PACIFIC SALMON FISHERIES. 19 



this was continued by the Hudson Bay Co. Both companies carried 

 on the business primarih' for the purpose of providing a winter stock 

 for the use of tlieir employees and for local sale. As shipping de- 

 veloped on the Pacific, a considerable export trade in salted salmon 

 was developed with the Hawaiian Islands, Australia, China, and 

 Japan, and with the eastern United States.' Quinnat, or spring, 

 and sockeye salmon were the principal species employed in the 

 earlier years. 



After the boundary line between Canada and the United States 

 had been established in 1S4(>, and what is now the State of Wtish- 

 ington was acknowledged as part of the latter, a number of small 

 traders and fish packers succeeded the Pludson Bay Co. In the early 

 sixties several men were engaged in the business at Point Roberts, 

 according to the Olympia Columbian of September 10, 1853. In 1873, 

 V. T. TuU, of Olympia, established a salmon fishery at Mukiltoo, 

 principally for putting up fish in barrels. The first year 500 oai-rels 

 were packed at Mukilteo. after which the tisnery was moved tem- 

 porarily to Seattle to take the late run up the Duwamish River, 

 which is usually large. Fifteen hundred good large salmon have 

 been taken at one haul of the seine in the Puyallup. 



Bancroft's "History of Washington, Idaho, anci Montana" con- 

 tains among others the following references" to the early fishermen of 

 the Sound: 



In 1874 Corbette & Marloav, of Portland, founded a fiphcry at Tacoma. Sixty 

 barrels were packed in five days, only throe men beinj; employed.— New Taooma 

 Tribune, November 14, 1874. In 1876, John Brysf;ot, a Nonvej^Man, founded another 

 fishery at Salmon Bay, 6 miles north of Olympia. In 1878 a company of Turret 

 Sound men established a fourth at Clallam Bay. They put up the first season 000 

 casks of salmon and 700 of halibut. — Morse s Wash. Terr., MS., x\iii, 17-18. In the 

 following .st^ason D. D. Hume established a fishery near Steilacoom for the purpose of 

 salting salmon. In 1880 11. Levy, of Seattle, went to London with 100 l)arrels to 

 introduce Puget Sound salted salmon to that market. In 1882 a salmon packing 



establishment was opened at Old Tacoma by Williams. Salmon ran in great 



numbers this year. One boat brought in a thousand tish. 



The extension of the railroad to Puget Sound, thus furnishing an 

 outlet to the rapidly growing population in the Middle West, did 

 much to aid the industr}\ Tliis also gave opportunity to begin the 

 shipping of fresh halibut and salmon to eastern points. Ainsworth 

 (Sc Dunn, of Seattle, operating later under the name of the Seattle 

 Fish Co., were the first successful ])ioneers in this branch of the 

 industry, beginning a])out 1889, ancl carrying it on until they sold 

 out in 1901, as noted later. 



In 1903 the San Juan Fishing & Packing Co., which had begun the 

 fresh-fish business in 1899. bought this business from the Pacific 

 Packing & Navigation Co., to which it had been sold in 1901 



In 1893 A. E. Wadhams, who had operated on the Columbia River 

 for some years, established a sockeye plant at Point Roberts. 



In 1894 both canneries were sold to their present owner, the Alaska 

 Packers Association, an organization formed not long before this by 

 a combination of a number of Alaska plants. 



About 1894 A. E. Devlin came up from the Columbia River and 

 established a plant at Friday Harbor, which is now operated by the 

 Friday Harbor Packing Co. 



n flistory of ihr lacific States, Washington, Idaho, and Montana, 1845-1889, vol. 26, pp. 345-349. By 

 Hubert Uowe UancroU. 



