Tooele Times | 1911-01-21 | Page 2 | New Industry for Alaska

NEW INDUSTRY FOR ALASKA eastern parties to engage in marketing the alaska sardine seattle alaska may witness during the coming summer the inauguration of a new industry that will prove prova ot 0 great benefit to tho the territory eastern parties who have had great experience per peri lence ence in the fishing and paling pali rg of sardines on tho the atlantic coast have discovered in the behn canal near ketchikan alaska a very fine grade of small herring or sardine which they declare superior in quality to anything found on the atlantic the number of fish elsh la Is very extensive and these men propose several complete sardine canning plants each to be built on a large scow the scow will bo be towed from point to point la in the fishing grounds ot of the tha canal following the run of herring the use of tho the movable scows will avoid the necessity of largo large equipment of fishing boats