Seward daily gateway., 1924-03-24

ure parties to go down the Lake. It was not until Seward people began to buy automobiles, and found them selves confined to three miles of drive way, that they made special effort to get to Kenai Lake. Then many of them advocated it's being on the oppo site side of Lake Kenai from the Primrose Mines In order to get the road to the Lake, Seward people did use, as a matter of expediency, the Primrose and Bluebell mines as basis of argument.
 The owners of the Primrose Mines are happy to have served the people of Seward in helping them to get their eighteen miles of pleasure boulevard. But they would be happier, had the Seward people gone bit farther and helped them get the four miles of road from Kenai Lake to the Mines, which they are so much in need of.
 This road is a vital matter to the owners of Primrose Mines-a pivot on which hangs their future business suc- cess or failure-and not a question of having a boulevard over which to drive out pleasure seeking in summer. Refu- tation of the statement that Primrose Mines has road, is made in self-pro- lection. The owners of Primrose Mines are still endeavoring to get an appropriation for their road to the mines; and to have broadcasted about at this thine, that the matter has been settled--an appropriation already made is both confusing and embarrassing to them, and may serve as a handicap or even prevent their getting further ac- tion or attention.
 Delay and Losses Due to No Road The owners of Primrose Mines have endeavored to get a road from kenal lake to the mines-a distance of four miles-for several years, but up to the present time, have been unsuccessful Failure to get road to this proper tv has made the work of transporting machinery and equipment to the mines so heartbreakingly slow and tedious that the losses to the owners of the property, through increased costs in transporting this stuff over bad trail with subsequent delays, is difficult to estimate. It has meant the loss of two seasons operation.
 Approximately $3O,0O0 worth ot machinery and other equipment, ln- cluding a complete milling and com pressor equipment, purchased in 1921, is still lying at various points along the trail between Lake kenai and the Primrose Mines, where it has been taken when favorable seasons ot the wear made it possible to move it over the trail. In order to move thls mach inery at all, it was necessary to do considerable work on the trail, which had to be widened the entire four miles and several bridges had to be built, a great many trees, roots, etc., had to De cut out. and some grading done. To do this road work, both time and funds \ that were needed for installation, was converted to oad-building, which re- suited in crippling and holding up the nroiect. since there were insufficient funds for both road-building and ln- stallation. At the present time, the only means of transporting supplies from the Alaska Railroad to Primrose Mines in summer, is by pack-horse'
 The lack of road from Lake Kenal tt the Primrose Mines-and nothing elsf has prevented this property from De ing equipped for operation, and on producing basis today; kept It iron being numbered among the paylns gold mines of Alaska.
 Think Tanks Superseded by Fhvvers-
 What?
 The owners of Primrose Mines hay
 not received the support from SeWaf
 which they feel they have a right !
 exnect-in view of the unquestionabl
 benefit Seward would enjoy throug
 the successful operation of the Prlm !, rose Mines.
 ~ ''It's not my funeral" whether thes
 miners get road or not-says fren
 Sewardite. Let us see ii 1t IS C
 isn't: To ignore the welfare of tf
 miners in his district may be hom
 cide-and it may be suicide, Time WI
 tell. Some Sewardites tave peculls
 mental slant toward this road que'
 tion, For Instance: One man sal
 when the subject was preached to hin
 "Well, that road would serve noboo
 but you people at the mine." And y
 this man enjoys a regular revenl "A from the patronage of the Primro'