Seward daily gateway., 1924-07-05
l CHAMBER COMMERCE ! I IMPORTANT MEETING

Seward Chamber of Com me-, held a special luncheon and meet at the Seward Grill yester- day th Vice President P. c. Nc Mule presiding.
 Tn object of the meeting was to enter in MT. Charles D. Garfield of the laska Bureau of the Seattle Chan CT of Commerce and MT. Lee H. J ndis, general manager of the Alas railroad.
 MT. Garfield being called upon de scrih ! his trip through Alaska in the terosts of the chamber, cover ing all routes of travel followed by tourists including trips down the Yu- kon from Dawson and over the Rich ardson road and Copper River rail way to Cordova. MT. Garfield declar- ed he was very much pleased with the attractions of the routes and forecast a great advantage to Alas ka from tourist travel. He said many business men were among the tour ists from all parts of the world, and they would be enabled to do much good for Alaska from the informa- ton obtained.
 MT. Garfield met the manager of the Mayo mines who stated this property was continually showing greater possibilities and while at the present time transportation rates are high he hoped for reductions in the near future,, The Bunker Hill smell ter at Kellogg is the destination of the Mayo ores,. and it's values show more than sufficient values to justify wide development Between five and six thousand tons of this ore left Seward on one of the last steamers. MT. Garfield also spoke of the mine at Hyder which he said is the great est in the world, it's dividends al reaey reaching $5,4O0,000, or over four hundred thousand dollars more than the mine cost.
 MT. Garfield said that $295,000 had been expended by the Seattle cham Der in advertising Alaska and the Northwest in addition to S1,325,OOO spent by the railroads. The Seattle chamber also expends oyer $12,OOO annually for the maintenance of the Alaska bureau of this organization, entertaining from 100 to 15O visitors week, answering from ten to 12 letters daily and sent over 15,OOO pieces of literature over the United States in the interest of Alaska. MT. Garfield said he was sent to Alaska primarily to check up on the lntor- nation held by the Seattle Chamber of Commerce and to lay before the various commercial organizations in Alaska the offer of Seattle's cooper attion and assistance in any prob lem affecting Alaska's welfare and to assure Alaskans of their friend ship. He illustrated the active part taken by his organization in the past on Alaskan affairs and desired information on any other matters in which it could assist through it's Washington delegation and associa- tions.
 Considerable discussion was. car ried on by the Chamber on the vari- ous phases of the Federal Highway act and the Alaskan Chamber of Commerce after MT. Garfield had asked for an expression from the members. MT. Moultray, Captain Johansen, MT Hoben and Cal Bro sius all remarking that an organi- zation composed of Cordova, Valdez, Seward and the westward, and other communities along the government railroad could work to advantage by coordination on matters of interest to this section, but that the interests or southeastern and western Alaska were dissimilar and in many cases would preclude the possibility of harmon ious organization.
 These matters however, were laid oyer until a regular meeting of the chamber.
 Captan Johansen spoke to MT. Gar field of the necessity of new light house service station in this vicinity to take care of Prince William Sound and western waters, and of more sat isfactory service by the Naval radio stations, especially the station at Seward Mr. Garfield responded by telling in detail the work carried on by hs organization to secure the transfer to the Army or reoDening of the Seward Radio station, ond also of the insistence on additional appropria- tions for aids to navigation in west ern Alaska waters.
 MT. Landis favored the Chamber with a few short remarks, explain ng the efforts of the Railroad to build up travel and furnish satis- factory service to Alaskans and visitors.
 After some of the activities of