The Alaska daily empire., 1919-11-26
ALASKA FRUIT TO BE CANNED
 FOR MARKET
Company Incorporated to Care of Products Raised
 in the CmIkat VaI- ley Section
ALSO TO CAN SALMON
Alaskan Wild Berries Will Be Another Product Which Will Be Utilized
 By the Company l

A canning company which 1t Is hoped will solve the problem of a market for the farmers of the Chil kat valley, last week filed articles of incorporation here.
 The company is known as the Chil- kat Packing Company. The capital stock is placed at $1OO,OO0 There are 100000 shares worth a par value of one dollar each.
 The incorporators are Henry Ro- den, president; s. J. Weitzman, vice president and Sollie Solomon, secre- .ary. These men will also form the board of directors.
 s. J. Weitzman, who for 22 years was merchant of Haines, and is now vice-president of the new cor, ,oration, is taking very active part n the affairs of the company.
 MT. Weitzman is very enthusiastic wer the project that has just been aunched and when asked about the subject said:
 There are 51 farmers in the Chil at valley. Each one of these men as homestead varying from 60 to 20 acres in extent. The land in the alley is all fertile and capable Of raising big crops. Production is kept down on account of poor trans portation facilities. It will be our aim to try to solve the problem of creating a market for the products of this valley and adjacent districts
 "The Haines strawberries, said Mir. Weltzman, have already made reputation for themselves as a fresh fruit. We will can them. The Haines raspberries which are even more delicious than the strawberries will lot bear shipping. We will also can them. The wild blueberries and ,ranberries that abound in the Chil- kat valley will also be canned.
 "Peas are grown in the Chilkat valley that eclipse the imported French peas in flavor. Many other vegetables that can be canned are grown in the valley that have a flavor that cannot be Surpassed anywhere else in the world. Only small quan' titles of them are grown at the pres ent time as there is not market for hem. When the farmers Of the val ley know that they can sell every thing of this nature that they can produce, the output will be enormous md an industry will be built up that will help all of Southeastern Alaska.
 Speaking further about the affairs of the company MT. Weitzman said hat the head offices would be in Ju' neau which his company realizes ls the distributing point for Alaska. He 1lso stated that this coming year the efforts of the company would be con centrated on the packing Of salmon The company already has on hand s25, 900 worth of coming machinery md equipment.
 Messrs Weitzman and Solomon VIII 'eavc on the trip of the Jefferson to purchase more canning equipment md in the spring a one-line cannery will be operated at Haines. This is lie starter and with the encourage ment of the leading business men ol qaines and others elsewhere, the plant will be enlarged so as to take are of the products of the valley IS they reach volume that will war mt. Eventually large dock and 'eparate packing houses for different products will be erected there.
 For a number of years the farmer If this wiley and tho people o' 1aines have realized that the o1l' solution of their problem is a pack ing plant and 1t is said that they vii back tho project to man.
 The president of the new company Henry Roden, is a well known resi- lent of Juneau and a former Terri .orial Senator who has also had ex ,erienco in the packing business. MT Weitzman. the vice-presidcnt, on ac count of his long residence at Haines Is intimately acquainted with the To cal conditions. The secretary, MT Solomon, was raised in the canning business and knows his business thoroughly.
 The one fact that the men promos ing the company wish to emphasize Is that the new institution will be an Alaskan company, operated by Alas kans in Alaska All the men in ;' ,re sourdoughs who expect to live with their families in the Territory Ill the year around. All help will be hired in Alaska and all supplies pur .hased here. The officials of tho company say that they know thai hey can do as well by trading with Alaskan merchants as with those mtside. Whatever benefits may ac