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MINDS CONTROLLED BY VOODOD
“A pretended authority on Alas
ka fisheries which insists that onl>
salmon caught in traps deplete the
fish supply says that the contention
that the salmon run this year was
two weeks or so late is all wrong.
It declares that the fish are coming
in now because the traps have been
closed and are no longer catching
all the salmon that enter the estuar
ies before they reach the spawning
streams.
“The funny part of this is that
the traps did not catch any fish to
speak of, except in Icy Strait and
tributary waters where they were
late in the beginning. All the traps
combined in the areas that are
reached through estuaries south of
Chatham Strait did not take enough
salmon to fill 300,000 cases—not
more than enough to make fair
packs for three four line canneries. |
If any one can figure how traps that
are not catching fish can prevent
the escapement of salmon he must
be relying on some sort of “hoo
doo” or “witchery.”
From a cannery fog horn publisli
by 11-ounces.
The inference drawn from the
first paragraph of above article is
that Eleven Oounces (short "troy
weight) is that he alone is an
authority on fish.
“Authority—power due to opin
ion or esteem; influence of Charac
ter, station, or mental or moral
superiority or the like. One that
is claimed, or appealed to, in sup
port of opinions, actions, measures,
etc.” From which we understand
some of Jawn’s complexes but as
to appealing to him in support of
the actions, habit, travel and specie
of salmon,, no fisherman, knowing
the first thing about salmon would
condescend to waste five minutes
getting the opinion of this swivel
chair salmon expert who does not
know the difference between the
jump of a salmon or frog.
As proof of his knowledge, we
would like to see him operate a
seine boat for one season and pay
his expenses from his earning—and
that from a normal year. He would
starve along with Doctor Gilbert and
other scientists connected with the
Bureau of Fisheries.
CAUSE OF SALMON DEPLETION
Proponents of the trap system
of Alaska refuse to admit that their
scientific trap has destroyed the run
of salmon in Alaska. Will they ans
wer this one: Which will be most
destructive weapon in the hands of
a maniac, the modern machine gun
or the old muzzle loader?
The records of the Bureau of
Fisheries proves conclusively that
the trap system takes greater toll of
salmon than seine fishermen with
less return to the Territory.
The records one year showed 34,,
000,000 salmon caught by traps and
14,000,000 caught by seines with a
larger number of seines in opera
tion. Allowing the fishermen to
catch 20,000,000 instead of 14,000,
000 would have given them greater
earning power and still have per
mitted an escapement of 10,000,000
salmon for seed purposes. The most
destructive agency must go—or the
population get out of the Territorc
for it cannot suck its thumbs while
waiting for the pulp industry prom
ised us now for the past several
years.
“THE HOO-DOO MIND”
The directing mind of the Juneau
Empire is certainly under a Hoo
doo, if not a Virginia “Voo-doo,”
therefore he i3 unable to see or un
derstand the whys and wherefores
of depletion of Alaska salmon.
Last August, 1926, Secretary
Hoover went to some length to show
Lliat there was au “amazing increase
of salmon in Alaska due to escape
ment under the regulations during'
ihe season of 1924.” The Empire
predicted a heavy run this-past sea
son; the canners ■ themselves pre
pared to duplicate the season of
192G. It was all a “mystery” to
poor old Doctor Gilbert that the
salmon did not make its appearance
per Hoovers prediction and ex
planation; the Empire then to cov
er up declared the season "two
weeks late” and when after two
weeks the salmon did llot make its
appearance the non-appearance was
due to “dry summer,” Westerly
winds” et cetera ad finitum.
Depletion was noL the result of
this sumner’s operations but me re
sult of the intensive operation 01
previous year. This summer the
only catch of any( note was by the
traps operated by August Bust n
man in Cross Sound, South maur.
Pass and ley Straits, the entrance
to inland waters.* 'tils' pack “tvTiV «•;
the cost oi seed fish which should
have gone to inland waters.- NO
SALMON WAS NOTED IN FEED
ERICK SOUND UNTIL AFTER
THE SEASON WAS CLOSED when
the traps no longer took toll of
seed fish. Investigation reveals the
fact that no seiner caught any salm
on to speak of this summer, there
fore the delay of salmon reaching
inland waters was due to the fact
that they were being caught in out
er waters and THAT BY TRAFS
ONLY.
If anyone can figure how- sglmon
were prevented from reaching in
land areas this year other than bj
traps he certainly must be under the
“voo-doo” influence of a so-uiiiern
mammy x>r witchery.”
“THE USE OF HERRING" SHOULD
BE THE AB-USE OF HURLING
. . The use of herring that are taken
HA S NO I 'ROPER PI, At E IN T i IE
PRESERVATION OF THE SITX'ft.S.
j . . So says An AUTHORITY .ON
iFish in Alaska. Come on boys, the
goings good, plenty of money for
fertilizer and oil, what care we for
the future of the industry. Getyour
share of the cream and leave only
skim milk for these fool Alaskans
and the illiterate Indians. We have
plenty of timber and didn’t Zeller
back and the International people
take up power sites.. for vpulp mills
to be built ift Alaska 'in the next
few generations, more or less, most
ly less; and then contract for the
mills to be built and operated in the
States?
“If so much herring are In frig
caught that the perpetuity of .that
fishery is in danger it might be well
ti limit the catch, (“for home con
sumption only”) but the market
demand SHOULD DETERMINE
THE USE THAT MIGHT BE MADE
OF THE FISH TAKEN.”
More money can be obtained for
salmon by turning it into oil'' and
fertilizer than by canning it. The
market value of sockeyo salmon "as
fertilizer would be greater than in
cans as food.‘ Can the’reds boys lei
the market value of the fertilizer
determine the use that might be
made of the species. BUNCOMBE!
“The man who lawfully produces
anything (herring or. salmon ferti
lizer) ought to" be permittpd- to.
make the most PROFITABLE le
gitimate use of it. If herring is
more valuable for food or bait than
for other purposes it will be made
evident in obtainable prices, and il
will be used that way.”—The Fog
Horn of the Canning Trust.
When one reads such trash set
forth by AN AUTHORITY on the
fish industry of Alaska, the purpose
of his propoganda is self evident.
No Alaskan with any brains or any
regard for the welfare of the Terri
tory will give second notice to this
blithering blatherskite of an author
ity who is under tse influence of a
southern “voo-doo.”
“THE FROG THAT WAS
ROLLED TO DEATH”
“In one of the leading universities
not long ago they placed a live
bullfrog in a pan of cold water.
The pan was then placed on a
specially arranged heater. The tem
perature was increased gradually so
that it took over one hour for it
to reach the boiling point. The
frog never moved, and boiled to
death without knowing it.”
The above paragraph was .taken
from The Ileal American, of May
29th issue, and is reprinted here
to illustrate the condition in which
resident Alskans are finding them
selves. Alaskans are very much
like this frog. When you come to
consider the fishery situation, we
find that by the extension of the
trap system we are slowly being
f boiled to death without knowing it.
We wonder at the decrease in our
population, and in the increase in
wealth of very rich men. It seems
that the ordinary citizen Will not
I wake up until he is boiled to
death.— Alaskan Fisherman.
I Si LENt’E GREETS WNOINCE-i
MEAT
Since Senator Bartley Howard,
came out in Nome with the an
nouncement he will be a candidate,
at the next election, for Delegate to
Congress from Alaska, nothing but
discreet silence has greeted inquires
as to what the rank and file think
about it. Frankly speaking, the
announcement was not received
favorably in this section of the
woods. The general silence is in
terpreted to mean just that.—Se
ward Gateway.
CONSERVATION OF SALMON IN
ALASKA THIRTY YEARS AGO
By AHN-KUTTY
In truth it is more than thirty
years hack. It was in the middle
'P0’_s when, one raw January day,
Cnpt. Farrer and I met .Take Bab
bler at the Albee Hotel in South
Bend, Washington. Babbler, at
that time, was the king pin of the
Alaska Packer’s Association cannery
at Wrangell, Alaska.
Babbler was no stranger to eith
er the Captain or me, for what he
km w of the packing of salmon he
fcarned on the lower Columbia Riv
er and most of the time under the
coaching of that successful packer,
B. A. Seaborg. And, by* the way,
Seaborg was the original builder of
the Wrangell outfit.
Babbler was signing on his crew
for the coming season—1896—and
Farrer and I put our John Henry’s
to the contracts as Captain and
chief engineer, respectively, of the
small steamschooner Arctic, the on
ly tender the Wrangell plant had
at that time. And those contracts!!
Once you signed on the dotted line
you were, body and soul, thought
ar.d action, sick or well the proper
ty of the A. P. A. Those contracts
were oak timbered, clinker built,
copper fastened and wire rigged.
One had no time at all of his own,
according to the agreement. For
2 4 hours a day, the season through,
one had to labor for the Associa-i
tion. The contracts were in small
print and covered a page half the
Size of a page of this publication,
and no where in it, nor on it, was
there a word or clause but what
was to the Association’s advantage.
Wonderful instruments they were,
to be sure. Outside of, probably,
a dozen or so in the vicinity of the
lower Columbia and Willapa Harbor
the crew was made up in San Fran
cisco arid wrere to be transported
by sailing ship.
FaiTer and I, and the steamer’s
cook;' reached Wrangell one snowy
morning—4 a. m.—in early March.
The village did not look at all invit
ing. Beyond a feeble glimmer of
two’or three smoky oil lights on the
dock there wrasn’t a welcoming beam
anywhere, and a couple of feet of
s-loshy snow lay, blanket-like, every
where. Sometime in the forenoon
"Big’' Smith, the watchman of the
packing plant, came in a imall
seine skiff to the village after mail.
By this skiff we—-and our baggage—
reached the cannery. I remember
my first job wag to lay 2,000 feet o.
two inch pipe back into the snow
smeared wilderness before I could
get water in the Arctic’s boiler.
And it. rained and froze and snow
ed every minute I was at this de
lectable task.
After towing in the Loring and
Wrangell sailing ships, picking them
up outside Dixon Entrance, the Arc
tic didn’t have a great deal to do
until the sokoi salmon began to
show up. Tom McCullough and
two assistant fi3h bosses were pass
engers on the Geo. Schofield—the
big full-rigged State of Mainer we
had towed in to Wrangell—and af
ter they had gotten their gear and
supplies, and a skeleton crew of
Natives all in shape to move, we
towed the outfit to Red Bay. Right
here is where the conservation sys
torn of the period got under way.
McCullough fenced all of the sal •
mon escapements and then waited
for fish to come
At the first indication of the “sil
ver horde,” McCullough shipped
fencing crews to Salmon Bay and
Lake Bay, and material for fences
to Ratz Harbor and Whale Pass
age. In Lake Bay the fencing was
so well (?) done that the water
above the fence was actually several
inches higher than it was below. In
truth, the fishway was practically
water tight.
I don’t know how true it was, but
McCullough claimed he purchased
all the fishing privileges to these
waters from the Indian chiefs. $350.
for Lake Bay and smaller amounts
for each of the others. I know that
his Indian crews were always mix
ed. That is, he’d have no complete
outfit from any one particular
neighborhood. His forces at Red
Salmon and Lake Bays were of Hy
das, Thlinget and Tsimpseans and
in the Lake Bay camp,towards the
close of the season his 3eine crews
held a sparkling of Clatsops, Tilla
mooks and Chinooks also. McCul
lough paid small wages and he call- J
ed continually for long hour days. i
t
On this schedule there was, always, j
more or less discontent and he was
in dread right along, of trouble.
That is one reason of his mixed
crews. Speaking different tongues,
viewing conditions from opposite;
slants, the seiners (it was all beach:
or drag seines then) were tardy ini
organizing or demanding something I
more than the miserable $1.50 per
day. Even though living costs were •
greatly under what they are now,
there was nothing left out of the
$1.50 wage, and to make this worse
no pay was allowed for any time the
seines weren’t hauled. It was all
very nice for McCullough and the
packers. If, at any time, more
salmon were captured than the can
ney could handle, McCullough had
the right, in the aggreement be
tween he and the association, to
salt the overflow and dispose ot
same as his own. That season he
packed 750 half bbls. of salmon
bellies. The backs went back into
the sea to fatten dogfish. More con
servation!! There was a time in
Whale Passage when salmon backs
were so high on the bottom that the
Arctic grounded on them in trying
to get in to McCullough’s landing.
It wasn’t the policy of the A. P. A.
—through Babbler—to accept any
fish at any time except those capt
ured in, or by, association gear,
nor from any fishermen not in the
employ of the company. I remem
ber, one day when the sokoi run
was fairly on, four Indians in two
big canoes landed at the receiving
dock. Each canoe carried around
750 red salmon, and (the Indians
were anxious to dispose of their
loads.
(To be continued next week.)
The commercial fishing season in
the Columbia river opened the 10th
with great quantities of salmon re
ported in the river there having
been a heavy run of salmon on the
Lower Columbia prior to the close
of the first season in August.
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