The daily progressive-miner., 1919-04-09
NEW SERVICE FOR THEREFOR A
 POSSIBILITY
Aircraft Corporation Of Seattle May Open
 Route

The possibilities of stepping into z seat of a huge dirigible in Seattle in the morning and landing in Ketchikan the evening of the same day, are beig ex- plotted here by two of the members of the Harvey Cambell Aircraft Cor poration of Seattle. MT. R. B. McClary and MT. O. A, Campbell, whose son, Kenneth Campbell, is Secretary for the company.
 poration of Seattle was incorporated un rived on the Princess Mary from Sea tie and will be in Ketchikan a few days before going north to Juneau. They are endeavorng to interest the people of Alaska in becoming stockholders it. their corporation the first in the field ill this Very practical and essential bus iness,-aerial transportation.
 MT. LcClary and MT. Campbell ar poration of Seattle was icorporated un- der the laws of the State of Washing ton recently, for one million dollars. The officers of the corporation are F. H. Osgood, President, a we'll known pioneer of the Spirit City who built the first street car line in that city; E. G. Harvey, vice-president a bal loon expert of twenty years experience; k. H. Parsons, treasurer, President of the Fruit Growers Association, and Kenneth Campbell, Secretary, son ol Q. A. Campbell, a we'll known young engineer who has just received his hon orable discharge from the Marine Corps.
 Among the stockholders who are prominent in Seattle are Judge W. Ii. Bogle, J. R. Lane, Frank Waterhousc Louis Heinrich and Moritz Thomsen.
 The corporation has spent about ESQ., 900 already in the construction O. their first airship which will be used more for demonstration purposes. It will be completed about June 15. This ship is 160 feet long, that is the gas bag measures that length, with q width of 32 feet and has lifting pacity of 5000 pounds The body ol car portion of the ship is equipped with eight passenger seats with capacity of carrying one ton of mail, baggage or freight besides. The gas bag contains 76,000 cubic feet of gas, the cost C. filling which will be approximately $7,7OO.
 Both MT. McClary and Mir. Campbell are enthusiastic over the possibilities of aerial service in Alaska, not only along the coast, but also in the interior and are confident that within five years at the outset, dirigibles will be used extensivey in this territory.
 The difference between airships such as the Harvey-C Campbell Corporation are building, and ordinary airplanes is the same difference as exists be- tween Ford car and a big truck. Both do the same but one with an infinite. ly bigger capacity. The dirigible is the truck of the air, and much safer. The dirigible's engines are merely for speed as the gas bag holds it up in the air Should the machine have engine trou- ble, it would still remain in the air as there is no danger of gas escaping.
 After the first machines is complet. ed, the company expects to build much larger dirigibles, with an increased ca pacity. Every thousand feet of cubic feet gas has lifting capacity of 65 pounds, therefore the larger the bag, the more it's lifting capacity. The first airship. is always necessarily the more on account of initial invest ments for patterns, etc. and it is esti- mated that in future these airshirs can be built for an outlay of $1O.000 each, outside of the gas.