Fort Wrangel news., 1898-08-03
WRANGEL FISH CURING co
Established In This City. Ready for Business In a Week. Good
 Work by The 25,ooo Club

\ fuire eT mon werc busily at work on the building al So. 6l1 Front street as thc News man vas passing by last Monday. The extraordinary celebrity of tho movements of tEe men attracted the reporters attention and hc at once entered upon tour of investigation.
 What is going on here.' asked the News man of gentleman. who was up on the roof. and who provedt to bc Mr. j. E. Worden, formerly of Portland, Oregon.
 We are going to cure halibut for the eastern market, and make glue and oil
 Well you are not doing much talk ing about it ." said the News man, who had not hcard anything about this new enterprise
 Mo-" said Alr. Worden. We conclu- ded to open up here and went right to work and the people may do the talk ing
 Nlr. Wordcu has been in the'hsh bus mess in Oregon and knows what he is about. He has an abundance of capi- tal and ii the business k not success, it will not be on account of q lack of money.
 The writer then went into the build ing and met Mr. N.J. Smith, of Johan- nesburg. South Africa. He is a chem ist and an expert in fish curing. He was experimenting the work of put ting in yats and machinery. \ few mo ments conversation with him convinced the writer that he is 'onto his job and that the combined effort of the two men is certain to result in success in any enterprise
 When do you start up?' asked the News man.
 In about one week" said Mir. Smith. We are going to get to work as soon as possible Our building, which we have purchased, will do to start in and can easily be enlarged, We mean bus mess and if you are going to say any thing about the matter, just quote me as saying that We don't need a cham Der of commerce to investigate our re- sponsibility, as has been stated, should be done. in an Alaska paper. We don't ask Fort Wrangel for cent of money. We bought this building and have all the capital We need to go right along. We will pay cash for the fish delivered at our back door and if the Fort Wran- gel fishermen cannot supply Us, We will have some come up from the sound"
 The building in which the Fish Cur ing Co. will conduct it's business is op- posite the Wilson & Sylvester mill and convenient to the bay.
 Wemust not let this opportunity pass without informing our readers that the Twenty Five Thousand Club is entitled to the credit for tine establishment of this new enterprise in our city. Our last issue gave notice of d meeting of the club ill the court house last Wed nesday evening, which was well attend ed and Messrs Worden and Smith were there Mir. Smith gave an interesting talk on fish curing and on the next day the two men met and after talking the matter over concluded to give the bus mess a trial in Fort Wrangel, and all will agree with us that the opening up of this industry in our city is worth many times more than the tritling ex- pense which the maintainance of the club has been to our business men. Capt. Stephens is entitled to the praise of all those who are interested in the building up of Fort Wrangel, for the organization of club that will be of untold benefit to our fair city.
 We Apologize.
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