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Metadata
Title |
Two men on steps at Loring with a telephone, 1905-1930 |
Image # |
73.3.16.144 |
Object Name |
Print, Photographic |
Date |
1905-1930 |
Photographer |
Giebel, Cornelius |
Location |
Loring |
Description |
Two men on steps at Loring with a telephone, circa 1905 Both men are wearing hats & sitting on steps with a Loring telephone. Man on left has climbing gear on his lab. Mining Journal, 6/17/1905 "The telephone line between J. R. Heckman & Co.'s Store and the Loring cannery is now in operation. Messages were exchanged over the line Wednesday." Mining Journal, 1/27/1903 "THE LORING HATCHERY Mr. J. R. Heckman, superintendent for the Alaska Packers’ Association, at Loring, left here for that place Thursday for the purpose of laying out and inaugurating work on the additions and improvements to be made to the company’s already large hatchery. The additions will consist of two log building 28 x 280 feet each bunk house 30 x 40, and cook house 26 x 30, together with a commodious guest house. The two large log buildings will be used as hatcheries, and are designed to increase the capacity of the plant to one hundred million fry annually. The hatchery is at the upper end of what is locally known as the third, or Heckman, lake, and about eight miles inland from Loring, with which, it is flow connected by telephone. It is the intention to lower the water of the lake mentioned to the extent of at least four feet, by blasting out the outlet, which it is believed will not only greatly in crease the numbers of red fish that may be taken but facilitate the taking of them as well. Another improvement to be made, and which will he completed by the time the new hatcheries are ready for, operation, is a line of artificial ponds, 50 in number, in which the young fry will be kept until large enough to take care of themselves. The additions and improvements will cost in the neighborhood of $25,000 and will afford steady employment to a force of from 20 to 30 men from now until September next. The hatchery plant, during the hatching season, will require the services of not less than 30 persons. If all the canning companies could and would comply with the law as the Alaska Packers’ association is doing there would be little danger of any depletion of salmon in Alaskan waters. It is well known, however, that on many of the canning companies The law imposes that which is an impossible of accomplishment, in that the red salmon are found in but comparatively few of the streams, and there are therefore but few places where hatcheries such as the law requires can be maintained." |
Print size |
12.50C x 10.00C |
People |
Giebel, Cornelius |
Search Terms |
Revillagigedo Island Loring, Alaska Telephone |
Credit line |
Ketchikan Museums: Tongass Historical Society Collection, THS 73.3.16.144 |