Ko through it with the rest of
tne school, but the next time I
meet you I will try to have evi
dence to be able to put you in
jail where you belong as a fish
pirate.”
“Go ahead, you big mutt! To
morrow, by this time, you will be
having a confab with St. Pete*:,”
I told him as he departed.
I woke up and found that I
had been dreaming, but that
dream I will never forget. That
salmon spoke the truth in every
particular.
-x
The Insulting Turk
Called O'Malley
-x
In Ketchikan, Henry O’Malley,
Czar of all the Alaskans, said
that he was pleased at the oat
look for the fish business this
year and that he “is particularly
anxious that all of the inde
pendent traps and seiners make
a satisfactory catch and that
they are able to dispose of their
catches at a fair profit ”
Is the Czar of all the Alaska
becoming a demagogue?
Is he anxious only for the “in
dependent traps and seiners?”
or does he already know that the
big cannery traps will make a
satisfactory profit? Why now
worry about the independents
and the seiners? Has he had a
change of heart since he closed
down special locations to re
sident trap owners and then
secretly released the same loca
tions to the fish trust?
Does he intend to open the
numerous bays now closed to
seiners? Will he close down the
Tenakee traps or the Saginaw
Bay traps, or the Kasaan Bay
traps, which take their toll of a
million salmon each and open
these seining grounds so that
the seiners can make a “satis
factory” profit?
Not a bit of it.
Mr. O’Malley is the tool of the
fish trust, and far from con
serving the fish of Alaska, he is
hired to conserve the special
privileges of the self-same trust.
“Satisfactory profit” at 1*4
cent per humpy while the trust
takes all its own salmon from its
cwn traps is a cruel term of a
heartless Turk. Even now the
fishermen are dumping their
catches because there is no
market.
/
-x
I KEAK TROUT HAS
ELONGATED SNOUT
x
Mike Skrivan of Anchorage
has in his possession, a freak
trout of the speckled variety
which was received from Willow
recently in a shipment of fresh
fish. The lower jaw of the fish
extends fully an inch beyond the
upper one, sticking out much
like a scoop shovel.
The freak had been cleaned at
Willcw and sent to the market
with others, the unusual forma
tion apparently having passed
unnoticed until discovered by
Mr. Skrivan when the fish reach
cd the market.
Mr. Skrivan has had the fisn
mounted and it Is attracting
much attention among local
fishermen, nothing like it ever
having been seen by any of
them.
-x
HARPCON WHITE WHALES
Residents at Churchill, The
Pas Man., the new seaport on
Hudson Eay are catching many
white whales with the use of
home made harpoons. The meat
is used to feed tb^ sled dogs
which still provide the main
means of transportation in the
far north during the winter
months. It is estimated that
there are several million white
whales in Hudson Bay and ef
forts are being made to deplete
the numbers because they des
troy vast quantities of fish which
have a commercial value.
-x
Alaska Salmon
Business Large
-x
Importance of the salmon in
dustry in the Pacific Northwest
was discussed recently at n
meeting of the Young Men’s
Business Club, in the New Wash
ington Hotel, Seattle, by G. P.
Halverty, salmon canner.
“The Alaska production of
canned salmon is $40,000,000 or
$50,000,000 annually,” Halverty
said. About 50,000 persons are
employed directly in it.
“But the salmon business
needs to have established cer
tain standards, oth for its bene
fit and that of the public. The
industry has failed to realize
one of its most essential fea
tures—that is, to tell the truth
on th elabel.”
-X
Injun-newity of Men
Salvages Craft
—X—
Four young Unimak natives
recently journeyed to Kanaga
Harbor, where the 65-foot gas
boat Unmak Native went on
the beach, and patching up the
holes in the hull, took her ma
chinery all out and cleaned and
overhauled it, and ran under
their own power to Unmak, 400
miles distant. The vessel had
been abandoned and had pound
ed upon the rocky beach all win
ter, making many big holes in
her hull. The natives secured a
crew, salt and gear, and left for
the westward herring grounds to
put up enough fish to run them
through the winter.