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FISH WHEEL BILL
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tfc nnntrH authorities desired to
prove. ' There are unfortunately men
who for consideration are as versatile
as the fallen angel of whom Milton
aays: "He could make the worse ap
pear the better reason."
On the other hand, who are the
men behind the bill which the fish
wheel owner's bill is intended to kill;
(According to our law if there are
conflicting bills on any subject, and
if such conflicting bills receive the
majority vote necessary to carry
them, then the bill receiving the high
est majority vote becomes law).
The men who stand for abolition of
salmon fishing at head of tide in the
Columbia as officer and executive
committee of the Columbia River
Salmon Protective Association, are
as follows: George M. Orton of
Portland, president He is an ex
member of the Oregon legislature
and manager of the Multnomah Print
ing Company. The vice-president is
Jay Tuttle, M. D., of Astoria. He is
an ex-State Senator. The treasurer is
F. E. Beach, of Portland, wholesale
and retail merchant The secretary
is H. M. Lorntsen, Astoria, secretary
of the Columbia River Fishermen's
Union and second vice-president of
the Oregon State Federation of La
bor. On the board of directors are:
Thomas A. McBride, Oregon City,
circuit judge; Wm. I. Vawter, Med
ford, member of the Legislature; G.
S. Wright, McMinnville, State Sena
tor; Chas. G. Roberts, Tanglewood,
Hood River; D. H. Miller, Medford;
T. B. Kay, Salem, State Senator; Jas.
Withycomb, Corvallis, director of the
Oregon Experiment Station and can
didate for Governor on the Republi
can ticket at the last election; James
A. Lackey, Mayor of Ontario; C. C.
Huntley, Oregon City, druggist, mem
ber of Oregon Legislature; Wm.
Mliler of Burns, attorney at law; John
H. Smith, Astoria, attorney at law and
ex-State Senator; Frank Kankkonen,
Astoria, manager Union Fishermen's
Co-operative Packing Company.
James Withycombe, in accepting
' the position on the board of directors,
wrote: "I shall be pleased to accept
a place on the beard of directors for
the movement mentioned, namely, for
the protection of the Columbia River
salmon. I believe that every honor
able means shoulo be employed to
protect this great natural source of
wealth, not only for the present but
for the future generations."
Senator G. S. Wright wrote: "Will
be glad to do anything for the .'ishing
industry, by serving on the board or
otherwise."
William I. Vawter, in accepting,
wrote: "It seems to me in every way
commendable and that legislation that
is protection along the, lines indicat
ed should have the support of every
patriotic citizen."
Judge McBride when asked to serve
as president of the Association de
clined on account of press of business
but readily agreed to serve as a di
rector, adding: "The only way to
save our salmon is to stop fishing at
the head of tide, so as to give the fish
a chance to reach our hatcheries and
natural spawning grounds. For many
years I have fought for the protec
tion of our salmon and am pleased to
see this concerted action. My voice
' and pen will ever be ready to save
one of Oregon's greatest industries.
I am a poor man, but if necessary I
shall contribute my mite towards de
fraying the expenses to fully present
this question" to the voters of the
State."
Many, many other words of advice
and cheer have been given the officers
of the Association in this task to save
our salmon. Necessary limit of space
forbids here to quote any more.
Judges, legislators, professional
men, scientists, business men and fish
ermen are represented in this Asso
ciation. Leading citizens of the
State, seeing that one o fthe leading
industries of the State is threatened
with extinction, have come forward
to rescue it
And opposed to the bill to stop
fishing at head of tide, at the conflu
ence of the Columbia River with the
Sandy a bill fathered by these pu
lie-spirited citizens is opposed this
sham bill of the fish wheel owners.
The fishwheel owners were too caa
tious though it is alleged the proper
term is "too cowardly" to father
their bill, so they hired a discarded
deputy of the State Fishery Bureau
to champion a bill which is a trick
bill from top to bottom.
Now as to the tricks in that bill
In the argument supporting the
wheel owners bill a desire is express
ed to save our salmon.
But true to the methods of trickery,
section l the mam section is not
taken up first Instead, sections 3 and
4 are defended and section 1 the big
gest nigger in this legislative wood
pileis sandwiched in between sec
tions 2 and 5.
That trick, however, is very clumsy
and can be easily exposed.
Section 1 of the fishwheel owners'
bill provides that no fishing at nights
can be carried on in the channels used
for commercial navigation.
That means that the four thousand
net fishermen of the Columbia, with
an investment of about one and a half
million dollars in boats and nets must
quit the Columbia if the law, passes.
The fishwheel owners and Webster
know this full well, hence they tried
to hide this section in their argument,
hoping to thus fool the voters of the
State.
To explain: Fish wheels or fish
traps are located on the banks of the
river, or in narrows or at falls, where
they presumably do not interfere
with navigation. Wheels and traps
are stationary appliances and before
they can be erected must secure a
permit from the War Department, in
charge of navigation of our rivers.
Thus, under this section traps and
wheels could fish the entire 24 hours.
Traps and wheels are built more or
less upon the principle of a cattle
corral, the fish striking fences or
leads projecting into the river, follow
them and are lead into the tunnel
of the trap and then into the pot,
from which they cannot escape. The
fence or lead of the fishwheel leads
the fish into the mouth of the wheel,
when the wheel ceaselessly turning
with the aid of the flowing, stream,
pumps the salmon into a box, for the
owner to take away once in every 24
hours.
The gill nets, however, 'against
wmcn tms section is directed, are
drifting nets, on a submerged sand
bar one moment, in the channel the
next. They catch fish by gilling them,
that is the salmon strike the net and
put their heads into a mesh, when
they cannot retreat, their gills pre
venting retreat and their bodies being
too large to allow them to get through
the mesh. Salmon only gill when the
water is muddy in freshet time or at
nights.. When the salmon can see
the gill net they swim around it. A
gill net is only fished at slack tides,
on an average six hours out of every
24 hours. A gill net further, to be
worked properly must be tanned once
a week and drieJ, which takes from
one to two days. Thus a gill net
fishes only from 30 to 36 hours out
of the 168 hours of every week, while
the traps and wheels, stationary ap
pliances, fish day and night, the entire
168 hours in every week, as ,long as
the fishing season lasts.
Thus this section would drive 4000
of our gill net fishermen from their
calling, destroy their property and
make in a few years a dozen or so
already very rich fishwheel owners
manifold millionaires, without pro
tecting our salmon, because the fish -wheels
in the narrows and at the falls
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Today
an
Start Break
If indications count for anything. We expect to do busi
ness unprecedented in volume in Astoria.
Some of Our
We have not space here to quote all.
$5 Stetson Hats now $2.QS 50c and 75c Ties now . . 35c
Regular $3 and $3.50 Hats selling 25c Ties now
for....... S1.4U
15c
Regular $2 and $2.50 Hats selling
for . .
5c
Regular $1.50 Hats.
100 dozen of fine Black and Tan
Hose, regular 15c, now selling at
Six pairs only to each customer.
Boys' Knee Pants and Overcoats
Half Price
No stock is being reserved. Lewis Bros. & Co. of Spokane, who are in
charge of the sale, have decided to let the selling price cut no figure. Be
ing entirely without regard for cost or loss, they have offered merchan
dise at prices far less than would be paid for inferior goods elsewhere.
HERMAN WIS
Reliable Clothier and Furnisher - - - - Astoria, Ore.
do not permit fish to pass by.
Year by year these .wheels have
been so located and improved that
where only four years ago the Wash
ington and Oregon up-river hatcher
ies secured some 20,000 salmon for
hatchery purposes, this year but a
few hundred were caught. Washing
ton has closed its four up-river
hatcheries and Oregon is doing like
wise. -..,,
The hatcheries below The Dalles
according to official data are doing
fairly well, considering that this was
a poor salmon year.
Section 2, prohibiting fishing for
salmon between the first day of Octo
ber and the Jlst day of December of
each year, is absolutely valueless as
far as our Royal Chinook salmon are
concerned, as this variety almost en
tirely ceases entering the Columbia
the latter part of September, or the
middle of October during a late
Chinook season. The blueback sal
mon, almost absolutely destroyed by
the fishwheels, run in June and July.
Our silver salmon enter the river in
October, November and December
and if the fishwheels were allowed on
the Oregon side, they with their leads
would drive in the narrow of the
Upper Columbia the fish from the
Oregon shore to try to find easy
ascent close to the Washington shore,
where the wheels and seines owned
by the same men who own wheels
and seines on the Oregon shore,
would catch the fish, This section ii
rather a clever trick on the part of
the fishwheel owners. Fishing for
silver salmon on the Oregon side
would be stopped, where the river is
from 4 to 6 miles wide and where the
fish have a fair show to get by fishing
appliances. Then where they get to
the narrows and falls, the places of
ascent on the Oregon side would be
barred by the leads of the wheels
and a rich harvest reaped on the
Washington side by the whcelowners.
The most destructive fishwheels
are on the Oregon side of the Upper
Columbia. Stoppage of fishing from
the mouth of the Sandy and up would
abolish these wheels. Then Washing
ton would followed with like legisla
tion. Section 3 provides that all fishing
for salmon shall absolutely stop be
low a line drawn from Smith's Point
across the Columbia. That is fishing
with gill nets must stop from Astoria
to the sea, about 12 miles from the
bar, where the river is from 4 to 6
miles wide; where fishing with those
nets only average from 30 to 36 hours
out of the 168 hours in each week;
where about 75 per cent of the gill
net fishermen drift with their nets,
because in the Columbia from As
toria and up the fish traps have driv
en the gill ncttcrs from their old-time
drifting grounds. Another trick to
give the salmon to the rich trapmen
and wheelmen.
Some men, noting that yearly some
fishermen were drowned af and out
side the mouth of the Columbia, have
declared out of misplaced sympathy
with the fishermen that gill net fish
ing should stop at a line crossing the
river at Cape Disappointment. The
tishwhcelmen have in section 3 ad
vanced, this line nine miles up the
river to Smith Point. The almost
absurd trickery here again is plain.
Section 4, by limiting length of nets
in another intended humbug on the
voters. The fishwheels could continue
serenely as they now arc to catch
every salmon getting to the Upper
Columbia and the gill nettcrs, the
poor men, would be so regulated that
they would have to quit the Colum-
Section 5, providing for a weekly
24 hbur closed season would be of
vaule if the fishwheels were abolished,
It is the nature of the salmon to
travel, once they enter the Columbia,
about 8 miles in 24 in their effort
to reach the spawning grounds, until
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they reach the narrows and falls,
j There they rest for several days in
the pools below the narrows and falls
'and after having overcome one set
1 of obstructions, again rest for sev
; eral days. With the fishwheels
j stretched out as tthey are, not one
( salmon in a thousand reaching the
upper river would escape ine upper
most wheels. 'A 24-hour weekly
closing law would simply give more
fish to the rich fishwheel owners.
It is absolutely necessary for the
preservation of our salmon that fish
ing must stop where the river be
comes narrow. Every nation and
State owning salmon streams had to
adopt this policy, or see its salmon
destroyed. Canada does not permit
any stationary fishing appliances in
its rivers and draws dead-lines against
all fishing away below head of tide.
California, Oregon and Washington
forbid stationary appliances in their
rivers and draw dead-lines against
fishing where the rivers become nar
row. The Federal Government,
through a decision rendered 'Decem
ber last by Secretary of Commerce
and Labor Straus and confirmed by
President Roosevelt, has adopted this
principle for Alaska.
The only exception to this benefic
ial legislation is the Columbia River,
where the fishwheel owners so far
have succeeded in retaining their un
fair monopoly. '
But these men know this monopoly
is doomed; they knbw that the vote
of the people will tell them next June,
"Stop destroying our Columbia River
industry," and so they got up this so
apparent sham bill, Verily, "Whom
the gods wish to destroy they first
malce mad."
Let he fishwheels be abolished by
the passage of the bill presented by
the Columbia River Salmon Protec
tive Association and the fishermen
will be the first to urge our Legisla
ture to enact a Sunday-closing law,
fairer regulation of open and closed
seasons and other laws really protec
tive of the salmon fisheries of the
Columbia.
The fishermen possess only their
skill as fishermen and their boats and
nets. With the t destruction of our
salmon, their means of earning liv
ing for themselves and their families
is destroyed. On the other hand the
dozen rich fishwheel owners own-
....it , t .
spicmim larms aim real estate In
our cities. They and their children
do not depend on the salmon for a
living, all these men now care for it
to have a few more years of absolute
monopoly on that portion of our sal
mon crop which composes our seed
fish. -wj
Wi therefore ask the voter to vote
"No" on the fishwheel owncr'i bill and
to vote "Yes" on the bill which stops
fishing at head of tide, at the conflu
ence of the Columbia with the Sandy.
II. M. LORNTSEN,
Secretary Columbia Rivef Salmon
Protective Association,
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