Show Blasting Reduces Reduce the Salmon Crop of Fu Future re Years I Killing of ot Fish and md Destruction of or Eggs by Railroad Work on Fraser Eraser Fraser Tributaries De Declared a a. phe pite W WASHINGTON A HI sOd Oct 30 Railroad Railroad bla blasting ope operations on a tributary of tho Fraser river in n Washington having hay hav ing killed more than tha one million salmon sal mon and prevented tho the spawning of ot between between be be- tween two and three billion bUtton sockeye cockeye salmon eggs egg the department of commerce commerce com corn merce mores announced today that the fish loving Am Ameri en cau au public publio might expect a decided shortage in Ip It its favorite article of ot food three to five years hence benco rho Tho department pronounces the tho slaughter of ot the fish to bo be a catastrophe catastrophe The effects of ot this catastrophe it was declared will be seen three to five fire c years hence when the 1913 progeny come como back to the tho river to spawn How serious tho outcome will willbe willbe be can only be surmised The livelihood of thousands thousand of persons per sons in fl the tho state of Wa Washington hington and andin in British Columbia adds the department department depart depart- ment meat depends upon un tho the annual run of these fish which return year ear by br year to the same gamo spawning grounds This it is ie suggested ted makes the satter matter matter mat sat ter one ona of even tm greater reater economic in in- terest Rocks dislodged bv by tho the blast ing blocked the stream and ana caused the death of the tho ascending fish |