The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 6, 1919, Page 4

THE SEATTLE STAR—FRIDAY, JUNE 6, 1919. An Oyster Cocktail for Cocktails! Milions of Em on State Reserves T HUNT JOBS FOR a Dime! State Can Make eA ; Price Right,Says Darwin. the state oyster reserves, And sell the oysters on the open Market! Let the people have the oysters from the erves owned by the people at a price the people can pay! Wor six years Darwin has been Petitioning the state legisiature to jon to do just this. the oystm trust objected, and the legislators refused even to let the ftirh commissioner effectively @uard the state reserves “The state hoids 13,000 acres of _Feserve, all of which could be made Producé oysters, Darwin reports. Bound alone the state Bee 2.041 acres, 1,500 of which be diked and improved easily 1,800 acres would produce a average of at least 90,000 mcks of oystere—60 sacks per A sack of oysters yields three « © 7,490,000 pan roasts or ‘plat “tries,” or 21,600,000 oyster cock Cut Price Half Immense supply of sea food, @elicious of all shell fish. the people of the state for less the price the oyste year to spend for up ts, diking and re oysters from the beds the state from 25 to i CAMPAIGN “FOR MEMORIAL Outline to Be) Ready by July 1 will learn of Seattle's fal auditorium plans to honor | if soldiers and sailors thru John B | Who will represent the Auditorium association at Coast Advertising Men's annual convention in iat city, June § to 11. He was ap by the board of trustees of Memoria} association at their meeting at the Army and Navy / Plans for the raising of for the structure were dis | ‘Bt the meeting Thursday. The “annual meeting of the entire July 1, will be asked to Jeent# a sack, Add to this the cost of upkeep of the beds, and the pay Jot guards and expense of market: | ing af Commissioner Darwin figures could sell for $3.60 @ sack The oyster combine ts getting $11 ack today! ») open the oysters and pry the tle things out of their shella costs $3 a sack, Adding th st price of $11 a sack to this, the retailer finds the cost $1.17 a quart. The retail price at every fish market is $1.60 @ quart } Here's His Plan Hu what would happen if the |legisiature would let the fish com missioner just the 1,500 acres of reserve on Puget sound The state could charge $3.50 a sack, the openers would receive $3 a sack, making it $6.50, as agninat $14 under private control The stage could add 20 per cent— which fs more than Darwin says ts) pecessary--to pay marketing ex penses, and the oysters would oll for 65 cents a quart, 33 canta « The price under present conditions is 80 cents a pint One pint will make at least ten! cocktails, three pan roasts or three big “fries.” Any cafe or restaurant could afford to sell oysters then at ten cents per cocktail, | jfor & real oyste® dinner prevent high prices, the restaurants | jask, and get, 35 cente per cocktail, and 75 centh per pan roast, or “fry.” | But—the state owns 13,000 acres of oyster reserve. Suppose only half of it ever became productive, altho | Darwin say it will bear « ters. If half of the oyster reserve| the peoy ere eloped, it} would bear year. | Might All Get "Em | ‘This ‘would mean 1,080,000 gations, §.640,000 pints. 25,920,000 oyster 00 oyster cock ugh oyster to sup Northwest states and keep the price down within reach of every: body Cerne 2a the state legislature has used consistently to give the fish vache ionan power to sell to the people the oysters the people own, or develop the people's oyster’ reserves, Darwin has been unable to improve | more than 25 acres of the reserve. } has been with the money ldertved from t sale of a nal am t of oyster seed each year to [the private oyster speculat for hey had the law passed so they }might buy the state's oysters for | seed. but the state cannot sell the | people their own oysters for food. No Watchman There | Down on Willapa harbor the state owns hundreds of acres of oyster reserve that was ence te ly productive, Today the beds are | depleted, for there is no watchman | tad keep thieves aawy, The Big oystermen years ago had! the fish code arranged so that the commissioner must spend all the| money he gets from the Puget! Sound reserves on the Sound. Here's the way they gather Olympia oysters. The upper picture xbows a husky man with oyster tongs scooping a bushel ef the suceu lent sticiifivh off a state reserve hed for sale as seed. The center picture shows a big crew at work taking seed oysters from the state reserve at Oakland bay, Below, the seow Is directly over the oyster bed and the oysters have been raked into long rows to be taken off “a complete outline for the| There is no revenue derwed trom | which will be prepared at the Killapa harbor rearvea In some of the most productive sec- .|tions of the Willapa reserves, the, t;| Oyster thieves have taken all the | oysters In some localities the star fish .j are destroying the state's oysters, "|but there is not a cent to spend, of the board of directors, here Thursday.. F. A. La- Vio ‘was named vice president N. B. Solner was chosen as Both are former Seattle “We tharpen snd Sel All Makes of for protection. That's the law | In Olympia last winter whem the legislators gathered, Darwin pro posed that the new fish code carry spokesman for the fish people the provision for «tate development of oynter reserves and sale morn to the people Privat « ed forces t at oh the special fisheries interents we the market. will put the price of k where the poor man can af- Darwin today. The oystermen aparently did r get into the fight, but—the chicf/ all the seed they can use, and put| may leten” | _UNIONSTORE | | _UNIONSTORE | attorney for the oystermen was the am immense quantity of seafood on Wish every woman could know about can make the St I surely praise this great ea | All. we need” is & chanée, and! oyster as popular on this coast an wtere it is on the Atlantic. “It's a crime to let the oyster 1 to pay 1," declared Commis-| reserves remain idle, when the cost “It permit-|of living i# represented. to improve the reserves, we|some day the people could supply the oystermen with loud enough and the legislature | oper med roote and herbs, which *t THE McCORMICK LINE Perhaps i talk strengthening properties of good old | RETURNING MEN |Get’ Yank Qualifications on | Transports es | Repaired ==) While transports, stating their qualifica You Wait tiona and ambitions, if they have no —in solid comfort return to thelr homens. 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