The Seward gateway and the Alaska evening post. [volume] (Seward, Alaska) 1917-1918, 1917-09-19
SEWARD DUE FOR BIG
BUILDING BOOM AND
MUCH PROSPERITY

Stewards growth en- a scale realized by few here at
present will begin next spring with the completion of the
Tunlcain Arm section Of the Government railroad" said
John Z. BaIaine this morning. He had just returned
from trip into the interior of the Kenai peninsula with
George Sexton Of Seward and Messrs. Fetshans Baird
and Kauberthe Los Angeles gentlemen who accom-
panyng him behalf of group of Los Angeles CAPT
taIsts.
q have been asked many times" said Mr. Balaine
what preparations being made to takescare of the
increased volume Of business and the heavy travel that
will come to Seward after the completion of the Tnagan
Arm section of the Government railroad and the
uent beginning Of through train service to and from Sew
ard and the interior
"lIy answer to all such questions is that among
other improvements, modern fre-proof hotel costing
probably 100000 will be ready for business besides
cral modern apartment houses, and 4 concrete moving
picture theater
MANY Of the wholesale houses in Seattle and Tacoma
are preparing to put in warehouses or branches here and
they will erect stores and other necessary buildings
"Two additional cold storage plants are to be install
ed here also, and numerous mining operators of the IN
terror are getting ready to build homes in Seward and
their families permanently to this place. instead Of
keeping them in Seattle as they do now Among them is
Edward Ellis president Of the big mining companies in
The Cache Creek district.
SOme people in Seward have been reStve because I'M
provements of that kind were not started year two
ago But it would have been nothing less than criminal
folly to get up anything like premature boom and bring
several thousand new people here before the country
ready for them Seward is town in Alaska that
had boom and never a relapse
cts growth has been so substantial that all business
men here doing very profitable business and every
body has steady employment at big wages That condi
tOn tOO has been confined to purely local field With
the field wdened and extended to tributary country
100000 times greater in area and resources do not
have to strain our magnatons to realize the certain de-
velopments ahead Our duties and obligations in pro-
portion.
GAS soon as the railroad is prepared to deliver the
MaanuSka coal and coke, and from the interior Of
the Kena peninsula we should have smeter Resur-
recton bay and am working with New York people
that project This will eventually be the central point
for all the smelling ores from the interior and from the
westward as far as Unalaska.
CAS- for towns in the interior along the railroad
Of Seward must encourage their growth as much as we
encourage the growth of Seward All of their business
will pass through Seward and all of them will do business
with Seward
eve must work for the upbuildng of all the interior
because Stewards permanent prosperity will go hand in
railroad terminal has about 25 per cent the total popu
ation of the country it serves. Seattle Portland San
Francisco and Los Angeles are Illustrations When there
are 100000 people in the country tributary to the Gov
ernment railroad can count on population of $4,000
in Seward. That time will come and much more before
very many in Seward now can realize it."