The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-07-02
THEY Needed GREELEY,
Now One of Them Is Back East Help
ing to Fix Up Canned
Salmon Trust.

Hon. NJ. q. Munley, of Portland.
Ore, formerly of this city, stopped off
mere yesterday on his way home from
New YORK. where he participated in
the formation of salmon canning
combine, which will, at the outset
control 100000 pounds of the annual
pack of 100000 pounds of the Alaskan
and Puget Sound fisheries.
Judge Munley is counsel for a num-
Der of the members of the new COM
bine and also interested as a stock
holder in several of the larger estab-
lishments.
He says that the salmon canning
industry on the Columbia river is
practically at an end. The law per-
mits OF any kind of fishing in almost
any season and as a consequence the
river has been fished out. The pack
this year, he said, will be only twenty
per cent. of what it was last year.
ana last years pack was only about
half of what II was before. Column
bia river salmon has become so scarce
that only the poorer species\ are
| canned. The choicest catches are sold
as fresh fish. 1t is the finest salmon
in the world and finds market every
where. In a few years, the Judge
thought, there will be no fish left in
the Columbia river and the world
viii nave to rely for it's salmon sup
ply on the upper coast fisheries.
Some of the Alaskan salmon are
quite as choice as those of the Column
bia river, and only experts can tell
the difference. On the whole. how
ever, the upper coast fish are inferior
in color and flavor to those of the
Columbia. The Alaskan and Puget
Sound fisheries are protected by
stringent government regulations.
! There is short fishing season, and
in every week of the open season
fishing is forbidden from Friday night
till Monday morning. If these regu-
latlons continue to be enforced, the
| salmon fishers say, the upper coast
rivers will plentifully supply the world
| for years to come.
Judge Munley leaves this morning
| for the west He had only two days
to spare for his visit here and one
| of these was spent in his native town,
| CarbOndale.
Residents of Scranton of twenty
| years ago will readily recall Judge
Munley. He was principal OF Public
School No. Q, in the Seventh ward,
and just before leaving for Oregon,
nineteen years ago, was admitted to
| the Lackawanna bar.
He was in Portland only a year
| and a half when he was appointed
by Governor Pennoyer to a vacancy on
| the bench of the circuit court, which
| corresponds to our common pleas
| court. He presided over the equity
| and quarter sessions divisions.
| His brother, William A. Munley,
| who was principal of a school i'm Oily
| phant, and who followed the Judge to
| Portland in 1898. became private sec
| retary to Governor Pennoyer and
| served in that capacity for eight years.
| He also did newspaper work and even
| tually became a lawyer. He is now
| counsel for the Title Guarantee and
| Trust company, of Portland.
| Another brother, James b., who left
| Scranton for Portland eight years
| ago is now practicing medicine al
Spokane, Washington. He is first as
sistant to the chief surgeon of the
| National Pacific railroad. DR.. Mum
| ley was in the city two weeks ago
| after having spent a year in the
east. taking IA special course in sur
gerry.
| A third brother. Thomas Munley, is
manager of a large salmon packing
establishment in Alaska, of which
Judge Munley is the principal owner.