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Title: Alaska and the Klondike gold fields : containing a full account of the discovery of gold; enormous deposits of the precious metal; routes traversed by miners; ...
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Harris, A. C
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Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : Monroe Book Company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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in great shoalsor schools, and it is a matter of record that once in August themail steamer passed through one school for four hours, the waterbeing silvered as far as could be seen with the fish. The natives do not take the trouble to fish for them in the usualway with the line and hook or even with nets. They simply rakethem out with a lath set with nails, and an Indian or two canusually fill a canoe in an hour or so. The factory crew at Killis-snoo often gets from 300 to 600 barrels of herring at a singlehaul. Often 1000 barrels are seined at once, and it is not agreat while since 1500 barrels were taken by one cast of theseine in Sitka Harbor. There is every reason to believe that the number of peopleengaged in the fisheries in 1898 will be greater than in any pre-ceeding year. As is said, the fish come annually in shoals thatare simply marvelous in point of extent, and are thus whollyunlike the animals that for a long time afforded a source ofrevenue to the hunters and trappers.
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331 332 INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT. It may be said here that hunting and trapping, while still pur-sued in Alaska, is in a certain sense, a thing of the past. It istrue, that the country abounds in foxes and bears that maketrapping for a limited number a remunerative source of employ-ment. But the work of the Russians in the early days of theLOuntr)s histor) and of the men employed by John Jacob Astor,has largely reduced the number of animals which would makehunting a profitable venture for a great number. The greatcompanies of the olden time live now only in recollection, andit is thought there is little prospect that their activities will berenewed. Hunting for sport will doubtless for a long time, claim atten-tion, but, even this, in the districts invaded by the prospectorsand miners, is likely to lose its charms, for reason that the lackof fresh meats in the mining camps has virtually made everyminer and prospector a foe to the animals whose flesh may beused for food. In whole section

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