THE NATAIUSKA VALLEY PIONEER
Published Thursdays at
Palmer Alaska
Lack Allman, Editor --Publisher
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If by mail add 500 for portage.
Single copies 50 locally, 100
elsewhere. Advertising rates fur
nished on request. Weekly PIONEERS
at Bert’s Drug Store - Anchorage.
The following is in answer to
queries from interested colonists
who have asked us why, up here in
a farming community, we are so in
terested in The Dimcnd Nish Bill.
The Bill, which cells for the a
bolishment of all fish traps in Al
askan waters, promises to be one of
the hardest fought pieces of legis
lation .fleeting Al' ska to cola up
in years.
Passage of the Bill will bring
to Alaska a tremendous increase in
population, and that population wil]
be just that much larger a market
for Igat^nusko. A aid products.
Here is our argument:
G a n a da, wh e r e fis h t rt, p s are pro
hibited, used 17,000 men to put up
their pack in a normal ye^.r like
1934. That same year Alaska used
25,000 men to put up just F0I7B times
as much fish. These figures are fror
the Bureau of Fisheries.
Bad Alaska no traps it would have
taken 68,000 men to put up our p^ck,
Those men would make their homes in
Alaska, and the ratio of employed
family heads to non-producers (thrt
is women and children) is 1 to 3,
meaning that it is conceivable that
the fishing industry might he run
in such manner as to bring Alaska's
population well above a hundred
thousand.
In the Bristol Bay district,
where traps are prohibited, the boys
last season collected in the nei*h
torhoed of twelve hundred dollars
apiece for eighteen days fishing.
That’s good dough in any man’s lang
uage, and what bettor set-up then to
have a farm, leave it during the
month of July (when there is little
to do) and make a quick stakeI
That, it would seem to us, is
pretty fair insurance in case of
crop failure, but as long as there
are company owned traps the number
of independent fishermen will be
limited ,.nd employees will bo ship
ped in from the St.tes and receive
their pay after return, leavim lit
tle of their earnings in Alaska, and
holding short period jobs th t could
and should he filled by resident Al
askans who have other interests to
keep them in the country the year
’ round.
Buy PIONEERS r.nd send to friends
Contrary to his original plans
Vr. r. D. Snodgrass is now selling
lots in his addition South of Fin
ger Lake hood .nd ''rest of the R.h.
tricks.
Bert’s Drug Store is the first
lessee to toko the adventage of
acquiring permanent title and now
owns the property upon which his
store stands.
rTr. Si. odor ass announces that
he has other ground ideally sit
uated for either business or resi
dence sites, and for sale at the
nurch-: s jr ’ s t e rras .
FOUFD: Black
hair, white on
and chest. Th
have her at Tr
keep her until
ieirz,1c deg, long
nose, two hind feet
c Clinton Johnsons
act 143 and will
called for.
FOB SALE: Silvertone phonograph
with about forty records. Cabinet
size. 110.00 1 PIONEER OFFICE.
Pair 7 foot in-pie ski is with har
nesses. Also poles. ill in ex
cellent condition. Cheap. FIOFFEB
I'ant el type seven tube Airline
radio. Electric. $17.50 See it
at the PIONEER office.
A dandy Jiffy Kodak. 03.50 See
Chuck Foore, the FI OFFER newsN-,
PacKenzio River Huskey with har
ness. 0ne ye ar cId nd brcke to
drive. Twenty bucks Harry Sears
BCnus application blanks will
bo distributed md records filled
in \t the next me.ting of the llut
onusku Volley “'cst of the ..merican
Legion, to bc hu 1.d Tuosd y evoninc
it the hoku of Aovercr d 3in% 13 .
Tr en s po rt ..t i on 1 ri 11 b _ f urni shi
us in the pv st sc us to ...rrive nt
8 o’clock.
?. 3. Lee wi11 pick up mombers
from crimps Bund 9 end the school
bus from nut north will come throe
comps 5,6 end 7. Gumps 2, 4 und
10 wi 11 bpro vi do d f cr by t he e on
mittec.
trran foments br vo been mode to
have oil the upplic .tion blanks
for the Baby Bonds filled ot this
time so bo sure rnd bring your nee
essary p .pers. And don’t forget
your thumbs, either. You hove to
be finger-orinted.
FOR SALE: 110 volt converter for
electric rodie. FIONESA office.
Yalter Saekuwn, expert photogroph
er, will be in town Saturday and
is open for en<~* yoments.