Seward daily gateway., 1923-04-21

Tor the past lew 0ayS, left tnlS morn ing for his home at Unalaska.
 Mrs. Nellie Don Carlos, who has ex tensive oil holdings in the Chignil district, left on the Starr this morn ing for that place.
 H. s. Balderston, accompanied b. his daughter, Miss Betty, arrived iron Anchorage Saturday evening. Miss Betty will visit among friends for tn, next few days.
 Mrs. A. E. Fucker left this morning for Anchorage to pay few days wis 1t with friends.
 Wm. Brabazon, formerly of the for estry service at Girdwood, arrived re gently from the States. He left this morning for the north.
 G. H. Spangler, engineer in the em ploy of the Alaska Road commission left this morning for Kanatak to com mence survey work
 Nick Bruhn, who last summer To cated numerous oil claims in ths Chignik section left for that place this morning on the Starr.
 w. w. French left this morning fol Kanatak where he will engage in 6 survey of oil locations.
 Duke E. Stubbs, interiorite, who re. cently located in Seward, left this morning for Chignik where he will dc some survey work.
 John Dahl, laboratory man for Dr. J. H. Metallic and who recently re turned from visit to the States, left for the Cook Inlet metropolis this morning.
 Adolf Olsen, former Anchorage bus mess man was among those who left this morning for Kanatak
 Sigurd Burvick and J. L. Cook were passengers on the Starr for the Port O'Brien district where they will spend the coming season fishing.
 Pete Dybwad, Kodiak resident. left for that place this morning on the Starr after spending a few days in Seward.
 Victor Engblom and Iver Strom were among those listed for Port O'Brien on the Starr.
 w. A. Shields left for Seldovia this morning on the Starr, going to Kach- emak bay to spend the summer.
 Leopold David, Anchorage attorney and former mayor of the Cook Inlet city. was numbered among those who left for the westward on the Starr. He is on his way to Seldovia to make a business call.
 George A. Parks, chief of the field division for Alaska of the General Land office, arrived in Seward on the special and left for his headuuarters in Juneau.
 Jack Malloy, oldtimer of the inte- rior. who arrived from the States on the Alameda was among those leav. ing for Anchorage this morning.
 J. A. Ramon arrived rom Kern on Saturdays train and will leave the next trip of the Kingfsher for Days Harbor to enter the employ of the Resurrection Bay Lumber Co.
 C. M. Sharpe, representing the Schwabacher Hardware Company of Seattle, left on the Alameda for the south.
 George Palmer, who resides at Ke- mai, is authority for the statement that there is more snow at that place at the present time than comes within the memory of the oldest native on Cook Inlet. It is stated that there yet remains over three feet of the white and beautiful on the ground.
 It is rumored that the price of coal in Anchorage and Seward may soon be increased, owing to a recent order of the Bureau of Mines which con,- pels coal producers to use giant DOW der instead of black powder, as for merly. The Healy River Coal corpo, ration will slightly increase the cost of its fuel, although it is stated that the price will later be lower ed, This company states that as soon as other chambers have been made in the large seams, which will be an expensive matter at present, the price of their production will be brought below the present scale.
 It is reported that a mining tran saction of considerable magnitude was recently consummated at Anchorage, the property to exchange hands being he well-known Drumheiler claims op Craige creek, in the Willow creek district. The purchasers were M. J. Com oy and associates of Anchorage. An initial payment of siO,OOO was re- ported to have bea1 made. A s45OO gOId brick from this nrOnertv was