The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 31, 1940, Page 2

: M_RI.INE Biggest King (liiwiieu Irom Page One) the service is a four-motored S 42 Normally this ship carries | clipper. " £ g n"gfimmm. but its payload will| A monster King salmon—one Of|cgses of course has reduced the be reduced to allow enlarged fuel |the record fish of all time — WaS| evenues of the Territory from the a caught during the past year injper case tax on canned salmon. capacity for the 1,000-mile Alasks flight. A stop at Ketchikan is contem- plated on each flight, but Bixby said at the CAA hearing that the company did not wish to be forced to land there if conditions should be unsafe. At Juneau the planes will con-| nect with the existing Pacific Al-i aska Airways service to Fairbanks, Nome and all of Interior and North- | ern Alaska. Pacific Alaska Airways is a subsidiary of Pan American. Mail, passenger and express will be carried. The big ships carry a crew of five. Money Available At the CAA hearing for a certi- ficate of convenience and necessity it was testified that with a mail subsidy of $330,000 the company could furmish two round-trips each week from May 15 to October 1. Al- though adequate provision has not been made in the current budget for the service, it has been prom- ised that a deficiency appropriation will be made by Congress to cover expenses of the run in the first year. Charles P. Graddick, Superin- tendent of the Post Office Air Mail Service, sald at the CAA hearing that the Department had had money set up in its budget annually for the past three years to establish the service. Available at the pres- ent time.is a sum of $213,000, he said. To give adequate mail service, Graddick said, there should be at least two flights per week. Whether the line will be classified as a do-‘ mestic or foreign route has not been decided. If domestic, the mail will be six cents an ounce from any point in the United States; if for- | national Highway is favorable, by}here exceeded 1938 by about a third. eign, the rate will be set by the| Postmaster General. ‘ Pilots in Training Two Alaska pilots, S. E. Robbins and Jerry Jones, have been “in| training” at Miami, Florida, on| ships such as will be used on the Alaska run. Others whn =1 1| over the ale Geon The | " Extensive tests over the route were completed a year ago. Adequate radio facilities will have been in- stalled by the time service starts this spring. Weather reports ai- ready being broadcast are consid? ered ample. Joe Crosson, pioneer Alaska avia- tor and head of the Pacific Alaska operations, calls the new service an essential link in the Territory’s transportation system. Outstanding Need Other expressions on the same sub- ject have been as follows: Alaska Delegate Anthony J. Di- mond—"“It seems certain that the European war will turn more tour- ists to Alaska than ever before. One of the Canadian steamship compan- ies operating to Alaska has already taken one vessel off the Alaska run and other Canadian ships may fol- low. Consequently, it appears that for the summer months at least a daily air schedule between Seattle and Juneau would not only be justi- fied, but that the ships of the air, as well as those operating on the sea lanes, would probably be loaded to capacity at all times.” Gov. Ernest Gruening—“Alaska faces a crisis as shipping companies have tried to get additional ships on the route north unsuccessfully. This air service is indispensible to Alaska and we should have had it several years ago.” Senator Lewis Schwellenbach of ‘Washington — “Swift transportation will greatly help to keep the people of on a permanent basis. Under present conditions there is a tendency to regard the Territory as the place to make a stake and get out. An airline will discourage this attitude. We are always taking | weight of 104 pounds. Salmon Taken During Year Southeast Alaska waters The fish, taken frem the Point | Colpoys trap at the north end of | | Prince of Wales Island on July 31 | were forced into bankruptcy. |and canned in the Petersburg can- |total Southeast pack was only 2- nery of the Ward's Cove Packing | Co., was probably the largest ever taken in Alaska, as far as authentic | records are concerned. Earl Ohmer, who saw the salmon in the cannery, reported to the Bu-| reau of Fisheries it had a dressed| Making a| very conservative allowance of 15| per cent for loss in dressing would | make the live weight something around 120 pounds. | The big King measured 53% in- ches from tip to tail and 38% in- ches in maximum girth, having a| tail spread of 17 inches. The fish was in “bright” condition, with red meat and contained no spawn, in- dicating that despite its great size it was not yet mature. | Ohmer saved the skin for mount- | ing. ALASKA HIGHWAY WELL AS PRAISED 15 e | The Chignik area enjoyed one of Recent Canadian Comment Calls Proposal ‘Absurd | and Infolerable” | Not all the talk about the Inter-| any means. Even in Alaska muny dissenters will be found. A Canadian opinion damning the | Alaska Highway as “not only absurd, | but intolerable” was set forth in an| arficle by C. M. Campbell in a re-| cent issue of Maclean’s Magazine. | Title of the piece, which answers another recently published in the| Canadian periodical, is “Another | |Opinion on the Alaska Highway: | | Forget 1t.” Campbell writes that the highway | would cost much more than it would | be worth, that few travelers would | use it and that it could not com- pete for convenience, speed and | beauty with the Inside Passage wa- | ter route. | “This does not mean,” the article Atates, “that ultimate justification for the road may not be disclosed, but it does mean that justification is not in sight and that this gen- eration would do well to banish the idea from its dreams and concern itself with sctualities that are fac- ing it on all sides.” 810 CORPORATIONS ACTIVE IN ALASKA; 58 FORMED IN 1939 On January 1, 1940, there were reg- istered in the Territory of Alaska 810 corporations, consisting of 284 foreign, 362 domestic, nine foreign non-profit and 155 domestic non- profit corporations, according to Territorial Auditor Frank A. Boyle. east Alaska during 1939 was excep- in size. many times in the past when the IS CRITICIZED AS ™. core (Continued from Page One) The reduction of the pack by | more than a million and a half Southeast Alaska had the small- est salmon pack since the failure year, 1927, when several canneries The | 032,000 cases, nearly 800,000 cases below the ten year average. The pink pack amounted to approxi-| mately two-thirds of the pack in 1937, the previous cycle year, and | was nearly 600,000 cases below the | ten year average. The red salmon pack in Southeast Alaska was above average, being the best since the | record year 1936, but this was not | sufficient to make up the large pink | shortage One of the factors which curtailed the production in this area were|, several severe storms. Restrictions | in closing the season were also more | severe. In most Southeast districts | the season closed from four to six days earlier than in 1938, Quality Exceptionally Good | ‘The quality of the pinks in South- tionally good, and the fish ran large This is a phenomena that | ! has been reported by fishermen In Central Alaska, some sections enjoyed a good run, while others thé best runs of red salmon on rec- ord for this area, and the total pack in this section, while not large as compared with some other areas,; was about twice the 1938 pack for Ji A “Gold Bowl” football " Farthest North Football THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, SUNDAY, MARCH 31, 1940. PROGRESS AND DEVELOPMENT EDITION ~ MINING (Continued from Page One) The value of gold produced by Alaska mines in 1939 exceeded in value that for any other year in ception of 1938, The continued large output of platinum metals rom Alaska mines is a source of special national sig- nificance, as it goes far toward mak- ing the United States independent of foreign supplies. In addition to gold and platinum, the most significant products of Al- aska mines in 1939 were coal, silver, lead, limerock, tin, antimony, and a small amount of copper. Healthy Condition The estimated value of the mineral production of Alaska reflects the generally excellent condition of the industry in 1939. It seems, however, to mark no unusual spurt of activ- ity, but only to reflect a normal Lu Liston photo. game held at Juneau last Thanksgiving Day brought Alaska widespread publici- ty. The Sourdoughs defeated the Baranof Bears 6 to 0 before a crowd of 700 persons. * TOURISTS (Continued from Page One) taking place virtually every day uring the tourist season. These lines are the Alaska Steamship Com- pany, . tion Company, the Alaska Trans- |%$ide. |lands, did not occur until late in portation Company, the Canadian Pacific and the Canadian National. the Northland Transporta- Other ways to come to Alaska are by the Pan American Airways |‘runaway” ice floe. clipper ships which are expected | to go into service on a Seattle-to- |the island 50 miles west of the Al- uneau route about May 15 or by special chartered vessel. A round-trip to Southeast Alaska the district. (can be managed in a week to ten Kodiak enjoyed a good season.|d The red salmon run here was about normal, while the pink salmon pack Kodiak also made a better than average showing on chum salmon. Cook Inlet had an above average | ki red run, and a good chum run, but pink production was below normal.|a Prince William Sound had one of the most serious pink failures ever experienced in this district. Since pinks normally make up about 90 percent of the total pack in Prince William Sound, the season was exceptionally bad here. Copper River Poor Copper River production, due to bad weather and labor difficulties which retarded the start, as well as to a shortage of fish, was about 20 per cent below 1938, Western Alaska had one of the poorest packs in recent years, the lightest since 1935. On -the! basis of the previous cycle, a good red run in Bristol Bay was anticipated but failed to materialize, The red pack in this section was considerably be- low normal. The total red pack m Western Alaska was about 30 per cent below 1938, Although chum salmon are not the major variety in Bristol Bay, the showing of chums there in 1939 | f was interesting as it was more than double the average for the district, and exceeding the 1938 pack by about 40,000 cases. a Its tourist steamers visit all main ports of the Territory and many “surprise ports” in hidden in- lets where it picks up cargo at re- mote canneries or mines. only line regularly running to West- ward Alaska. run to the old Kio " of Skagway, where made for rail trips ited passenger accoi Alaska Transpo* [s) ' gives small ports h aska the advant: transportation faci lays. Tourists are advised, how- ever, that stopovers along the way will add greatly to the enjoyment of their Alaska visit. The Alaska Line The Alaska Steamship Company, | nown to the people of the Terri- tory as “The Alaska Line,” serves 11 parts of Alaska all of the year. the It is the The Canadian Pacific steamers Fold navt nd Whitehorse. Ca operating only months, sails from Southeast Alaska. 1he Line specializes or u Operating small #se - B 57 i A five-place cabin plane such as is ound throughout Alaska uses ap- proximately 12 gallons of gasoline per hour, costs around 15 cents per gallon in Southeast Alaska. In wholesole lots the fuel keep them alive. stage that is not likely to decline greatly in the near future, but that may well be exceeded as some of Five-Day Ride On Ice Floe Fails e optehiiee sieady e Jogees Io Fale Bkimo Prices for most of the mineral commodities from Alaska mines av- eraged somewhat higher in 1939 than in 1938. The increase in prices in the world market for such met- als as tin, lead and antimony, brought about by wars in foreign If anyone has ever doubted the hardiness of the Arctic Eskimo, 21- year-old John Anocozuk of the King Island tribe recently set those doubts For five days in January the Native youth was afloat in the icy stretches of the Bering Sea on a the year, and for a large part of 1939 the prices were even lower than in 1938. Consequently, the average prices for 1939 were not much above those that prevailed in the preced- ing year. The price of silver, which aska mainland, he recovered from|qualified under the Government’s |a severely frozen face and ice-blis- |special arrangement for purchase, tered feet. |was raised on July 1 from 64.64 to Ice Breaks Free |71.11 cents an ounce, and on the John and his dog were seal hunt- |assumption that all of the silver ing when a large chunk of ice on|from Alaska mines was eligible for which they were walking cracked |such purchase its price has been loose from the main body of the|computed at the mean of these two frozen crust and was whisked away | figures, or 67.87 cents. Silver which by the current toward Siberia. |did not so qualify sold at an aver- Frank Whaley, Nome pilot for Wien | age price of 40 cents an ounce. Airlines, flew more than 200 miles| Labor Conditions over the seaways in search of the| on the whole, labor conditions youth, but to no avail. | throughout the Territory were sat- Days passed, and John's tribal|istactory, and no noteworthy inter- companions gave him up for lost.|ryptions of production occurred. Nonetheless, they maintained & daily | Dyring the summer there was some lwat:h from a high hill on the is-|anyjety lest transportation with and. |the States might be interrupted. Then, on one of those freakish|when the old shipping ngmemints currents which occasionally swirl|terminated in September but for- in northern waters, John's ice floe tunately new contracts were nego- moved into sight of the island |tiateq successfully. Uncertainty as after five days. Rescuing Eskimos |t the effect of the new laws re- set out for the ice block in thelr|jating to wages and hours seems to oomiaks, and soon the cold stricken | have peen largely set at rest, as Eskimo was safe at home. their operation was found to be During his days and nights on the | not 5o gifficult as had been feared lee, John, had killed a seal. He and | nere seems to be a distinct and his dog shared the raw flesh t0|rather widespread revival of inter- Back with his tribe members on > | Alaska Had Militia \In Nineties | The National Guard which will | future is nou the first in the Ter- ;rlcory's history. | Back in the nineties Alaska had |a guard, as is proved by a yellow- | ing ~hotograph and a tattered flag in the Territorial Museum here. | The 30 men and drummer boy of the 1st Regiment, Alaska Mili- tia, polished up their six rifles, set their spiked helmets at the proper angle and posed for their picture at Skagway on Memorial Day, 1899. The photograph, a gift of the late John McLaughlin, 1 captioned “lst Regiment of A.N.G., Memorial Day, 1899, Skaguay.” AN.G. is be- lieved to stand for “Alaska Na- tional Guard.” The Regiment's silk flag had 44 stars. Reason for disbanding the Guard, according to the Rev. George Beck of Ketchikan who visited here re- cently, was that the United States feared Canada would consider the Alaska militia a threat to peaceful relations between the two countries. this is shown in the mining indus- try not only by the actual under- taking of a number of new enter- prises but also by the formulation of plans that look to future develop- ment. The growing use of me- | chanical equipment at many of even the smaller properties is having a noticeable effect in increasing the amount of material handled and at the same time decreasing the costs. This economy is of special import- ance, as it extends the life of many of the properties and adds to their potential reserves through making | it possible to mine successfully ma- terial of lower grade. The prompt repayment, when due, of such loans as had been made by the Recon- struction Finance Corporation to aid in the development of Alaska projects has encouraged that or- ganization to extend its Yelp tc other worthy properties in the Ter- ritory, and during the year a credit of more than a million dollars was given for one of the placer opera- tions in the Tolovana district. Al- though it is probably true that the days of bonanza mining in Alaska by individuals is past, the recent large-scale developments in the Goodnews, Fairbanks, Circle, Tolo- vana, and Marshall districts, as well as in many of the other camps, are irrefutable proof that oppor- tunities still may be found for com- petently planned and efficiently ad- | | ministered mining projects at many | est in Alaska development, and jplaces in the Territory. Captain James Cook, noted English navigator, who had conducted ex- tensive explorations in South Amer- ica, sailed up the western coast of North America in 1778, making his first discovery of the Alaska coast near the present site of Sitka. In 1866, the first river steamboat 'ascended the Yukon. The following corporations qual- ified in Alaska during the calendar year 1939: Domes- tic Foreign Total Aeronautics .. Construction Cooperative Asso- clations - Fisheries ... Health Resorts Hotels . Information Ser- vice ... Mercantile Mining ... 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During 1939 shipments of canned | salmon aggregated 247,046,714 in pounds and $29,976,665 in value, while during 1938 shipments totaled 339,388,820 pounds at a declared value of $38,633,965. Comparison lor these figures thus shows a de- |crease in 1939 of 92342106 in |pounds and $8,567,300 in value. | Gold Shipments | Shipments of gold from Alaska | during the calendar year 1939 to- taled $20,073,913 as compared with $21,321,442 in 1938, or a decrease of $1,247,5629. Shipments of furs and fur skins, including furs and fur seal skins from the Pribilof Islands, during 1939, amounted to $2,565,500 as compared with $2,633,738 for 1938, or a decrease of $68,148. There was a slight falling off in passenger travel from the con- tinental United States and Canada to Alaska during 1939. During tae year a total of 35,403 persons ar- rived at ports in Alaska, as com- pared with 36,825 during 1938. Plane Travel Increases The report shows a record num- ber of 175 airplanes in service in the Territory; a record number of passengers 29,699; a record l.m- ber of plane miles, 3,232,931, and a record mail and freight load of 4,719,398 pounds. Only in passen- ger-miles flown did Alaska's air- |ways show a drop, from 5,634,461 |in 1938 to 5,260,524 in 1939, which record however was far better than in any year except 1938. PRl S0 S i | As early as 1885, during the Cri- |mean War, the Emperor of Russia, fearing that England would seize Russian America, offered to sell the | territory to the United States. The was declined. offer \all Eyes on YOU with this glowing |new hosiery tone, | created to wear with | NAVY, BLACK or pastel colors. This cheery sun tone does wonders to draw admiring glances your way! Smart with dark costume colors . . lovely with misty, soft pastels. 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