The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1902-03-28
is ENTHUSIASTIC
Ed. L. HeaIy Tells of His
Alaska Trip.
Alaska Fish and Lumber Company
Has Bright Prospects.---EVi-
IDENTITY Has Snap.

Ed. L. Healy of Red Lake Falls,
who was in the city day or two ago
on his return from Shakan, Alaska,
gave an optimistic account OF the
Alaska Fish and Lumber Co. 8 pros
poets. He said: |
ST am more than pleased with the
condition of things at the island ana
cannot see why we have not as good
an investment as any concern on the
coast. I have watched the manager,
J. D. Carroll, and think that he can
turn off as much work in short time
as any man on the continent. lam
fully convinced that he is the right
man in the right place.
THE amount of business that can
be done at the plant seems to me to
be unlimited. I have met and talked
with many of the best posted men In
Seattle, Juneau, Skagway and those
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 In
exhaustible supply of it, and water
power unsurpassed, sufficient to run
any amount of manufactures we may
put in there. We have the best water
I ever tasted.
"With the proper amount of solicit
| ing, 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.
| The Alaska Fish and Lumber Co.
will be the great center in the near
future where all will come for lumber
of all kinds.
''We have the necessary machinery
for the canning of 1000 cases OF
salmon daily. Mr.. Carroll has secured
the services of the best fisherman on
the coast. 1 was talking with an
engineer of a fishing steamer employed
last year by the cannery at Petersburg,
and he told me they caught more
than half their fish at small bays and
y inlets within 20 to 30 miles of oul
plant. He says the supply of salmon
! is large and, the run of red fish great.
He claims we are in the center of the
finest fishing grounds. One thing il
certain, we can get enough fish, bu
we want the best runs of the rec
salmon. We will not be satisfied I'm
t til we are noted as one OF the larges
l and most prosperous fish cannery ant
! lumber manufacturing plants il
f Alaska, if not on the western coast
realizing as large profits as many
which in most cases are enormous. L
r is admitted by all with whom talke'
9 that our line of business is the bes
l paying there is.
i "Shakan will soon be fine city
i where will come the ocean liners
8 glad to strike a safe harbor like our
) and fill their reservoirs with the pures
o water on the coast at no expense
us, but for which we get good pay
and take on freight consisting of mar
ufactured products of various kline
q which we can and will produce in til
70 near future.
"There is no better wood in I'll
s world for the making of paper tina
K our yellow spruce, which is entirel
't free from pitch. We must have a bi
plant. 1 saw twenty tons of as fr
70 white marble as 1 ever looked at lan'
il ed onto to Al-ki, that we came in Oh
Of This was taken from quarry adjoil
ID ing Shakan, and there is a mountai
Of it.
n "a sight that impressed me whe
4. first went onto the wharf and in
lg the saw mill at Shakan was the man
is moth logs that were in the mill al
in boom to be sawed, many of them ov
five feet through and entirely fir
in from knots. 1 measured logs in a rs
IT. that our steamer, Prospector, tow
ey into our bay and some of them we
H. 100 and 100 feet long and straight
ny an arrow