IMCIFIC SALMON FISHERIES 451 



important apparatus in use in the river. In Prince William Sound 

 traps and purse seines catch most of the salmon. 



In 1889 a company known as the Central Alaska Co. built a can- 

 nery on Wingham, or Little Kayak Island, about 15 miles west from 

 Capo Suckling. It made a pack that year, and the following spring 

 was moved to Thin Point, on the southern side of the Alaska Penin- 

 sula. 



The Peninsula Trading & Fishing Co. built a cannery on the same 

 island in 1889. In 1891 it was moved to one of the sloughs of the 

 Copper River delta, known as Coquenhena, and operated in 1891. It 

 was closed in 1892 and 1893. The Pacific Steam Whaling Co. oper- 

 ated it until 1897, when it was abandoned. 



In 1916 the Hoonah Packing Co. built and operated a cannery on 

 Bering River. 



Louis Sloss & Co., of San Francisco, built a cannery under the title 

 of Pacific Packing Co. in 1889 at the extreme eastern end of the 

 sound, close by the present site of Cordova, and called it Odiak. The 

 cannery w^as closed in 1892. In 1893 it joined the Alaska Packers 

 Association and was operated each season until 1905. In 1906 the 

 buildings and site were sold to the Copper River & Northwestern 

 Railroad Co., w^'hich was preparing to build a railroad from Odiak to 

 the headwaters of the Copper River. 



In 1889 the Pacific Steam ^^Tialing Co. built a cannery close by 

 the Odiak plant, but in the spring of 1895 it was moved to the spot 

 now known as Orca, about 3 miles north of Cordova. It was closed 

 in 1892, and has been operated ever since except in 1919 and 1920. 

 In 1901 it was taken into the Pacific Packing & Navigation Co. com- 

 bination. When the latter's assets were sold in 1904, this cannery 

 was not included in the sale, as at the time the plant was under lease 

 to Capt. Omar J. Humphrey. In 1905 it was sold to the Northwestern 

 Fisheries Co., which had purchased most of the Alaska plants of the 

 defunct company, and they have operated it nearly every season since. 



In 1915 the Copper River Packing Co. built a cannery on the Cop- 

 per River at Mile 55, and made a pack the same year. The cannery 

 uses no run boats, but has an arrangement with the Copper River & 

 Northwestern Railroad Co. to haul the fish from the fishing stations 

 to the cannery, and bring the finished product to Cordova for ship- 

 ment by steamer. In 1918 the name was changed to the Abercrom- 

 bie Packing Co. The plant was abandoned in 1920. 



The Canoe Pass Packing Co., which had built a cannery at Canoe 

 Pass, southeast Alaska, in 1912, and had not operated it subse- 

 quently, in 1915 moved the machinery to Cordova and installed it in 

 a rented building and made a pack. It built its own cannery at 

 Shepard Point, near Cordova, in 1917. 



In 1916 the Carlisle Packing Co. built a cannery at Cordova, while 

 the Clark-Graham Co. built one at Eyak, a few miles away. 



In 1917 the following new canneries were operated: Valdez Pack- 

 ing Co., Valdez; Copper River Packing Co., Port Nellie Juan; Light- 

 house Canning Co. and Aloore Packing Co., Cordova; and San Juan 

 Fishing & Packing Co., Seward. The latter plant was also equipped 

 for freezing salmon and other fishes. The Lighthouse Canning Co. 

 w^as canning clams in 1916, the first year of its operation. The Alaska 

 Sea Food Co. took over the Turner cannery, which had been built in 

 1916 and used in packing clams. The plant was destroyed by fire on 



