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Newspaper
Seward Weekly Gateway
Location
Seward, Alaska, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1906
Page
5
Portable garbled text describes the steamer Bora safely at Port Angeles with reports of a port arrival. The article references Captain Moore and mid coast weather, with unclear details on incident or crew.
A legal dispute centers on a townsite patent and a 60 foot shore strip, with railroads arguing public travel does not erase fee simple title though servitudes attach. Squatters and ejectment issues mix with government land claims as Judge Hildreth rules. Steamship Melville Dollar sails from Seattle for Seward carrying 2300 tons. Alaska’s area is estimated at 586,401 square miles by a government survey.
Major Richardson reports advancing Alaska railroad work and trail openings to facilitate interior travel. He notes the Alaska Central extension will enhance northern routes, linking supplies to Stanley and Chena areas and boosting regional development along the proposed transcontinental corridor.
About thirty prospectors, well equipped, departed on a Thursday train with roughly seventy five men. Most aim for Yentna, a few head to upper Shusheton and north of Knik. Seward reports fifty to seventy five miners leaving each February week, many toward Yentna, with a March thaw risking river travel disruption.
Frankskeen and John Lechner, who found quartz gold at Falls Creek, will form a company to raise capital for prospecting the Kenai peninsula. They report promising surface indicators and intend to spend the summer exploring, with Skeen confident the region holds rich quartz deposits. The note adds the governorship track on Capt. Jarvis continues.
Taft urged federal help for an Alaska Central railway linking Balrbanks to Nome to unlock Mat anuska coal and tidewater access. The plan faces opposition but is described as national importance, with a tunnel project, steamers to Seward, and mounting construction challenges on the Turnagain and Rich Harris routes.
President Roosevelt has intervened in the looming coal miners strike by sending a letter to United Mine Workers President Mitchell. He urges mutual concessions as the strike is planned for April 1, coinciding with the expiration of the arbitration schedule. The president may also appeal to operators, potentially prompting another conference and settlement.
Seattle date line reports Steamer Bertha sailed last night through the inside passage bound for Seward and Valdez with 175 passengers and a full freight cargo. The Santa Clara arrived from Southern Alaska with 31 passengers and ore from Ellamar mine. Eastern states seek to establish a maximum passenger fare of 2 cents per mile.
Castro vows to humble France in the current dispute and then overturn the Monroe doctrine to clear Venezuela of Americans. He declares intent to defy all outside powers, while English and American residents here press for U S intervention and an American protectorate to safeguard foreign property and possibly lives.
The Seward public schools opened last Monday under Prof. P. H. Buck with forty two pupils, twenty two in the upper grades taught at the Methodist church and twenty in the lower grades taught by Miss Kilpatrick at the Second Avenue schoolhouse. A reception for Buck and Kilpatrick followed at the Methodist church drawing many residents.
Washington March 2 The House committee on territories voted to lay on the table a bill granting territorial government to Alaska A new bill of similar aim was introduced in the Senate at the next session Governor Swineford and delegate Swineford faced opposition as members cited split opinions among district residents on the advisability of organized government for Alaska.
Maj. Ballaine told the House committee that Alaska's central and southern valleys have a geography similar in area to Northeastern Europe and could support a population of about 15 million on agriculture. He noted Alaska’s long daily sunshine in May to August, 18 to 20 hours, aided by the Japanese current, boosting vegetation growth compared with the Ohio river valley.
The Bark Ferris Thompson with 400000 feet of lumber arrives in the bay after a voyage from Seattle. Capt. M. White commands the vessel which departed Seattle February 12 and faced headwinds near Cape Flattery before entering Resurrection Bay. Built in New York thirty years ago, the ship traded sugar, sailed around the Horn, and now resumes coastwise service. February mean temperature 31.64 degrees.
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