44 ALASKA FISHERIES AND FUR INDUSTRIES IN 1918. 
In central Alaska 3 new canneries were operated, making a net 
gain of 2 for the district, as the plant of the Deep Sea Salmon Co., at 
Knik Arm, was discontinued. The new canneries are as follows: 
Alaska Sea Food Co- fn. Sic atte bances cots ob ccccn ane . Cordova. 
Alitalk. Packing (0 lo) 2.0 f-.gt eee om aneae | eee ee eee .--Lazy Bay. 
Kenai, Packinm Go.2 25: §2oe Se 5. ter Pere -harherc- eo eee Drier Bay. 
Tn western Alaska 2 new canneries were opened, but there was anet 
gain of only one as the canning of salmon at the plant of the Pacific 
American Fisheries, at Makushin Bay, was discontinued. The new 
canneries are as follows: 
Garinle Packane Oo. 2-025... a bk Se eee seco qos eee Andreafski (floating). 
NortnwestemmsbisheresiCoe cer ceo. ce eo eo eee cee Naknek River. 
CHANGES IN CANNERIES. 
Important changes in the ownership of several canneries in Alaska 
were noted in 1918. It appears that there is a tendency toward con- 
solidation of interests in the salmon-canning business of Alaska, due 
apparently in some measure to a movement toward more economical 
management and operation. A number of concerns which have been 
listed among Alaskan packers for several seasons do not appear in the 
list of operators in 1918. Among these may be mentioned the Taku 
Canning & Cold Storage Co., at Taku Harbor, which sold its cannery 
to Libby, McNeill & Libby; the Wiese Packing Co., which disposed of 
its cannery at Rose Inlet to the Southern Alaska Canning Co.; the 
Pillar Bay Packing Co., which sold its cannery at Point Ellis to the 
Fidalgo Island Packing Co. and ceased to be an operator in Alaska; 
the Sanborn-Cram Co. became the Burnett Inlet Packing Co.; the 
Sitka Packing Co. acquired the cannery partly constructed in 1917 
by J. H. Long, at Sitka, and operated 1t during the season of 1918; 
the J. H. Long Packing Co., at Juneau, was succeeded by the Ameri- 
can Packing Co., which acquired possession of the cannery of the 
tormer concern. 
There were also a number of changes in the ownership or control 
of salmon canneries in Alaska, which, however, did not affect the 
name of the companies concerned. Mention may be made of the 
following acquisitions: The Wilson Fisheries Co. now controls the 
Alaska Herring & Sardine Co., at Port Walter, and the J. L. Smiley 
Co., at Ketchikan. Both of these plants were improved, the former 
by the installation of three lines of canning machines, and the latter 
by the addition of one line. The Northern Fisheries (Inc.), pur- 
chased the Alaska Salmon Co., but continued the operation of the 
cannery on Wood River in the name of the latter company. 
The cannery at Abercrombie, Alaska, on the Copper River, formerly 
operated by the Copper River Packing Co., is now operated in the 
name of the Abercrombie Packing Co. The Bering Sea Packing Co., 
at Herendeen Bay, became the Everett Packing Co. The cannery of 
the Astoria & Puget Sound Canning Co., at Excursion Inlet, destroyed 
by fire in 1917, was rebuilt in time for operations in 1918. 
Of the number of canneries in operation in 1917, each of the three 
districts of Alaska as subdivided by this report lost one, as follows: 
In southeastern Alaska the cannery of Robert Scott, at Craig, ceased 
to operate; in central Alaska, the Deep Sea Salmon Co. dismantled 
its cannery on Knik Arm, Cook Inlet; in western Alaska, the Pacific 
American Fisheries permanently closed its cannery at Makushin Bay, 
but statedits intention to continue cod-fishery operationsin that region. 
