The Nome nugget., 1921-03-12
ALASKA BUREAU
 NEWS LETTER

Seattle, Jan. Silver promises to exceed gold production of the Yukon, according to l.. H. Titus. from the Mayo section. who is in Seattle. Titus
 is among the latest arrivals from the interior camp, bringing word tha. de velopment work promises to open some of the largest silver ledges in the west :.
 The Mayo creek conditions look better the farther developed" cootin. ued Mr. Titus. Much work is being done on Keno hill. sky men are being employed by the Keno Hill Limited company a subsidiary of the Cuggcn helm interests. About twen y ton of ore are oe' .. taken out daily and this is being sacked and hauled down to the river landing. The working force will be increased as the developmen. increases. F. R. Short, resident man ager of the company. says that from q sahnpe test of the ore it assayed as high as 200 ounces of silver to the ton i There are at present abou. 300 men at Mayo camp and this number is bound to be increased to many hundreds in the spring. The mineral outlook in this section is exceptionally good." Tom Hickman. former superintend end of the Pure Food cannery at Ret chkan, has leased the Brown floating cannery. and will spend the season packing shrimp at Wrangell. Heck man plans on packing the Wrangell narrows shrimp in five pound tins for the restaurant trade. Hickman is ing season.
 It is doubtful if any of the small shore plants at Ketchikan will car salmon during the 1921 season, accord. ing to Senator J. E. Hickman. Sen ator Hickman is financially interests sd in the Ketca1ikan plants. and has been in Seattle and San Francisco confer ring with fishing associates. Regard. ing operations in the Ketchikan dis. trict during the coming year. Senator Heckman is optomistic.
 Lloyd F. Nelson of Seattle has filed on 2.56o acres of oil lands in the Cold Bay district.
 A meeting was held at the Alaska nf to discuss the future of the salt fisl, l industry in Alaska and a committee was appointed to get data and facts i to present to Congress in an effort to secure tariff protection needed, Wi | liam Calvert. Jr.. chairman of the AL l aska Bureau presiding. It was point ed out that during the war the herring and salt fish industry in Alaska as. s,Hned large proportions and in 1918 it had been built up until eighty plants l were in operation. If given the proper protection this industry promises to be a growing and permanent one l thereby giving a fishing population to the territory and building up Alaska. ! The speaker said the salt fish in dlstry could be expanded until it as- stunned great proportions and could be comparable with the benefits of the salmon industry to the territory. The largest markets during the war period
 were in New York and Boston. Pre-. vious to the war foreign countries had
 largely supplied these markets. but the
 embargo on exports of fish threw these markets open to the Alaska salt fish
 men. With the removal of the em.
 bargo on exports from continenta
 Europe shippers in Holland, Norway
 Scotland and New Foundland have
 sought to ge. back the New York ant
 Boston markets. and because of tn,
 cheaper rates on fish from continenta
 Europe they have a decided advantag,