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season's operations had begun. It was rebuilt in time to operate in 

 1917. 



Late in 1916 the Lindenberger Packing Co. sold its Roe Point 

 plant to the Northwestern Fisheries Co. and its Craig plant to the 

 Columbia Salmon Co. About the same time the Seattle Packing Co. 

 disposed of its floating cannery Amelia to the Northland Fish Co., 

 which operated it at Metlakahtla in 1917. The Sanitary Packing 

 Co. changed to the Ketchikan Packing Co., while the Sunny Point 

 Packing Co. took over all the interests of the Northland Paclang Co., 

 and in 1917 operated the cannery also located at Ketchikan. 



In 1917 the heavy demand throughout the world for foodstuffs 

 caused a considerable increase in the number of new canneries in 

 Alaska. In the southeast Alaska section, nine were buUt and 

 operated as follows: Alaska Herring & Sardine Co., Port Walter; 

 Alaska Pacific Herring Co., Big Port Walter; Baranof Packing Co., 

 Red Bluff Bay; R. L. Cole (Sc Co., Tokeen; Haines Packing Co., 

 Letinkof Cove; Lane & Williams, Moira Sound; Northland Fish Co. 

 (floating plant Amelia), Metlakahtla; Sitka Packing Co., Sitka; 

 and Robert Scott, a floating caimery at Craig. The two first named 

 were built in 1910 but were not then engaged in canning salmon. 



On September 13, 1917, the cannery of the Sunny Pomt Packing 

 Co., at Sunny Point, was totally destroyed by fire, whUe on October 2 

 the same fate befell the cannery of the Astoria & Pu^et Sound 

 Canning Co. at Excursion Inlet. Wilson Fisheries Co., of Chicago, 

 took over the J. L. Smiley &. Co. plant at Ketchikan. 



In 1918 the following new canneries were put into operation: 

 Alaska Clam Canning Co., Petersburg; Alaska Packing & Navigation 

 Co., Pavlof Harbor; Columbia Salmon Co., Tenakee Inlet; Hidden 

 Inlet Canning Co., Hood Bay; Hunter it Dickinson, Washington 

 Bay; T. E. P. Keegan, Douglas; J. H. Long Packing Co. and North- 

 ern Packing Co., Juneau; Noyes Island Packing Co., Noyes Island; 

 Pybus Bay Fish & Packhig Co., Pybus Bay; Pvramid Packing Co. 

 and Sitka Packing Co., Sitka; Southern Ahiska (lanning Co., Quadra; 

 Todd Packing Co., Peril Strait; and H. Van Vlack & Co., Petersburg. 



The name of the Sanborn-Cram Co. was changed to Burnett Inlet 

 Packing Co. The Deep Sea Salmon Co. established a new plant at 

 Port Althorp and used part of the equipment of its former Knik Arm 

 cannery in equipping it. G. W. Hume Co. purchased the Doyhof 

 Packing Co. cannery at Scow Bay. The Marathon Fishing and Pack- 

 ing Co. operated tne barge Amelia at Petersburg. The Southern 

 Alaska Canning Co. took over the Rose Inlet plant of the Wiese 

 Paclang Co. 



The follo^ving new plants were constructed and operated in 1919: 

 Alaska Salmon & Herring Co., Tyee; Alaska Sanitary Packing Co., 

 an additional plant at Cape Fanshaw; Beauclaire Packing Co., Port 

 Beauclaire; Cape Fanshaw Fishing & Packing Co., Cape Fanshaw; 

 J. L. Carlson & Co., Auk Harbor; Douglas Island Packing Co., 

 Douglas; Hood Bay Packing Co., Hood Bay; Olympic Fisheries Co., 

 floatmg barge at Ivetchikan, etc.; Petersburg Packing Corporation, 

 Washington Bay. 



The Southern Ahaska Canning Co. took over the Alaska Pacific 

 Herring Co., while the Alaska Clam Canning Co. changed its name to 

 the Mf)'intain Point Packing Co. The American Packing Co. took 

 over the J. ii. Long Packing Co. 



