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Updated: May 25, 2025
And a wise man," old Manuel grinned, "don't even figure on monkeying with a buzz saw, sonny." Not long afterward Jack MacRae got old Manuel in a corner and asked him what he meant. "Well," he said, "it's like this. When the bluebacks first run here in the spring, they're pretty small, too small for canning.
Gower had debts and no assets save his land on the Squitty cliffs and the closed cannery at Folly Bay. The cannery was a white elephant, without takers in the market. No cannery man would touch it unless he could first make a contract with MacRae for the bluebacks. They had approached him with such propositions.
But when he ran his first load into Crow Harbor Stubby looked over the pile of salmon his men were forking across the floor and drew Jack into his office. "I've made a contract for delivery of my entire sockeye and blueback pack," he said. "I know precisely where I stand. I can pay up to ninety cents for all July fish. I want all the Squitty bluebacks you can get. Go after them, Jack."
It's a damned scandal, and I don't much blame a man who works for four dollars a day thinking he might as well turn Bolshevik. I know that I can pay twelve cents for salmon and make a good profit selling for sixteen. Can you make money supplying me with bluebacks at twelve cents a pound?"
To-day he's paying fifty and hinting more if he has to." MacRae laughed. "We'll match Gower's price till he boosts us out of the bidding," he said. "And he won't make much on his pack if he does that." "Say, Folly Bay," Jack called across to the mustard-pot carrier, "what are you paying for bluebacks?" The skipper took his eye off the tallyman counting in fish.
The good news that there was a kind friend willing to write to them gradually spread; and sailor after sailor wrote to Miss Weston, and their correspondence grew so large that at length she had to print her letters. Then the sailor boys wanted a letter all to themselves, saying they could not fully understand the men's bluebacks.
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