rock cod, soles, flounders, and
such like, I can cite as an ex
ample the development ol such
a fleet, the Ginnie fleet of old
T wharf, Boston, Massachusetts,
where I was brought up in the
fish business.
The Ginnie fleet at the time
I was there in 1903 and for a
few years after consisted of
small Swampscott dories, 15 to
20 feet long with a center board,
and rigged up with a sail, no
power of any sort excepting
good strong backs and a pair of
oars. That fleet brought in just
such small fish as is mentioned
here, fishing just outside Bos
ton Light.
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School
SITKA, ALASKA
High School
and
Industrial Training
Write for Information
Conservation Of
Interests
By i^. S. 11 u:\irerlord
o
Why is it ‘hat. after a hundred and
fifty years of epoch making progress
■ o the settling and developing of a
new land, under laws which allowed
the man or woman with ambition
and backbone enough to move to the
edge oL settlement, tile on a piece of
land and acquire a patent title to
that land, to have and to hold, our
governing bodies some years since
passed a law putting a stop to such
procedure?
It must be that the old order
ehangeth.
It must be that the private citizen
can no longer be trusted with pro
1 erty. Especially timber or prospec
tive oil or coal lands. It must be
that advanced thinking legislators
realize that our forefathers made an
awful mess of things when they
allowed so much of the country to
get into the hands of irresponsible
( w n era.
I would hate to think it an im
mense conspiracy or graft being
worked oil tlie people of this United
Mates of America under the guise
of efficiency and conservation of
national resources.
You cannot blame the Sinclairs
of the past or the Zellerbachs or
Camerons of the possible future for
v anting a nice juicy plum if it may
he safely plucked. It is more sim
ple and cheaper to contract to buy,
tax exempt, pay as you use it tim
ber than it is to buy outright.
I will admit that there are au aw
ful lot of hard heads among private
citizens. Some of them might even
refuse to sell timber holdings unless
they got a reasonable price. Some
might even be fools enough to think
that with some privately owned tim
ber in the not very distant future
they would have a valuable and mar
ketable asset.
Large export mills would realize
tiiat legs could be put into tlieir log
booms here cheaper than they could
<m Puget Sound and would no doubt
be willing to put in sawmills, pro
Vding of course that they can have
an assurance of log supply free from
the dictates of their competitor.
l'ulp and paper mills are essential
and will one day be the greatest in
lust ry of Southeastern Alaska. But
is it necessary to tie up vast areas
(f timber for their exclusive benefit?
Are they such papered weaklings
that they cannot go into the open
market for their raw material here
as elsewhere?
They will get it as cheaply as
possible never fear and the people
of Alaska will get little enough for
tlieir hardships and privations even
if they have the disposal of their
own timber, but if we have to stand
ov and see the present plans put
through under the name of economy
; ud conservation, the dose will be
very, very bitter. How bitter, will
i.ot be realized in full until we at
tain Statehood.
I cannot think that this South
eastern Alaska is deliberately being
>etrayed to the timber interests even
it' all the fac+s of the ease point that
v. ay.
It must be that Roosevelt and his
advisors and their more recent suc
c ssor in office realize that the pri
vate citizens small holdings of tim
ber was in a fair way to overwhelm
ihe large timber holding companies,
lliat if the balance of available tim
ber was not at once withdrawn from
entry, these poor companies who al
ready had hundreds of millions of
dollars invested in standing timber
would have to compete in the open
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