Bargain Sales Stores. $50.00 daily.
We start you, furnishing everything.
Wholesalers, Desk F522, 429 W.
Superior, Chicago.
FOUND—Portion of a skid-chain.
Owner may have same at Gateway
office. j
FOR HIRE or charter—Gasboat Stan
ley—15 tons net—Capt. Jack Wil
kanson, Seldovia, Alaska.
FOR SALE—Well-bred male Chesa
peake pup. Inquire Gateway office, j
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MORE ON EAGLES
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er, in a general way, the coast coun
try chiefly, from Ketchikan to the
Alaskan Peninsula. Striking evidence
that this is the region where eagles
are far more abundant is borne out
by the following statement given to
me by Mr. Thiel, showing the num
bers of pairs of eagle’s feet sent in
tor bounty from the different Divi
sions during the years since the. boun
ty has been in force.
1917 1919 1921 192* 1925
1st D. 3,958 3,615 4,045 12,050 7,008
2nd. D... 3 3
3rd. DV -1,270 624 481 3,450 2,992
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There have been 1,250 eagles killed
since the 1027 appropriations were
made, for which bounty has been paid.'
No report has been made on this ap- j
| propriation to the. Alaska Secretary
jup to August' 4, and therefore the Di
visions of the Territory wherein they
I were taken could not be given.
Eagles Actually Seen
Although many people reported that!
eagles were often seen in great num
bers I did not witness such a gather
ing of the birds. Perhaps this was |
because r was not fortunate in visit
ing localities attractive to them at a
time when there was a run of salmon, i
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candle-fish, herring, or other fish of |
which theey are fond. I also journeyed i
up the Chillcat River, where I was
told a hundred or more eagles would j
often be seen in a short time. There
was at that time no special run of fish,
which may account for the fact that
on this 15-mile trip only 5 Bald ea
gles were seen..
As the guest of the Alaska Game
Commission, I had the use for a few
days of one of its patrol boats, travel
ing up the Lynn Canal from Juneau
to Haines, a distance of 88 miles. Here
I counted 37 eagles. These were us
ually sitting in evergreen trees on the
mountain slopes a short distance back
from the water. They could readily
be discovered by their gleaming white
heads and necks. Only one in the im
mature plumage was found, and it
probably would not have been noticed
if it had been sitting in the trees as
the waterway is so wide that it is im
possible to discover the birds except
by keeping close to one of the shores.
The above count must not be taken
as conclusive as covering all eagles
along this route at that date. Never
were we close enough to both shores
at one time to see perching eagles.
Possibly we passed a hundred unob
served. In any event there are still
many eagles along the southern coast
of Alaska.
Conclusions
From what I have been able to
learn in Alaska by observation and in
talking with many people, and from
what experience has taught me while
making investigations on the ground,
where through many years there have
been outbursts of public opinion
against some bird, I venture to offer
the following conclusions.
1. Few people outside jof Alaska
and British Columbia have ever ima
gined that Bald eagles were any place
as abundant as they have been, or
even exist today, in that Territory.
2. Although eagles are to an ex
tent scavengers, they are essentially
birds-of-prey, and do catch healthy
fish as well as the dead and dying
ones in the salmon streams. They
also capture, at times, the young of
game animals as well as fur-bearers,
sea-birds and, doubtless, game-birds.
3. The damage to man’s interest!
brought about by their feeding habits |
is undoubtedly overestimated in the j
minds of many people.
4. That there is a growing feeling
in Alaska that eagles have been so re
duced in numbers that those remain
ing today do no{ constitute a source
of any very great damage, and the
Territory might well save the expense
of paying further bounties.
5. In extended regions of the Alas- i
kan coast, the Bald eagle has been
greatly reduced in numbers as a re- J
suit of the bounty system, but as a
species it can not be considered as be
ing in any immediate danger of ex
termination.
6. A more charitable feeling toward
the eagle in Alaska could probably be j
wrought about by an extended cam-i1
men of education about, bird-life in J j
reneral. It was bv such educational ,
vork that the people of Virginia some |
The Seward Bridge Club will meet;
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tomorrow (Friday) at Mrs. Wayne s
Blue at 1:30.
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The Alaska Railroad river steamer;
General Davis will operate again out
of Nenana this year.
NOTICE
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that
a special term of th District Court for
the Territory of Alaska, Third Divi-j
sion, will convene at Seward, Alaska
in the Federal building on Monday,
April 16, 1928 at 10 o’clock a. m. and
continue as long as public business
requires.
W. N. CUDDY
Clerk of District Court
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Dated March 15, 1928.
years ago were induced to give up
the shooting of robins for potpies.
There will be a bi-weekly steamer
ervice this season to Marshall, to
onnect with the Northern Commer
ial boat for St. Michael, and a week
y service from Nenana to Holy Cross.
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