaska
Mrs. Myrtle Bradford of Green
ville, 111., has been made president of
a national bank in that town.
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W. D. CoppernoU
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT
LAW
Will Practice in All Courts of the
Territory
SEWARD, ALASKA
SEE
Curtis R. Morford
FOR FIRE INSURANCE
Dr. A. R. Roberts
DENTIST
Dental and General
X-RAY WORK
New Tecklenberg Bldg.
Phone Mad. 108 - - - Seward, Alasks
Aaron E. Rucker
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Office in Benson Building
PHONE MADISON 114
;
Hugh Dougherty
REAL ESTATE AND FIRE
INSURANCE
AGENT FOR
Equitable Life Assurance
Society
TELEPHONES
I Bus. Adams 152 Res., Madison 58
For Electrical Work
CALL TOM 0SB0
Residence—Madison 123
HOTEL SEXTON
GEORGE SEXTON, Proprietor
SEWARD’S HOMEY HOTEL, WHERE THE OLDTIMERS
MEET
VAN GILDER HOTEL
rtOT AND COLD WATER IN EVERY ROOM
STEAM HEAT
J. S. BADGER
HOTEL SEWARD
OSCAR DAHL, Proprietor
HOMEY, COMFORTABLE ROOMS AND BATH
Convenient to Depot and Dock
PRAISES ALASKA
RAILROAD HOTEL
LOCATED CURRY
SOUTHERN WRITER TELLS OF
IMPRESSIONS GAINED OF
FAIRBANKS-ANCHOR AGE
Third Article of the Series
Seward Visitor Relates Trip Down
Alaska Railroad—Says Hotel
Is One of Best.
Fairbanks, Anchorage and Lawing
receive an interesting writeup in the
“Great Alaskan Country” series of
articles which F. P. Roper, the Lodi
Sentinel newspaperman has been
writing for his paper since his re
turn to the Californian city. This
is the third article which the Sew
ard Gateway has published in which
the Southern scribe describes his re
cent trip to this district of the Ter
ritory:
Siwashed An Evening.
Fairbanks, July 30.—Now we’re all
turned around in our sleeping and
eating habits, and don’t know when
we’ll get back to n odern method! of
living. Last night at midnight, in
broad daylight, we were on the b inks
of the Chatanika riwi, about o0 m* ■.?
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Gram's
otinen dtaton
f THE CORRECT WRITtNO PAPER ]
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
Odd Fellows
Hall. All visit
i n g Biembers
welcome.
PETER N. ANDERSON, Dictator.
M. A. HORNER, Secretary.
SEWARD LODGE NO 219, F. & A. M.
Stated communications first
^}«H^and third Wednesdays of each
/\r\month; visiting brethren wel
come, J. P. Hannon, W. M.; Harold
Painter, Secretary.'
RESURRECTION LODGE NO. A-7,
I. O. O. F.
—3===^ Meets every Thursday at
8:00 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.
I
SEWARD CHAPTER NO. 10, ORDER
OF EASTERN STAR
Mrs. Viola
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.
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 8:0G
p. m. Visiting mem
bers are always wel
come. Mrs. John
Rosness, V. Q.
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
north of here, eating fried grayling
fish and drinking coffee, cooked over !
a camp fire. We returned to Fair
banks at 3 this morning, had break
fast at noon today and have been
sleeping most of the time since. It
was an interesting fishing trip. We
passed thru the deserted mining vil
lages of Fox, Cleary and Gilmore,
where the hands of man with pick
and shovel upturned the soil for
many miles in these rich gulches
during the stampede of 1904-10. I
was informed at the bank here that
this section has already produced
more than $100,000,000 in gold, but
that now it has dwindled down to
about a million dollars annually. The
peak was reached in 1908 to 1910,
when ten to twelve million dollars
were annually taken from these rich
gulches. Now there is but one or
two mines in operation, and they are
being run upon large scales, clean
ing up the gold left by the early-day
miners. Practically all of these
gulches have been purchased by the
Fairbanks Exploration company, of
Boston, which is backed by the Am
erican Smelting & Refining company.
This company contemplates com
mencing operations soon to dredge
out most of. the gulches on a large
and modern scale. It is the general j
belief that there has been more gold |
left by the miners than was taken.
Fishing Not So Good.
The road leading out to and be
yond this mining district is known
as the Circle trail, and will even
tually run clear thru to Circle City.
At present they are working upon
the road at both ends.
The fishing ia3t night was not as
good as expected. However, we man
aged to land about 20 pounds, altho
we fished hard from 6 to 11 p. m.
There was no darkness here last
night. Between 11:30 p. m. and mid
night, while we were eating supper,
j there was a slight haze, but it wras j
still light enough to see to read a j
newspaper. From midnight on it j
I commenced to get lighter. At 2:50 a.
i m., just bfore we reached Fairbanks,
the sun was shining brightly. It came j
up at nearly the same place it had .
set, only a little farther north.
Visit Aggie College.
On board Alaska Government Rail
road, July 31.—Yesterday we met At
torney John A. Clark, formerly of
Stockton, who took us into the coun
try to see the government experimen
tal gardens and the agricultural col
lege. Attorney Clark had taken Mr.
and Mrs. Geo. Lawrence on this trip
a few weeks ago.
It is quite remarkable what they
have accomplished at these gardens.
One hundred acres are under culti
vation, and 25 varieties of grain are
being raised. Each plat of grain con
sists of one-tenth of an acre. On©
of the objects is to propagate varie
ties of grains that are acclimated to
that particular section, and that will
mature during the short season of
about three months of summer weath
er. This i3 being accomplished. We
saw Russian wheat that wa3 planted
May 10 that is now headed out nice
ly and will be ready to thresh with
in 90 day3 from the date of planting.
At this farm the government is also
demonstrating that by rotation farm
ers can successfully raise grain crops
in this region. One of the greatest
drawbacks is the high cost of clear
ing the land and getting it in condi
tion to plant. Grain does best on
the southern slopes of the hills. Be
sides clearig the land of trees and
brush, there is a covering of moss
from six inches to two feet, which
has to be raked into rows, dried
and burned before the land is any
account for cultivation.
College Progressing.
The agricultural college, located
about three miles from Fairbanks, is
making rapid progress for the three
years it has been running. The build
iug now represents an outlay of
$225,000. The Territory of Alaska
furnished the building and employes
teachers for certain subjects, while
the federal government has appropri
ated $50,000 per year for equipment
and general maintenance. Subjects
that are of prime interest, to the peo
ple of Alaska are being taught. In
the mining department is the latest
improved machinery, of miniature
size, but in full operation. The col
lege is upon a hill, where a beauti
ful view of the country can be seen.
At the foot of this hill, and running
directly beneath the college is a
quartz mine of low grade ore, run
ning about $10 per ton. The pupils
| are given practical training by actu
] ally mining the ore, milling it and
retorting the gold.
! In the science department are won
i derful specimens of mastedon bones
j and mammoth tusks, dug from the
j frozen earth in that section, where
| they, have probably been for thous
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