The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 31, 1940, Page 29

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, SUNDAY, MARCH 31 1940 PROGRESS AND DEVELOPMENT EDITION Juneaii Sinall Boat Harbor Nearing Completion -Flaats to be mnalled later will pro- vm room for another 200. Work was begun on the harbor m the late fall of 1938, when ‘the U. S. Engineers began building & breakwater 1930 feet long around two sides of the basin. Under the direction of Civilian’ Enginger M. J. Rogers, trucks maved 'some 70,000 cubxc vards of rock from the Ale nslm Juneau Gold Mining Company to form the breakwater. City 10 BEREADY BY JULY FOR 250 VESSELS Juneaws new smail boat barbor, | Breakwater construgted and equipped at 4 cost| The City in the spring or 1939 of approximately $275000 to the | put i a 1.110 foot breakwater along Ulilted States Government and the | the shore side of the harbor. The City of Juneau, will be ready for! contract called for moving 21,000 use in July of this yeir. | vurds of rock for the job. At that time the haibor will ac« Dredging of the harbor began | ommodate from 200 to 250 boate. Awugust 12, 1839, when the large e e Engineer’s Plan for | dredge Titan of the General Con ilbncupg of Seattle went | te work on the floor of the basin. By the me ‘the work was finished on Jonuary 5 of this year, the dredge had brought up 367,800 yards of material and barges had dumped | 1 in deep water of Gastineau Chan- nel. s The Amdy's appropriawion for its share of the work was $232000. | Citizens of Juneau voted a $48,400 . |four percént bondf issue at a speclal | September election 20, 1438, far the | City's share of the expense. Floats' § At présent pifing is ‘being diiven for & wharf, f16ats and gridiron | | whicH the City will install. A $14,605 contract for FESE it ooring work was let re- m Fa | cently toi Cole Brethers of Juneau.| The contract for the wharf, floats | The wherf, 40 feet wide and 110 and gridiron calls for the work to feet lopg, will parallel “thie" shore. Abe completed by July 1. Prow 1§ three fieats' will extend out Work To Be Dane inte the harbor. Two of them Wlll1 A to the harbor will be be 320 feet long and the other 360 | provmed by the City. This will en- feet long. Iu;ll extending 11th and 12th Street. | ater two more floats will ‘be in- |Water, a lighting system and fire dtalied and all wlll be extended to | protection will be furnished by the 360 feet. . ol City. It is expected that a free Gridiron telephone will be installed by the A gridiron, being consfructed as|Juneau - Chamber - of Commerce, part of the lcm contract, will be | hich maintains phones at other ,mu at "south end of the|small boat floats here. I harbor. It will be 160 feet long and Ample space for mooring small | 18 foot -wide.. boamnnnd skiffs will be avafiable X supuné ramp; io hn-huh com- | back of the main floats. plete service’to loed! and wisiting]| The Juneau small boat harbor's planes, will be' plaged near the en- [facilities will be available to all ie_to the harbor. craft without charge. The basin lew Boat Harbor reslitios in ] R il Cokis Fintil s . - - — ——— or ¢ GE OF BANK CL" e §: __n- - S - T T 7 3 140 s I T m‘ 150 130 184 OA o) 7z Dl ‘ii 1 2t & -&" o O T S . % 1as! 3¢ 1 —' A"—"- i - R - N - o OAT 20° d 8 rrs S R o P Births Oufnumber iDeaths Here Juneau is a healthy place to live and is getting hedithier, according to vital statistics récords from the office of U. 8. Commissioner Felix Gray. Last year there were 184 births here and only 133 deaths. In 1938 there were 175 births and 118 deaths.| The high deéath rate of the past de-| *The- total catch ¢ade occurred in 1937 when 153 | United States and were recorded. the last year for — |gures are available, Four Billion Pounds of Fish Taken from Wafers O0f Nation in One Year of fish in thevalue of about $8,800,000; and fresh Alaska in 1937, and frozen packaged fish and shell- _ 'fish came to 201,802,529 pounds, val- AR 0 w"'“?gf?g:‘g or(;u ued at $27,677,809. was 4,352,549, i 1 158 Sude R | | 1t is estimated that about 686.- A arbor and is expected | pounds, the Bureau of Fisheries an-|000,000 pounds of fresh fishery pro- :fie“c?w?m”y to the prosperity of ngunced recently. About 130000 ducts (excluding packaged fish fishermen were employed in mak-|and shellfish) valued at about $57.- ing the catch. 000,000 were marketed in 1937. The Canned fishery products in 1937 | total marketed value -to domestic amounted to 742,197,065 pounds, val- | primary handlers of all fishery pro- ued at $105,174,935, while the output | duets in 1937 is estimated at $25 |of by-products was valued at sas- 000,000. Fishery imports were val- 804,045. Frozen fishery products, |ued at $50,214,374, and exports of i | exclusive of packaged goods, totaled |domestic fishery products at $14,- 108,111,549 pounds, of an estimated ' 567,252. Salmon for New Tra_t ' Casserole dishes bubbling with| 2 tablespoons green flavor and food value are peren- (chopped). nial leaders in the menu fashion| Combine flaked salmon, rice, eggs parade. There is hardly an occa- | onion, salt and bread crumbs. Blend ston on all the list of luncheons,| well and form into small balls. dinners and suppers when one ver- Add one-half can water and the sion of this versatile dish is not green pepper to the mushroom soup. the correct service—delicious, whole- | Place mushroom soup mixture in some and economical! }shallow baking dish and drop sal- Nutritious canned salmon is well| mon balls into this sauce. Bake in adapted for frequent use in mod-| moderate oven (350 degrees) for ern streamlined casserole dishes.| thirty minutes. [m the rich deep sea flavor of this B | seafood blends- temptingly with| SALMON MORNAY other food flavors—a quality indis- | (Serves 4) | pensable to the successful casser-. 1 pound canned salmon pepper ole’ ingredient and its delicate| 2 tablespoons butter | flakes, ready cooked as they come| 2 tablespoons flour fram the can, are an important 3/4 cup chicken broth time-saving element in casserole| 1 slice onion cookery. | 374 cup milk Two delicious, economical ca.s.scx'-" 15 teaspoon nutmeg 1/3 cup grated American cheese. Place salmon, as it comes from the can in a small pan. Cover and heat. Melt butter, Add flour and stir | ole dishes that can be prepared in short order and have the necessary “substantial” quality that dinner | entrees should boast are Salmon | Rice Balls in Mushroom Sauce and | Salmon Mornay. to smooth paste. Add chicken broth | —— and onion and cook, stirring con- SALMON RICE BALLS stantly until mixture thickens. Re- IN MUSHROOM SAUCE move onion; add milk gradually, = : (Serves 6) | stirring until blended. Add nutmeg 0 | 1 pound canned salmon to finished sauce. N } 1 cup cooked rice Remove hot salmon to shallow I | 2 eggs (beaten) casserole. Pour sauce over salmon 4 ‘ 1 tablespoon onion (minced) and sprinkle grated cheese over | % teaspoon salt all. Place under moderately hot ' cup bread crumbs | broiler until sauce bubbles and k 1 can condensed mushroom soup |cheese is slightly browned For Modern Ore Analysis Laucks Laboratories announces the installation of a com- plete grating spectograph, which will determine with one operation the nature and quantity of practically all elements present in a sample. Any type of metal, alloy, mineral, ore, concentrate, sludge or mine tailing can be analyzed by Laucks’ spectrographers ata fraction of the cost of ordinary chemical procedure. . LAUCKS LABORATORIES, Inc. 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