CARLISLE CO.
OPERATING ON
YUKON RIVER
On board a launch Nels Hawklnson
field superintendent for the Carlisle
Packing Company, one of Alaska’s
biggest fish canners, will leave Fair
banks this morning for the lowei
summer's operations. He is optimistic
regarding the outlook for the season’s
catch, but stated that much of the
work would be more or less an experi
ment conducted largely upon the ob
serrations of last season.
The company’s plant on the Yukoi
will be somewhat enlarged this yeai
and the scope of operations extendec
under permission from the fisheries
bureau. It is expected that a tota
of from 250 to 300 men will be em
ployed during the season. The force
of fishermen, who are being broughi
from the outside, will be increases:
from five which was last year’s ex
perienced crew to 50 men, all of whon
are old hands at the game. The can
nery crew being brought in from ths
outside has been increased from 8 tc
55 experienced men.
Improved Gear
The plant will be equipped with bet
ter gear this season than was avail
able in last year’s operations whei
the nets were not of the proper deptl
nor of the right mesh. These defects
have been remdied. A considerabls
number of skiffs for river fishing arc
being shipped in over Lake Labargs
and are on the Seattle 3. A large purss
seine boat will also be used in the op
erations this year. This is a boat hav
ing a net which is used to inclose th(
fish completely, having a capacity
large enough so that one good hau
will supply sufficient fish to keep th<
cannery busy for a whole day. An ex
perienced crew of men is beinf
brought in to handle this boat.
Fish Outside of Mouth
In addition to the plant establishe(
!at Andreafsky last spring, a floatinf
plant will, be used in the south moutl
of the Yukon this season. Six powe:
boats are being shipped in by the waj
of St. Michael to be used in connectioi
with this plant. They will be used en
tirely outside the river mouth when
the water is too rough for smallei
craft, TMa w«*, Mr. Hawkinsum-aU
ted, will be largely an .experiment
and he is unable to state whether 01
not any results will be obtained be
yond the reaches of the river proper
Wireless Plant
A wireless plant is being shipped ii
and will be established on the lowe
Yukon which will put it in communl
cation at all times. The plant super
intendent, Mr. Gilbert, formerly i
member of the United States aviatioi
corps, is an operator and is alsi
bringing in another operator. Th<
company will establish its usual com
pany store and commissary and wil
be complete in every respect.
Coast Season On
The coast canning season is alread;
open, said Mr. Hawkinson. The Cor
dove plant of the Carlisle people can
ned 400 cases of salmon on May 17
He also said that his people had beei
the first company'to put Alaska pack
ed fish on the market for the pas
three years. The Cordova plant
which was built under Mr. Hawkin
son’s directions and operated by hin
for sometime, is one of the larges
on the coast. It has a capacity o
100,000 cases per annum, which limi
was reached last season and it is ex
pected that this amount will be can
ned this year.
This plant is a five line plant. Th<
Andreafsky plant is a three line om
and it is expected that between 40
000 and 50,000 cases will be put ui
on the lower Yukon this season. CanE
knocked-down and ready to be set u]
at the cannery, for this number hav<
been shipped in from Seattle. Th<
foreman for the Andreafsky plant i
one who has been working In the Coi
dova plant for several years and is ai
experienced and competent canner;
man.
Local Men Going
In addition to Mr. Hawkinson i
number of men from Fairbanks wil
go to the cannery for the season'
work. Among those going will b
Frank Kearns, whose launch Is bein,
taken, Nels Larson, Adolph Weinei
Jack Bailey, Captain George Flnge
and Ike Terronlemi.
George Mutchler is also going dow;
the river en route to Iditarod wher
he will operate this season. Dr. R. I
Myers is supposed to Join the launch
at Nenana and go down river as fa
as Tanana.—Fairbanks Citizen.
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SHORT STORIES
ABOUTALASKA
OCCURRENCES
Fish and Fur Warden Cal Town
send is preparing for a cruise up and
down the Yukon and Tanana rivers,
and is fixing up his launch Swan to
make his initial trip.
Dry weather is causing innumera
ble forest fires in the interior, the
damage to mine buildings and prop
erty being considerable. The fires are
the worst ever known.
Some of the largest logs ever seen
' in Alaska were recently taken to the
Wrangell mills. They had to be
blasted to fit the saws. They were
cut near Petersburg.
The so-called strike on the lower
Yukon, which caused quite a stam
pede has turned out to be a squib,
as all those returning say nothing
has been found and their friends are
advised not to go.
Mike Jackson, a Sitka native, ac
cidently shot himself last week, at a
logging camp, shattering the left el
bow and forearm. He was taken to
Wrangell where his arm was am
. putated.
A three year lease with an option
to buy was made recently on No. 3
1 Walnut creek, a tributary of Fair
1 banks creek. The parties to the trans
action were John Howie, owner, and
|Fred Daidelich and V. J. Bowald,
ilessees.
Forest fires caused probably by
sparks from the locomotives operat
ing on the railroad south of Nenana
!are reported to be spreading rapidly
'in the region between the Lynn coal
mine at Mile 387 and the end of steel
at mile 365.
The Brevig mess house on the Lit
tle Eldorado was entirely destroyed
lats week by bush fires which are rag
; ing at many points along the Chat
anika flats. The house was unoccu
' pied and boarded up, the owners being
outside.
The Koyukuk district has enjoyed
! an exceptional winter. Hardly any
■ snow fell and but few storms were
witnessed. Those who had occasion to
, use the trail to the Yukon state that
• in some places it was almost bare of
snow.
The Pacific Mild Cure Company
sent a crew to its Hort Conclusion
' station last month and is rapidly get
ting ready for work which will com
mence the latter part of this month.
A gang of coopers have been employ
ed at the waterfall station making up
tierces.
J. A. Cacy, the well known old timer
from the Interior, who went outside
last winter and was reported to have
died writes that it is a mistake, as he
is not dead and can prove it. He is
enjoying good health at the present
time. Cacy’s son is at present con
ducting the Snowshoe roadhouse along
the Tolovana trail.
Some of the more enterprising of
the residents of the Nolan district will
cut native hay for their own use this
summer. Hay sold last winter at $220
a ton at Betties, which when landed
in the upper Koyukuk district made it
impossible for the average teamster
to keep his stock, owing to the exces
sive cost.
Mining men of the Koyukuk are
well pleased with the outlook for the
coming year as pay has been discov
ered in three different localities. The
extent of the values is as yet unascer
tained as the prospecting has not
reached that stage which would di
vulge the extent of the pay. It is be
lieved, however, that the new discov
eries will add materially to the out
put of the camp as the streak lies on
a continuation of some of the former
rich producers.
Advertise in ♦be Daily Times.
dAPT. E. L. WE8T PROMOTED
daptain E. L. West, famous for his
recfcrd of bucking the Bering sea ice
and taking the steamer Corwin into
None ahead of the first of the Nome
fle<t f°r eleven consecutive years, has
revjeived the command of the steel
freighter West Crown, recently com
pleted for the United States Shipping
Bofcrd at the Williamette Iron and
Steel Works at Portland, Oregon. The
W<i*t Crown was to load a cargo of
flopr for the Atlantic coast and on
delivering the ship there the veteran
m4riner intends to return to the Pa
eifl< coast.
Just arrived, a fresh stock of Hot
Sfc«t Batteries at the Northwestern
Hardware Co. 14-tf
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Including large sizes in the
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