BUREAU OF FISHERIES
1930 ALASKA FORGE
The bureau of Fisheries force in
Alaska last year numbered 317 per
sons, with 25 vessels, not counting
launches, engaged. This is an in
crease of 19 in the number of em
ployees over the previous year, ac
cording to the Pacific Fisherman.
There were 232 stream guards
and special employes and 10 char
tered boats manned by 15 persons.
There were also 12 statutory em
ployes, 15 bureau vessels manned by
50 men, and eight special employees
engaged in scientific work.
Orlander
Jeweler
Dealer In watches and
docks, nugget Jewelry,
old Ivory, curios and a
full line of goods us*
aally carried In a tint
class jewelry store.
Watches repaired an
short notice.
| Cubbies from the Vat ji
Uxtra! Uxtra! Uxtra!
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Geoduck (Snooper, undercover j
rat) from Africa. First time full
face view ever obtained. Secured
by Sourdough Bill’s ade-de-inves
tigator.
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IF YOU HAVEN'T TRIED HOKLUCK'S
DANISH ICE CREAM YOU HAVE MISSED
SOMETHING GOOD. Sold only at the Candy
Cottage.
SHEEP LEAVE USUAL
HABITAT HEBE QE
GREAT LACK FODDER
Because of the deep snows, heav
1 ily encrusted, along the reaches of
Fox river at the head of JCatche
mak bay, mountain sheep have been
deprived of their usual chances to
forage, and as a result have suf
fered somewhat during the winter
from lack of fodder.
This, and with amplification, is
the story brought to Seldovia by
Tony Martin, who lias just return- [
ed from a season of trapping in,
that district, reports the Seldovia
Herald.
“The sheep have been driven
down into the timber and out on
the flats, but there the fare is not
much better. Fox canyon, usual
habitat of the sheep was totally
deserted, though I have known the
time when hundreds could be found
there.
“Moose, a hardier breed, equipped
to browse off the higher branches
of the trees, are better off. But
even so I ran across three huge
carcasses; dead from starvation.
Dead sheep were more frequently
found.
Since February I regularly fed a
herd of eight sheep by cutting
! down birch trees. They strayed
j about the cabin, followed my trails.
This particular bunch was reduced
to seven by one of the animals get
j ting killed, falling helplessly on the
ice.
' “To add to their distress, the
sheep are harassed by coyotes. These
i killers are getting more numerous.
I also saw signs of wolves. The coy
otes are much larger than the or
dinary outside prairie specimen.’'
Mr. Martin, who is a registered
guide, is deeply stirred by the con
dition of the game and has sug
gestions to offer that would help
' them through a fodderless season.
His opinion is that if less attention
i were paid to vigilance over off-sea
son hunting and more to cutting^
wild hay and stacking it about in
sheds, a better purpose would be j
served, and the situation would be
relieved.
The hay cutting idea, Mr. Martin ,
explained, is entirely practical and |
is the regular business in outsidej
districts.
GOLD DREDGING
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Gold dredging originated in New
Zealand and Australia as early as
1865, but the nedless bucket chain;
system was not started until 1882. j
LOWEST MINING COSTS
The Treadwell group of mines on
Douglas Island, Alaska, treated 25,
000,000 tons of ore, yielding $2.37 a
ton, with total costs of $1.42 per
ton. Alaska gold, in 1916 produced
about 2,000,000 tons of ore with a
yield of 97 cents and operating
costs of 73 cents.
Pure gold metal is usually found
in connection with silica and
quartz, so that lode and vein gold
mining is generally known as quartz
mining.
LEGAL NOTICE
IN THE DISTRICT COURT FOR THE TER
RITORY OF ALASKA, THIRD
DIVISION
ojV THODY, as a stockholder of the
oeward Lumber Corporation. Plaintiff,
SEWARD LUMBER CORPORATION, •
corporation. Defendant,
ELWYN SWETBtANN, Receiver,
No. S-293
jyOTICE TO PRESENT CLAIMS
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the
undersigned is duly appointed, acting °»y«
qualified receiver of the Seward Lumber
Corporator a corporation, and that in ac
cordance with the order of appointment of
such receiver, public notice is hereby given to
the creditors of and to all other persons in
terested, to present and file their ciaima. If
any they have, with the receiver and to submit
proof thereon on or before the 4th day of
May. 1931, at the office of L V. Ray, at
torney at law. Seward, Alaska, which office
the receiver designates as the place for the
transacting of ail business connected with and
incident to, said receivership proceedings
Dated at Seward, Alaska, March 21, 1931.
Etwyn Swetmann,
Receiver, Seward Lumber Corporation.
Date First Publication Mar. 23, 1931.
EL G. MOODY, Editor of the Redding (Calif.) Search*
light, says:—
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That business men and citizens generally should not
fail to realize that newspapers are in the public service;
that they are not parasites living for their own profits and
that the community needs for a newspaper are such that,
should there be no newspapers as a private enterprise,
then the public must for its own good tax itself to pro
vide for them.
To often we find business men regarding their home
newspaper patroiiizingly as an institution that lives off
their largess; something that they are privileged to for
get if the times are dull and may recall to mind in those
richer days when profits are large.
The newspaper is a function, a concordant, recipro
cating service in the community it lives in, an integral
factor in everything it helps to motivate, hence is as
worthy of its hire as the judge in the docket, the sheriff
or the tax collector. In fact, as an institution, the news
paper is far more embracing than any or all; it is the
completed expression of the daily round of life, without
which we would have to return to the chaos of disorgan
ized society.
Such facts are recognized by advanced persons but
sometimes ignored by the ignorant or the indifferent.
They aim to keep the newspaper “in its place” by with
holding a just tribute. They have their own inferiority
complex to deal with and their only object is a kind of
self satisfaction that comes from retarding the wheels of
progress.
These opponents to printed enlightenment usually
demonstrate that they need the inoculation of the* very
spirit that makes a newspaper. While they are keeping
the newspaper in its place they are keeping themselves
there also. Their backwardness will be indicated by their
tenacious clinging to outworn practices, outmoded es
tablishments, slow conceptions of competitive requirements.
Let the emmunity that wishes to step ahead make its
newspaper the staunchly supported banner carriers of its
forward movement. The newspaper gladly ^
challenge to leadership and invariably will push onward
against every obstacle. The only time the newspaper
weakens is when those it serves are weak.
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