The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1907-06-19
At the jamestown Expositlon.

jamestown, Exposition, June 49,
Representing newspaper interests far
tner distant from the scene of the con
VIII A. Steel, of Nome, Alas
ka and Seattle, is at the jamestown
Exposition attending the annual ga
thering of the National Editorial As
ISOLATION of which he is the treasurer.
Mr.. Steele travelled thousands of
miles to the jamestown Exposition
and his newspaper property is located
a couple of thousand miles beyond his
starting point. He came direct from
Seattle where officers for the Nome
News are maintained the year around
to care for business accommodating dur
ing the six months of each a when
the ice of Behring Sea shuts in the
great gold camp if the North and com
m~unication except by telegraph and
infreque1t mails, is suspended.
Mr.. Steel is a regular attendant 1t
gatherings of the National Editorial
Association and a unique figure in its
deliberations. Not so many years ago
ne began newspaper work as a report
er in the anthracite regions of Penn
sylvania. Going to the Pacific Coast
he was identified with the Seattle
newspaper until the discovery of gold
in the Klondike attracted his activi-
ties to Dawson City. Here he estab4
lished the first newspaper, having sur
mounted the tremendous difficulties
of those early days in transporting a
printing plant owe the sea and snow
clad mountain passes Inc down the
river to the new camp.
The Dawson News was sold at Klon
Klondike prosperity and notoriety.
Mr.. Steel and mis- brother Harry G..
Steel, who has always been his bust
ness associate ven on down the Yu-
o to its mouth and located at Nome
whose golden beach was the second
mighty magnate of the North. The
Nome News began publication as soon
as the equipment could be brought
from Seattle. 1t has since been the
principal newspaper of western Alas
No anu hO" una SoNO h1Ilc-lL CdDIe
land wires and wireless system give
direct communication with Seattle,
publishes the gist of the worlds news
Aside from his newspaper interests
Nh. Steel is an exposition enthusiast.
He has attended all the great fairs of
years and was SeattIe's commits
sioner at the Lewis Clarke Exposition
in Portland.
Nothing that have seen has equal
led the attractiveness of Jamestown"
he declared. 1.-The natural advantages
of the location surpass those of any
exposition ever held in this country
the grounds are cnarmingly arranged,
the buildings are distinctive and the
exhibits N features excellent. There
is every reason to expect a splendid
attendance throughout the year.
Undoubtedly many Alaskans will
visit jamestown during the season.
Those who wintered in the North will
be coming out within the next few
weeks and those going in for the sum
mer work will be out early in the fall.
Thousands of both classes will come
Eastward and few of these are likely
to overlook such an attraction as is
offered here.
THE people of Alaska and the Pa
cific Coast generally are intensely in
.terested in the Alaskan-Yukon Pacific
Exposition to be held in Seattle in
1909. They will visit jamestown to
study conditions and methods here
and to profit by the experience of otn
ers in making their own big fair a
worldwide success. You cannot find
anyone in the West to admit a doubt
on THAT score now and 1 am glad to
say the same confidence in Seattie's
enterprise and energy is expressed ev-
/ have been in the East"
Mr.. Steel will spend the week with
other members of the Association at
the Exposition. He will visit New
York and his old Pennsylvania nome
before returning to Puget Sound.