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aiiywlicre else. He saw fiftecu Indians fisliiiig there, and between one bundled and one Iiundred 

 and fifty baUbut of small size lying on the beneb. The women were splitting tbem to dry. 



In tbis region of Soutbeastern Alaska arc two salmon canning estabbsbments — one at Klawack, 

 and tbe otber at Old Sitka or Turner's Point. In 1879 tbe Klawack cannery was said to bave 

 employed one bundred and sixty Indians and twentj- wbites. Of tbe Indians, tbirty were women, 

 five or six boys of eigbt to twelve years, and tbe rest men. In 1878 tbe wages for Indian men 

 were one dollar, and for woman fifty cents per day. In 1870 tbe men received one dollar and 

 twenty-five cents and tbe women seventj'-five cents per day, altbongb it is claimed tbei'e was no 

 need of increasing tbe pay. Tbe wages of tbe wbite men ranged from twenty dollars to fifty 

 dollars per niontb. Tbe season lasts about two montbs bere. I suppose tbe capacity of tbe 

 cannery is about tbe same as of tbe Old Sitka one, but tbere are no returns to refer to. Tbe Old 

 Sitka establisbment is situated near tbe moutb of Sitka Eiver; it was not in operation in 1S80, but 

 in 1879 it shipped seven thousand cases, of four dozen one-pound cans each, to the Cutting Packing- 

 Company of. San Francisco. Tbe boxes in which these cans are shipped are sent in shooks from 

 Portland. Tbe cans are made on tbe spot in a separate building. Tbe high price for tin and 

 solder was given as a reason for tbe inactivity of 1880. The salmon are seined by Indians, the 

 seines being purchased by them from the cannery owners. Tbe processes employed at Klawack 

 and Turner's Point are essentially tbe same as in tbe Columbia Eiver canneries. Tbe Old Sitka 

 establishment, either in 1878 or 1870, put np two hundred cases of halibut, each containing four 

 dozen one-pound cans. 



The eulachon, which we bave from tbe Stickene Eiver, Wrangell, Sitka, and Cbilkat Eiver, 

 is caught in tbe same way and used for the same purposes, as described by Mr. Swan in bis paper, 

 in tbe Proceedings of the United States National Museum, vol. 3. The once famous Deep 

 Lake salmon fishery at tbe Eedoubt on Baranoff Island, which in 18G8 secured two thousand 

 barrels, is now reaping tbe results of overfishing. A description of the fishery by ]\Ir. Dall is 

 given in the Eeport of tbe Commissioner of Agriculture for 1870, page 385. 



This account may be closed with tbe following list of the principal food-fishes of Soutbeastern 

 Alaska : 



1. Pleuronectes stellatus. • 18. Ophiodon elongatus. 



2. Lepidopsetta biliueata. 19. Anoplopoma fimbria. 



3. Limanda aspera. 20. Bathymaster signatus. 



4. Hippoglossoides elassodon. 21. Ammodytes personatus. 



5. Hippoglossus vulgaris. 22. " alascanus. 

 <5. Pollachius cbalcogrammus. 23. Mallotus villosus. 



7. Gadus morrhua. 24. Hypomesus pretiosus. 



8. Microgadus proximus. 25. Thaleichtbys pacificus. 



9. Hemilepidotus trachurus. 26. Salveliuus malraa. 



10. Hemilepidotus Jordanii. ' 27. Salmo purpuratus. 



11. Sebasticbthys maliger. 28. " Gairdnerii. 



12. " caurinus. 29. " irideus (probably). 



13. " nrber. 30. Oncorhyncbus chouicha. 



14. " melanops. ("Black bass," 31. " keta. 



Sitka.) 32. " nerka. 



15. Hexagrammus asper. 33. " kisutch. 



16. " superciliosus. 34. " gorbuscha. 



17. " decagrammus. 35. Clupea mirabilis. 



