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Show lint tlviv lias ln'i-n rooovo'ry. v hioh is t he 111:1 in ) h : n cr. Last, year .M, COO, POO woro tal.oit liah'lieil, ami it. is rpoi-(el that the mimlier of ball v fishes turned out this year will reneli 70.000,000. Trior to the purehaso of Alasl;:) by tlri rnitr.l stales, the salmon fislieries of Afoi;nak v.ere ojieraleil by the llus-pian-Amerierm company, wliieh established estab-lished on the island a colony for its superannuated and pensioned employees. These Aleuts, whoso descendants- today compose the native population, somewhat more than -tOO, although their blood is much mixed. Tho multiplication of the government-owned salmon at Afognak will, of course, be more rapid as tho stock ir.ono.isos. In time the enterprise should bo tho means of supplying oilier suitable suit-able waters with fish, as well as furnishing fur-nishing a largo quantity for consumption. consump-tion. In recent years the salmon fisheries fish-eries of tho Columbia river and Puget sound have imported indifferent success suc-cess as compared with the bountiful catchea their nets used to bring up. One of tho principal reasons for the lack of fish in Pugot sound is found in tho partial closing of tho l-'raser river some yoars ago by dynamite blasting blast-ing for a railroad, the debris from that-work that-work barring the way to salmon which, from time before man's knowledge, had used the Fraser as their spawning beds. Pispatches from nort hwostern salmon centers at the close of the salmon season sea-son were that prices had advanced until un-til fishermen were receiving as high as 13 cents the pound for their catches, and that 13 to 11 cents was no longer attracting sellers. Undor these conditions, condi-tions, anything wl.ich will add to the supply of salmon will be welcome, and the government's undertaking at Afognak Afog-nak should, within a few years, prove a factor in relieving the shortage. : UNXLE SAM'S SALMON. A possession of the United Sta'ea which, in th Jnst seven years, has drown to proportions of consequence, is t)o government salmon prc-rve in' Alaskan waters. In 102 the island of! Afopiak waj sot aside by President ; Harrison ns a pan 'in fln'I -"'"h preserve. Tho, island i about sixty fivo miles in icnjch and forty in width, with tin ir-nrnlar ir-nrnlar thorelino find deeply indent ed by bay. Thft important purpose served by pic- . rtjresquo Afofrnak is that of a preserve for salmon, all tho best varieties of which run up its stream in great numbers num-bers at the spawning season. Afognak : a mountainous island, of vo1cnnie, origin, its lof t ir st peak rising to nn elevation of 1300 feet. In thn interior aro a larjre number of lakes which re this propnalion w a I r i f,f thn falnmn. Ona cf thse, I,eini!t lak-n, is s'-ven I miles lona and on its shore has been built a bltf government f i h hntcliery. The orMficial propnnt ion of salmon :$ supplemented by so called r"'" lac tin (f sta'ions on otr-er lakes. I'nder nnrninl conditions about 70,fK n.ooo ec,; :s hntehed nnnuilly. In .Inns of 112 a prnf. catastrophe befell which almost wholly wiped out ill the progre?, rhaf Jind hifhTtn bei-n it. ad". In that month oeenrred tl: ri tjosifin t( Mmjnt Kn'mai, v l o h, Kn n - di t Ii i ikinn is ft hundred m i I"i . " I dls'-'tn. entered M.e -e-l.nln f.f Af'-nac. j m'h mf.es 'o lei d-pM. "f a for.i. j ho 'rejin-S ri-rr eh'.Ve'l Vi'll luV fit;' hn row r t - i of s-.: no nf t ! e rn w c i " -'.1. i n ;;'!. 'I o t hnu- nd p:i n iiiy s -1 , fTitn ecro hlll'd in ope Inl-i' nhri", 'I!'' rt, !T.n I ; ' I, in b -1 i ti" s r 'I !'l " i rd K il i i I i ' i r 1 j- r in i ' ' ' i -si. ry n-.'i, ,.; I. . - .i -dn" , I |