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which Behring Sea, the North Pacific and their numerous 
tributaries are to day. The United States in general 
needs this grand supply to add to its commercial value, 
and the Treasury can make profitable use of the revenue 
which will result. And a question which is of vital 
moment is the great good that must accrue to the people 
of the country. They need to be brought nearer to 
the standard of the rest of the nation. To bring them 
into closer touch with the sister states and territories, 
no plan could be adopted more certain and consistent 
with all the laws of right than to teach them to use for 
themselves the best means of utilizing that with which 
nature has supplied them in super abundant measure. 
In order to give an idea of the value of a few of the 
fisheries of Alaska, I beg leave to append the following 
statistics whose authority is unquestionable, having 
been calculated from the accounts of Dr. Tarleton H. 
Bean, Mr. Lucian Turner, Mr. E. W. Nelson and Mr. 
Frederick True, and also from the “Alaskan” a bright 
little paper published at Sitka, the capital of Alaska. 
For the year 1893 the returns of salmon at San 
Francisco were 693,262 cases of canned fish (with one 
district not reported) and 32,102 barrels of salted fish. 
Estimating the value at $4.00 per case it would reach 
$2,773,048 lor the ,canned «salmon, )/\Phe» saltedgya: 
previous estimate, $9.00 per barrel, would amount to 
$288,918. 
The receipts of Pacific cod in 1893 were 1,243,000 
fishes, while the returns from 1865 to 1893 reached the 
enormous aggregate of 29,123,800 fishes. The value 
in 1889 was $50.00 per ton, which would make the total 
valuation for those years at least $205,725. 
Summing the value of the salmon for the year 1893 
alone, and that of the cod mentioned above, we would 
have a total from those two only partially devoloped 
industries of the Territory amounting to the round sum 
