Alaska sentinel., 1905-10-19
PETERSBURG DOINGs.

PETERSBURG DOINGS.
 Halibut fishing is in full blast, some of
 the smaller vessels having made two trips, and report fish rather scarce, the halibgt | having not yet reached the winter banks from the summer feeding and spawning ! grounds.
 The company that was to handle and ship halibut from Farragut Bay this winter ha, moved its outfit here 10 the Narrows and will, with the Nordberg Bros. and Supt. Brown of Tonka handle the fresh fish from this vicinity this fall and winter. This will
 naturally bring about some opposition and
 good d-natured rivalry among the three out
 fits and as a result the fishermen will be fa-
 yored with excellent shipping facilities.
 Among the vessels that have been over- hauled and repaired here this fall are the schooner Penguin, new bOwsprit, topmasts, standing gear, etc. Her owner and worthy skipper, Capt. Pete Summers, predicts stun ming feats now for this famous old craft.
 The schooner Volunteer has had a new Iudder and general oyerhauling. This well known little craft has history, having put in several seasons in the Behring Sea and Arctic Ocean as a sealer and trader. Later she became the property of Capt. Kelley, and it was while cruising iu her that he and his associates discovered the Coronation Is- land mines. She has probably carried as
 many halibut as any vessel of her size in the
 world. She is now the property of Norberg
 Bros, Capt. Kelley having parted with her
 last spring to take larger vessel. The sloop Eagle has been docked, over hauled, repainted, and a flush deck focs'le
 put in.
 The sloops Maud and Hohapt have been
 receiving raised bulwark. etc.
 Contractor and builder Peterson has com ! pleted most of the aforementioned repairs, and is now building several splendid dories. | With his large new workshop Mr. Peterson | is prepared to do anything iI the boat build i Ing and repairing line, aud turns out only | first class work.
 | The salmon are not as plentiful as former ! lv. but trolling is still in full blast. some ! boats having taken as higL as seventeen in ! ten hours. Mir. SengstackeI is doing good | business buying the red kings for fifty cents each and mild curing them.
 MT. s. L. Hogue is completing large new | building, to be used as a hotel and restau-
 rant. Mr. and Mrs. J. Haley will have charge of the new establishment and it goes without saying that the weary wayfarer will l find here a splendid place of rest and as l bountiful a table as the land of the midnight sun affords.
 MT. Harry Wallace and his good-natured assistant, Geo. Kiss are busy these days sup plying the fishermen, sp0r men, etc., with hot drinks. IL is really pleasure after hay ing spent hard two week in the eramped quarters of a fishing smack, beating about Frederick Sound, etc., with the fish poison in both wrists, and the gentle Alaska zeph- | .,i+ 1tr l7tl ny- ture of rain and snow gently trickling down your neck and boots, to drop into port, go ashore 10 Harry's big drum stove, get dry on the outside and warm on the inside, meet , the old shiymates, chew tie rag about fish and fishing. and pull out for the scow feel ing like you could part any ground tackle
 that ever was made. HaTrys place is a place of refuge and blessing to us fellows.
 Henry Mccoy is having some trouble in
 getting two rafts of logs lowed b the Eish- oprick mill.
 Cal II. Barkdull expects another lot of forty blue foxes down or the steamer Port land from Western Alaska to be placed on the Seqhoi Islands. A building O feet long | is being constructed there to be used as a storage, food and boat house. The foxes on the islands are doing fine.
 MT. Bishoprick and family are visiting in
 Skagway and Juneau. The mill will resume operations upon their return.
 Mir. Hogue's slip or floating dock, con- structed last summer is great convenience for small boats, and Is greatly appreciated by all the fishermen.
 Capt. sanderson and John Taulymoseter are building fishing and hunting lodge at Cape of the Straits. They are talking seri- ously of turning the Maud into submarine cruiser, and if they do they will bring to the surface more halibut and have greater ex-
 periences to relate in that pirates nest down
 at the cape than poor old "Julias' Verne ever dreamed of. Julias is all right, too.
 The steamer Pilot, Capt. Fred Gallwas, owned and operated by the Alaska Fishing and Deyelopinent Co.,, If Pleasant Bay, Ad- miralty Island, has made several trips heEe recently, towing in large raft of logs from Farragut Bay and towing out about ljO,O feet of lumber to be used ID the construction of several large buildings that will be used as an all.around fishery and fertilizer plant. Mir John 4. Stroud of Oakland Cal. is president and general manager, and departed for his home for the winter on the last Jeff fersou. He will return in the spring. They did a good business this season.
 Petersburg is badly in need of neat little church, q little red school house, a good minister good school teacher and good |. s. deputy marshal. SKIPPER.