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1-line cannery operated since 1923, and also adding a complete new 

 tall line to the Noyes Island plant, doubling its equipment there. 

 The Sunny Point Packing Co. erected a large up-to-date cannery near 

 Ketchikan to replace its plant destroyed by fire in March. It was 

 in operation during the season. 



The Snug Harbor Packing Co. took over and operated the cannery 

 at Snug Harbor, Chisik Island, last used as a salmon cannery in 

 1923 by Pioneer Canneries (Inc.) and in 1924 operated by the Chisik 

 Island Corporation for the packing of clams exclusively. The 

 Premier Salmon Co. purchased the Moore Packing Co.'s plant at 

 Orca Bay. The Gorman Packing Corporation took over the old 

 cannery of the Central Alaska Fisheries on Drier Bay, recently 

 operated as a herring plant by the Knight Island Packing Co., its 

 lease on the Prince Packing Co.'s cannery in that locality having 

 terminated. The Cordova plant of the Carlisle Packing Co. was sold 

 to the New England Fish Co., whose operations had been limited 

 previously to southeast Alaska. Pajoman and Trout completed the 



Fig. 6.— Typical salmon cannery, central Alaska 



installation of equipment in their new building at Raspberry Island 

 and agam put up a pack of canned salmon, the first since 1924. 

 The Arctic Packing Co., w^hose cannery on Cook Inlet had not been 

 operated since 1924, moved from the old location on English Bay to 

 Port Graham and put up a small pack during the 1927 season. The 

 plant of the Hemrich Packing Co. at Kukak Bay was leased again 

 and operated by the Seashore Packing Co. 



The Alaska Packers Association reopened its two canneries on the 

 Naloiek River and Nushagak Bay, which had been closed during the 

 1926 season. This company also purchased the cannery of the Car- 

 lisle Packing Co. on the Kvichak River and consolidated it with its 

 other operations in the vicinity. 



NEW CANNERIES 



The Independent Salmon Canneries, a recently organized firm, 

 operated a one-line cannery in a leased building at Ketchikan. 



Three new canneries were operated in the central district in 1927. 

 These include Nordin and Wik, who put up a small pack at their 



