The Alaska Cannery
Investment
year 1922 is the most recent season for which authentic figures are
/II available on the investment represented in Alaska’s fisheries industry. Since
that date the figures have been materially augmented.
In 1922 it was conservatively estimated that the investment in plants for salmon
canning was $15,000,000, that the working capital invested in the season’s pack
amounted to $15,000,000 and that $10,000,000 was expended in wages.
There were 369 power boats of over 5 tons, 39 sailing vessels representing over* af
million and a half dollars invested, 3 barges, 2752 row and small sail boats, 674
lighters and scows and 106 pile drivers and pullers actively engaged in fishing,
transporting supplies, constructing traps and docks and otherwise serving the industry.
The total investment in vessels and fishing apparatus, used exclusively in the
industry is estimated at $10,000,000.
Three hundred sixty four thousand fathoms, or 2,184,000 feet of gill nets and
69,000 fathoms, or 414,000 feet of purse and beach seines were employed in the
season’s operations. The nets would stretch from Seward the full length of the
Alaska Railroad to Fairbanks and 27 miles beyond.
The salmon in Alaska’s waters are valueless without this capital. The gold in her
hills, the forests on their slopes, all the gigantic resources of an empire of wealth'
are worthless without the capital which makes them available to man. The oil pool
lying 5000 feet under the ground will build no town till capital arrives. The fish
crowding in teeming millions up Alaska’s waterways to the spawning grounds are
valueless, except as a source of local food supply, without the millions of dollars
required to transform them into money.
The interests of Alaskans and Cannerymen are identical. Without the investment,
the fish are valueless—without the fish the investment becomes a loss.
Tht common problem is to safeguard both--to insure the future fish
supply and to encourage capital to remain in a field hazardous at best.
The Canning Industry of Alaska
TUXEDO IS TABOO;
SOUP-AND-FISH IS
RULING IN LONDON
LONDON, Jan. 8.—The high society
career of the Tuxedo or dinner packet
is over. London men in increasing
numbers are reverting to their cus
tums of wearing only white ties and
tailed coats in theaters and restau
rants. The “tux" is an outcast ex
cept at private dinners and in men’s
clubs.
To be in style at any formal even
ing function it is absolutely neces
sary for one to appear in a “soup
and-fish.” The 1925 dress clothes
differ in several respects from those
of other years. The round tail has
given way to a very pointed one.
Also, the coat lapels are broader and
break higher. Other changes in
clude broader shoulder and narrower
sleeves.
The white evening vest is being
made in a number of new shapes,
c A fight for supremacy is being
waged between a “V” and a “U”
type, the vogue at the moment be
ing a single-brested vest with a
“U”-opeuing, a somewhat narrow
w’aist-line, and short points set rath
er close together.
For wear with the familiar single
breasted dinner jacket a double
breasted vest having two rows of
two buttons each is becoming pop
ular.
Forty years ago there were but
two schools in this country for pros
pective teachers of physical training.
Today there are more than a dozen
special schools of this kind and
fifty-five colleges and universities
are giving courses leading to a de
gree in this subject, according to
the United States bureau of educa
tion.
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J “Babe,” a Boston greyhound, is
j the world’s champion jumping dog
| and can clear a height of 15 feet.
The animal is valued at $5,000.
Eaton, Crane, Pike Stationery at
the Alaska Shop. tf
All the states, with the exception
of Arkansas and New Mexico, have
state libraries of some sort.
A Plymouth Rock hen in Canton,
111., left her nest of eggs to mother
five kitten.
STEAMSHIP ADMIRAL WATSON
Sails from
Seattle
Jan. 7th
Feb. 4th
Arrives
Seward
Jan. 15th
Feb. 13th
South from
Seward
Jan. 18th
Feb. 15th
Calling at all regular Southeastern and South
western Alaska ports in eluding Seldovia and
Kodiak.
WAYNE BLUE, Agent
Telephone Main 81 Res.. Madison 40
Pacific Coastwise Service
^ADMIRAL LINE
IH.P. ALEXANDER.
STEAMSHIP STARR
S. S. STARR SAILS JANUARY FOURTH
San Juan Fishing and Packing Co.
6. C. HENDERSON. Agent
PHONE MAD180N 13*. 8EWARD, ALASKA
IT’S TOUCH TO BE
A LADIES’ BARBER
PARIS, Jan. 8.—At last the women
of France are demanding equal rights.
It isn’t the vote they want, for they
still figure they can handle the vote
of the men, but they object most vio
lently to being charged double the
price for a haircut.
“It is all right the first time to be
charged six francs,” is the women’s
point of view, “because we realize
there is a lot of work to do. But
we need our hair cu#t every fortnight
at least, just like the men, so why
do we have to only pay three francs?”
The hairdressers tell them why
very bluntly. It is because they are
women and don’t know how to be
haVe in barber shops as men do.
“A woman’s haircut needs the pa
tience of an angel,” said a boulevard
hairdresser. A man sits in a chair
and reads a magazine or takes a
snooze and lets the barber do the
worrying. When the job is done he
takes a quick look and says, “Oh,
that’s all right,’ and he goes back
to his office and doesn’t think about
his hair again for a fortnight.
“But a woman comes with confus
ing instructions, demands a mirror
every few seconds, tries to direct
the movement of the comb and scis
sors, and continually complains. All
that nonsense makes a woman’s hair
cut worth twice the price of a man’s.”
W. I. Knepper recently killed a
hog weighing 1,116 pounds on his
farm near Hagertown, Md.
The Alaska Railroad
TRAIN8 LEAVE SEWARD
8 A. M.
Monday and Thursday
TRAINS ARRIVE
8 P. M.
Wednesday and Saturday
0
MUST NOT DROP BOOTTLES
FROM PLANES IN BRITAIN
LONDON, Jan. 9.—The air picnick
er of the future will have to be care
ful he does not drop his empty bot
tles and other refuse.
According to recent regulations
laid down by the British Air Rules
Committee, a pilot or any other per
son guilty of throwing bottles or ma
terials of any kind over the side of
an airplane to the danger of the pub
lic beneath will be liable to six months
in the penitentiary and a $1000 fine.
CANNERY SITE TURNED BACK
TO PUBLIC DOMAIN BY ORDER
KETCHIKAN, Jan. 9—According to
an announcement by the forest serv
ice, the area occupied by the Hoonah
Packing Company at Gambier Bay,
has been eliminated from the Tongass
National Forest and restored to the
public domain. The action has been,
sought by the company for several •
years, as the first step in obtaining
title.
The government’s case against news
papers charged with illegally publish
ing tax returns has apparently col
lapsed. Many prominent tax dodgers
were shown up in the brief time the
public was allowed access to the
records. Whatever may be said of *
our courts they have usually been lib
eral in interpreting the rights of the
public.
Gas Launch
KENAI
FISHING AND HUNTING
PARTIES CARRIED DOWN
LAKE KENAI FOR THE
DAY OR TRIP. TELE
PHONE ARRANGEMENTS
TO MILE TWENTY
Louis Bell, owner
ALASKA
STEAMSHIP CO.
SOUTHWESTERN ALASKA
ROUTE SCHEDULE
Vessel—
Yukon _
Alameda_
Alaska_
Yukon _
Alameda .
Alaska .
Scheduled
Lv. Seattle
—January 3
—January 10
—January 17
—January 24
.January 31
.February 7
Scheduled
Arr. Seward
January 10
January 17
January 24
January 81
February 7
February 14
Scheduled
Sail fm Seward
January 10
January 17
January 24
January 31
February 7
February 14
Steamers in the above schedule will make all regular ports of call
in Southeastern and Southwestern Alaska.
The steamship Redondo will discontinue operating to the west
ward until further notice, as soon as she completes her present trip.
Freighter Nabesna is scheduled to sail from Seattle, December 30th
bend orders by wire.
J. H. FLICKINGER, Agent
PHONE MAIN 125 SEWARD, ALASKA
AN EMPIRE BUILDER
As all railroads in years gone by have been the greatest
contributing factors in development of the regions through
which they passed, so also is THE ALASKA RAILROAD each
day accomplishing much towards the building of an empire.
In place of the old, tremendously expensive and inconve
nient methods of transporting supplies of whatever character
over rough trails from the coast, there is now a modern rail
road that carries supplies and equipment in greater quantities
to and from the Interior, and along the way, in much less
time and at far less expense than was formerly required.
This great steel highway offering regular twice weekly
freight and passenger service between Seward, Anchorage
and Fairbanks; and tri-weekly mixed service over the
Chickaloon and Chatanika branches, is at your service. For
further information write
THE ALASKA RAILROAD
Mckinley park route
ANCHORAGE ALASKA
Special week-eend tickets (one and one-third actual fare) on
sale at all ticket offices