ALASKA FISHERY AND FUR-SEAL INDUSTRIES, 1923 91 



The Sitka Packing Co. resumed operation of its cannery at Sitka, 

 taking it over from A. P. Wolf & Co. The Big Harbor Packing 

 Co., at Craig, became insolvent and did not continue in business after 

 1922. The Ness Fish Co., at Petersburg, retired from the salmon- 

 canning industry to engage in the shrimp business. 



In central Alaska the Copper River Canning Co. took over the 

 floating cannery of the Star Canning Co. and operated it on the 

 Copper River delta. Operations of the Polar Fisheries Co., at 

 Snug Harbor, and G. P. Halferty, a clam packer, were carried on 

 at the plant of the former imder the name of Pioneer Canneries 

 (Inc.). The Pioneer Sea Foods Co., at Cordova, again changed its 

 name to Pioneer Packing Co. The Bainbridge Fisheries Co. was 

 reorganized and moved its plant from Evans Island to Flemming 

 Island, approximately 10 miles north of the first location. 



In western Alaska the Phoenix Packing Co., at Herendeen Bay, 

 sold its cannery to the Pacific American Fisheries. The Bristol Bay 

 Packing Co.'s plant on Naknek River was purchased by the Alaska 

 Salmon Co., but no change in the name of the operating company 

 was made. 



NEW CANNERIES 



Nine new sabnon canneries opened in 1923. Four of these were 

 owned and located in southeast Alaska, as follows: Straits Packing- 

 Co., at Skowl Arm ; Sunrise Packing Co., at Ketchikan ; New Eng- 

 land Fish Co., at Ketchikan; and Chas. W. Demmert, floating can- 

 nery on the west coast of Prince of Wales Island. Four plants were 

 opened in central Alaska by the following named firms: Alaska 

 Year-Round Canneries Co. (Inc.), operating jointly with the Sel- 

 dovia Packing Co., at Seldovia; Kodiak Island Fishing & Packing 

 Co.. at Uganik Bay; Pajoman & Trout, on Raspberry Island; and 

 Northern Light Packing Co., at Mountain Slough. The Alaska Sal- 

 mon Co. opened a new cannery in western Alaska at the plant 

 formerly operated as a saltery. 



In addition, the International Packing Co. operated its floating- 

 cannery, Santa FlaA)ia, for the first time in southeast Alaska at 

 Waterfall on the west coast of Prince of Wales Island and at Con- 

 troller Bay in central Alaska. 



CANNEBIES NOT OPEEATED 



Several canneries were not operated in 1923, while others were 

 converted to other uses, and yet others were dismantled and aban- 

 doned. In the latter category are the plants of the Todd Packing 

 Co., at Todd, the machinery of which was purchased by the Sunrise 

 Packing Co. and transferred to its new cannery at Ketchikan, and 

 the Cape Fanshaw Fish & Packing Co. The plant of the Alaska 

 Union Fisheries (Inc.), at Port Conclusion, was dismantled of can- 

 ning machines and remained closed during the season. The ma- 

 chinery was sold to the New England Fish Co., at Ketchikan, who 

 used it in the equipment of a new cannery adjacent to its cold-storage 

 plant. 



diaries Homeier and W. F. O'Connor, small cannery operators on 

 the Yukon River in 1922. did not engage in salmon canning in 1923 

 and are no longer listed as salmon canners. The Mount Baker Pack- 



