The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 30, 1922, Page 7

MONDAY, their own. f Mexicans, the slippery stairway to “Viva la tierra! We were at the end of our fourth week on the seas, and we had at last reached the geal for which we had been Praying. cold and misty, but away off to our starboard we could discern old “Smoky Moses” poking its ice eovered nose the foe North Pacific in all ite changing moods! We swarmed the fo'castie-head, RH PS A SAME PRICE for over 30 years 255 Ounces for PEs Use less of KG ‘BAKING POWDER | than of higher priced brands. The government used millions of pounds Youre in the drivers seat with STROLLERS ' od ee in Om OE S in Every Package OCTOBER 30, 1922. On “Hell Ship” Land Sighted After 33 Days Out Wait Outside Pass for Fair Wind How the Salmon Fights to Spawn Canneries Dominate the Territory “The Silver Horde"—a boatload of “king salmon,” the fish that has made Bristol bay famous. Jor survival is waged every spring against terrific odds, and in only the Bristol bay fields are the salmon mothers holding \i The fight of the species * * Star and sister papers Alaskan salmon ship. The in Stern's forceful style. | the sick ones wrapped in blankets, the hale ones in what we had of | coats, all of us unshaven, dirty and \® bit shaky. But we were happy. for | there was a prospect within a week of that thing the lack of which was almost driving mad—fresh water. | We would have exercise, we had |been promised better food, and, above all, we would have a bath. | We had come athwart the open Outside it was| seas for 1,600 miles and pulled up [opposite the little gate, 10 miles across, called Unimak Pass, guarded by the great peak Moses and his | brother “Raggedy Jack.” | It was a feat of navigation, and we bad made {t without mishap. Only two of the crew, the master jand the first mate, had navigator’s | Papers; we had no wireless and only & dinky little foghorn had heralded | was thru the great fog banks, | ONE GHIP ON | ROCKS IN BAY | Every other year a ship ts lost in | the salmon cruise, but this was not to be our year, It was Portuguese Joe's seamanship, of course, but | montly It was good luck. It was not our year to go on the |Tocks, but it was the year for one | sed ship. The “Berlin,” one of the barks owned by the Alaska Packers’ association, was blown off her course jana went ashore on the rocky beach off Brtstol bay. Luckily her crew was all saved, but the men were three days exposed on the beach without shelter, and they worked in day and nigh ifte to save what they could of cargo. | The vessel was a total loss, and | the owners had to tow another ship | from Portland to Snag Point, on the Nushagak river, to bring back the crew and the pack from their cannery For three days we hung around | the opening of the pass walting for & fair wind. There were four other ships which, like us, watched the hole Uke rats for a chance to dash in | PASS THRU | TO BEHRING SEA One of these passed near our port rail close enough for us to hall the crew. The Chinese gang of this ves- el, one of the Alaska Packers’ asso- : Trade a nickel for a Societe Surprise — 5c in the bright orange, triangular cartons. $100.00 in Prizes Get a Societe Sur- prise for details. 1 ele( hocola ts | Cehting man” ‘Bic l fortified etty; by ceding some addi | garta and Turkey.” | world like the j baa nthe {fie and we came tn sight of more shore line, It was calmer, and we cast anchor, as! Superintendent Joe lowered tho! SNe RE SAYS KEMAL - IS MALIGNED Mustapha Kemal ts a much ma Ngned man, according to Mal. 1. Alexander Powell, who is visiting Be attle on a lecture tour, following « trip thru Turkey, Persia and the Balkans, Kemal ian't a brigand at all, Powell declared at the Washing ton Monday, but, like Kipling’s “Pury Wueay,” ts a “firatolass wuld be foolish for the United » think of intervening tn i" » Sant,” he anwerted, “I think everything could be straightened out by Internationalizing the Dardanelies under a mixed commission, the Turks to retain Constantinople as an un tional territory to Turkey, and by creating a buffer state between Bul elation ships, huddled on her forward deck and threw out ribald greetings }in Spanish to us as they plowed by They had Jett before us, and had, therefore, been more than four | week on the trip Finally one evening Captain Joe sent us sliding past the lighthouse at "Scotch Cap" and into the paar A fair wind caught our sails and pushed us thru a driving rain over the rough waters of the Behring Bea A® we passed thru the gap the foe had cleared, and Moses stood ma jentioally in hix 14,000 feet for all the stures of Fujiyama. f wailing then the sand weather as Two more di Behring in launch and set out for a tow boat to} haul us up the Nushagak., We were | in Bristol Hay, the salmon barons’ paradise, | Western Alaska ts the last happy | 1 in American waters einers. Lining the Ray and the Behr. | ing are 28 « Last year these canneries alone packed 1,150,565 cases of salmon, out of 4 total pack of 2,596,826 canes sent out of Alaskan waters, altho | there are 30 canneries in southeast: | ern Alaska and 25 in central Alaska MONTH AHEAD OF BALMON HORDE We had arrived a good month be fore the great annual drama of the Northwest—the salmon run. Each springtime, which in Alaska means about the middle of June, the “St! ver Horde” begins to move tn from the deep salt sea. ‘The females, accompanted by thelr gallant mates, are on thelr way to! spawn, and the mother inatinct is driving them into the upper rivers, where, in the fresh water, they can lay their eggs. Not only must they follow thie tn- stinct far inland up the streams, but 4 strange impulsion cawses them to neck their “neste” at the exact spot where they themselves were born. Up cataracts and rapids, breasting the terrific tides of these northern rivers and even ctimbing over water: falls, they are driven by this strange wil. MANY TRAPS SET FOR FISH Their paths are beset with many dangers. Fish traps that scoop in everything, the fisherman's seine at the mouths of the rivers, and the In- dians with their gill-nets along the beaches of the rivers, up-stream they dodae. If they escape all these snares they reach their spawning ground, often with noses biveding, fins broken and near death from exhaus tion. As they rest at thelr goal in the small stream, often there wades in a great brown bear to prey upon them. With a deft swoop of his paw he sends the mother salmon hurtling to the bank where she lies until Bruin wades back and feasts upon her at his leisure. STILL MORE ENEMIES WORK If she escapes and lays her eggs, even then her maternal trials are not over, The salmon trout, arch enemy of the salmon industry, ts lying in wait to feast upon the roe. It is a miracle that, in the face of all these destructive forces, the salmon fielda of Bristol Bay are as proiific as they are. The tow boat arrived and we steamed slowly up the broad and muddy Nushagak. Past cannery after cannery we crept, often skirting an Indian village huddled near by, Over one group of buildings floated the Stars and Stripes. It was the residence of the U. 8. marshal, who, we are told, ts little more than a figure-head in this cannery-dominat- od land. CAST ANCHOR NEAR NUSHAGAK Some of the other square-riggers of the salmon fiect had arrived ahead of us and were anchored in front of their particular cannery, un loading. On several the “Chinee gangs” were still held, waiting for the rest of the freight to be taken ashore before being landed. Finally, near the ancient settle. ment of Nushagak, we cast anchor This was settled in the early days by the Russians, and it was here that in ‘HM was built the first cannery in western Alaska. High on the hill stood a little white church surmount ed with a steeple with the Greek Catholle cross. We were in Alaska, And ft had taken us just 33 days to make the journey. (Continued Tomorrow |Bureau of Missing Invites ite readers to wee thie | as an aid in finding missing | friends, The department is | jo help in reuniting those who have been | 3 of persons mentioned im this column as | milesing are requested niso to report te The Htar, Other newspapers are invited te reproduce such items ae will interest thele communitics, cee ALBERT VINING.— Mrs. Mary Vining wants to hear from her hus-| band, Albert Vining. Sho is out of the state hospital and ts unable to | locate him. She lives at 6415 First) ave. N. E., Seattle, cee | | Relatives || | | | Wn WILLIAM HURLEY addressed to William A teleg Hurley, Bist ave. 8. 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