Seward daily gateway., 1923-12-08
KODIAK NEWS

KODIAK, Dec 4.-The dance for the benefit of the school library, on the night of November 26, was a bis success and quite sum was realized, which will be spent for books.
 0. E. Grimes, the popular merchant of Ozinkie is in town, waiting Tor the Watson. lie will make business trip to Seattle.
 w. J. Erskine was an outgoing pas senger on the Watson en route to New York and the East, where he goes to interest parties in the estaD lishment of a fisheries station on ko diak Island.
 T. w. Walker and wife, of Kukuk Bay, were passengers on the Admiral Walker en route to the states. Mir Walker is superintendent of the clam cannery at Kukuk bay, and feels well satisfied with what they done there the past season. He says keep youA eye on Kukuk Bay next season.
 Kodiak had the first snow Of the season, Nov. 27th. Kodiak has the best climate of any port in southwest ern Alaska, with very little snowfall and the mercury rarely touching zero. The town has one of the best h&r bors in the coast, we'll protected from prevailing winds and with good An chorage It is close to the herring banks. the big salmon run, and on the edge of the vast halibut banks. It is only a question of few years until Kodiak will be one of the com mercial centers of southwestern Alas ka, owing to it's typographical location.
 The power boat Hillside, which has been at Three Saints Bay for the past three months is in the harbor and will l leave for Seattle in a few days Miss Margaret Kraft, who has been in Seattle since last August will be a passenger on the next Watson.
 MT. F. Kane who has been here on a visit for some time, left for his home in Chicago on the Watson.
 MT. Shellenberger of Three Saints i Bay is in town.
 We are all glad to see December come and hope that il will have less precipitation than November IL rain ed 25 days last month.
 ] MT. Petrosky, an old timer rom ] Uyak, spent a few days in town wait ing tor the steamer Starr to take pas sage for the westward.
 Fox farmers of Kodiak and sur rounding islands are talking Of form ing an association. Kodiak is one of the best places to raise foxes on the coast, the climate being ideal.
 Karl Armstrong has just returned from his fox island. He says he never saw his foxes looking so good and ex- poets banner year.
 A baby girl made it appearance at Long island this week, Mr. and Mrs. Schmidt being the proud parents. The new electric lighting plant Otto Kraft has installed in his store is a success and make the ablishment look like city store.
 Mrs. Barbara Husby, who has beer power boat Alpha, was a passenger in Kodiak for the last six months, left on the Starr for her home at Seldovia
 Tom Stephenson, master of the for Seattle on the Admiral Watson.
 Messrs. Davis and Nunan, repre- senting the New England Fisheries, arrived in Kodiak on the Admiral Watson for the purpose of looking over the harbor for the purpose of choosing a site to erect a large halibut fishing station and cold storage. They were taken about the city and it's ad- vantages pointed out by w. J. Erskine who was instrumental in getting the company interested. MT. Davis, the engineer, and MT. Nunan, manager of the company, declared Kodiak an ideal location for the plant, and de- parted well pleased with their visit