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SHARK R(VKK HARBOR VUJi RKDUCK IJGHTKRACiK KATIfi
TJh* election on Tuesday April 3rd, Co be held for selection of
Maa'Uggml officers and a member of the Nome School Board, present* to
tin people of Nome a v.ital question, one that inu& be given careful
conscientious consideration
" The principle issue involved Ls that relative to the Snake River
Harbor, Wharf and Docks and resolves itself into the proportion: Shall .
the Snake River Project, with its various ramifications, be eotfCrolleid try ]
the people or a few iudivkluals for private gatai?
The city election of one year ago showed that the vefe.renduui for
a municipal wharf, lighterage and Municipal Coal Yard carried by an
overwhelming majority, proving conclusively that the people of Nome
are determined to become free from the octopus now wrapping Its ten
tacles about the community. The vote stood 189 for Municipal control
with but 40 against.
Oheaper lighterage raite? must Ire obtained in this community
and wall come only thru Municipal cjoiutrol of dhe Saake River Harbor,
Wharf and Dock*. To permit control to pass to individual's who have
personal gain as their only aim will never bring normal shippixug condi
tion# to this community. The life of Seward Peninsula and oantirularly
Nome depends in a great measure on. cheaper water transportation and
a ritalived Coastal asd Siberian traffic. At present conditions are in
tolerable; fit cosJUb approximately as much to land a ton of freight from
the roadstead as to ship it from Seattle to the roadstead.
With Snake Hiver Harbor completed, wharf sod dock* erected
along ttie river, it is believed the cost of landing freight can V1 reduced
over 50 percent and still return a profit.
Golbnel Steese has assured Mayor Maynard tha.t approximately
118,000 ' will be spent this stlmimer by the Government in romp letup g
the Harbor, making alterations and additions and properly dredging the
channel and basin so that boats drawing no mare than eight feet can j
enter and unload their cargoes. Col. Steese states tihat work will begin
as soon as weather conditions permit.
With this assurance Hhe Oity begins to see its way clear to the
solution of the present distressing condition of shipping interests and
• long suffering public.
In casting yowr rote in Tuesdayls election be sure that the candi
dates you support are those who have no ulterior motiv^t; that theqr are
men wtiose investments in this community are such that, they will repre
sent the best*interests of the community, without fear or favor.
NOT IN SYMPATHY WTTO DAN.
The Cordova TOmes, te so far the only republican paper wMch is
not in sympathy with Delegate Den Sutherlandls proposal to force the big
flOiing lutere^hs to give the Mtfle fellows a ohaince. It derides the dele
gates efforts and sees no danger in the proposed restriction and reaer
rations.
If those reservations touched the, Copper River district w*; would
see what we would Bee. A howl Wo*»M go up quickly enough from the
fordcra bunt'll, and everjeUring w» »uld l>e pulled U> prevent diisortmLna
tlon. But the ox that He gored is many miles west, of the Cordova fish
ing grounds and is of no consequence.
That Delegate Su* her land i* taking t!he right stand we believe
aid wlN agree. save those detsirftag to dtp into the terrltor.ia.1 resources.
Tie to ojit working for any one section, but to protect all sections alike.
If the fisheries are being depleted he bcliieve* rn curtailing the output of
the bag fellow who does the real damage. The Tiroes believes that Dele
gate Sutherland will injulre hie of.anc<« for re-election by taking this
stand; and the wlph is probably Eathor txi the thought.
The Gateway believes that the Delegate's stand will be indorsed by
every fox faTrr.er. every small cannerjnan and every true Alaskan, who
'believes in fair play. The big interest*? must be held down and the
small Alaskan concern I roosted.—Seward Gateway.
A IJiSSON ON FISH FRY lUvSKKVATKIN.
Delegate Sutherland's direct ware from Washington recently to all
American Legion Posts on the Alaskan coast, together with the clarified J
account of Attorney General John Rustgard, relative, to the fishery reser- ;
vations, will unquestionably result in opening the eyes of many Alaskans
who heretofore were Indifferent or could not see oj rea'Uize the "dnsidrious '
toxfine which is already showing evidence of poisoning tbo empire body j
politic.*’ as out Attorney General expresses the situation.
Over fifteen hundred miles of coast lone waters to the westward j
have been proclaimed a fishing reserve, which Includes some of the j
choicest fishing grounds in the world, and now. if the Bureau of Fisheries, t
or really the big canning interests, can put it over, a similar robbery of !
the rights of independent fishermen and Alaskans will be staged in Soufh- !
eastern Alaska waters.
The Ketchikan Commercial Club and other Southeastern com
mercial o-rganizations have gone on record as endorsing the collosal steal
of Alaskans’ independence, but the New’s believes that if this matter comes
up again, and it probably will, for Congress has decided to lay the “con
servation idea" over for some time, these same endorsements will no*
be so readily given.
Now that the independent fishermen and smoll packers in the
reserve to the westward huve already tiled official complaints against the
big concerns in control, and in con .side rati on of the attitude of such hi1? j
Alaskans as our Attorney General and Delegate. all citizens who have |
the welfare of the Territory at heart, will consider carefully just what this !
reserve system will eventually mean to Southeastern Alaska fishermen.
Under the policy adopted by the United States Bureau of Fisheries,
whereby dinners are assigned certain sections of water in which they
may catch their raw product, the exclusive right of fishery is given to
corporations or individuals. Under this system the manual work of
securing the fish is placed entirely at the disposal of the canneryman.
and he decides who shall catch the fish in the area of water designated
To whom will the fisherman apply for the privilege of pursuing his
calling? To the government under whose protection he lives? No.
indeed; but to the representatives of the cannery interests. If the in
dependent fisherman should ea.s1 his net in any of the waters of Alaska
either in the Pacific Ocean, or in Behring Sea. from Kenai Peninsula to
Attu Island, within three miles of land, be would be liable to the penalty
for violation of the rules established hv the United Stiates Bureau of
Fisheries. If he cun secure permission from a canning corporation, he
hay fish wiithiin the area assigned to this particular corporation. The
permits issued to the canneries designate the amount of gear and the
number of boats to be used and consequently the canuer selects the
With the hundred's of fish traps owned and controlled by the big
Interests, within the reservation, how many independent fishermen will
be needed to catch fish within the prescribed area? How many natives,
who have heretofore depended on their small catches from their purse
seines to sustain them from season to season, will be permitted to fish
these reserves when once under control of the monopolists? with the
deadly, depleting fish traps ait .their command, which will catch all the
fish needed for theur awn operations, the number of independent fisher
men required or permits issued by the big canning interests, can probably
be counted on the fingers of one hand.
Thus a world old industry in which men havp always exercised
their independence of monopolistic influence under restrictions that ap
plied to all alike, passes into corporate control, and the Alaska fisherman
becomes dependent upon California, Oregon or Washington residents,
who now control the waiters and to whose whim or caprice he is now
subject.—Ketchikan Daily News.
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A VKHY FOOLISH (JCKSTIO.N \\|) A WISE ONE
"Alaska has no desire to run necessary capital from the territory,
Kill we believe that the canneries bottlingg up the spawning streams
should be made to suspend operations at least every other year until tho
fish supply Is replenished. We believe that the small packer should hav .
the same rights to fish as the large combines have and vice versa. We
believe that a closed season should be established and adhered ro. The
pmsent laws are jokes, as the canner* can pay the fine and make thous
ands of dollars by fishing. If the cannery interests were barred entirely
from Alaska for a period of two to four years they would make more
mom y in the long run by reason o-f higher markets and more fish.'—
(Seward Gateway.)
There is not a question hut that steps must be taken soon to bring
about a greater escapement of salmon to the spawning grounds or the
fisheries industry of Alaska will be very »• riously affected. However, it
would lx; disastrous to close the ranneries entirely for that would result
in a destruction of the market. People would become accustomed to using
other foods. It has taken Lime and money to develop the demand for
canned salmon throughout the world, and there must be a continuation
of production or the demand may disappear to such an extent that the
work would have to be done over in large measure.
There is no question but that the small packers should have equal
rights w*ilth the large packers, and we know of none who does not recognize
that fact. Even the much abused Bureau of Fisheries has done nothing
to warrant the accusation that It is seeking to treat the small packers
unfairly. It has proposed the "reservation system” for the reason that
it seemed to it the moist feasible manner of proceeding in the absence of
legislation on the subject. Notwithstanding that the conservation of the
salmon supply in Alaska has been a matter of very tensive discussion in
Alaska for more than a decade there has been no legislation for Alaska
fisheries since 1906. The reservation system was not offered as a solu
tion of the situation but to meet an emergency that has been caused by
the failure of Congress to legislate.
The Empire quite agrees with fhc Gateway, however, that in the
end the proper "remedy must come from the Territorial Legislature.”
Many of the governmental ills with which Alaska is afflicted would be
cured if we had a full Territorial form of government.—.Juneau Empire.
WHY A DIVISION ?
Tii** Juneau Empire asks in what way in would benefit Alaska to
have the capital moved north, and says that interests in the ^hird divi
sion are no different from that in the First Division. The"Gateway be
lieves that this is an error, which upon reflection will be shown to be
wr* ng. The Gateway believes that Alaska and First Division have no
inter- '«• in common, and that the. political machinat-Lans of the First
division alone would divorce it from the rest of the Territory- Juneau
politics are manipulated from Seattle and Alaska politics are manipulated
from Juneau. The rest of Alaska has very little look-in. Suborddnate
positions it; th- Territory are filled from the walit-ing list ait Jmnoau.
Very few appointm* nts reach other divisions. The Territory is supplied
with printing from Juneau; other oflfrc.es having no look-in. even the
school being supplied with printing from the capital, despite the fact that
iit could be dene as cheaply and a.s well in the locations from which the
faxes are derived for the support of the schools. Offices of all kinds are
centralized at . uneau. despite the thousands -of miles of travel it takes
an incumbent to reach bis work in other parts of the territory; and ex
pensive and slow proceeding.
With the capital located at Seward it would shorten trips to the
capital by three weeks. It would allow’ residents of the Fourth. Third
and Second Divisions to do business here at the cost of not over thirty
dollars for the trip from the head of the government railway. Pt would
piece the bureaus where they would be centrally located, and in the heart
of the fishing industry. It would give Alaska a chance to develop and
Seward has no wish to grow at the expense of Juneau, or other
towns it the Territory, but a division of Alaska into two or more terri
toiies would not hurt the First division and would greafly enhance the
population of the Third and Fourth divisions -Seward Gateway.
\IU>I T THE NKWSIMI'KII.
Speaking of what a newspaper does in a community, the late
U-nUed States Senator Davis, of Illinois, made an address in which he said:
"Every year each local paper gives from $200 to $1,000 in free
lines to the city or town in whifh it is Ideated, in boosting, praising, and
for lodges, churches’, schools, societies, etc. The editor in proportion to
his means, does more for the town tha/n any other man in it. and he ought
to be supported, not because you like or dislike him and his style, but
because a local paper is one of the town’s beat futures. Today the local
papers are doing more for less pay than anything on earth, and it’s a
fact, as i« indicated in many cases of free notices.”—Fourth Estate.
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