The Seward gateway., 1921-03-26

Frank Kern, who operates trading | station at the mouth of the Yukon river has applied for permit to can | 1000 cases of King Salmon at new plant on Aqularak slough.
 Numerous applications, by letters, and by individuals are being received daily by the Alaska Bureau from per sons desiring employment in the AL askan canneries the coming season.
 The Seward Gateway suspended pub lication as a daily newspaper last month and is now appearin gas an eight-pge weekly paper which is ere ! dit to the town.
 Considerable mining activity is pre- dicted this season for the Cassiar re- zion in the vicinity of Wrangell' The Deloire creek property will con- tinue hydraulicing which is being car
 ried on on a large scale.
 Thirty men are now employed at the Pacific Coast Gypsum mine at Gyp- sum, from which place shipments are being made regularly to the states.
 Further development work is now un-
 der way.
 Bert w. Dwyer, federal mine inspec~
 tor for Alaska with offices at An
 chorage, $ now in the Matanuska coal
 fields working in conjunction with
 the naval coal commission.
 The Hartman National Bank has
 been purchased by Chas. E. Brown president of the mercantile establish ment of Brown and Hawkins. of Se-
 ward and Anchorage. The new bank
 will be the only financial institution
 of the kind in Seward.
 The Pacific Northwest Products |. Committee of the Chamber of con- merce is making an active campaign , to secure the use of Alaska marble in Building operations here. MT. Udeen said funds were being provided to de- velop property of 750 acres of white
 marble in Alaska which has been
 abandoned fourteen years.
 The War department has renewed 1 last years regulations as applied tc f fishing with fish traps in Alaska anc
 limit such traps to 2,400 feet 1T
 length over all and 100 feet in deptl l of water at the outer end at higf tie, except that a float trap may bt !, operated in greater depth of watel t if the extension from the shore high tide does not exceed 1000 feet Q Alaska road work, threatened witt f delay when Ex-President Wilson ve @ toed the army appropriation bill car |. rying funds for Alaskan highways s will continue under territorial funds James Gordon Steese, president O I the Alaska Road Commission an l nounced Thursday. The army bill car , rie dan item if $5O0,000 for road worl r an probably will bc passed again il z special session of congress in April.
 The contract for the bridge in con ,- nection with this railroad has been le l. to the American Bridge Company o l. Pittsburg, Pa., with offices in Seattle is The first shipment of steel, about 50 1t tons, for the structure will leave her
 eorly in April for Anchorage where
 will be tanshipped by rail to Hurrl ;- cane Gulch. All together the steel flo le the bridge will weigh about 1,5OO to 'i and by the time thee bridge is erect c- ed in September, all the grading be 1e tween Hurricane Gulch and Mile 35 'h the southern eend of steel on tn 'r northern division, will have been con 'ii pleted. Over the graded right-of-wa H. track laying will proceed and barrin
 unexpected delay, we shall tie the CT a+ of steel next January
 I, The storage capacity of lake kett ikan and Mckinley from which ketcl
 ikan received it's power and wate