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Investment in the Alaska salmon-canning industry in 1924 



Items 



Southeast Alaska 



Central Alaska 



Western Alaska 



Total 



Plants operated 



Operating capital 



Wages paid 



Vessels: 



Power, over 5 tons. 



Net tonnage,. 

 Sailing 



Net tonnage.- - 

 Barges 



Net tonnage... 



Launches 



Boats, sail and row. 

 Lighters, scows, 

 and houseboats. - 



Pile drivers 



Pile pullers 



Apparatus: 



Beach seines 



\m, Fathoms... 

 Purse seines 



Fathoms... 

 Gill nets 



Fathoms... 

 Pound nets,driven . 

 Pound nets, float- 

 ing 



Number 

 65 



Total. 



294 



5,894 



2 



3,819 



2 



2,386 



94 



1,040 



389 

 63 



4 



14 



1,320 



293 



50, 329 



193 



16. 170 



176 



175 



Value 

 $6,531,762 

 8, 629, 991 

 3, 917, 159 



1, 993, 418 



Number 

 37 



90, 000 

 '20,"66o" 



2,487 



4 



7 980 



130, 525 

 136, 189 



403, 783 



447, 029 



20, 600 



6,605 



157 

 693 



182 

 32 



219, 570 

 "i7,"369' 



1, 559, 895 

 707, 048 



84 



12,210 



29 



4,400 



763 



57, 390 



96 



24, 830, 943 



Value 



$3, 154, 126 



4, 519, 591 



2, 294, 550 



883, 893 



Number 

 28 



230, 000 



78 

 14, 193 



18 

 32, 340 



Value 



$5, 614, 695 



3, 446, 843 



2, 986, 009 



1, 296, 164 



830, 000 



154, 442 

 67, 568 



155, 313 

 180, 435 



36 i 81,704 



1,187 I 411,001 



180 

 23 



380, 478 

 71,965 



44, 562 



27, 750 

 "89,"02i' 



577, 341 

 22, 052 



4 



500 



10 



2,375 



1,674 



231, 240 



2,000 



'"ii,"5o6" 



"288,"724" 

 "25," 000 " 



Number 

 130 



12, 400, 644 



15, 446, 083 



468 



22,574 



24 



44, 139 



2 



2, 386 



287 



2,920 



751 



118 



4 



102 



14, 030 



332 



57, 104 



2,630 



304, 800 



277 



180 



Value 

 $15, 300, 583 

 16, 596, 425 

 9, 197, 718 



4, 173, 475 



1, 150, 000 

 ""'"20,"000 



366, 671 

 614, 758 



939, 574 

 699, 429 

 20, 600 



53, 167 



258, 820 

 '395,"ii4 



2, 162, 236 

 729, 100 



52, 677, 670 



Output and value of canned salmon in Alaska in 1924 



1 Cases containing J^-pound cans have been reduced one-half in number, and thus, for the purpose of 

 aSording fair comparison, all are put upon the basis of forty-eight 1-pound cans per case. 



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