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DRY-SALTING, DRYING, AND SMOKING 



In southeastern Alaska, one operator prepared 5,200 pounds of 

 dry-salted cohos, valued at $582; and in central Alaska there were 

 prepared 16,700 pounds of dried and smoked salmon, valued at $958, 

 and 1,400 pounds of beleke, valued at $380. All of these operations 

 were incidental to other lines of business. In the fishery of the 

 Yukon, Tanana, and Kuskokwim Rivers, which is carried on prin- 

 cipally by natives, 1,024,745 pounds of salmon were dried and 

 smoked, valued at $124,545. In this western district 51 whites and 

 362 natives were engaged in the fishery and the apparatus used 

 consisted of 220 wheels, valued at $22,000, and 235 gill nets of 3,196 

 fathoms, valued at $3,196, a total investment of $25,196. 



BY-PRODUCTS 



Two companies in southeastern Alaska engaged primarily in the 

 preparation of salmon by-products, while three salmon canneries in 

 central Alaska manufactured salmon oil and fertilizer as well. The 

 investment, which was credited wholly to southeastern Alaska, totaled 

 $120,981, and 35 white shoresmen and 5 white transporters were 

 reported engaged in the industry. The total production was 1,432,625 

 pounds of fertilizer, valued at $41,807, and 40,680 gallons of oil, 

 valued at $18,330. This was a decrease of 326,675 pounds, or 19 

 per cent, in quantity and $1,563 in value of fertilizer, and 8,353 

 gallons, or 17 per cent, in quantity, and $3,503 in value of oil from 

 1924. In that year 3 companies in southeastern Alaska engaged 

 primarily in by-products manufacture, in addition to which 3 plants 

 in southeastern and 2 in central Alaska manufactured fertilizer and oil 

 in connection with their salmon-canning operations. 



Production of salmon oil and fertilizer in Alaska in 1925 



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