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Products of the salmon industry of Alaska. 



The names of the salmon-canning firms in Alaska and the location of 

 the canneries are shown for four years in the following list, the cross- 

 marks indicating the years in which the canneries were operated: 



List of Alaskan salmon canneries operated in 1SS9, 1890, 1S91, and 1892. 



Name of cannery. 



Location. 



1890. 



1891. 



1892. 



Astoria Packing Company 



Alaska Packing Company 



Arctic Packing Company 



Do 



Do 



Do 



Aleutian Island Fishing and Mining Company 



Alaska Salmon Packing' and Fur Company 



Alaska Improvement Company 



Aberdeen I*ackiug Company 



Boston Fish and I'rading Company 



Bchring Sea Packing Company 



Bristol Bav Canning Company 



Barauotr Packing Company 



Central Alaska Company 



Chilkat Packing Company 



Chilkat Canning Company 



Chignig Bay Packing Company 



G.W.Hume '. 



Humo Packing Company 



Karluk Packing CV.mpany 



Kadiak Packing Company 



Do 



Metlakahtla Mission 



North Pacific Trading and Packing Company . . 



NoTtheru Packing Company 



Nushagak Canning Company 



Pacific Packing Company 



Pacific Steam Whaling Company 



Peninsular Trading and Fishing Company 



Pyramid Harbor Packing Company 



Koyp.l Packiiiii Company 



Russian- American Packing Company 



Thin I'oint Packing Company 



Kuiu Island 



Nushagak River. 



Uyak 



Bristol Bay 



Alitak 



Cook Inlet 



Karluk 



Loring 



Kadiak 



Wrangel 



Yes Bay 



Ugashik 



Bristol Bay 



Baranof Island . . 



Thin Point 



Chilkat Kiver 



do 



Chignig Bay 



Cook Inlet 



Karluk 



do 



do 



Alitak 



(Clarence Strait .. 



Klawak 



Cook Inlet 



Bristol Bay 



Cop])er Kiver 



do 



do 



Pyramid Harbor. 



Afognak 



do 



Thin Point 



Total . 



Mr. A. B. Alexander, fishery expert on the United States Fish Com- 

 mission steamer Albatross, makes the folio Aving remarks on the business 

 of salting salmon in Alaska: 



The demand for salt salmon is yearly increasing. A few years ago there was but 

 little call for it, probably owing to the fact that little effort was made on the part 

 of those engaged in the business to introduce it in the East. Seeing the absolute 

 necessity of taking steps to place their products on the eastern market in order to 

 increase the demand and establish a trade for salt-cured salmon, efforts have been 

 pushed in that direction, and the encouragement met with has induced many who 

 had not the means or desire to enter into the expensive business of canning salmon 

 to establish salmon salteries in various parts of Alaska. 



The amount of capital required to start on a small scale in this business is not 



