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Beyond the Kenai Peninsula the railroad will ascend the fertile agricultural valley or the Sustna, 150 miles long by 75 miles wide, and from 100 to 700 feet above the sea. 1t IS among the best ana largest of Alaska'S agricultural areas Grasses, ber- res timber and coal its distinctive products, but it has gold silver, copper and iron aIso The route taps the MatanuSka coal fields with a branch 3S miles long It passes through the Willow creek gold quartz district one of the richest in Alaska, and comes within easy reach of the Gentna gold district the Mckinley gold district, and the Tal keetna gold and copper district
 Broad Pass and Nenana Districts
 Emerging from tke Susitna Valley through Broad Pass in the Alaska Range, 320 miles north of Sew ard at an elevation of 2600 feet it bsects the re- gently discovered Broad Pass gold district and the long g-known Broad Pass copper district. Thence It follows down the Nenana river through the Nenana coal fields, where seven veins one above the other have a total thickness of 2S6 feet, according to actual measurement by the United States Geological Survey. While the Nenana field is Ignite and not to be compared with the Matanuska, 1t nevertheless will be important source of supply for the in- terior.
 few miles below the Nenana coal fields the route cuts the western end of the Bonnifield and the eastern end of the Kantishna gold districts, finally entering the great Panama Valley, where 1t is fifty miles wide, and reaching the Panama nVer at the mouth of the Nenana.
 Reaching the Heart of Alaska.
 There. in the geographic center of Alaska, it con- meets with more than 4,000 miles of navigabe river waterways On these streams are many steamboats and barges that handle the commerce and the pas sengers of the numerous thriving settlements and mining districts on or near the river banks.
 The advantage of this route over any other Tn Alaska is not alone that it traverSes the best and the most of Alaska's resources of every kind, but it is the only feasible route by which the Matanuska coal is made available alike for the United States Navy for all parts of the Pacific Coast as far south as San Diego, and for every town and mining dis trict along the railroad and its branches, ana along the system of navgable rivers with which the rail road will connect; it is the only route that can join the agricultural valleys with the markets or the
The Seward gateway., 1915-09-13

With a reasonable passenger fare and freight rate corresponding, which the Congressiona. debates on the Alaska Railroad Bill indicated would be adopted an inducement to encourage rapid settle ment and development, the increase of population should be by leaps and bounds.
 The opportunities for prospcctoIs for miners, for manufacturers, for stock growers and for farmers in the great new country thus being opened have never been surpassed in any part of the United States.
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and the richest of the undeyeloped public domains. These unusual features, coupled with the con- spicuOuS part Alaska has taken for many years m the production of the worlds output of gold and with the growing realization that Alaska has agri- cultural and grazing areas of vast extent, in addi- and fisheries, have united Co awaken a keen and widespread interest in Alaska it's possibilities and opportunities.
 The purpose of this booklet issued officially by the Seward Commercial Club, is to meet the de- mandS of that widespread interest by answering accurately and conciSey the questions that naturally arise in the minds of people who never have been to Alaska but who wish to know of the opportunities it offers for farmers, stock growers, proSpectors miners and business men.
 Alaska and Northwestern Europe Compared.
 The best idea of AlaSka's possibilities may be had by comparison with the four countries of North western Europe-NOrway Sweden Finland and Denmark-in the same attitudes under identical conditions of climate For convenience they will be referred to as the four Scandinavian countries
 Alaska covers an area of 566446 square miles; the four Scandinavian countries, 454365 square miles.
 The Japan current moderateS the climate of Southern Alaska exactly as the Gulf Stream mod crates the climate of the Scandinavian countries
 In both, the winters are mild and damp on the coast, but colder and dryer in the interior with long days, warm weather and luxuriance of plant growth in summer.
 Many millions of acres of spruce and hemlock cover the valleys and mountain sides of Alaska and of the Scandinavian countries alike
 Tilable and Grazing Lands
 The four Scandinavian countries together have 16OOO square miles under cultivation and 75000 miles in grazing. The Department of Agriculture has classified 60000 square miles in Alaska suit able for cultivation, mostly in the Susitna, tho
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How and Where to Get Located.

For the gardener, the dailyman, or the poultry farmer, the valleys in the Kenai Peninsula and the great valley of the Susitna offer locations to tens of thousands. Much of the land most Of it, in fact, has to be cleared of timber, but large profits are to be made from small tracts iutensNey cultivated. Vegetables of every variety grow lux urianty in the long days of Alaska's summer.
 For the stock grower there are millions Of acres of grass lands throughout the Kenai Peninsula, in the valleys and on the mountain sides The red top and blue stem grasses here yield two to four tons per acre. Winter feeding is from four to five months. It is within the literal truth to say that of the Kena Pennsua's 11,52O,O0O acres, 100000 is suitable for grazing. 1t has been estimated by Montana stock growers that the Kena Peninsula alone could support 2,OOOOOO cattle It's climate the year through is the best in Alaska.
 Similar conditions are presented in the Susitna Valley and on the mountain slopes that surround it, where hundreds of thousands of beef and dairy cattle can and will be grazed and wnter-fod.
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veoped; it is the only route from which feeders and branches may be projected to every productive part of Alaska.
 Importance of Matanuska Coal.
 The Matanuska coal, which this route opens, is the only coal on the entire Pacific slope which has measured up in every official test with the best coals of Pennsylvania and West Virginia. It there fore must bear the same relation to the commerce and the industries of Alaska, of the Pacific slope, and of the Pacific Ocean, that the coas of Pennsyl vania and West Virginia bear to the commerce and industries of Pennsylvania, of the Atlantic slope, and of the Atlantic Ocean
 Why Seward Is the Terminus.
 The question is sometimes asked: "Why the ocean terminus of the railroad established on Resur- recton Bay at Seward, and not at point on Knlk or on Turnagain Arm"
 The answer is simple: The barriers of nature in
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Panama and the Kuskokwim valleys, with 100000 square miles more of hay and grazing lands, and another 100000 of reindeer range.
 The waters of the Scandinavian countries afford the best fishing in Europe, the waters of Alaska produce the most abundantly in American.
 Gold, Copper and Coal.
 The Scandinavian countries have some copper and iron but little gold, silver or coal. Alaska has the richest copper deposits in the word and has bitum- nous and anthracite coal in the Matanuska district equal to the best in Pennsylvania and West Vir- giuia, with numerous fields of Ignite. It's gold mines have produced $250,OOO,000 and are now pro. ducing S20,O00,000 a year, and, on completion ot the Government railroad from Seward to the Tan ana river are expected to produce indefinitely from $5OOOO,OOO to $10O,OOO,OOO year.
 Possibilities of Population.
 The four Scandinavian countries have 12,000,00O population and 14,000,000 head of live stock. On the same basis Alaska is capable of supporting 2OOOOOOO population and 30OOO,OOO head of live stock
 On their 16,OOO square miles of cultivated lands the four Scandinavian countries produce soil crops worth S25OOOOO00 a year If the table lands ot Alaska were equally cultivated it's soil crops would be worth SS00,00OOOO a year
 Agricultural Experiments.
 The Department of Agriculture has carried on extensive experiments in Alaska continuously since 1898 on experimental farms under Professor c. C. Georgcson, with results that demonstrate AlaSKas agricultural possibilities to be equal Tn all respects to those of the Scandinavian countries. Prof Georgeson, whose headquarters are at Sitka, sup plies official data to all inquirers, so far as hs ap- propriation enables him to do, and frequently ds- tributes seeds specially imported from Northern Europe He established a new experimental farm during the summer of 1915 in the MatanusEa valley, adjacent to the route of the Government railroad
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to be the Stockholm or Christiano of Alaska, and steamers will come and go daily, bringing every part of Alaska and all the principal ports on the
 If will be the resort of thousands of summer tourists, attracted from every state in the Union and from every nation in Europe by the incompar- able grandeur of lake and mountain scenery and by the unsurpassed hunting and fishing throughout the Kenai Peninsula.
 Progress of Railroad Construction
 p,, +ho summer of 1917 the Government railroad ;s exnected to be completed from Seward contnu- ousv as far as the Matanuska river, and on up the Susitna Valley. Rapid progress in construction IS being made.
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For the Miner and Prospector.

Placer and gold quartz prospects and mines are numerous in all the country between Seward and the Kenai river.
 The Kenai Peninsula has gold dredging grounds below Kenai Lake, where the graveIs yield from 2l cents to $l.50 yard, estimated to total 2OOOOOOJO yards in a distance of fifteen miles. Other dredging districts are being developed near Sunrise and Hope
 The mountains of Kena Peninsula are streaked with gold quartz. The Moose Pass district in par ticular forty miles north of Seward has a we'll defined dike that has been traced for nine miles It is four to twelve feet thick and carries values of $2O0 to $40.00 per ton. Large capital will be re- quired to develop it with mills of a minimum ca- pacity of 1000 tons day for economical operation, but on that scale the ore is there to make of the district another Juneau or Leadve.
 Other well known gold quartz districts in the Kenai Peninsula are south east and north of Kenai Lake south of Sunrise, south of Hope, and west of Resurrection Bay. They are in the prospecting stage at present, but are inviting fields for mining capital
 The Crow Creek district on Tunagain Arm, tho Knik district Knik river, the Willow Creek dis
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Trains will then be in operation from Seward di- rect through to the Matanuska and the Susitna valleys and from that time forward interior Alaska can absorb many thousands of immigrants every year. The railroad should be completed from Sew ard to tbe Panama river by the fall of 1913.
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(The principal known mineral and mining districts are indicated the numbered circles. follows Port DICK district; p Sunrise district. gold; 8, Resurrection district copper 4 Falls Creek district gold Latouehe district cop per 6 coal fields the Valdez district sou and copper B. Hamna district. gold and copper o. the mining district owned by the Alaska Syndicate cop Matanuska fields and Matanuska iroA aAd gold district: Willow Creek district gold; l2, IenHa district gold 3O coal fields 3 S2 and SS Seward Peninsula districts silver: Broad Pass district gold and cop per I6 Nenana fields; IT. Kanshna district gold lS
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s E w A R D
uh The Gateway to g8 % A L A s K A Nf

The building of a system of Government-owned and Government-operated railroads to open and pop
 ulate Alaska marks an epoch in the industrial his tory of the United States. It is the first project or the kind which the Government of the United States has undertaken. l. is undertaken too in the last
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Thriving Towns to Be.

The country between Seward and the Tanana river within 100 miles of the route of the Govern ment railroad needs 100000 prospectors for years to come to do the country justice and even they would leave minerals undiscovered for future generations With all these resources of agriculture, grazing, and timber, of gold, copper and coal distributed over the whole of Alaska between the Yukon river and the Pacific Ocean, there will be many thriving towns along the line of the railroad and on the banks of the connecting navigabe rivers such as Roosevelt on Kenai Lake, Moose Pass, GirdwoOd on Turnagan Arm, Hope, Sunrise, Anchorage, Mata- nuska Junction, the Matanuska coal towns, Willow Creek, the junction of the Kgsk0kwim branch rail road Takeetna, Broad Pass, the Nenana coal towns, Nenana, Fairbanks, Hot Springs, Toovana, Panama, Rampant, Ruby, Nulato, Kaltag Russian Mission Iditarod, Dykeman, ophir, Georgetown and Me Grath.
 It is Stewards purpose to aid actively in the de- velopment of all of them, and to do it's full share in the work of bringing population by the scores or thousands from the overcrowded States and from Europe to these vast, unoccupied, weathstored re- gons.
 For further particulars write to
 THE SEWARD COMMERCIAL CLUB,
 Seward, Alaska.
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Routes of the Government Railroads.

The main trunk of the Government railroad ex- tending when completed 412 miles from Seward to the Panama river, with 3S-mile branch to the Matanuska coal fields and 385-mile through the Kuskolwim valley, will unite the 4OOO miles of navigable rivers of the interior directly with the Pacific Ocean at Seward All the commerce of n- terior Alaska will then meet the commerce of the world with Alaska through the open port of Seward as the commercial center.
 Kenai Peninsula.
 En route from Seward to the Panama river the Government railroad will traverse the Kena Penn- sua, absorbing the present Alaska Northern, com pleted for seventy-one miles, which the Government has bought to form part of it's main trunk line The Kenai Peninsula, 18,OOO square miles in area, surpasses Switzerland in grandeur of scenery. It is the hunters paradise for bear, moose, mountain sheep grouse and ptarmigan. It is studded with gold and copper veins, and it's valleys and mountain slopes are green with dense forests and grasses.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-02-25
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Agricultural Commission this is a
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The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-02-25

membered by some of the older
citizens, as will also her two dau-
ghters-Miss Estella Dunlap and
Mrs. VIM. Disson of Philadelphia.
Richard Hayes, arrested last
week on a warrant sworn out by
a nephew, Fred Hayes. charging
him with a threat to kill, was
bound over to the Probate court
by Mayor Scholl in the sum of
500, which he could not give and
was placed in the county jeil to
await a further hearing.
Constance, the seven. year-old
daughter of L. E. Kerlin was
knocked down by an auto truck
one day last week and her face
badly bruised and one ankle
sprained. She was with her aunt
and ran into the street to meet
her papa when the accident hap
pened. the driver being able to
stop his machine almost instant
ly.
Burl Eley was found guilty of
robbing old man Engle at Union
City in September, 1918, as char.
ged in the indictment returned
against him. The jury brought
in G verdict Wednesday of last
week, after only ten minutes de-
liberation. He;was sentenced by
Judge Bowman Saturday to serve
an indetermlnate sentence in the
State Reformatory at Mansfield.
Anna Shepherd, about 4G years
old, a resident of New Madison,
was arrested in that village last
week by Patrolman Bell of this
city on a charge of stealing fur
muf and collar, valued at $50,
at the Palace Department Store
in this city. When arraigned in
Mayors court she plead guilty
and was assessed 4 fine and costs
amounting to $500 and commit
ted to the county Jail. She Sc
cured the amount and was re-
leased on Wednesday Of last
week.
George D. (Teddy) BoxwelJ,
who was so badly injured Satur-
day night a week ago by alight-
ing from or boarding a freight
train at Meeker's Crossing, died
Wednesday evening of last week
in the home of his sister, Mrs.
Charles Reppeto, where he was
taken after being found lying a.
long the railroad tracks. He also
sustained internal injuries be-
sides a crushed skull and broken
| shoulder. Just how he received
| his injuries will never be known,
as no one witnessed the accident.
He was Is years old and single.
He is survived by his father.
stepmother, two sisters and three
brothers,. Funeral services were
held Friday afternoon at the Rep
peto residence and burial made
in Greenville cemetery.
Nhi1S ron Hru
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-02-25

Charles EuDankS OF Dayton VS.
tied in Greenville Sunday.
]. F. Sink and family motOred
to Richmond, Ind, Sunday.
1t is said that some sugar camps
have been opened in Adams town.
ship.
Lewis George and family spent
with relatives in North
Star.
J. w. Edwards of Palestine
was a business visitor here Sat-
lrday.
j, A. Hildebrand and wife
spent the weekend in Lancas-
ter, o.
Miss Isis Williams spent the
week end with friends in Colum-
BUS, O.
Miss Caroline Beutler of Day.
;on spent Sunday with relatives
n this city.
Miss Mary EIman of West Mil
;on was the weekend guest of
Miss Ruth York.
M. A. Coffner and wife of Day.
or were the guests of Noah Wen
lick and family the past week.
Miss Flcssie Diehl of Hollans-
,urg was the guest of Mrs. o.
3. Beanblossom the past week.
Miss Lizzie Borman returned
sunday evening from a few days.
'isit among relatives in Dayton.
Major H. L. YCunt, who has
'een confined to his home for
ONE weeks with liver trouble,
loesn't improve much.
The George w. Studabaker
arm of 80 acres, south Of the
ity, was sold last Saturday to E.
). Wright, who represents a syn
licate, for $35, OPS. being nearly
'113 an acre.
Probate Judge Boil has moved
o this city and resides at 3O3
central avenue, having sold off
lis stock, farm implements, ETC.,
It his farm in German township.
Ne welcome him to our midst.
Frank Kelley is being tried
his week for the murder of
George Nibarger on the night of
November IA last. A jury was
secured about A o'clock Tuesday
afternoon and the taking of tes-
5imony commenced Wednesday
Omer Brandon, a former Green
vile boy, and a son of Capt. A.
H. Brandon, deceased, sailed last
Thursday from New York for the
seat of war in Europe, where he
will operate a steam trench Dig
ger for the allied forces of Eng.
land, France and Belgium.
At a meeting of the City BoarC
of Education last week Ed Will
liams was chosen as treasurer
to succeed City Treasurer F. U
Schreel, who can no longer ac
as school board treasurer unde
the present school law. Mr.. Viii
liams is now Secretary Treasure
of the Board.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-02-25
THURSDAY, FEB. %, 1915
LOCAL BRIEFS

Joseph Alexander of OsgOOd
was in Greenville Saturday.
Lansing Dunham was here
from Woodington Saturday.
Mrs. ]. L. Boyer of Piqua spent
last Thursday in Greenville.
Charles Wiley of New Paris
was visitor here Saturday.
L. d. Reigle of Ansonia trahs-
acted business here last Thurs
day.
Mrs. Silas Sneary visited rela-
tives in Fort Wayne, Ind.. over
Sunday.
Max Carpenter of Union City
transacted business in Greenville
Saturday.
Miss Irene Coblentz of New
Madison was q visitor here last
Thursday.
Mrs. C. H. Stoltz of Gettysburg
was shopper in Greenville
Thursday.
Levi Minnich and wife of
Franklin township were visitors
in Greenville Friday.
Mrs. Zack Lansdowne of New
York is the guest of Mrs. Eliza
beth Lansdowne, East Third
Street.
Cliff Boxwell and family of Co.
lumbus were here to attend The
funeral of the late George Denzil
Boxwell.
Miss Elvira Lander of Hartford
City, Ind, was the guest of Miss
Queen HORNE, East Main street,
the past week.
Frank White, for years tea
cher in the public schools, is re-
ported very sick at his home on
East Fifth street.
David Mallory of Union City,
who has been in Jail on a petit
larceny charge, has been released
on parole by Judge Bowman.
Mrs. Joseph Anderson, West
Main street, was operated on Sat.
urday morning for abdominal
trouble, and is said to be improv-
ing.
Mrs. Kate Lucas is quite sick
in her home on West Fourth
street, with little or no improve
ment in her condition. The same
can be said of DR.. G. H. Bolles
and R. A. ShuffeIton.
Upon our roll of nonor TO-DAY
we can place the following NAM
ed patrons
M. w. Kerns.
Joshua Jefferis.
L. S. Clapp!
Isaac E. Polling.
Emanuel Polling.
A. A. Hawkins.
The remains of Daniel B. Tur-
pen, who died in Sacramento,
CAL, on February Ia, arrived here
Sunday morning and were taken
to the home of his brother, John
C. Turper, where funeral servi
ces were held at 2 o'clock pm
Sunday and burial made in oul
cemetery.
Nettie Hoke, 49 years old, wa
again committed to the asylum
at Dayton Monday, where sh'
-. +ol,o, hv cbor;fF cossal an,