Hyder weekly herald., 1929-09-14
REDUCTION PLANT
 BUSY 1T KETCHIKAN

With IT men employed at the present time the Alaska Reduction company is planning on increasing it's Ketchikan pay roll for all the year round, according to Willis R. Lebo, the manager.
 "The Alaska Reduction com pany" said he, in a statement given to the Fairbanks Chronicle recently, "is taking care of all the waste from local canneries. Of course this adds to a sanitary beach line in the city and also makes the canneries more sanitary in having all the refuse removed.
 "The work of the company is along the lines of true conserva- tion~the utilization of what has always been a waste product. We hope soon also to take care of the waste from the halibut fishing.
 we have been given splendid cooperation on the part of the known fact that the canneries in cannery packers, and it is a well Ketchikan are among the most sanitary plants in the world. The human hand scarcely ever touch es the product for the worlds markets. The waste from the can- neries Is collected in hoppers by means of chain conveyors. It is then removed daily on scows to the reduction works. On arrival it moves continuously, without pause to shipping product. There are no storage bins at the plant and no chance is allowed for putrifica- tion. The product becomes meal for poultry food and is shipped to the larger milling companies where 1t is mixed with other ingredients for food for poultry and dairy herds. The salmon furnishes a large percentage of iodine, most valuable food for animals and chickens.
 The oil extracted from the waste product is used for various pur- poses, for leather, for railroad cars. for automobiles and springs and gear cutting.
 We are now experimenting with the purpose of determining further values of the oil, such as salts which it contains, for medical pur- poses. The University of California declares that it contains proper ties as valuable as are present in cod liver oil and it is simply a question of being able to extract these.
 Our business naturally is run on a very close margin. Some nine tons of water must be steamed out to get a ton of solids. However, the large volume of waste permits us to operate successfully. We hope to be able to maintain the business the year round. Trolling boats and other fishermen could catch dog and other fish not now marketed and there is no reason why some 100 men with 25 or 30 boats could not operate most of the winter months with seines and hand gear. The company will cc- operate with them in furnishing scows. The larger the volume of business we handle, of course, the more money we could pay the fishermen.
 We have been checking up also with view to taking care of the waste product from outside can- nerieS. The United States bureau of fisheries has expressed a dispo- Sition not to allow operation of plants without caring for the waste product, and our plant offers a solution to the question. The time is past, even in Alaska where wholesale waste will be long per- mitted. It is against all rules of modern economies.
 "In line with the work also, on the part of local fishermen, the dolly warden and other species of trout which prey on salmon spawn could be taken and used in the reduction works, and this is an- other step in conservation of the salmon-the prize food fish.
 "The seventeen men employed at the plant are all white and local people except for a few skev' men