Seward daily gateway., 1929-11-02
VISIBLE EVIDENCE OF PROGRESS
nervous energieS

While those nervous energies, latent in almost every frontiersman demand something more less spectacular the march of progress they do not retard the more deeprunning currents Of steady enduring advancement This is proved by the outstanding evidence of the growth of Anchorage So gradual has been this encroachment that few realize the great strides that have been made in building permanent little city, possessed of nearly every modern innovation.
 It had been four years since the writer had visited Anchorage and the growth and air Of permanency Vs ibe was peasurable surprise. There many who rA member the tent city pitched near the mouth of SLID Creek little than decade and half ago. WEer+ landscape of timber deep ravines and upland sWamps greeted them Today pauses at street crossing for the string of private and public motor to break to allow of crossing Or 1t is to cast the eye upward to where big commercial airplanes, arriving departing for thousand mile journeys, are lowering like eagles above the modern airport now III the building The rough trails that once led through the residence districts have been transformed into boulevards while the main bus mess streets are oil-coaed and 'roned smooth with modern road-buildng machinery. Along these streets and modern business houses and homes have re- placed the frontier shacks mosscovered scrubbe has made way for the flower or vegetable garden At night the city is abaze with electric light supplied by the new artery of industrial development the Anchorage Light & Power Company whose Eklutna hydro-elect1c plant completed few months ago, brought to the doors of the city this potent essential to modern progress From this nucleus will flow energy for oper aon of coal and mines manufactures and all industrial departures demanding power
 Glance out to where the bargeS once llghtered the necessities of life to the beach and fleet o m land craft plying the commerce up and down Cook m let while the shore line is dotted with cannerles.
 Glance again at the bank statements and one gains an idea of how and finance has traveed hand in hand with this civic progress Each year has shown
 steady trend upward in deposits and clearances until the two banking institutions boast near million dollars each in savings refectng the permanency ana lncres ing business volume of the city
 Then glance again at the of this healthy con- don and one sees wealth of natural resources just coming into fruton including operating coal and other mines agriculture, oil development, timber, all comng within the zone of influence of The Alaska Railroad which ceaves this sorehouse of wealth and furnishes the artery through which is flowing in gradually m creasing volumes this stream of natural wealth
 Then standing behind it all is permanent big pay roll derived from The Alaska Railroad and other feder al activities nsurng field for the absorption of large numbers of workmen who, insured by the certtude of steady employment, building pretty homes and thus keeping pace with industrial and commercial develop ment.
 While this happy condition principally affects neighboring city it's influence is reflected throughout the railroad Zone and has pronounced bearing upon the prosperity of other centers not the least ot when is Seward, The Gateway City, through which flows 2 steady stream of increment derived from the prosperity of neighbors.