Seward daily gateway., 1925-07-13
SENATOR DILL GOES SOUTH ON
 STR. ALASKA
Junior United States Senator from State of Washington Completes
 Tour of the Territory
CANCELS TRIP TO THE INTERIOR
"See You Some More" Exclaims the Distinguished Visitor as Boat
 Pulls Away from Wharf.

Senator c. c. Dill, Democrat, of Spo- kane, returned to Seward Saturday evening from visit to the Anchorage district, departing yesterday afternoon l for the south aboard the steamship Alaska. Wm. Butler, special agent for the Alaska Railroad, accompanied the Senator to this city from Anchor age.
 In company with Noel w. Smith, general manager of the Alaska Rail- road; J. J. Corey, head of the district for the Bureau of Mine department; the Evan Jones coal mine at Jones' vile, Senator Dill made a trip to the Evan Jones coal mine and others in the Moose Creek district. The Sena- tor was also taken to the Fern Gold mine in the Willow Creek district, as a guest of Jerome Drumheller, one of the owners of the property with whom Senator Dill travelled from Seward to Anchorage. A visit was made to the experimental farm at Matanuska, where the Senator, was shown about by Supt. M. D. Snodgrass. The trip was very enjoyable the Senator stat ed and he hopes to return to Alaska soon, and make the Interior trip which was postponed on account of the length of the trip to date
 Senator Dill arrived in Seward from the States, departing the next day for the Pribilofs, on the coast guard cut ter Haida, on quest of information regarding the seals and rookeries
 He returned to Seward July 8, stating he was we'll pleased with the result of his personal investigation. He ex- poets to be quite active in Congress , when the seal treaty comes up, as he is member of the Committee on
 Territories, Public Lands, Naval Af-
 fairs and Interstate Commerce. The
 assignment to the Committee of the Senate was responsible for his trip to Alaska, inducing him to gratify 8
 long existing desire to visit the Ter
 ritory
 While in Seward Senator Dill met
 a number of former friends who had
 resided in the State of Washington
 and in Spokane, his home town. May
 or L. V. Ray and wife acted as hosts
 to the Senator during his visits to
 this city.
 ". E. Gamble of Oroville, Wash. is accompanying Senator Dill as private secretary.
 Anchorage Enjoys Visit - ANCHORAGE, July II, (P-Sen-
 ator c. Q. Dill arrived here from the Pribilofs where he inspected the seal
 rookeries. He said he was impressed with the perfect condition of the seal , herds and the splendid care they had
 received, He said the treaty which
 expires next year should be renewed. He went to the Willow Creek mines on July 8, and inspected the workings oL tne fern mlne. lie said he was surprised to find mine from which profits had been made from ore re- S moved without removing the reserve bodies through stoping. The Fern l mine is working an immense ore body on the 800 feet level running from S15 to $500 per ton Senator Dill favors a building feeders from the railroad to s the mines in order to help develop ment. He visited the Evan Jones coal mine, and expressed surprise at the extent of the coal deposits in this } region. He declared something must be done to protect Alaskan coal op- orators, to prevent the government a from Buying British Columbia coal for use in Alaska.