Valdez daily prospector., 1913-12-31
GET TOGETHER
 N SEWARD CITY
Seward Paper trdorses Plan of Rev. Price and Other Valdez citi-
 zens for Harmony.

The following article is reprinted
 from the Seward Gateway and shows
 that the people of the westward town
 are alive to the advantages of get to-
 gether meetings, such as was held in
 Valdez recently. The article follows:
 "On Thursday night last the citizens
 of Valdez held a get-together meet
 ing in the school house in that city
 and everybody, regardless of political preferences or church affiliations, was
 invited, and attended. The meeting
 was addressed by the Hon. F. M.
 Brown, judge of the Third judicial di-
 vision, and other prominent citizens.
 What an inspiration! A get-to- gether meeting. A meetAdg where all
 can attend and have a word to say.
 Why can't Seward emulate the action
 of Valdez? Why not get together and
 lay aside all political differences and
 get together and boost our little city? Show to the world that Seward is just
 what she is-the only logical place in
 Southwestern Alaska for the coast
 terminal for the government railroad
 that will surely be built in the near
 future, and for which $4O,0O0,OO0 will
 be appropriated Think what this
 means for Seward and this part of
 Alaska. Fully $20,OO0,OOO of this mon--
 ey will be paid for material and la i Dor which will come to our very doors
 if we but get together and show Mir Seward has over all her contempor- aries.
 Unless it can be shown that the citizens of Seward are wide-awake, working shoulder to shoulder in l common cause. determined to secure
 this coveted prize, our sister cities ! will surely make capital out of the fact in their mad efforts to gain their point.
 "Leslie's Weekly of Nov 27. con tains full page illustrated adver- tisement for the city of Cordova, and while it is certainly work of art from 8 typographical standpoint, the assertion is made nevertheless as many others coming from that city in regard to Cordova becom 'ng the ocean terminal from the coast to the Yu- kon.
 Read the following item taken from the advertisement and then ask your
 self this question: Is it not time for
 the citizens of Seward to get togeth- CT?
 The governments seal of approv- al has been placed upon the port of I Cordova by the Alaska Railroad Com | mission. It has an immense advan- tage over the rival ports of Seward and Valdez in that its harbor is free from the terrific winds that sweep
 down from the mountains of the | southern coast and tear ships loose from their moorings. Cordova, for this and other good reasons, will prob ably be the ocean terminal of a trunk line railway from the coast to the \ Yukon ...~= s l "Now wouldn't that satisfy the most \ bitter enemy of Seward? Listen! \ Why, only a week or so ago a wind kame down through ehe Copper 4iv'saff. v'saf
 anyon which, according to the Cor
 Dva Alaskan (the journal that ere
 se most Of the wind in that region) blew down stove pipes, chimneys, ev- en npsetting sidewalks and bleckading the streets. Even the citizens of Val deg, the glacier city, had to laugh l when their attention was called to the statement made in the Leslie's Week \ ly adv.
 That is not the way Seward will get the railway terminal It is un- necessary to point cut the many ob- \ stacles that will have to be overcome should an effort be made to build the road from Cordova. Seward has all \ the natural advantages, and President
 Wilson is probably fully aware of the