R. A. Pope Describes
Alaska Communications Co.
Mr. R. A. Pope, head of the Alaska
Communications, a corporation de
signed to take over the radio and tel
ephonic communications in Alaska,
arrived on Saturday’s boat and left to
day for a trip to the Interior. In an
interview with a representative of the
Gateway, Mr. Pope said:
"My motive in establishing a radio
telephone and telegraphic service
throughout Alaska is a disinterested
one, financially. I love Alaska and
wish to spend the greater part of my
time here, and to further my project
have laid aside the majority of my
mining plans this year, and am devot
ing practically all my time to com
pleting this Alaska Communications
service. My motive may be express
ed in one sentence, ‘What can I do for
Alaska ” I feel that the most impor
tant asset for Alaska is communica
tion—telephone and telegraph. So
many enterprises are jeopardized by
lack of men, lack of supplies and lack
of communication at a critical time;
and when an enterprise fails it hurts
Alaska. I could have saved thousands:
of dollars in my mining camp alone if
I could have had instant communica
tion with Seward. We are going to
make it possible for every hamlet,
camp and town in Alaska to be in in
stant communication with important
centers here in the Territory and
with the outside cheaply and effi
ciently. We believe the enterprise
will pay for itself in the future and
ultimately will pay dividends and
make itself self-supporting.
We expect to have our first Wash
ington station completed before fall
the location having already been de
cided upon.
“In saying we will improve the ser
vice and reduce the rates, we do not
wish to underrate or disparage the
great service rendered by the Army
and Navy for Alaska—but governmen
tal service has different objective and
a different viewpoint than commercial
service. A governmental service can
not secure an appropriation ar or.c^—
in fact a great passage of rime often
elapses—for improvement*}. thus hin
dering the advancenu nt.
“The greatest drawback to govern
ment telegraphic service is the pri
ority given government business over
commercial business.”
“A tariff agreement has been made
with the Western Union Telegraph
Company which will do much toward
the rapid relaying of messages thru
the United States and Europe. Offices
of the Alaskan service will b*- contig
out to Western Union offices. This
will especially expedite the sending of
messages destined for points thruout
this country and abroad.
"In regard to news our idea there
is to handle press service at cost, be
lieving that the maximum amount of
news can be interchanged between
Alaska and the states and will in
crease the Alaska Communication’s
service, and thus thru this increas
ed volume a satisfactory dividend for
the investors will ultimately be mauo
certain.
“Some of he leading and most im
portant bus'ness men of Alaska and
the Northwest, at my solicitation,
have instituted co:npieh<n-ive inves
tigations and wiii in the n-ar future
make a lcpor: indotsiur tin- needs of
service f: n: a u' * u. • * e . -* 1 and in
teptich-nt point of view Ati'iih^r el>
jective the have is after proving the
competency of the company to render
service on a sound business basis, is
to give the investors a chance to
participate in the earnings; but only
after the directors have proved their
competency to render the high qual
ity of service they have set us a stan
dard and proven that the financial
soundness of the undertaking.
“By such co-operative participation
we believe the company wm auto
matically and substantially reduce the
rates and increase the business. The
company plans to establish a 24-hour
watch in all principal stations—an
improvement over the b-hour watch
which has proved a handicap, not only
to the steamship companies, but tc
tourists, hotel managements, in fact,
to all transient people traveling thru
out the Territory or to the States.
One of the most important results
of the kind of service we hope to
esiablish will be the reduction of the
ccst of mining. Every time the min
ing costs are reduced more mines
will be investigated and operated.
This will be affected in part by the
elimination of an enormous part of
time spent in attending the arrival of
trains or boats, which will be obviat
ed by an exact knowledge of all trans
portation carriers. This knowledge
will ultimately be available to every
town, hamlet, camp, and fox farm in
this great northern empire. Not only
knowledge, but pleasure will be dis
seminated—all the news and programs
and musical concerts of the States
will be possible as a large broadcast
ing station will be installed.
In order to realize the ideals of
service it will be necesasry for the
Alaskan Communication to have the
co-operation and sympathy of all true
Alaskans and it will reciprocate in
every way to the fullest of its ability.
“The initial installation will have a
capacity of 100,000 words per day and
the capacity will be increased as busi
ness warrants, everything equipped to
do business in the most modern and
thorough way.”
MARSHAL STENS TAKING IN
MACHINERY FOR DREDGE
United States Marshal Stevens of
the Fourth division, who arrived in
Seward Saturday from the States,
where he conveyed a number of in
sane, spent Sunday in town, leaving
on today’s train for his home at Fair
banks. Mr. Stevens stated that one
of his prisoners, a Japanese, jumped
overboard and drowned. The man
jerked away from his guard and out
running him^ precipitated himself
over the side, never coming to the
surface.
Mr. Stevens is taking in a quantity
of machinery and supplies for his
dredging company, and is very optim
istic over the future of Fairbanks as
a mining camp, stating that much of
the old ground can be dredged at a
profit of thirty cents a foot. He be
lieves there are hundreds of millions
of dollars which can be recovered by
this method.
A Dodge sedan car with railroad
flanged wheels, arrived on the Alaska
for use by the commission.
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before the Klondike rush
Even before the great Klondike Rush of 1897, Frye & Com
pany were furnishing Alaska with much of her meat sup
ply. And we are still serving her. In all these years our
choice meat products have seen the foundation of many
thousands of fine meals in the homes and public eating
places of Alaskans. In sustaining our reputation for
serving the people of the North with the very best, we
offer you
rye’s
Delicious
Hams and Bacon
EVERYTHING THE NAME IMPLIES
Your dealer very likely handles them; if not he can get
them for vou, and we ask that vou erive them a trial. We
are confident that if you do FRYE’S DELICIOUS HAMS
AND BACON will have a place in your home and you
will remember them and ask that they be served to you
in restaurants and hotels.
More than thirty years experience in the manufacture of
meat nroducts has taught us that to produce “100 per
cent'* hams and bacon calls for choice, young, tender, grain
fed pork, cured and smoked in such a way that the meat
will have a mild, rich flavor with all the fine juices re
tained. Such is
FRYE’S DELICIOUS BRAND HAMS and
BACON, and FRYE’S WILD ROSE LARD
should appeal to every Alaska housewife who
wants something better than ordinary lard. The
rich leaf and back fats in WILD ROSE LARD
are reasons why it is so much better; it comes
in tin containers and one pound cartons.
Ask your dealer for FRYE’S QUALITY
PRODUCTS; if he does not handle them, he can
obtain them for you.
FRYE & COMPANY
SEATTLE
CORN MUFFIN-FRITTERS
These are quicker to cook than
fritters and are delicious with country
gravy made from ham drippings and
with fried ham. Makes 12.
INGREDIENTS: 1 can corn, 2 eggs,
2 tablespoons melted WILD ROSE
LARD, 1 cup flour, 2 level teaspoons
baking powder, y2 teaspoon salt, 1
tablespoon sugar.
METHOD: Beat eggs with corn, add
melted lard, add dry ingredients
sifted together, pour into hot greased
muffin tins and put in medium oven.
Let rise slowly and evenly, bake 20
minutes.
Saturday Gateway, $3 per year.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
In Probate
In the United States Commissioner’s
Court in and for the Territory of
Alaska, Third Division, Unga-Penin
sula Precinct at Unga. In Probate.
In the Matter of the Estate of G. R.
Cunningham, Deceased.
Notice is hereby given that the un
dersigned, Mary F. Cunningham, was
duly appointed administratrix of the
estate of George Rankin Cunningham,
deceased, on the 19th day of May, A.
D. 1923. All persons having claims
against the said estate are hereby re
quired to present the same with the
proper vouchers, within six months
from the date of this notice to the
undersigned administratrix, at Unga,
Alaska
MARY F. CUNNINGHAM,
Administratrix of the Estate of George
Rankin Cunningham, Deceased.
Publish in daily, Mondays, July 2, 9,
16, 23, 30, 1923. 5t
FORFEITURE NOTICE.
Seward, Alaska, March 23, 1923.
To A. F. SPRAGUE, his heirs, execu
tors, and assigns:—
You are hereby notified that I have
expended during the year 1920 and
during the period January 1, 1921, to
July 1, 1922, the sum of two hundred
dollars ($200.00) in labor and im
provements on each of che following
lode mining claims, situate on Gilpat
rick Mountain in the Kenai Recording
Precinct, Third Division, Territory ol
Alaska, to-wit: Summit, Lisbon, Olym
pia, Hattie, Meat-in-the Poc and Clara,
recorded respectively at Page 132,
Book 4, Page 133, Book 4, Page 132,
Book 4, Page 46, Book 5, Page 84,
Book 5, and Page 46, Book 5. Said
books mentioned being records of min
ing locations of the Kenai Recording
Precinct aforesaid.
All of the said expenditures were
made to hold said claims under Sec
tion 2324, Revised Statutes of the
United States, and all amendments
thereto, concerning annual labor on
mining claims, being the amount re
quired to hold said claims for the year
1920, and the period ending July 1,
1922. And if within ninety days after
the publication of this notice you fail
or refuse to contribute your propor
tionate share of such expenditure,
which amounts to Three-three dollars,
Thirty-three cents ($33.33) each for
the Summit, Lisbon, Olympia, and
Hattie Claims; Fifty Dollars ($50) for
the Meat-in_the-Pot Claim and Twen
ty-five Dollars ($25) for the Clara
claim, then your interest in said
claims will become the property of the
subscriber, one of the co-owners who
has made the required expenditure as
herein stated, by the terms of said
section and laws.
GUS BROWN.
Date first publication May 12, 1923.
Date Last publication Aug. 11, 1923.
Run fourteen weeks in Sat., continu.
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LONG DRAWN OUT NEGOTIATIONS BETWEEN
ENGLAND AND FRANCE OVER RUHR LEAVE
STRAINED RELATIONS
LONDON, July 10.—Premier Stanley Baudwin an
nounced last night before the House of Commons that he
would lay before Parliament Thursday all the facts in the
ion? drawn out fruitless negotiations which Lord Curzon
and ho. have ronducted with Premier Poincare for settle
ment of the porblems arising out of the occupation of the
Ruhr and Rhineland, and the reparations question. His
remarks indicated that a grave situation had arisen be
tween France and Britain over the Ruhr occupation.
ONCE REMOTE DISTRICT NOW
HAS NETWORK ROADS
OLYMPIA, July 10.—Nine years ago
it was nearly impossible to reach the
Olympic peninsula unless one went by
boat and then traveled a long ways
afoot. There are now three routes—
auto road, steamer service and a rail
road. Moreover the O^mpic penin
sula is honeycombed with auto stage
lines serving territory opened up the
past few years.
Dry Cleaning done at Jordan’s Val
et Service. tf
O. K. Barber Shop
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