s S. ADMIRAL WATSON
Sails from
Seattle
July 1st.
Arrives
Seward
Seward
South tin
July 8th. July 15.
S. S. ADMIRAL EVANS
July 22 July 29.
July 15
Calling at all regular S outheastern and South
western Alaska ports in eluding Anchorage and
Kodiak.
WAYNE BLUE, Agent
Telephone Main 81 % Res., Madison 40
Pacific Coastwise Jervice
a*ADMIRAL LINE
iH.F. ALEXANDER.
HOTEL ANCHORAGE
F. I. REED, Proprietor
Strictly Modem Prices Reasonable
Steam Heat . Good Service
HOT AND COLD WATER IN EVERY ROOM
Rooms wi*th Bath. Sample Rooms in Connection
Bus meets all trains and boats
ANCHORAGE, ALASKA
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! HOTEL SEXTON j
1 Seward’s Homey Hotel.
“Where the Oldtimers Meet/’
I GEORGE SEXTON, Proprietor. I
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send to
Seward Steam Laundry
Telephone Main 148
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Frye-Bruhn Company
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SEWARD NEWS COMPANY
GEORGE PHELPS
BOOKSELLERS STATIONERS NEWS DEALERS
Seward Machine Shop
"* Ford Authorized Sales & Service
Industrial SEWARD Near Dock
Fresh Bread, Pies, Cakes and Confec
tions Constantly in stcok
Seward Bakery
Correct Styles—
Reasonable Prices
GHAS. H. MUELLER, Inc.
Exclusive Furs
DESIGNING— MANUFACTURING—FURRIERS
WE MAKE UP YOUR OWN FURS
Satisfaction Guaranteed
Remodeling 1619 2nd Ave—Seattle Repairing
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SEWARD AS BANKING
CENTER IS UNEXCELLED
No bettor guide to local conditions
can be found than thj^ recent report
on the financial condition of the local
bank. The official publication of the
Bank of Seward’s financial condition
is printed in today’s Gateway, and a
study of this report shows consid
erable progress in Seward during the
past fiscal year. According to the re
port nearly a quarter of a million
dollars has been loaned in this com
munity. The deposits are approxi
mately one third of a million dollars
and a comparison with last year’s
statement shows tremendous gains.
Loans have increased over 29 per
cent.
United States Bonds and other pa
pers held by the Bank of Seward are
over 65 per cent greater than last
year.
The total resources of the bank,
allowing for depreciation on bank
building and fixtures, have increased
over 17 per cent.
Deposits in the bank have increas
ed IS per cent over the preceding
year.
The activity of the market and the
healthy condition of the bank is dem
onstrated by an analysis of the bank
funds earning interest.
Although the deposits have only
increased 18 per cent approximately
there is 77 per cent less currency
and specie carried in the bank vaults
and but 12 per cent more money due
from outside banks, roughly estimat
ed. Sixty-five per cent more revenue
is being collected by the bank than
heretofore, reflecting the ability of
the bank’s officers.
Bank earnings during the past year
have increased 23 per cent over last
year, and the safety of the institu
tion is shown in the surplus and un
divided profits of the bank which art
greater than 53 per cent of the bank
total capitalization.
Taking the report as a whole we
believe it to show that Seward is the
wealthiest town per capita in the
world.
Eaton Crane & Pike Stationery, at
Schallerer’s Alaska Shop. tf.
SILVER NUGGET WEIGHING
OVER TWO TONS SHOWN
LONDON, July 11—A silver nugget
weighing two and one-half tons, from
northern Ontario, the largest ever tak
en from a silver mine, is proving a
magnate to thousands of daily visi
tors to the Canadian Pavilion, housing
the Dominion’s exhibits at the British
Empire Exposition.
Fresh cigars and tobaccos at Schal
lerer’s Alaska Shop. tf.
LOS ANGELES LUMBER
PLANT IS DESTROYED
LOS ANGELES, July 11^-Flames
declared by sheriff’s deputies to be of
incendiary origin early today swept
through the Jones Lumber company
of Palomar, a few miles south of here,
causing a loss estimated at $100,000.
A fire bucket filled with oil instead of
water, four plants of inflamable rub
bish, and a cut fire hose, investigators
say, reveal the arson plot.
WHAT’S AT MILE V/z
The prettiest spot in Alaska; a lake
and river and the best sand beach >’n
the North'and; end best on the map
for the sportsman. A camp meeting
ground and a dance floor, and the
music is always wound up. Ice cold
lemonade, fruits and sandwiches al
ways on hand for the autolst or fisher
man. Play Mile IV2 and don’t miss
it or you haven’t seen Alaska if you
00.
Ladies’ and Gents’ Alfalfa Harvest
ing—O. K. Barber Shop. tf.
Classified Advertising
FOR RENT—Furnished apartments,
See Mrs. Paulson. tf
FOR RENT—Pleasant room in private
home for man and wife. Call Madi
son 45. tf.
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WANTED—Clean cotton rags suit
able for wiping machinery at the
Gateway office. Ten cents per pound
paid for large rage and 5 cents for
smaller pieces.
FOR SALE—Three room hous^ with
bath at sacrifice. Mrs. Chas. Krefting.
WANTED—Cook and Fisherman for
herring seineboat, apply Gateway.3t
FOR SALE—Two tenths interest in
producing placer claims on Mills
creek, Moose Pass district. Claim
has three cabins, blacksmith shop,
No. One Giant, 200 feet head of
water and all tools. Cheap at $5,000
cash; money to be used in develop
ing ground. Sale must be made by
August first. Inquire Robert Mich
aelsen ,Moose Pass. tf
ALASKA
From Dixon’s Entrance to Point Bar
row,
In summer’s sun and winter’s snow,
From cold that chills you to the mar
row
To suns that make the roses blow;
No nearer can we lowly mortals
Be to paradise above,
Than this paradise around us,
Fair Alaska, land we love .
Snow clad mountains touching heaven,
Mothers of the sparkling streams,
Zezus, the god of tempests, even
Pauses in his work and dreams;
Dreams of heaven in its beauty,
And1 the wondrous land below,
And unmindful of his duty
Lets the gentle zephyr blow.
He who once has drained the nectar
From Alaska’s golden cup,
And by perverse fates is banished,
Ever, shall his eyes look up;
To that land of sparkling waters,
And his heart shall faster beat,
For that queen of nature’s daughters,
Spot where earth and heaven meet.
—W. C. L.
HOLBROOK COMPLETES
FORESTRY SURVEY
National Forest Examiner Wellman
Holbrook, who has been for the past
two months engaged in land classi
fication work on the Kenai penin
sula finished his work and is now
in the vicinity of Cordova. Mr. Hol
brook’s work is in line with the pol
icy of the forest service in classify
ing all national forest lands as to
their chief value for growing of tim
ber, water power, agricultural use,
such as for summer homes.
This work has been in progress
in southeastern Alaska for the past
several years, and now the Kenai pe
ninsula has just been completed.
The preliminary work designates
areas that may have values for pur
poses other than the growing of tim
ber and is followed by an intensive
examination and a final decision
as to dominant value.
Areas suitable for cultivation are
segregated, surveyed into farm units
and opened to entry under the for
est homestead law.
Areas chiefly valuable for growing
of timber, waterpower or other use
are designated as permanent forest
land and will not be opened to entry.
The classification is for the pur
pose of assisting prospective settlers
in securing homesteads.
PACKING OF KING
CRABS AT SELDOVIA
An industry which will in time |
bring millions of dollars into the dis
trict js the packing of the gigantic
spider or king crab, found principally
around Seldovia. The crab is a deep
sea crustacean and found only at
I great depths, its meat being white,
and much better than the common
I crab meat% Up to the time the Sel
i dovia fisheries were discovered it is
'stated that nearly two hundred thou
sand cases a year were imported into
Japan. The product sells in Seattle
at $32 per case and is hard to get
at the price.
Facts obtained by the Fisheries
bureau show that the crabs come in
to Kachemak bay only during the
mating season. The male crab comes
into the shallow waters with the
female clutched tightly in one huge
claw. Following a short stay in the
waters of the bay they depart, but
where to is a mystery. At times they
pile up three or four feet deep, and
are then speared by the natives by
the hundreds. These crabs are from
live to eight feet across and resem
ble a huge spider. They yield a large
quantity of pure white meat.
BRITISH ARMY DEVELOPS
RUST REMOVING PROCESS
LONDON, July 11—Following sev
eral years’ experimenting, the Re
search Laboratory of the British Army,
announces the discovery of a process
by which rust can be removed from
old army stores and materials quickly
and cheaply.
Thousands of dollars can be saved
annually by the use of the process
it is claimed.
Every article is conveyed automati
cally to a bath of alkali through which
an electric current is passed and then
passes into a hot water tank where it
is cleaned. After a coat of linseed oil
and petroleum jelly is applied it is
said that the*formation of rust is en
tirely checked.
BACK FROM DIAMOND FIELDS
Wm. Hesse, an old timer of Alaska,
returned on the steamship Admiral
Watson from British Guiana, where
he has been prospecting for some
time in the diamond fields of the
i|£rict north of Georgetown. This
district is immensely rich and many
Americans are to be found in the
fields, but traveling is expensive and
the climate unhealthy.
ALASKA
STEAMSHIP CO.
SOUTHWESTERN ALASKA
ROUTE SCHEDULE
Vessel
NORTHWESTERN
ALASKA __
YUKON ....
NORTHWESTERN
Lv. Seattle
July 5.
July 12th.
July 19th.
July 26th.
Ar. Seward
July 12.
July 19th
July 26th.
Aug. 2nd.
So. fm Seward
July 13.
July 20th.
July 27th.
Aug. 3rd.
Ships in the above schedule sail from Pier Two, Seattle, at 9 A. M. each sail
ing date and Will call at Ketchikan, Wrangell, Juneau, Cordova, Valdez, Latouche
and Seward, both north and soiiThbound.
STEAMER REDONDO connects at Seward every Saturday with ships in the
above schedule, carrying passengers and freight for Seldovia, Halibut Cove, Port
Graham, Port Chatham, Ninilchik, Kenai, Snug Harbor, Anchorage, Kodiak, Kukak
Bay, Red Pox suy, Afognak, Ouzinki, Uyak, and Uganik, when amount of busi
ness warrants.
Steamers for Seattle are scheduled to leave Seward not earlier than 2 P. M.
Sunday, sailing date.
J. II. FLICKINGER, Agent
Phone Mad. 149 Seward, Alaska
STEAMSHIP STARR
The steamship Starr will sail for Westward ports in
cluding Bristol Bay ports July 13tli.
San Juan Fishing and Packing Co.
G. C. HENDERSON, Agent
PHONE MADISON 13»>. SEWARD, ALASKA
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CAL M. BROSIUS
Builders’ Supplies
SEWARD WATER &
POWER COMPANY
SEWARD, ALASKA
“Good Water a Necessity in Every Home’*
JOHN NELSON, Manager, WAYNE BLUE, Agent
OFFICE ARCADE BUILDING *
_ VAN GILDER HOTEL
HOT AND COLD WATER IN EVERY ROOM
i STEAM HEAT
1 J. S. BADGER
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HOTEL SEWARD
OSCAR DAHL, Proprietor
I HOMEY, COMFORTABLE ROOMS AND BATH
Convenient to Depot and Dock
HOTEL OVERLAND
“ A HOME WITH A WELCOME”
Madison 120 MEL HORNER, Mgr.
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