Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-04-30
ANCHORAGE, BOOM CITY,
WHERE RAILWAY BEGINS
Almost Over Night. but With
Great Future.
Tow TIE LOTS WERE SOLD
Queer Business of E'ronticr-WnmCn
Working in ilaska-"rwo Girls y
Waffle House-Mother White and
First American Flag.

have come from Sunrise 10
Archorsso sunrise is the little log
cabin mining settlement OH the
northern end Of the kenai Peninsula
Archorag, is the fronhcr town "f
cabins and tents that has grown IN
at the mouth Of ship creek. on the
mainland 81 the beginning OF The new
construction of Uncle SANS railroad.
The railway really begins at Seward
=, tho southern coast of the kcuai re
nirsula but its tracks for sevcuty-Iwo
miles Mill he those OF tho Ala Ska
Northern. which Uncle sam has bought
rcady-buili This runs across the pc
rinsula 10 tho head OF Turnacain Arm,
not far from sunrise, and there will hc
iftcen or twenty miles to construct
from there on to .>p'hcraH" The
work now under way is from
Anchorage ncr,hrard. The road is 10
90 Ut Matanuska Valley to III" coal
fields and northward through Susiina
aIley to Fairbanks. which. as the
,row Hes, is ahou, 80 mills. from
where am writing.
The reason for Anchorage is tho
,ailroad construction, and i, Spranc
into being when the President. as
Aladdin. rubbed the rusty old lamp If
Con1res. and wished for that appro-
rriaiiou % SIS "nO.oon for railroads in
Nla ska Tho town viii ne the nearest
port 10 the Matanuska coal fields and
when navigation in Cook Inlet Is crcr
which is from FIVE 10 seven months Of
IN. year, i, will have, perhaps tho
bulk OF tho coal trade For the res
II the time IL viii co on Ia seward
II IL for this reason tina, the reorl
here expect biz city al Anchorage
They look forward to il ~ smelling
and manufacturing center as Nell as 4
great commercial mort. aud arc al
ready TALKING of it az tho financial
heart of Alaska.
rEOrLE OF SEWARD
LEtLoJS OF ANrIioUA,E
The people Of seward arc jealous OF
anchorage. They claim tina, their
port viii be tho only real city 1t tho
southern end Of the railroad. for .hc
reason that Resurrection FAY is free
nf ice all tho wear round. and that
chips can land there at any hour Of
the wear. All steamers coming to
AncnoTaEe have 20 60 several hundred
miles further They must cope ,,u
Cook Inlet, which il q croa, hay on the
west ri the peninsula extending about
40 mllos into the land The inlet in
Niaocs Is upward OF ifty miles wide
pi' II narroWS At the northern end
*nd Is only few miles across in
hhih Arm, where Anchoraco is situ-
asa. Inc lower part Of tho inlet; owing
~ INC warm Japanese current is omen
throughout tho year. The upper part
'reezes along in October or November
ana iol " great part of the vintcr
"''''' '""' IN inc place IL
' w "'-o ''"'S' The sea rises from
ihF'N-hNc 10 .iAtN-fNo !cct in tho arms
~ the inlet. and it rushcs i'm ;yi,o
daN in wall forn,inc ho
u-,,h,, ,b. ,,,, ,
the r ~ rl nose III!
49, u J" IN" r""SlN
Nv Nnlth one goes 10 cal
''''H
hSd soma experience Win tho tide
~ coming from sunrise to Anchorara
Ne Bad 10 leave when Tho waters uc,a
his and this Nas not ,lnril n,,dri-b,
our hoat was launch ahoui eighteen
tect IN Length NTH tweivc.horse
rove Gasoline engine taking nm Tho
whole ar tho center There wcr.
oench seats around the side. and only
canvas for cover. The owner Of tho
!is' and the engineer Was his son. =
hoy ~ eighteen The man refused 10
20 unless no Col = beast t3a. M; No
MANAGED TO :trun IN seven passengers
consisting ~ mrseF. George Parks Of
the government Land Office, and hve
nroS7Fciors
The distance mad. was some
tdinE NC 100 miles II TOOK ns about
'lehr hours IN 80. and the German Was
'Ne' 80 "EFs coming back, We rode
'ut OF lurh"eain arm 20 tlrc Island.
: o" "a! 'nr i"i Hh hon' '" AVOID the
p"1" We men '"'nc On
"i''Sn Nhl" Arm /" snip 'fcch. ana
"a - ""'' ScN'iH' h"HtN hcl"re IN"
Wv I"S' :" We 'ou'H l"nG MS was
~ !. NC """'n. gu, """' ore" hni
~ '.e w 'n'sh' nav
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