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Persons engaged in the Alaska salmon-canning industry in 1923 



Occupation and race 



Soutbeast 

 Alaska 



Central 

 Alaska 



Western 

 Alaska 



Total 



Fishermen: 



Whites.... 



Natives 



Miscellaneous '. 



1,023 



1,193 



28 



910 

 367 



2.348 

 73 



4,281 

 1,633 



28 



Total. 



Shoresmen: 



Whites 



Natives 



Chinese 



Japanese 



Filipinos 



Mexicans 



Negroes 



Miscellaneous '. 



Total 



2,244 



1,819 



1,457 



520 



666 



740 



159 



30 



13 



5,404 



2.394 



Transporters: 



M^hites 



Natives 



Miscellaneous '. 



Total 



536 

 30 

 31 



250 



34 



2 



597 



Total: 



Whites. 



Natives 



Chinese 



Japanese 



Filipinos 



Mexicans 



Negroes 



Miscellaneous >. 



Grand total.. 



3,378 



2,680 



520 



666 



740 



159 



30 i 



72 ! 



1,941 



1,009 



274 



258 



311 



124 



24 



16 



8,245 



3,957 



4,684 



12,482 



131 



.... 



917 

 64 

 34 



1,015 



4,289 

 310 

 517 

 132 

 380 



1,466 

 106 

 37 



7,237 



9, 608 

 3,999 

 1.311 

 1,056 

 1,431 

 1,749 

 160 

 125 



19, 439 



1 Koreans, Porto Ricans, Kanakas, etc. 



Output and value of canned salmon in Alaska in 1923 ' 



• Cases containing J/^-pound cans have been reduced one-half in number, and thus, for the purpose of 

 affording a fair comparison, all arc put upon the basis of forty-eight l-pound cans per case. 



