The Wrangell sentinel., 1924-12-04
Another Cold Storage
 Plant to Operate in
 Wrangell Next Season
F. Klevenhusen' Sends E. Albright Here to Overhaul the Columbia & Northern Plant and Put it in Shape for Opera ton Early in the New. Year.

A second cold storage plant to. Wrangell is scheduled to be in oper- ation within three monhs after tho beginning of the year. aa
 E. A. Albright. representing F Klevenhusen, arrived in Wrangell on the Northwestern Tuesday even ing for the purpose of putting the Columbia & Northern cold storage plant into shape to operate again af- ter being shut down for six years.
 MT. Albright is the engineer who constructed the Columbia & North ern plant at Wrangell more than twelve years ago. He will make a thorough inspection of the plant and dock and will make an estimate of the amount of lumber, piling, and other material necessary to put the plant in first-class shape.
 Mir Albright is under contract to install machinery in brewery in Mexico during the month of Janu- ary. but will come north again as soon as he is through with the job in Mexico. When Mir. Albright re- turns he will bring with him the ma terials which cannot be obtained here that may be necessary for put ting the plant in first class shape.
 The plant has a capacity of about 35 cars of frozen fish. but it is very likely that after the plant is again in operation its capacity will be considerably increased. Mr Al bright stated that the plant will also be operated as a public cold storage plant. He further stated that the plant would pursue its old policy O, mild curing the big fish and freez- ing the small ones.
 In a recent issue of the Portland Oregonian reference was made to MT. Klevenhusen's plans to resume operations in Alaska. The follow ing paragraphs are reproduced from the Oregonian:
 Germany is buying Pacific
 salmon in considerable quanti-
 ties this year. and the Columbia
 & Northern Fishing and Pack
 ing Company intends to open its
 plant at Wrangell, Alaska,
 which has been closed for sev-
 eral seasons past, F. Kleyen-
 husen. of Altona, Wash, presi-
 dent of the company. said yes-
 where he is stopping.
 Germany is taking much sal
 mon. but the English market is
 not so good, as they are now
 getting considerable frozen sal
 mon from Nova Scotia and other
 eastern points which makes the
 sale of Pacific salmon a little
 difficult there for the time
 being" Mir Klevenhusen said.
 ''The prices this year for mild
 cured salmon for export are
 high. and so are the prices for
 raw material and labor.
 "We are sending E. Albright.
 who constructed our plant at
 Wrangell, which has been idle
 for several years. up there to
 look over the plant and put it
 '- running shape"
 Wrangell offers an attractive field for the cold storage business. The wrangell Ice and Storage Con- pany which opened for business sev- eral months ago has had most successful season. It's storage space has been filled to capacity since the first month, and some business has had to be refused on account of in- sufficient storage capacity.
 During the past few days it has been rumored the Wrangell Ice and Storage Company were planning on enlarging their paint. Oliver D. Leet. manager of the plant. when seen by the Sentinel reporter this