The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-03-04

priations but I am aware of nc other method whereby we can pro- vide for an efficient administration of our Territorial government ano not exceed our revenues during ths next two years.
 Conditions are Temporary
 Fortunately we are certain that the present adverse conditions arg only temporary. We know that our industries are organized on a sound basis and a return to pros perity is not questioned, but our plans must be made now for the next two years and for this pur- pose we must assume that there will not be any change during that period"
 The highest degree of co-opera tion, he said, had been received from all Territorial officers ano "to this cordial support is due whatever degree of efficiency ano success that may have been at tained The administration oi each, he added, had been charac- terized for efficiency.
 Makes General Survey Briefly Gov. Parks surveyed con- ditions generally, citing the 77 per cent population increase noted in the Federal decennial census re- ports, and declaring we have passed the period of decline. Pro- posed industrial developments will attract new residents and we may expect an increase in population from this source in the next bien- nium"
 Alaska's mines produced $16,06S.- GOO in 1929, gain of S2,00O,OOO over the preceding year. but in 1930 they lost about $25O0,oOO, due to de- pression in copper and other base metals. There is every reason to believe that the gold production will increase during the next two years, although there may be a decline in the production of cop per and other base metals" Last year the output of the gold mines gained about S635oO0 over 1929. Fisheries are Depressed
 Tn his analysis of the conditions in the salmon canning industry the Governor revealed the reasons inn polling him to appeal to the Legis- lators for the "strictest economy T This and mining constitute the Territory's major sources of reve- nue, and the revenues of the Ter ritory from the latter during the past biennium decreased eight per cent"
 The packers employed 29,283 per- sons in 1929. Fishing products that year were valued at $5U, ,795, ,3ly but large as that was, it was s. 750,000 less than in 1928. Official statistics for 1930 were not avail able, but due to the red salmon failure in Bristol Bay last sea- son, the pack is known to have been smaller than the average, and tax receipts disproportionately lighter than the figures might in- dicate due to the fact that the rates on red fish are higher than on pinks and other varieties and most of the super-case taxes come from the red fish branch.
 Outlook Is Gloomy Out of a five million case pack last year, some two million were carried over by the packers to this year. Prices sagged to the lowest figures in decade or more. Thus the present situation in the in- dustry is very similar to that in 1921. Available reports indicate there will be "a reduction of ap- proximately 9 per cent in the number of canneries that will be operated. Probably the pack of red salmon will increase over that of last year, but it is not likely that the total pack of all varieties will exceed 3,900,000 cases. If nor nal conditions are restored by 1932 'the pack should be about 5000, ,00C cases" in that year.
 But the industry faces an un- usual circumstance in 1883. In that