| Summary: | Four Ships Bringing First Important Movement Of Alaskan Canned Salmon. Four Ships Bringing First Important Movement of Alaskan Canned Salmon By E. J. DALBY First important movement of Alaskan canned salmon for the 1935 season, a total of 70,000 cases valued at about half a million dollars, will be discharged in Seattle up to Friday by four ships of the Alaska Steamship Company fleet, it was revealed yesterday by Seattle headquarters. The shipments are the start of the annual harvest of the "silver horde" which runs into millions of dollars in value and besides providing work for fishermen and cannery hands, adds largely to marine payrolls and those of dock and shoreside workers. ODUNA IN FIRST With 20,000 cases aboard, the Oduna docked yesterday from Western Alaska. She was followed last night by the Mt. McKinley with 15,000 cases and Thursday, the Yukon comes in with the largest batch of the quartet-25,000 cases. All of this salmon comes from Prince Williams Sound, Cordova and Kodiak Island districts. Friday, the Dellwood arrives with 10,000 cases from plants in the Aleutian Islands region. ROYAL MAIL ACTIVE Two carriers of the Royal Mail Line will berth at Seattle this week, the Nebraska, arriving via British Columbia Thursday to load cargo for the United Kingdom and the Narenta, docking the following day with Old World cargo items and bananas lifted in Central America for discharge here. Both will stow good outgoing cargoes of Northwest products for return. The Narenta, which shifts to Vancouver, B. C., for further discharge after she completes here and to start loading, comes back later to finish Northwest offerings.
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