Steve Selig Talks
Steve Selig will be remembered
by old timers as being the man who
got his start by visiting fish traps,
according to “Frenchy” Martin
who made these charges in the pre
sence of several deputy Marshals, a
United States Marshal, and of Mr.
Nunan of the New England Fish
Company, and many others.
Steve has grown rich now from
traps which he owns and which he
thinks should be guarded by the
United States government against
trap robbers.
He was in Seattle tne otner aay
and being far from home, he talk
ed, in part as follows from the Se
attle P. I.:
Tedious pastimes — watching
thousands of silver dollars swim
past you in the briny deep and for
bidden to dip your net.
That, almost literally, is the big
situation of the big Alaska fishing
operators because of the new gov
ernment regulations looking to the
preservation of the salmon, accord
ing to Steve Selig, Ketchikan trap
owner, who, with his wife arrived
yesterday at the Frye Hotel
AT HEIGHT OF RUN
“We have to stop fishing for a
month right at the height of the
run,” Selig declared. “The first
year it was tried out, I nearly pass
ed out. There right under my boat
were hundreds of thousands of sal
mon swimming toward the mouths
of the streams and me letting them
go. I saw a new car, a trip to the
States, and a few other things
swimming past.
“But it’s for the best because it
means the preservation of one of
Alaska’s vital industries. So few
salmon were getting up-stream to
spawn that eventually the species
would have become extinct. THE
WORST OFFENDERS WERE THE
NATIVES WHO LAY IN WAIT UP
STREAM. THEIR ACTIVITIES
ARE CURTAILED AS WELL AS
THOSE OF THE NET OWNERS.
580 CARS UP THERE
Ketchikan has more automobiles
per mile of road than any other
section of the world, according to
Selig’s proud boast. The town has
580 automobiles to travel fourteen
miles of automobile road. Eight
miles more is under construction.
But we get as much enjoyment
out of our fourteen miles as you do
out of your thousands of miles of
roads,” he declared. “And we have
expensive cars up our way, too.”
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