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In central Alaska the Alaska Sea Food Co. and the Canoe Pass 

 Packing Co., both owning canneries near Cordova, consolidated and 

 operated the plant of the latter company under the name of the 

 Shepard Point Packing Co. The Alaska Packers Association re- 

 opened its plant at Olga Bay, which was not operated in 1923. The 

 Alaska Year-Round Canneries (Inc.) is listed under the name of 

 Alaska Year-Round & Cook Inlet Packing Co., to cover joint opera- 

 tions of the Alaska Year-Round Canneries (Inc.) and a new company, 

 the Cook Inlet Packing Co., at the plant of the former. The Eyak 

 River Packing Co. sold its cannery on Eyak River to the Pioneer 

 Sea Foods Co. Gorman & Co. leased the plant of the Prince Packing 

 Co. at Drier Bay, which was last operated as a salmon cannery in 

 1920 under the name of the Kenai Packing Co. The King Salmon 

 Fisheries Co. sold its cannery at Unakwik Inlet to the Unakwik 

 Packing Co., which in turn leased it to the Pacific American Fisheries. 

 The Seward cannery of the San Juan Fishing & Packing Co. was 

 moved to Evans Bay, near Latouche. 



In western Alaska the Carlisle Packing Co. built a shore plant on 

 the Kvichak River, after having operated a floating cannery on the 

 river near Lockanok. Libby, McNeill & Libby reopened its Egegik 

 River and Lockanok canneries. After making a pack of red salmon 

 on the Ugashik River, the International Packing Co. moved its float- 

 ing cannery, Santa Flavia, to Makushin Bay on Unalaska Island. 



NEW CANNERIES 



Libby, McNeill & Libby opened a floating cannery at Ketchikan, 

 using the scow operated a few years ago as a salmon cannery by the 

 Mount Baker Packing Co. In central Alaska the Hemrich Packing 

 Co. packed salmon at its clam cannery on Kukak Bay, and Henry J. 

 Emard canned salmon at his plant at Moose Point, 



CANNERIES NOT OPERATED 



A number of canneries were not operated in 1924, some of them 

 being converted to other uses, while a few were dismantled and 

 abandoned. The cannery of the Marathon Fishing & Packing Co., 

 at Cape Fanshaw, was sold at auction to the Alaska Consolidated 

 Canneries. Several of the smaller buildings were moved to Pybus 

 Bay and the machinery was removed for installation elsewhere. 

 The Baranof Packing Co., at Red Bluff Bay, discontinued salmon 

 canning a few years ago and is now operating its plant as a herring 

 saltery and by-products plant for the production of fish oil and meal. 

 The Dobbins Packing Co., heretofore operating a floating plant at 

 Petersburg as a salmon and crab cannery, moved to Hoonah and 

 engaged in packing crabs exclusively. The plant of the Pioneer 

 Canneries (Inc.), at Snug Harbor, was taken over by the Chisik 

 Island Corporation and packed clams exclusively. The plant of the 

 Southern Alaska Canning Co., at Big Port Walter, was operated in 

 1924 by Arentsen & Co., who were engaged exclusively in packing 

 Scotch cure herring and manufacturing oil and meal. The small 

 plant of The Trading Union (Inc.), at Petersburg, was used as a 

 crab cannery by Ludeman & Isom i3ros. The International Pack- 

 ing Co., which operated the Santa Flavia at Waterfall in south- 

 eastern Alaska, and at Bering River in central Alaska, in 1923, 

 did not return to either locality in 1924. The floating cannery of 



