Historial Sketches and Experi
ences of Trail-Blazers Who Made
Alaska the Empire of the North
PIONEERS OF ALASKA
EDITED BY
A. G. THOMPSON,
Member of Anchorage Igloo No. 13
CLEAR STREAMS AND
KILL FISH FOE IS CURE
The solution of the preservation of
the fisheries industry in Alaska de
pends upon keeping the streams clear
of debris and jams su t'ae salmon may!
reach their spawning grounds, and j
the destruction of the enemies of |
spawn and the fry, supplemented by
the artificial propagation of fish, ae-1
cording to C. S. Harley, the cannery
man of Tenakee. “Of course, added
Mr. Harley, “there must be no fish
ing in the streams if near the r
mouths.”
The salmon that escape the traps
and seines during the 36 hour closed,
period each week, and the salmon that
follow the deep water in the channel
will be enough to stock the spawning
streams, according to Mr. Harley, if
the enemies of the species are
destroyed.
“Later, as the habits of the fish are!
studied by experts and more know
ledge gained through investigation
and experience under the laws as they
aie made from year to year, addition
al safeguards may be added,” said
Mr. Harley.
“We who are in the business are as
anxious as any class of the people to
perpetuate the fisheries business. Peo
ple want to see their money invested
permanently, and after they leant the
fish business they do not want to be
compelled to quit it and take up some
thing new.”
Mr. Harley is convinced that the
cannerymen who are operating in
Alaskan waters should become more
thoroughly identified with Alaska
than they are now. He believes that
♦ here should be a branch of the fisher
ies organization with offices here, if,
indeed, not the main office. He also
believes that the busines men of Ju
neau should take the lead in having a
general meeting of all the cannery
men and others connected with the
fish industry of southeastern Alaska
at this place in the future, for the
purpose of bringing them and the
business people of the territory closer
together.—Ex.
FEAR SALMON RUN
TO WEST WILL BE SHORT
According to advice? received in
Seward on the Dort fiom Bristol bay,
the cannervmen of that section fear
that the ice will prevent a large pack
this year as the salmon will be divert
ed from their usual run.
| When the Dora left the Bristol bay
region all of the cannery boats were
safe out of the ice and many of the
cannery crews had made their way
over the ice to the canneries and weie
practically ready for the big run.
Capt. Newlands reports that salmon
are running at King Cove and several
other places.
NORTHERNER WILL
FIGHT THE TURKS
VANCOUVER, B. C., June 10.—
Captain H. F. Schard, former super
intendent in the employ of the White
Pass and Yukon route, has announced
yurt he will go to Mesopotamia with
the Inland Waterways and Docks sec
tion of the Royal Engineers. His
services will prove valuable to the
British forces which are opposing the
Turks, because of his experience in
river transportation in the north.
Having in mind what the kaiser has
coming to him, it is impossible to be
lieve in the non-existence of hell.—
(Anaconda Standard.)
Mr. McAdoo says the man who
wears a pair of trousers with a new
seat budded into the old material is
a patriot. Maybe, but we need men
who are not afraid to march to the
front to show their patriotism rather
Hum men who must sit tight to hide
t»,eirs.— (Louisville Courier-Journal.)
_
!
Senator Sherman praises former
Secretary of War Garrisofi. But Sen
ator Sherman would not be praising
him if he were present instead of for
pipr secretary. Senator Sherman is
not that sort of patrisan.—(Louisville
Courier-Journal.)
BIG INDUSTRY JUST NOW
IS FISHING TRADE
“There are three industries that, if!
properly developed, will save Alaska
at the present time,” said J. C. Me-'
Bride, of the C. W. Young company.
“They are timber, water-power and
fisheries. The big industry, just now,
is the fishing industry. Everything
should be done to promote the devel
opment at this time.
“We need new laws and more leg
islation that have to do with the fish i
business. Laws should be passed that
would be fair to both the cannery and
to the labor employed by them. Fish
trap legislation is needed. The fish
traps should be controlled along the
line of the water power. The owners
of the traps should be required to
drive them and fish them every year,
and they should remain the property
of the owner so long as this is done.
When the owner neglects to do this j
for a season tire traps should revert
back to public domain. This would
keep up the supply of fish for the
canneries.
“Southeastern Alaska's salvation,
now, is her food products and every
thing should be done to promote their
development.”
WHICH WAY DID YOU VOTE?
We have read of the destruction of
Louvain; we have pictured in our
mind the wreck of the cathedral of
Eheims—the coronation temple of the
kings of France; we have heard of the
devastation caused by the aerial ileets
oj' the Huns soaring thousands of feet
above London and Paris, but we have
never seen an example of destruction
which was calculated to inspire more
bitter regret and real grief in the soul
of the average pioneer and old sour
dough than the scene which took place
back of the marshal’s office last Mon
day. Two hundred cases of booze
(real whisky) was sacrificed on the
altar of justice. Under the watchful
supervision of Marshal Mossman, with
Jailor Reed as a witness, Marshal
Kavanaugh recklessly tossed the bot
tles of precious liquor into a barrel
set over an opening into the city sewer
and ruthlessly belabored them with a
maul, while the aromatic spirits, in
mute obedience to a law of gravity
Ion;’' suite discovered oy -Newion, lan
into the sewer.
Those who were able to restrain
their grief long enough to watch the
proceeding, marvelled at the fortitude
of the marshals, who kept at work
with a grim determination, born only
of the duty imposed upon them by
law. Many Anchorage lesidents stop
ped for a moment to breathe in a few
deep drafts of the spirited air, and
went their way thinking of the golden
days gone by. We could not help
thinking of that “dry” vote we cast on
election day, and wondering how we
would vote if we had it to do over
again.
EQUIPMENT AND RATIONS.
Floyd W. Parsons in the Saturday
Evening Post.
Authentic figures show that a sol
dier consumes in supplies and food the
equivafcyt of his own weight every
three days. In the matter of clothes
his consumption is four times that ol
the outdoor civilian in ordinary em
ployment at home. His uniforms be
come saturated with mud and are so
often placed in containers for cleaning
that they soon disintegrate. When it
comes to shoes our warriors have the
best in the world. They cost the gov
ernment $5 per pair in million lots,
and a soldier at the front wears out
one pair per month. In the matter of
food it has been determined that the
soldier eats 25 per cent more than the
ordinary laborer at home.
PROF. DAVIS ADVANCED.
(Valdez Miner.)
Prof. F. G. Davis, formerly head of
the Valdez schools, and an educator
of note, recently received the tender of
a principalship in the schools of
Cleveland, O., and has resigned the su
perintendency of the Auburn, Wn.,
schools and removed to Cleveland.
Mr. Davis has gone far in his profes
sion since leaving Valdez.
DOINGS OF IGLOO NO. 15
Two. new members were voted upon
at the next meeting last Friday night,
and qualified for membership, but
were not present, so were not admit
ted.
The secretary was authorized to
communicate with the governor and
recommend that an aged Pioneer,
now residing in Seattle, be admitted
to the Pioneers’ home at Sitka.
A very creditable showing has been
made in paying up the indebtedness
on the Pioneer building. About .$1,400
still remaining unpaid has been ar
ranged by the trustees, so that if is
expected the revenues and money de
rived from entertainments will take
care of this before it becomes clue.
The Pioneers now have a comforta
ble and commodious home in Anchor
age, with cl.;b room, kitchen and sec
retary’s quarters, on the first Oooi,
and a well appointed lodge room, with
ante-rooms and lockers, on the upper
floor, Besides this, there is a large
and commodious ledge room which is
leased to the Loyal Order of Moose,
together with the use of the lodge
room one night a week. A number of
' other orders meet in the lodge room,
having their regular wee' y meeting
nights. This property is ognized
as one of fhe best revenue -p oducing
pieces of property in the cily: and is
valued at $8,000.
The Pioneers are to be congratulat
ed on their success in providing them
selves with a beautiful and substan
tial home, within little more than a
year from the organization of the
igloo, and Anchorage is the gainer by
having one of its prominent corners
decorated with a substantial edifice
of this kind.
MUST REPORT AT OFFICE OF
BOARD IN ANCHORAGE FORE
NOON OF JULY 25.
CALL IS MADE TO FILL QUOTA, j
i
Boyd Leedy, Resident Engineer at Es
ka on Government Railway Line,
Son of Former Governor of Kansas,
Among Those C alled to Report—
Some Have Moved Away.
Following is the list of sixty names
of registrants drawn on July S to fill j
the quota of 184 under call 193 of'
June 10, 1918, forty of which have1
failed to report and who are now or- j
dered to report July 25, 1918, at the
office of the Local Board, Anchorage,
at 10 o’clock a. m.
wiuti lai
No. No.
14 509 Chris C. Martinson.
20 784 William Fairclough.
55 1014 Anders Alfred M. Lund.
82 1140 Michael Sweeney.
92 1630 Charles Albert Fowlkes.
Ill 966 John Anderson.
145 620 P. F. Kent.
150 21 John II. Walmar.
190 685 Simon Samis.
284 1418 Louis Charos.
339 90 Jim Janopulos.
352 1511 Al. Bansi Alberta.
408 1108 Alfred M. Anderson.
472 808 John Libby.
481 421 Basil E. Hadjinicopulos.
508 1398 August Pearson.
540 1547 Giovanni Gamba.
546 1180 Boyd Leedy.
569 138 William Myers.
689 609 Harry Malaton.
726 629 John Avgostedes.
736 1370 Gust Johnson.
746 1684 John Ward Miles.
810 527 Arvid Hamren.
866 799 Dave Fenton.
893 641 John Plove.
920 1581 Raymond H. Young.
929 1230 Frank Droses.
970 1458 Charles Medrin Olson.
972 1605 Nickolai Kairoff.
979 615 J. W. Van Veen.
992 62 August Bergamin.
995 646 Nick Uzelac.
998 912 Mitchell Weisberg.
999 1327 George Zuganelis.
1006 614 O. Lundstrom.
1008 1134 Otto Driscoll.
1026 1637 Roy Austin Cornelius.
1038 667 J. T. Coulton.
1043 84 George P. Phin.
1048 469 Russell E. Blake.
1049 245 August Dahlman.
1051 1734 George Nick Dasopoulos.
1061 109 Ray Pedrick.
1074 1171 Mila Curich.
1079 1040 George Daniels.
1084 1582 Zenas Beach.
1096 1422 Peter Morich.
1099 1036 Joe Sandona.
1102 1210 Sam Nickalas.
1118 625 Axel Lindstrum. :
1125 361 John Gerot.
1141 1115 Tom Kintoff.
WELCOME THE BOYS.
(Dawson News)
From this time forward Dawson
may expect to witness the return of
many of her boys who have gone to
the front. Several already have got
ten back. When the river opens more
will come. As the recruiting increas
es and as the war progresses there
will be more of the brave fellows dis
abled or found unfit and discharged.
They will come this way.
Thus far no systematic scheme has
been evolved for welcoming the lads
home. It would be well for Dawson
to plan to have a committee to be at
each boat when a returning veteran is
known to be on boaid, and to give him
a fitting welcome. It is inconsistent,
to say the least, to give the lads the
grand sendoff when they leave, but to
have no one to meet them when they
return. Such an action appears as
though the great labor of hazard and
sacrifice is not appreciated.
Committees to welcome home the
lads and to see that they are adequate
ly recognized now exist in nearly
every other city. Little reason can be
cited why Dawson should not be
abreast other places on this score.
Local patriotic organizations might
take up the work to advantage. How
ever, the matter has not gone far, and
now is the time that the need is be
ginning to be felt. This is a good
time to organize some sort of a re
sponsible committee of welcome, the
same committee might also be made
more useful to the returned men, by
way of taking up immediately the
work of see>ng that they be found
work and given preference in such
positions as they are able to fill.
BOARD OF REGENTS ELECTS
OFFICERS OF THE COLLEGE
FAIRBANKS, July 9.—At an elec
tion of officers held by the board of
regents for the Fairbanks Agricultu
ral college and school of mines the fol
lowing was the result: President, A.
R. Heilig; vice-president, R. C. Wood;
treasurer, George Hutchinson; secre
tary, Mrs. L. C. Hess. An executive
committee composed of J. A. McIn
tosh, chairman; A. J. Nordale and R.
C. Wood was elected to atend to mat
ters pertaining to the school.
LEAVES WITH CREW7
FOR AL-KI WRECK
TO FINISH WORK
JUNEAU, July 9.—Charles Warner
who has the contract for dismantling
the Al-Ki, has left with a crew of
five men to continue the work. At
this time Mr. W'amer says that they
are fairly well along with the work
but that they will be unable to tell
what they can do with the ship until
later. At that they are getting ahead
better than Mr. W7arner expected they
would.
1148
1152
1153
1157
1160
1178
1181
1296
405 Harry Zerbas.
1562 David B. Brewster.
959 Oscar Bergstrom.
1452 Hokam Olson.
1610 Vittorio Menegan.
551 Ambrose Smith.
916 Raymond Phillips.
413 Ralph K. Fulver.
DEER ARE TAME ON
CHICAGOFF ISLAND
“This has been a hard winter on
deer,” William Freeburn, of the
ChicagofT mine, is quoted as saying
in the Juneau Dispatch, “but there is
one herd on ChicagofF ishyid which is
doing well. Some of the boys have
treated a herd of them With so much
consideration that the animals have
taken a mile when an inch was given
One of them walked light into the
kitchen recently. Carrots and other
vegetables seem to have been the at
traction that led this particular deet
into the house.”
Mr. Freeburn was in Juneau look
ing for a few men for special work,
but idle men seem to be few and far
between. When asked at what age he
considered a man was past his use
ful. less he emphatically stated that
the j is no age limit.
“We have a man at our mine 72
years old,” he said, “who goes out into
the woods, he hews down the timbers,
works them down to the beach, and
tows them with his little power boat
to the mine, without the assistance
from any man; and there are many
young men who could not accomplish
the work this so-called old man does.”
NORTH HELPING WAR.
(Dawson News.)
Not alone in terms of men and
money is the northland of Yukon and
Alaska helping the allies. These two
great territories may be looked on
economically as twins, working to
gether for the benefit of the allies.
Their chief products, which ate prov
ing of vast aid to the allies in their
great struggle, are minerals and fish.
Yukon is producing between four
and five million dollars annually in
gold, copper, tungsten, coal, silvet
and lead. Alaska is producing similai
minerals, only on a far greater scale.
Her coal production last year alone
was $300,000, and Alaska’s coal pro
duct is beginning to figure greatly as
an aid to the naval and the commer
cial fleets so vital to the allies. It is
expected her yield this year will ex
ceed half a million dollars in value.
It is being speeded up to assist in the
Last year Alaska’s fish production
jumped from $22,000,000 to $42,000,
000 (It was over $50,000,000—Edi
tor.) in value . This year many more
big fishery concerns are being estab
lished in Alaskan waters. The Alas
kan coast is teeming with the indus
try, and the interior waters are being
invaded for cannery purposes. This
food production is something enor
mous. The part this plays in feeding
the allies is tremendous.
The richest productive copper prop
erties of the world are in Alaska, at
Kennecott, where the profits alone for
one year run $16,000,000. Add to this
the vast gold output of Alaska, and
that of silver, lead, antimony, tin,
tungsten and other minerals, and
some idea can be had of the value of
Alaska to the allies.
Alaska also is turning out timber
now much needed in airplane work.
Yukon’s gold is a great factor in
stabilizing the finances of the Domin
ion and the Allied nations. With all
this support being rendered the great
cause without any return to the re
gion on munitions and other war oi'd
ers, the national governments should
be very generous to Yukon and Alas
ka in other matters. It will be good
business, to say the least, to keep
these great producers in the produc
ing class and to induce them to in
crease their tribute of wealth to the
nation.
GERMAN FROM PETERSBURG
INTERNED AT FORT SEWARD
JUNEAU, July 9.—Martin Pyreita,
a German resident of Petersburg, has
been interned at Fort Seward for the
period of the war. Marshal J. M.
Tanner recently received word to get
the man and turn him over to the mil
itary authorities. This was done re
cently and Marshal Tanner returned
from the north yesterday, reporting
that the man is now safely in custody
of the military authorities.
IDITAROD MINING MAN
IS MARRIED IN SEATTLE
Making a several hundred mile
mush over lonely Alaska winter trails
to answer Cupid's summons, Dave
Browne, an old time mining man from
the Iditarod district, arrived in Seattle
on Sunday, and yesterday morning
was united in marriage to Miss Anna
McCafTey, of Spokane, at the Cath
olic cathedral by Rev. Van De Veil
of Walla Walla, says a recent issue
of the Post-Intelligencer. A few inti
mate friends of the bride and groom
attended the ceremony, and they will
; make their home at the Frye until
next June when the groom will take
his bride to his cabin home at Flat,
in the Iditarod district. The journey
will be made from White Horse down
the \ukon on the first steamer mak
! ing the trip after the ice goes out.
The trip outside took Mr. Browne
1 just one month. The trail took him
over two mountain ranges and over
the trail blazed for the new govern
ment railroad. He has been mining
in Alaska for the past twenty years.
Mr. Browne left Seward three weeks
ago.
WHAT IT COSTS IN SHELLS.
Eleven Per Cent of Our Steel Pro
duction Won’t Give Us Enough.
Floyd W. Parsons, in the Saturday
Evening Post.
Eleven per cent of our total steel
production this year will go into shells
alone, and this output would not be an
excessive supply, even though all of
this ammunition could be given to our
own army. Should we take over 100
miles of battle front and use all the
i shells that will be produced under this
year’s program, we could fire only
6,850 shells a day, assuming an aver
age weight of forty pounds for each
projectile.
Such artillery activity would land
; more than one shell on every foot of
the enemy’s front line facing us every
' twenty-four hours, and this would
! seem to be quite lively shooting, but it
is now considered rather quiet on any
,l,r k non a non
are sent across on each side of the
front in twenty-four hours.
Of course, it is not likely we shall
take ovef' 100 miles, or one-third of
the western front, this year; on the
other hand, we are not going to get all
the shells we are making. Recently, in
i Picardy, the Huns fired 17,000 shells
; at the Americans and killed one man.
i For this life the Germans gave the
1 total labor for one day of 440 coal
miners and 136 iron miners.
Let us hope the American artillery
will collect a somewhat higher toll.
STIMULATE THE PRO
DUCTION OF GOLD
i On the necessity for an increased
! gold production the Juneau Empire
says editorially:
The. movement to secure aid from
the government to stimulate gold
production is one that is worthy of the
best efforts of the people, and its suc
cess would work wonders for Alaska.
Gold is the ballast in the world of
commerce. Bonds and other evidences
of debt are piling up and the com
merce of the world increasing to such
proportions that it might prove very
dangerous if the output of the stabil
izing money metal should be curtailed.
The fact is, as the secretary of the
treasury has said, the need is for in
creased gold production and not a
shrinkage.
However, in the face of this demand
for an increased gold production, we
are confronted by the certainty of a
reduction unless something is done
and done quickly. There is probably
no section of the United States where
the possibilities for enlarging gold
production are greater than here in
Alaska. The output of this Territory
would be many times greater within
a few years if all the properties that
have been prepared for operation
could produce at their full capacity,
and if development work could be
continued on other properties of
known value.