FISHERIES OF ALASKA, 1908. 



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Comparison op the Output of the Salmon Canneries in 1905, 190G, 1907, and 



1908— Continued. 



The construction of several new canneries is under consideration 

 at present, one to be located on the Italio River, one of the small 

 streams debouching directly into the ocean between Yakutat and 

 Dry bays; another on the Alsek River, a tributary of Dry Bay, and 

 one on Hawk Inlet, Admiralty Island, all in southeast Alaska. 



Mr. R. A. Leonard, of Haines, last year put up a salmon product 

 which he called ''Flaxsamo." The fish were lightly smoked and 

 then shaved into thin strips, like chipped beef, and packed in hermet- 

 ically sealed cans, a little oil being used for preservation. 



PICKLING. 



The salmon salteries met with fair success this season, but the 

 prices realized for the prepared products were not so good as in 1907. 



The scheme of the United States Bureau of Education to send an 

 experienced salter to its station on Kotzebue Sound, as mentioned 

 in the 1907 report, in order to instruct the natives in the best and 

 latest methods of pickling salmon has not yet been carried out, but 

 probably will be in a year or two. 



A company known as the Alaska Fish and Cold Storage Company, 

 said to be composed largely of Boston capitalists, late in the spring 

 began the construction of a cold-storage plant at a pomt on Wrangell 

 Narrows near the southern end, which it named Kems. Several of 

 the smaller buildings and a part of the wharf had been completed 

 when financial difficulties, with lawsuits and attachments, tied up 

 the work, with apparently but small prospect of continuance by the 



