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CORDOVA, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 8, 1916.
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WICKERSHAM ON WARPATH.
Delegate Wickersham is of the opinion that a movement
is on foot to grab the salmon fisheries of Alaska and that the
effect of a bill now pending before Congress would be to fa
cilitate efforts of Chicago meat packers and allied interests to
get possession of one of the richest resources of the territory.
The fisheries of Alaska are worth, conservatively speak
ing, $400,000,000, and Wickersham believes that if the meat
packing interests and affiliated capitalists get through Con
gress the bill that has been'started in the grind they will get
the Alaskan fisheries.
Representative Charles C Carlin, of Virginia, introduced
the bill on the opening day of Congress. It was referred to t he
ways and means committee. Wickersham’s first move will be
to try to have the measure re-referred to the committee on
territories.
The bill provides that “in lieu of all other federal or
territorial license fees and taxes” every person or company
engaged in fishing shall pay certain stipulated nominal license
tees, including $100 per annum for each fish trap site, trom
three to six cents a case of canned salmon, according to the
grade, and other small charges.
Wickersham holds that this language not only would
make it impossible for the territory to tax the fishing industry
on large holdings, including about $12,000,000 worth of shore
properties, canneries, etc.* but that it probably would relieve
the fishing interests of payment of the federal corporation and
income taxes. The bill thus describes a fish trap site:
Each fish trap site shall consist of a reserved area in the
water, rectangular in form. The size (to be d'etennined by the
locator) shall not be more than 1,000 feet one way nor more
than .'5,000 feet the other way. A trap may be built anywhere
within the limits of such reserved area. The general course
of the trap shall be lengthwise of the trap site. Not more than
one trap or other fishing appliance may be constructed or of>
(.rated at the same time within the limits of any such reserved
area. There shall bo clear side spaces or passageways of not
less than 2,500 feet laterally between trap sites and clear end
spaces or passageways of not less than N00 feet endwise be
tween all fish trap sites and between all constructed traps
Wickersham has calculated that under this language
every trap site can be made to cover 279 acres. In other words,
for a license fee of a paltry $100 the exclusive fishing right
to 279 acres is conveyed'. Another section of the bill reads:
From and after the location of any such trap site and
;.fP r tin approval thereof by the secretary of commerce the
claimant thereof and his heirs, executors, administrators, suc
cessors and assigns shall have the exclusive right to occupy,
maintain and fish the same; to renew the license thereof year
by year until abandoned, forfeited or terminated through oper
ation of law; to mortgage, sell and transfer such rights during
such time as he or they shall comply with the laws of the
United States pertaining thereto.
It is asserted that this would enable the meat trust to send
locators to take possession of the trap sites or, it it did not
care to do that, it could buy off other locators and secure a
monopoly.
There are indications that the bill will create as big a
furore as measures in preceding Congresses which, it was
alleged, were designed to procure monopolistic control of Alas
kan coal deposits.-—Tacoma News.
ALASKA’S BUSINESS.
Alaska’s growing importance and its large influence upon
Seattle’s business is evidenced' by the figures of the business
of the year just closing. For the year 1915 the gross value
of Alaska shipments in and out of Seattle, and inclusive of
the Tacoma smelter shipments, will reach $77,000,000, and pos
sibly $80,000,000, compared with $65,500,000 in 1914.
In machinery, lumber, building material, clothing and
food, Alaska took $23,000,000 worth during this year, com
pared with $21,000,000 worth last year. The copper produc
tion reached $11,000,000 this year, compared with $3,365,000
last year. The territory produced' $15,000,000 in gold during
the year; fisheries produced $21,000,000- Tn gold, copper and
fish alone the gross product was valued at $47,000,000.
Practically all of the trade of Alaska is accomplished
through Seattle. The Tacoma smelter cares for the copper
production, and the Selby smelter, of San Francisco, and the
San Francisco mint take a portion of the gold product. Aside
from these items, Seattle cares for the whole territorial traffic,
and it is the only American port having regular steamship
connection with Alaska.
The record of the territory is one to justify the- title of the
“nation’s treasure house,” but the development now going on
will he evidenced next year and succeeding years in increasing
bulk. Only a beginning has been made, and the gross business
of $77,000,000 to $80,000,000 of this year is but an earnest of
what is to follow.—Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
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The people of Fairbanks are justified in insisting that the
Alaskan railroad should be completed' by 1917, by building both
from the coast and from the interior terminals. Tt is a time
honored policy to plav both ends against the middle, even in
transportation.-—Seattle Times.
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