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TOKOTNA, ALASKA. NOV. 10, 102:5
Alaska’s Fisheries,
as Viewed by Late
President Harding
-tegaruing Alaska's fisheries, the
ate President Harding, in his Seattle
address, spoke as follows:
‘ The -greatest Alaskan industry
stands in an entirely different relation
than either gold or copper. I refer to
the fisheries, which in present wealth
producing potency far exceed the
mines. In fact, the fisheries produet is
tow in value more than doublo that of
ali ciotals and minerals. It is too great
.or the good of the Territory, for if it
'ball continue without more general
3od effective regulation than is now
.mposed, it will presently exhaust the
ish.aDd leave no basis for the industry.
“One must know the natural history
of the salmon, the supremely important
Alaskan fish, to appraise the fisheries
problem. We do not need to enlighten
Pacific coast people, who understand
the subject, but many others lack un
derstanding. The salmon normally be
gins ami ends his,,HV^ in fresh water,
but grows and Jives in the ocean. A
sohpol of small fish, hatched in a par
ticular stream, go out to sea, and are
ost lor a period of years. Id that time
they grow into the magnificent crea
tures we all know. Then they return,
with seemingly unerring instinct, to
the vary 3pot in which they were
hatched, to.reproduce their kind, and
then to die. They congregate on their
way back into great schools, plowing
X.aeir way up to'the stream of their na
tivk.y. Full-grown and perfectly con
ditioned, they are now ripe for the en
terprise of the fisherman and the can
2er, Their habit of traveling in schools
is their undoing, for the fishermen
with their nets and traps literally
scopp entire schools into their gear,
and; thus gradually exterminate the
entire fish population of a particular
small stream. Thereafter that atrearn
1 srixl bo barret1, unless a sufficient pro
oor^ion of the isehool is permitted to
PROFESSIONAL
\lbrecht and Taylor
LAWYERS
iditarod* Alaska,
Practioe in all Courts.
2,000 Reindeer For Sale
My herd of about two thousand
1 reindeer, mostly females, are for
sale at Twenty Dollars) per head
A. H. Twitchell - Tokotna, Alaska
escape to spawn and perpetuate it. Too
often this does not happen, as is proved
by the history of both our Atlantic and
Pacific coast salmon fisheries, and the
I’ecord of fisheries elsewhere which de
pend on fish with similar life habits.
The progressive disappearance of sal
mon along our coasts from California
northward is a story whose repetition
ought to warn us to protect it in Alaska
before it is too late. The salmon pack
not only represents nine-tenths of the
output of Alaska . commercial .fish
eries, but is an important contribution
to our national food supply.
"ft is vastly more easy to dec,are for
protection and conservation of such a
resource than to form an accurate and
equitable program. Fish hatcheries
have been established to restock
streams, but the results are still con
jectural and controversial. Argument
is advanced for the abolition of one
method of fishing in cue spot, the con
demnation of another type in another,
and so on until there is a confusion of
local controversies which no specific
and exclusive prohibition will solve.
Even in his cruder pursuit of the tish
industry, the Indian seeks for himself
the device which he would have denied
to the canner. But there is encour
agement in the almost unanimous
agreement in AJaska that regulation
must and shall be enforced, and we
must apply a practical wisdom to the
varied situations us the salvage of the
industry demands. Against any kind
of prohibition, it is urged that the itn
tnense investment in Alaska's fisheries '
and canneries would be greatly injured
by such a reduction of the catch. To
this it may well bo replied that the
canneries would better have their
catches restricted by government regu
lation for a time than exterminated in
a few years through their own ex
cesses. By the establishment of re
serves along sections of the coast we
have alreadv accomplished much. More
restriction is Dec<s*ary, and urgent.
The conservation must be effected. !f
Congress cannot, agree upon a program
of helpful legislation, the conservations
and their regulations will be further
extended by executive order. There is
an obligation to the native Alaskan In
dian. which conscience demands us to I
■
fulfil. Moreover, the salvation of the
industry is no blow at, vested interests,
it is a step toward protected investment
and prompted public welfare. We have
invited co-operation, and in the great
majority of cases it has been cordially
and intelligently extended. Lf there is
defiance, it is better to destroy the de
fiant investor than to demolish a na
tional resource, which needs only
guarding agaiDst greed to remain a
permanent asset of incalculable value.
Moreover, we have ever to guard
against the appeal,of the demagogue,
whose piay on popuia" prejudice for
political advantage has no place in the
solution of the great problems of na
tional conservatism.”
Muggins—Did Wigwag go in for ath
letics when he was in college?
Huggins—I believe lie held the rec
ord for jumping at conclusions.
Does a baby know what’s good for it?
asks the Literary Ligest?
Not always—even after it’s 30 years
old, adds an exchange.
ODI) FACTS.
Trial by jury is said to have existed
in 2000 B. C.
Portuguese is the language of about
30,000,000 people.
There are 0,000,000 children born
every year in China.
Women farmers in the United States
number over 260,000.
Ravens pair for life and use the same
nest year af'er year.
The microscope will show the mos
quito has 22 teeth.
The caterpillar’s range of vision is
only two-thirds of an inch J
A beetle has been known totlispense
with food of any kind for three years.
The gnat fa-hions its eggs in tho
shape of a lifeboat. You cannot sink
them without breaking them to pieces.
Scientific computation has estab
lished that 10,000 threads ■ f the web of
a full-grown spider are Dot larger than
a single hair of a man’s beard.
As the train approached the dark
tunnel the mm turned to the strange
lady at his e.
“When we are in this tunnel,” he
said, calmly, “I shall kiss you.”
“Sir,” she said icily, “how dare you!
I am a lady!”
"That’s just, the reason I am going
to kiss you,” replied the young man.
"If I. preferred a man l5d call the con
ductor.”—Peon, State Proth.
Probate Notice to Creditors.
Id the matter of the Estate of Charles
Bresler, deceased.
Notice is hereby given that, on the
29th day of September, I92J, the judge
of the probate court for Mi. McKinley
precinct, at McCrath. Alaska, appoint
ed the undersigned administrator of
the estate of Charles iiresler, de
ceased, and all persons having claims
against the estate of Charles Bresler,
deceased, are required to present them,
with proper vouchers, within six
months from the date of this notice, to
Chris Peterson, executor of said estate,
at the N. C. Co.'s store, Tokotna,
Mt. McKinley precinct, Alaska. I
Dated at Tokotna, Alaska, this 3rd
day of October, 1923.
Chius Peterson,
Executor.
Notice of Forfeiture.
To BeDnett James, John Holmgren,
Charles E. Taylor, George W. Al
orecht, Edward McArdle and Charles
Kneli, and their and each of their
heirs, executors, administrators, suc
cessors in interest, and assigns:
You. and each of you, will please take
notice that the undersigned, a co-owner
in placer mining claim Good Luck Frac
tion, situated between No. 1 and No. 2
Above Discovery o,. Moore creek, in
the Mt McKinley mining and record
ing preeinct. Territory of Alaska, has
personally performed the annual assess
ment work the above described claim
far the years 1920, 1921 and 1922,
amounting to one hundred dollars for
each year, and for each of said years
has paid for said work, including the
proportion due from the above named
parties.
And you arc further notified thi.t,
unless you and each of you pay vour ,
proportion of the assessment work done i
on said ground for each of said years, 1
within ninety days after the last pub
lication of this notice, your and each of
your interests in and to said property
will become forfeited to the under
signed, as provided by Section 2324 of
the revised statutes of the United
States and amendments thereto.
,Cecil. Barlow,
Co-Owner.
Date'of first publication, Aug. II, 1923.
Date of last publication, Nov. 17, 1923.
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