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FRIDAY, MARCH 19, 1920
FISH HATCHERIES AND PROTEC
TION
For every $4,000 taken out of the
Alaska fisheries, congress has seen
fit for a number of years to give back
one dollar; that is, it has believed it
was doing that. Alaskans generally
will not burst with generosity because
of this magnanimity of congress,
which, while the sum was entirely in
adequate, would not have been awful
were it not for the fact that 80 cents
of every one of these dollars was
taken to build a bone factory at Pribi
lof islands, and 6 cents for the trans
fer of Alaska fish to the coast of
Maine for the benefit of the Eastern
coast industry.
So the government, on this $50,000,
000 in fish which is taken out annually, i
actually gives back to Alaska approxi
mately $25,000 for the propagation and
preservation of its greatest present
day industry. No more is given, de
spite the fact that tens and hundreds
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of thousands are collected in taxes, j
Under the fisheries bill prepared by j
the Alaska fisheries commission pro
vision is made that three-fifths of all
revenue collected outside incorporated
towns from the fisheries shall go into
the territorial treasury, into a “fisher
ies fund” for the preservation and
propagation of food fish. This annual
ineome, without any assistance from
congress, will be more, and will make
it possible to do more for the benefit
of the industry, than was ever done
before.
ii wm mean uiai every salmon
stream in Alaska can be cleared out,
that men doing the work can be paid
a. proper wage, and not a miserable
stipend such as now offered by the
bureau of fisheries for grown men. It
will mean that hatcheries can be built I
and streams can be well policed to see
that the laws regarding them are well
enforced.
This feature of the bill is attractive
in that it is putting back into the:
fisheries money that is taken from it,!
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and is put back in such a wav that j
it will bear interest for this and future j
generations.
As for the hatcheries, under the new
bill the fish commission, which is to
have its headquarters in Alaska, will
be authorized to build fish hatcheries
and will be provided with the neces
sary funds for the work.
This question of hatcheries is a moot
question, with many men engaged in
the fishing business of the opinion that
it is the salvation of the fishevies.
Others are of equally strong opinion
that they are worthless. It is a fact,
however, that the hatcheries in some
localities, particularly along the Co
lumbia river, have shown such re
sults as to warrant Alaskans in giv
ing them a good trial, even at con
siderable expense. Under the present i
hatcheries law, which has been oper
ative for many years, no provision is
made to provide hatcheries of any con
sequence, and these sections of the
proposed bill are but further reasons
why the taxpayers of Alaska, the peo
ple engaged in business and in the
fisheries, should urge congress to give
it serious consideration.
There have been so many fisheries
hills introduced and none of them act
ed upon that the public begins to pay
little attention to them when they are
presented, and in the meantime the
ftsh dwindle. Attention must he given
and the demand must be made, and
from Alaska, that some action be
taken to protect and foster the fishing
industry in the waters of the North
Pacific.
The senate passed the sympathy
resolution two days late, as Wednes
day was St. Patrick’s day.
WHY TARRY, LITTLE SISTER?
Is Canada going to become part of
the United States some day?
Chances are that she will not. But
chances also favor a growing inti
macy between the two nations which
might in the end, under certain con
ditions, result in union. The Dom
inion’s one-ness with the British em
pire will grow less and less as time
goes on and she gets big enough to
have stronger opinions of her own
about her own problems. Whether
the bonds that grow up at the same
time drawing her toward the United
States will prove stronger than the
natural instinct for independence is
a question.
The principal agency that is bring
ing together the Dominion and the
United States is the interchange of
population. We are constantly draw
ing her people from Canada and con
stantly sending ours to reside there.
Eventually by this circular move
ment all the Canadians will have
grown to know us very well.
Eastern Canada, until the war, al
ways sent us, a very large number of
her young men. These came to the
“States” because of the greater bus
iness opportunity here. On the other
hand, western Canada has been stead
ily drawing an army of our young
men to take up her wheat lands. In
Alberta and Saskatchewan today the
population is so American that a
stranger could not tell whether he
was north or south of the line.
Canadian official figures show that
over fifty per cent of the army of set
tlers who came to Canada in 1919
were from the United States. It is
expected that in 1920 there will be
a very large migration northward
of young farmers from the American
middle west. This is due to the rise
in the value of farm lands here. Iowa
farms have advanced on the average
$100 an acre. Canadian lands can, on
the other hand, still be obtained at
from $35 to $60 per acre. The Amer
ican farmers are selling out at what
thousands of them realize to be the
peak of the land boom and are going
to Canada to invest in the cheap acres i
there. Many of them will sell out
eventually and return to their old
homes, but others will stick and these
should form an influential element
working constantly for a union be
tween the two governments. Their
children will carry on the mission
ary work unto the third and fourth
generations.
Large as the migration of Amer
icans to Canada was last year, how
ever, it did not keep up with the
movement into the United States
from Canada. The Dominion took
from us 44.000 men but sent us 60,
000. Of this latter number, how
ever, 22,000 claimed a former Amer
ican citizenship. The Canadians
who come into the south to reside,
whether they remain and become
citizens, or whether they return to
the north eventually, must always
create a strong tie between the two
peoples.
Another agency that is arguing for
a union between the two countries
is the Canadian war debt. The Dom
inion mUst now have an annual gov
ernmental income of $307,000,000,
which is three times the pre-war
amount. The Canadians are wonder
ing how they are going to manage
it. The obligation would be but a
trifle if it were assumed by the
United States and the Canadian pub
lic relieved from a very heavy bur
den by shifting it to our broad
shoulders.
The debt in it:? constitutes a
new tie to bind the two peoples. A
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large part of the Canadian war loan
and special financing was taken by
American banking institutions.
Another tie that binds is trade.
We are Canada’s best customer and
she is almost the best we have. The
Canadian grain crop in normal times
largely comes to the United States.
We take most of their wood pulp.
So also their lumber and their cat
tle. The salmon and other fish catch
of the Dominion crossed the border
and all her sliver comes to us. In
return Canada gets her farm imple
ments and automobiles and a large
part of her other manufactured arti
cles from here. She is at present
suffering under a heavy discount in
her currency. This depreciation costs
her a pretty penny which would be
saved if she used our money and
were a part of us.
NOTICE
The registration book of the town
of Cordova will be open at my office,
in the Ostrander building, Second
street, Cordova, every day from 9 a. m.
The registration book will be closed
at 4 o’clock p. m. Saturday, March
27, 1920. K. G. ROBINSON,
Registrar.
Job printing at Daily Times office.
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