The Alaska daily empire., 1917-07-27
Juneauites Going After Trade of Other Points in Alaska to Benefit
 This City GOOD STORY TO TELL Juneau is SoIidIy United For Giving All Needed
 Facilities and a
 Square Deal

A delegation of Juneau business men will leave on what is believed to be an important mission in he city when they depart for business getting cruise among the fishing and !ining camps in this vicinity and particularly between this plice and Warm Spring. bay. The me bors of the delegation will carry the story Of what Juneau is proposing to do toward accommodating the fish cries business and t" supply the coun- try with the goods they need
 It will be explained that already there are three fish buyers at Jul neau and that more are coming It will be shown that the city will soon have the best facilities in the Ter ritory for discharging fish cargoes, for harboring fishing craft and for the delivery of bait and ice at reasonable prices. This will be the result of adding many hundred feet to the dockage and warehouse room on the water front for that pur- pose.
 Three Buyers Here.
 Not only are Oliver Orange and Juneau, but the Independent Inter- national Fish company has a rep resentative here to purchase all the fish landed at this place.
 Manager J. Maddock of the Gla- cier Fish company of Tacoma, has established headquarters for that company here and has appointed Oliver Orange as buyer for that A modren ice crusher and elevator is being installed at the the cold storage plant, where the fish for the Glacier Fish company will be handed, and arrangements have been made to supply bait to the fishermen. Bait and crushed ice will be delivered on board the boats at the same prices charged at ket- chikan, according to the announce ment made by MT Maddock.
 City is United.
 Behind this movement to make Juneau center for the fisheries is the City Council of the city and the Merchants Protective Association, an organization which includes most of the business men of the community, Both the municipal authorities and these business men are thoroughly committed to the proposition to make Juneau the home port of great industry if fair treatment, square dealing, all the facilities for room. for furnishing supplies, bank ing facilities and other things nee essary can induce the fishermen and those engaged in the fish business
 Other Advantages.
 Aside from the facilities for the fisheries industry, for berthing, dis charging and supplying the vessels, Juneau has the largest and best stores, machine shops and other at tributes needed, and offer more op portunities to secure labor than any other port between Dixon's Entrance and the Arctic Ocean, and it is be- lieved that with the devotion of the Mann -Shattuck and the JamesBeh- rends water front properties to the use of those who handle the business Juneau will soon become one of the worlds greatest fish markets.
 The delegation of business men who expect to make the cruise con sists of Charles Goldstein. H. J. Fisher, w. George Johnson, George Forrest, James H. King, William E. Britt, John w Troy, Allen Shat tuck, E. P. Pond and Dr. E. II. Kaser. They will make the trip on the St. Nicholas and leave from the Juneau Ferry and Navigation eompany's dock at 10 o'clock this evening"