THE NOME NUGGET
GEO S. MAYNARD. Editor
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Present Salmon Pack
Compared with 1889
Recognition of the values of
the Alaska Salmon runs and the
necessity for adequate protec
tion of this resource is as old
as the Salmon Industry its'-’f,
Peter Dybwad, of the Uganik
Fisheries recently declared. Mr.
Dybwad has in his possession a
report of the Commissioner of
Fish and Fisheries for the fiscal
year 1888, reporting on the fish
ing season eleven years after the
establishment of the first salmon
cannery in Alaska.
Pointing out .the importance
of the west coast in contributing
to the -world’s food supply, the
Teport shows a compilation of the
salmon pack of 1889 for Alaska,
British Columbia, Washington,
Oregon and California. In this
coastal area, 122 caoeries packed
1,701,460 cases of salmon valued
at $9,065,689. Alaska’s 675,000
cases were packed in 36 canner
ies, and had a market value of
$3,375,000. An interesting point
in this compilation is that al
though Alaska boasted only one
more cannery than the state of
Oregon, her pack was more than
double that of Oregon.
‘The salmon-canning industry
of Alaska has become more im
portant than that of any other1
region,” the report reads. ‘The
increase in growth during the
past few years has been phen
omenal, especially in 1889 when
the pack of 675,000 cases rep
resented an increase of 377,000
cases over the previous year.
How long the supply of salmon
can keep up under this enormous
drain cannot be predicted, but it
would seem that Alaska is to be
the great salmon region of the
future.”
While fishery exper’s were |
worrying about the “phenomen
al” pack of 675,000 cases in
1889 Dybwad points out that it
is interesting to note that pack
forfy nine years later was ap
proximately ten times that figure
but the volume has occasioned no
great worry as far as depleting
the resource is concerned. “Care
fully worked out conservation
measures have resulted in stabil
izing the pork at a high product
ive point,” Dybwad explains.
The report describes in some
detail .the various fishing meth
ods in use at that time. On the
Sacramento, then an important
salmon river, gill netting was the
only type used, and fishing fol
lowed informal “laws” establish
ed by the fishermen. Nets ranged
in length from 150 to 300 fathoms
and in depth from 4 to 5 fath
oms, or 40 to 45 meshes of ap
proximately 8 inches.
Gill nets were then as now
the most popular type on the Col
umbia River, also. In 1887, 1,600
gill nets were employed on the
lower Columbia, which was des
cribed as the greatest river sal
mon fishery in the world.
Fish wheels were also in gen
eral use on the Columbia, and
the report describes an ingenious
device used by the fish wheel
men to transport their catch to
the canneries, from 2 to 5 miles
down the river. The book says,!
‘The salmon are tied together!
in bunches and these are attach!
ed to casks and sent down stream
Each cannery has its private col s
ors for casks. A sharp lookout is
kept for these acquatic trans
ports, and, when one is seen and
its color made out, a tug or steam
launch starts out to pick it up
and bring the fish to the can
nery. As many as 1,500 pounds
of fish have been floated down
at one time in this way.”
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PASTORAL SYMPHONY in the barnyard occupies
I)r. Artur Rodzinski, conductor of the Cleveland symphony who
usually finds escape from melodic moods by going to his farm in
Stoekbridge, Mass. Musically important enough to have substi
tuted for Arturo Toscanini, Dr. Rodzinski claims that goats are
excellent pets, without any inclination to eat tin cans.
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i NEW MODEL SNARE
LOCK IS INVENTED
I There is an oft-told story a'bout
! the man who invented a better
mousetrap, and consequently had
a path beaten to his door by
seekers after better mousetraps.
Like that famed fellow, it
seems that Rolland Osborne of
Matanuska will have a snowshoe
1 trail well broken to his cabin
door.
Mr. Osborne has designed and
is manufacturing a better snare
j lock and snare .for catching and
holding predatory animals.
Frank Glaser, predatory ani
mal control expert for the bio
logical survey, has reports on
the efficiency of the new snare
lcck. and he has a model of the
kind. Experienced and well in-'
forfed in the business of snaring
wolves and coyotes, Mr. Glaser
frankly is pleased, and the snare
lcck is so simple he can’t see why
somebody didn’t think of it soon
er. ,
The new model snare-lcck con
sists principally of a bent wash
er with two holes bored in it,
and a home-made snare wire.
The total cost, Mr. Osborne
stated in a letter to Mr. Glaser,
'is only 17 cents!
Home-made, economical, and a
sure lock on snared wolves and
coyotes, this simple gadget is a
dandy.
Mr. Glaser is going down to1
Matanuska to check up further'
on results achieved with this
type of loss-preventing snare
lock, and incidentally he may
suggest to Mr. Osborne that he
patent the new design.
Mr. Glaser is very much in
favor of any thing that will pre
vent snared predators from the
death loop. Factory-made snare
locks are widely bought and used
by trappers, but none is 100 per
cenl perfect, and none is ideal
for Alaska conditions. Mr. Gla
ser hopes that the new snare
lock will be “The” one.
Formerly at U. of A.
The inventor is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. Charles Osborne of.
Matanuska. He is 26 years old,
and a former student of the An
chorage and Matanuska schools,
and of the University of Alaska.
After leaving the campu§ in
the winter of 1934-35, he became
a professional trapper, married
and settled down at Matanuska.
His traplines are in the Upper
Knik valley.
He received his first instruction
in coyote trapping from Mr.
Glaser last year, became serious
ly interested in the predator
problem, and is reported ;o be
accumulating a sizeable number
of the predator’s pelts.
Mr. G’aser left Fairbanks on
the freight train. After seeing
Mr. Osborne he will confer with
other trappers on better methods
of catching coyotes and wo.ves
help them with information on
sets, types of traps and snares,
'THE LAUGH IS ON YOU,* Republicans in Yakima,
Wash., are telling tlielr Democratic friends, pointing to above two
signs whose coincidental nearness has an amusing angle in view
of the political arguments about “rubber stamp" congresses and
the “anti-rubber stamp” campaigns of various candidates. The
stamp-maker’s sign had been hanging there for some time
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HE LIKES PEOPLE and that, In the opinion of the na
tion's youngest congressman, Lindley Beckworth (above), 25, is
one good reason why he'll enjoy his work as a legislator in Wash
ington. The representative-elect is from Gilmore in Texas—ho;n»
state of another legislator who’s a veteran in the nation’s capitah
Above, Mr. Beckworth settles in a borrowed office.
scents and baits. During the Fur' “Have you seen the grocer’s
Rendezvous, he will continue b 11, dear/ asked the bank tell
ihis type of work in Anchorage er.
among the trappers who come in “I sent it iback to h m, darling,
with pelts. | marked ‘insufficient funds'.” ,
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