The Cordova daily times., 1921-03-18
NEWSY LETTER
 FROM SEATTLE ABOUT ALASKA

SEATTLE, March 17.-(Special to Times). A novelty in shipments through this port are reindeer car
 casses, and announcement is made
 that at least 5000 carcasses will be
 shipped from Alaska to Seattle by one company next fall as compared to 1900 in 1920 and a few hundred in l9l9. The last of the company's 1920 shipments have just been sent to New York City. Two cars con tained 424 carcasses. The markets are said to be an established proposi- tion and next year it is expected there will be large shipments made from New York for London and Euro pean centers. The carcasses are shipped to Seattle in the fall and kept here in the port commissions cold storage warehouse until retailers call for the meat.
 A quarter of a million of dollars will be expended in Seattle and the northwest this spring by the Willow Creek Alaska Company, according to announcement by the officials of the company. The money is to be ex- pended for machinery, supplies and transportation for the development of the company's property in the Willow creek district near Anchorage, at the head of Cook inlet In Alaska.
 Two thousand Alaskans attended the ball of the Yukon Order of Pio- .neers at Masonic Temple. At the door and around the edges of the hall Nome shook hands with Ketchi kan, Dawson greeted Anchorage, and the general good fellowship of the north prevailed. From a standpoint of socialbility, the affair was typically Alaskan even the punch was made of Alaskan blueberries. This is an an nual affair given by the local lodge of resident and visiting Alaskans
 The E. w. Griffin saltery and her ring packing plant at Seldovia re- ports a pack of $500 barrels for this season. The entire pack has been shipped to eastern markets.
 Trade scouts returning to Seattle this week from a six weeks tour of investigation among the number of cities in the central states, the south and the east, in the interests of the Pacific northwest salmon industry. re- port a decided change in the attitude of both jobbers and retailers toward the commodity, with a consequent i'm proVemeut in the market. In each city visited a newspaper advertis- ing campaign was started to stimu- late consumer demand At the same time meetings of jobbers and re- tailers were held for the purpose of stabilizing salmon prices locally and to persuade jobbers to increase ma terially their stocks of canned sal mon. In every instance, the scouts reported, it was a matter of over coming the extraordinary caution and suspicion of jobbers who were fear full of fluctuating prices
 Within the last few days, much earlier than tangible results were ex- pected, Seattle salmon brokers have received an appreciable increase in salmon orders. One important job Der wired the Association of Pacific Fisheries that his trade in salmon had increased 200 per cent iu less than a week from the time the ad- vertising was started Two important
 meetings of salmon packers and brokers who are contributors to the advertising campaign have been held since the trade scouts returned to
 Seattle. They have decided to ex- tend the campaign as rapidly as pos sible with limited resources. The outlook for fair pack in Alahkan waters during the 1921 season now appears much better even than it did one week ago