The Nenana daily news., 1918-06-07
COMMUNICATIONS


 Fairbanks papers, written by one I. N. Stensland, who is supposed to be a representative of the Carlisle Packing Go. The heading of the article reads af follows: "Represen- tative of Carlisle Packing Co. Sets Forth Reasons for Yukon Cannery." Now, I had in mind when I began to read this article that I was to learn something as to how the above mentioned company's plant was go- ing to benefit the Interior of Alaska, instead of being a detriment, but No, was disappointed-and think all others were who read that article.
 Mir. Stensland used lot of good space and printers ink, a trifle over two columns, in telling us what al- most any school boy or girl knows, namely; the names of a few kinds of salmon, how the old ones come home to spawn and die, and about the trout, grayling, etc., eating the eggs and little fellows, and how they were such enemies of the sal mon. Now that is none of our busi- ness. That belongs to nature, and if MT. Trout or MT. Crawling eats MT. Salmon's brood, the only way we can stop the wanton destruction is to do little killing, and that, of course, would be out of the ques- tion when we think of the countless millions of these cannibals
 MT. Stensland did not tell us how many eggs the salmon would lay and how many grayling etc, these eggs would keep. Nor did he tell us, that if each year ten million salmon made their annual pilgrimage up the Yukon in the years gone by, and in the future, if such a disaster should happen, the Carlisle Packing Co. should stop one-half or five million of these fish at the mouth of the Yukon, just why and how this would not decrease the annual run by one-half, or in other words cut Mr. Natives catch in two. Sup pose we say that heretofore the trout, grayling, bull-heads. etc., de- stroy one-half of the offspring of the annual run, and now comes MT. Cannery and takes the other half, by stopping the parents at the mouth. What would happen? Easy, isn't it? Don't have to use trigonometry, all zebra, or anything but common sense to find the answer. The state ment is a little broad, perhaps, but two and two is four just the same
 Then another point, you will notice MT. Representative does not say anything about the white man and his partner, MT. Malamute. He only talks about MT. Native. I wonder if he knows how many tons of dried fish it takes to feed our fourfooted friends. Roughly speak ing, there is in the neighborhood of 5000 dogs in the Interior. The best, handiest and cheapest Cat times) food for these dogs is dried salmon. If each dog had one fish a day, and said fish when green weighed ten pounds, we would use close to thousand tons of fish per year, or nearly two million fish, for our dogs alone, to say nothing of the good eats. .*'.
 Mir. Stensland also says that after salmon goes three or four hundred miles he is not fit for food and that when they reach the spawning grounds that they should be left alone. Very nice for Mr.N 'Canneryy,, No! Yes? I suppose the next thing we hear of will be some of our can nery friends cowtowing around our legislature to see if We scoundrels of the North can not be stopped from plucking MT. Salmon from the muddy Yukon. ''-
 Our friend also speaks about certain pessimism based on rather hazy ideas of the salmon business, as filling no ones belly or adding tc the weight of any one's poke. Really, belly and poke sounds like an old lsourdough, but say, what has this