jects or monuments should be given.
(d) The approximate acreage if
tne application is for unsurveyed
land.
References Required
(e) Two references as to appli
cant’s reputation and business stand
ing.
(f) The kind of or kinds of fur
bearing animals to be raised, and
if foxes, whether silver, blue or
white.
(g) The number of fur-bearing
unimals the applicant expects to
have on the leased land within one
year from the date of the lease.
(h) A showing that the appli
cant has a permit to take animals
with which to stock the leased
land.
(i) A statement as to whether
the land Is occupied, claimed, or
used by natives of Alaska or oth
ers, and if so the nature of the
use and occupancy.
Bight of Preference
Anyone who In good faith is oc
cupying an island or other tract of
land in good faith for the purpose
of raising fur-bearing animals and
who was unable to obtain a per
mit or lease because of lack of
legal authority shall have a pre
ference right to file an application
for a lease at any time within six
months from the date of these
regulations. An pllicant claiming
such preference right must state
fully the facts upon which the
claim is based.
No lease under this act for the
purpose of raising beavers shall be
granted on any area already oc
cupied by a beaver colony and no
such lease shall be charged on
streams or lakes which will inter
fere with the spawning grounds of
salmon.
Petitions Investigated
. .When the copy of the applica
When the copy of the applica
tion is received by the Division In
spector he will cause an investiga
tion to be made and report fully
to the Commissioner of the General
Land Office as to the improvements,
if any, existing on the lands; a•
to tlieir uae and occupancy and as
to the feasibility of granting the
lease.
upon the Issuance of a lease un
der this act the Register of the
U. JS. District Land Oihce for tne
district within which land leased is
situated will furnish the newspaper
nearest said land a statement of the
issuance of the lease, containing
the name of the lessee and a des
cription of the leased land, each
statement to be published as an
item of news.
Rentals Are Fixed
Every lessee under this act, shali
pay to the lessor in advance a
minimum rental of $25 per annum,
no leases for all tracts up to and
including 6 40 acres and a mini
mum of $50 annual rental on leases
of tracts exceeding 040 acres, and
shall pay a maximum rental equal
to a royalty of 1 oer cent on the
gross returns derived from the sale
ot live animals and pelts, if the
amount thereof exceeds the mini
mum rental mentioned, such yearly
rental to be credited against the
royalties as they acrue for that
year.
The lease under this act will be
subject to cancellation by the Sec
retary of the Interior for failure
of the lessee to comply with any
of the conditions enumerated there
in or to exercise due diligence in
vaising the kind or kinds of fur
nearing animals specilied in the
lease or for the devotion of the
leased area primarily to any purpose
other than the raising of fur-bear
ing animals.
Cancellation of Lease
A lease will be automatically can
celed for failure of the lessee to
place on the leased area the num
oer and kind of fur-bearing animals
specified in the lease within a
period of one year from the date
of said lease as follows: when the
lease embraces an area not exceed
ing 6 40 acres not less than two
pairs (two males and two females)
of such animals shall be placed on
the land within th© year; four
pairs on areas between 640 and 3,000
acres and six pairs on areas exceed
mg 6,000 acres.
fertilizer from nerring
in me annual Keport oil the Bu
reau oi f isheries tor 1910, when
mat uureau was ably managed by
executives who recognized their
responsibilities as trustees oi our
nsneues, the question oi making
lertilizer irom herring was thus
summed up:
“The use of herring in the
manuiaclure oi fertilizer and oil
as conhiciing with its use by man
directly as a food and bait hsh,
and indirectly tnrough the depend
ence oi the valuable king salmon
nsnery upon it as food material,
yivfiK raise to a somewhat, nuzzlimr
question of right and administra
uve policy.
The present fisheries law does
not prohibit such use of food fishes,
and there is now one plant, that
of the Alaska Oil & Guano Co., at
Killisnoo, in S. E. Alaska, engaged
in the industry. This year this
plant caught 59,000 barrels of
herring, with an aggregate weight,
roughly, of il,i>00,000 pounds. Of
these all but 130 barrels which
were pickled for use as bait, were
converted into fertilizer and oil.
It is easy to conceive of com
mercial uses to which fishes are
put which take precedence ovet
other uses with respect to public
advantage. Thus the manufacture
of fertilizer and oil from fishes is
a lower use, inferior to the bus
iness of preparing food products
trorn fishes, or even to tneir use
as bait for food fisbes. Thus the
menhaden ranks lower than the
herring. Such a view in par
grows out of the fact that these
fertilizer and oil products, quite
legitimate in themselves, do not
depend entirely on fishes for their
raw material. Furthermore even
fish fertilizer and fish oil do not
depend upon the herring, for var
ious nonedible fishes, as the men
haden, are available. The general