Respect fully,
(Signed) J. H. TRAVER
Klawock, A. N. B. No.9
(Editor’s Note):—The officers of
file law know that our correspond
ent is right. We once asked a high
official of the Bureau of Fisheries
“What would you do if you caught
nip with my seine with salmon in it
in the water the day after the closed
season”? He answered, “I would
a/vest you.” But, we remarked.
“Suppose I told you that I caught
them during the open season and
TOURISTS CAN GET
ALASKA CURIOS and
MOMENTOS at
Ska^wav Drusr Oo.
PERRY HERN
Totems. Moccasins, Spoons
Skagrvay, Alaska
DR. L. P. DAWES
Physician and Surgeon
First National Bank
Building
Phone 2602 Juneau
r.
was merely holding it.” lit; answer
ed: ”1 would make you prove it in
court.” Then we said, ‘‘Why don’t
v >; do the same to the traps”?
PROOF OF TIIK 1>LT)I)!X’
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The assumption has been prepond
erantlv steadfast that mining is du
extremely hazardous investment
literally, thousands shudder at the
v" it thought of placing their hard
earned money in mining ventures yet
fervently embiaee the opportunity
to piu their savings in a mercantile
business or realize what chance they
have of getting their money hacit
to say nothing of profits, when once
their money is in these oceupatons.
Bi 'idstreet’s compilations of business
successes indicates that in a mer
cantile business the investor lias less
than one chance in ten for success
In manufacturing the odds are al
most eight to one against him, while
in agriculture more than five to one
against. in comparison to these
slight chances for safety in invest
ment we find MINING with every
two out of three ventures successful.
In actual figures we have the stor>
All Kinds of Engraving and Watch and Jewelry Repairing
All Work Guaranteed at
PRUELL’S GIFT SHOP
Ketchikan,. Alaska
Fcr Supplies of
MERCHANDISE AND LUMBER
Consult
METLAKATLA COMMERCIAL CO
emohatically demonstrated:
MINING -.
Farming - ---
Manufacturing - - - -
Merchandising
9%
Another angle to look at the cam
punitive industries, after having so
convincingly shattered the illusion
as to rheir safety and non-safety, :s
tie measure of profit they return.
And again we find that mining re
tinas a percentage of profit over
whelmingly larger than any other
industry. Mining returns more than
six times the percentage of profit
given investors in any other indus
try.
Again the figures tell the story:
MINING-18 6%
Insurance --31%
Motors-- — 8%
Rails..51/2 %
Again we say “the proof of the
pudding,” —“Underground”
SALMON PACK FIGURES
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Reports of the successful packing
season were recently given by Capt.
H. NT. Peterson of the motorship
Mr.- grit a.
The Deep Sea Salmon Packing
Company at Port Althrop leads the
plants according to Capt. Peterson’s
information, with a pack of 220.000
cases. Other packs as he reported
them, are: Northwestern Fisheries,
Dundas Ray 47.000; P. E. Harris,
Hawk Inlet, 57,000; Sunny Point
Packing Company, Funter Bay, 00,
000; Astoria-Puget Sound, Excur
sion Inlet, 112.000; Pacific-Amer!
can Fisheries, Excursion Inlet, 100,
000, Alaska Consolidated. Tenakee,
50,000’ Todd Packing Company,
Todd, 45.000; Sehastian-Stuart, Type
40,000.
HERRING PLANTS
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Herring plants are also having: n
good season, and the figures on
those given out by Capt. Peterson,
are: Arenfsen, Pig Port Walter, 30
000; Chatham Fish Company, New
Pott Walter, 20,000; Northwestern