BRITISH COLUMBIA FISH
Steady Increase In Country Where
No Fish Traps Permitted
All intelligent citizens of the United States,
please take notice that British Columbia uses
no fish traps and yet put up the largest pack of
salmon in 1926 in the history of her fishing.
The pack was 2,064,922 cases compared to a pack
of 1,747,505 for 1924, the next highest pack.
Do Fishermen Complain
Do fishermen complain about not being able
to make a living? Not so that anybody could
hear them. Canadian fishermen are prosperous.
( comparative Earnings
Several boats that we know about earned in
British Columbia over $1,000 per share. This
gives to each man over $1,000 and to the boat
and seine owner $5,000.
Page Ed. Morrissey and John W. Troy
The earnings of Alaskan seiners for 1926 was
less than $100 per share. This gives to each
man $100 and $500 to the owner of the boat and
gear.
Businessmen, Answer Us.
If you are indeed businessmen, O ye Com
mercial Clubs of Ketchikan and Juneau, is it
not better business for each seine boat to earn
$8,000 per boat as in British Columbia, instead
of $800 as in Ketchikan? IT CAN BE DONE,
but you will have to pull your necks out of
the cannerymen’s collar.
PROSPECTORS DECREASING SAYS
GOVERNMENT REPORT
“The shortage of enterprising prospectors is
a serious drawback that has resulted because
wages for comparable work are actually lower
in Alaska than in the States, though expenses
are higher. As a consequence, Alaska does not
attract or hold the class of prospectors it for
merly did/’ according to a statement issued on
December 30 last by the Department of the In
terior through the Geological Survey.
Usual Correctness of Bureaus.
This is abput as correct as a Washington
Bureau can be when dealing with Alaskan af
fairs. It is indeed very hard to know Alaskan
conditions here 4000 miles from Washington.
And yet the Bureaus think they alone can
govern Alaska.
The Trouble
Lower wages is only part of the trouble, al
tho wages are generally lower in Alaska than
in the States.
The other half of the story is this; prospect
ors usually made their stake by going fishing
during the summer. In 60 days they formerly
made enough to carry them. all Fall, Winter
and Spring. With the advent of the fish trap,
independent fishermen have almost disappeared.
Those who remain make less than wages. Con
sequently no one can afford to go prospecting.
LAW ENFORCEMENT IN KETCHIKAN
The Federal authorities have closed up “the
Line” on “the Creek.’* This has caused the
Ketchikan Chronicle to publish an editorial.
The doctrine set forth is so astonishing and
novel and yet reveals so completely the philos
ophy of Edward G. Morrissey, its publisher,
the man who is honored and advanced on all
occasions by “the leading business men of
Ketchikan,” that we wish to reprint portions
of it with our comments, as follows;
“The Abatement Route”
“It was four years ago this coming March
that a hypocritical official started abatement
proceedings against the red light district, so
called, of Ketchikan.”
The raids were started by the pastor of the
Methodist Church, who deserted Charles H.
Miller, the United States attorney, when he per
formed his sworn duty according to the tenor
of inspired sermons. The hypocrisy was in the
church members and in the Ketchikan Com
mercial Club and in the editor of the Ketchikan
Chronicle whose God is Money.
Charles H. Miller was forced out by a com
bination of Arthur Shoup, his chief, and Mr.
Holland assistant to the Attorney General of
the United States. As a result, (Chronicle)
“The district again flourished as of old. * * *
They plied their calling. * * * They can be
wiped out. And they will be. * * * There
will be permanent injunctions against the in
dividuals and if they fail to abide by the orders
of the court they will, without jury trial, be
thrown into jail and fined heavily. * * * There
can be no defense of crime and corruption, but