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Sitkalidak from Kadiak Island, where for a time considerable quan- 

 tities of cod were cured and shipped to San Francisco. 



In 1886 James Madison and associates, of San Francisco, fitted out 

 the schooner Francis Alice, and also started a small station at Ikatak. 

 on Unimak Island. The venture lived but one season, the station 

 then being taken over by the McCollam Fishing & Trading Co. 



Lynde & Hough, a well-known San Francisco firm, early entered 

 the codfish industry and for a number of years were important fac- 

 tors in it. Besides a fleet of vessels the firm established a number of 

 shore stations in Alaska. The earliest of their stations w T as at Sand 

 Point, on Humboldt Harbor, Popof Island, in the Shumagin Group. 

 This was in 1887. It was established principally as a trading and 

 salmon-fishing station, its relation to the codfish industry being 

 mainly as a supply station where the firm's vessels could land their 

 cargoes and refit for another trip without having to return to the 

 home port for this purpose. 



The firm built a number of shore stations shortly after this — 

 Unga "Harbor (1888 or 1889) and Squaw Harbor (1889), on Unga 

 Island; Henderson Island (1889), in the Shumagin Group; Com- 

 pany Harbor (1889) and Nelson Island (1890), in the Sannak 

 Islands; Chicago Bay (1890), Alaska Peninsula, and Ikatak (1890), 

 on Unimak Island. Several of these had but an ephemeral exist- 

 ence, as Chicago Bay, Nelson Island, arid Henderson Island. 



About 1898 the McCollam Fishing & Trading Co. and Lynde & 

 Hough formed the Union Fish Co. as a selling agency for their 

 product. It was not until 1902 or 1903, however, after the death of 

 both Lynde and Hough, that the two concerns finally were merged 

 into one and the whole business operated under the name of the 

 Union Fish Co. 



In 1876 A. Greenebaum, then and for a number of years sub- 

 sequent agent for the Alaska Commercial Co., built a trading sta- 

 tion for the company at Acherk Harbor (later known as Company 

 Harbor) on Sannak Island. A little codfishing was prosecuted at 

 times, but it was not until 1896, when it became the property of the 

 progenitors of the Alaska Codfish Co., that it was used for this 

 business exclusively. In 1897 the company established another 

 station on Moffet Cove, a few miles east of Company Harbor. 



In 1896 the Alaska Codfish Co. opened its Kelleys Rock station, 

 situated about midway between Unga and Squaw Harbors. This, 

 like the Unga station, is an all-the-year-round station and is by far 

 the most productive one owned by the company. 



In 1906 the Alaska Codfish Co. bought the Alaska Commercial 

 Co.'s station at the town of Unga, on Unga Island, and began fishing 

 operations in the fall. The next year the Union Fish Co. built a 

 station here, but on the opposite side oi the harbor. Fishing is 

 carried on here throughout the year. 



The present Squaw Harbor station of the Alaska Codfish Co. was 

 first established as a salmon saltery by a man named Olsen, who also 

 utilized it at times as a codfish station. In the summer of 1903 the 

 present owners purchased it and have very much improved it since. 

 It is a winter station. Its principal use to the company is as a supplv 

 depot for its near-by stations, the harbor being one of the safest 

 in the Shumaffins. 



