| Show rr W ar w r MM W v NW low How oro am In hut ot Sound and Iho tho B I G F I S II 11 S T 0 I E S t i lt Ihl l Iho j if Salmon hlay Ou Stela In bt f Som Saute Lumber r Yard r fin I lo Story of 0 Sun Snit Junn Jump l flow It ft was wag fa rO f Ilia Iha I A AI r I ALL A L ABOUT THE SALMON INDUSTRY TR OF F THE r E Noi NORTHWEST Sl WHICH AMOUNTS MO rS 1 I wash Tho rho of I r Specia of the lie l Neva by fri y Prank ank a Q I you like Uke to lu luIe hear Ie r big ll h tore that are arc true l end Ill It jf It as II j your our esra ea C ten to J nw l s 8 McMillin tho ho puke of at n IJuan The rhe Duke Deke Of ot Sin San Juan YOU in rosy y pot lot have heard of oC Still at II he h ll Ii th tilt of at the most moet hm 1140 r octant orlan t of 0 f or Oar p et taunt leland Ir eland Illand which once oneO oh game nil n near near ln In I n nn I ng n in tie In 11 v ra ar r with Great Olat I 1 i l III UK lie Ilea fUt und larder r the tho thoi i the United Un b I I Columbia CO In our ourt K j jc I t i i it u win IlL wa stated I that th till thet the t c m n II the th hi parallel to toi t I 1 tI t i 1 IIII along tho the thon thoI I 1 n i i 1 through lint Ilat Bound out outi t a i rh Ih san Han an JU t archipelago t I ir n mi edge o of the channel I j i n d idile J 10 commit th the 1111 r ruth nth ami inah these the li he I II lii 4 I If i r f r their territory BY D A HOC 1100 u it I 4 II wuI of or rooting ge e of that I it H Die Ih rooting of oft n a nt at t J d these Wile Mande nn ahl and l the lice I i of DC witch which they the I tn III tu to the United Statue State j i I etl to 10 a l le r d c f e i J IR Uland It rooted out th the toe loel of or an American and cord I II li p hot the hog i r ht t up the 1011 of at the owner i iI r i of ot f the till Island lalana which woe WIB Yn I Ih I h of to Tho b mor of oC British h I ti u lend end troops to bring the j i to 10 Victoria oar lor trial and anil the theA A governor of t our territory I l t Captain to 10 prevent li It WAR wan the tame lame man who at atti atI I I ti t nard ltd made malle that famous amous charge At nt ato AtI i o UI burl lie Ho took a 1 company of oC I ti n ups Jilt to Han Juan Junn and warned the theA th thi i A l A on tin the gunboat which was wag tent sent I t t I Mlle the matter that It If they landed I In h 1 would lire tire upon them antI and there sold aId bf be K an International war ar The Thes They i s i 1 j not lend land The trouble trouble continual I waver and SS Scott Scotta tray a out by b the president to lb settle UI 1 II IL A temporary arrangement WM was wass wara i rit ra s ae by b which the took the half halt and the Americans the ther thet r t halt half of oC the tho and later haler Ih t settlement having bun ben referred to toi cri cid i Kaiser KaIr Wilhelm the grandfather of at atthe the prevent kalier kaller he decided that Ihal the channel lay la north of Han Ban Juan Junn This Ibl made mad the gland eland an all American l p and end no eo it la he I to h this day tiny Han ean Juan JUlin Island blend In Is the tho chief one of DC the die San Sin Juan archipelago It Is only fv mile mil one way by 14 H miles the but It Ji Je J the corner e of ot the United StAles t ant ci OF cilly 0 lly valuable the greater tart lart of It U I I pure Mono atone It Is In fact i pure white marble front from which I Is made Ila the mOlt of ot the boat beet lime of ot the ther Fadlo r lope elope It has hai factor i pie and anI furnaces for fOI making lime and a lid J mn 8 S ho Iho hn ha hns b been en II nick nicknamed named the Duke of or Sun Juan Jual Is le their thelt cn ner r DIO DlO FISH son fan Juan Island uland In la allo right on the flIk ti i irk wk of the Ihl millions of or salmon which 1 me onit In every year from the sea sen etl to Sawn In the river nod i h was Wea a nl to n nh h that hat I 1 talked with th lIl thin Me puke of or Ban San Juan Junn Said Bald Mr Scull It II The ulmon brings Uncle Ham Bam more mort morte wealth 1 e than uny other fish In Ills hi wn wu ITU Ir The catch of ot Puget sound Is le worth about Kw w a year car filch 1111 in 1902 moro moo lawn Li n 21 million rounds of ot such each vere lier caught In tho the Oregon rivers Alaska almon brings In mil Un bm donut dollars and altogether a II largo large pro i h lon of ot our 50 so o million dollar worth I nth nab come from tram salmon You lou i t people opie of or the east enst know nothing a shout fish nh as nit they the swarm In iii out our west jm rah waters How would you OU like to will sail hr half hair a day dR through a school of oC from win one on to II three thre Ihl mlle miles wide whIt And no so Nik t that het It blankets the tho th face of or the O 01 fin ao n I have hae done dome that again and ond I Kiin Iliin not nol f far r from B Han n Juan Juon What would woul you think of ot rivers so an n I lk with olIh salmon that they 1118 till 1111 the i from rom bink to bank o thickly puked ked that th t Were wore they not lIot co eo slippery nd the Ihl water not so could 1 alk k OVer hm than th from one bank to the ether I 1 have hats seen that ld yoa 01 think continued th he iwi duke dub my UK ho looked Into m my wide wIlle de bulging ey ef eyes of great vale vatH of or salmon wilmon 6 f feet lt long P iO 40 feet teet wide wido and W 40 o feet reet d J RI 11 H s1 big that y you 01 could drop fp etory block of ot to 40 I feet trout Z t down n lo all nil wild Imon A Wt have hae of ot such vats We ih empty p y the limbo scow antI and nd carry carr nm to 10 our packing houses whence tp they Ir are 1 to n nil lilt Parts of oC the arid I are ail big IB stone Ir I IYe Jura Ye but lt Ir you 01 will coma to 10 Hun I Will show you all 1111 ll th that t and lid more morro m are art now oo greater reuter in III Salue than our ur lumber exports und mid Ihy arc yew year by year yarn ur 8 POUND CHI cm NOOK 1 I I n 41 new op I Ail a om 7 I el lot of oC NO the Ith tit US UA all he rOI bl big bigI a mB 01 tIn Im 1 to 10 the lb Columbia rh ri I Where I I the h t frn salmon coots COlli The Ih 1 I k woe mil tho Iho Bret to IK Io UI Upon the one market mark of t ml ll It u hi It I of f e lineal of Iho seen n I f J J about Ul the lar laret Mt I have weighing 40 pounds 11 I C nod some oine are ure cauGht which I h Ij m When James Jame Jl mw O 0 won was in t l h be hi i h KO An r friends i or of hi hie Popularity I hi his hili Ore Orr ent I nt him him Rn RII i KM 1 g It II arrived In III Wn In Ny chef was cooked hy by u n tam fAin MIl and served whole lit al one Olle or of II III tek e fr you r in that It ti t II I u If gelid hunk chunk of or n a bo boi boy to 10 h 0 Fla 1 of nf You may lilt get some idea of thu Ihl that fish h TK rilE I HOCK AND ANI f I IV le Is the character of oC yoUr Puget I I Itch lIh Mr McMillin Ther here T mm 1111 mp varieties of oC sal you know knoll each Mch of s hue has Ow e natu vi Its III n 1 nature ld habits na as well as its Th Tb 1 ash h h horn om And 1111 d lIP ground l lof of Her lyre Th all torn born i nl al the lute They 1 down aft III to the ocean ms rs nn Th W hr 1111 and 1 live there for tor tour rOUt tb th n the y rome come me hack back to the Spot pot f hy y were II elE torn born to lay tho T eggs ty r the come h hardee r and terra of ot n llon millions In hit Inmany 11 p of II 0 many filch each Y to II barn barlt to lh Iho l place laCe laCend or of Its mil lay II Its eggs and nd mc tito dIeh the h h belt beet and d most moat numerous ii s 1 k cM p II s Soun unI l salmon solmon me the theT lb an e favorite f T salmon IK 11 II Ir Kin f Mimon The Sockeye frn fr ft II I t jog 10 nn the f Chinook ll It ding 10 to H l Ill e s leven In 2 according 01 11 some momo mo seasons wo we i ns WhIch five IIvo PI I e end ln in lr II r others othere the theor aver fr t en p Un or ot more Tine The Chi Chr Chi i nook directly for tor he the rivers river and It is le t there Ihre only The Sockeyes their llott sport about through Puget sound on their t Way WilY to 10 the streams creams and their course coulle In la each that wo we ran can retch catch them themas thema as a they IMy come In fresh from from rOIn the ocean I do not know you vim are Bre aware that the does Ita not feed ut tit all aft after after er he hi on his hili loan lorn vorn OrR from the salt water to the III II of lIr thu th rivers river The rite Journey lakes lakin weeks and during title this time hr he must mUfti live off oft ht hilt bin hilton own on fat at The Is IL r fish h token taken tar far up the tho rivers are lire lean leall and they lack LL I r carrying them aloft empty them Into the boat bollt with which the Ih wheels wheel ar er connected our traps are a n series of ot great Brent heart limited shaped walled with lisle lieu IKI so II that the Ash n h go Into them and roam roans about from on all one to the other oilIer trying to get Hel et out until they the finally come Into a great net which will ifill hold or nt It one time Ume I have hII seen een ouch mch a trap trail with more marl than I big 1111 salmon In It ItI I Hut But how do you OU get gel lit the lie fish fUh lute tin HH trap r I asked Vu Sto u take of ot the and of or the Ills Ih They The have ha Ih It own of doing dill III thin and they ther will do tho rho over the lie 1110 1 1 l t 1 1 l J JJ t J I 1 F A r J 1 1 Y 1 X t i Ij I 1 d t I j j r i I If I ik f f t I rI HrH r l H wi H t l H H wt H H I IJ l J mH 8 s Till OF ill j SAN SS JUAN dUM this the flavor of or those Iho caught fresh front from the wo sea Tile This Is I the advantage we have havo hoIn In the Sockeye We catch It when It ItIs ItIs itIs Is fat tat and fresh It Is l I believe bollo the most moat delicious of at flee fish meat FISH TRAPPING How do you 0 catch the lite fish Ah Mr Me Mo McMillin Millin I asked We are nrc now using great grent gr t fish traps They The ore are not like those of oC the Co Columbia river which Are rl made In time the shape ot of wheels turned turnell by the stream no 50 that thai they catch tho fish a as 88 they the go up and I I Ito I ame same way tray year ear after year In III coining coming to the tine fresh water to spawn they timey tho go In Ina Ina Ina a body bolly and will trill not 1101 allow aJl V to turn them from their It If they PM poe po can call We Ve know just lust where tha the course o Is III and an AliI d wit where ore It lies flee along till the tit o e shore hore of ot the Island Uland we build out break breakwaters breakwaters waters with there then heart hl rl shaped traps at the Ih ond end The Hell fish the break sester u a and swim str out Into IncO the traps tralle p go goIng goIng a Ing lag on and on until they land In III the thc tho great net lie I It must mu t take lake a n strong Miron net to hold them than 1 said I It II don 1151 We drive down plies piles about n hundred feet teet long and tauten fasten tho the nets net to 10 them When Wh the mm net lIet fe l I full the th flah are ure emptied by h pulling up ore one end of ot the net lIel and rolling rollin them out Into Inlo the time scows cows Indeed wo we haul fish as ILl you ou haul dirt In scows ICO train from this the dredging boats bonte Steam tugs togs dreg drag the tilt scows scow to the canneries In III emptying the nets net wo sometimes ladle out tine nah flan with treat mat dtp dip nets s which ore are worked by n 1 t steam gleam engine Jut just us dl asa 11 II pile driver li I worked TUB fUR DRATH JOURNEY OF It TUB SALMON ON ONDo Do all ealmon come from the tho salt saltwater water wAler to the rivers to Yes Vea e replied Mr And Anel so far as 4 ve We w know In about the Ihl limn way and at al about a out the same age BIt Silver plates plate bearing the tho date have been bl 11 fastened to 10 t baby haby iby salmon truing going down the river and those same canto salmon have been caught on their return In all cities cases the time line Is U I four years yearn so 10 o that we know tour four years to lo bo be the age ot of tho the salmon Imon The salmon makes makel hill t last lall journey to 10 die The swan Is le nothing to his hi death pilgrimage Il lie fights his hi way through salt alt water and fresh fresu stemming the tide and seemingly go lO going lOIn lug ing In fastest where the waters are ate strongest lt In III the rivers rI he jumps Jumpe the tile rapids and make malt hit his way wa over Oer stones atones tone and rubbish He lie II often otten bruises him himself himself self elf tearing his hie hi skin akin until at last he III the spot where the young salmon are ar to be lie born barn There Then he stays to 10 mile die II Hut But Mr lc why do you OU speak of or time the salmon ulmon as 81 he It Is II the female salmon who lays la the tho eggs I Is I It not lot Yes Yn but Iut I use the pronoun as In both sexes XU The male mal and fe te female r male mille go together mid and every female line hns her male follower who will light tight for his hili place IRee near her na RI the time bull seal leal fights for tor the th cows COWl on the time seal II Islands The rhe two keep keell together until the salmon drops nor her spawn Soon boon after that thaI they limey site die III In some places the dead Huh llah are sr plied piled ono one upon another in ouch Huch masses malle that Dint their stench pollutes the country count around SALMON NOT PLAYING OUT Hut where no many fist fish ar are aNI caught I should think It would result In th extinction if oj 01 tile the he riles race not time the almon die out as all time the buffalo not noto No o A n h lays lave lallen lens of at thou hots Sall s of ot e 8 and If it only a III small moll part parl of the tho ORBS eggs RS should hatch hatch there thre would be plenty ploll to 10 keep kep u up l the supply WP WI Weare are 1111 now note protecting probating till the t 1 salmon almon and the government has hll established establish lint hat herle at lit the Iho waters lIler where millions of minnows ira ate produced wry every v y year elu The state ot of Washington alto also maintains 19 larg hatcheries which during durin tho the past I have hav turned Into the about spawn Those bol millions are now fish Ash starting out on their way IA to 10 the sea and they will come corne bark back nt lit a stated time to enter our traps trupe and anti he its a R purl of or the time food of or the limo world It Is III a I great reat u HI eF home hems lint it thin being able ablo to hatch h M n fish and atari etarl him out nut lo to hl hit lands In the ocean nn knowing that hut t he will come rom back Just four tour years litter Inter fat tat mid juicy and aliI ready to eat ent I It I le II not mint alone alono man however continued Mr that hat I Is II till the enemy of the salmon One OliO of It Its Ita pests Pate In Is I the ordinary brook b k trout bout This Thill n itch li follows the female fete salmon swimming under It It so 0 that It may mur eat eal tint tho eggs us as they drop droll In Indeed n deed acid it Is II almost Impossible to get t trout to bite bit while the salmon ar Ire are running they the ore are areo so overfed over ted with salmon ems eggs I I The salmon knows this and tries trl to prevent It It h often onn flirts Its nl tall tail to so as III to dig dl out a hole hoJe In the sand In which It drops drop Us It eggs egg hop hOI hoping lag ing III the Ih sand will cover them I have I of often tin even this h in the hollow streams of ot AluM Is 1 there till much money man Invested In th the fisheries In hr Washington The amount It le something tike like replied Mr At least that in is whet what It wile WR last season on It 11 thin then a employment to 10 about 10 per suns whose wit earnings amounted to more t T 1 Washington the th chief salmon sup supply ply IJ point t tYes t I Yes It surpasses Oregon or any an oth OUI other er or WASHINGTON STATIC DOOMING 1 How are tr times In your state tal Mr McMillIn I asked Washington is me growing rapidly both east eat and d west wen was the reply Seat Seattle Seattie Seattie tie tle and the Pu Puget sound region Ion have 1111 been ben |
