Alaska sentinel., 1908-03-05
ALASKA FISH AID
 COLD STORAGE co.

| Above is the title of company which was recently organized and incorporated under the laws of the State of South Da- kota, and, as the name implies, the business of the company will be to buy and ship all kinds of Alaskan food fish and fish products. The specialties will be, however, the handling of canned halibut, smoked white king salmon and shipping green fresh fish to the eastern markets in cold storage packages, the processes being owned alone by this company. The company will begin business with forty-ton carbon dioxide compressor with freezing capacity of thirty tons of ice, or a storage capacity equivalent to- the evaporation of fifteen hundred tons of ice, daily.
 The officers of the company are J. A. Mason. president and general manager, John R. Nagle, Vice President; F. E. Baldwin, secretary, and c. E. Baldwin, treasurer. The general offices of the company will be at 71-72 Journal build- ing, Boston, Mass. John R. Nagle is the senior member of the firm of Nagle X Co.,, wholesale fish dealers of Boston, and c. E. Baldwin is treasurer of the Massachusetts Loan & Guarantee Co.,, of Boston. The eastern agents of the company are Nagle X Go. and F. J. O'hara, the largest fish dealers on the Atlantic coast.
 President Mason arrived up on the Cottage City, bringing with him Capt. York, who will have charge of the water front work, Chas. Freeman, who is to have charge of some department, and Harry Kay, stenographer. At Wrangell Mr. Mason leased the launch Seagirt, and, after hiring 0 P. Cole to superin tend piling and buiidlngi and Fred Anundson, Darby Choquette and Char ley Olson for helpers, left out yesterday for the site of the new establishment. The first piling, to carry the cold stor- age plant, will be driven at1a point two miles north of Midway rock, opposite Pt. Lockwood beacon in Wrangell Mar; rows, where there Is abundant water power and an ideal building site. An attempt will be made to get the build- ings ready to receive the machinery by the middle of May; so that the fall run of fish may be handled.
 After the cold storage building is fin ished, clearing viii be done for the other buildings, and these will be erected in as quick succession as possible. It is the intention to put in sawmill with a capacity sufficient to cut the box lum Der to be used by the cold storage and can- nery. In order to communicate with Wrargell, two fifty mile wireless tele- phone instruments will be installed-one at the plant and one at the cable station here. By this means word can be sent to Seattle in regard to fish shipments without the trouble of coming to town.
 In an interview with MT. Mason, our reporter learned that under existing conditions Alaska fishermen lose great deal by shipping their fish to Seattle commission men, who cull the fish and make short returns When this plant is in readiness to begin handling fish, the fishermen will receive top prices for every pound, and can see their fish weighed. This fact will make differ ence of thousands of dollars annually to the fishermen.
 SENTINEL is always ready to boost for anything in the shape of Alaskan de- velopment, and we wish the new enter prise the fullest measure of success, as we realize that it will be of benefit to this entire section.