MOUNT McKINLEY—ELEVATION 20,600 FEET
SALMON OUTPUT
OF TERRITORY
BEEN COMPILED
SEATTLE TIMES COMPILES IN
TERESTING DATA RELATIVE
TO ALASKA PACKERS
THOUSANDS ARE EMPLOYED
Gives Records of World's Salmon
Pack In Connection with that
of tjhe Territory.
Value of the canned salmon pack of
approximately $80,000,000 in retail and
its quantity -vvas 5,715,000 cases.
And salmon packing is but one
phase of the enormously valuable fish
eries industry of which Seattle is the
center, not only for handling the out
put of canneries and fishermen, but
for equipping them.
Other records for 1924 in the fish
industry show:
Halibut landed in Seattle 7,918,495
pounds, valued at $1,235,000; number
of schooners arriving 850. For 1923,
pounds landed, 8,181,250; value, $1,
194,115; schooners arriving, 896.
Mixed cod landed in Seattle in 1924,
2,824,000 pounds; value $136,500; in
1923, 2,460,000 pounds, value, $151,
471.
Money from the fishing industry is
all new money. To the producers last
year’s salmon pack was worth $40,
000,000. The season ends in the fall.
Last year for the first time a closed
season on halibut fishing went into ef
fect November 15, continuing until
February 16, 1925, in accordance with
an act of Congress and a treaty -with
Canada.
6000 Men In Industry.
Nearly 6000 men are given employ
ment in the North Pacific canned sal
“The Proof of the Pudding is
In the Eating Thereof.”
Before You Buy a Mill You owe it to Yourself
to Investigate
THE ELLIS BALL CHILI MILL
Read what others think of it
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W. A. ROBERTS,
510 Burke Building, Seattle, Wash.,
“I have been using the ELLIS ‘Independence’ Mill for the past two
months and find it all that could be desired in a wet grind mill. I
have no hesitancy in recommending it.”
A. W. STRAIN,
Martinez, California.
“After two years’ investigation of the different makes and types
of ore mills, we decided on the ELLIS.
“We are operating an ELLIS MILL forty miles from Prescott, Ari
zona. and a fifteen-stamp mill is standing idle in the same building
the ELLIS MILL is operating in.
“A 45-h. p. gas engine was used to operate the stamps. We are
now using a 10-h. p. gas engine to operate the ELLIS, which turns
out the same tonnage as the stamps.
“Where the fuel is transported forty miles into the mountains,
the difference between the ELLIS MILL and most mills on the mar
ket, is the difference between profit and loss.
“Our ELLIS MILL is already aiding in opening of a huge ore
body. Without this mill it would be necessary to install very expen
sive machinery to operate at a profit.
“Many old-time mining men who have watched the results ob
tained with our ELLIS MILL are now strongly in favor of this type.”
JOHN KINCAID.
Sawyer’s Bar, Siskiyou Co., Calif.
“I have used one small ELLIS MILL here for more than two
years, and have installed and started three other small ELLib MILLS
and these have all been satisfactory.
“I am now installing one of their C-l mills on a low grade prop
erty, which I could not make pay with any other form of mill. My
operation and the use of these others has convinced me that I should
be able to run the largest tonnage to the best advantage with this
mill with infinitely less power, expense and loss of time than any
other mill made as I have used all the regular mills in, my own work.
“I am mining and milling wholly on my own individual account
and am paying the bills, and that I continue to use and buy these mills
is the best evidence of my faith.”
K. H. HAKANSEN,
47th Avenue, San Francisco. *
“Between 1907 and 1922 I have operated five different kinds of
gravity mills. In 1922 I bought an ELLIS MILL and found the ELLIS
to'be several hundred per cent better than the rest. It is less in price,
less in upkeep and uses less horsepower per ton in grinding.
“I cannot see where any mine owner, big or small, could make
any mistake in purchasing an ELLIS BALL MILL.”
M. G. SHILL,
IVloss. Arizona
“i have been operating an Ellis Ball Mill for the past few months
and am well satisfied with it in every way. The mill is easy to op
erate, simple in make-up, takes very little power to run it and certain
ly grinds out the ore, and that is what is needed.
“The rock I am grinding will give any mill the severest test as it
is both hard and tough.”
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THE ELLIS CHILI-BALL MILL
No shafts, no gear, no friction. Will crush with 1 h.p. as much as
10 h.p. will crush with stamps. 5-ton mill 1-2 horse power $225; 10
ton mill $475; 35-ton mill $950. Mills up to 500 tons per day.
NILS HAGEN, Agent,
SEWARD, ALASKA
mon industry whose fleet totals about
125 vessels. The halibut fleet totals
210 vessels, valued at $2,000,000 and
gives employment to 1500 men. A
majority of all this army of employ
es are paid off here or return to Se
attle after being paid off in the
North and spend the bulk of their
earnings in this city.
The most extensive cod banks in
the world are found on the Alaskan
coast. More than 50 fertilizer and oil
plants are operated on the Pacific
coast producing vast quantities of fish
meal, fertilizer, herring and sardine
oils and other fish oils. New markets
for sablefish or black cod and fish
paste and fish balls are features of
recent development in the industry.
The United States commissioner of
fisheries reported the Alaska herring
industry in 1923 w'orth $1,602,571. The
U. S. collector of cystoms at Juneau
reports the 1924 production as 19,
369,093 pounds, valued at $1,715,015.
Alaska shrimp output, 521,272 lbs.,
valued at $247,172.
Last year seven whaling stations
in Alaska caught 1102 whales produc
ing 1,934,450 gallons of whale and
sperm oil, 2428 tons of fertilzer, 826
tons of whalebone meal and 5 tons
of baleen.
Table Shows the Value
of All Alaska Products
Value of Alaska products for 1924
and for the period from purchase of
the territory to 1924 are:
1924 1867 to 1925
Minerals .$19,066,585 $ 537.286.413
Fish products .... 39,141,135 692,751,251
Furs . 2,280,205 102,111,566
Timber . 211,339 579,802
Miscls. 618,106 3,740,813
Total .$61,317,370 $1,236,469,345
Alaska Canneries Good As
Buyers Seattle Footstuffs
Value of the salmon canneries of
Alaska to Seattle is shown by the
following incomplete list of footstuffs
exported annually to them from Se
attle:
Eggs, 600,000 dozen; bacon, 780,
000 pounds; butter, 850,000 pounds;
ham, 820,000 pounds; cheese, 65,000
pounds; flour, 30,000 barrels; canned
milk, 1,400,000 pounds; sugar, 600,000
pounds; potatoes, 2,000,000 pounds;
lard, 50,000 pounds.
Sewiard, the keyhole to Southwest
ern and Interior Alaska.
It..- . .—
Alaska Whaling Industry Described In
Detail By School Teacher at Akutan;
Largest Station In the World There
DISSECTING OF MONSTER OF THE DEEP, AN ART
Fifteen Men In Crew Carve Up Whales—Meat Used In
Making Various Commercial Products—Gunners
Dislike Killing Female of the Specie.
Ed. Note: For three years Katherine G. Kane, Seward Gateway
Correspondent, has been teaching at the Bureau of Education’s
school to the Far Westward, at Akutan, where the largest whal
ing station in the world has been established for the past number
of years. Akutan is located on a small island on almost the ex
treme Alaska tip of the Aleutian chain of islands. On one side of
the island the seas of the North Pacific break unceasingly, while
on the opposite side of the island, the Bering sea lashes its deso
late shores.
(By Special Gateway Correspondent)
KATHERINE G. KANE.
From a limited research for infor
mation regarding the life and habits
of the whale, we find no authentic
knowledge on this subject. Science
does not give us the origin or age of
this leviathan of the deep; neither
do we know to a certainty the where
abouts of its habitation.
If we turn to primitive history of
the whales we find a similarity to
many marine mammals such as the
sea-otter and some species of seals,
but no corresponding lines exist to
show any relationship to these.
In the whaling area of the North
Pacific ocean there are five distinct
specie of the whale family, of which
the Blue Whale or Sulphur bottom is
the largest. This gigantic animal at
tains a length of 100 feet, and about
30 feet high, and weighs approximate
ly 100 tons, or one ton to the foot.
Nature has provided him with a great
caudal fin, and a pair of flukes or
flippers of about twenty-five feet in
length, these with the dorsal fin and
a powerful tail to act as a steering
guide, enables him to swim at a ter
rific speed.
The Sperm, next in size with its
immense head and mouth that could
comfortably house a small family, is
valuable for the sperm oil, and one
full size sperm whale will produce
200 drums of 110 gallon each, of oil of
which there are three grades. The
purest oil is found in tanks or huge
cells formed in the head. The sec
ond grade is taken from the pure
white layer of fat that lies just under
' the skin and the third grade is taken
from the vats where the flesh and
bones are reduced to bone and meat
meal. The flesh of the sperm is not
edible as is the blue whale as his diet
is composed of schools of the octopus,
that requires the need of teeth to
hold his prey, more than for mastica
tion. The number of teeth vary, but
often a many as two hundred and
forty teeth are found on the lower
part, each tooth weighing from one,
two and one-half pounds. This
whale decomposes rapidly and must
be taken to the station as soon as
possible after being harpooned.
The Right whale comes next in size
and importance from which whale
bone is obtained.
The whale bone is not bone, but a
gelataneous substance or gristle found
in the mouth of every whale but es
pecially large in the Blue and Right
whale. It hangs from the top of the
mouth in huge sheets often fifteen
feet long, with brush or broom-like
ends, and these act as a screen to
strain the food, as most whales live
on fish, great quantities of these are
taken at one time into their mouths
together with barrels of water. The
fish are entangles in the meshes of
this whalebone. The water is forced
out of its mouth without allowing the
fish to escape and then they are swal
lowed at leisure. An idea of the size
of a whale’s mouth, its tongue alone
would fill a room 20x15x10 and yields
from fifteen to twenty barrels of oil
besides many hundreds of pounds of
fertilizer. The long prongs of this
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Dentist
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