and Merchants bank is well equipped.
It is a solid, sound institution, owned
entirely by local capital and conduct
ed by men who have played a large
part in the upbuilding of the town
and district.
There are several large office
buildings in Ketchikan which pro
vide the professional or business
men with quarters quite as conveni
ent as those in the largest cities,
with steam heat, hot and cold water,
janitor service, electric lights and
elevators.
Ketchikan is supplied with light
and power by a hydro-electric plan*,
which also furnishes current for
cooking in many homes. The tele
phone system is equal to that found
in any city. Water for all purposes
is furnished from a series of beauti
ful lakes in the hills back of the
city and is of such quality that the
liquid coming from the tap is suit
able for any purpose for which dis
tilled water is demanded. This wa
ter system furnishes sufficient pres
sure to afford ample fire protection.
In fact that protection is so good
that Ketchikan has never known a
serious fire.
Climatically, Ketchikan has sum
mers that compare favorably with
those of the coast of Maine, cool
enough to be comfortable, yet warm
enough to make one realize that it
is summertime. The winters com
pare favorably with those of Puget
Sound, as the Japanese current
strikes in and warms up the country
considerably. The winters in Ket
chikan are not as severe as those
of Washington, D. C., while the sum
mers are a joy.
For sportsmen, there is a paradise
in the district surrounding, where
the elusive trout may be found in
large numbers during the season, and
where in the fall and winter the bird
shooting and deer hunting are all
that could be desired. And for ath
letics there are all the outdoor
forms—baseball, tennis, swimming,
rowing and others—to be found any
where in the United States, and the
same is true of the indoor sports.
There are two hospitals which pro
vide amply for the case of the sick.
For amusement there are numer
ous dance halls, and two motion pic
ture theaters.
Fraternally, Ketchikan is well pro
vided, having lodges of Elks, Ma
sons, Moose, Eagles, Arctic Brother
hood, Pioneers of Alaska and ladies’
auxiliary, Eastern Star, Odd Fellows
and Red Men. They are well sup
plied with lodge and clubrooms. Ket
chikan also has an active post of the
American Legion, a ladies’ auxiliary
and a fishermen’s home is to be
built by the Young People’s Society
of the Lutheran church within the
next few months.
TRANSPORTATION
Three lines of steamships cater to
Ketchikan, the Alaska Steamship
Company, the Pacific Steamship
Company, and the Canadian Pacific
line. During the summer, their ser
vice is almost daily, going to and
from the states, while in the winter
months their arrivals and departures
are a little less frequent, the town
being cut off at times for a week
or ten days without a steamer.
It is entirely practicable and prob
able that Ketchikan will in the near
future be connected with the Grand
Trunk railway system at Prince Ri
pert, its Canadian Terminus ninety
miles away by a car ferry. This
will afford direct car service between
Alaska and the markets of the East
ern states, which will mean a more
rapid growth of all industries in
the district.
In a word, Ketchikan and the Ket
chikan district is a healthy, thrivug
section, which with reasonable legis
lative assistance from the national
government will go ahead stead.ilv
and rapidly, but which without as
sistance will go ahead anyhow as it
has for the past twenty yeras.
A short time ago Mr. O’Malley
came into our offices to get acquaint
ed and to discuss the fish situation.
When we tried to show him that the
burden of conservation was being put
on the resident fishermen and that
the scientific trap was the greatest
destroyer of the fishing industry and
the economic structure of the Terri
tory, Mr. O’Malley said: “I have no
intention of getting into a contro
versy as to the gear used.” Evi
dently O’Malley is in the habit of
making this statement, or at least
his department is for we herewith
quote from the debate on the fish
eries subject in the House of Repre
sentatives when said legislation was
being considered:
McKeown—I made a very careful
estimate of the number (of traps)
that would be removed, taking the
licensed traps of the year 1920, and
taking charts of Alaska and marking
off the location of every trap, and 1
concluded that 29 per cent of the
licensed traps would be removed. The
Bureau of Fisheries holds that ap
proximately 50 per cent would be re
moved. I am not entering into any
controversy as to the percentage of
removal, although I consider that 1
gave the matter more attention than
did the Bureau.”
Why should there be any contro
versy between Mr. McKeown and the
Bureau of Fisheries?; why should
O’Malley refuse to discuss the de
structiveness of the trap system if
there is a real disinterestedness? The
Bureau of Fisheries continues to teM
the world that they are working for
the conservation of our fisheries
but issue regulations placing the
burden of conservation on the resi
dent fisherman and other regulations
that would create the least hardship
on the trap system. Statements like
the above show that the Bureau of
Fisheries is in reality the official
watchdog of the trap system and
gives the lie direct to the statement
that they have no interest in any
controversy as to gear used in the
industry.
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Aside from That.—Author—“Have
you read my new book?”
Friend—“Yes.”
Author—“What do vou think of
it?”
Friend—“Well, to be candid with
you, I think the covers are too far
apart.”—Calgary Daily Herald.
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