ALASKA LOOMS
IIP LARGE ON
JORIZON
The Monthly Bulletin, issued by the
Alaska Bureau of Publicity, contaiA
much information of interest, from
which the following excerpts are
taken:
Things Are About to Begin to Happen
Present indications are that gen
eral business activities will begin in
Alaska this year nearly a month
earlier than usual. Already the can
nery people have started their annual
overhaulings and improvements are
getting in supplies for the season.
The small boat'contingent is also be
coming active all along our 26,000
miles of coastline and the commercial
interests are encouraged in conse
quence as the “Mosquito Fleet” con
stitutes the widest and richest pay
streak enjoyed by the commercial in
terests of the sections in which they
liomeport and secure their outfits.
Any town in Alaska that has from fifty
to two hundred—the more the better
—small fishing craft operating from it
never fails to ride” the crest of the
wave of prosperity during the fishing
season. Crews for operating can
neries are already arriving, although
the actual work of canning, salting
and packing is not due to start yet for
another month or sx weeks—depend
ng wholly on when the run of fish
starts.
New Alaska Industry
That the production of sugar beets
in Alaska in commercial quantities
would prove a remunerative industry
has been shown by tests made by the
department of agriculture at Washing
ton of beets grown in the famous
Matanuska valley and along the line
of the government railroad. Beets
grown there and sent to Washington
for analysis were shown to contain
16.9 per cent sugar. This is consid
ered a remarkably good showing when
it is considered that it was the first
crop from virgin ground which yield
ed from seven to eight tons of beets
to the acre. That beets will do
equally well in many other localities
in the territory as in the Matanuska
country is certain.
.Fish and By-Products
The fishing industry of Alaska has
made many millionaires during the
past score of years, but the mapority
of the Napoleons of finance have been
content with canning, salting and
picking. Few have paid any attention
to the by-products, which offer a
broad field for exploitation. Thou
sands of tons of offal is annually
thrown back into the sea that could
be utilized with profit. Fertilizer and
oil are among the most valuable prod
ucts that are being practically over
looked while the opportunities for the
cod liver oil industry all along the
vhain of islands forming the Aleutian
gtoup is acknowledged by those con
versant with conditions to be the
most promising in the world. This
item and the erection and mainten
ance of cold storage plants at advan
tageous points on the Aleutian islands
offers great inducements to capital.
i-isn natcneries Advocated
More drastic laws are needed to
protect the fish In the Alaskan
waters, otherwise the now teeming ex
panses will be exhausted of their God
given resources of wealth, and that
within a few years. Many theories
are advanced as causes for the grow
ing scarcity of fish—principally
salmon—but the principal one is that
fewer fish are reaching the spawning
grounds with each succeeding year.
This is due largely to the practice of
fishing the very mouths of the spawn
ing streams and even the streams
thetnselves. Too many itinerant fish
ermen care nothing for the future of
the industry but have thought only for
the present—“Grab all we can this
year and get out.” The Alaska Fish
and Game club of Juneau is experi
menting in fish hatcheries and won
derful results are being obtained, dem
onstrating that artificial hatcheries
can be 'operated as successfully in
Alaska as anywhere. The club is al
ready receiving financial assistance
from many of the concerns Interested
in the matter of propagating the fish
of Alaska and it is probable that the
territorial legislature now in session
will award financial aid to this emi
nently deserving enterprise.
Gold Mining on the Boom
All the large gold quartz mining
companies of the territory are gradu
ally but surely Increasing the volume
of their operations In proportion to
the business demands of peace times
and it Is expected the output of gold
this year will he from SB to 40 per
t
cent more than that of last year. Th<
return of thousands of young men whc
have been In service, togethed witl
the general improvement of condi
tions in general is expec^bcl to in
crease the placer mining industry it
proportion to that of tlio quartz min
ing.
Now on Our Waiting List
The Alaska Bureau of Publicity, ai
a side issue, is conducting a centra!
labor bureau and at present we have
a long list of returned soldiers anc
sailors who have never seen but arc
anxious to see Alaska now and whc
are desirous of securing employment
in this country. Fully 200 young mer
are willing to accept manual labejr ol
any kind; sixty-two are electricians
and desire work in that lino; more
than one hundred want clerical posi
tions and of this number nineteen arc
stenographers; six want jobs as chauf
feurs, four as stationary engineers
four as teamsters, five as cooks, three
as bakers, seven as mine foremen, twe
as bridge carpenters, six house car
penters, one tamale peddler, nine ma
chinists, two piano players, forty fish
ermen and one dancing master. Foul
young lawyers wish to locate in
Alaska and two doctors, one of whom
is a graduate of the Royal Medical
college of Rome, Italy, are looking
this way with the view of coming
to Alaska to practice medicine.
The Ladies Also
Apparently the young ladies are as
anxious to come to Alaska as the
young men, as our list shows the
names of twenty-nine who want posi
tions as stenographers, fifteen school
teachers, eleven sales ladies, one gov
erness, and at least fifty who want to
come North for the canning season.
Any person, firm or corporation in
Alaska having use for any of the
above, either male or female, will
oblige this bureau, accommodate the
applicants and at the same time assist
in the matter of adding to the popula
tion of Alaska by making known their
wants to this bureau.
ALL BOATS COMING
TO ALASKA SOLD OUT
With passenger accommodations
sold out for the next two months, of
ficials of the Pacific Steamship Com
pany at Seattle predict that the travel
to Alaska this season will break the
records of recent years, and inquiries
from all parts of the country indicate
that the reconstruction period will see
a big movement Northward.
Passenger agents of the company
declare that practically all reserva
tions have been engaged for the next
two months. While most of the pres
ent travel is due to the opening of
the Alaska cannery season, not a few
old-time Alaskans are returning to
haunts in the North. The movement
of cannery crews and cannery equip
ment will tax the capacity of the
Alaska fleet for the next two months,
in some instances one concern1 taking
practically a whole ship for cannery
workers; box shooks, tin plate and ma
chinery and supplies.
Officials of the company report that
a flood of letters is being received
from all parts of the country, asking
for information, with the end in view
of taking a steamer excursion to
Alaska in the summer.
WILL PUBLISH NAMES
OF INCOME TAX PAYERS
While in Seattle recently, visiting
the offices of his deputy, D. J. Will
iams, collector of internal revenue, an
nounced that his department intended
to print and post in conspicuous places
as soon as practicable lists of names of
all persons who make income tax re
turns and meet this obligation to the
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OLD-TIMER MADE SHORT
BUT EXPEN E TRIP
When Tom Ralston, an aged Alas
kan, boarded a train at Seattle a few
months ago for Vancouver, B. C„ and
got as far as Blaine, his trip cost him
about $1,218, and possibly more, says
the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
Ralston, who is nearly 70 years old,
“ was taken from the train at Blaine
by customs men and $2,715 in cur
rency was found in his possession. He
was charged with attempting to ex
port more than a legal amount of
money from the country without a
permit, but was acquitted at the trial
held later in the Seattle federal courts.
Then the government filed a civil
case for forfeiture of the money, to
taling $2,715.
On advice from federal authorities
at Spokane, Marshal John M. Boyle
extracted $1,218 from Ralston’s roll In
the government safe. It seems that
Ralston was given a federal sentence
in Spokane in 1914 to spend nine
months in jail and pay a fine of $1,000.
When he finished the jail sentence he
took a pauper’s oath and was released.
Accordingly, when Spokane authori
ties learned that Ralston had a bank
roll of $2,715 in the government safe
Marshal Boyle was instructed to seize
$1,000 as payment of his Spokane fine
and $218 additional as interest.
After $1,218 was seized from Ral
ston there still remained $1,497 in
his bank roll. The government case
for forfeiture of this sum is still pend
ing in court. Ralston’s troubles are
also increased by a perjury charge
preferred against him which is now
before the federal grand jury.
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Offer to the trappers and dealers of the North
the followinig prices for No. 1 Prime Furs:
'Lynx, extra large No. 1.$35.00 to $37.50
Lynx, large No. 1. 30.00 to 35.0C
Lynx, small . 20.00 to 25.00
Mink, dark coast skins. 5.00 to 7.00
Mink, dark coast skins, small. 3.00 to 5.00
Mink, fresh water. 5.00 to 10.00
Land Otter. 12.00 to 15.00
Red Pox, No. 1 large.>.. 30.00 to 35.00
Cross Fox, according to beauty.. 50.00 to* 100.00
Muskrats.\ .75 to 1.50
Silver and Black Foxes, as to color
Wolverine..'...... 5.00 to 12.00
Wolves. 5.00 to 20.00
Ship us your Furs! As spon as receivod we will grade same and
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