The Redwood gazette., 1902-04-09
HIS FISH AND LUMBER co.
Ed. 7. Healy Interested in an Alaskan
Enterprise.

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Enterprise.
Ed. =. Healy, formerly Of Mar
shall, but now located at Red Lake
Falls, and well known here, is in.
terested in the Alaskan Fish and
Lumber Co. He was in Mankato
recently, and speaking of the plant
in which he was interested, said:
s'1The amount Of business that can
be done at the plant seems to me to.
be unlimited. I Ihave met and talked
with many of the best posted men
in Seattle, juneau, Skagway and
those I met on the boat, and they all
say we have the best outlook there.
The captain Of the City Of Seattle
says we have the best harbor in all
respects in Alaska. We have as
good timber as can be found on the
coast and an inexhaustible supply
of it, and a water power unsur-
passed, sufficient to run anv amount
of manufactures we may put in
there. We have the best water ]
ever tasted.
With the proper amount of So
. liciting: such as should be done, we
can furnish nearly all the lumber
used in Alaska for the erection of
buildings of all kinds and in the
way of timbers for the mines.
4. ''The Alaska Fish and Lumber
Co. will be the great center in the
near future where all will come for
lumber of all kinds.
1--WE have the necessary machjn-
cry for the canning Of 1000 cases OF
salmon daily. Mr.. Carroll has Sc
cured the services of the best fish
ermen on the coast. I was talking
l with the engineer of a fishing steam
er employed last year by the can
merry at Petersburg, and he told me
they caught more than half their
fish at small bays and inlets within
20 to 35 miles of our plant. He
says the supply of salmon is large
5 and the run of red fish great. He
? claims we are in the center of the
: finest fishing grounds. One thing
is certain, we can get enough fish.
but we want the best runs Of the
: red salmon. We will not be salts
/ fed until we are noted as one of the
S largest and most prosperoush can
e merry and lumber manufacturing
plants in Alaska, if not on the west
: ern coast, realizing as large profit
u as many, which in most cases ar
; enormous. tits admitted by all witt
whom I talked that our line of bus
ness is the best paying there is.
= .Shakan will soon be a fine city
where will come the ocean liners
glad to strike safe harbor like our
and fill their reservoirs with th
pureSt water on the coast at no e1
pense to us, but for which we &C
good pay, and take on freight cor
sisting of manufactured products {
various kinds which we can an
q will produce in the near future.
4 There is no better wood in th
world for making of paper than ou
q yellow spruce, which is entirel
{ free from pitch We must have
big plant. | saw twenty tons of a
! fine white marble as ever locke
q at landed on to the Al-ki, that w
came in on. This was taken from
quarry adjoining Shakan, and ther
q is mountain of it.
i A sight that impressed me whel
[ first went onto the wharf and int
, the saw mill at Shakan was th
n mammoth logs that were in the mil
aud boom to be sawed, many OF then
: over FIVE feet through and entirel.
: free from knots. I measured log
! In a raft that our steamer, Pros
. pector, towed into our bay and som
: of them were 100 and 120 feet Ion!
! and straight as an arrow