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Snhiion taken in I9,li, hit appanitHn aud spccicn. in each (jcographic section 

 of Ala-nka — Ccuitiuuetl 



CANNING 



CHANGKS IN CANNEKIES 



The plant of the Ahiska Pacific Sahiion Corporation at Kake that 

 had been leased to Libby, McNeill & Libbv for the season of 1932 

 was operated this year by the former company, which also reopened 

 its cannery at Rose Inlet. The 5-year lease on the Metlakatla can- 

 nery to the Annette Island Packing Co. havinfr expired at the close 

 of 11)32, a new company, incorporated under the name of Annette 

 Island Canning Co., obtained the lease and operated the plant in 

 1933. 



Two plants at Ketchikan that had been closed in 1932, the Iwersen 

 Packing Co. and the floating plant Pioneer', of the Stuart Corpora- 

 tion. Avere taken over and operated by new organizations, the Kelly 

 Packing Co. and the Berg Packing Co., respectively. Other new 

 organizations which were formed to take over canneries in southeast 

 Alaska and operate them under lease during the season were as 

 follows : The Ocean Packing Co., whit h operated the plant of the 

 Bayview Packing Co. at Klawak: the Douglas Fisheries Co., which 

 operated the plant on Douglas Island that had been leased to the 

 EUson Packing Co. in 1932; the Klawock Packing Co., which took 

 over the Demmert Packing Co.'s cannery at Klawak; Hanseth Bros., 

 who operated the Scow Bay cannery that had been leased to O. 

 Nicholson in 1932; and the Deep Sea Salmon Co., which operated 

 the Skowl Arm Packing Co.'s plant at Skowl Arm. 



The New England Fish Co. reopened its plants at Ketchikan and 

 Xoyes Island ; and the plants of the Peril Straits Packing Co. and 

 Petersburg Packing Co. at Todd and Petersburg, respectively, were 

 also reopened and operated. A new cannery building was erected 

 by the Diamond K Packing Co. at Wrangell on the site formerly 

 occupied by the xVlaska Sanitary Packing Co.'s plant, which was 

 destroyed by fire in 1924. The new plant, which was in operation 

 this year, replaces the floating cannery that has been used by the 

 company since 1927. 



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