VOL. I
PETERSBURG, ALASKA JULY 23 — / £f & (j
NO- 2
GRAZING SHEEP
Results obtained indicate that a
considerable grazing industry may
develop in the Aleutian Islands
hitherto considered a desolate and
more or less worthless part of
Alaska. i
Dr. E. W. Nelson, chief of the
Biological Survey, reported some
of the islands are being used for
fox farming, and on others, which
produce a large amount of forage
attempts are being made to estab
lish sheep grazing on a large scale.
The Aleutian Livestock Com
pany of Los Angeles, Calif., re
cently shipped 3,000 sheep to be
grazed under permit on Umak Is
land on the Aleutian Island Reser
vation, a wild life refuge being
administered bythe Biological Sur
vey of the Department of Agricul
ture.
This company has 2,000 already
grazing on the island and plans
to place many thousand more on
the reservation within the next
few years.
A report from Trade Commis
sioner Lynn W. Meekins, at Ottowa
advises the Department of Com
merce that the Committee on Na
uonal Railways ana snipping or
the House of Commons of the
Canadian Parliament has recom
mended $31,000,000 for the Can
adian National Railway.
Only $10,000,000 in cash was
advanced to the railways by the
Government during the past fiscal
year, although it had been estimat
ed that $50,000,000 would be re
quired. The total deficit of $25,
"22,101.80 was met partly through
a reduction of materials and sup
plies on hand, partly from working
capital and also by improved oper
ating methods which are said to
have brought about marked econo
mics.
NON-ADVERTISERS FAIL
Data which show that the great
percentage of failures in business
are of concerns which do not use
newspaper advertising has been
prepared by The 100,000 Group of
American Cities, Inc., with head
quarters in Chicago, following ex
tensive investigation.
These percentages vary for the
many cities included. Bridgeport
Conn, has the lowest percentage of
failures of business which did not
use newspaper advertising and
that was 60 percent, while Troy
N. Y., has the highest with every
business failure,- being that of a
business that did not edvertise thru
tb< medium of newspapers.
In Chicago, 98 per cent of the
businesses crashing did not use
newspaper advertising, in St. Louis
94.6 per cent and Rochester, N. Y.,
9 6 per cent.
Of the business failures in Port
land, 94 per cent did not use news
paper advertising. In more than
half of the cities listed the percent
age of non-advertising firms among
those which failed was 85 per cent
or higher. i j
COLD STORAGE
After being away on a trap
driving job the cannery pile driv
er is again back on the job and
diiving piles in quick succession
l’or the new cold storage plant for
Petersburg.
The hope of the Alaskan is that
this venture will have successful
outcome. The payroll of such a
plant will not be very large but
it will be a payroll added to tho
earnings of the towns people. The
disposal of fares will permit ofthe
f shermen getting outfits and sup
plies from the several business
houses and thereby permit larger
business turnover through the
year. No one will deny that there
is not a business in Petersburg but j
what will benefit by the completion
and final actual operation and use
of this plant. Let us all hope that
building operations and machinery
installations will be completed in
short order. ;
Ketchikan Aviators Here
Hoy J. Davis and R. H. Morril
of Ketchikan arrived from Ketchi
kan Sunday afternoon in their air
plane. They have been tak ig a
number of local people up in their
machine giving them thri’is never
expected in this pioneer CDuntry.
Capt. Hanson of the Daring,
tender for the dredge Wm. T
Rosselle, and Thomas Scott made
a trip with them to Devils Thumb.
They report a very beautiful reun
try back in the mainland and
wonderful possibilities for mineral
development in that country which
hag been prospected for so manv
years but which has receive! only
indifferent effort on the part of
prospectors.
With many lal.es back of that
country it could be possible to
take prospectors there with sup
plies and thereby eliminate many
days of hard labor in shoulder
packing grub and supplies. '
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Upon the advice of physicians,
Frederick B. Drane, Archdeacon of
the Episcopal Church, with super
vision of missions of that organiza
tion in Central Alaska, has given
up his post in Alaska and plans
to leave for the States very short
ly. His health is such that he
could no longer continue his ardu
ous duties in the North without
serious risk.
Archdeacon Drane came to Alas
ka in 1915 and was stationed at
Nenana for several years before as
suming duty as archdeacon, fol
lowing the death of the late Arch
deacon Hudson Stuck. He took
over that work in 1921 and has
completed his fifth year of service,
a large part of the time having been
spent on the trail, traveling among
the interior missions.
He wag a hard worker and very
popular among whites and natives,
and his retirement from the service
will be a matter of regret to all
Alaskans who know him.
HOUSE FOR RENT:—$15.00
per month. See N. McGreggor.
The Petersburg Packing Com
pany is reported as having canned
about 40,000 cases of salmon by
Thursday of this week. From all
indications at this period of the
canning season, the company will
have no difficulty putting up their
pack this year.
Seventeen traps and six seine
trews are furnishing the fish this
year. Six crews averaging five
crew to the men totaling a crew
of thirty men against thirty-four
men for the seventeen traps.
Thirty men with their families
spending all of their earnings
right in this district as against
thirty-four spending but a small,
part of their earnings in the Ter-1
ritory. Thirty crews would not
take care of the pack put up by
or from the traps making a toital
of more than 180 men with their
families earning and spending their
entire earnings right in Petersburg
or immediate vicinity.
A hundred thousand cases put
up in the main by resident fisher
men would mean much more to
the business interests of Peters
burg and the Territory in general
than the seventeen traps which
through its natural course prevents
the growth of the Territory.
It would cost an additional
$2,048,000 to mark the 30,000
graves of American soldiers in
Fiance with crosses made of Am
erican granite, high officials of
ihe Department of War stated on
July 7 in discussing the plans to
award the contract to the bidders
who offered to furnish crosses of
Kalian Carrara marble for $14.50
each. The appropriate .u for tfc**
30 000 crosses (and Stars of Da
vid for the Jewish dead! was
$548,550 and the hearings show
ed that the possible acceptance of
foreign bids was contemplated by
Congress. It will require $40,000
more than the apropriation to
equip the graves with even the
$14.50 crosses.
American marble companies of
fered marble crosses at $35. but
the American granite companies
offered marble crosses at $35. but
(the American granite manufactur
ers asked $78. for the cheapest
and $115. for the most expensive
headstone of this material. This
included cost of transportation to
the graveside in France which is
placed at about $4 per stone. At
this rate the cost of American
gi anite, if this stone were authoriz
ed, might have reached $2,500,000,
or five times the appropriation.
The American Battle Monuments
Commission, of which General John
J. Pershing is chairman, recom
mended the purchase of the Italian
marble, or of French white stone
at $19. The Department of War
regards the matter as essentially
one for the Battle Monuments Com
mission to decide, and it is ex
pected that the award of the con
tract for the first 15,000 head
stones will t>e made shortly.
Lime Crush and Lemonade at the
Totem Pole.
The work of the big dredge
Wm. T. Rosselle is progressing
much faster than was anticipated.
A channel 300 feet in width and
i 27 feet in depth at mean lower
low water on Petersburg Bar will
| have been completed for regular
l raffle by the middle of August.
Work on the other bars will be
! undertaken by a clamshell dredger.
Just when this dredger will arrive
113 not definitely known. However i
tne work will be carried on as
expeditiously as the Engineer’s De
partment can push it along.
With the completion of the
dredging of the Petersburg Bar
Ihe worst feature in the vicinity
of Petersburg will have been elim
inated. The dredging of the bar
at the north entrance will make it
possible for a steamer to lay in
port just as long as it might wish
and will be able to leave at any
stage of the tide. It is to be
hoped that this will permit the
several steamers which now give us
the go by to stop and give pas
sengers time to visit in our city.
Gov. Parks in Fairbank
Governor Georgt A. Pasks was
guest of tht Fairbanks Commercial
Club on the 16th of this month.
In a speech before the Club he
believed a spirit of optomism pre
vailed throughout the Territory
which augered well for the country.
He left the same day for Juneau.
Cassiar in Fire Area
It has been reported that one of
the worst fires in its history is
raging in the Cassiar district, Bri
tish Columbia. The area affected
covers more than 200 square miles
including the Dease Lake trail. A
crew of men on the government
road barely escaped when a cache
of gasoline and dynamite exploded
spreading the fire along the Gold
Pan Trail to Muddy and Tarnigan
River.
IN THE COMMISSIONER’S COURT
The case of the United States
versus Fred Porter and James
Porter came Up for hearing this
afternoon. The Porter brothers
were accused of violation of the
/ laska Bone Dry Act.
On motion of attorneys for De
fendants, Henry Roden and Wm.
L. Paul, and after argument, the
United States Cominissioner Clau
sen, dismissed the case.
Seattle Tong War
Charley Sing, Chinese of Seattle,
was killed by three gunmen this
week in a tong war. Before be
ing shot down Sing returned fire
at his assailants but they escaped
in an automobile. The war seem
ingly is on between the Hip Sing,
Hop Sing Tongs and the Bing
Koing Tong. The police believe
that Sing wounded two of his as
sailants.
Members of the Seattle tongs
had signed a treaty stipulating
that rival organizations would not
enter the war which had been
brewing along the coast cities for
a long time. It is believed that
tong members from Portland are
responsible or the shooting of Sing
and the opening of tong activities
in Seattle.
SIB SHIPMENT MITE CM
FOIES OB MEM
Local Company Starts Ranch and Sellihg Agency
The Monte Carlo Fox and Fur
Company of Petersburg shipped to
Kalispell, Montana on the Alameda
this week 160 blue foxes. The
ranch at Kalispell will be the main
distributing point for the opera
tions of this company. It is believ
ed that with the major operations
centered in a more densely populat
ed section a market can be more
readily secured. To see is to be
lieve to those in other parts of
the country not conversant with
this industry will be able to se
cure first hand information and
also be able to draw breeding stock
immediately from the ranch in
Montana.
In this lot are 50 tame foxes,
wnich will be put on exhibition
and hich no doubt will be a draw
ing card and make very effective
advertising for the company as
well as for the industry in Alaska,
bo much is naid about Alaska but
so little fact presented that con
siderable misinformation is spread
about the resources of the Terri
tory. With Alaskans following
HAM
The Interborough Rapid Tran
sit Company of New York City has
announced that it will make
another “Danbury Hatters’ case”
if necessary and has filed suit
against strikers for $239,000 dam
ages for losses said to have been
incurred during the recent strike
of subway employees. Sixty two
men have been named as defend
ants in the suit, the most of whom
are owners of homes and small
business places.
Attorney for the company de
nied that the suit is an effort to
intimidate the strikers. The
ranks of the strikers is rapidly
being augumented by men who
are quitting their places with the
company.
It will bo rememberd that the
Danbury Hatters case was one in
which the manufacturers sued the
strikers for losses incurred by
strike and boycott and picketing
of the factory. The case was bit
terly* fought through the courts
for several yearsbut was finally
decided against the defendanjt
strikers. If the ruling of the
Danbury case is followed the sub
wry strikers will have some bill
to pay unless the Court ; allows
lesser claims in damages.
Editors on Rogers
About 50 editors representing
the National Editorial Association
are travelling north on the Ad
miral Rogers and will be in Pe
tersburg sometime Saturday.
The far reaching influence of
such men and such an organiza
tion can be used to material ad
vantage to the Territory in gener
al. It might be well for local
committees to look after the in
erest of this party and to give
them welcome.
Subscribe for THE ALASKAN.
this shipment up and taking care
of it enroute and at Kalispell it
will not be difficult to do a lot
of missionary work in spreading
Lb© truth and properly advertising
neglected resources.
Another shipment of foxes will
be made to Kilispell by this com
pany sometime next month. Along
with the shipment this week and
in his care is Mr. Johannes for
sometime connected with the opera
tions of the Monte Carlo Fox and
Fur Company. Mr. Johannes will
remain at Kalispell in charge of
the operations until aboot Septem
ber when he expects to make a
visit to his home in Norway.
Mr. Jacob Hadlund and associ
ates in this company are very
optomistic about their new venture
and they have the good wishes of
Alaskans for the success of their
operations. Their success will
mean much to the industry and
to the Territory as it opens new
channels and fields of endeavor in
an industry that is much overburd
ened with taxes.
Forty-four election judges and
clerks in Cook’s County, the
Chicago precinct of Illinois, were
indicted by the grand jury for con
spiracy and false canvass.
Following the charges of prosti
tution of the primaries by high
power spending for the election
of United States Senators we
might expect evidence brought
forth by the Senate Investigat
iug Committee which will nauseate
the olfactory nerve of the major
portion of the people of the Unit
ed States.
We might call the attention of
the Empire to the fact that above
elections were not under the con
trol of “illiterate voting bloc” but
under the direction of the Troy
particular brand of politics which,
the people of the Territory are
tiled of. In other words the hand
writing is on the wall.
Musical Features on the
Admiral Line
Those of Petersburg who go to
the wharves when the Admiral
Line steamers land at our port
have heard the most excellent mu
sic rendered by the ships orches
tra for the enjoyment of passen
gers on that line. Regular concerts
are given and music furnished for
dances and parties on each trip
and not infrequently furnish mu
sic ashore.
FREIGHTER LOADS NORGE
AT TELLER
The Alaskan Steamship Company’s
freighter Tanana completed the
loading of the dirigible Norge at
Toller and is proceeding south to
Seattle.
See the new line of Stamped
Goods at the Linen Shop.—adv.