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Published every Friday by the a. N. B. Publishing Co., Petersburg
Entered in the Post Officg in Petersburg as Second Class matter.
We Suggest
The lire on the motor boat re
cently, and the burning of the Iver
son building, should prove to the
City Dads that there are winter
handicaps in nre lighting to be over
come and that call tor serious atten
tion right now. Where the tires
were, a few days back, it was a mo3t
difliehlt matter to move the lire light
ing apparatus to where it was need
d. This was on account of the snow,
ice and drifts on the streets. There
were willing hands enough. There
was spirit enough, but it was physi
cally impossible to pull carts and
equipment to the scene of action
with the speed that is necessary in
such cases. We can’t very well keep
the snow from falling. We can’t stop
the ice from forming W’e can’t
keep drifts from banking up either
As a sort of “first aid’’ in this fir<;
fighting program we suggest that the
city purchase a number of hand fire
extinuigishers and place them in
get-at-able places from one end ot
the town to the other. As these ap
pliances 'should be kept clear of frost
it would be necessary to house some
o£ them in private dwellings (.occu
pied;, but in the business portion of
the town the .stores couid house
them, in case of fire tnere is al
ways some one closer to it than oth
ers, and with an extinguisher an
immense amount of good may be
done if its contents can be applies
early. An extinguisher will even
hold back a stubborn blaze for a
while, and while it was doing so tht
regular fire fighting machinery wouid
come up and go on with the worn
All the last two fires needed to pm
them out wag an ordinary fire extin
guisher promply placed in commis
sion. There weren’t any close to
| hand, and it was necessary to haul
pull and push the heavy hose carts
over ice and snow piles, in rutted
streets, up slippery inclines and thru
drifts before gettinf ino action. This
took lots of time and exhausted those
who took part. When the streets
are clear, it isn’t so bad, of course,
but even so an extinguisher on tin
spot is worth a whole lot when a
olaze is young.
As to Irap Sites
The Wrangell Sentinell is calling
Dan Sutherland s attenion to what
the Sentinell thinks is a bad state
of affairs. These are in regard to
a Juneau Court’s decision that trap
sites are open to be jumped during
the winter season if the trap owners
do not make some showing as to
ownership beyond the tacking of a
license number on the trap or near
at hand.
Well, so long as a fish trap is a
legal appliance, we don’t care to see
the trap owner put to an inconven
ience to hold his site or location, but
since a license itself binds the hold
er thereof to no one particular sec '
tion of water covered beach, it
stands the trapper in hand to do
something else than merely claim
ownership through a certain number
or a pile or two out in the water.
Down to brass tacks, what has the
average trap owner done to protect I
his site or hold his ground once the
salmon season is over? In most cas
es, absolutely nothing. He pulls i»
his gear and departs and in depart
ing leaves a serious menace to navi
gation in the shape of driven or an
chored obstacles. Seemingly, he
doesn’t care a continental whoop,
and he goes back in the spring to do
over again what has been done for
years. In a number of instances,
already, certain traps have been de
clared illegal, or fishing in prohibit
ed territory. There those traps
stand so black at night a boatman
can’t see them; lightle3s, menacing
and destructive.
If the trap owner has an idea that
his trap location is worth anything,
let him prove it by keeping the thing
lighted at night; by fastening suffi
cient gear on the piling or trap
logs to notify others who may conic
that way that the location is actual
ly held and that the owner is going
to some means to prove it.
We don’t know whether jumpers
are “irresponsible parties” or not,
but we do know that “Alaska can
neries, with their immense invest
ments” have so lorded over affairs
that they have arrived at that condi
tion of mind where any piece of
ground they spit on is considered
theirs. They have the best fishing
rune hogged anyway, and if they de
sire to hold the locations let them
do something besides absolute aban
donment after a salmon season is
closed. Also, if they do care to be
thought anything of, pull their pil
ing and move their trap logs out of
harms way at once they have given
up a location.
The average trap is a dhm nui
sance from fall until spring and if
the owners desire “peace and pro
tection” let them do something tc
earn it.
Insofar as trap revenue is concern
ed we think the individual owner of
trap pays as much into the teri’itor
ial treasury for a trap as a cannery
does for its trap. We don’t catch
the Sentinel’s point in its lamenta
tion of lost revenue should a can
nery location drift by non-attentiou
to an individual trapper’ possession,
except perhaps kow tow to its liege
lord and master, the Hon. J. G
Grant, former mayor of Wrangell,
’rap operator and general boss of the
political pewees of the ancient city
it the mouth of the Stikine.
DOESN’T GO MUCH ON TRAPS
Speaking of the recent knock-out
of 30 per cent of the Alaska traps
by the Bureau of Fisheries, the Ev
erett News has this to say; “The
proposed action of the Federal auth
orities 3nould be a subject of serious
thought to the Washington Sti e
Fisheries Board. Traps in Pug t
Sound account for a great preponder
ance of the salmon taken in these
waters annually.”
And the Everett Herald comes to
bat with this: “It is clearly estab
lished that the Federal Department -
in charge of commercial fishing «n
Alaska looks upoi. fsh traps as par
ticularly destr i'Mive g6ar. That fact
has already be<o? established in Bri
tish Columbia where there are no
fish traps excepting a scant few in
the Fraser River country, while the
American traps clutter up he wat >rs
STILL 1500 MILES FROM ALASKA
The Zellerback Paper Company
and allied interests are going to build
a paper mill at Hoquiam, Washing
ton, that will cost—in construction—
$6,500,000. Water power will be
taken from the Wynoochi River. The
Aberdeen, Washington, mills of the
same company, close to Hoquiam
will need 100,000,000 gallons of
fresh water daily in plant operation.
| About the time the next Territor
l Legislature is in session, the 11
luz. editor of the cannery blah-blah
at Juneau, will be warning the mem
bers that they “might scare capital
away.”
south of the li.i . All testimony on
the salmon Ashing question cle U'i'T
and consistently n veals the destru'l*
iveness of trap* and has been as
consistntly .iguo~ai i: the State of
Washington.
We Advocate
Quite recently the Petersburg
Chamber of Commerce brought up
the proposition of dam extension so
that there would be more water in
case of fire. There was little, if any
thing, said bearing on the town’s
need of water outside of the possible
raveges of flame. It should be
brought to mind, wo think, that the
city's call for water is just as im
peritive as are the demands of the
hydrant. Probably it was considered
that if there was a big head for the
lines of hose, there would also be
a plenty for the general commercial
and home requirements. Anyway,
the water dam should be built up,
rebuilt or fixed some way so that
the several water shortages of4 the
past summer and this winter wont
occur again.
We advocate a new dam altogeth
er. We advocate the construction of
a dam above—(farther up the
stream)—the site of the present af
fair. We think the location greatly
superior both for dam construction
and for water head.
To build on top of the old dam
means an outlay of money quite as
large as it would call for in new dam
; building and at the end we’d have
nothing better than a piece of paten
work on an old foundation.
There have been so many misfits
pulled off by the municipality that
it is time to snap into worth-while
effort.
A short distance above the dam
now in use there are suitable banks
for dam construction. The real dam,
in fact, would be smaller as a unit
than the present one. There is a low
area of valley that would carry 10
or more times the volume of water.
The head would be higher, the town
pressure greater. We advocate a
brand new dam on proved engineer
ing lines. Then we’d be through with
this water worry for all time. Tf
We do it at all, let’s do it correctly.
Forest Service Report
The report of the Forest Service
for the fiscal year ending June 30th
1027, is at hand. There is a con
uensed treatment on Forests ana
Flood Control, Surveys, Private For
estry, State Forestry Legislation,
Fire Protection, Farm Forestry Lx
tension, Expenditures, Receipts, Ad
ministration, Air Patrol, Protection
from Insects, Timber Cuttings, Tim
ber Planting, Ranges, Recreation and
Game, Water Power, Roads and
Trails, Maps and Research, Experi
ment Stations, Forest Economics
and 19 tables relative to the differ
ent divisions of the work. Table
It! bears on the water permits.
Easements in force at close of year
including 26,2 72 horsepower total
569,525 H. P. Construction com
pieted end of fiscal year including
free permits of 26,202 H. I\, 391
621 H. P.
There is, also, an interesting pass
age on wild game. In Alaska there
are 5,900 black bear still alive and
roaming around. There are 5,000
grizzly and brown bear; 57,300 deer;
2,050 moose and 2,000 mountain
sheep. Now compare this with Cal
ifornia, for instance; 10,894 black
bear, no other kind of bear; 23*1,
660 deer; 131 elk; 775 mouutail
sheep and a few beaver. Oregon has
6,215 bear; 71,339 deer; 4471 elk;
and more than 5,000 beaver. Wash
ington, also, has a bit of game left.
She has more black bear than any
other single State or Territory (and
this includes Alaska) except Calif
ornia. She has a few grizzlies left.
She has 26,320 deer; 9,590 elk; 2.
125 mountain goats; and nearly 10,
000 beaver. In fact Alaska makes a
rather poor showing in the game line
except in mountain goats, in which
she leads any State or Territory,
having 9,000 of them. The nearest
State to her in Goats is Minnesota,
with 4,228. Arizona, California,
Idaho and Oregon have, each, more
deer by far than has Alaska. Mon
tana comes nearest in the big bear
line, having 441 to Alaska’s 5,000.
Two States lead Washington in elk
and they are Montana and Wyoming *
with 10,593 and 39,008 resf>ectivelyJ
What Price Senate i*
i lie opening of the 70th Congress
also opened the tight in the battie
to he waged over the price of seats
in the Uuited States Senate. The
State of Illinois and the State oi
Pennsylvania have sent Senatorial
representatives to the United States
Senate who are alleged to have
luised the price of Senate seats
without lirst referring the matter
to the Senatorial Board of Trade or
whatever group in the Senate
handles the matter of price or en
trance fees. We have grown so used
to misuse of governmental functions
Hint tlie matter of their being a
group in the U. S. Senate whos<‘
function it is to scrutinize schedules
of prices of seats or entrance fees
or other political commodity, need
surprise no one. But the Washing
ion Post lakes issue with this Sen
atorial Board of Trade and in one
i f ids December numbers has the
following (in part) to say relative
ihereto:
* * *“they possess all constitu
ional qualifications and hold auth
emic credentials certifying their
election. Objection is made to
hem because of alleged misuse oi
noney in their campaign.”
1 lie movement to exclude these
enalors is not based upon consti
utional grounds.”
b be denial of a seat to a person
lecttd Senator is a denial of
the right of the Senate to equal re
presentation in the Senate * * * *
the Senate has no constitutional
power to deny to States their equal
representation in the Senate.”
“The Republic cannot endure if
States are robbed of their equal
rights.”
“There is no court to wrhich a
suit can appeal for the protection
of its tquai rights in the Senate.
his fact increases the danger that
would attend a denial of such
rights. No one knows what would
follow the destruction of this funda
mental equality of the States. But
it is evident that the State thus
, wronged would be without friends
I among the other States. It would
I not tight its battles alone.”
! “Senaors who vote to prevent
Senators-elect from being seated are
violating their oath to support and
defend the constitution of the Unit
ed States.”
‘‘Senator Jim Reed of Missouri is
known to be very strong on the
matter of political expediency and
opportunity. He may also be well
informed on the matter of what is
considered a fair price for a seat in
I lie Senate. He may be well posted
on market values. Missouri ha3 a
very large mule and hog marwot
sad annually sells products to the
amount of millions. May be Jim
could (ell us what would be a fai^
price for an Opera ticket. Anyway,
when Jim gets through with adjust
wig the Senate’s schedule of prices
foi seats in that exclusive and some
what high priced auditorium, we
shall know something about what
we will have to pay when our am
bition for a Senate seat shall have
been gratified.”
U the concensus of Washington
opinion is a criterion and we should
express in simple but time-honored
vernacular of the street, the general
view of the Senatt’s hectic effort
to create a schedule of prices for
seats, it would be: Swash-buckie
Balderdash-Ballyhoo-Bunk.”
‘‘It must be potent to the averagt
well informed man whose brain and
mind still functions normally that,
it is no more possible to delineate
the ethical limitations of the price
of seats in tht U. S'. Senate than, it
would be to say what would be etb; -
ally correct in the matter of prices
for seats at the ring-side of a pugi
listic show."
From the above it is quite evident
that the Washington Post holds at
arm’s length the right of the Hon.
James Reed of Missouri to question
the election costs of the Senators
of Illinois and Pennsylvania. May
be there isn’t any right, but if the
high prices of Illinois and Pennsyl
vania prevail, how can the man of
even average means have a look in : ■
We look askance at many of these
big money men. The price they are
able to pay doesn’t always prtve
they are competent or honest. In j
truth, someway, we often think .1 '
dishonesty when these large money |
deals are in evidence. When a
Senator- Elect has paid out manv
times more than his salary for his
entire term of office, for a seat, it is
cnrte evident that he is to make up
for it in some other way. And that
way is often, in truth most of the
I’-ne. hidden in devious channel
ttat rrif kes us look askance at bote
the man and his methods. All of
. filch fits in Alaska as well as in
Washington, D. C.
Might Be Better
According to word received here,
the open season for cannery salmon
will begin on the 15th day of June.
We would invite the Bureau of
Fisheries to tell us just what bene
fit will be derived by said regula
tion. The seiner in this Division does
not think of beginning seining oper
ations untl after the 15th of July be
cause BEFORE THAT DATE THERE
ARE NO SALMON TO CATCH.
THE ALASKAN has refrained
from commenting on the fisheries re
gulations because only general re
views of proposed regulations have
been given the press. We believe the j
regulations as will be and the regu
lations as announced to be two dif
ferent birds—one being a shypolk
and ’tother a buzzard. Too many
“conferences” and “invitations for
suggestions from the Fish Barons
and no consideration for the ideas of
those who toil with the seines.
Great Minds Run In
Different Channels
Father Kashoveroff says that
whales drive herring from the sea
into the straits of Alaska. Henry
O’Malley, U. S. ommissioner of Fish
eries says that whales don’t bother i
the herring at all. WELL?
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Inducement to Merchants to Advei
tise in The ALASKAN.
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Always on Hand Fresh
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tersburg Friday morning, leaving
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about noon.
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