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Editorial from “Province”, Van
couver, British Columbia.
A -gentleman in New York, envi
ous of the notice that has come to
Coionel Lindbergh, and obviously
desnous of writing bis name on that
immortal scroll of fame that already
bears the names of the longest flag
pole sitter, the winner of the post
ay e-stampylicking marathon (101,
9^7 in 10 hours without swallowing
one) has undertaken for a prize of
$10,000 to carry a 100-pouiul sack
o! coal from New York to San Fran
cisco, and walk all tne way.
he $10,000 is to be furnished b.v
a . o il company, who will also pay
him $0 a day while on the road and
send a man along to see that ho
plays fair and actually does it.
In another part of the same coun
try, private coal-company police
armed with rifles, are engaged i\
slugging, clubbing, and occasional!'
snooting desperate striking soft-eo !
miners whose wives and children
are literally starving.
They even persuaded the vast Red
Cross organization of the country
an organization nominally above a’’
party dispute, to withhold their aid
tro.n the women and children.
They will pay $10,000 and ex
penses for the publicity arising from
the act of a fool who carries a sack
of 'heir commodity across the con
tinent to no useful end.
STILL PAYS DIVIDENTS
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it seems, according to the annux:
report of tlie Alaska Packers’ Asso
ciation, signed by William Timsou
president of the outfit, that the com
pany still pays a small dividend <‘‘
$2 per share QUARTERLY and a
the same time insurance fund in
terest came to another $2. per shar
The report shows 75,000 shares of
a jar value of $100. Insurant
fund at the end of 1 926 had a ere
dit of $4,833,459.26 while at the
close of 1927 the fund had a cre
dit of $4,751,712.75.
Thirteen canneries were operated
in Alaska and one on Puget Sound
with a total pack of 534,981 cases
of 3almon of which 379,422 were
red salmon.
MORE ON HALIBUT FISHERIES
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treaty by their respective Govern
ments, undertook their duties with
out delay. At the outset they decid
ed to employ a competent man as d.
rector of investigations, in which ca
pacity the services of W. F. Tliomp
son were secured
He not only brought to the worn
the needed training and ability, but
that experience and knowledge that
resulted from three seasons’ investi
gations in the Pacific halibut fishery,
which he had undertaken some years
previously on behalf of the Provinicai
Government of British Columbia. A
competent staff of young energetic
scientists to assist him was also em
ployed.
Director of I investigations
Appointed by Commission
The commission further arranged
for the appointment of an honorary
scientific council, with which no.
only the commission but the directo
of investigations could consult, am
to which has been submitted the
plans of investigations to be under
taken from time to time. 1
This council consists of two repre
sentatives from each country: Pro
fessor John N. Cobb, dean of the Coi- 1
lege of Fisheries of the University ;
of Washington, Seattle; N. B. Sco 1
field, head of the Department of (
Commercial Fisheries of the Fish
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and Game Commission of California;
Dr. C. McLean Fraser professor of
zoology in the University of British t
Columbia, and formerly director of c
the Marine Biological Station at Na- r
naimo, B. C.; Dr. W. A. Clemens, 1
present director of the aforesaid i
station.
The director and staff have from
time to time presented reports on
tr.c progress of the investigation and
on their findings to the commission,
and to the scientific council. These
findings are used in the formulation
of the present recommendations. Tin
scientific results are, however, not
inserted in this report, but will he
published later in more detailed form
than is practicable here.
The task with which the com mis
sio'i found itself to be charged is one
of great magnitude and difficulty
The fishery covers a coast line ot
about 1,S00 miles in length. To.
halibut can only lie studied at sea
•'id under difficult conditions.
Hence it has not been possible in
the three years during which the c
mission has been at work to cove?
the whole field exhaustifely. Wh ■
has been accomplished lias, howevei
been done with care and the inform a
tion obtained is sufficient to sat/.'
fy the commission as to the neces
sity of certain main lines of action
if the fishery is to be preserved.
Policy of Commission
In Carrying Out Duties
Though the investigation lias been
highly scientific in character, t’n
commission determined at the otd
set thatt it would be carried o..
along practical lines with close ad
heren.ee to facts and avoidance of un
supported theory.
Its aim has been to establish be
yond doubt the actual condition of
the fishery at present and the liiston
of its trend to that condition. It has
sought to define the remedial mea
sures which should be adopted to
save the fishery and to build it up.
fts well as the conditions that would
have to he met in applying such mo;
sures.
Statistics have formed an indis
pensable part of the facts gathered
They have included not only core
plete records of landings, hut o
operations at sea.
Through the splendid cooperation
of the fishing vessel captains, th
commission has secured evidence r
°ords of the individual catches, from
which the yield per unit of fishing
effort—the “skate”—has been as
certained for each section of the
coast . These cover every season anc
are for years as far back as 1906.
Even more important have been
the biological studies. These have
included the rates of growth accord
ing to locality the migrations, the
"races” existent, and the spawning
habits.
Continued Next Week.
road head has ideas of
POPULATING ALASKA
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Colonel Otto F. Ohlson, general
manager of the Alaska Railroad has
a plan of colonizing Alaska to in
crease revenues of the railways.
Colonization just as the trans
continental railways colonized the
western country is the next step in
Alaska’s development,” he stated
inst before leaving for Alaska.
Alaska has much to offer the per
manent settler and the railroad goes
through the heart of some of the
best country. 1 feel that settlement
and intensive development of re
sources constitute the desireable step
in making the Alaska railway self
sustaining and for the upbuilding
at the northern territory on a per
manent and substantial basis.
I am beginning a survey i.a
which to base my recommendations
md it will be necessary that special
ippropriations be made in case the
irogiam evolved is endorse! by th«
Icjpartment of the interior.
MORE ON OBSERVATIONS
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ion in those waters. This is evi
enced by the fact that the fisher- -
ien now run out to sea several j
mndred miles for herring which ]
a previous years were obtained <
More on observations
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along the immediate coast).
“It is obvious that in Alaska each
locality is dependent on its ow ,1
stocks of herring for its supply.
Scarcity or abundance of herring
in 'any particular area will not de
pend then on the erratic migrations
of any great hypothetical body of
herring, but on the condition of the
local supply.”
OBSERVATIONS OF ALASKANS
Rasmus Enge, of Petersburg, one
of (lie first to enter the herring fish
eries for commercial markets made
these same observations sever d
years ago and pointed to the deple
tion of local stock in Wrangell
Narrows, Port Hinighton, Cape
Fni&haw and other bays in the im
mediate vicinity of Petersburg. The
waters in this locality used to teem
with herring suitable for the tnsle
ot the best markets but no long* r
can this lx; said so that the herring
operators have discontinued their
operations altogether.
That herring in Alaska are mi
gratory has never been admitted 'v
Alaskans. It has been emphasized
toe strongly that intensive fish in _r
depletes any given waters. A few
years ago a small school of herring
entered Hamilton Bay, near Ke>c •
Pass. These increased from y*:.r
to year until herring fishermen made
a set and took out some three thou
sand Darrels of the fish. Since that
time herring have not entered that
bav. Proving conclusively that 'lie
specie were purely local, and when
a given locality is cleaned out tV
fishery is destroyed.
The same holds true of Chatham
Straits and Frederick Sound areas.
The intensive fishing for “Crfsct/'
base (with apologies for Henrv
O’Malley) the 17 reduction plants in
those waters have cleaned out the se
aeras. Taking 12,000,000 pounds
of lish meal and fertilizer and 4,00 0,
000 pounds of fish oil out means
too heavy a drain on that area. The'
result of which are that dividen (s
are not becoming as poor as the
fisheries itself. But for Nov."
Island and Lynn Canal th*
most of the plants would have been
compelled to shut down their plants
this summer.
depletion is a fact regardless of
ho.v much the Bureau of Fisheries
may attempt to show otherwise.
But a few years more and the mi
gratory herring fishermen and stink
plants will be gone. Alaskans hold
ing the empty sack as usual, thanks
to Henry O’Malley’s conservation
methods.
PEDDTjES bunkum
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C. A. Waxman, would bo czar of
thy herring industry who tells the
People of Alaska and Bureau < I'
Fisheries to “go to hell and leave
his fishermen alone” landed in See.'
tie recently and reported that no
found the herring run very good
Other reductionists are willing to
admit that their operations would j
have been heavily in the “red” it
it were not for other districts.
Waxman is the man who cursed
Frank Reed, Fisheries Warden r: w
arresting Waxman’s crew for illeg
al fishing.. In a threatening man
ner he warned Reed to leave his
fisnermen alone.
A .JOKE .FROM . PACIFIC
FISHERMAN
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‘ After a big run the latter part '
of .Tune and early July, the South- 4
east Alaska herring catch has boon 4
rather light most of the past month 4
on account of bad weater which 4
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has prevented the seiners from mak- 4
irg sets a good deal of the time. r 4
Weather permitting” ! !! 4
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Maine, the national political ba-j<
rometer, according to political prog- I Jj
"osticators of that State, is point-! \
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ng to a Republican victory. i j
A significant thing about the TT 1 j
Bureau of Fisheries, and most, j
edeial bureaus, is that they never
•ecognize danger signs until deple
;ion has become an accomplished
act. f Then they try to show the!
vorld wonderful results in bring
ng back what they would not have
ost did they display an ounce of
o nmon sense. r
Ml:. ( HAULMS FIRESTONE |.
TRANSFERRER TO AMA’v
Pr. Charles Firestone, for the past <
year or more in charge of the Gov- ,
e^nment. hospital at Juneau, has been
transferred to the hospital at Akiak !
on the Kuskokwim river and will go \
direct from Seattle, where he ha-, j
been for the past two weeks, to his |
new post. Miss Kathleen McCormack
of Douglas, who has been nursing gt
the Government hospital at Juneau,
will accompany Dr. and Mrs. Fire
stone to Akiak.
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\YHi;\ A COUGH IS
STUIillOKV !T
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When a cough is stubborn! i(
means that r!ie time for experi
menting with it is past. .A con.'a
with a raise of mucus from tin* lungs
may be the forerunner of tubercu
losis. It should be eliminated at
once by removing the cause.
Weakness in the bronchial or lung
region of the body is duo to spinal
hone displacement in the upper dor
sal region of flu* spinal column. If
a cough is stubborn and cannot be
thrown off as easily as yen have
thrown off other attacks, it is a
good a danger signal as the on-com
ing of the white plague, tuberculosis,
eter gives. .The thing to do is to see
a chiropractor at once and start a
course of spinal adjustments to re
move the cause. The record of chiro*
pratic in the influenza epidemic was
many times better than that of any
other healing method and that re
cord is equally good in other vari
eties of lung and bronchial troubles.
There is no substitute for chiroprac
tic. Neither medicine, diet, massage
nor osteopathy moves spinal hones
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LEON ENSCH, D. C.
Palmer Graduate 1914
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