Seward daily gateway., 1924-08-09
Seward Chamber Commerce
 Has Fine Trip to Westward

met by Karl Armstrong and Deputy Marshal Scott, who managed to pre- serve order until the boat sailed an hour later. A shipment of cattle was taken on here for Kanatak. How we were entertained at this quaint old village will be detailed on anoth- CT page telling of our return.
 The Standard Oil Co. has recently built three large tanks at Kodiak, which will make for checker fuelw oil for the many gas boats, and 1t is reported that a cold storage plant is also negotiating for entrance in to the field The government experi- ment farm is located here and it's neat buildings and green fields add to the attractiveness of the place.
 Sewardites Located at Uganik
 Leaving Kodiak at an early hour, the Starr steamed out past Whale is land where Dr. Parker, former vet erinarian, resides with his charming wife. Doc is a good scout but an in- veterate billiard player and gave up business long ago so as to stay at home and practice reverse English. Leaving Whale island Kupreanof Strait was navigated safely and we passed into Shelikof Strait, the stor- miest waters in the world Our first landing after leaving Kodiak was at Uganik, where the party was greet ed by Mr. Horn and wife, MT. Dow ney, Mrs. Stanton and other Seward ties. Here Carl Orlander distin- guished himself by catching a cod fish family including many distant relatives, which were dispatched by Chas. Hinde, the sharpshooter of the chamber. The ladies gathered berries and panhandled Crs. Stanton for some of her excellent cake.
 Uyak Beautiful Place
 Uyak, the next port of call, is beautiful little place with cannery belonging to the Northwestern Fish cries Co.,, at the head of the bay. The party here investigated the wreck of the old steamship Bertha which was beached here several years ago, after striking a rock and igniting her cargo of lime. The old ship of Klondike fame lies on the beach, her bones bleaching in the rains and wind. In 1898 and 1899, she carried thousands to the Golden Northland, and was in service many years. Uyak postoffice lies on the western entrance to the bay.
 kanatak, the Oil Town
 Leaving Uyak our next stop was Kanatak, the New oil town, where the party was ferried ashore in a dory, and carried pick-a-back beyond the reach of the breakers Kanatak has no harbor, and fronts the Paci- fic ocean which at times piles in tremendous sea. Here the party was met by Robert Mcintosh, Chas. Mad sen, Gabe Santos, Derrick Lane, H. N. Evans, and number of others, and shown about the town. At noon fine luncheon was rendered the par ty by MT. Evans, at Gabe's Cafe. A fine road reaches the oil district from Kanatak, and the country about IS very picturesque with it's bright colored shales. Kanatak is divided into two tov7s, one the old town, having been promoted by one oil company and the New Town by oth- CT interests. Kanatak has several fine stores, pool halls, restaurants, and other business houses, and is sitting tight awaiting the moment when the big drills penetrate the golden sands containing oil. The Standard rig is down 2660 feet in oil saids, and the Associated 1250 feet. Every geologist and oil man who has seen the formation and drill tailings, claim that oil will be struck. In what quantity is unknown. In case a good pumping we'll is hrot in the population will jump to thou sands within a month.
 Chignik Has Three Canneries
 At Ch'gnik, the Starr landed at the connery of the Northwestern Fisher ies Co.,, where the party spent some time watching the canning machinery work, thence going to the wharf of the Columbia River Packers Associa- tion, where Jas. Osmund, an oldtime Alaskan exte Id the courtesies of the plant f, them. MT. Osmund has been in Alaska 34 years, coming here when yolng man as a codfisher- man at Unga, where he caught cod fish at $20 per thousand. It is need less to say that at this price he did not get rich, so in later years he en- tered the :isn'ag game by selling trap site 70 the A. F. for T g"cd sum. At the present time, MT. Os- mund and wife are fakinp' care of