The Seward gateway and the Alaska evening post., 1917-04-16
THE OPTIMIST

Ali sections of the country all towns and villages have their period of good times and their period of hard times the cause of one is much confidence and the
 u H the other is lack of confidence. People, to cer- tan exten have the shaping of their destiny Pros porous towns have been built rock piles, while others located in fertile valleys, have been failures.-Why!
 The town on the rock pile was filled with optimistic and confident peope-any obstacle that got Tn ther way they went around or over If ocker appeared on the scene and began to decy their town, saying you cannot
 isa brain nm these rocks they immediately went to work and convinced him that they could not raise gram they mad A-No rock for building and other purposes, Whlch would give work lot of men, and as work IS the OaSS eff ali prosperity they were bound to have good town
 The other town with all the advantages that nature
 Id bastov k filled with pessmists and knockers in other words they lacked condolences that breeds lack ol pergv and they degenerate into lazy knockers and ot his class we have little to say But the world looks at the crowd that has gathered together the rock pile They
 east bou to see what mature had favored them with to deyeop They found the hills filled with metal ot all kinds cold silver copper the lowandS were covered with timber and the waters eeing with aquatic products Of all kinds.
 On looking to see where they had cast their lOt they found they were located natural townslte, situated on the shores of the best natural harbor Ill the world Climatic conditions favorable, and the bay at all of the year was tree rom ce OpIllSLS IeI IieS were they immediately started the work of development. The products of the water being the easiest to develop
 with less danger and possible chance of monetary loss he ate fish talked fish, sent their agents to the fish mar kets of the world and convinced the large fish merchants that the most and best fish in the world were in their To- cay They aided in every way by donating sites giving money and labor to those who would come and help them develop this great resource Their work began to bear fruit first came cold storage plant to take of the haIbut followed by cannery to make the pack of sal mon The first year proved a successful one; the cold storage made money and the cannely made full pack The following season saw fertilizer plant established For side issue they put tannery to tan shark hides for leather and render o also cOdsh factory to make codish bricks for the markets of the world They too, had their side issues glue factory work their refuse bones and skins into glue Numerous Saeres for sating1 salmon herring and other edible fish finally planted around the bay and now, today-1920-the shores are dotted with all kinds of plants for the of fish and their byproducs The ocean has proven itself rich field to harvest these products and time goes on the supply seems unlimited large and prosperous city has grown up, with schools unsurpassed by any in the states, churches dot every corner the business houses are of crete and the homes are surrounded by lawns and flowers This is the work of the man that says fail the