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SMALL INDUSTRIAL OPPORTUNITIES
In line with The Gateway’s efforts to interest local j
folk in opportunities available in Resurrection Bay
which at least should pay better than wages, the last of
four articles, on the packing of clams, is published today.
The following is taken from a Bureau of Fisheries
report and can therefore be considered reliable and auth
entic:
Si' S<
As this industry is new in Alaska, a brief outline of the !
canning process will be given. The first operation is the re
v moval of the clams from the shells. This is done by immers
% ing them in boiling water, either in vats especially design
^ ed to receive the wire baskets in which the clams are
placed or the clams are passed through the water on an
^ endless belt.
t After remaining in the water several minutes they are
£ thrown on a table and the shells fall away from the meat.
The clams are then passed to other workers who open the
^ stomachs and necks, remove the eand and sediment there
% from and sever the black part of the neck. The cleansing
process is continued by placing the meat in a cylindrical
perforated‘Washing machine, which revolves automatically
half a turn both ways in a tank filled with water.
9 Any sediment that may have remained after the hand
^ operations are completed is thus removed. The clams are
~ now ready to be canned and are taken directly to the fill
ing tables if whole clams are packed, or to the grinder if
9 the minced variety is desired.
Q The cans are filled by hand with both meat and juice,
^ after which they pass through the topping and sealing ma
chines and are sealed. The process is completed by cooking
^ the canned product in retorts at a temperature of about
^ 245o F. from one and a half hours, depending upon the
a size of the container used. The juice which is thrown off in
the process is used in preparing the finished product, the
surplus being sealed in cans.
if if if if if if if s>: $ £
Packing two or three cases each week and disposing
of them locally, will at least equal working a full week
for some one else. There is always a demand for clams.
It is hoped these suggestions and recipes will have helped
or at least implanted the seed of a thought for future ac
tivity. If Alaska is ever to progress, Alaskans must take
the steps forward by inauguration of local industries.
Self-sustaining is the word; importation of dairy pro
ducts, vegetables and berries, and products from the sea,
none of these should be imported to Alaska when we can
producing the mat home. For quick results, we can rec
ommend no surer means of individual Alaskans becom
ing independent, than packing clams; but in a small way
to start with, and not with a plant and equipment running
into the thousands but a small hand-packing outfit
Wonder why the Juneau dispatch said it was impos
sible to send any more anti-toxin to Point Barrow? In
any case, whatever the motive, it seems as if this would
be an opportune time to keep some of our Red Cross
money at home.
The Alaska legislature should put through that bill
to purchase 12,000 copies of the 1930 Cordova Annual. It
is a great credit to the Territory and as such will create
interest among thousands in the States who would like
to know some real truths about the Northland.
The Fairbanks News Miner seems to like the ’idea
of the Seward caravan which will visit the “Heart of the
Golden North” next August, judging from the great
silence emanating from that fearless sheet. But perhaps
we are “cock-eyed’ and something has been printed.
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A writer declares that density of population will
lead to future wars. Density of alleged statesmen will
probably be a more important factor.
LICENSE FOR POWER
PUNT IS GRANTED
MING GOMPAN1
WASHINGTON, D. C.f April 9. (JP)
—License for a power plant with an
ultimate capacity of 90,000 horse
j power on Davis river, near Hyder,
j was granted by the Power Commis
sion to the Commonwealth Mining
and Exploring Company.
At the same time the commission
approved of the transfer of the li
cense to the Portland Canal and
Power Company, power to be sold
to the mines and public utilities.
The Salmon Bear river’s water
shed is on both sides of the inter
national boundary. The initial in
stallation will a 400-foot dam and
power house of 17,000 horsepower
capacity at a cost estimated at $144
765.00.
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CHILKOOT BARRACKS
MOST NORTHERN OF
OHISONED POSTS
ChUkoot Barracks, located near
the little town of Haines, South
eastern Alaska, is easily unique
among the army posts of today. The
most northern of all garrisoned
posts, set among tree-clad and
snow-capped mountains, in a coun
try abounding in game of all sizes
and with unexcelled opportunities
for boating and fishing, both salt
and fresh water, it is the one best
bets for the soldier or prospective
soldier who likes life in “the wide
open spaces,” says an article by W.
E. Cunningham in the U. S. Recruit
ing News.
This is the first article that has
been noted in that publication with
reference to soldiering in Alaska
and it should give the old soldiers,
present soldiers and prospective sol
diers a new attitude toward doing
a tour of “foreign service” in Alaska
which is for two years.
Not Snow Scenes
Two pictures, one of roadway
near the post and another a view
, qf a bay. illustrated the article.
WRANGELL ELECTION
WRANGELL, April 9. (JP) _C- P.
Kirtland, vice president of the
Bank of Alaska and in charge of
the Wrangell branch was elected
mayor over A. C. Waters at Tues_
days election. E. M. Campbell, H.
R. Coulter and James Nolan were
reelected to the city council. B. Y.
Grant and Mrs- M. O. Johnson were
elected to the school board.
legal notice
_ _| f liMlUO “ IIBlWIf IX
any, who, In order to avail themselves of
opening; (2) £x-service men, who, in or
.r, ®va*l themselves of the preference
right conferred by Congress under public re
solution No. 86, approved June 12. 1930, may
file application within one hundred ten days
?.rior Ji? ,*?. o{ opening. All such appltca
tions filed, within the first twenty days of this
period will be treated as simutt-ineouelr filed
®t 9 a m. on the ninetieth day prior to
date of opening. Applications by ex-eervies
men thereafter, but prior to date of open
ing, will he treated in the order tn which
filed.
The general public may file applications
within twenty days prior to opening date
These will be treated aa simultaneously filed
at. 9 a. m. on date of opening, but no ap
plication will be allowed prior thereto.
A tract °* 7.29 acres, more or less,
described.by metes and bounds as follows:
Beginning at Cor. No. 1, at a point on
north shore of Kenai Lake, approximately
2% miles from Lawing Station on the Alaska
Railroad, being a cottonwood tree squared
to 4” and cut off 3 fe. above grounc
and marked H|1 MC, whence a cottonwood
tree 10” diameter bears N 71° W 13 links
distant marked W Hjl MC in blase; a cot
tonwood tree 8” diameter bears S. 10°'
E. 14 links distant marked W H|1 MC in
blaze. Thence by meander of said lake at
line of mean high tide S 64° E. 0 71 Chs.,
S. 76° E. 1.61 Chs, N. 60° E. 1.01 Chs.,
N. 68* E. 1.36 Chs.,'N. 78° E. 1.09 chs., N
63° E.,1.24 chs.. N 80° E. 1.01 chs, N: 72J
E., 1.61 chs, S. 86° 30' E. 0.68 chs. to
cor. No. 2 and M. C. Thence N. 18° E.
6.18 chs. to Cor. No. 3. Thence West 10.66
chs. to Cor. No. 4. Thence South 7.95 chs.
to Cor. No. 1, the place of beginning List
ed upon the application of A. C. Wittner of
Lawing, Alaska, List 8-180.
First Publication March 17, ’931.
Last Publication April 7, 1931.
Pub. IX—Mu. 17. 24, 81, Ap» 1 7. 1331.
Feb. 17. 1981
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