280 U. S. BUREAU OF FISHERIES 
The International Packing Co., which in 1925 brought its floating 
cannery into the central district after the discontinuance of opera- 
tions in western Alaska, confined its activities to Ugashik waters and 
Makushin Bay in 1926. Pajoman and Trout built a new plant at 
Tron Creek on Raspberry Island in 1926, with the intention of in- 
stalling ma machinery, but leased ‘it for herring operations 
instead. J. Hull and I. M. Foster, of the Alitak Packing Co., 
acquired rr interest of Capt. John T. Jones in the Robinson ‘Pack- 
ing Co., which operates the floating cannery Azalea in Zachar Bay, 
but continued to operate under the same name. The floating plant 
of the Orca Packing Co. was operated at Pete Dah! Slough on Cop- 
per River flats during the early part of the season and later was taken 

Fig. 8. 

Salmon cannery, soutbeast Alaska 
to Cordova for the humpback and silver salmon runs. The plants 
of the Unakwik Inlet Packing Co. at Unakwik Inlet and the Hem- 
rich Packing Co. at Kukak Bay were again leased and operated by 
the Pacific American Fisheries and the Seashore Packing Co., 
respectively, in 1926. 
NEW CANNERIES 
A new one-line cannery was built and operated at Nakat Inlet in 
southeastern Alaska by the Tongass Packing Co., which formerly 
operated salmon traps in the district under the name of the Tongass 
Fish Co 
Six salmon canneries were operated for the first time in the central 
district in 1926. A new plant was that of J. A. Magill, at Anchor- 
age, operating under the name of the Alaska General Fisheries. The 
Cordova Packing Co. prepared a pack of canned salmon at its clam 
