Alaska and the Panama canal . Theydisappear from the Pribilofs and return the following educated seals that the public sees in circuses and showsare not the fur-seals. They have only hair on their are the more intelligent. Fur-sealing is an industry that should always be conductedby the Government or under the strictest Government control,if that is possible so far away. The worlds next largestrookery to that on the Pribilof Islands, where fur-seals aretaken, is off the coast of Uruguay, South America, and ishandled by the Uruguayan Government very successfully. The tota
Alaska and the Panama canal . Theydisappear from the Pribilofs and return the following educated seals that the public sees in circuses and showsare not the fur-seals. They have only hair on their are the more intelligent. Fur-sealing is an industry that should always be conductedby the Government or under the strictest Government control,if that is possible so far away. The worlds next largestrookery to that on the Pribilof Islands, where fur-seals aretaken, is off the coast of Uruguay, South America, and ishandled by the Uruguayan Government very successfully. The total market value of the raw fur-seals taken in Alaskasince the United States bought the country in 1867 is $52,257,-135. The total from the salmon and other fishing, up to theclose of 1912, is given as $167,420,000, or a grand total fromAlaskan waters since the United States took over the countryof $219,672,135. while the total value of the gold mined since1867 is $213,018,719, leaving a balance in favor of salmon and 56 ALASKA. AN ALASKAN FISH-WHEEL. ON THE YUKON. seals, or fishing, of $6,000,000. Yet, almost every one thinks ofAlaska as only a cold, gold-producing country. Salmon fishing in the North Pacific Ocean has been muchmore profitable and certain of success than gold mining on theshore. Few people understand the peculiarities of the hatch in a fresh-water stream, go to the ocean and remainabout three years, then come back to the stream in which theywere born, deposit there their eggs or spawn, and die. Theydo not return to the ocean. No other fish is like the salmon inthis respect. I was much interested in what I was told by Bishop Roweof the Episcopal Church, who is known and loved all overAlaska. He considered fishing the chief necessary and per-manent industry of Alaska, especially for the poor people andnatives. He told me that unless the new Territorial Legisla-ture passed adequate protective laws, fishing in Alaska had ALASKA 57
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