The Alaska daily empire., 1923-04-21

the destruction of that permanent investment by Q tax levied und5s the subterfuge Of conservation and word to thar effect goes out to the com mercial world, the cqnclusioh will be reached that investments In aLe ,North will be extremely hAza iops and new capital will not cnly oe ila- possible. but that now employed VII ca wi.adrawn and credits cane alief, he said
 Touches On Reserves
 Mir. Garfield touched briefly on the fisheries reserve policy. lie said it had been endorsed by ths Seattsa Chamber of Commerce as a purely regulatory measure and c0Atendei chat proper regulations consistently enforced would make it an effective one. He said that he had been in- formed Chat pack limits announce | for the Westward districts odrly th.s year. which were high, hal siaea been modified by the Depar inert ot Commerce. Adjustments ha"a i.een made in the karluk fisheria orde} ! which originally excluded af col : panies except two having p,ints ss Larson Bay Under the moiited oi. ! lders, he said, all the Kodiak island canneries now have the sane rish' of taking fish at karluk as thay T. 70 heretofore possessed. He als> peint- ed out that the Bristol Bl5 com lpanies have evidenced a s'A A;';a r' terest in the future of the industry there, first by voluntarily reducing their packs in 1920 and by fur nishing funds for q survey of ths district by the Bureau of Fisheries maintaining q fisheries patrol to pre- vent fishing inside spawning streams and cooperating in the cleacinS Of streams and destruction of predatorf enemies of the salmon. He pointe'. out the relative differences in the cost of packing on Puget Sound and 1.-the great difference in the value oi the product. the Puget Sound sock
 eyes bringing ST per case as com
 pared to $9 for the Alaska reds.
 Questioned By Delegate
 One or two questions were asked Mr. Garfield by Delegate Sutherland : on the endorsement of the reserves by the Seattle Chamber of Commerce
 The latter explained that it was pre-
 sented to the Chamber by it's fisher
 ies committee, or subcommittee in vestigating the matter He acknow lledged that three of the four mem , bers of the subcommittee were can
 uervmen but pointed out that th' irroposal reached the Chamber onl.
 after it had been passed on by th' full committee and the directors 0 the Chamber. The committee, and h' / personally, had talked with Alaskan merchants, professional men ant fishermen. he added, and from then had formed it's opinion that Alas lkans were favorable to the reserve al a regulatory measure. a temporary lexpedient until needed Legislation could be passed.
 Dunn Asks Questions
 Senator Dunn asked a numDer 0 questions relative to the Chamber attitude on the matter. He asked | MT Garfield if it had under con ''der lation any conservation plan. Int latter replied that the Chamber dit have under consideration such plaI and was now interesting the Wash ington delegation to Congress ant through other Pacific Coast. statt delegations in the hope of settinE action at the next Congress- "Doe' this nlan involve leaving the fisher ies of Alaska under the Bureau O. Fisheries control?" asked Mir. Dunn "It does until sueh time as the Fed eral government is willing to give the Territory control over it's fish cries." was the reply That's what I was after" said Mir. Dunn. MT Garfield said he agreed with the Sen ator that the Bureau of Fisheries contral had not been effective and | that the salmon supply was diminish | ing. He said that although the Bu ireau cf Fisheries until recently hae mot taken the depletion seriously, l 1 has changed it's attitude and is at Tempting to conserve the supply now but is hampered by lack of neces sary legislation.