ALASKA FISHERY AND FUE-SEAL INDUSTRIES, 1924 



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Companies canning salmon in Alaska, number and location of canneries operated, 



and nuviber of pound nets owned by each, 1924 — Continued 



(New canneries indicated by (*)] 



LOSSES AND DISASTERS 



Two canneries were burned in southeastern Alaska in 1924. The 

 first fire occurred at Wrangell on July 25, and resulted in the partial 

 destruction of the cannery of the Alaska Sanitary Packing Co. 

 Buildings and equipment valued at approximately $31,000 were 

 lost, and business was discontinued for the remainder of the season. 

 On October 1 the Tee Harbor plant of the Alaska Consolidated 

 Canneries, including more than 30,000 cases of salmon, was totally 

 destroyed with a loss of $301,838. The Alaska Herring & Sardine 

 Co., at Port Walter, lost by fire buildings valued at $12,528. The 

 F. C. Barnes Co. also lost by fire its superintendent's residence, 

 valued at $5,000. Other losses of property in this district, chiefly 

 fishing gear and small boats, aggregated $28,218. One transporter 

 and one shoresman were killed accidentally in southeastern Alaska. 



In central Alaska small boats, fishing gear, and products valued 

 at $29,837 were lost. 



Similar losses in western Alaska totaled $19,346. One fisherman 

 and one shoresman met accidental death in this district. 



STATISTICS 



As in 1923, 130 canneries were operated in Alaska in 1924. The 

 active investment in the canning industry was $52,677,670, a gain of 

 $2,041,784 over 1923. The increase in southeastern Alaska was 

 $1,658,683, or 7 per cent; in central Alaska the increase was 

 $2,135,965, or approximately 20 per cent, accounted for chiefly by 

 the larger investments in operating capital and wages paid; in western 

 Alaska investments decreased $1,752,864, or slightly more than 10 

 per cent, there being material reductions in operating capital, wages 

 paid, vessels engaged, and fishing apparatus used. 



