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L OUIS F. PAUL,
C. O. PARKS,
- EDITOR
BUSINESS MANAGER
Pubished every Friday by the Alaska Native Brotherhood Pub
lishing Company at Petersburg, Alaska.
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Up Pop the Gillnetters
“Representative of As.oria
gillnetters were present and ap
proved the plan,” as yesterday*'
Oregonian stated in regards tc
their news item relative to the
Vancouver meeting of the Wild
Life League held last Wednes
day, to protest fish traps and
stationary gear in general use
amongst commercial fishermen
on the lower Columbia River.
We, who are dependent upon
the fishtraps, of the lower Co
lumbia might have known that
the selfish interests of the As
toria gillnetters would have been
represented at a meeting of this
nature; we might have known
that this meeting would walk
right into their hands, and that
they could offer themselves as
a very useful tool in working
towards the end of fish traps.
. Cannot sportsmen and the
general public note just why the
gillnetters should follow out the
program of the Wild Life League,
If not, let us bestow upon you
the knowledge _gillnetters.
and particularly the Astoria
boats, have been hot enemies of
fishtraps since there has been
these two distinctive methods of
catching fish on this great river
of ours. Why? For the very
simple reason that the fishtraps
catch fish that they might have
caught if the fishtraps were con
demned as a legal means of
commercial fishing.
Just as an example of the un
fairness rendered by the gillnet
ters towards traps, let us state
that fishtraps are contrivances
erected by citizens of the United
States of America; they catch
fish in a humane way if there is
such a way, they don’t obstruct
what the government engineeis
deem as navigable waters, as
they are within bays or shallows
with very few exceptions; they
do not catch the fish as is be
lieved by a majority of the sports
men, by tons upon tons every
day; they do not catch trout, as
their gear is made of meshes
from four to eight inches in
width, allowing all the small
fish to escape.
These are just a few remarks
regarding the legality of fish
traps, and constitute the truth.
Seemingly the sportsmen have
been confronted with weird
ideas regarding the flshtrap due
to the various enemies of that
class of gear. It is now up to
the fishermen of fishtraps to in
. troduce a methods of educating
those who condemn this class of
i gear for no other reason than
i from the sportsmen’s view. Tell
i them the truth, and we will war
. rant that their ideas of condem
nation will be changed to sup
port.
IGNORANCE DISPLAYED
If the editor of the Chinook
Observer knows anything about
fish traps, if he even saw one in
practical operation, his ideas of
what constittues the truth as to
the effectiveness of the fishtrap
as a destroyer of all kinds of
fish would be absolutely opposed
to his preesnt position.
For instance, fishtraps are so
constituted and constructed as
to destroy virtually every kind of
fish, large and small that en
ters it. This observation is not
a mere assumption of theory, but
an observation born out by sev
eral years of experience around
floating and stationary fisl
traps.
Fish traps work 24 hours p*
day; Ashing when the salmoi
are going and coming and one.
the salmon are in the trap, thej
remain until brailed out.
The gillnetter makes a drift an*
quite often, the man on the up
per reaches of waters gets more
fish than the man on the low
er. The chance of escape from a
net is far greater than the trap.
As to the catches of traps, we
have seen traps brailed 100,000
and more salmon taken out ev
ery day until over a million fish
had been removed. We have
never seen the equal of fishtraps
as destroyers of salmon and we
have seen every kind of gear and
personally operated them.
If the Wild Life League, and
the Isaac Walton League, had
even a vague idea of the destruc
tive efficiency of the fish traps
they would never rest until ev
ry trap was abolished.
Such men as the editor of the
Observer made up the policy of
King John and such men as the
gillnetters it was who compelled
King John to grant that famous
institution of liberty and justice
the Magna Charta. And it was
because of the fighting vassals
that today the gillnetters of the
Columbia River, on a short rive;
front earn in proportion more
than a lesser number of Alas
kans with thousands of miles of
shore lines and more than ten
times the Columbia River pack
Wanted: 10,000 to Prospect Mineral Regions
Of Alaska
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Wanted—Ten thousand grub
staked prospectors for Alaska!
This wouid go a long way to
ward restoring activities and
prosperity in the northern terri -
tory and at the same time pro
vide fine out-of-doors employ
ment for those who enjoy this
life, Major John E. Ballaine,
founder of Seward, and one of
the original promoters of the old
Alaska Central Railway, now the
government-owned Alaska Rail -
road, declares.
Major Ballaine talked to the
Alaska-Yukon Pioneers last
night. He said that if the wea
thy men of the Northwest and
other sections of the nation
would grub-stake prospectors
and get them into the hills of
Alaska, there would be a sudden
revival there as well as in Seat
tle and other Pacific Northwest
Cities.
The proposal was laid before
President Herbert Hoover and
Secretary Lyman Wilbur last De
cember, the veteran Alaskan
said, seeking assistance from the
government in his plan. Both
expressed an “interest" in the
proposal, said he, but nothing
more has been heard from it.
The World War drained Alas
ka of its prospectors, Major Bai
laine, himself a veteran of the
Spanish-American War, declared
and for the past sixteen years
there has been little prospecting.
The country on either side of the
government railroad is highly
mineralized, and there is a terri
tory as large as New York and
Pennsylvania combined which
has never “been prospected,” the
major asserts. In this vast ter
ritory, great new mines will be
uncovered some day, he said
and he expressed a strong belief
last night that this date was not
far distant.—Seattle Times.
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PESKY BEAR LOOSE IN GIT if
OF SEATTLE
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A pesky black bear frolicked
about the outskirts of Seattle
and the brave Seattleites were
almost in hysterics over the fact
that “a great, ferocious bear”
was in their midst. Police weie
detailed to hunt up and dispatcn
the ugly brute and after a week
of hunting, the brave boys in
blue, caught up with the bear,
as d from a safe distance filled it
full of hot lead.
Yet, these noble braves of the
states, afraid of pesky, scrubby,
iousy black bear, insist that the
people of Alaska are cowards be
cause they object to further pro
tection of the grizzly bear which
has taken steady toll of the lives
of Alaskans.
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“Labor and Capital Closer
than ever, says Pioneer,” is the
heading of a news dispatch
Misery loves company and botn
ore broke, so they are closer to
gether than ever.
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Washington Newsletter
By Will A. Steel
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Seventeen of the resident
painters of Juneau have sent in
a protest against the firm that
has the contract for painting
ihe new Federal and Territorial
building. It is claimed that on
ly six dollars per day is being
paid master painters and four
dollars to helpers, while the pre
vailing scale at Juneau is eight
and six dollars. The contract
provides that the prevailing
local scale should be paid and
Delegate Wickersham has sub
mitted the matter to the Treas
ury Department, with the result
that the Supervising Architect
is investigating the matter and
an increased wage may be order
ed.
Edwin P. Dillon, of Ketchikan,
served his country during the
recent World War but has nev
er been able to secure his certi
ficate of discharge. He was ac
cepted for enlistment July 26,
1918, at the American Embassy,
London, but he had previously
been a member of the British
military' forces and thru some
technicality his enlistment was
not completed before peace was
declared. The matter has been
taken up by the Delegate with
she War Department but the
Adjutant General’s Office de
cides that Mr. Dillon’s enlist
ment in the U. S. Army was nev
er completed, and consequently
there is now no authority to
furnish him a certificate of ais-j
charge therefrom.
Another postmaster has re
signed in Alaska and is urging!
his release. It is Harry Swar- *
burg at Hot Springs.
Those who dwell in the far
reaches of the Arctic Circle,
where the Eskimos have come to
know the call letters KDKA, as
their synonym for radio, are to ;
receive an expanded service. For
eight years past there has been
a weekly broadcast of special
programs on Saturday nights
Beginning October 7, the West
inghouse Co., will send out a
similar program on Wednesday
nights. The story of these broad
casts to the desolate wastes of
the North, where thousands of
Seattle FurExch ange
Americans and Canadians live
their lonely existence, is one of
radio’s real sagas. Letters and
messages are read to individuals
missionaries, trappers, fur post
employes and explorers.
Hon. W. H. Holmes, of Amar
illo, Texas, who is well-known in
the North, because of his long
residence in Alaska, was promi
nent in the Washington news
papers last week. As a factor in
the Republican politics of his
adopted state, he was the nomi
nee for Governor in 1928 and
aided largely in carrying the
state of Texas for President
Hoover. He is now urging the
Republican organization of Tex
as to induce the Navy Depart
ment that the name of the se
cond giant dirigible, sister ship
to the Akron, should be the Am
arillo, from which city comes
the only available supply of he
lium gas to inflate this ship.
That Mr. Holmes is still vitally
interested in Alaska is evidenced
from a recent article in the Am
arillo News. It refers to a re
cent address made before the
Lions Club, declared to be one of
ithe most interesting talks ever
jmade before that organization.
Among other things, Mr. Holmes
said:
“The biggest surprise the citi
zen from the states would get in
Alaska, is its climate. It’s plen
Ity cold in winter but the sum
mers are hot and the climate is
ideal for farming. If Alaska had
a market or could export its
products it would rank as one of
the greatest agricultural lands'
in the world Cabbages, pota-!
toes and all such vegetables1
^•ow in abundance in the land
ol the midnight sun and in a
country where the temperature
gets as low as 50 degrees below
zero in winter. Far up in North-'
ern Alaska, the vegetation Is
cense and if you were there to
day you might imagine you were1
in the tropics. Its principal in-j
Icustries today are salmon, min-!
! ing and furs—in the order nam- [
ed. Alaska expects no great in
crease in population for many
years, or until the Western
United States is developed.”
It is stated that the Army
General Staff is giving continu
ed study to the reorganization of
America’s coast defenses. It is
deemed essential that more ad
equate protection be established
in Alaska, as that section, witn
the possible exception of the
Philippines, would be the hard
est to defend. Plans will be kept
in abeyance, however, until after
the next Geneva armaments
conference, at which President
Hoover hopes he will be able to
reach agreements for sweeping
changes in world armaments.
The plans in a general way
contemplate the concentration
of more aircraft and antiaircraft
material at vulnerable points
an entirely new scheme of de
fense employing the other ele
ments of the Army and Navy.
The many successful flights
from Alaska to the Asiatic
mainland have convinced the
Army Board of Strategy that in
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