The Ward County independent., 1922-12-21

land or not.
i The fishermen go out usually or
June 27 for the first fishing Of the
season. They watch the almanac and
fish according to the position of the
moon. They will lie around for days
regardless of the weather, waiting for
the moon to get into the right quarter
They usually bring in big hauls from
the very start. They do their fishing
at night and use a seine 1900 feet
long and 140 feet wide which is an
chored down into the water FIRE.
quently when they get into a, large
S.hool they secure 1000 barrels Of
the herring at draw. The herring
run about 600 to the barrel. Ere
quently they secure more fish than
they can handle at the packing plant,
and then it becomes necessary to
build pounds in the ocean, out Of nets
to keep the fish from getting away.
The fish are then secured as needed.
/ Once a shark got into the pound, ate
a lot of the fish and then ate it's way
out of the net, letting the other fish,
enough for about 1900 barrels, out.
| There are whales up in that locality
! and the fishermen usually like to fish
where the whales are the most in evil
dencc, for they know that there will
be plenty of fish in that vicinity.
Some salmon are caught, but usually
but one variety of fish is caught in
the net.
! The Jacobsons have shipped herring
to Siberia, China and much Of it to
New York City. Most of the work at
their plant is done by the piece work.
tbo i1,0
plant as well as men, and women are
especially competent when it comes to
gibbing the fish. This means, remov-
ing the gills, sailing them and pack
ing them.
There are salmon canneries and
salmon sailing stations as we'll as
clam canning factories in that vicin-
ty. There is untold wealth in the
possibilities for the fishing industry.
The work is very fascinating.
The mosquitoes are very large, nu-
merous and annoying along the shore
but do not bother on the water. Mr..
jacobson tells Of man and a horse
| dying from bloodpoisoning as the re-
suit Of mosquito bites.
| Much rain falls in that vicinity.
, Rain fell last summer for 81 days al
most necessarily. One can put bar
rel out in the rain and in time it will
become filled with water from the
rainfall.
Wonderful huckleberries, salmon
berries, which are sort of raspber-
ry, and blue berries are found in
abundance among the spruce trees.
Wild rice grows in abundance. That
is the hunters paradise. There are
countless thousands of wild ducks and
geese and many of the Kodiak brown
bears, the largest Of the bear family.
The pelt Of a Kodiak bear makes a
rug 9X12 feet. There are also Glacier
bears, black and white spotted, and
very dangerous.
The Jacobson's watchman is an old
Missourian, Bob Scott, who went
there as a young man. He was
watchman for a mine for years.. He
is a bachelor and spends the winters
alone. The snow gets to be 30 feet
be afraid of the water and declares
that he will never return to Missouri
until he can go by rail. He has the
| picture of Missouri girl who is said
to be waiting for him and perhaps he
| may cndHSe MS Hlnu.
La Touche is center for the Gug-
genhem copper mining interests.
There are only about 300 people in
the town, and mail from Seattle ar
rives once a week. 1t costs $3.50 to
go from Seattle to La Touche, 1000
miles. This pays for passage, state
room and the finest meals. 1t requires
days to make the trip. La Touche
is located at 62 degrees N. Latitude.
! The sun sets at midnight in summer
and one can read a newspaper with
out a lamp any hour Of the night.
The weather is not as severe as in
| North Dakota. The thermometer sell
! dom drops as low as zero in winter.
The copper mines do not pay very
| high wages only $3.50 day and the
miners are charged $1.25 a day board.
They work 8 hours. There are al
ways plenty of miners, as they like
that kind of life.
The Alaska gold mines are taking
out more gold than ever before in
mense lot Of gold is being found in
/ big gold rush was on.
| Liz CdC''USOHo IepO1L IHdC LAClS ID
considerable excitement over the re-
cent discovery of oil in Alaska. Just
before they came down the Standard
Oil Co. and an Independent concern
from California shipped two boatloads
Of machinery into Alaska and will
drill for oil all winter.
The Jacobsons say the trip to
Alaska makes an ideal outing. So
many sight seers engaged passage
last year that they had to put in their
reservations weeks ahead. A fine new
ship the Kennicutt, is now being built
for passenger service.
Juneau is beautiful little city of
1000 population. Most of the Alas
kan towns have plank pavements
They have electric lights and nearly
every small town has it's weekly news
paper. .-.
The Jacobsons' plant is located on
an Island. There is dairy herd on