Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-01-30
ALADDIN BUILT PORT
ALAsKA's NEW GATEWAY
Within Two Hours of United
States Boundary.
STREETS CARVED OUT OF ROCK
Twenty Miles of Plank Roadway,
With Municipal Baseball Grounds
and Tennis Courts in SkieS-Suon
to Have Public .Jtncys.

and Tennis Courts in Skies-Suon
to Have Public Jitneys.
nh FRANK g. CARPENTER.
During the past few weeks I have
visited each of the three principal
water gates TO Alaska. sailed north
from Seattle. II is the chief port Of
the Pacific northwest. and all Of our
steamers that 20 northwHrd start
there. The city has seven ;rauscontL-
mental railways, over which goods des-
tined for the far north. come from all
parts Of the United states, and its bus
mess with Alaska is greater than that
OF any other port. II il the bank. tho
department; store and the barn of the
territory. As 10 the banking il han
died i'll 1914 something like $4,000. 600
OF Alaskan exports and Imports and
as 20 it's department store business the
goods sent north We're Of every de-
SCrirtion. and they sold foI more than
Sli.GOo.0On AS 10 Seattle being the
harm Of Alaska. 1t shipped there that
year SlIl."o" worth of oats. and Il
quarter OF million dollars worth OF
hay and Other feed. while its shipments
of -four were almost ma much.
Seattle has one of the finest harhors
Of tie world 1t has twenty-n!ne
wharvcs aud docks, with a frontage Of
thirteen miles II has elevators which
will store four million bushels OF grain
and fou" mills with daily capacity
az seven thousand barrels. Among it,
many steamers are eleven lines that
20 to .tlasia and five others that ply
along tho ports OF British Columbia
Sc.,,lo h,s su,h close connection with
,Insk, ti,o, lis MERCHANTS and bank
crS look upon the territory as one OF
their suburbs. and they have an ell
cirnt department Of their chamber of
rcou ,vhich is devoted 10 the devotion.
,ro,, of -bo RESOURCES aud Ia the FUR
,nnrire- of IN, interests OF all things
Alaskan
Tho second water gate to Alaska Is
Nancn,,ycr NJ mo end of the Canadian
Pacific Halfway ON Puget sound That
H. Nnr,hcrn Pacific RAILWAYS. which
.nrrv our goods there in bond 10 be
Skinned to Alaslta. and II viii in u
Snort ti,no hay. also Tho Grand Trunk
pnci6c hallway. which is 10 build
snu,bw,rd 10 N1ncouvar TIE Chicago
milwaukee, and Puget Sound Railway
is Manning a branch into Canada. and
in time there will I've six transconti-
mental roads using Vancouver as one
Of thn.r western terminals
As ~ the steamers. there. are now
only two lines that 20 from Vancouver
nortbward These arc the Grand Trunl;
pacific aud rhc Canadian Pacific. both
lines being owned by tho railroads of
he. h,s IA, II X
Pacific has its nresent terminus at
.prinrc Runcr, and lis business is on
'itr,ly T., ,hc canadian waters The
Canadian Pacific steamers sion also at
All the por;s Of southeastern !\laska.
and thny' carry frcicn, and MESSENGERS
10 Sko-wav to be taken hv the White
Pass Railway Over the coast Range to
White Horse and thence sent down the
yukon River 10 tho l<loudilzc. and on
into interior Alaska The Alaskan bust.
ness OF Vancouver is hagatcllc in
comparison with that or Seattle lts
chief trade is with the Yukon territorS
and especially with naw SON. to which
city almost Si,o0o00e worth OF Cana
dian goods are shipped every year
= The third and last water gate 10
Alaska Is Prince Rupert the new ter
ninai 81 the Grand Trunk Pacihc Rail
way inns H. the iarthcS' horth OIL a."
The doors 10 our territory, being IN
Tact only forty miles south 81 the ia
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