The Cordova daily times., 1920-07-17

SALMON MARKET IS STIFFENED
 BY DEMAND

SEATTLE, July Special to the Daily Times) This years salmon pack will come on practically bare market as the demand for Alaska Red salmon has been constantly increasing owing to the late inability to secure sockeye, which was further strength ened the last few days by the news that the 1920 Copper river run is al- most over and the pack only 50 per cent of last year, and very unp:ofi- table to canners there, notwithstand- ing the prospective high prices. It seems certain that salmon of all grades is going to be very firm and at high prices this year, compared with last, according to packers, and it may be doubted very much wheth- CT there will be enough to go round.
 U. s. Marshal on Thursday seized 5695 cases of Alaska canned salmon misbranded and unfit for human con- sumption
 Bernard Heins, principal owner of the Crystal proup of claims at Snet- tisham, near Juneau, who has just arrived in Seattle, says the five stamp mill of the company has re- sumed operations after a shut down of eight years and is producing gold, Development work was commenced on the property last fall and continued l during the winter.
 James Wickersham, former dele gate from Alaska, is in Seattle on his way to his home at Fairbanks.
 The steamship Northwestern and Jefferson, which sailed recently for 1 Southeastern Alaska points took big contingent of laborers for the Alas kan Engineering Commission, to be employed on the railway near Seward. The Jefferson brought a contingent of the Shriners who visited Alaska They were enthusiastic in their appre- citation of what they had seen in the far north
 A party of biological experts head ed by Dr. E. w. Nelson of the Fed erai Biological Survey staff will sail this month for the village of Unalak- 1 kleet, Alaska, to establish a reindeer experimental station. Their arrival will mean the beginning of sc1enti fic research into the reindeer herds of Alaska. From 1892 to 190c a total of I2S0 reindeer were imported into Alaska from Siberia. Today there are more than 10000 reindeer of winch the natives own 67,0O0 valued at $1,686,29O.
 A shipment of 25 steers and a quan- tity of T. N. T., lumber and bridge material was sent from Seattle on Tuesday on the steamers of the Paci- fic Navigation company, sent by the Alaska Engineering Commission. In addition to fair passenger list the Admiral Watson carries 15,000 cans for the salmon plants of southeast ern and southwestern Alaska.
 The seven million dollar appropria- ton for Alaska is now available and will be devoted to railway construc- tion Other appropriations are as fol- lows: Care of insane, $12O,630 edu- cational work among natives, $275,- 900; medical relief among the natives, $9O,O00; protection of game, $25,000; suppression of liquor traffic among the Indians, $15,00O; support of rein deer stations and instruction If ra- tives in the care of reindeer $6,400.
 A cablegram received in Seattle f on Chairman Frederick Mear3 of tLe Alaska Engineering Commission by Maj. c. E. Dele, head of the pur- chasing department, ann0uuce1 that the work of pushing the steel tracks northward will ne continued until the end of the calendar year.
 The $7,OO0,OO0 now available puts the commission in a position pot only to go ahead full blast with con- struction this year, but also to buy materials and equipment for the re- sumption of building next spring. The great Susitna bridge across the river of that name is to be completed byi the middle of November.