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course. It has two known tributaries — King Salmon River, which 

 enters througli the left bank about 17 miles from the bar at the mouth, 

 and Dog Salmon Eiver, which enters through the left bank about 37 

 miles from the bar. From Smoky Point to the capes at the mouth 

 the river widens very greatly, being about 20 miles across at the 

 mouth. Shoals are numerous, but there is a channel with about 9 

 feet at low water. Gill nets exclusively are used here. 



This river is essentially a red salmon stream, but the other species 

 are also taken in small numbers^ although the humpback is very 

 scarce. This river is noted for the great falling off in the run of red 

 salmon of recent years, 769,002 red salmon being taken in 1901, 

 1,640,973 in 1902, 1,703,536 in 1903, 564,492 in 1904, 432,779 in 1905, 

 and 152,140 in 1906. About 1916 the run showed signs of improve- 

 ment and during 1917 and 1918 was excellent, but the run of 1919 

 was small, the same as elsewhere in Bristol Bay. 



C. A. Johnson was the first man to operate commercially on this 

 river, having erected a saltery on the left bank, about 23 miles above 

 Smoky Point, in 1889, and operated it continuously from 1889 to 

 1898, both inclusive. This saltery was merged in the cannery of the 

 Bering Sea Packing Co. In 1894 Mr. Johnson established and oper- 

 ated another saltery on the right bank of the river, about 12 miles 

 from the bar, which he sold in 1899 to the Alaska Packers Association, 

 who absorbed it in their cannery plant. 



The Bering Sea Packing Co., a branch of the Alaska Improvement 

 Association, in 1890 built the first cannery on the river, this being 

 located on the left bank near the first Johnson saltery. A small pack 

 was first made in 1891. The plant was closed in 1892 and 1893, 

 and as the location had proven far from suitable, it was, in 1894, 

 moved to a point on the left bank, about 15 miles above Smoky 

 Point, where it was operated until 1896. The next year it was sold 

 to the Alaska Packers Association. The machinery and equipment 

 were utilized in the latter company's cannery, and the old location 

 abandoned. 



In 1893 Charles Nelson established a saltery on the left bank of 

 the Ugashik, immediately above the last site of the Bering Sea Pack- 

 ing Co. It was operated in 1893 and 1894, and then sold to the 

 Alaska Packers Association, who closed it down. . 



In 1893 the Alaska Packers Association also built a saltery on the 

 left bank of the river about a mile below the last site of the Bering 

 Sea Packing Co. It was operated each year until 1895, when it was 

 merged into the association's cannery. 



In 1895 the Alaska Packers Association built a cannery, known as 

 the Ugashik Fishing Station, on the right bank of the river imme- 

 diately above the pilot station, which is about 12 miles from the bar. 

 It made the first pack in 1896 and packed every year until 1907, 

 when it was closed. In 1906 its outfit was destroyed in the San 

 Francisco fire, and it was decided to operate it as a saltery, but the 

 burning down of the Coffee Creek cannery of the association on the 

 Kvichak changed the plans, and a part of the saved outfit of the latter 

 was sent to the Ugashik and tlie plant operated as a cannery. 



The Bristol Packing Co. built a cannery on the left bank of the 

 river about 25 miles from Smoky Point in 1900. A pack was made 

 the same year and the plant operated continuously until 1906, when 

 it was shut down, and a small salting crew operated a portion of the 



