Showing posts with label Alaska salmon. Show all posts
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Wednesday, February 29, 2012

THE FUTURE OF THE UNITED STATES AND ALASKA


In a time of deceit telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. --H. G. Wells

Under the Treaty of Session Alaska was claimed by the Federal Government but the Feds didn’t get clear title to the land. The Russians didn’t claim the mainland. The Russians put a few markers out on Kodiak and Baranoff Islands but they didn’t actually claim the mainland. They couldn’t claim it because there were people living on it. Thirty years ago people from the University of Alaska searched all summer near the airport in English Bay for a Russian land claim marker. They never found one. This is one of this State’s dirty little secrets.

Under international law the Tsar gave specific orders to the three Russian Trading Companies not to not mess with the native inhabitants. Under International Law there are only four ways you can legally claim land:

1.      (Trerra Nullis) meaning nobody’s home. If there is nobody living on the land when you discover it then you can build settlements and put monuments on it to claim it.
2.      If there is somebody living on the land you can negotiate a treaty to buy the land like the Dutch did when they traded a handful of beads for Manhattan Island.
3.      You can kill off (massacre) all the native inhabitants and then claim the land but then you might incur the wrath of other nations and be subject to charges of genocide. The US used diseases like small pox along with provoked wars and massacres to accomplish this. They settled the legal disputes with welfare checks and reservation land.
4.      A fourth way to claim land is to buy it from other nations like the Louisiana Purchase or when Manhattan Island was purchased from the Indians by the Dutch in 1620. Below is the journal entry:

Rcvd. 7 November 1626
High and Mighty Lords,
Yesterday the ship the Arms of Amsterdam arrived here. It sailed from New Netherland out of the River Mauritius on the 23d of September. They report that our people are in good spirit and live in peace. The women also have borne some children there. They have purchased the Island Manhattes from the Indians for the value of 60 guilders. It is 11,000 morgens in size [about 22,000 acres]. They had all their grain sowed by the middle of May, and reaped by the middle of August They sent samples of these summer grains: wheat, rye, barley, oats, buckwheat, canary seed, beans and flax. The cargo of the aforesaid ship is:
7246 Beaver skins
178½ Otter skins
675 Otter skins
48 Mink skins
36 Lynx skins
33 Minks
34 Muskrat skins
Many oak timbers and nut wood. Herewith, High and Mighty Lords, be commended to the mercy of the Almighty,
In Amsterdam, the 5th of November anno 1626.
Your High and Mightinesses’ obedient, P. Schaghen

  1. lucien says: January 6, 2011 at 12:14 pm
I am Dutch and one thing I can say = at least it was bought from the Indians not conquered or stolen. 60 guilders maybe isn’t much but in 1626 it had some value.
  1. Kowman says: February 6, 2011 at 11:13 pm
Yes, the Dutch treated the natives better than French, English and Spanish in order of rapacity by my historical lights. An interesting problem is to work the value of the money given at some interest rate to the present day value — which winds up equaling the present day value of Manhattan or close to it. I wish I could have seen the Island as it was then and walked around Long Island ..

Alaska was purchased from the Tsar as a favor because he desperately needed the money to win a war. To settle with the native inhabitants the State and Feds created the Alaska Native Land Claims Settlement Act in which they gave 900-million dollars to put into state corporations so that they would be under the control of the “State.” “State corporations are still under the control of the state! This no different than when the Dutch buying Manhattan Island for a handful of beads worth 60 guilders. 
The Federal and the State governments in Alaska are operating under fraud. I have a book full of Supreme Court cases that prove the State doesn’t own the land and has no authority to sell or claim the resources. At the time of Statehood in 1959 a 50-year moratorium was put on all land transactions until which time the State was to settle land claims with the original homesteaders and land owners. They never did. That is why there are no Titles to land issued in this State. You only get a deed which is subject to prior claims at any time by people who were here before you. It is not a clear and lawful title.

Title 8 was never ratified by the State Legislature. All Judges are required to become members of the Alaska Bar Association. Due to the fact that Title 8 was never ratified there are no real lawyers or judges in Alaska. Everything is in fraud. The courts in Alaska are contract courts working “FOR” the State of Alaska. Not: “Of” the State of Alaska. It’s all “assumption.”

All authority is assumed. The penalty for impersonating a public official is a $1,000 fine per day and nobody will do anything about this because they are all in fraud. Judges don’t have a letter of Appointment or Commission and they refuse to show their Contract, Oath or Bond. People are being put in jail by these fraudulent pretenders. And everyone assumes the system is legal. The fine for impersonating a public official is $1,000 per day. All judges are members of the Masonic Lodge. We are ruled by people who worship Baphomet-Satan and Demons--Baal or Jahbulon an Appalachian of the devil. 


We deserve a country where our elected officials uphold they Constitution they are sworn to uphold. We deserve a country where our elected official are not bought and paid for by big corporations. But the Citizens United vs. FEC Supreme Court decision overturned over a century of precedent and opened the floodgates for unlimited amounts of corporate money to flow into our political system.

None of the lawyers are from Alaska. They came to Alaska get money from other people’s hard labor. The legislators came to Alaska to make laws to take resources away from natives to sell. There are few native legislators and the ones that make it to Juneau have no idea what is going on. The Legislators make laws to take resources away from people who were here before. This goes all the way back to Roman times where the Roman Soldiers went out to conquer rape and pillage new lands. Nowadays it is done through legislation enacted by emigrant legislators who are not from Alaska--Legislators who are paid with STATE MONEY that was derived from selling stolen property taken from the natives.

When you have a state like Alaska that was formed to take (steal) resources away from the natives and sell billions of dollars of those resources it immediately acquires its own agenda which is not in the best interest of its people. Once billions of dollars start pouring in, it builds more bureaucracy to perpetuate bureaucracy. It does this by creating many divisions of government to sell licenses to people to get money from them. It hires game wardens and police to take even more money from people with fines. They hire more and more people from out of state to fill those jobs knowing full well that these people have a different culture and ideas than people who were born and live Alaska. Since the “outsiders” (newcomers) are desperate to get jobs and keep their jobs. They will always vote for the State’s agenda. In this way the State creates an artificial voting public that will go along with whatever it wants to do.

Because the State has sold us out, we, (the people) live in a corporate prison. The numbers of oil companies putting oil in the pipeline have declined because they have merged. Because they are fewer in number they have become much more powerful. Whenever they threaten to pump less oil into the Alaska pipeline they can get the State to do anything they want. 

This State, since its inception fraudilenty sold over one trillion dollars of public resources to foreign corporations. These were resources that belong to the people. It hasn’t built a new road in over thirty years. When the pipeline shuts down and you all will have to go back to East Podunk or wherever the Hell you came from.

The only problem I see is, it won’t happen soon enough. After the pipeline shuts down or gets bombed by the Red Chinese this bogus government will raid the Permanent Fund. This could prolong the corruption and greed another two decades.














































The very nature of bureaucracy is job security. Once you have created a division of government and hire someone to head that division they start creating more jobs for job security by hiring more people under them. They have to have a secretary and that secretary has to have a bookkeeper to issue checks and they have to have a secretary to write checks. Then they have to have a greeter at the front desk and hire a janitor to mop the floors and someone else to change the light bulbs. Eventually they have from 100 to 500 people under their department. When it comes time to reduce the size of government it can’t be done because it would put too many people out of work. This would put a strain on the welfare portion of the government and cost the government more money. So they can never reduce the size of government. This is how bureaucracy works.

They have to commute to work and they fear not being on time and the consequence of losing their job. There is a lot of envy of the self-employed people who work in the private sector because they think that self-employed people can work any time they feel like it. They think that the private sector has to work harder than they do and many fear that sort of thing. When it comes to do actual work they lack the experience to get anything done.

The “outside people” “the foreigners” that the state hired for its “artificial” voting public have no idea what it’s like working in the private sector where you actually have to do physical work. They don’t know how to harvest resources or live off the land. So now you have created a division in the population--two major classes of people and several sub-classes, the poor who were created by the government’s taking of the resources who work hard, the poor who enjoy taking welfare checks from the government because they have given up trying to get ahead. Each time they try to get ahead they get beat down again.

Some Government Heads of Departments in positions of power enjoy exercising their power over the working class. In some warped way it boosts their self-esteem to destroy a hard working man’s ability to earn a living. They become like little Hitleresk dictators. The rule has always been to not let the indigenous people benefit from their resources and find some way to exterminate them.  You have to remember their power is assumed and that they are impersonating a public official. Also remember the fine for impersonating a public official is $1,000 per day.

If the State had used some the billions of dollars it took in to build roads then it would have to dole out so much money to people living in the bush. Fuel and grocery costs would be half what they are now and people would have jobs in mining, transportation, agriculture, tourism and maintaining the equipment to keep the roads open. Oil companies could drill wells and construct pipelines at much less cost. Native corporations could bring in equipment to drill gas wells on their own land to heat the villages.

I bet there is not one native Alaskan working for the State Division of Lands otherwise they wouldn't be trying to take land away from people. Natives have more respect for their elders.
I bet there isn’t one Native Alaskan Judge in Alaska either. Over fifty percent of them are Masons however. 


You've heard of subliminal messages? Do you think you are thinking your own original thoughts? Think again!

Six thousand years ago the Pharisees, Sadducees, Scribes, and Priests were the only people who could read and write. They were very clever and knew what the words meant. They also made a lot of money and had a lot of power because the people would come to them for advice.

Moving forward to the year 2000 most of the people can read and write so the Pharisees, Sadducees, Scribes, and Priests became Lawyers, Judges and Clerks. They understand the words that govern everyone and have been very clever at deceiving us with words. Dictators always die and the power goes back to the people and we become free men on the land again.  

WHAT THE FUTURE HOLD FOR ALASKA

Under the fractional reserve system of banking which is a system of perpetual debt the United States will go bankrupt and be divided into eight regional self-sustaining groups. See attached map. 

According to President Reagan’s head of finance the United States is not only in debt 14-tillion dollars it has an additional 200-trillion in financial obligations that they don’t tell us about. The United States is broke and there is no way it can pay its financial obligations with the labor of its people.

The United States is broke. Once the oil stops flowing through the Alaska pipeline the State of Alaska becomes a liability that requires lots of money to exist. Once it is no longer considered to be an asset the United States will give it back to Russia. President Obama already started giving away island off the coast of Alaska to the former Soviet Union.
>>>>>> CLICK MAP TO ENLARGE...  

The State of Alaska hasn’t built a new road in thirty years. If the State of Alaska had built roads connecting the resources to the highway system making it economical to extract those resources it would be an asset to the lower 48 states instead of a liability. Instead, they used the money from selling resources to big corporation to create bureaucracy prohibiting the building of roads. Now we so many environmental organizations and other watch-dog groups that it has become impossible to build a new road.   

Eventually the United States will go bankrupt and be broken up into eight regional provinces and Alaska will be given back to the Russians. Below is the actual FEMA map THAT THEY HAVE PLANNED FOR US.

















·         13 leaves in the olive branch
·         13 bars and stripes in the shield
·         13 arrows in the right claw
·         13 letters in the "E Pluribus Unum" on the ribbon
·         13 stars in the green crest above
·         32 long feathers on its right wing representing the 32º in Freemasonry
·         13 granite stones in the Pyramid. (The 13 layers represent the 13 Illuminati bloodlines)
·         13 letters in Annuit Coeptis
This is called Masonic symbolism. It should also be noted that the Eagle has 32 feathers right wing, but 33 in its left wing. The 32 feathers representing the number of ordinary degrees of the Scottish Rite, and the 33 feathers representing the 33º of Freemasonry. The tail feathers number 9, the number of degrees in the York Rite. The eagle itself is a prominent icon of Masonry, being used extensively in the Scottish Rite.
Looking just above the eagles head you will see 13 pentagrams within a cloud. The pentagrams are arranged in the shape of a hexagram - or greater Seal of Solomon. T13 leaves in the olive branch
13 bars and stripes in the shield
13 arrows in the right claw
13 letters in the "E Pluribus Unum" on the ribbon
13 stars in the green crest above
32 long feathers on its right wing representing the 32º in Freemasonry
13 granite stones in the Pyramid. (The 13 layers represent the 13 Illuminati bloodlines)
13 letters in Annuit Coeptis
This is called Masonic symbolism. It should also be noted that the Eagle has 32 feathers right wing, but 33 in its left wing. The 32 feathers representing the number of ordinary degrees of the Scottish Rite, and the 33 feathers representing the 33º of Freemasonry. The tail feathers number 9, the number of degrees in the York Rite. The eagle itself is a prominent icon of Masonry, being used extensively in the Scottish Rite.
The letters on the base of the Illuminati pyramid stand for certain numbers. And all those numbers when added up equal 1776, the year the Illuminati formed.
More than one method exists for arriving at 1776. However, there is only one way to arrive at the following sequence. The Babylonian numbering system was used by the Masonic designers of the Seal. That numbering system was not based on ten, but on six. For example, “600” would be 1000, “60” would be 100 and “6” would be 10.
The Occult is Trinitarian, i.e. it's main teachings are grouped in three's. The Number Sequence "93 and 93, 93"; or 600, 60, and 6 is the "current" of the new age of Aquarius - the Water Bearer, which heralds the end of the age of Pisces - the Fishes (an early symbol of Christianity) in the teachings of the Order of the Eastern Templars or O.T.O.
If you want the truth, God will reveal it to you. You have to not want the truth to remain ignorant in today's world, because the truth is all around us. Every U.S. dollar shouts in our faces concerning the occult-driven New World Order; yet the same men who deny any conspiracies carry, view and spend U.S. dollars with conspiracy symbols all over it. What a striking paradox! Men who vehemently deny the government's involvement in orchestrating the 9/11 attacks fail to see the occult All-Seeing-Eye at the Ground Zero Memorial mocking them. In your face America!
The elite criminals who are destroying America, bankrupting our economy, and stealing our liberties put their mark right in our faces, in our wallets, in religions, in our cities, on television, on music albums, and everywhere we turn to mock our stupidity. They're so obvious and yet completely hidden from view. This is the nature of secret societies. They literally laugh at their elite parties and high-society gatherings at how obvious they make themselves in plain view, and yet people walk by and go about life as usual without giving them a second thought. You fools, wake up and look around you-
God's Word is a Gift Revealing to Us God's Plan, Purpose and Will NOVUS ORDO SECLURUM.


ByDavid J. Stewart
       Amen and thank God for the precious gift of His Word. God could have left us in the dark, wondering what His plans are; but God has told us everything. America's Secret Destiny is a best-selling book authored by 33rd degree Freemason, Manly P. Hall; but as Christians we already know what the future holds. Why the Antichrist Must Come Soon!
Prophecy is history written in advance. Unlike esoteric Secret Societies which limit knowledge and require men to advance the occult ladder to be enlightened; God has given to all men the Bible, for “no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation” (2nd Peter 1:20). Whether poor or rich, sick or healthy, dumb or intellectual; God wrote the Bible to all men. God is no respecter of persons (Romans 2:11).
We've all seen the Masonic pyramid with the All Seeing Eye (see the back of a one dollar bill, pictured to the right). Hundreds of books have been written trying to explain what it means, but if you believe the Bible then you already know what it means. 2nd Corinthians 4:4 teaches that Satan is the god of man's sinful world; but 1st Corinthians 10:26 says, “For the earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof.”

Thus, it's only evil men that Satan is the god of. By this we know what the eye in the capstone of the pyramid means, representing Lucifer, the angel of light (2nd Corinthians 11:14). Tens-of-thousands of woefully ignorant men are Freemasons, errant thinking they are members of a noble and sincere organization. They are misled, “BLINDED” by the god of this world as 2nd Corinthians 4:4 teaches.

Ah, but we see and do know as Christians what the unsaved world and 95% of Freemasons don't know, that is, Satan is “the god of this world.” The Antichrist is coming. That is the mystery behind all Secret Societies today. It's that simple. They are setting the stage for the man of sin to come. The gurus of New Age, Maitreya, and the New World Order are in contact with demons, instructing the architects of the NWO what to do next. It's no mystery to born-again, Bible-believing Christians what is happening in the world today. All the talk we are hearing about “aliens” are actually demons. When people speak of “spirits,” they are really dabbling with demons. Any spirit that is not the Holy Spirit is a familiar spirit (demons).

The Bible confirms this truth in Ephesians 6:12, “For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.” Notice that the Bible mentions, “THE RULERS OF THE DARKNESS OF THIS WORLD.” That's who we really battle against, not the flesh, not each other, not our neighbor, not our family; our real enemy is the New World Order! Our battle is “AGAINST SPIRITUAL WICKEDNESS IN HIGH PLACES.” Welcome to Bohemian Grove!!!
People are so naive, gullible and woefully ignorant concerning the truth about everything. The global elite put their mark on the 9/11 attacks, boasting and throwing it right in our faces. Look at the All Seeing Eye they placed at the 911 Ground Zero Memorial!!! IN YOUR FACE AMERICA! They got caught blowing up those buildings, red handed, with a preponderance of concrete evidence indicting the Bush Administration; but the American public is so stupid that the newsmedia is able to feed them total lies.
Satan told Eve in Genesis 3:5 that she and Adam would become “as gods,” knowing right from wrong if they ate of the tree. Satan deceived Eve, making her think that they'd be equal in power with God. Eve destroyed her family with her rebellion. Eve was the first feminist, despising God's authority over her. Feminism is all about despising God ordained masculine authority. Feminists hate an authoritative husband, father, pastor, Bible or God. That's why they're corrupting the Word of God, catering to the agenda of lesbians and feminists in the NIV 2011 perversion. They're redefining God, teaching a feminine aspect of the Godhead, called Feminist Theology. Biblically, God is all masculine in nature. ILLUMINATI BOHEMIAN GROVE MASONIC OWL ON DOLLAR---

Lesbian feminists have removed the masculine pronoun “He” referring to the Holy Spirit in the NIV 2011 perversion. The New International Version 2010 (2011) is an evil publication which caters to the evil agendas of this wicked generation. The original NIV was published in 1984. As with the first NIV, homosexuals were on the translating committees and involved with the work of translating. Romans 1:25 told us that homosexuals would corrupt the Bible.

The word “eyes” in Genesis 3:5 is the Hebrew word ayin and means an eye (singular). So when Adam and Eve sinned, it was the eye of their understanding that was opened to good and evil. 2nd Corinthians 4:4 teaches that Satan is the god of this world and BLINDS the minds of unbelievers, to hinder them from learning the truth of God's Word and getting saved in Christ Jesus. The greatest weapon of the illuminati (the New World Order gang) is secrecy, for without secrecy their criminal empire would crumble overnight. This is why they operate within secret societies (which is what the words esoteric and occult mean, that is, hidden). Esoteric means, confined to an inner circle, understood only by an enlightened few.
Of course, as Christians we already know what's at the top of the food chain of illuminism, Lucifer, the god of this world. New Agers aren't fooling Christians. Did you know that new Age gurus like Sri Chinmoy and many others (known to communicate with demons) are regular attendees at the United Nations to speak? The world elite are waiting for the Antichrist and they'll embrace anyone who has contact with demons and the Luciferian Religion.
Looking just above the eagles head you will see 13 pentagrams within a cloud. The pentagrams are arranged in the shape of a hexagram - or greater Seal of Solomon. The hexagram is a powerful tool used by pagans to invoke Satan. It is also the sign of Anti Christ with 6 points, 6 angles and 6 planes (666).

To the sorcerer, the hexagram is a powerful tool to invoke Satan, and is a sign of Antichrist. (6 points, 6 angles, 6 planes - 666) The 5 pointed pentagrams multiplied by the 13 stars equals 65, the same cabalistic number as mentioned above. This makes one wonder with whom or what, we are to dwell in unity!
The eagle replaced the Phoenix in 1841 as the national bird. The Phoenix has been a Brotherhood symbol since ancient Egypt. The Phoenix was adopted by the Founding Fathers (Freemasons) for use on the reverse of the first official seal of the United States after a design proposed by Charles Thompson, Secretary of the Continental Congress.
he hexagram is a powerful tool used by pagans to invoke Satan. It is also the sign of Anti Christ.

6 points, 6 angles and 6 planes (666).

WANTA MONEY
The Wanta funds were put aside to bankrupt the Soviet Union. When the State of Alaska becomes a liability the United States may have to give Alaska back to Russia to pay back the $15-trillion.

The transfer of Wanta funds, they can be assumed to have no other origin as they track into the Federal Reserve banking system while in escrow and are currently awaiting payment based on the orders of President Obama in accordance with findings of the federal court, is complicated by the Scottish transfer.
Either Wanta has claim to the entire amount or it is the property of the US government. That no effort has been made to secure the funds or enforce criminal and civil remedies to recover enough money to pay the entire US national debt and more, as with earnings, we are nearing well over $30 trillion by this time, is an indication that a criminal conspiracy with enough influence to overrule our own government is involved. 


Whether that “conspiracy is, as noted, the Bush family, rouge sections of the CIA or a secret society such as P2, one we can prove or others we only suspect exist, is another story.


The lack of action, here or as requested by Lord James in Britain, is, in itself, proof of both the seriousness and actuality of these events and the powers that can prevent any inquiry when irrefutable documents such as SWIFT transfers are available. In fact, Lord James has offered a wealth of documents which, when combined with the 2000 pages of Wanta “discovery” from the Federal Court, constitutes more than prima facia evidence of money laundering, conversion, terrorism or worse.
Thus, the inaction in the face of overwhelming and unquestioned proof is inexplicable.
FLOOD OF WANTA LITIGATION AND INDICTMENTS COMING
Currently, Wanta’s legal status is as technical conservator and owner of $7.2 trillion. However, as nearly half that is owed in taxes and the court settlement required Wanta to purchase $1 trillion in treasury bonds, the federal government should show positive interest other than President Obama and a few others. More are being obstructionist with the payout and exercise of $3 trillion in US debt reduction.
This is, not only illegal but an indication of conspiracy.
In addition, Russian Prime Minister Putin has communicated that he awaits the agreed upon 3% payment of Russian taxes, initially on the $7.2 trillion. Will Putin want to be paid on the entire $15 trillion plus interest and will Russia and/or the US have interest in why the Bank of Scotland transferred these funds to 20 European banks to trade in MTN’s (mid term notes) without any authorization or agreement, any participation or sharing of profits.
As the funds, at least the half which the US government can claim ownership of, combined with the interest and earnings of, would quickly put the US “in the black,” again we look at, not just the press blackout on the Wanta litigation of the last 6 years but the press blackout on Lord James of Blackheath and the wealth of damning documentation he submitted to Parliament.
Nothing has been done since, it is as though the proof submitted was so dangerous that those moments in time have been erased by a mysterious g-dlike power.
What makes Wanta dangerous is that he has begun to distribute funds, some to government entities, counties and states, law enforcement agencies, giving them standing, not just in recovering funds intended for their use but in helping prosecute anyone involved in interfering with or attempting to divert funds.

One grand jury is being formed to investigate diversion of Wanta funds even at this early date. It is likely that Wanta/Ameritrust funds earmarked for border protection could lead to the indictment of high ranking US officials. This is only the beginning.
If the Royal Bank of Scotland doesn’t think it should be expecting the biggest chargeback in the history of the world, they are in for a shock.




Thursday, January 26, 2012

Now that the statute of limitation is up I can tell the story...


Now that the statute of limitations is up I can tell the story. Below is the old Seldovia Post Office.




Jack and Susan English operated the Post Office.































The beautiful little fishing village of Seldovia used to be the “center of the universe.” Many commercial fishermen based their fishing operation there and moored their boats in the harbor for the winter. A lot of money passed through the small town which boasted the highest standard of living of any place in Alaska. It had six operating fish canneries, six saloons and three churches. The 1950 Book, Guinness Book of World Records listed Seldovia as having the most alcoholics per capita of any city in America. One of the representatives of the Guinness Book upon arriving in Seldovia asked a local wag how many people consumed alcohol. He replied that 100 % of the people drank. 






(One of my first jobs was cooking and butchering king crab in the Wakefield plant below.) I had five steam cookers and four coolers. Juneau John and Kenny Wrestler were two of my butchers. 


The butcher station consisted of a 6-inch pipe sticking up 3 - feet with a steel blade sticking out about a foot on either side. You gab a ten-pound live crab by the back legs with both hands and smashed him down over the knife blade at waist level separating the crab into two halves ripping the top shell off all in one stroke. Tourists were appalled at seeing this. This took considerable arm strength and you had to wear special crab gloves because the crab are covered with 1/4-inch spines. 


I used an air winch to raise and lower the rectangular 500-pound baskets of crab legs into the boiling water. Sometimes tourists would come walking in to tour the plant. When they saw me drop a 500-pound basket of crab legs into boiling water the legs would contract as if they were still alive reaching over the edge as if they were trying to climb out of the basket. At the precise moment i'd  throw my voice making small screaming sound effects. Some ladies would run out of there in a hurry with a horrified look on their faces. 


We cooked the king crab 23-minutes. I had overhead timers with a red light bulb that would turn on when it was time to winch the baskets up and put them into the cooling tanks. We usually processed 8,000 to 10,000 crab a day. There were live holding tanks out on the dock. At the end of the day I had to scrub the blue crab blood out of the cookers with ta wire brush. This took four hours some days because it stuck like glue. I usually worked 12 to 14 hours and got paid $6.50 an hour. The cannery workers only got $5.50 an hour.


The boiler was huge. It came out of a Liberty ship. The boiler man was a drunk. He'd light the boiler and leave. Some days I didn't have enough steam to bring my cookers to a boil and some days I had so much steam that when I cracked a valve all the water would explode up out of the tank. I'd run to the boiler room to shut it down because if it ever blew up  it would have wiped most of the town off the map.    























I'd run across the street to find the boiler man inside the mess hall sneaking up on a cup of coffee. He drank more than anybody I knew. The cook would pour half a cup of black coffee and set it in front of him. While resting both hands a elbows on the table he'd inch forward and grab the cup and slowly raise it to his mouth. His hands shook so much that there would be a ring of spilled coffee all around his cup. He did this every morning. Its a wonder the boiler didn't blow up and if it did he didn't care.


Anderson Dock served as a freight depot for most of south Central Alaska including the city of Anchorage. Juneta Anderson owned it when I was a baby. Dutch Gruthoff was one of my father's friends bought it from the Anderson's. 


Years later when my father brought his Bell helicopter to Seldovia and landed on the airport the kids were out there using rock to scratch their initials in the bubble. Needless to say this made him extremely angry. He took off and landed it on Anderson Dock. Dutch came out and they snapped the wheels on underneath and rolled it inside the warehouse. 




One fisherman I know coined the phrase that Seldovia was the “Center of the Universe.” One spring morning he came out of his boat cabin looked around at the beautiful rolling hills sprinkled with patches of leftover snow drifts and said “This is the Center of the Universe.”


After the March 1964 earthquake the land sunk five feet. The tide water covered the floor of the canneries and the hotel and into the basement of the houses lining the slough. Portions of the board walk were floating up off their foundations and floats in the harbor floated up over the top of the piling and started floating out the bay.


They called on the federal government for disaster relief. Boy, was that a mistake. The contractors doing the job for the feds came to town and brought with them a model of the city with high-rise buildings. When they had the town meeting to decide what to do the locals were so impressed by the model of what the town would look like they didn't pay attention to what the contractors were saying. With an expression of amazement on his fact the Mayor asked, "Is that how it's going to look like?"


The contractor boss said, "Yes, if you if you want." That very moment the Town Council decided to vote for urban renewal.


Federal contractors came and tore down all the boardwalks and  buildings. They blasted down a 105-foot-high rock hill named Cap's Hill located in the middle of town and spread all the rock and gravel along the waterfront creating one long gravel landing strip.


All the canneries saw a way to get out of the business and sold out to the government. All the bars along the waterfront were torn down. The one remaining store moved into a large two-story steel building. Two of the bars moved into rooms on the ground floor and some of the people moved into the apartments above.


Only one processing plant honored their commitment to rebuild. Wakefield Fisheries built a bran new plant outside the city dock. From 1966 to 1979 I delivered close to a million pounds of king crab to this facility plus another million pounds of tanner crab.


We'd fish in Kachemak Bay for tanners all winter from November 5th to May first. In February each year the king crab would start to migrate into the bay heading for their spawning ground on 20-fathoms of water off from Bluff Point. As soon as the king crab showed up we'd start catching one or two per pot in the middle of the bay so we mover our big 650-pound pots from the middle of the bay to shallow water off Bluff Point. 


Fish and Game usually closed the season season February 15th. They would give us an extra day to get the doors on our gear opened up so they wouldn't catch crab. If you got caught with open up after that you would get a ticket. 


Another option was to put 1 by 4-inch boards across the tunnels of the pots secured with heavy rubber bans. The boards would keep the big king crab out of your pots and still allow the tanners to get in. 


Most everybody fished through the last day of of the season to catch an extra few hundred crab. The crab would school up (bunch up) when they hit 20 fathoms so you could get twenty to thirty crab per pot. 



The bigger boats moved their pots across Cook Inlet to fish off the active volcano, Augustine Island. I fished eight to sixteen miles off Burr Point along 22 to 25 fathoms and would catch 50 to 100 crab per pot. We usually loaded the live tank in the boat after two picks of the bear.


I spent a lot of time anchored up in Inniskin Bay waiting for weather. Some times the wind and swell would roll in there from the southeast. When the tide turned the boat would lay right in the trough for a couple hours rolling violently. My boat, the Mary M had close to a twenty-foot beam and drew over 8-feet of water but it rolled like a pig in the mud in a six-foot swell. 



During the first week in September Interior Alaska cools down below the freezing point and the winds begin to strengthen out of the west. Cold air is heavier than the warm air over the ocean so it has to flow in that direction. When you are fishing close inshore off Cape Douglas or Augustine volcano you can still get to your pots but there is a lot of chop. The crew gets spray in their face and their rain gear beats them. The further offshore the bigger the waves. 


As the Interior gets colder the winds steadily get stronger and shift to the northwest because the biggest land mass is in that direction. Now they have a run of open water over 100 miles long down Cook Inlet. It doesn't matter what size boat you have if you have pots out in the middle of the Inlet it might take a long time to get them back. You might have to wait a week or two and by that time the humongous fall tides and swell might carry them out into deeper water where you will never see them again. Pots used to cost over $500 apiece. You loose ten and you just lost $5,000. Now days they they can cost close to a thousand dollars each. 


When the northwest September abates it means there is a big storm coming out of the Gulf of Alaska pushing the cold air northward. The weather might be calm enough to get out there and get some of your gear back but you might get caught in something unusual. Its kind of like the movie Perfect Wave. Your anxious to retrieve all your valuable pots and the swell starts getting bigger and bigger and all of a sudden the wind hits. You immediately turn tail and head for Seldovia.  A half hour later you are surfing down huge swells with an eighty-foot boat and the waves are crash over the stern filling up the back deck. Your bait box gets washed over the side along with everything else that is loose. The crew hides in the galley as you fight to keep it on course.


After entering Seldovia Bay the snow-caped hills never looked better. As soon as the boat is secure and you are walking up town the color of the flowers and grass and trees are never more vivid. The board walk never felt better under your feet. You feel thankful and privileged to be alive.


I think back and remember two falls where the whole fleet never left the dock for a month.The weather really got down with 80 to 100 knot winds that never seemed to end. 


After the king crab season closed some of us fished tanners in Kachemak Bay.
After the March 1964 earthquake the big tides covered the boardwalk and flooded the basements of houses.




After Urban Renewal Seldovia looked like a small town in Communist Russia. The boardwalk was gone, the canneries were gone, most of the stores and services were gone. Only one processing plant rebuilt. The Commercial Fishermen were disgusted and mad about the city council’s decision to go with Urban Renewal. Most of them moved to Kodiak and Chignik. Even the towns people were disenchanted with the look. Instead of outnumbering the churches two to one the number of bars were the same as the churches. People were calling the new Seldovia bourbon renewal.  












Tony Martin was one of my father's friends. He lived directly across Seldovia Bay from the town. The Urban renewal contractors had left hundreds of cases of dynamite in a shed next to where he was living. My father and I went across the bay with his little Diesel Boat. It didn’t have a name except Diesel Boat. He let it go dry at half-tide below were the dynamite was stored and we proceeded to carry cases of dynamite down and load it in the boat.. 

Back in 1965. I weighed about 200 pounds with biceps like Mike Tyson. I grew up pulling nets and picking salmon all my life. I carried two or three cases 50-pound cases at a time down the beach. I tried to keep up with the old man. You can always lift a lot more when you are stealing something.


Tony was glad to get some of the dynamite out of his front yard and helped us carry the stuff. A week later the authorities burned up all the rest of the rest of the dynamite. It was good that we got our share first. As any homesteader can tell you dynamite is a very useful tool.
  
We had the boat loaded in a couple hours and had to wait for the tide to float it. We got underway about six in the afternoon. The Diesel Boat only had an 18 horse power three-cylinder Lister diesel for power. The only redeeming quality of that boat was you could run twelve hours at seven knots on ten gallons. You were lucky to make six knots if there was any kind of weather. 


The flat bottom boat was pretty low in the water so it didn’t pound as hard as usual. The Wood Freeman autopilot kept us heading in the approximate direction. After eleven hours of zigzagging and pounding we entered Tuxedni Bay. Pop beached the boat about a mile from Crescent River and we proceeded to pack all the explosive up into the woods. We stacked it on scrap lumber and covered it with the remains of a surplus army tent left over from WWII. Those old olive drab canvas tents were good camouflage.



Over the years we used the dynamite to remove stumps, build roads, and blast boulders into pieces so that we could remove them off the sand spit. Pop had a Piper Super Cub at that time and the most convenient landing place was on the sand spit in front of our homestead. The winter ice packs shoved several 8-foot high boulders up onto the spit and they were a hindrance to landing a plane. I inserted a primer with fuse into one of those big sticks of dynamite which were two-inches in diameter and 18-inches long and placed it on top of the boulder. I packed several shovels full of mud around it and lit the fuse. We watched from a distance of about four-hundred yards. It split the boulder into three neat pieces just small enough for me to push out of the way with the bulldozer.


Over 50 years we used the sand spit/tideland/landing field. One time we had six planes parked there.




One day I painted the top of the wings on my Citabria with an airless paint sprayer. The fabric was getting a little bare so I thought it might protect it. There was very little wind that day and thousands of July flies, blowflies and gnats stuck their feet in the fresh paint. The paint sprayer wasn't working right and was spitting out globs of paint making a very rough surface.The next day when I went out there the flies were still alive. You could put you finger up to them and they'd lean away from it. I climbed in started her up and took off. The flies and blobs of paint created so much air resistance that the plane just barely flew. The Citabria had a 150-HP engine with excellent performance. I put her down immediately and spent the rest of the day hand sanding flies and blobs of paint off the wings. That was a very long time ago. I am poor now so I fly a 1948 J-3.






After Pop passed away in 1968 a brown bear found our dynamite stash, uncovered it and ate a couple 50-pound cases. They will eat just about anything.


In 1966 I built a big house and shop building in Halibut Cove which is located up Kachemak Bay about 6-miles from the city of Homer. In those days I worked hard all the time fishing, trapping, building or mining coal. We used both wood and coal for heat. 


I cut down some of the big trees behind our house to clear a spot for a garden. When I split them for firewood I encountered three huge blocks 2-feet in diameter that wouldn't split. They had six to eight 3-inch knots sticking out in every direction. You could pound on them with the blade of splitting maul and it would bounce back up into the air. I even tried driving a wedge down into the middle of one block and it wouldn't even penetrate the wood. You couldn't even get a wedge to stick in the wood. I let them sit behind my shop building for a couple years and occasionally used them as lawn furniture. By that time I owned the 72-foot Mary M ans was fishing king crab.


Sometime after that I acquired a 1000-foot roll of 3/8-inch diameter primer cord. Primer cord is wonderful stuff. You can mold steel into different shapes or cut things in half. You can even fall a tree with it by wrapping six to eight turns around the trunk and tape a blasting cap to it. I used the primer cord to make nozzles out of one-inch pipe for wash-down hoses. You always need a good nozzle on the end of your deck hose to blast the fish slime loose. I’d wrap four turns of primer cord around the pipe and set it off and it would squeeze the middle of the pipe down into a nice ½ diameter taper. I’d cut the taper in half with a hack saw and i'd have two nice tapered nozzles. I gave several of them away to fishermen.


One day I got to looking at my lawn furniture blocks of wood and I thought to myself, ‘what if I bored a hole down in the middle and filled it with explosives…? I searched around for the large electric drill and chucked a 1-inch wood bit in it and proceeded to bore 6-inch deep holes down into the middle of the blocks. I taped a three-inch length of primer cord to an electric blasting cap and placed it into the hole and filled it with water. It was below zero temperatures at the time and I figured the water would help force the wood apart. I fed 30feet of wire inside the shop building, laid down on the floor and shoved the ends of the wire in a light socket. There was a loud blast and thump against the side of the building. I went outside and Eureka! The first block split into three neat pieces.

The second block also split neatly into three pieces. Everything was working out really well. Finally when I set off the blast in the third block of wood and went outside to inspect it was still sitting there with a little smoke curling out of the hole. It was one of those huge wood rounds with six giant knots sticking out in every direction. I thought to myself, ‘I guess I will have to double the charge’. I put two pieces of primer cord into the hole and filled it with water. I went inside and plugged it into a light socket and blam!


The explosion was much louder than I anticipated. A piece of wood came completely through the wall of my warehouse not far from where I was laying and knocked a shelf off the wall containing a dozen or so paint cans dumping the whole mess on the floor. It took the rest of the day to clean up the mess and patch the hole in the wall. I did get my firewood split though--the hard way!