62 ALASKA FISHERIES AND FUR INDUSTRIES IN 1917. 



Whales Taken in Shore Opekations in 1917. 



Investment in Shore Whale Fishery in Alaska in 1917. 



Items. 



Vessi'ls: 



Steamers 



Net tonnage 



Barge 



Net tonn:'ia;c 



Launches under 5 tons 



Boats, row 



Scows 



Number. 



662 

 1 

 1,149 

 4 

 4 

 4 



Value. 



$292, 500 



30,000 



4,900 



260 



2,100 



Items. 



Pile drivers 



Seines 



Guns 



Value of plants. 



Cash capital 



Wages paid 



Number. 



Value. 



SlOO 



6,000 



5,625 



492, 000 



644, 300 



132, 141 



Total 1 1,609,926 



Persons Engaged in the Shore Whale Fishery in Alaska in 1917. 



Races. 



Number. 



Whites 



Natives 



Japanese... 



Total 



188 

 30 

 44 



Products of Alaska Shore Whaling Operations in 1917. 



Products. 



Quantity. 



Value. 



Whale oil 



Sperm oil 



Fertilizer, meat. 

 Fertili'.er, bone. 

 Whalebone 



.gallons.. 

 ....do.... 

 .pounds.. 

 ....do.... 

 ....do.... 



900, 883 



197,670 



1,668,000 



312,600 



14,866 



Total 



§438, 362 



149, 270 



47,380 



14,. 340 



5,500 



654, 852 



CLAM FISHERY. 



The clam industry of Alaska is centered at Cordova, where two 

 canneries were operated in 1917, one each by the Pioneer Packing 

 Co. and the Lighthouse Canning Co., which latter concern was 

 formerly known as the Lighthouse Canning & Packing Co. This was 

 the first company to undertake clam canning at Cordova, operations 

 having been started in improvised quarters in 1916. Before the 

 digging season opened in 1917 a now building 50 by 100 feet was 

 erected, to which the machinery was transferred. 



Early in 1917 the Alaska Sea Food Co. acquired the one-line cannery 

 built in 1916 near Point Whitshed, about 9 miles east of Cordova, 

 and l>egan canning operations in March. On April 4, after about 400 

 cases had been packed, the cannery was destroyed by fire. Recon- 

 struction began immediately, and a modern plant was soon erected 



