A Gratifying Showing
The circumstances that the Ju
neau Lumber Mill£» will exceed by
17 per cent, its estimates of the
number of box shooks it will manu
facture this year is gratifying. Last
winter Mr. Rutherford, estimated
that his company would produce
600,000 box shooks in 1927 as
compared with 450,000 in 1926.
The boxes made and for which or
ders are now in hand will number
702,000. Mr. Rutherford now pre
dicts a further increase of more
than 40 per cent for the next year.
This situation is gratifying not
only on account of the increased
business that has come to this im
portant Juneau concern, but be
cause it is evidence that the salmon
packers were not talking idly when
they declared that they meant to
purchase all they can in Alaska. It
means that if Alaskans will prepare
to supply the canneries with their
needs they will have a market for
such products and labor as the pack
ers can use.
Juneau is fortunate in the cir
cumstance that the management of
the Juneau Lumber Mills has had
the enterprize to prepare to supply
the canneries with their needs in
one important line.—Empire.
The fact that canneries are plac
ing larger orders for Alaska pro
ducts is directly due to the fight for
Alaska by regular Republicans. The
credit is not due to the Juneau Em
pire whose policy has encouraged
the canneries to patronize Seattle.
In order to gain friends, the can
neries have begun to place their or
ders in Alaska.
A direct criticism that men like
Rutherford of the Juneau Mill must
face is this; he is employing a larg
er and larger percentage of Fili
pinos at decreasing wages—wag*es
for which decent white men and In
dians cannot work.
In addition, these Filipinos im
ported by Rutherford are demoral
izmg the native women around Ju
neau.
It is to be hoped that these mat
ters will be corrected.
“A MONUMENT TO HOOVER”
“As time goes on and present
episodes become history, I am cer
tain that among the monuments
which mark the career of Herbert
Hoover will be found one inscribed
to the man who saved the salmon
fisheries of Alaska.” Hon. Arthur
M. Free.
History should show that Her
bert Hoover tried to fasten the re
servation system on Alaska and
that a bill from his department
was introduced in Congress for
this purpose.
The bill under which the Bu
reau of Fisheries is “saving our
fisheries” was opposed by the Bu
reau. The objection was against
the clause that prohibits the Sec
retary of Commerce from giving
anybody an “exclusive right of fish
ery.” Due to this clause, fish traps
will eventually be abolished.
The monument however will be
to Dan Sutherland.
TRAPS MENACE TROLLERS
The following newsitem should be
food for thought. We have long
known that traps catch thousands
of pounds of king salmon.. But
the trollers have never given It a
thought. They have left it to sein
ers and their friends to carry on
the fight against the fish trap. The
news item taken from the Ketchi
kan Chronicle of June 10th, 1927.
FIRST TRAP RIFT
OF SEASON MADE BY
BEEGLE PACKING CO.
What is believed to be the first
trap __ lift of the season was made
yesterday at Foggy point trap
from which 2200 pounds of salmon
were taken and sold.
The catch was mostly king sal
mon with a few sockeyes, dogs and
“scrap fish.”
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TOURISTS CAN GET
ALASKA CURIOS and
MOMENTOS at
Skagway Drug Co.
PERRY HERN
Totems, Moccasins, Spoons
Skagway, Alaska
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ROT BAKER?
Also Has Fine Ice Cream
and Fruit
SITKA, ALASKA
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SITKA CAMP
ALASKA NATIVE
BROTHERHOOD
Meets 8 P. M. Mondays
President: Secretary:
Mark Jacobs A. Hope
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Wrangell Steam
Laundry
M. O. JOHNSON, Prop.
First Class Work
Telephone 28
Butterhoru Bakery
The House that Quality Built
Ketchikan. Alaska
C. M. & R. L. CARLSON
Optometrists Opticians
219 Commercial Bldg.
Phone Black 423
Ketchikan Grocery
R. W. EDMONDS, Prop.
Redman Building, Phone 71
Night Phone—Green 233
Ketchikan, Alaska
Thwaites Photo Shop
Ketchikan
Kodak Finishing
Copying—Enlarging