Seward daily gateway., 1925-12-23

have railroad which runs out or Seward about 500 miles through one of the richest countries in natural wealth in the north. It is rightly named the storehouse of the world
 Seward is located on Resurrection Bay, and is the terminal of the Alas ka Railroad Now, come with me and let us take a ride over the line and see for ourselves. Now we are off, The first stop we have is at Mile 25. This is a gold mine that has yielded good returns for the money invested. Now we come to Resurrection river This is a large stream for this part of the country and has a bridge of about five spans to cross it. Now off up here to our left we can travel west 50 miles to Kenai river, flowing very near south; a country 50 or 100 miles in length and 20 miles in width that has been prospected and has at the present time several good paying mines. This whole country is all gold bearing quartz and placer. You will probably ask me, why is it not opened up. It takes money to open up mine and if the Senator you speak of and others like him would only tell the truth and not attempt to write or talk about subjects they know noth- iY,o off @o I run by the present management, the road would soon be on a paying ba- sis Now we will stop at Mile 8. There is another mine up in the hills from Mile s called the Brewer-Hay- den property This mine is not run ming now simply for the reason that the men at the head were promoters and not miners. There is gold there, and lots of it. Now there are several good prospects between where we are now and our next stop which is at Mile 15 on Lake Kenai This mine has been run for the past six or eight years, and is a good paying, high grade ore, and is stock company.
 It seems the men on the board are pro- mOters and not miners, and conse- quently the mine got into litigation
 The gold is in the country and if the right men come along, it will be developed. Old prospects are open ing up every day and with our railroad running as it is run now the whole a beehive of industry Now we are at Kenai Lake, where the Kenai river rises and flows south of west down to the ocean. It flows through a low country that is placer miners par adise. I was employed on a drill down in that country about eight or ten years ago, and the Kenai river banks were staked on both sides for a mile back and 100 miles long. There is one little incident happened here. One day a would-be promoter came along and said he would like to strike some rich country where there were some miners at work He never saw pan of dirt banned in his life. He would like to see one. One of the boys that was present at the time said, Well my friend, you will not have to say that again We were on the banks of the river at Schooner Bend He stopped right where he
 stood and scoOped up pan of gravel and washed it out, and got two as nice colors as a man could wish to see.
 Now, remember, these senators who come up here and ride over the railroad in Pullman car and never see 50 feet of earth on each side of the track they want to tear up the track and put in wagon road in it's place. I have been in Alaska about 20 years and from what I have seen of Alaska in the past and judging the future by the past, the Alaska rail- road and it's present management, if given the right kind of support by
 the government and the people of