Seward daily gateway., 1924-01-26
[. [. CHAMBERLAIN, ALASKA|! P|QNFER!.
 AGAIN CANDIDATE

Senator E. F. Chamberlin of Sew ard, who is a candidate for reelection on the Republican ticket, first came to Alaska in 1897, landing at Skag way where he acted as agent for the Chilkoot Tramway Company, on top of Chilkoot Summit MT. Chamberlin resigned and went to Dawson in June 1898, where he was identified with mining in the various creeks near Dawson, and in the spring of 1900 he went to Nome over the ice, where he remained until 1910, engag- ing in mining. Leaving Nome in 1910 MT. Chamberlin came to Seward where he has been a resident ever since, actively engaged in helping de velop the future metropolis Of the Northland. MT. Chamberlin was a member of the city council three terms, and mayor of the city two ! terms.
 While devoting most of his time to l MT. Chamberlin has found time to en- ter politics, being elected to the Ter ritorial Senate in 1920, where he was an active member, introducing and working for numerous bills, one of the most prominent being memorial to congress diverting the money from the fur seal islands to the Territorial treasury. He voted for the women's jury bill, and supported the literary bill, one of the most patriotic and 1 important of the many bills before l the Senate and the House. He also supported and fought for the measure increasing the Pioneers pension, and was a member of the committee that recommended additional money for the Pioneers Home at Sitka, and the improvement of the Home. er.
 MT. Chamberlin introduced a bill to extend the parcel post zoning system to Alaska; memorial to have the government test the oil fields in the Territory a bill granting lands to ex- war veterans
 He secured the passage Of a memo rial to congress for the improvement of Lowell creek glacial stream; took 1 the initiative in securing customs office at Seward; also through his ef- forts money was appropriated to cut a trail from COOper's Landing to Ke- mai on Cook inlet; also for the appro- priation of moneys for a trail from Mile seven to mining properties at Lost lake; secured an appropriation for fish hatcheries at Grouse lake and Cordova; secured aid from the Terri torial and Alaska road commissions for building a road from Dillingham; to Bristol Bay regions; was also in- strumental in calling the attention of the postal department to the need of Bay and securing a marshal at kog- giung. At the present time he is en- deavOring to get an appropriation for d road from the railroad to the Grant lake and Primrose mine mineral re- gions He secured money to carry a road from Moose pass down Quartz creek to connect with the road at Cooper's landing; and also secured an appropriation of $12,000 additional money for the care of indigent and needy He also secured an appropria- ion of $10 900 for the propagation of deer on Prince William Sound and the westward islands; also supported 4 memorial to congress for a branch land office at Anchorage; secured the
 passage of memorial asking the
 U. s. government to send a revenue
 cutter with surgeon, dentist and a
 medical clinic for the care of whites
 and natives in the various villages to the westward
 The above is but a portion of what
 MT. Chamberlin has accomplished in
 his four years in the Senate He is a hard worker and knows Alaska from ketchikan to Point Barrow, having lived in the various camps for twenty