ALASKA
STEAMSHIP CO.
SOUTHWESTERN ALASKA
ROUTE SCHEDULE
Vessel
ALASKA
Scheduled
l_v. Seattle
_Dec. 15th
Dec. 22nd
VICTORIA
NORTHWESTERN Dec. 29th
ALASKA Jan- 5th
VICTORIA Jan. 12th
NORTHWESTERN Jan. 19th
Scheduled
Ar. Seward
Dec. 22nd
Dec. 29th
Janu. 5th
Jan. 12th
Jan. 19th
Jan. 26th
Saheduled
So. fm Seward
Dec. 22nd
Dec. 29th
Janu. 5th
Jan. 12th
Jan. 19th
Jan. 26th
'ships in the above"schedule ^ cal, ai Ketchikan, Wrangell. Juneau
Cordova, Valdez, Lalouche, and Seward, both not 11 ant
Northwestern calls at Petersburg both ways. Prinpp Ruoert
Victoria sailing Dec. 22nd and Jan. 12th w ca a
both north and southbound. Northwestern in above schedule will cal.
at Hyder and Stewart, northbound only.
J. H. FLICKINGER, Agent
Phone Mad. 149
Seward, Alaska
HOTEL ANCHORAGE
F. I. REED, Proprietor
Strictly Modern Prices Reasonable
Steam Heat Good Service
HOT AND COLD WATER IN EVERY ROOM
Rooms with Bath. Sample Rooms in Connection
Bus meets all trains and boats
ANCHORAGE, ALASKA
For Light, Dainty Lunches, Go To
NORTH POLE BAKERY
ANCHORAGE, ALASKA
JOHN J. MEYER, Prop.
Do Not Bother
Washing at Home
send to
Seward Steam Laundry
r Telephone Main 148
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SEWARD NEWS COMPANY
GEORGE PHELPS
BOOKSELLERS STATIONERS NEWS DEALERS
Seward Machine Shop
CHARLES LECHNER, Proprietor
Motor Boats, Oil Drilling Machinery and Sawmill
Machinery Quickly Repaired
PLUMBING AND HEATING 8HEET METAL W0RK8
TELEPHONE MADISON 56
Get Your Homemade
MINCE PIES AND FRUIT CAKE
for Christmas at the
Seward Bakery
Correct Styles—
Reasonable Prices
CHAS. H. MUELLER, Inc.
Exclusive Furs
DESIGNING— MANUFACTURING—FURRIERS
WE MAKE UP YOUR OWN FURS
Satisfaction Guaranteed
Remodeling 1619 2nd Ave—Seattle Repairing
SEWARD SHOWS MUCH
PROSPERITY PAST TEM
By J. P. Hannon,
Secretary Chamber Commerce
Seward is the salt water terminus
of the Alaska railroad, constructed by
the United States government at a
cost of $53,000,000, and extending ivj
Fairbanks on the Tanana river. Sew
ard was first selected as a railroad
terminus in 1893 when John E. Bal
laine and associates started to build
an All-American road to the great pla
cer strike at Fairbanks. This road
was surveyed through to the Tanana
over the route of the present road, and
later about 80 miles were built from
the Seward end, but money became
tight and ooustrutcion work was aban
doned. Later the railroad w^as pur
chased by the government and com
pleted to Fairbanks.
Seward is a progressive town of 750
population, ate gateway to the West
ward,” and has many line dweliings;
stores, churches, schools and lodgt
rooms. The Standard Oil company
has one ol the largest sub-stations or
the coast located here, with a fuel oi
capacity of 2,000,000 gallons, besides
large tanks for distillate, gasoline ant
petroleum. It has a bank and express
office, the former having deposits ap
proximating $5000 per capita, and tht
latter connections with any city in tht
world. Seward has averaged a steam
ship every three days the past sum
mer, and President Harding on his
recent visit here pronounced it tht
finest natural harbor he had evei
seen. In fact, so delighted was tht
President with Seward and its sur
roundings that he returned from tht
Interior and spent two nights and t
day before sailing south.
! Seward has several large business
j houses, carrying complete outfits o
all descriptions, two sawmills, an up
to-date machine shop, railroad ma
j chine shops and roundhouse, fine wa
I ter system, electric light and tele
phone system, woodworking establish
ment, sash and door factory, largt
; cold storage and fisheries plant, out
cannery, daily paper, radio station
j kept up by the navy department, cabh
1 office, fine tederal building, numerous
hotels, restaurants, bakery, hardware
and paint stores, curio and news
, stands, clothing stores, jewelry store
' three barber shops, auto garages
ladies furnishings stores, furnitun
and household goods, tailoring estab
lishments, cleaning and dyeing works
transfer businesses, several fuel con
cents, moving picture shows, gas en
gine agencies, and every other busi
1 ness represented in a modern town
Living is reasonably cheap in Sew
aid, iurnished houses costing from $c
to $25, apartments $50 to $75, coal $1(
to $14 per ton, water $2.50 per monil
for residences, electricity 15 cents pej
kilowatt, taxes as low as any town ii
Alaska, and more modern homes thai
any other tow n north of Vancouver
Concrete and stucco are largely usee
in construction, and make a warm
durable dwelling. Climatic changes
are not sudden, and the town up to th(
present time, has very little snowlaii
autos running every day last wintei
and the winter before. During tht
past three years the rainfall has noi
been excessive save during the montl
of October the present year, when 1]
inches fell. The coldest weather re
corded during the past two years is
two above zero, Fahrenheit.
Seward grows every kind or vege
table needed, but the market is limit
ed to the demands of Seward, exclu
sive of those persons who do noi
raise their own garden truck. During
the year 1924 there was sold on tht
local market from a few small farms
about Seward 28 tons of potatoes, 21
tons of rutabagas, 12 tons of miscel
laneous garden truck, including cab
bages, lettuce, radishes, onions, etc.
there was also sold in Seward frorc
these farms, 75 gallons of cultivated
berries and domestic currents. Ap
proximately 300 gallons of wild cur
rents and blue berries were picket
for preserving within a few miles ol
Seward. All of the above supplies
were hauled into Seward over the
Seward-Kenai highway, a road unsur
passed anywhere for beauty, from the
standpoint of the tourist, and. althc
only completed during the present
year, has been patronized by 59 cars,
three trucks and two motorcycles, all
registered from Seward, these cars
having totaled in miles during the
past season about 200,000 miles, haul
ing 1800 tourists, and the number of
trips of local residents would run the
persons hauled over the Highway to
14,010.
Seward as a Fishing Ccneter
While Seward is comparatively but
a few miles from one of the greatest
halibut banks in the world, we have at
present but one cold storage plant,
and one cannery. This however, can
not last but a short time longer, the
transportation rate on cold storage is
the same from Southeastern Alaska,
and now that the Standard Oil Com-'
pany has erected a station here, the
erection of an ice plant is coutemplat-'
ed in the spring. This will enabiei
fishermen to come to Seward, dispose
of their catch, re-outfit with luel oil,
ice, bait and supplies, and return to
aio ^arks with bul a fraction of the]
time lost and with a minimum of the!
cost now necessary to market their
fish in Southeastern Alaska ports.
Many Valuable Mines
Surrounding Seward on the Ken;.',
peninsula are many gold mines, somei
ol these properties have been devel-i
oped to a marked degree. Many are
not much more than prospects. How
i ever, starting at Nuka Bay. the site ot
! the last big strike and traveling north,
one will discover a mine or prospect
1 every four miles on an average, to
Willow creek. By grouping some of
these properties as is now planned by
j the Chamber of Commerce capital
may be induced to invest sufficient!
funds Lo make this a great mining J
district.
A factor essential in the successiui
production of paper pulp and finished
paper, is cheap power, anu an avail
able supply of pulp timber. Surround
ing Seward on Kenai Peninsula, and
along Prince William Sound, there are
billions of feet of pulp timber. Hy
draulic sites furnishing first cost, and
wonderful possibilities for developing
large reservoirs, are within thirty
miles of Seward, making this city wiih
its transportation facilities one of the
best locations in the Territory for a
large pulp and paper mill.
Bank Deposits Large
As a practical example of the indus
try and success of the citizens of Sew
ard and surrounding territory, nothing
can furnish better evidence than the
statement of the local bank. With re
sources of $341,259.19, on November
19, 1923, with a surplus of $5,000.00,
undivided profits of $5,456.02 on a
capital stock of $25,000.00, loans and
discounts of $211 940.40, and deposits
totaling $303,523.78. Seward must be
called anything but an unprogressive
town.
The co operation of the business and
professional men of the community
through the local Chamber of Com
merce in their endeavor >o assist the
westward, in publicity and the popu
lating and developing of that vast
territory of which Seward is the
Gateway, our own natural attractions
for capital and tourists, and the ne
cessity of all travel anu supplies for
the interior of Alaska passing through
the port of Seward, will inevitably
make Seward the greatest town in
Alaska. No city in the territory iias a
better, larger or more beautiful site
for a town, unlimited room for expan
sion, natural drainage and fine water,
excite comment from every traveler
who visits this section of Alaska.
JOHN BENCE WANTED
, E. L. Bence, of 329 South Lafayette
i street, Evansville, Indiana, Railroad
L Lineman No. 73 wants information as
• to the whereabouts of his brother,
John Bence, aged 52 years, who at one
t time was in partnership with a man
named McDonald at Valdez and was
interested in mining in and around
Fairbanks in 1897. If you know any
; thing of this man write direct to his
brother at Evanstown.
INFORMATION WANTED
Anyone having information ot the
whereabouts of Richard Dougherty,
t better known locally as “Dick Dough
erty” will please communicate the
. same to Harry V. Hoben, Seward,
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DEER FOR SOUND ISLANDS
Game Warden Charles Kill of Cor
dova has received a wire from Game
Warden Goddard at Sitka stating that
: a nummber of deer are at that place
1 awaiting transportation to the islands
1 of Prince William Sound. The animals
will be shipped some time in January
and will be placed on Montague and
Kayak islands.
SAN DIEGO, Dec. 21.—Secretary
Denby Is expected to arrive here to
see the Navy and U. of W. football
game New Years.
Fresh Halibut. Seward Fish Co. tf
HOLL\! Holly! Holly! at Brown &
Hawkins. tf
Victrolas (a gift for the entire fam
ily) at the Seward Drug Co. Easy
payment plan if preferred.
Snowshoes and Northland Skis, at
Brown & Hawkins Corp. 301 tf
Skates and sleds, J. L. Graef. 280-tf
Get your Pearl Oil at Brown & Haw
kins Corp. $3.50 per case. 301tf
Pyralin Ivory Toilet Requisites and
Manicure Sets, $1.50 to $65; Seward
Drug Co. tf
NO EPISCOPAL SERVICES
There will be no services Sunday in
the Episcopal church, according to in
formation received here today.
Harding Memorial Fund
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Beaver Board and Plaster Board
EVERYTHING IN THE BUILDERS LINE
Brosius, on Waterfront
INDUSTRIAL SEWARD
TAILORING
C. Henning
SEWARD ALASKA
Anchorage, Alaska
BATHS
SEATTLE, WASH.
211 Union Street
Top Floor, Apartment L
Phone Main 2576
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INTERNAL
EllEN GORDON, Propr.
Formerly of r.nchorage, Seward arr
Kanatak
Trains leave Seward northbound 8 a.
m., Mondays and Thursdays, for
Anchorage, Curry, Nenana and Fair
banks.
Trains arrive Seward 7:45 p. ra. on
Wednesdays and Saturdays from
the North.
All baggage must be checked 15
minutes prior to departure of trains.
Wall Paper
LATEST DESIGNS
1923 STOCKS
Painting Paperhanging
TINTING
F. B. MOORE
GORE BLDG MAD. 145
C. E. OK LANDER
Jeweler
and
Watch Repairer
Andy’s Express
Fleets all Boats and
Trains
Prompt and Reliable Service
Phone Madison 143
FOR FIRE INSURANCE
SEE
MORFORD
Seward Water &
Power Company
SEWARD, ALASKA
“Good Water a Necessity in Every Home”
JOHN NELSON, Manager, WAYNE BLUE, Agent
OFFICE ARCADE BUILDING
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| Seward's Homey Hotel.
“ Where the Oldtimers Meet.”
| GEORGE SEXTON, Proprietor.
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HOT AND COLD WATER IN EVERY ROOM
STEAM HEAT
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HOTEL SEWARD
FOR SERVICE REASONABLE RATES
**We Make You Feel at Home.”
Dahl & Gagnon, W. C. GAGNON, Mgi
HOTEL OVERLAND
“ A HOME WITH A WELCOME”
Madison 120 MEL HORNER, Mgr.