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Arctk' Packing Co. in 1891. In 1893 it joined the Alaska Packers 

 Association and the same year was dismantled. 



In 1918 the Alitak Packing Co. built a cannery on Alitak Bay. 



TJyaJc Bay. — Uyak Bay is on the northwestern side about the 

 middle of Kodiak Island and is a considerable body of water with 

 ramifying arms. On the western shore, near the entrance and about 

 18 miles from Karluk, is Uyak Anchorage. The harbor is formed by 

 the main shore of the island and Bear and Harvester Islands, and is 

 frequently used as an anchorage by cannery ships and the steamers 

 from Karluk during bad weather. As there are no red salmon 

 streams in Uyak, fishing is carried on elsewhere. Most of it is at 

 Karluk Spit. 



In the spring of 1897 the Pacific Steam Whaling Co. and Hume 

 Bros. Sc Hume built canneries on the main shores at Uyak Anchorage. 

 In 1901 both plants became a part of the Pacific Packing & Naviga- 

 tion Co. and were operated by it. In 1905 the Uyak plants were 

 purchased by the Northwestern Fisheries Co., and the same year one 

 of the plants was destroyed by fire and wiis not rebuilt. The remain- 

 ing plant has been operated each year since. 



Pive miles southeast from Uyak .\nchorage is a narrow arm called 

 Larsen Bay. It is 4 miles long. Immediately within the entrance 

 on the northern shore is the site of the cannery of the Arctic Pack- 

 ing Co., which was built in 1S8S, and operated m that year and 1889 

 and 1890, since which date it has been closed. In 1893 it became a 

 part of the Alaska Packers Association and in 1896 it was dismantled. 



As the association had lost several ships while loading at Karluk, 

 it finally decided to move its plants from that place, and in 1911 a 

 cannery was built at the old site on Larsen Ba}^, and from that time 

 all cannery operations formerly carried on at Karluk have been per- 

 formed at tills plant. 



FganuJ: Bay. — This bay is next to the eastward of Uyak. For 

 several years a saltery was opf'rated here by Oliver Smith, who sold 

 it to the Alaska Packers Association in 1896. The same year the 

 latter built a cannery on the bay. It made a pack in 1896 and a 

 partial ()acl< in 1897. This cannery was abandoned in 1900. 



/ro'/?V/A\— Salting operations have been carried on at this old 

 Russian settlement for a number of years. 



In order to furnish work for the natives, the Alaska Commercial 

 Co. and Blodgett &. Blinn salted the catches made by them in 1906 

 and subsequent years until 1912, when the Kodiak Fisheries built a 

 cannery and has operated it each year since. 



The Woman's American Baptist Home ^lissionary Society had 

 carried on a home and school for native children on Woofl fsland, 

 close to Kodiak, for some years. In 1902 the society established a 

 salmon saltery here in order to furnish employment for the natives. 

 No data are recorded in the oflTicial report^s of further activities on 

 the part of this plant. 



ClIIGNIK BAY. 



Cliignik Bay is on the southern side of the Alaska Peninsula and 

 is the first important indentation after leaving Cook Inlet on the way 

 to the westwai'd. The bay is about 150 miles southwest of Karluk. 

 On the westward sid^- of the bay is a small deep bay known as Anchor- 

 age Bay. Several of the canneries are located here, and the trans- 



