Bird Creek Lumber Co.
Phone 52-Y
RECREATION
Bowling Alleys and Pool Parlors
YOUNG VIKING
H. HEGSTROM
Next to Harmony Theatre.
PLUMBING AND HEATING
Full Line of Plumbing Supplies, Pipes and Fittings.
PROMPT ATTENTION TO ALL ORDERS.
T. W. KENNEDY,
E St. Bet. 3rd and 4th. Next to Hotel Anchorage
EDW. T. McNALLY
WM. MAITLAND
M’Nally & Maitland
Lumber Wood
We carry a complete stock of common dimension. Fin
ish that is CLEAR and properly kiln-dried.
SALES AGENTS
ESKA CREEK COAL CO.
COAL $8.00 PER TON
Yard and Office Foot of 6 St.
Phone 41R
The Art Palace of Anchorage.
The First Building in Anchorage.
Carrying a high grade line of cigars, cigarettes, to
baccos. Strongest Fruit Department in the city.
Classical music rendered every afternoon and even
ing. Piano and violin. You will like it.
Have your mail sent to Montana Pool Room. You
can get it any time.
You are welcome ! ! Let’s get acquainted this winter.
A. CHIMENTO and ALEX TSAEUM1S, Proprietors.
daaasBH
UNION CIGAR STORE
4th Ave. Bet. C and B Sts.
Choice line of Cigars and
Tobaccos,
Confectionery and
Soft Drinks.
Meet Your Friends at the
UNION CIGAR STORE
GUS STIPOVICH and
OTTO GUSTOSON, Props.
Bread, Pies, Cakes, all the best at
the North Pole Bakery. 328
Cotton felt mattresses, bed springs
and linoleum, at Crocker’s.
Peterson’s Billiard Parlor for latest
war bulletins. 400
ANNOUNCEMENT.
The auditorium of the Alaska La
bor Temple may be rented for social
affairs and entertainment. Make your
booking's now at office in Labor Tem
ple.
Phone 43-Y for car, day or night.
Wood and1 coal a specialty. Universal
Taxi and’ Transfer. 126
Best music and entertainers at Pe
terson’s. 399
Try a Want Ad in The Times.
Good Coffee and light lunches at the
North Pole Bakery. 328
Time to fall in line with the others
that eat at Cameron’s Cafe. 354
FISH TRUST
WASHINGTON, Jan. 6.—Staunch
opposition has developed in congress
to the Alaskan fisheries bill as the re
sult of charges that the measure is
being urged by a number of large
packing concerns seeking to monopo
lize the fishing and canning industry
in the northern territory.
The firm of Libby, McNeill & Libby,
said to be owned and operated by the
Swift family of packers, and the
Booth Fisheries company, are two Chi
cago concerns attacked by enemies of
the bill, as working to control the
Alaskan salmon output.
The third concern said to be inter
ested in the passage of the bill is the
Alaska Packers association, also con
trolled by a food distributing agency,
and said to be connected with an or
ganization-recently formed to control
the California output of dried and
canned fruits and nuts.
Charges to Be Renewed.
When the bill comes again for con
sideration by the house it is expect
ed that charges made in recent de
bate on the measure will be renewed.
As uttered by Delegate Wickcrsham
of Alaska, Congressman Kent of Cali
fornia and others, the charges include:
1. A practical monopoly of the
Alaska canning industry lies in the
hands of the three concerns named,
which are said to produce 50 per cent
of the Alaskan fisheries output from
their own field and canneries, and to
control 30 per cent more through
working agreements with other can
neries, and through an alleged ability
to fix prices for the trade.
2. The concerns have been extend
ing thejr influence, and absorbing
small concerns in recent years.
3. At present, all canners ant) com
mercial fishers have only a possessory
right to fish the Alaskan streams, and
may be deprived of this privilege, or
restricted as to their operations.
However the effect of the fisheries
bill would be to create perpetual and
exclusive rights and to subject fishing
operations only to such conservation
restrictions as subsequent legislation
may impose.
Locations Are Surveyed.
The number of streams and locations
where commercial salmon fishing can
be conducted at a profit in Alaska is
limited by the peculiar habits of the
fish, and bears no definite relation to
the 26,000 miles of coast line.
It was suggested that, in anticipa
tion of the bill’s enactment, concerns
in the so-called Fish trust, have been
taking serveys of all promising 1 op
tions.
The bill provides that a survey and
plat filed with the department of com
merce is the only step necessary to ob
tain exclusive fishing privileges.
Trust Raises Prices.
The effect of the virtual monopoly
which the few big canneries are al
leged to have enjoyed has increased
thecost of salmon 68 per cent in fif
teen years, and has resulted in a dis
crimination against varieties of sal
mon which dominated in the hauls of
independent canners, in favor of red
salmon, when that variety constituted
the greater part of the Fish trust’s
pack.
The fisheries bill, which bears the
name of Congressman Alexander of
Missouri, chairman of the house com
mittee on merchant marine and fish
eries, has the‘sanction of the depart
ment of commerce and the bureau of
fisheries.
Enemies of the measure have charg
ed that this official support was ob
tained by so framing the bill as to in
dicate that it seeks to centralize the
bureau’s control of the Alaskan fish
food supply, with a view to its protec
tion and conservation.
Rights Are Assignable.
The bill provides that exclusive
fishing rights are acquired by any
person who files a map of the site with
the department and conveyed also to
the "heirs, administrators, executors,
successors or assignees,” of such per
son.
Delegate Wickersham said:
‘‘Any person or corporation may lo
cate trap sites. He may locate as
many as he pleases. The site assign
able, or saleable, and the monopoliz
ing corporation may purchase from
anyone who locates any number of
them. They are actually doing it, at
present. They have hundreds of trap
sites already surveyed, the surveys
made, many of them filed and the rest
of them ready to file as soon as the
bill is passed.”
Congressman Kent declared:
“The bill obviously grants great and
unfair preference to those already on
the ground, and doubtless have al
ready prepared careful surveys of
what they desire in the way of fishing
privileges to give them at the outset
all those strategic points in the per
petuity. The bill would render feas
ible a practical monopoly of the fish
taking privilege, for although fishing
might be conducted outside of the
privilege granted under the bill, it
will be in waters not sufficiently valu
able to induce the cost of survey.”
The Alaskan fisheries food supply is
valued roughly at $400,000,000.
Half of World’s Output.
Its output in 1915, approximately
half of the entire salmon output of the
world, was appraised at $19,000,000
wholesale price.
Out of a world’s total salmon pack
of 7,998,601 cases, valued at $39,926,
261 in 1916, Alaska produced 4,489,341
cases.
The Alexander bill is on the house
calendar for probable call Wednesday.
Debate of five hours last Wednesday
failed to exhaust the measure’s possi
bilities, and a heated discussion is ex
pected when it is resumed.
PLAN NAVIGABLE CHANNEL
FROM HUDSON BAY TO GULF
A navigable channel from Hudson
bay to the Gulf of Mexico that would
put the water that covers 1,250,000
acres of land near Bemidjii, Can., into
the gulf, was planned by a committee
meeting held at that city during the
past summer. The meeting was com
posed of representatives of all Minne
sota development associations and cit
izens of Beltrami county most serious
ly affected.
The estimated cost of the proposed
plan is $25,000,000. The Mississippi
river is navigable to St. Paul, and it is
planned to bring the channel to the ca
nal to that point.
GEORGE OSBORNE
The Leading Jeweler and Optician.
We are closing out our entire line of
Gorham’s Sterling silver ware. We
have on hand a complete line in the
two most up-to-date and artistic pat
terns. Don’t fail to take advantage of
the big sale in Gorham’s sterling sil
ver ware. Our stock is complete and
up-to-date. Closing out at cost. 391
Daily War Bulletins at Peterson’s.
THE HOUSE OF CLEAN
SPORT.
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WORLDS
BEST
ROBARTS’ BILLIARD
AND BOWLING
PARLORS.
P. O. Opposite.
Pioneer Sheet
Metal Works
YUKON STOVES
— AND —
HEATERS
Corner Fifth and C St*.
Anchorage - Alaska
BAXTER’S
MAGAZINES
PERIODICALS
NEWSPAPERS
Panorama Photographs
Anchorage and
Mount McKinley
Inlet Soda Works
W. A. TAYLOR, Proprietor
Manufacturers of all kinds of
MINERAL WATERS, SODA
CIDER, SYRUPS.
AGENTS FOR GRAPE JUICE
Anchorage - - Alaska
FREDERICK&NELSON
SEATTLE
Invite you to send to them for
such items in FURNITURE and
DRY GOODS as cannot be readily
supplied by the merchants in your
own community.
All such orders received by
FREDERICK & NELSON receive
the prompt, personal attention of
an expert shopper, and Parcel Post
shipments are sent POSTAGE
PAID to any point in Alaska.
Granite Candles
For Sale
Polley Bros.
THE FAIRBAHKS
4th and D
MEN’S CLOTHIERS
ROY FAIRBANKS, Prop.
B. C. NICHOLS
WATCH MAKER AND
JEWELER.
\
Anchorage, Alaska.
NEW CRESCENT HOTEL
F. W. REDWOOD & CO., Props.
Warm Rooms. Moderate Rates. Hot
Baths.
Cor. Fourth and C. Anchorage
Phone 43-Y for car, day or night
Wood and coal a specialty. Universal
Taxi and Transfer. 126
Union Laundry
and Bath House
Fourth Ave., Between H andL
Anchorage fl
OCR WORK 18 GUARANTEED
—and—
SANITARY
THE LARGEST AND CLEANEST
BATH TUBS IN ANCHORAGE
THE COOK INLET
TRANSFER CO.
Sanitary Market
The only told storage plant in con
nection with market In Anchorage.
Home-made Sausages. Fruits. Veg
etables, Butter and Eggs, at whole
sale. Restaurants and roadhouses.
S|iociiir attention.
Uh Ave.. Bet> H and 1 Sts.
E. E. KURTZ & CO.
THE SYDNEY 1
LAURENCE CO.
COMMERCIAL AND ^
PICTORIAL PHOTOGRAPHY
Interior, Flashlight Work a
Specialty.
Kodak Developing and Printing
HARMONY THEATRE.
CHOVIN SUPPLY
5th and C.
Carries Everything in Electri
cal Supplies and Fixtures
to make a happy Home
Agent for
FRISCO STANDARD
GAS ENGINES.
CARROL & CO.
Fourth St., near E
MEN’S OUTFITTERS
Complete stock of Clothing,
Shoes and furnishings.
LEARN TO DANCE.
Latest Dauces Taught. Begli
ners given special attention. For a
pointment call at third house fro
C on 6th Ave.
WU. BUNTING.
C. HENNING
TAILOR.
Ladies’ and Gentlemen’s
Suits Cleaned, Pressed and
Repairedt 4th Ave. and D St.
Tony's Cafe
OPPOSITE EMPRESS
THEATRE.
TABLES FOR LADIES—
—NEWLY REMODELED
Kitak Show Case Co.
Furniture, Cabinets.
Bank and Office Fixtures
Made To Order
Kiln Dried & Seasoned Lumber
Factory Opposite White House
HOTEL SEWARD
511 THIRD AVE. f)
Arctic Club Bldg., SEATTLE, WASH.
ZBINDEN BROS., Props.
Rooms 51.00 Special
With Bath fl.60 Weekly Rates