PACIFIC SALMON" FISHERIES. 39 



and finally was burned in 1892, and not rebuilt. The cannery packed 

 every year from 1883 to 1891, both inclusive, except in 1888, when 

 it was closed. 



In 1883 the Northwest Trading Co. buUt a cannery on Pyramid 

 Harbor, a little bay on the western side of Chilkat Inlet. It was 

 operated by this company in 1883 and 1884, was idle in 1885, and in 

 1888 was sold to D. L. Beck & Sons, of San Francisco, and operated 

 by that firm. In the spring of 1889 it was burned, but was rebuilt at 

 once and a pack made that year. In 1893 it joined the Alaska 

 Packers Association, which operated it, except in 1905, imtil the end 

 of the season of 1908, when it was finally abandoned. 



On the north shore of Boca de Quadra, about 8 miles from the 

 entrance, a cannery was built in 1883 by M. J. Kinney, of Astoria, and 

 operated under the name of the Cape Fox Packing Co. from 1883 to 

 1886. Late in the last-named year it was sold and moved to Ketchi- 

 kan, operating there under the name of the Tongass Packing Co. 

 during 1887, 1888, and untU August, 1889, when it was burned and 

 not rebuilt. 



In 1886 Rhode & Johnson erected a saltery at Yes Bay. The fol- 

 lowing year the firm became B^ird, Rhode & Johnson. In 1887 work 

 was begun on a cannery which was finished in 1888. Packing was 

 begun in 1889 under the name of the Boston Fishing & Trading Co. 

 In 1901 it was included in the Pacific Packing & Navigation Co. con- 

 solidation, and when that concern failed was purchased in 1905 by 

 the Northwestern Fisheries Co. In 1906 the canner}' was purchased 

 hy C. A. Burckhardt & Co., who have operated it each year to date, 

 either under that name or subsequent incorporations known as the 

 Yes Bay Canning Co. and the Alaska Pacific Fisheries. 



In 1887 the Aberdeen Packing Co. of Astoria, Oreg., built a can- 

 nery on the Stikine River, about 8 miles a])Ove the mouth. In 1889 

 the cannery was moved to Point liighfield, on the northern end of 

 Wrangell Island, and operations commenced under the name of the 

 Glacier Packing Co. In 1893 it joined the Alaska Packers Associa- 

 tion, who have operated it continuously, except in 1905. 



The Loring cannery of the Alaska Packers Association was built in 

 1888 by the Alaska Salmon Packing & Fur Co., of San Francisco, and 

 operated by the Cutting Packing Co. The company was incorporated 

 in 1 883 and operated a saltery until the canner}' was built. Wnen the 

 iUaska Packers Association was formed in 1893 it joined that organi- 

 zation. The cannery has operated every year since it was built, and 

 in some seasons has made the largest pack of any in the Territory. 



Shortly after William Duncan and his community of Tsirapsean 

 Indians had settled, in 1887, on Annette Island, which island had 

 been set aside by the Federal Government as a reserve for them, 

 plans were under way for a salmon cannery, but funds came in so 

 slowly that it was not until 1890 that any pack was attempted. In 

 1891 it was in full operation, and operated from then continuously 

 until 1913, when the plant was shut down for that and the two suc- 

 ceeding years. Much dissatisfaction had been expressed by the 

 natives over the operation of this and other industrial plants on the 

 island, and finally the Federal authorities took possession of prac- 

 tically everything, as guardian of the natives, and early in 1916 

 leased the cannery to P. E. Harris & Co., of Seattle, the understand- 

 ing })eiiig that they were to employ natives when available. Un- 



