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THE VALUE OF ALASKA
Seattle Business Chronicle
Alaskans mines from 1880 to the
eud of 1927 produced a grand
total of $586,000,000. Biggest fact
or in this output of wealth was
gold, with total of $360,700,000.
At end of 1926 the gold mines had
yielded 17,430,000 fine ounces, of
a value of $365,308,000, of which
2243,679,000 was from placer and
$116,629,000 was from lode mines.
Copper is second mineral in value
with production up to the end o?
last of $196,182,878. For a decade
copper has annually exceeded in
value the output of all other miner
als. Alaska’s smallest annual pro
duction of minerals since 1880 wa3
$1 104,980 in 1903, and its largest
wag, $48,386,500 in 1916. The
figures covering a single resource
are an eloquent testimonial of the
value of the Territory.
The figures covering this 3ingle
resource are an eloquent testimonial
of the value of the territory to
Seattle and adjecent territory. What
sort of a testimonial are they to
the hard working Alaskan at any
time. What value is any industry
to Alaska when 96 percent of its
revenues is spent in developing
Seattle real estate and Washington
industries?
GEOGRAPHY ALL WRONG
“Life is looking brighter for Big
Bob Kronmeier, keeper of the
Lincoln Rock light, of Ketchikan,
A aska. Kronmeier, whose duties
on a remote light station to which
Uncle Sam assigned him, keep him
cut off from visitors and mail for
months at a time, is now in daily
touch with Juneau, Anchorage, Van
couver and Seattle. Life is no long
er a dreary monotony on an ice
bound reef.” —A. P. in Seattle
paper.
' Ice-bound reef” in Clarence
Straits thirty miles from Wrangell.
W here do they get that way. They
must think that Wrangell and Pet
ersburg are in the Arctic Circle and
surrounded by ice the year round.
And “Big Bob Kronmeier” to our
notion is rather a hammered down,
sawed off runt who handles the
fiddle like a jazz artist when he gets
ti ned up right. Big? Not unless
he has grown the last few years
and when we last saw him we
thought he had grown about all he
would ever grow ‘cept the waist.
SEASONS FOR SUPPORTING
HOOVER
Is the caption of a recent editorial
in the Juneau Empire. Can you
her t it. We never for a moment j
thought Jahn Troy would foresake
the grand old Democratic party to
support any Republican candidate in
preference to the Democratic can
didate. However, judging from the
tone of the editorial we would say
that Troy was an ardent admirer of
the mussolinic head of Alaska Fish
eries and really preferred the said
Herb to Al. Honest now, Johnny,
do you mean that as the truth or
just another one?
P1TLP AND PAPER INDUSTRY
“Thousands of people will be
brought into Southeastern Alaska as
a result of the establishment of the
pulp and paper industry and ex
pansion of her lumbering activity.”
—Empire.
We believe that Mr. Helntzleman
of the Forestry Department has
been sincere in his effort to sell Al
lanka timber for pulp but we chal
lenge the sincerity of the “buyers”
who are taking over vast areas of
timber and water power for “future”
use. do not need pulp and
proper development 50 years henee
the Imperative need is now.
WHAT PRICE ALASKA TRADE?
“More than 75 inquiries already
have been received by the Alaska
department of the Seattle Chamber
of Commerce from persons interest
ed in the excursion which the
Seattle Chamber of Commerce and
the Young Men's Business Club of
Seattle plan to make to Alaska,
leaving here June 2. The 2000-mile
trip to western Alaska, going as far
as Anchorage, on a special steam
ship, will require 16 days in all. IT
WILL BE PRIMARLY FOR BUS
INESSMEN INTERESTED IN IN
CREASING ALASKA’S $80,000,000
TRADE WITH SEATTLE AND THE
NORTHWEST.”—Seattle paper.
What does Alaska get out of this
$80,000,000 trade anyhow? What
is there to show for it? Where are
the communities being built up?
W'here are the industries to take
care of a growing population?
MORE HATCHERY BUNK
From Chinook Observer, Wn.
Are hatchery operations success
ful in building up the run ot
salmon?
There is no question of the ef
fectiveness of artificial hatcheries in
perpetuating the salmon runs.
Numerous instances can be cited
in this state where the runs have
been wholly absent or were deplet
ed to an alarming extent, and by
the introduction of artificial hatch
ing methods wonderful runs have
been built up.
It is interesting to note the ef
fect of hatcheries in Alaska during
the past year where the run as a
whole was a total failure.
THIS DOES NOT OBTAIN, HOW
EVER, ON THE STREAMS WHERE
HATCHERIES WERE MAINTAIN
ED. ,
Now if the Bureau of Fisheries
prrpogandist who is putting out tho
stuff being published in our good
contemporary in Chinook,Wn., will
juFt publish for ub the name of any
one stream in Alaska which has
benefited by the operations of hatch
eries we will show him where a
dozen other streams have been des
troyed by this same system.
We call attention to the fact that
in the election of two years ago
the fish hatchery and fish commis
sion of Alaska was an issue, in the
First Division. Men sponsoring this
bureau and commission failed of
election and those opposing them
were elected and in that same elec
tion the hatchery and commission
were both wiped out. Now if tho
report of the Observer is true might
it not be worth reporting to the
electorate of the Territory in order
that full benefit may be {obtained
from such propogation if true. How
ever, we will only ask the name of
one salmon stream which was not
a failure because of the hatchery
system.
We affirm that IN SPITE OF THE
HATCHERY SYSTEM and IN SPITE
OF THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES
tbe salmon return. But for hoft
long?
SALMON PRICES ON COLUMBIA
RIVER
The prices of salmon from the
first of May until the first of August
on the Columbia River has been set
by a committee of fishermen and
packers and ratified by both parties
at special meeting in Chinook, Wn.,
recently. Prices were set at fifteen
ceut3 per pound for spring Chinook
salmon and will be the minimum
price paid by packers to fishermen
on the Lower -Columbia during the
spring season.
Ham is at its best immediately after the curing process has been
fully qompleted, and the Frye packing plant adds efficiency of distri
bution to skill in selection and preparation. Every FRYE’S “DELI
CIOUS” BRAND HAM has passed through rigid double inspection—
there can be no variation in the high standards fit perfection.
This rate is one cent higher than
the minimum price of last season
The top price there last year was
19 cents at the low peak of the
salmon runs.
A committee was appointed for
the fishermen to set the price for
fall salmon. A minimum price for
11 cents per pound has already been
established and a date will be set
for the beginning of the minimum
price. For some reason the union
and the packers seem able to get
together on the Sound and Colum
bia River country. In Alaska il
seems to be the policy of the cah
ners not to know what they are go
ing to pay for salmon until after
the season is about half ovsr. We
are willing to wager right now, even
though the packers are getting
ready to pack and the season not
so far off, that they do not know
what they are going to pay—so they
will say. It is generally conceded
however, that the prices are set
in Seattle during the winter but
none of the packers wish to let the
prices be known.
WHY?
When the election judges were
sworn in for duty on Tuesday it
was found that their were only 75
ballots for the entire precinct. With
a very quiet election yet polling 130
votes the question is asked why
were there not more ballots sent
here. Is that all the respect that
they have for the voters of Peters
burg? We expect such treatment
at Kake, Angoon, Hoonah and other
native villages. But at Petersburg
—it is unthinkable.
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NO CHILD 18 DOOMED
An infant may seem deformed,
physically or mentally deficient, and
yei be made whole and hearty in
a very short time. Once it was
necessary for such a child, if it
lived, to go through life with a
hopeless handicap. That is not true
today.
It has been found that some so
called congenital deficiencies are
simply the result of spinal pressure
on nerves caused by handling at
birth. Many a child, under Chiro
practic, has been given the chance
in life impossible to it in other days.
Here Is One Case
*At 14% months our baby had
not developed strength to use her
hands; could not turn over; re
mained exactly in any position in
which she was placed. If seated,
her head hung limply to one side.
A spinal analysis revealed that her
first vertebra had been displaced at
birth, producing severe pressure on
the spinal cord. After her tenth
adjustment she was partially able
to control her head and move her
feet. She continued to improve un
til her health became normal. We
are very thankful for spinal adjust
ments.”—Mrs. A. B. Driscoll, Chiro
practic Research Bureau, Statement
No 2263-J.
LEON ENSCH, D. C.
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Beat grade of Shoes for men,
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Always on Hand Fresh
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about noon.
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