The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-07-31
FIRST SOCkEYE RUN OVER.
ftshermen Confidently Expect An
other Ran. or Possibly More. Be-
fore the season IL Over-Fairiy

SPECIAL Dispatch 70 the Pasg-IntsT gencsr.
WifATcoA July sa--The lnGleat ans are
strongly III favor q the soc keye run being
ever, a. leaSs the heavy part Il IL Yes
israay steamer from the Alasks PACK
ifg C0EHpany's headquarters secured i.ss
Sound 10 Vsew the situation and from the
salmon banks south o1 San Juan and To-
pez Islands TO tue Fraser found no IN
dieat81us 81 renewal of tae run and
the ftxh Fren on board made UP their MINIS
that ghe els! had come FOR this parscll-
lar species % Ssh this season To the
north ;aey found The traps catching a very
few, % the south. on the salmon banks.
taey found the traps catching quite IA
number but they were oEe-ta.rd hump
lacks and some silver salmon were mixed
with them. These are strong Indications
;ha, the soekeye run IS nearly over TIE
lFaps on TIE outside al The Islands were
:4ls-
Another Run Hoped For.
AL The trapnen are hopeful ~ a renewal
OF the ran They point 70 the fact tina;
there usually are four distinct runs OF
socheyes IN a season and tAat shis summer
there has beer Only Que although 4 was
unusually heavy for FIRST run. They also
console themselves with the historical fact
that one other year heavy run came az
and after the traamen and canuerymen
had dismissed Their help. and that the
same talng can occur again All sorts of
theories ami ideas are formulated 10 ac-
count for the errat.c WAYS OF the seckeye
and Il y noticeable that the mos: expert
enced fishermen and trapuen are discard
ing one theory ana taking up others AZ the
season wears On, untii tue lack OF Ce1nite
knowledge regarding The simples, facts Of
salmon existence and nature becomes pain
fully evident
Fish Knowledge Not Deep.
The on.y thing % u surety that the most
experienced seem 10 know = that the sal
mon go OF FOR four years and come back
when grown up Where they 90 and
live and grow during their four years alb
sence II deep sea mystery. and what reg
uiales the numbers that return 20 the
spawning grounds and when they VIII re-
turn for certainty and how they VIII run
from the straits TO the Fraser can only be
guessed AT anC the facts usually prove the
suessefS wrong. very little actual
knowledge of sockeye life filters through
from the tine the fun grown fish reach
the south end Of san Juan island I'll. they
get through the nets on the Fraser but
this tttle knowledge IS not accurate and is
infinitely small compared VITA the whole
subject.
Fair Catch Pat Up.
Thus far the eanneries have put up a
fair catch OF soekeyes. which fish they
look al every year the most valuable
part OF their cannery operations. The Pa
clae American Company have done wsa
under the circumstances. They were ham
pered by very late spring and very rough
weather and could neither get their piles
and other materials. as can usually be
Done. nor drive their traps as usual They
had - start all their immense operations
IL short time. and then to add climax.
the salmon commenced to come n week
earlier than usual. 80 that they were un-
prepared in more WAYS than one. Several
Of the best traps they bought had pre-
viousiy contracted their summers catch 10
other cannegies. SO that they didn't have
them TO fall hack on. In spite iot all diff
cu,t.es, they have put no over +0,ea cases
already and are IN good shape for the bal
anCe Of the season.
The Alaska packers. il is SAID. have up
over o. GO cases.
stee.e has over e4ea cases. which about
equals the entire amount he put up last
year. including all kinds.
The Anacortss Packing Company has
been unusually successful and has a fun
pack of s0ckeyes. often their cannery had
more than It could do.
The Aberdeen cannery has ahou; 25.0o)
cases up and would have had more. bit
were hampered by the spec!a! difficulties OF
the season.
AinsWorth & Dunn have only small
amount up.
Mckee 4 Mcdonald have no, been as
lucky as tire average. and have made only
a very small pack ~ date
The FldsiEo Company has done only fair
~ well
The Chuckanut cannery has only a small
capacity, ana has put up some fish.
The Rosario strait cannery has been only
very moderately successful.
No Pack on Fraser River.
The usually immense Fraser river pack
Is this year represented by a row Of
clphefs and cloud 81 bankruptcy and
debit and dtscourng cement hangs over the
great canning establishments - british
Columbia tAriy IN thr season thss hepsei
gor ;hc Nest but their lawmakers had
made war an the big industry in some re-
SpsefS ard gave it "a start doWnhil3, labor
waS scarce ara high-pricrd and fishermen
could rot h@ found 10 attend the nets as
in other sears. aad then Tho salmon re-
fused "a appear in aDy numbers ard the
cup az financial woe of the Canadian can
neryrE%n vas running over. They sent
steamers an~a h@~e yHe after another
for samoa bat thrye were none COR sale
Their canncrles were closed ant the Pack
amounts - nothing
Not Limited to the socks,cs
The canneF1es on This side while de-
pending ,n the ~ockeve vun for The p~}n-
cipsg part 81 their uacS. are ~, limited
- Il by any means They have The spring
salmon ran which prNc"teS Il These are
q splendid D=h several times larger than
the soy keyeS ard iast As marketable I'm
their Nav Then fNt, t1wgbMrk and ~5f-
the big Paciac American Company will
newer shat is c2v"~rE doors ttt christ