VOL. 4.
PETERSBURG, ALASKA,JANUARY 17, 1930
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Norwegian Seer
Says Eielson
On Sea
Adolph Wehner, . oldtimer oi ,
Fairbanks and father-in-law of;
Earl Borland, believes that ”thej
man who sees things” has re
vealed the fate of the lost fliers, j
At the instance of Fairbanks j
residents who claiucd that many
secrets have been solved * by
Karl J. Tanstad of Sykelven
Aaelsund, Norway.
Mr. Wehner dispatched a radio
message to him reading, “Flier
Ben Eielson left Nome Nov. 9
for Cape North Siberia. Where
is he,” Tanstad replied, “Eielson
lias fallen into the sea halfway!
between Nome and Cape North.,
lias drifted to north.” This!
leads Mr. Wehner and others i
who have faith in Tanstad to:
believe that it meant that the!
airplane landed on the ice and j
is being carried north.
It is claimed for the Norwe
gian that he told the fate of
Koald Amundsen before the
world knew that he and his
French companions had been'
drowned on a flight from Norway
to rescue membmers of the No
bile .expedition. —• Anchorage
1 imes.
Assay on Admiral
•Group Show High
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. .Recent assay returns from the
Alaska School of Mines on ore!
from the Admiral group of min
ing claims in the Farragut Bay
district, shows as follows:
302 pounds lead;
294 do. zinc;
55 oz. silver;
1.60 gold. With a total value I
cf $67.80 per ton, least estimate, j
This ore was taken from the |
surface showing outcrop. Higher
values are expected as develop
ment work proceeds.
Albert Jorgenson, Pete Jorgen
son, John Wallace and seevra'
ethers are interested in the de
velopment of the claims and all
are quite enthusiastic over their
prospects.
Ohmer Provides
Slide for Kids
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Earl Ohmer has provided a so- j
lution of the problem of hanal- j
ing kiddies coasting on cross
streets where they endanger j
their lives and cause no end of j
worry to drivers of cars.
He furnished lumber sufficient
to build a slide 80 or 90 feet
long and 3 feet wide with guard
on the side. This will be built
at the water tank 12 feet high
loading down to the muskeg and
out to the ball ground. Ed Nel
son and city crew of men will do
the construction work.
COSTS OF SCHOOLS
Report of Commissioner of Ed
ucation Breuer points to the fact
that per capita cost of educating
children in Petersburg is less
than any other incorporated
city except Ketchikan. The
I er capita cost in Petersburg for
1927-28 was $94.12. Eagle was
high with a per capita cost of
$208. Ketchikan stands lowest
with a cost of $90.10.
Local Fishermen to
Experiment Ice
^Local haliLut boats plan to ex
periment with ice made from
chlorinated water to prevent the
halibut turning yellow. Bacteri
al action, either in the ice or
water or slime causes the condi
tion which detracts from the
value of the cargo.
Exepriments reported by th
m s. Teekla of Prince Rupert in
dicate that chlorination of wa
fer from which ice is made is an
excellent prevent stive. This will
Le demonstrated when the fish
ing season opens.
Carl Roger has a new canned
fish product on the market. He
calls it “Shrimcod” which as the
name indicates is made up from j
ri combination of shrimp meat
and cod.
The product besides being very
palatable, has food values that
puts, it high among the food
products.
Cooking “shrimcod” for a cer- |
tain length of time gives it a
shrimp meat flavor; cooking it
another length of time gives it j
9 cod flavor. ,
This will develop into a nice {
little industry for local people as;
Mr. Roger will be in the market
for considerable cod and already
is offering fair prices. As sale
for the Shrimcod increases de-;
mand for the cod increases and
more can put their tinie to fish
ing taking care of part of the
winter slack period.
8. F. Craft Meets
linx First Trip
The new motorship Penguin,
built for the U. S. Bureau of
Fisheries at a cost of $140,000,
met with a jinx on its first at
tempted voyage.
With Mrs. Mildred Fredericks
ready to dash the customary
bottle of “water” on its bow, the
workmen started to release the
vessel for its slide into the wa
ter. But it refused to skid and
it was found that the skids were
frozen solid and refused to
skid. The vessel was endanger
ed by trying to soften the grease
with gasoline fire. A second at
tempt was to be made to get the
craft into the water.
BIG ASTORIA CANNERY BURN
Tht Burke Packing Co., of
Astoria was totally destroyed by
fire last week. A number of can
neries in the immediate vicinity
wert in danyer from the uames.
The loss is estimated at a quar
ter of a million dollars. The
cannery was first built by the
Sanborn-Cutting Company of
Astoria.
Edward W. Bok, who came to
the United States as an immi
grant boy and carved o place for
himself in American life as a
distinguished qitizen, editor,
author and philanthropst,, died
in his home at Lake Wales,
Fla., on January 9th at the age
of 66 years.
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; The Wrangell Narrows Pack -1
ling Co. will rebuild its plant atj
Scow bay on the old Glacier Fish j
Company’s location. Mr. C. P. [
Haugen, owner and manager,'
in an interview stated that sal-j
vage operations would begin at
Mountain Point and ail epuip- j
merit usable will be moved down,'
to Scow Hay at an early date.!
The pipeline will be left intact!
at Mountain Point as a reserve j
in case there is water shortage
during the summer.
Pile contracts have been 101 to
local fishermen of Kake and Pe
tersburg. J. E. Sales has the
contract to drive piling for the
dock and foundations of the
buildings. Local help will be
used in all the construction work
and everything clone to make
this a local industry. ^
All of the cannery help during
the packing operations ;will
be secured locally save operators
of the Iron Chink and lye-wash
ers. One fast new Vacuum Line
will be shipped up from Seattle
at an early date and installed;
,n extra reserve line will be add- ■
oa for use in case cf a break
down. Working at full capacity
the cannery will be able to £>ack
2,500 cases a day.
Mr. Haugen •* atir.ou
nc traps would be operated and
i.o seiners from. Puget Sound,
used. All fish will be taken from)
local fishermen and fair prices
paid.
A two-story building will be
erected and completed for use by>
the 20th of June. The cold*
storage building will be remodel- j
! cd for living quarters for the I
!cannery crew. A commissary will!
;be operated for the benefit of
'the fishermen who wish to trade
there.
Mr. Haugen and Mr. Pierce,
bookkeeper for the company left
for Seattle to order supplies and
equipment. They expect to re
turn about the first week of next
month.
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Normanna Chorus
In Fins Program
: The Normanna Male Chorus!
I arrived in Petersburg as per,
schedule and presented their j
! program at the Variety Theatre
Saturday evening.
Soloists were Mr. Berglund,
j Mrs. Berglund, and Edwin Sande.
Mrs. Berglund was accompany
i ist.
The officers of the organiza
tion are, John A. Johnson, Presi
dent, L. A. Berglund, advance
agent, Secretary-Treasurer; C.
Homan,, Director,
j A program of 20 songs, folk
songs, and classics was presented
m a very pleasing manner. A
large audience enjoyed every
number.
MEN SAVED ON LAKE
Fifty fishermen were trapped
on a huge ice boe in a sudden
breakup of ice on Green Bay,
Michigan. Twenty-five men
lushed ashore and some had to
swim. The others were taken
off in a sail sled and a small
boat after boating eight miles
| just before the ice swept into
jLake Michigan.
Alaska-Wash.
Airways Co.
»
Merge Stock |
A new million dollar corpora- ,
tion was started in Seattle last
week when all units of Alaska
Washington Airways Consolidat
ed. Capital stock, $100,000 val
ued. at 310 a share. The company I
was incorporated at Olympia, j
The present board of directors i
of the corporation are H. F. Al- ;
exander, president Pacific S. S. |
Co.; John Ambler, attorney Am- j
erican Mail Line; R. P. Butchart
capitalist; J. L. Carmen, presi- j
dent Carman Manufacturing
Co.; J. L. Carman, Jr., President
Alaska--Washi ngton Airways,
Inc.; Cash Cole Territorial Aud-|
itor; Comdr. W. F. Wynn. Vice
President in charge operations
of Alaska-Washington Airways,
Inc • H. B. Olson, president Gray
Line Tours; W G. Taggart, pres
ident Taggart Motor Company.
The new corporation is a hold
ing company to finance and
control the operations of the
three existing units of the Alas
ka-Washington Airways, the Al
aska-Washington Airways, Ltd. j
of British Columbia, the Alaska- '
Washington Airways of Puget
Sound and the Alaska-Washing
ton Airways of Alaska.
The Alaska unit was the first
established by the Alaska-Wasli
ington Aairwa. s, Inc . a tc r "s'
incorporation last April with a j
capital stock of $250,000. The j
service started about the 15th'
of April and a weekly service j
was maintained until fall with a 1
record of 1,800 passengers car- j
lied and 74,000 miles covered,
without mishap.
The Alaska unit was also in-j
corporated during the past week !
as the Alaska-Washington Air
ways of Alaska, the capital stock
being included in the 100.000
shares of the holding company.
WILL STATION COAST GUARD
The Revenue Department has
promised that it would station
an additional patrol cutter on
the, halibut banks at the begin
ning and closing of the. fishing
seasons.
This matter was taken up by
Earl Ohmer for the Commercial
Ciub and Ehrling Johansen for
the halibut boat owners associa
tion.
The department was urged to
have a patrol boat on the banks
with bunker capacity to remain
I at sea for ten days.
With such a vessel on the fish
| ing banks or near the Gulf of
! Alaska it is very probable that
casualties as have taken place
the past two years will be pre
vented.
SHEEP THRIVE WESTWARD
The sheep raising industry is
j making substantial progress in
I the Westward district according
[to H. K. Carlisle, examiner of
I the general land office, who was
1 on an inspection trip which took
[him as far out as the Aleutian
| chain of islands.
; Two of the companies have
'approximately 10,000 head of
sheep. Two thousand sheep
Ole Benjamin is getting his
new boat under rapid construc
tion down at Scow Bay. She will
Weather Takes Big
Toll in China
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In China is reported the cold
est winter in SO years. Much suf
fering an considerable loss of
li'e is reported, famine areas be
ing hard hit.
It is estimated that 15,000 un
dernourished aged and children I
ore dbad from exposure. Overj
1,000 junks on the Hah river arc j
sai d to have been destroyed by J
blocks of ice and hundreds ot!
persons drowned.
Peiping police report 1G7 men
and 41 women were found dead
in the space of a week.
Ketchikan Town Team returns
from Juneau today where they
won three out of four game.,
fiom the channel teams. They
will meet the Hi Team tonight
and the Town Team, Saturday
night.
A lot of "boosters” for local
projects do all of their boosting'
around the poolrcom stoves. A j
lot of other boosters get in and ;
help with their pocketbooks to j
retire projects. "Boosters” ob- !
ject to obstructionistsvbut_being
negative quantities themselves
are real obstructionists.
The Alaskan suggests at this
time that these so-called boost
cos clo some real boosting for
their teams, giving moral and
f nancial suppart. The basket
ball boys say they cannot oper
ate on wind and poolroom moral
support.
:Nuff sed! Show your stripe.
Boost or be knocked!
La Follette Gains
Place on Committee
Senator Robert La ‘Follette of
V isconsin won against the Old
Guard oi' the Senate in a brush
for place on the powerful Fi
nance Committee. The choice of
tne Old Guard was Senator Goff
who had technical preference
over La Follette by virtue of a
few months service. But the
Young Guard and the Progress
ives insisted »on La Follette be
ing placed on the Committee.
Goff perferred staying on the
Interstate Commerce Commit
tee. Senator Smoot cast the
!
vote which put, La Follette on
the committee
THIRTY LOST IN STORM
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i Thirty lives were lost in a ter
rific storm which swept England
hast Friday. The tug St. Genny
which sunk during the night off
iUihant Light had a crew of 20
ail of whom were lost.
A number of lives were report
j eel lost on land when the wind at
various times was reported as
j reaching a velocity of 100 miles
I an hour.
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COLONEL RETURNS
j- . General Manager Otto F. Qhi
son. of the Alaska Railroad, re
turned to Anchorage after being
in Washington for several weeks
on appropriation and other rail
road metters.
Boatmen Plan
Plan Co-op.
Insurance
Local halibut boat owners met
Jbunday afternoon, to consider
a cooperative insurance plan
that has been suggested to off
set prohibitive rates now in vo
gue or the refusal of companies
to provide insurance. One of
the larger companys has with*
o.rawn from the field.
There is no law in the Terri
tory governing insurance associ
ations so a court ruling has
to be secured in order to govern
t tie scope of the association’s op
erations. The Attorney General
lias been written for information
on the subject.
The meeting represented 90
per cent of the boats registered
in this port. No appraisal has
iet been made of the valuation
of the boats but it is expected
that this will be undertaken at
an early date.
The new plan would cover on
ly in case of total loss or more \
han 50 per cent value.
Gold Storage Will
Double Capacity
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At a meeting of the stockhold*
c fsr of the Cold Storage Company
held on the 13th, report of the
year’s operations was made.
Over a million and a half
pounds of fish was frozen which
is double the rated capacity of
the plant.
The company paid a dividend
of eight per cent to holders of
-fock in the company and also
took up bonds in the sum of
55,000. A handsome surplus was
set aside as a reserve on the
books.
Contemplated plans indicate
a 40-foot extension on the main
building is planned. This will
double the storage space.
An additional ice grinding
machine is being installed with
conveyor reaching the face of
tr.e dock. This will permit the
boats to take on ice at any stage
ci the tide and also relieve the
congestion at the fish delivery
slip.
All of the officers were reelect
for the ensuing fear.
Extensions planned will reach
$30,000. The additional space
provided will create more com
petition as the Atlantic-Pacific
Fisheries and the Alaska Fish
Brokerage Company have al
ready asked for additional spacfc.
Reasons Given for
Harbor Dredging
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Going into the reasons for the
need of dredging the local har
bor it is found by the Fisher
men's Association that registry
of vessels at Petersburg totals
3,587 gross tons, made up as fol
lows:
33 halibut boats .. 626 tons
250 trolling, fox ranch ..1250
50 cannery tenders .. ..871
Scows.840
In addition to this a large
f eet of pleasure craft, speed
I beats and so forth, may be takei*
iinto consideration.