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carved themselves out homes in
the wilderness and built up
thriving and useful communities.
Not only is it that, but it is an
insult to our childrens children.
A bill more in keeping with the
time of George III than with
the spirit of present day Ameri
| ca.
We here in Alaska have a
close up view of its workings. We
get the full benefit of govern
ment by Bureaus. We can under
derstand the attitude of mind of
our forefathers, who rebelled
against the administration of
the affairs of their country
from a point thousands of miles
distant, by men, who either thru
ignorance, indifference or greed,
gave small heed to their needs.
If as the name implies the
statute is for the conservation of
our timber, oil and coal resourc
es till a time of national shortage
or need, as was claimed at the
time and as such accepted by the
people, why I ask are we looking
at the picture of hundreds of
millions of barrels of oil being
taken from land which we fondly
believed had been set aside for
the future use of our navy?
Why are we here in Alaska
looking on so passively at the
near future gutting of our for
ests, in a manner so alien to Am
erican democracy.
Huge tracts of land being de
nied the citizens of the United
States and set aside, tax free, for
the special benefit of favored
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ly possibility of these same cor
porations coming under the con
trol of foreign owners, if not al
ready so.
Wouldn’t we have a right to
be proud of ourselves if we, as
American citizens, denied our
selves our rights under the im
pression that we were suffering
the loss for our national good,
then have some foreigner buy
the stock of a corporation har
vesting the timber and reaping
the profits of National heritage?
No ! We here in Alaska do not
seek to hinder the harvesting
of our timber, rather we pray
that the harvesting start soon.
We recognize the benefits of
forestry and the need of wise
cutting regulations but any right
thinking man or woman cannot
help but see that there is a
great deal more need that Alas
ka be given the benefit of her
lands. That her people may
build homes, that she may ac
quire a permanent population of
landowners and assume her
rightful place among the sister
hood of States.
We do not want our country
to remain always a wilderness.
It is too nice a country for that.
Too fit to live in and love. We
do not and we must not see its
land offered to the ravages of
an outside alien owned corpora
tion or overrun by transient la
borers as in our fisheries.
We want rather to use our
land to hold a population of
owners who can and will harvest
not only our forests but our fish
eries and other industries as
well. They will support our
towns and our governments and
our dignity as citizens of the
United States.
We must have private owner
ship. ,
Finis
Tragedy of the Sockeye
By Mr. BabcocK oi Canadian . .
Fisheries
From then on conditions be
came even worse. Had the six
millions of individual sockeye
that went to make up the pack
in 1917 been permitted to reach
the spawning beds in that year,
some of the loss occasioned by
the 1913 blockade could have
been recovered. But such was
not the case. THE AUTHORI
TIES, AND THE FISHERMEN
AND THE CANNERS on both
the warning in the reports of
sides of the line did not heed
1913. No additional protective
measures were enacted and the
fishermen and the canners spar
ed no efforts to capture every
last sockeye in the run of 1917
with the inevitable result that
the escapement of that year was
no greater than it had been in
recent small years and, in con
sequence, the spawning beds
produced no greater returns.
The catch four years later—
1921—produced a pack of 142,
596 cases.
“Washington State Refused
Cooperation”
The sockeye salmon fisheries
of the Fraser River System
were not destroyed by the part
ies in interest without vigorous
protest from fishery authorities
on both sides of the line. As
early as 1905 a joint commission
representing Canada and the
State of Washington, after a
full investigation of conditions
unanimously recommended the
cessation of all sockeye fishing
in the system in the small years
1906 and 1908. The Commis
[sion expressed the opinion that
by so doing the runs in the fol
lowing cycle years would be ma
terially increased. The closing
was to be an experiment; the
runs at that period had not
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been reduced to a low level. The!
government of Canada accepted!
the suggestion and passed the!
necessary enabling act. A sim
ilar act was denied by the Legis
j lature of the State of Washing
| ton and Canada repealed her
j act; and EVERYONE CON
; CERNNED WENT AFTER THE
FISH HARDER.
In 1908 an international com
mission was created to study
conditions. Following its unan
imous report and recommenda
tion, Canada and the United
States drafted a treaty provid
ing for the preservation and
propogation of sockeye in the
Fraser River System. The gov
ernment promptly ratified the
treaty. The President trans
mitted the treaty to the United
States Senate. After two years
delay the Senate refused to con
cur and the treaty was with
drawn.
In 1918 Canada and the United
States again appointed a second
international commission head
ed by the Chief Justice of New
Brunswick and the Secretary of
Commerce of the United States.
In accordance with the unani
mous recommendations of that
commission a second treaty was
drawn which provided for “the
times, seasons and methods for
sockeye fishing in the Fraser
River System.” and “for the
conduct of investigations into
the life-history of the salmon,
hatchery methods, spawning
ground conditions, and other
relative matter.
That treaty was promptly ap
proved by the government of
Canada. The United States
Senate again refused to concur
and the President withdrew it.
Nothing has since been ac
complished. The pitiful rem
nants of the former abundant
runs to the Fraser are still be
ing preyed upon by Canadian
and United States fishermen,
and the vast spawning areas of
the Fraser basin unseeded and
unproductive.
The Fraser River basin con
tains 1,514,000 acres of spawning
area. That area has not been
lessened or contaminated. It is
as extensive and as suitable for
the propogation as formerly.
The vast lake waters of the
Fraser are as rich in the natur
al foods of young sockeye as ev
er. The channels of the river
are open and free to the pass
age of such fish as are permitted
to enter them. All that is re
quired to produce the abundant
runs of former years is a suffi
cient number of fish to seed
them abundantly as they were
seeded in those years. No other
waters afford so alluring a field
for exploitation.
The restoration of the sockeye
salmon fisheries of the Fraser
River System is the greatest re
clamation project in which Ca
nada and the United States can
jointly engage.
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