ALASKA FISHERY AXD FUR-SEAL IXDUSTRIES, 1920. 



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H. R. Thompson Ketchikan. 



Karl Hansen Port Alexander. 



Carlisle Packing Co Yukon River. 



The total investment in the mild-cure salmon industry was 

 $213,632. EmjDloyment was criven to 357 persons. The mild-cure 

 products were 2,295 tierces of king salmon, valued at $364,219, of 

 which 2,120 tierces were prepared in southeastern Alaska, 26 in 

 central, and 149 in the western district. 



lN\'ESTMENT, PERSONS ENGAGED, AND PUODI'CTS OF ALASKA SaLJ[ON MiLD-CukING 



iNDrSTBY IN 1920. 



■ Southeast Alaska only. 



SALMON PICKLING. 



The pickling of salmon as a branch of the salmon industry is 

 rapidly losing its importance. Since 1918 there lias been a shrink- 

 age in investment of $1,(J64,83G, or 78 per cent, and in production 

 from 56,890 barrels of salmon to 4,822 barrels, or 91.6 per cent. As 

 compared witli the situation in 1919, the investment fell off approxi- 

 mately 50 per c€nt, or from $590,422 to $298,681, and production 41 

 per cent, from 8,110 barrels valued at $195,447 to 4,822 barrels valued 

 at $104,873. From an industry employing 815 men in 1918 and 267 in 

 1919, it has shrunk until only 157 were employed in 1920, all but 2 

 of whom were credited to western Alaska. The most noticeable 

 changes occurred in central Alaska. In 1919 that district showed 

 approximately 40 per cent of the ciipital invested in this industry, 

 whereas in 1920 no salteries were operated and no investment re- 

 ported. Of the two companies listed in that district a year ago, the 



