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CANNING 



CHANGES IN CANNERIES 



In April 1935 the Pacific American Fisheries, Inc., purchased the 

 properties of the Booth Sahnon Co. in Alaska, formerly operated by 

 the Northwestern Fisheries Co., which it had leased in 1933. Joint 

 operations of the Astoria & Puget Sound Canning Co. and the Pacific 

 American Fisheries, Inc., on Excursion Inlet were carried on at the 

 former's plant under the name of Consolidated Fisheries. The 

 salmon cannery that had been operated for 2 years by the Kelly 

 Packing Co. at Ketchikan was taken over and operated by a new 

 company, the Balcom-Payne Fisheries, Inc. The Lake Bay cannery 

 of the Columbia River Packers Association, which has been idle since 

 1930. was purchased bv Karl Thiele. of the Diamond K Packino; Co. 



A new organization, the W. R. Gilbert Co., Inc., purchased the old 

 cannery of the Alaska Sea Food Co. at Point Whitshed that had been 

 last operated in 1923, and rehabilitated and operated it during the 

 season, packing both salmon and clams. The salmon and clam 

 cannery of the Hemrich Packing Co. at Kukak Bay, which was last 

 operated in 1932 by the Pioneer Packing Co., was acquired and 

 operated by the new Surf Canneries, Inc. The Washington Fish & 

 Oyster Co., Inc., purchased the cannery of the Port Williams Packing 

 Co. at Port Williams, which it had operated on lease in 1934. The 

 Cook Inlet Packing Co. reopened its plant at Seldovia, which had 

 been idle for a year, and the Pacific American Fisheries, Inc., operated 

 its Port Moller plant, which had been used in 1934 by the Herendeen 

 Bay Consolidated Canneries. 



NEW CANNERIES 



In southeast Alaska, A. R. Brueger started canning salmon, as well 

 as continuing in the mild-curing industry and in the handling of 

 fresh and frozen salmon and halibut. The Hydaburg Fisheries, 

 Inc., at Hydaburg, was another new operator in this district; its 

 equipment was installed in a building that had been erected in 1927 

 for use as a warehouse by the Far North Fisheries, Inc., in connection 

 with its cannery operations on the floating plant Pioneer. Besides 

 reconditioning the building and installing machinery, the company 

 constructed a new fish house, cabins for workmen, and other accessory 

 buildings. A new cannery building was erected by Libby, McNeill & 

 Libby for their plant at Craig, and the equipment was transferred to it 

 before the opening of the season, the old building then serving as a 

 warehouse. 



A salmon and clam cannery was established by Scotty's Packing 

 Co. at Hartney Point in the building formerly used by S. E. Smith in 

 clam-canning operations. The Alaska Icepak Corporation at Cor- 

 dova, which was engaged in canning crabs only in 1934, extended its 

 operations to include salmon and clam, canning in the 1935 season. 

 The Glacier Sea Foods Co. erected a modern shore cannery at Cordova 

 to replace the floating plant which it had operated there, but the work 

 was not completed in time for operation during the season. The 

 Halibut Bay Packing Co. was formed early in 1935 to take over the 

 plant of the Hand Packing Co. of Bert Heglund, which had been 

 canning clams at Halibut Bay for 3 successive years. This plant 

 prepared a small amount of hand-packed salmon in 1932, but it was 



