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In 1900 the Chilkoot Packing Co., organized at Aberdeen, Wash., 

 built a cannery at the head of Chilkoot Inlet, and operated the same 

 year. In 1901 it became a part of the Pacific Packing & Navigation 

 Co. It was closed in 1904 and not reopened again. 



In 1900 the Great Northern Fish Co. operated a floating saltery. 

 Its principal business was salting dog salmon for the Japanese 

 trade, and it operated only one season. J. E. Rice, of Whatcom, 

 Wash., in the same year packed dog sabnon on Karta Bay for the 

 same trade. 



The Pacific Packmg & Navigation Co. (an account of whose mcep- 

 tion, operation, and lailure appears under Puget Sound) was organ- 

 ized in 1901 and acquired the following canneries in Alaska: Can- 

 neries of Pacific Steam Whalmg Co. at Nushagak, Bristol Bay: Chig- 

 nik, Alaska Peninsula; Uyak, Kodiak Island; Kenai, Cook Inlet; 

 Orca, Prince William Sound; Hunter Bay, southeast Alaska. Also 

 the Hume Bros. & Hume canneries at Chignik and Uyak; the Thlinket 

 Packing Co. with canneries at Gerard Point and Santa Anna: the 

 Western Fisheries Co. cannery at Dundas Bay, Icy Straits; Chilkoot 

 Packing Co. cannery at Chilkoot Inlet; the Taku Packing Co. can- 

 nery at Taku Inlet; the Taku Fishing Co. cannery at Port Snet- 

 tisham; the Boston Fishing & Trading Co. cannery at Yes Bay; the 

 Chatham Straits Packing Co. cannery on Sitkoh Bav ; the Icy Straits 

 Packing Co. cannery at Petersburg, Wrangell Narrows; and the 

 Quadra Packing Co. caiuiery at Mink Arm, Boca de Quadra. 



The company met with financial disaster in 1904, and at the 

 resulting sale most of its properties were bought by the North- 

 western Fisheries Co., a corporation formed for the purpose. Of the 

 Alaska canneries the Sitkoh Bay plant was sold to George T. Myers & 

 Co., while the Orca plant was leased to Capt. Omar J. Huni])hreys, 

 from whom the Northwestern Fisheries Co. later on secured it. 



The San Jxi&n Fishing & Packing Co., of Seattle, established a 

 cannery and cold-storage plant in 1901 at Taku Harbor, a small bay 

 on the mainland a short distance south of Taku Inlet, and made a 

 pack the same year. This plant was purchased in 1903 by the 

 Pacific Cold Storage Co. and operated by it in 1903, 1904, and 1905. 

 In 1906 it was leased and operated by the Taku-Alaska Packing Co. 

 From 1907 to 1911 the plant was leased and operated by John L. 

 Carlson & Co. In 1911 the plant was purchased by Mr. Carlson and 

 the name changed to the Taku Canning & Cold Storage Co., under 

 which name it has been operated each year since. In 1918 it was 

 purchased by Libby, McNeill & Libby. 



In 1901 the Chatnam Straits Packhig Co. built a cannery on Sitkoh 

 P>ay, Chichagof Island. The same year this cannery became apartof 

 the Pacific Packing & Navigation Co. Upon the dissolution of the 

 latter, early in 1905, this plant was purchased by George T. Myers & 

 Co., which company has operated it to date without a break. 



In 1901 F. C. Barnes, of Portland, Oreg., built a cannery at Lake 

 Bay, on the east side of Prince of Wales Island, and made a pack that 

 season. This cannery was operated in 1902, but was closed in 1903. 

 It was reopened in 1904, and operated each season after that. In 

 1910 it was incorporated under the name of F. C. Barnes Co. 



In 1901 the Union Packing Co., organized in Tacoma. Wash., built 

 a cannery on Kell Bay, an arm of Ailleck Canal, on the southern side 



