The Ketchikan miner., 1908-10-17
BIG FISH PLAN
One Building Completed. Plant Will Be Llrgest and Most
 Complete iu the Country

Complete lu the Country
 If the practical completion of the
 first one of the New England Fish
 Company's buildings on it's forty-acre
 site adjoining the town, be taken as
 conclusive evidence, as it we'll may be, of the size and durable construc- tion of those which are to follow, and of the colnmodious capacity of the plant itself when completed and n- stalled, the importance and value of | this particular enterprise to the
 growth and material prosperity oi Ketchikan can not very readily be
 overestimated Indeed. this one build- ding surely betokens the installation
 here of an industrial plant which will
 not be only the largest of it's kind on the Pacific coast. or in this or any oth-
 CT country but one which will be com plete and perfect in each and every detail.
 The business of the New England Fish Company is that of furnishing fresh halibut to the eastern markets, in which business it has been engaged for a number of years, operating d somewhat similar plant to that to be- installed here, at Vancouver, B. c. The officers of this company, which,
 as it's name implies, is New England corporation. are o. M. Arnold, presi dent, and A. F. Rich, secretary anc treasurer, with general offices at Bos- ton, Mass.
 As has been stated. the company
 has, for some years, been operating a
 plant at Vancouver. B. C., but the
 management having some monhs ago had its attention directed to Ketchi-
 kgn as paint poss essed of the requi- site advantages for the successful es-
 iablishment of a halibut fishery, were. through the represent ations and untiring efloits of J. w. Stedman, induced to come here anu make ar invest igation. which led to the secur ,ng of site and to the pursuit of suct other investigations as 10 natural ad jvaptages. source of supply, powe, or the operat ol of machinery, etc.. which further led to a resolve on the part Of the company, for reasonl good md sufficient to the management. md with which this paper has no le- gitimate concern. either to remove its Vancouver plant to tEIs place or to es:. tapish here new and more commu-
 iious one. preliminary to which it be- | gan at once making nece ssary pro vision. The arl ual work Of construc ,iol was begun less than six months ,go, cc which time large amount
 of preliminary work, including the removal of 9.G00 cubic yards of rock
 has been done, wharf sufficiently
 commodous for all practical purposes | has been constructed. and, as stated
 one of the largest buildings finished
 md made ready for the machinery
 that for fish freezing and storage plant d5x95 feet, and two stories high l The work on this plant is being done
 uder the supervision of the compa- 1y's west coast committee, consisting
 Df Messrs. Neale, Whitman and Case.
 The plans for the entire installations
 were prepared by Warren X Gerrsh,
 of Boston, whose reputation in en-
 gineering circles IS so widely and fla
 vorably known. It will be due to their
 skill and experience that this plant
 will he one of the most perfect ever install ed.
 1 The very large freezing and storag e plant just completed will be operafe-l by electric power, generated by 8 | HOO h. D. Chalmers turbine, supplied with water through half a mile of forty-inch continuous stave-
 wood uipe. the turbine being direct | ly connected with a 600 kilo watt 3-phase Bullock generator. The water | supply for the turbine will be drawn | from the lower end of Lake Whitman, tle necessi irr dam and pipe now be- ing in the cJursa of constructions.
 whil., the transmission linz intende q
 to conn | the generation st tt on witt
 the freezing plant, will he about si
 miles in length. The freezing plan l itself will contain two sixty-iive [. n ice machines. freezing coils and ice
 tanks, together with circulatinn
 pumps, etc, all of which machinery
 is now on the ground. The equip pn,n
 for the freezing and storage pla..t was
 manufactured by the York Mann-
 featuring Company, and is being in-
 stalled by the United Iron Works, of
 Seattle, unper the superintendence cf
 Mir. George Hendricks. who is also on
 the ground. This main building is Gjs95 feet and two high stories in height.
 On the first floor there are four freez-
 CT rooms, in which temperature of | l5 degrees will be maintained, and
 properly freeze the halibut in thirty
 hours. On this same floor aie two
 storage rooms, elevator and dipping
 aud packing rooms with suituJl, Cor