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vlcGRATH, ALASKA. DEC. 23, 1922
Seattle Alaska Letter.
’uhlicitv Department, Seattle Cham
ber of Commerce.
-Seattle, Oct. 21.—The fifty-fifth an
niversary of the taking over of Alaska
by the United States was fittingly
celebrated on Wednesday evening at
t.ie Chamber of Commerce, under the
direction of the Alaska department ol
the Chamber. The assembly rooms
and Alaska department rooms were
filled with former Alaskans and friends
of the Territory, during the day and
evening. Gov. Scott C. Bone wired:
11 Alaska is no longer a land of tomor
row,, but a land of today. Alaska is
July observed and fittingly celebrated
throughout the Territory. The fifty
filth anniqersarv emphasises agaio the
foresighted statesmanship of William
Vi. ye ward, and the record of progress
during the demonstrates anew
the wisdom of the purchase of this vast
•Jemaiu from Russia. Each succeeding
year will demonstrate all this more
substantially and conclusively.”
Charles D. Garfieid, director of the
Alaska dedartment of the Chamber,
made an address, illustrated bv a large
number of stereopticoo slides. He de
plored the practice of many in refer
ring to Alaska as a land of snow, icicles
and.dog teams. Alaskans are hopeful,
he said, that many cf the restrictions
that have hampered the development
of Alaska will soon be removed.
During the day scores of former Alas
kans and Northerners, now in the city,
registered at the Alaska department
and. viewed the elaborate Alaskan ex
hibits, whioh are at the service of vis
itors the year around
President Harding wired. “On the
McGrath
Pool Room
and
Cigar Store
For Sale
Mrs.E. P. Werner
Proprietor
occasion of the commemoration of the
lifty-fifth anniversary of the transfer
of territorial functions to Alaska I ex
tend greetings and heartiest congratu
lations to the citizens of Alaska and
their Seattle friends. Alaska has
richly justified the expectations of the
statesmen whosecured it for the United
States, and the future, in my judgment,
holds even brighter possibilities.”
Less than twelve days from Pitts
burgh was the time of a train of 38 cars]
of steel delivered to the Alaskan En
gineering Commission on Sunday for
the Alaska Kail way.
The Yukon gold output this year will
total 1,250,000 ounces, and the silver
output from Mayo shipped to date is
750.000 ounces.
Plans for a $150,000 post-office build
ing at Cordova have been received by
local.po&tolhce officials. The building
will be three stories, and wjll bouse all
the government offices there.
A Washington special says Associate
Forester E. A. Sherman, who has just
returned from Alaska, reports a grati
fying improvement in business in she
Territory. Exports of fish will he un
usually heacy, mming is being revived,
and exports of lumber of high grade
from the Tongass forests show a prom
ising beginning. liy January the gov
ernment railway will be in operation
from Seward to Fairbanks, which will
greatly benefit the inferior of the Ter
ritory. There is great activity in the
herring industry.
A meeting was held recgntlv at
Nome to consider the feasibility of or
ganizing a hydroplane company for
commercial purposes. A temporary
organization was effected with a view
to improving transportation service be
tween Nome and outlying points. E
J. Matthews, of Seattle, was elected
president. Ralph Lomen vice president,
and Harrv Gabrielson secretary treas
urer of the temporary organization,
which has already communicated with
the Air Service at Washington for fur
ther co-operation. Negotiations are
under way for a hydroplane for the
Northern Territory.
The steamship Alameda brought
here from Alaska seven million salmon
eggs for the state fisheries director, to
be planted in local waters. This is the
first shipment of the proposed twenty
million eggs from Alaska for this state.
Seattle’s long-cherished great hotel
is about to become a reality, for a lease
has just been signed whereby the
United Hotels Company of America,
operators of eighteen big hotels
throughout the Eastern United States,
and Roy Carruthers, manager of the
Waldorf-Astoria of New York, will op
erate the new 600-room, three million
dollar hotel, to be built on an entire
block between Fourth and Fifth ave
nues and University and Seneca streets.
0'onstruetioD will begin about January
16, and will be completed in the spring
of 1924; The furnishings will cost
*600,000. _
PRESS SQUIBS.
The Near East is near enough.—De
troit News.
The last words of King Constantine
of Greece: “Let George do it.”—Louis
ville Courier-Journal.
We live expensively to impress peo
ple who live expensively to impress us.
— Washington News.
The most fashionable form of enter
PROFESSIONAL
Albrecht and Taylor
LAWYERS
Iditarod, Alaska,
and at
705 L. C. Smith lilug., Seattle, Wash
Practice .in.all Courts.
tainment this winter will be house
warming.—Detroit News.
The Sick Man of Europe has about
half the world sitting up with hire
mehls.H-Detri it NewsJ
Every nation seems to be in favor ol
debt cancellation for every other na
tion.—New York Tribune.
According to Mr. Kipling, his inter
views as well as his writings are fic
tion.—New York Tribune.
Some experts claim that Russia is toe
poor to aid the Turks, but it occurs tc
us that ao Angora government might
thrive on paper rubles.—Columbia
Record.
If Germany really wants a loan, she’d
better get in touch with a few Amer
ican bootleggers.—New York Tribune.
Dr. W. F. Green
McGrath, Alaska
LOUIS GORMAN
Big River
General Supplies Fresh From the
Outside
Furs Bought and Sold
Larson Roadhouse
(Formerly The McLean, Tacotna.)
Best of Home Cooked Meals. . Prompt Attention
New Dog Houses Under Construction*'.
Mrs, Frank Larson - Proprietor
Geo. W. Hoffman
Pioneer Trader of the Kuskokwim Valley
Napamuter Alaska
New Goods Have Arrived
One of the best stocks ever brought into the
Kuskokwim Valley. Yes, the prices are right
ALASKA RIVERS NAVIGATION
COMPANY
Operating Light Draught Steamers
On the Kuskokwim.
Capt. Wallace Langley, Manager.
Arrange to Spend the Night at the
Big River Roadhouse
Best possible meals. {Private rooms.
New dog kennels, and the best of lower river fish
for dog feed.
Diamond Dick
Proprietor