SEWARD DAILY GATEWAY
OF SEWARD, ALASKA
Established, August 19, 1904
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WANT FISH HOWr
INVENTED HOLD
HALIBUT BAIT
GENIUS HAS OPPORTUNITY TO
DEVISE TACKLE FOILING
THE COD.
Fortune awaits the man who shall
invent a selective fish ho-ok. Alaska
demands such a device. The halibut
industry is marking time awaiting
its coming. So says Andy Grosvold,
merchant, ship chandler, fox rancher,
dealer in fisherman’s supplies, post
master, notary public and leading
citizen of Sand Point.
Tne selective fish hook is not Mr.
Grcsvold’s idea. He merely presents
a problem for solution. Radio sets
have been made selective, it is ar
gued. Should American inventive
genius be balked by the need of sim
ilar improvement in fish hooks?
Perish the thought!
Ralph Grosvold, son of Andrew,
is still in Seattle, where he is taking
a course in radio mechanics. Upon
his return to his westward home,
next March, he will personally oper
ate the wireless station which is
owned by his father, who is perhaps
better known thruout this region
of the Territory as “King of the
Shumigan Island fox farmers.”
Mrs. Ralph Grosvold passed thru
Seward a few weeks ago returning
home on the last trip westward of
the steamer Starr.
Sand Point is on Unga Island, way
out to the wstward, so far west that
it is almost to the point where the
East begins. Close to the tip of the
Alaska Peninsula and in sight of
the Aleutian Islands that all but
link Alaska with Siberia. And near
Sand Point are the new halibut banks
that are expected to put the Ameri
can halibut fishing industry on its
feet again—or should one say sea
legs—and send largely increased car
goes of that kingly fish to Seward
and Seattle.
There is just one obstacle to the
rapid development of the new hali
but fisheries, and that is that the
codfish are so exceedingly numerous
that they constitute a nuisance. Good
halibut banks have /been discovered
around the Shumagin and Sannak
i Islands and that in the near future
they are likely to bring quite a fleet
of halibut vessels to this part of
Alaska.
Last year the halibut ship Scan
dia and several other vessels en
gaged in the same /business called
at Sand Point and told about the
great quantities of halibut that were
to be had, ad where it is claimed
that the codfish were so plentiful
that before their gear got half way
to the bottom, there would /be a cod
i uou nuua. wu uciui e it
wduld be possible to give the hali
but a chance to bite, the codfish
would have to /be cleared out.
There is the problem for the inven
tor. To invent a fish hook that will
reject the hungry codfish and tempt
the lordly halibut.
Mr. Grosvold advocates the estiba
lishment of a cold storage plant at
Sand Point and is urging the Alas
ka committee of the Chamber of
Commerce to see what it can do to
interest entreprising capital in the
project. If this were done, many
halibut shipments that are now going
to Prince Rupert, B. C., would be
diverted to American ports.
Sand Point is one of tile best har
bors in this part of Alaska, and is
near the course of all vessels ply
ing between Seattle and the Kusko
kwim River, Bristol Bay, Nome, Arc
tic Sea ports and Siberia.
LADDIE KYLE IN FAIRBANKS
Miss Laddie Kyle, magazine writer
and artist, who wrote the Jesse Lee
Home article for the Seward Pros
perity Edition of The Gateway, is
now in Fairbanks.
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RABBI WISE AROUSES STORM
IN JUDAISM
For years Rabbi Stephen S. Wise,
of New York City, has stood out
as a mighty man of Israel. He has
been ibigger than his creed and hon
ored by Jew and Gentile alike. He
now calls upon the Hebrews to re
alize that Jesus of Nazareth was a
great reality and that His code of
ethics is unparalleled in the writ
ing of history. Rabbi Wise rings
out the words “Jesus was no Myth.”
Registered Mail Is
Is Stolen Between
Kodiak-Afognak
Chas. Sheldon, Seward postmaster,
received a wire yesterday from Ko
diak, to the effect that a mail sack,
on board a small gas boat plying
between Kodiak and Afognak, had
been slit open and registered mail
stolen. No particulars, other than
the abo.ve, were wired to him.
MAC ELECTED CAPTAIN
McLaughlin, demon slugger of the
Seward Baseball League, wTas selected
as captain of the Pirates at a brief
meeting last evening held in one of
the ante rooms of the S. A. Club. He
received the unanimous endorsement
of the seven members of the team.
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Ahead!
Alaskan progress of the past forecasts the future greatness of
the Northfland, and justifies all Alaskans in holding to their firm faith
in the Territory’s possibilities and worth. By aiming high and
working together—actively and steadily—those having to do with
Alaskan progress can accomplish much. Looking ahead to still
greater things, and planning and working accordingly, is the one
way that a high purpose can be realized.
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takingly striding towards a great goal—the greater development of
Alaska; and, that the future is bright and promising is attested by
the steady and consistent upward trend of past and present activi
ties. The Alaska Railroad is “Looking Ahead.”
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