“No One^Need Blush”
“No member of the Commer
cial Club of Ketchikan need
blush for his membershrip or for
the thing’s for which has
stood and for which it stands
today. Its aims and objects are
a better and bigger Ketchikan,
prosperity for all Alaska, coop
eration between men of all call
ings, good schools, greater op
portunties, happiness, content
ment and understanding, as
against misunderstanding, sus
picion a n d destructiveness.”
This is from the Ketchikan
Chronicle.
There is no doubt but what
the Commercial Club stands for
a bigger and better Ketchikan
and prosperity for all Alaska.
But in their scheme of things
the “bigger and better Ketchi
kan” comes first. That explains
their stand on closing Prince
Rupert. A closed Prince Rupert
would mean an immediate dorp
in the price of halibut. But it
would also mean that the buy
ers would move to Ketchikan
and a rise in the value of water
front property. That is where
the Commercial Club comes in
—the managers of the Club
would find their immediate
wealth doubled.
The influence of Prince Ru
pert on halibut prices is too well
known to admit of conjecture.
The increase came first when
Prince Rupert became a buying
port. Each time that that port
has been closed (as thru the
blocking of outgoing trains) the
price in Ketchikan (from the
same buyers who now say that a
closed Prince Rupert will in
crease the profits of the fisher
men- has dropt. Within recent
years, the drop was to 6 cents.
The Commercial Club lays
claim in the Chronicle editorial
to great power—for example,
the second cold storage plant
would not have come to Ketchi
kan but for its efforts; the es
tablishment of mail service
about Prince of Wales Island;
the increased price allowed Am
erican fishermen over Canadian
fishermen at Prince Rupert; the
transfer of cable headquarters
to Ketchikan.
No doubt their assistance and
support had its influence. But
it is too much to claim all the
credit.
Here is where their claim to
power can be demonstrated. Let
the storage facilities be made
sufficient to handle ALL the hal
ibut that might be said in Ket
chikan, and then let the buyers
pay a price equal to that at
Prince Rupert, and then WITH
OUT closing Prince Rupert ALL
the American halibut would be
handled thru this port of Ket
chikan.
If the judgment of the Club is
mistaken, the open port of
Prince Rupert would act as an
insurance to the fishermen. By
the frequent testing of that mar
ket, the fishermen would be kept
satisfied that there was no col
lusion among the American buy
ers. Then there would really be
contentment and prosperity for
the fishermen and for Ketchi
kan.
We have been informed that
Air. W. Schlothan is supporting
the halibut men in their con
tentions.
MSII TAGGING EXPERIMENTS
ARE REVEALED
-o
Tagging experiments of the
Pacific Biological Station at Na
naimo, B. C., have been extensive
and complete, the greatest ever
made on the Pacific Coast, dele
gates announced at the opening
of the fourth annual meeting of
the International Salmon Inves
tigation Federation.
Information gathered by the
state departments of Washing
ton and Oregon are being ex
changed with experts of the De
partment of Marine and Fisher
ies of Canada.
Information gathered by the
state departments of Washing
ton and Oregon are being ex
changed with experts of the De
partment of Marine and Fisher
ies of Canada.
Henry O'Malley, United States
Fisheries Commissioner, was
presiding at the Federation. Dr.
W. A. Clemens told of the results
of tagging salmon. This show
ed that 60 per cent of the sal
mon bask on the west side of
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