Seward daily gateway., 1932-11-07
ALASKA ITEMS 0F INTEREST AT TIE
 NATIONAL CAPITAL

Delegate James Wickersham has initiated a new plan to give greater employment to resident Alaskans in the fishery industry of the Ter ritory. He has taken the matter up with Commissioner of Fisheries O'Malley and representatives of the cannery interests, with encourag- ing prospects that the idea will be satisfactorily worked out for suc- ceSsful operation next season. * x
 There may be a little delay occa- stoned m starting the preliminarieS for the construction of the Ketchi- kan Federal Building from the fact that private architects are seeking selection in the preparation of plans and specifications. N. Les ter Troast has wired the Treasury Department from Wrangell asking that he be made architect. He is an employe of the Department of Indian Affairs and designed many of the school buildings in Alaska as we'll as the Institute at Wrangell. Col. Eric Fisher Wood, of the firm of HornboStel & Wood, Pittsburgh, was in the city two days ago con- ferring with the Treasury Depart ment. Col. Wood has been in Alas ka and drew the plans for the pro- posed William Henry Seward Mem Orial, to be erected at Seward at a cost of $400,000. The supervising Architect informed the Delegates office that the private applications would be looked into and that it would be November before any de- cision was made in the matter The influence of the Interior Depart ment and the Department of Jus tice is being brought to bear on the Treasury Department to induce the further selection of Anchorage for a federal building under the Relief Act, as there is still over $5,OOO,OOO not yet apportioned.
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 When Commissioners of Fisheries ! decided last December to recom- mend that commercial fishing be allowed in the waters 500 yards from the mouth of the Yukon river, from June Is to June 30, and the l take not to exceed 50,000 fish, 1 there was some apprehension lest the order interfere with the run of the Yukon. The seasons report in , dicates that but 4,767 king fish were caught at the mouth of the river, by Alaskans, and that they were mild cured and shipped to l Seattle. The Bureau has received a further report indicating that the catch of salmon on the Yukon and Panama rivers the past season was the best ever known. It is said that residents along the rivers have been able to buy dried fish for from four to five cents pound and in some instances they sold for three cents. While the order was experimental it is said that there l is now no objection to it's contin- i uance.
 The Geological Survey has just issued a bulletin entitled, "The Tatonduk-Natior district, Alaska" !" by J. B. Mertie, Jr., which is an initial step toward the future map ping of this Yukon n-Porcupine re- zion. As yet many geological prob lens that have a direct bearing upon the mineral deposits of the ! Yukon-Tanana region remain un- solved, because the country rock in that region is so greatly meta | morphosed as to obscure or destroy <, the necessary evidence.
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 LABOR, a national weekly news paper, published in Washington by representatives labor organizations, in it's issue of October 25 contains picture of Judge James Wicker sham with very pleasant endorse ment of the judges congressional | career.