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THE MORNING OREG0XIAX, TUESDAY, APRIL 25, 1916. 7 PROPOSED PACT OH FISHING IS ASSAILED Oregon - Washington Agree ment Declared Inimical to Columbia River Industry. LAWS SAID TO BE TOO LAX Secretary of Packers' Union Asserts That Operations Above Tide Mater Are Keponiiblc for Jecrease In Pack. ASTORIA. Or.. April 24. Special.) II. M. Lornhten, utrretary of the Co lumbia Kiver Fish Packers' Union, has issued a circular bitterly attacking the proposed treaty- on the falmon laws be tween Washington and Oregon. He de clares that at the present rate of fish ing in the upper reaches of the Colum bia the industry will not long- survive. His argument is as follows: To Wf.om It liar Concern; Salmon laws and regulation are for the purpotre of protect ins and preserving the iilraon supply, that is the intent at any rate, and wherever reasonable laws were applied tn salmon have fared me II. The salmon laws covering the Columbia Ttivr. and which the treaty promoter want to b ti-d up. ar not for the protection of the Uit'Ttan, ms I shall endeavor to point out by comparing them with laws and regula tions for other salmon rivers, where the Teouit of &ame cannot be disputed, but they fio protect tho?- m ho are responsible for a r0 per -nt pa k on the Columbia River, of iu h salmon as rnde the Columbia Kiver fjnioue, 'salmon caught before August 1. '1 he Sa'-ramonto salmon was almost a t hinjc of the past, stationary gear urh as traps and sniall-mcshed gear was tlie cause. A law piohioitins traps and msh smaller than TU inches, atrefh measure, in floating rear was enacted as well as a law in which it whs provided for a weekly closed season from sunrise Saturday to sunset the follow ing eunday, and a closed season over the whole river from September 1 to October !', with an additional month closed above tide water, making it over two inont hs above t ide-water. That raved the Sacramento Silver valmon. Increase Follow Protection. Our Orecon fount salmon industry went through the rnme experience as that of the Sacramento River. i'annrrv affr cannery liad to be closed Io n for la-lt of talmon: t ho tot tl catr-ti in J-') of "hinonk salmon In at! our cast Mrcams was ),:;;;$ pounds and ir.tf?Mi- pounds of Miver salmon. Sal mon up to that time was cauulit In our coast streams with traps, set -nets. ins and gi II nets, and with pitchforks where the river was shallow enough to operate. No wonder the salmon gave out. However, the "looj st-ssiori of the Oregon legislature enact, cd a law prohibiting traps and established cadlities aw whjch no fishing except with hook nd line mas allowed on every river out h of the Columbia, excepting the I'm p Qua and the I.ogue, and the result of that law mas, that In lJOfi. after five years of common sene laws and regulations. U'e Chi nook catch had Increased to 3."ij.!o pounds and the silver salmon catch to 4.7-l.ono pounds. Columbia Kiver was included in tiiut bill by an amendment carried in both houses, and this would have soon brought the pack jp to the r.oo.noo-raee mark azaln, but the sa me influences that are behind th i re;i ty scheme now were then able to juggie that amendment out. The State of Washington does not permit any fishing above tide-water in any of its rivers emptying Into th? " Puget Found, neither does it permit wheels, traps, seines nor purse-sefnes to operate (n said rivers. uh near are not allowed within three miles of th- mouth of said rivers, only gillncts are permitted there. .ltt-knn Action Cited. The fisheries on tle Nurha sk River. Alaska, were fa -ins their finis h, because the Wood River, t hrough hi' h the red m-t Imo.i had to pa ss to reach their spa wn in g g ro u n d s in t h o 1 :i k es. was so b 1 n-k e d with traps th.t practically no salmon reached the !ak. Expeditions returned from Xushatrak in lfM'7. irh half packs and less. A hearing was had before Secretary of Commerce and T.a bor. Mr. Strauss, and an udienc witii P-cs!.1ent Roosevelt, where the real facts wre presented lii connection with tiie con i J t in on the Wood Fti vr. which resui td in an or.ler to close t he Wood and the upper Xuha?ak rivers neairni all commercial fish, Inr, and that saved the salmon Industry there. The upper Nushagak and the Wood rivers stnd in the same r-'ar.n to Xusha Ck proper as the upper Columbia Kiver to the lower. British Columbia does not allow any com -TnTcial ftshtng ;ili.v. t:de-water nor any trap or wheels in her rivers. Columbia Rule ri1iie1. For th.- pror-tion of the s!mon industry. On the Columbia Itlvn. f tshtng is permuted bve tide-ma t-r. liere they operate m heels. ! traps, a trie and a fw stllneis. also dip-; r-ts. in itd--mater tiaps. seines, purse-seines 11 canets and any other kind of gear can opera t. as Ions as a Iicns-- is paid. 'lnsed seasons are also provided to let the Salmon get up the river to their spawning grounds ar.d hatcheries, it H claimed. (.Hie closed ea-oa is from March I to May I. to let a uf f cjent number f early salmon reach bead maters to propagate, and this mould hav been of immense, value to the f'shins indus'rv were it pot for the rommrfal fish ins; permitted above tide-water. The- salmon have a fre run up the rivr for two months, strictly protet ted while in the lomer river! but rarely does this protected salmon net bevoni the Cefilo Falls, and thus the upper ruer fisheries ct the full benefit of the two months' closed aeason and not the salmon. Mr. Setifit's gear wlone have taken as hich m over 120 tons of fish the first Uv of the opon season, and tlia season opt1 t noon; then add to that the cau-h of th other up r l er f ishermen and at lest -pt.oon f :sh a re c a tight on the first day. all of which were protected fijth while in the lower rier. Any mond'T that those fisherine want our sal mon taws to remain as they are? Those fish ermen are the ones m ho tnanj Re by means vt known, to themselves to pet th-se laws on th- statute books, and of course m-ant to keep thm there. Thf F:'l e'..e.! MRnn. from Aiztl"t 2" to RHEUMATISM IS EASILY RELIEVED BY ClfAHSINGJHE" BLOOD S. Gi. es Quick Relief by Toning Up the Blood. Yf.. but how? A natural rj.iestion. The annK'r is that you mu.it cleanae your blood by stimulating- it to healthy, vigorous action, so that it will throw off the p-rnm and iinpuritipg that caus Rheumatism. The action ot the wonderful blood purifier. S. a S is to practically renew th life blood Kivinc it viyor, stimulate the flow) making it throw out the germs and the poison impurities. The excruciating pains oT Rheumatism, whether It ia the shooting, stabbing Sciatica, the grip ping acony of muscular Rheumatism, or aching arms and legs that break up sleep, will be entirely relieved by S S fcL . 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What has been stated so far goes to prove that whatever was prohibited for the pro tection of the salmon in other streams, had for the aame reason, for the protection- of the Columbia River salmon, to be legalized. Stratifcr, is it not? If our salmon lams were as th-y ought to be, why should the pack of first-clafs salmon, the same kind as the Columbia River used to produce 600.000 cass or more, be oaly .Tnj.OOO cases and less. Had the river been fished so scientifically In 1N3 when 0'.'l.-fuJ cases were packed to August 1. aa it is nowaduys. probably 600. 0o0 cases and more would have been the result. Read th- following; it may be of interest to you, and assist In reaching the conclusion that tnere must be something radically wrong with our present aalmon laws: Professor Ia vid tstarr Jordan said to Mr. Rosenberg, secretary-treasurer of the United Fishermen of the Pacific, In a letter dated May i:i 19o8: "The fish wheels and station ary traps in the Columbia River should be abolished. It would be well for the fishing Interests of the country if the statfonar traps in all of its various forms were every where eliminated, for this is the most de structive and tndlscriminating kind of fish ing. On the Columbia where the river Is narrow and swift, the fishwheel is not only very destructive, but has the additional evil of (a) taking work from the fishermen, and (b) of taking the fish when they are not In ' the best condition, for fish for canning ought to be taken in tide-water. It would be well if ail fishing on a large scale above tide mater could be prohibited." Rights of Posterity Regarded. When John McNab. inspector of fisheries for Br it iMh Columbia, m as asked "What is the reason for prohibiting fishing above tide mater?" he answered: "Our government con siders that the inland and other fisheries are a valuable asset of our country, and that the should be so protected as to be as valuable to the next generation as the pres ent, and to this end. the upper reaches of the river lt not allowed to be fished, the salmon are out of condition, and full of ova, which they should be allowed to plant un disturbed In the creeks where they spamn, as otherwise the excessive amount of fishing in the estuaries and lower reaches of the rivers must in time deplete them of salmon." To the que? ion. "Why do the laws prohibit fishing for salmon with traps and wheels?" he said : "because they are so destructive to young and Immature fish, and also to varieties of flwh which are valuable but are not to any great extent utilized by canners or salmon fishermen, and are thus a very destructive agency. The Federal Government bent out a com mission to Investigate the fisheries of Alaska. In Its report it says: "Kishing should be confined to such portions of the bay as are available and to the estuaries at the mouth of the streams. ... A careful inspection of the field has shown that a 1 thouich the companies interested would not voluntarily relinquish any part of the pnv lliges they now enjoy, the privilege of fish ing In the upper rivers could be m-lthdrawn without serious injury to any established in dustry. The proposed restriction is consid ered of primary and overwhelming impor tance for the continued maintenance of the fish supply, in the face of present conditions and those eure to develop in the Immediate future. If me are to consider the ultimate interest of Alaska and the perma nency of her fisheries, no traps should be allowed anywhere. . . . They are most harmful where most successful, especially In the f iow fng streams. . . . There Is no question that all the salmon which now or In the future can safely be spared from the run of spawning fish can be obtained readily and cheaply by the use of the Ulnet." Maximum Reached in 1883. R. I. Hume, a m.in mho probably knew more about the salmon than many who now would be authority on same, said In a pam phlet: "A:i good things m hich nature has furnished have a capacity beyond which they cannot be strained, and the year lb-'I brings Columbia, its maximum when the vast quan tity of ) o cases of salmon mas reached; and fnun this time begins the decline of the salmon product of that wonderf ul st ream Prior to IfeT!', tiaps and m' heels cut a small figure in the methods of taking salmon on the Columbia, tince 13. how ever, the number of traps at Astoria and tb fish m-heels on the upper river have ra pidl Increased with a corresponding decrease In both the qualiy and quantity of the salmon packed on that stream." Fish Commissioner Blackford said : "The decrease is due to the catching of small sal moo by whee:s, traps, etc. ..epresentative Minor, a member of the Congressional Merchant Marine Commission w h Ich met at Seattle, Wali., July t;. 1 9o4, said: "The traps will do for you here to your salmon what they did on the Great Lake to our while fish practically exter minate them." According to Cut ted Ptates Fish Commis sioners' report, lfeS. "one wheel caught ,O.OOo pounds of salmon in one day, i!o.m0 po.inds per day was noth Ing unusuul, and mhi.oim pounds was Mr. fceuf ert's catch in IS7 with four whoei." As most of the salmon taken there mere blueback salmon, this ought to point out very plainly the rea son for the ditninlshmsr. yes. almost extinc tion, of that specie of milmon, as well as the r-j?tilir July lalmun, w hich ib now a thing of the past. Normal Pack AO 0,000 Canes. Columbia Kiver could easily produce X0. oni enscs of firt-ciass salmon every year before August 1. while :;im),00 cases and less has been (he annual pack of that grade for many years. The I!l." salmon pack on the Columbia River is quoi ed in t h. "Pacific Fisherman" to be r.S. 4 c a res hut of lhat at .east - l.oon cases are of f-grade sa'mon. such as stecitteans. an versions ami cnutns. salmon which the packers would not have thought of putting ui in the W. when ftoo.ooo cases and more was put up before August 1. There mere al-o 7 cases of clams included in the salmon pack quoted. The act of the Legislature 'in 10"1. proliib. it In g the tiK. of f it h w heels in the Oregon f'ify Fall:, has more than Anything els' to do with I he partial upkeep of our early salmon, and It Is t here fore- asked t hat the people of On gon be permit t-d to exercise t he'r rieht to setCe the quest ion of s Itnon protection this coming election in November, when they will have an opportunity to vt on an Initiative measure in which wheels, traps and seines are prohibited. No Testimony In Charge. X'i Oregon Senate joint resolution No. ?S fs the result "f the meeting of the joint fisheries committee from the Senates and Houses of th- Staf s of Oregon and Wash ington, which met tu Portland. Or., February . rjTt td asertaiii if any changes m-ere neefj.j in our salmon lams for the Columbia River, and to that end let interested parties appear and state their views, as had been the custom at previous meetings. However, none m ere permitted. n. not even M. .F. Kinney, the only member of the Oregon Came id Fish Commission m ho know s any thing about the salmon. wa permitted to state his views. The Joint committees work mas performed by a iuhi omrtiitte composed of such members In mu.orlt as were on (he sld of I he 1 1 eat y promoters One of the members of said subcommittee stated to me the day after the meeting- that they wet.t over hi in m ith a steam roller, and that everything was fixed to suit the special priv ileged Interests of th upper river, and by comparing our present salmon lam-s rn'ith those of rivers where anything h;s been done to protect the sal m on there, his statement c;i not be disputed. More could have been presented, but this is getting too long already; however, enough ha been presented to prove that our salmon laws are not for the- benefit of the salmon, nd therefore should not be tied up by any treaty. GERVAIS FARMER, 63, DIES Albert Schwab Snrvlvcd by Widow and Six Children. (iKItVAIS. Or.. April 2. (Special.) 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The election carried by a vote of nearly 2 to 1. Arnot Building, O" nrd by 'In com a Nan, C.aited Junf an Hauler Orrmonirn Are On. BESn. Or.. April 24. (Special.) At tendance at Easter morning services at the local churches suffered from the competition of a. fire which gutted the Arnot building on Wall street. The alarm was sounded shortly after 10 o'clock just as the children were be ginning their Sunday school services and in a short time school had to be given up for the fire. The blaxe started in a rear room of the Martin &- Clemens Furniture Store and worked its' way up to the ceiling above the second floor. It was not un til the flsmes had worked through the roof that the volunteer firemen could reach them with the hose. The building was owned by C W. Arnot, of Taroraa, and was insured. The second floor was occupied by lodgers who lost nearly all of their property. Martin & Clemens Furni ture Company is said to have carried little insurance. Both members of the firm are away on a fishing trip. rilius Petition Is llojectetl. MARSHF1KLP. Or.. April 24. (Spe cial.) A new controversy arose here recently when W. C. llinnian. of Marsh field, filed a petition as candidate on the Republican ticket for Justice of the Peace for the local district. County Clerk Robert Watson was unable t. decide whether he should accept the petition and place Mr. Hinman's name on the ballot and so asked District Attorney Liljenvist for an opinion. Mr. Liljeqvist held that justices elected four years ago were included in the ROAD BOND ELECTION SET Coquillc to Pass on $362,000 Issue at Vole on May Iff. MAKSHFIELD, Or.. April 21. (Spe cial.) The County Court, in session at Coquille, today authorized a good roads bond election for May 19. acting favor ably upon petitions which had been filed last week. 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