Seward gateway., 1904-10-28
ALALKA NEWS

! l'Ntull4Se AuNpoSVOt >' A' '' who recently visited the camp on the l Panama,
 Fishing is said to be one of the great prospective industries of the Panama
 district. It is estimated that the catch
 of salmon that is now stored at Cinema
 for sale to the trade at Fairbanks and
 on the creeks is valued pt $40OOO,
 Last saturday, the 22nd inst, was the
 centennial of the founding of Sitka, ! by BaranofT. It was the intention ot
 residents of AlaSka's Capital to unite
 andshow spirit of enthusiasm on ac-
 count of the event.
 Joseph Macdonald, who has been manager and superintendent pt the . famous "Treadwell' properties on ! Douglas island for the past four years, . has resigned, and Mir. Robert A. Ken zje has been appointed his successor. l What promises to be another Fair banks district has been struck in the . Yukon valley between the Panama and the Yukon. Up to the present time IH,tle iS known of the new dicSOvery as there has not been sufficient time to 1 thoroughly prospect it, but it is said the surface indications are better than
 were those in the Panama district. This new strike k on Beaver creek,
 Fairbanks is to be the location of the largest, most modern and best equip ped hotel in the whole of Alaska. Con- ,truction is to be commenced mmedi- ately and rushed through 10 ocompletion. The stock compaoy furnishing capital for the enterprise, underpromotion for some time, has been organized and S5O,OOO subscribed for the work.
 A late dispach from St. Louis says that Judge James WickershNm, Judge of the United States district court of Alaska, and representative of PreSi- dent Roosevelt at the universal con- gress of lawyers and iurists, has arrived at the expositiQp He will not return to the Yukon country untill next Feb ruary when he will have to go in on the ice,
 Pity cents to the pan is reported to have been struck on the lower half of No. $ Chicken creek, in the Fortymile district. Recent arrivals from Forty auile bring the news. The claim is be- Ing worled by the Shoestring Mining company. The pay gravel is two and a half feet thick. No further particulars of the strike are given. Sixty to Sev- enty-fve men workedo on Chicken creek this summer.
 Capt. John J, Healy, than whom ! there isno better known man in Alaska, reports that he iS more than pleased
 with the results of his recent visit to
 the tin region in the vicinity of York He will return to the outside in a few days and states that early next spring ! his company will ship in large quanti-
 ties of supplies and machinery with which to work their properties. ! That Ketchikan is growing not only . in population, but commercial impor- tance says the Jornal, is evidenced by the record of customs business tran saced in the local office, The receipts from duties on imports and fees collect ed during the month of September just passed exceeds those of the corres- bonding months of last year by at least 800 per cent, while those for the nine months of the present year arelargely 1. in excess of those for a like period in 1905.
 By reason of the rapid development of mining and commercial interests in the Panama region in Alaska several have recently applied to the treasure department for the establishment of a support of entry m that IlclnlIy m Ord- CT to facilitate the landing of goods, says the Juneau Dispatch. Assistant Secretary Armstrong referred to Col lector Jarvis who is now on the way to
 the Panama country to examine in to conditions there and report to the de- parumeut,
 The appropriation of the name Sew ard by the Alaska Central railway has caused those interested in the town on ] Lynn canal by that name to call their
 town Novel; City. A better name could not be selected. Thenam ofthe ! Novels has been 50 firmly connected
 with the development of Alaska that it
 will be honored by Alaskans for all time. ! Then the Nowells have been so closely identified with the country in the vici-