Monday
P. J. Rickert, a prominent farmer
and agriculturalist of Fairbanks, was
a Seward visitor yesterday on his way
to the states for a short visit. Mr. j
Rickert has one of the show places
of the Fairbanks district and has
demonstrated what can be done in
Alaska.
Charles Isaacson, of Anchorage, was
am outgoing passenger on the North
western for the States.
H. S. Balderston left on today’s
train for Anchorage. He will return
the latter part of the week.
Axel Carlson, employed by the rail
road on B. and B. gang No. 1, leaves
tomr^ryw for a winter vacation in
his fdrmer home in Portland, Ore.
A1 Sollers, Grant Lake mill magnate
and pioneer resident, was in Anchor
age last week, laying in supplies for
his operations at the lake.
Oscar Anderson, proprietor of the
Ship Creek market at Anchorage,
and president of the Evan Jones Coal
Company, left on the Northwestern
on a brief business trip to the States.
He will return shortly after the Hol
idays.
Harry Pearson, a Cleary creek op
erator, in the Fairbanks district, was
a Seward visitor yesterday on his way
to the States.
Mrs. B. Raymond who arrived here
from the interior Saturday night, sail
ed tfcis morning on the Northwest
ern and will winter in the States.
Brice Howard, agent for the Pacific
Steamship Company, at Anchorage,
sailed on the Northwestern for the
States, to join Mrs. Howard and son,
who left a week or so ago. The
Howard’s will take an extensive auto
trip through the Pacific coast states
and on into Mexico before returning
in February.
Gus Gelles, popular commercial
traveler, sailed on the Northwestern
today for Cordova. He will return
on one of the next boats.
2ffe\ Holben, of the Seward Grill, is
offering the business for sale in a Se
attle paper. A desire to go into oth
er business is given as his reasons
for selling. Mr. Holben has run one
of the best restaurants ever in Sewr
ard and it is hoped his predecessor
will be as good as he is.
Fred Noyes, well knowrn Fairbanks
citizen, and former receiver for the
First National Bank, was an outgo
ing passenger on the Northwestern,
en route to San Francisco.
Walter Odine, Fairbanks restau
rant man and capitalist, left on the
Northwestern for the States, where
he will reside in the future. Mr.
Odine is a pioneer of the interior
district.
Three employes in the Gold Stream
mining district near Fairbanks, left
on the Northwestern to winter in the
States.
Martin Pinski, well known Fair
banks clothier, left on the Northwest
ern for the East on his annual buy
ing trip.
Frank Knight, is conductor on a
train running into Seward, was an
over-Sunday visitor.
It is stated that Warren G. Fenton,
who lives on his ranch at Mile Four,
killed a fine large moose from his
back door last week.
Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert C. Henderson
sailed on the Northwestern for Se
attle where they will spend the win
ter, returning next Spring.
Mrs. Win. Flynn and daughter, of
Mile 20, who' have been visiting in
Seward the past few days, returned
home today.
I. L. Starr, a Seattle commercial
traveler, sailed on the Northwestern
today.
E. R. Weaver, an old time resident
of Hunter, arrived in town Saturday,
returning this morning.
A. Helsman, of Hot Springs, was a
guest over Sunday of the Overland.
Claude Shea, special prohibition of
ficer, returned to his home at An
chorage this morning.
The Northwestern which sailed to
day, loaded several thousand barrels
of herring, brought in by t/ie Redon
do.
John Campbell and R. B. Robinson,
Fairbanks citizens, registered over
Sunday at the Overland.
Otto Anderson, a Rampart citizen,
was a guest of the Hotel Sexton over
Sunday.
C. N. Banks, a Girdwood citizen
was a Seward visitor over Sunday.
Standard Six
Announcement of the new Buick
“Standard Six” brought approxi
mately 500,000 people into Buick
salesrooms on the first day this
car was shown.
Why? Because everywhere every
one is marveling at the new “Stand
ard Six”—the “Six” that sets a new
standard of quality and price.
See it for Yourself
ELLSWORTH’S
00,000
in one day*
saw the now
Buick Sales and Service
1 better automobiles *are built, Buick will build diem
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Tuesday
Mrs. John D. Sullivan left on the
Northwestern for the States where
she will visit relatives for a few
months.
Mrs. J. C. Gilpatrick, wife of the
wpII known Spward mimne operator
and watchman at the dock, sailed on
the Northwestern for the States, to
spend the winter. She was accompa
nied by her grandson, Arthur Pric
kett.
Mr. and Mrs. O. J. Murie of Fair
banks were outgoing passengers on
the Northwestern for Seattle.
A. G. Means, prohibition director
for Alaska, sailed on the Northwest
ern for his headquarters in Juneau.
Sam Cole and G. N. King were Tut
ka Bay passengers.
H. Pologon of Seldovia was an out
going passenger on the Redondo.
Mr. and Mrs. Paul A. Graham, who
were united in marriage here Sunday
by Judge C. E. Morford, left on yes
terday’s boat tor their home in La
touche.
Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Sernby of La
touche, who came over to attend the
wedding of Mr. Paul Graham and Miss
Emma Schussler, returned on the
Northwestern to their island home.
The Noodle House will be closed
for three days, beginning today.
John Morrison, formerly of the
Seward Plumbing Company has start
ed a sheet metal works.
Wednesday
Miss Michaels, who has been em
ployed the past season by the Fair
banks Exploration company was an
outgoing passenger on the North
western.
Peter Sathers, owner of the gas
boat Rolfe, and interested in the Nuka
Island will leave today for his home
on the fox isalnd. It is said Messrs.
Dustin and Sather will kill a large
number of animals this year, about
300 being on the island.
Johnny Van Zanten, a well known
boxer, has joined steamshovel crew
No. 1, on the Lowell creek gang. He
spent the summer at Chickaloon.
L. C. Swoker, an engineer for the
Alaska railroad left for the States
on the Northwestern.
James E. Wilson has started work
at Talkeetna on his new tie contract.
John Tarenti, a steam shovel man,
left for the States on the Northwest
ern.
Charles Krefting, who has been
working at Fairbanks the past few
months, will leave on the next boat,
accompanied by Mrs. Krefting and
daughter, to spend the winter in the
States. They will visit their son,
Emmett, in San Francisco.
Thursday
Dave Andrews, general manager of
the Alaska Hills Mines company left
on today’s train for his home in An
chorage.
Frank Short, the well known engi
neer of Anchorage, left today for his
home town.
H. Horn, acting general manager on
the Alaska railroad, registered as a
Seward visitor last night.
G. B. Nelson of Skilak lake arrived
in town last night and registered at
the Hotel Sexton.
The mercury registered ten above
this morning, the coldest day of the
winter.
Mrs. Charles Stanford, a pioneer of
Alaska, who has been in most of the
camps in the Territory, left today for
Fairbanks where she will spend some
time visiting the Interior. Upon ar
riving at Fairbanks Mrs. Stanford
will take a dog team and drive thru
to Circle. She states that after be
ing off the trail for the past two
years she is very anxious to ge be
hind a fast dog team, and try rough
ing it again.
Frances Horton celebrated her 7th
birthday yesterday afternoon by a
party given for her girl friends. Lit
tie Miss Frances received many nice
presents from her guests. Ice cream,
cake and chocolate were served late
in the afternoon. Those present
were Virginia Harper, Mickey McIn
tosh, June Weckworth, Billie Shell
horn, "Edith Lucchini, Katherine Hor
ton, Anne Horton, and Frances Hor
H. V. Henrikson, mill man for the
Alaska Hills properties, who returned
yesterday from Nuka Bay, is greatly
pleased over the showing made by
the recent tests. And Messrs. Bar
nett and Andrews are as enthusiastic
over the work performed by Mr. Hen
rikson, whom they declare is the
best mill man ever on their property.
GOVERNMENT RY.
OPENS COAL LAND
The Matanuska coal field, which
contains one of the most valuable
coal reserves in Alaska, extends from
an area near tidewater at the head
;of Knik Arm, an inland extension of
Cook Inlet, eastward to the upper
valley of the Matanuska River, reach
ing a point within eight miles of the
Matanuska glacier. The Matanuska
|branch of the new Government rail
'road taps this coal field and draws
Ifrom it much of the fuel used on
| that railroad.
Although the coal bearing formation
is of the same age throughout the
field, the coal shows a wide range
in character. At the west end of
the field, where the beds are only a
little deformed, the coal is a lignite.
Farther east, at Moose and Eska
Creeks, where the beds are somewhat
folded and faulted, they contain bi
tuminous coal of good grade, which
is now being profitably mined to an
extent justified by the market de
mand. Here several mines are now
producing about 7,000 tons a month.
Still farther east, in the vicinity of
Chickaloon, the terminus of the Mat
anuska branch of the railroad, the
coal is a bituminous coking coal of
the first rank, but the structure of
the beds is more complex than at
Moose Creek. The coals of the
highest grade, which are found on
Anthracite Ridge, 12 miles east of
Chickaloon, include anthracite of su
perior qulaity, but the beds are high
ly complex in structure. No at
tempt has yet been made to mine
this anthracite.
Surveys Made in Matanuska Valley
The part of the Matanuska Valley
that includes the area near Chicka
loon and hte area immediately east of
it form what is generally known as
the upper Matanuska Valley. A sur
vey of the Upper Matanuska Valley,
an area which is about ten miles wide
and extends eighteen miles eastward
from Chickaloon, was completed in
1924 by S. R. Capps of the Geological
Survey, Department of the Interior,
whose work supplemented a survey
of a part of this area made in 1912
by G. C. Martin and associates. The
lower part of the Matanuska coal
field has already been surveyed. A
report showing the result of the work
done in 1924, is now' in preparation.
Little Mining Done
No mines are now regularly operat
ed in the upper Matanuska Valley.
Mines opened from 1920 to 1922 by
the Alaska Coal Commission at Chick
loon and on Coal creek produced coal
of high grade, but the beds were
so much broken up or altered by
faults and bodies of intrusive rock as
to make the cost of mining very high
so that work was stopped. Develop
ment work at a mine on the west
bank of Coal Creek, however, is be
ing continued by a private company.
The field work of 1924 indicates
that the coal bearing area east of
Chickaloon is somewhat smaller than
had been supposed. The dominant
structure of the basis is synclinal,
and considerable areas of it that lie
south of the axis of the syncline are
now thought to be stratigraphically
below the coal-bearing horizons at
Chickaloon and to contain no work
able coal. The coal beds at Coal
creek and at O’Brien creek are be
lieved to lie in faulted synclinal flods,
most of the coal having been remov
ed from the corresponding anticlinal
folds by erosion. The reserves of
minable coal at each of these places
are believed to be limited to a few
hundred thousand tons.
Beds of Anthracite Thick but Much
Broken
The coal-bearing area on the south
flank of Anthracite Ridge contains
beds (uirying anthitiCile coal of ox
celient grade, which is exposed at
many places. At a place on the
head of West Fork of Pu ring Lon
Creek a bed of anthracite nearly 40
feet thick, crops out. In this area,
however, the coal-bearine formation
highly disturbed by turning, crumb
ling and faulting, as well as bodies
of intrusive rock, such as dikes and
sills. The coal beds appear to lie
in synclinal basins, most of the up
per part of the folds having been
removed by erosion. These beds no
doubt contain considerable excellent
anthracite coal, but whether it oc
curs in beds sufficiently large and
continuous to justify the expense of
mining, is uncertain in view of the
cost of building a railroad to it. Very
little prospecting has been done on
the anthracite beds, and whether
they include workable bodies of coal
can be proved only by extensive ex
ploration, both on the surface and
underground.
Prospects of Marketing the Coal
The beds of bituminous coal near
Chickaloon are so complex in struc
ture that the coal cannot be mined
for general use in steam raising in
competition with the more cheaply
mined coals of the lower Matanuska
Valley, where, though the coals are
of lower grade, the structure is simp
ler. The utilization of the coals of
the upper Matanuska Valley depends
on the development of the market
for a Superior coal that cannot be
supplied from the other beds in this
region, on a price sufficient to yield
a profit notwithstanding the compara
tively high cost of mining them, and
on their ability to compete with coals
of similar grade mined in other dis
tricts. The high-grade blacksmith
coal of the Chickaloon area and the
anthracite must compete with coal
mined in the eastern part of the
United States but the cheapness of
transportation of the high-grade Mat
anuska coals to market on the west
coast of the United States should
favor their development. It is also
possible that the market for the some
what lower grade bituminous coals
now being mined in the Moose Creek
and Eska Creek districts could be
extended to supply a demand now
met by similar coal mined on Van
couver Island.
GOVERNOR BONE
GUEST OF HONOR
OF PRESS ASSN.
ALASKA EXECUTIVE DINED BY
LARGEST ASSOCIATION IN
THE UNITED STATES
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NEW YORK. Dec. 10.—Governor
l Scott C. Bone of Alaska, was the
guest of honor at a luncheon given
by William Griffin, vice-president of
the American Press Association at
the Advertising Club last night. In a
short speech Governor Bone told of
the varied resources of Alaska and
said that the Territory had already
yielded more than a billion dollars to
the United States, and its resources
had hardly been scratched.
Governor Bone will leave within a
few days for Washington, thence take
train for Seattle, reaching home in
time to spend the holidays. Mrs.
Bone is visiting a married daughter
in Seattle.
Will Give Appropriation
Bills Right of Way
WASHINGTON, Dec. 10.—The Re
publican congressional steering com
mittee decided that for the next ten
weeks appropriations bills should be
given right of way over all other leg
islation.
Hero of Jutland Naval
Battle Been Retired
LONDON, Dec. 10.—The admiralty
today announced the retirement of
Admiral Lord Jellicoe, hero of the
naval battle of Jutland, in the late
war.
The recent rain and snow storm
has made slippery going for our citi
zens. About four inches of snow cov
er the ground.