DOLLY VARDENS IIP THE LIT
NIK WOULD ENTHUSE ISAAC
WATSONEITES
KODIAK, July 24, (Special to the
Gateway)—With a release of 20,
000,000 young salmon this spring,
the government fish hatchery at
Litnik on Afognak Island creates a
record for the past six years. With
an exceptionally good run on. it
now seems probable that they will
collect between 25 and 30,000,000
eggs this season to hatch for next
year. F. L. Snipes, who has been
in charge at the hatchery, where
he has made a record and has been
promoted to the government bio
logical laboratory in Iowa where he
will soon assume his duties, has
some interesting observations to
make concerning salmon culture in
Alaska.
“Litnik was more or less of a
dead one from 1912 to 1919,” he
said, “because, if you remember, in
June 1912. Katmai over in the Val
ley of Ten Thousand Smokes blew
her head off, and almost buried
Afognak and Kodiak Islands with
volcanic ash. The scientists say
that Katmai blew a cubic mile of
earth into the air and I can well
believe it from the evidences of
volcanic ash or sand that exists to
this day.
“The Litnik got % particularly
heavy dose of it and naturally it
killed all the fish deader than the
proverbial mackeral. It took all
those years from 1912 to 1919 to
recover from the blast in a pisca
torial way. In 1919 and 1920 things
began to pick up and about 35,
000,000 were put out but for some
reason things fell off again in 1923.
This year has been about the best
FRATERNAL
SEWARD CHAPTER NO. 10. ORDER OF
EASTERN STAR
Mondays of each month in
Odd Fellows’ Hall at 8 p.m
Visiting: members always wel
come: Miriam Painter, W.
M.; Martine Johansen, act
ing Secretary.
SEWARD LODGE NO.
1425. L. O. O. M.
Meets every first and
1 third Fridays each
' month at 8 p.m. at
Odd Fellows' Hall.
All welcome. Peter
N. Anderson, Direc
tor. M. A. .Horner,
Secretary.
PIONEERS OF ALASKA—IGLOO NO. 9
C. M. Brosius, Secretary-Treasurer
SEWARD REBEKAH LODGE NO. 6-A.
I. O. O. F.
metis ine iirsi ana
third Mondays of each
month in Odd Fellows’
Hall at 8 p.m.. Visiting
members are a Iways
welcome. Mrs. Marie
Osbo, N. G., Ludwig
Larsson, Secretary.
RESSURECTION LODGE NO. A-7, I.O.O.F.
Meets every Inursday at 8:00
p.m. in Odd Fellows’ Hall. Vis
iting brothers welcome
Dow I Galloway, N. G., Ludwig Laraaon,
aecretary.
SEWARD LODGE NO. 219, F. & A. M.
stated communications first and
Jhird Tuesdays each month. Vis
iting brethern welcome. J. H.
Flickinger, W. M., Martin Ban
bury, Secretary.
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Curtis R. Morford
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ATTORNEYS AT LAW
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Dr. A. R. Roberts
DENTIST
Dental and General X-Ray work
Phone MAdison 108—Tecklenberg Bldg.
L. E. Grammer
CIVIL ENGINEER
Deputy U. S. Mineral Surveyor
Deputy U. S. Surveyor
Fish Trap Surveys
Anchorage, Alaska
Dr. H. W. Hyatt
PHYSICIAN-SURGEON
Offices in Tecklenberg Bldg,
Office hours: 10 a.m. to 12 o’clock. 2 p.m.
to 4 p.m.; 6 p.m to 8 p.m.
Phones: MAin 136—Residence, MAdison 90
in five or six years. The way the
run has started this season it looks
I like there will be a fine batch for
jnext year.”
Sportsmen of the states who will
travel many miles to catch a Dolly
Varden trout or even to get a sight
of one would have a regular con
niption fit to hear Snipes talk
| about the Dolly Vardens up the
Litnik.
“During two seasons”, he said,
!“we destroyed over 100,000 trout
^and in the stomachs we have found
as high as 300 salmon eggs. It was
not unusual to find 100 as an aver
age of undigested eggs. The trout
Itake a heavy toll on salmon and of
course they must be destroyed in
| this country or much of our work
goes for naught.” He spoke too, of
the heavy depredations of the bear,
!saying that they will throw hun
dreds of salmon out on the banks
just for the fun of seing them flop
because they couldn’t possibly eat
them all.
Mr- Snipes was connected with
hatchery work in the southern
states before coming to Alaska. At
his new station in Iowa he will be
; concerned with the propagation of
warm water species such as bass:
pearch and brim.
U. S. Coast ana tseoaeMc Survey
Charts and Tide Tables at Schall
ererers Alaska Shop.
POWDER PUT BLOWS
IIP 10II killed!
NEW KENSINGTON, Pa., July 24
(/P)—Two men were killed and 11
burned, four seriously, in an explo
sion of bronze powder that wrecked
one unit of the plant of the United
States Aluminum Co., a subsidiary
of the Aluminum Co. of America,
at Logans Ferry near here.
In addition to the 11 in hos
pitals, others were burned but
treated at the scene and sent home.
STUDY OF LAW
WASHINGTON, July 23. f/P)—
After a thorough study of law
the Federal Farm Board announc
ed that they can make loans
only to cooperative farming or
ganizations.
ATTACKS LOBBYISTS
MEW YORK, July 23. (/P)—The
former President, Calvin Coo
lidge, in a magazine article, at
tacks organized minorities and
lobbyists as forces which double
the expense of the government
operation and which lower the
prestige of Congress
Join Urbach & Valade’s CIRCU- 1
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CIRCUIT COURT UPHOLDS
The circuit court of appeals;
at San Francisco sustained the
decision of the District Court of ;
the Fourth Alaska Division in 1
the case of Sylvester Howel vs;
Estate of Tom Smith, which had I
been decided in favor of the;
plaintiff. The case had been ap
pealed from the U. S. Commiss
ioner’s court at Nenana to the
Fairbanks district court which j
had rendered judgement for How. j
ell. The case was then carried to j
the circuit court by the adminis- ,
trator of the Smith estate.
CHICAGO, July 23. UP)—Plans
for the erection of skyscrapers
in the Loop have been made val
ueless by the new zoning law,
Chicago officials say.
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Frye.Bruhn Meat Market.
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at
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