The Norco punctured her hull
when she went on a rock while
being beached for repairs to
her propeller at Ketchikan re
cently. Part of her cargo of
fish was damaged. Temporary
repairs were made and the ves
sel towed to Seattle for com
plete repairs.
We take it that the different
marine ways and shipyards of
Alaska are not competent to
handle this work Else why
should the repairs be done in
Seattle.
I he Portlock which was
wrecked last year was taken
to Seattle for repairs and no
consideration given the Peters
burg marine ways who made
a bid for the job. The Peters
burg Packing company which
pays the immense sum of $8,000
for doing business in Peters
burg spent $14,000 repairing
their boats in Seattle last year.
Every bit of which work could
Have been done just as well
in Petersburg as not.
The resident pays the great
est part of the burden of gov
ernment and he pays it the
year around. Visiting capit
alists spending $100,000 in
Petersburg to “fishermen” pay
a tax on a plant assessed at
$60,000. The company would
not take that amount for their
fleet of boats let alone the
equipment for operating their
cannery and manufacturing and
trade site.
Furthermore, the Petersburg
Packing company comes to
town offers to take a certain
amount of electricity provided
they are given preferential rate
over the citizens who have put
in the plant and are paying
the major share of interest on
bonds against the plant.
Hurrah for the packing com
pany. The bigger it gets the
lower the tax and the more
favor must we grant them. Aft
er awhile they will wonder
what right we have to live at
all in Alaska; i
> In the meantime the way to
build up Alaska :in general and
Petersburg in particular, is to
send all repair work to Seattle;
order all groceries and supplies
from Seattle; do all your bank
ing in Seattle. In fact invest
in Sears, Roebuck bonds and
throw a few “bones” to local
business and call it developing
Alaska.—Petersburg Alaskan.
The petition to Congress
protesting the wanton waste
and destruction of herring has
received over a thousand sig
natures from fishermen, bus
inessmen and residents of the
Territory. The various Com
mercial organizations have put
their seal of approval upon the
protest and copies are being
return to Dan Alstan, origin
ator of the protest. The local
Commercial Club has not yet
taken any positive action on
this important subject.
Too much credit cannot be
given “Dangerous Dan” for the
part he has taken in printing
and circulating this protest. A
man without means, backing or
organization, he has successful
ly engineered this protest and
secured the approval of all fish
ermen and every businessman
who has given the matter un
biased thot has also put his
sign of approval upon it. Glory
to Dan. May his name go
down in Alaska history as one
who without financial aid of
any kind has successfully pre
served to posterity one of Al
aska’s greatest assets—the her
ring —Petersburg Alaskan.
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