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In 1895 three new canneries were built at Anacortes — one by Philip 

 S. Cook (later owned by the Porter Fish Co. and now by the Anacortes 

 Fisheries Co.), one by the Anacortes Packing Co. (now owned by the 

 Alaska Packers Association), and the other by the Fidalgo Island 

 Canning Co. In the same year a cannery was built at Port Angeles 

 bv the National Packing Co. In 1902 this plant was sold to the 

 Manhattan Packing Co., which company was absorbed by the 

 Gorman interests in 1906. 



In 1896 J. R. Young and B. L. Williams built a small cannery at 

 Blaine. They failed in 1900 through the failure of their trap fisheries 

 and J. W. & V. Cook Packing Co., of Portland, bought their plant 

 and put J. L. Smiley in charge of it. In 1909 Mr. Smiley purchased 

 this plant from the company and operated it until 1916, when he 

 disposed of it to Lee WaKefield and E. Schoenwald, who sold it the 

 following year to the Wilson Fisheries Co. 



As Ainsworth & Dunn found that they were receiving more salmon 

 than they could dispose of in a fresh condition (they were first, in 

 1889, to ship fresh salmon from here to eastern points), the firm 

 built a cannery on the Seattle water front, at what is now Pier 8, 

 about 1895 or 1896, and about 1897 built another at Blaine. 



In 1900 the Blaine Packing Co. built a cannery at Blaine and 

 operated it nearly every season until 1916, when it was sold to the 

 Blaine Cannery Oo. 



In 1901 Ainsworth & Dunn sold all its fresh fish and canned salmon 

 holdings to the newly organized Pacific Packing & Navigation Co. 

 When the latter company failed and its assets were sold in 1904, the 

 firm bought back its former Blaine plant and has operated it ever 

 since. Mr. Ainsworth, the senior member of the firm, died in 1914, 

 but the business is still operated under the name of Ainsworth & 

 Dunn. 



The Pacific American Fisheries Co. was incorporated in 1899. The 

 company purchased at the time of its organization the cannery and 

 trap properties of the Island Packing Co., San Juan Island, and the 

 cannery of the Franco-American North Pacific Packing Co., at Fair- 

 haven. The last-named cannery had been built the previous year. 



By 1900 a number of canneries had been erected on the shores of 

 Puget Sound, most of which were then in active operation. In 1901 

 the Pacific Packing & Navigation Co. was organized under the laws 

 of the State of New Jersey, for the purpose of acquiring a number of 

 salmon canneries on the coast. It was supposed to be backed by 

 unlimited eastern capital, and its authorized capitalization was as 

 follows: Common stock, $12,500,000; 7 per cent accumulative pre- 

 ferred stock, $12,500,000; and 6 per cent debentures, $7,000,000. It 

 actually issued $6,037,000 common stock, $6,963,000 preferred stock, 

 and $3,000,000 debentures. Subsequently the management effected 

 an exchange of preferred stock for debentures, increasing the for- 

 mer to about $7,500,000 and decreasing the debentures to about 

 $1,650,000. 



The new company purchased a number of canneries in Alaska, also 

 the following Puget Sound plants: Pacific American Fisheries Co.'s 

 canneries at Fairhaven (now Bellingham) and Friday Harbor, the 

 Ainsworth & Dunn canneries at Blaine and Seattle, and the Fair- 

 haven Packing Co. cannery at Fairhaven. 



