The Cordova daily times., 1923-01-02

cation, most of which was spent in ports business conditions improving all along the coast. This is partly due to the building boom, which is at it's greatest height in California. The mills of Oregon, Washington and British Columbia have been shipping great quantities of lumber, over half of which has been consumed by the state of the Golden Bear.
 He reports having seen many for travles, including Fred Reher, who is a cook in a San Francisco restau- rant, Frank O'Neill and Frank Hynes, both apprentices at the plasterers' trade in the Golden Gate. Among others now resident at the Golden Gate are Charles Derry, formerly lin otype man on the Times Al Zipf, of the Carlisle Packing Co.,, John Miller, of Valdez, formerly Assistant U. s. Attorney, and Gus Ohm, the latter still promoting his scheme to unite all the salmon canneries into one grand organization. Mrs. Florence Willoughby, who visited in Cordova and Katalla last summer is also in San Francisco and is engaged in writing book of Alaska travel. Oscar Meyer, of the old Cordova Power Company, is enrolled in the engineering department of the Uni versity of California. Art Cloninger is engaged in business in San Fran cisco, and Jack Began, known to the old-timers in Cordova, was in Los Angeles.
 In Seattle, Alaskans are as thick as peas in a pod, with a generous sprinkling of former Cordovans. Mrs. Edward Walsh is in the Virginia Mason Hospital having suffered serious hip injury in an automobile accident. She will be laid up for about six months in all, about half of which time is now over. Arthur Wittig of the Alaska Sea Food Com pany, is a proud father, and c. A. Lillie of the Pioneer Cannery is spending the winter pleasantly as purchasing agent for Frye X Co.,. Shorty Marshall is also in Seattle during a holiday lull in the logging camps.
 While in San Francisco MT. Medley attended the hearing held by Com missioner O'Malley of the Bureau of Fisheries concerning regulations in the new fishery reserve to the west ward. The commissioner asked for the opinions of all canneries inter- ested but made no announcement as to what regulations would finally be promulgated.
 The general impression created was that the first year of the re- serve would be one of experimenta- tion and that no radical rules would be enforced. The rules will prob ably delimitate the fishing area of each cannery, the amount of the pack, the size of the mesh and the opening and closing of the season. The Bristol Bay packers asked for a rule prohibiting the use of motor boats which would render useless the present equipment of the Car lisle Packing Company in that region. The Carlisle cannery is the only out fit there that has motor boats for it's fishermen. MT. O'Malley intimated that the reserve might be extended to the Copper River district but that the department was moving slowly and not trying to cover too much ter ritory at first. MT. O'Malley eX- pressly stated that he was highly pleased at the intelligent attitude that the Cordova Chamber of Com merce had assumed on the fisheries problem.
 In Seattle the Alaska canners are
 
 beginning to feel optimistic once more about the future of the indus try. The great bulk of the packers are behind the reserve system, and the recent gradual increase in the selling price of the pink fish has been the first ray of hope in the prevailing gloom which has envel' oped the salmon industry since 1919. Attempts made by the local packers to get together on some sort of joint operation failed to result in agree ment. MT. G. P. Halferty of the Pi- oneer cannery, has applied to the Bureau of Fisheries for a license to pack clans in Cook Inlet.
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