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AFTER FISHING, WHAT?
“George caught only 12,000 fish
this summer. Some of the boats
got only 7,000 in when the closed
season came on. I took some tour
ists to the Hatchery and was told
that they had not commenced op
erations because there were no
fish. I asked the man in charge of
tno hatchery what they were going
to do for the eggs for hatching the
fish and he replied that they were
going to get it from some streams
near here sometime in September.
Frank was high boat down here
this summer having gotten 35,000.
He was down at Nakat Inlet alone
most of the summer.”
That is the situation in the Ketch,
ikan district. George has a boat
that is powered with a 30 horse en
gine, the boat carrying easily 9,000
salmon. Averaging his fish price
ne made a gross of $.1200. out of
v. hich must come gas, oil and grub
expense. When the net earnings is
divided into seven shares there is
not enough left to pay the summer
expenses of the individuals in the (
crew.
The high boat in Sitkoh Bay was
one that shared $S0. to the man.
The high boat at the Kake can
nery was $900. The fishermen on
the West Coast were unable to make
wages. The fishermen working for
the Petersburg Packing company
did worse than the at other can
neries. The pack of 130,000 cases
did not mean as much to the fisher
men here as did the smaller pack
at Tyee where less traps were used.
George with his catch of 12,000
salmon has three girls and a boy
to support on his earnings. How can
it be done under present conditions.
Will the independent candidates
for the legislature make any effort
to better these conditions. Will
Tom Marquam do anything to
make possible a higher and
more fair standard of wages
for that portion of our population
dependent upon our fisheries? Is the
so-called inependent ticket working
to better those conditions or are
they working to conserve certain
vested interests? Time alone will
tell upon which side they are lined.
Time alone will show the people
that representatives of certain sel
fish interests are of those interests,
for those interests and by thoes in
terests and that the only interests
that they know and represent are
those interests which persist in tak
ing the cream from the country
whilst they leave naught but skim
milk for those who labor and make
possible a government in this terri
tory.
ALASKA—FUR COUNTRY
Alaska has been heralded as a
great fur country. Her fisheries
declare^ undepletable and ofter the
intensive destructive methods, this
years’ pack shown as proof of the
the undiminished supply. The fur
industry is lauded for its value but
nothing is said about the depleted
condition of our fur bearing terri
tory.
Says a student of Alaska fur con
ditions: “Her fur has been exhaust
ed to such an extent that in point of
area she probably stands as one of :
the poorest producers of fur the
square mile on the continent of <
North America. Boasting approxi- j
ruately one-sixth as much area as <
that of the United States, Alaska 1
produces less than 5 percent of the i
cash-fur value that is the annual 1
lot of the parent nation. That t
means that any given area of similar e
size in the United States, even the i
most thickly populated sections, s
•with perhaps the exception of the t
desert portions of the Southwest, i
produces at least twice the fur the f
square mile that Alaska boasts..”
Kansas produces two fur dol
lars a, square mile to one dollar pro
duced a mile by Alaska.
Pennsylvania with 45,126 to
Alaska’s 586,400 square miles to
taled fur sales in the sum of $2,500,
000 as against $971,694. This lat
ter amount included $107,000 in
fox pelts from the Pribiloffs. This
in 1921. The returns for 1925 will
show more than $3,000,000 while it
will take the entire fur catch in
Alaska from 1912 to 1924 to yield
$1,455,650 and this also includes
the Pribiloff fox.
Louisiana with an area approxi
mately one-twelfth that of Alaska
produced in 1924-1925 $6,300,000.
To compete with her Alaska would
hove to produce an annual output if
$79,960,000 using area as a basis of
1 roduction.
In spite of the difference in popu
lation New York produced 344,283
pelts against Alaska’s 396,369;
Pennsylvania produced 1,616,000
and Louisiana produced 7,000,000
pelts. Even in the number of deer
killed Pennsylvania leads Alaska.
The farmers of that great State are
even asking permission to kiii deer
because they are destroying truck
gardens while in Alaska already the
need for more rigid regulation is
seen. The need for the program
of restocking is very evident. Such
a policy has already been advocated
and in a very small way a start has
been made.
The fish industry is gone insofar
as resident fishermen are concern
ed. The average catches of fur is
insufficient to carry the fisherman
trapper over the winter. The urge
is made that the pulp industry will
he a Godsend to Alaska. It is our
humble opinion that the pulp in
dustry will come to Alaska just as
soon as it gets good and ready; that
it knows as much if not more aboujj
power and timber resources than
dees the Forestry department. They
are at present not interested more
than casually and that casual inter
est has excited a few so that they
make wild predictions and promises
that they have not the least idea
will be kept.
In the meantime the fisheries are
being destroyed. No amount of
praise as to conditions of that in
dustry by O’Malley or any other
henchman of the Fish Trust can
hide the fact that salmon streams
in this and other sections is without
sufficient seed to insure the industry
in the future. Rules and regula
tions which do not conserve are but
measures for the direct purpose of
misleading the public and in truth
are but falsities.
The need at this time is an hon
est conservation of resources and an
efficient, fearless leader to bring
the fish and fur industry back to
normalcy and thereby give to resi
dents greater earning power. High
er wages and more residents is what
the country needs. Destruction of
these natural asset means the re
tarding of the development of the
Territory and placing of the bur
den of government upon the few.
FLOCKING TO MARK UM?
Anchorage Times
August 28,
Editor Times:
Your “Marquam for Delegate
dub” will have to be swung with
treater force if you wish to lay low
iur staunch and true,- American full
due, our Sutherland "Daniel.” He
s before the people flatfooted on
iis record and may not be leading
he collapsed force of Boyle follow
rs although they would do well and
re welcome to come in out of the
nowfall. My pity for those who
hink to shelter inMarquam's loom
ng shadows (mere promises). For
ecomplishments, see Dan’s record.
What say the fishermen? Aye ay©
^ir. What say the prospectors? '
The same sir. What the home
steader? Ah, that’s me, sir.
Who is making Alaska? Think |
you ’tis the lawyers or the "cham- ;
her of barter and traders” or even :
the politicians? All are mere camp1;
followers of the producing class and I
willing to whitewash us of all sins
to get our support. More power to
him and his kind. With the obser- |
vance of law and liberty.
Old Sourdough
; RICHARD CRISP
.HELP FOR THE POX PARMER
The circumstance that foxes for
breeding purposes of the value of t
$75,000 have been shipped recently j
from Alaska to Sweden has attract- I
< d atention to the growth of the!
fox farming industry in this terri
*-• ry. A Washington dispatch points
out that with favorable legislation,
including permission to rent islands
for the purpose, fox farming in
Alaska may be indefinietly ex
panded.
All of which is very true, admits
the Juneau Empire, but the law
should go father. It should per
mit the fox farmers who build
houses and makes substantial im
provements to obtain title to the
lands upon which their homes and
Improvements are madq. If the
industry is to expand those engaged
in it ought to be encouraged to
f-rect comfortable homes and to im
prove their surrounding in such
a way as to make ' life pleasant
No one would want to build a
modern house and surround It
with such improvements as one
v ould like and have the home on
leased ground. He would want to
own the home and the ground
upon which it ;s located.
To permit the fox farmers to ac
quire title to the ground upon which
they build their homes and make
substantial improvements would
be to encourage the perment settle
ment of. tbe territory.
Hare you seen the lunch cloth
and table runners at the Toten
P»le? They are Dennison crept
—clean, inexpensive and mo*
convenient.
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