26 CliUlSE OF TUE STEAMEK COK\Vil<. 



OKHOTSK SEA. 



John Malloy : 



1884. Sclioouer Gcncoe, 42,000 fish. 

 McCoUam Fisbiii}; and Tiadinjj Comi)aiiy : 

 1884. Schooner Jlcra, 135,00(1 fish. 

 1884. Schooner Tropic Bird, 82,000 fl.sh. 

 Lynde & Hongh: 



1884. Schooner Arago, 80,000 fi.sh. 

 1884. Schooner Jane A. Falltnheuj, 136,000 fish. 

 1884. Schooner Fremont, 118,000 fish. 

 N. Becliard: 



1884. Schooner San Luis, 90,00(1 fish. 

 1884. Schooner Constitution, 104,0(1(1 tisli. 

 1884. Schooner Francis Alice, 40,000 fish. 

 Anderson <& Co.: 



18S4. Schooner Win. E. Meyer, 90,000 fish. 

 The salmon industry is becoming quite as important in Alaska as on the Oregon and Cali- 

 fornia coasts. 



The king salmon taken in northern Alaska are considered as good as, if not finer than the 

 world-renowned Columbia River fish. They are very large, the flesh has a remarkably rich salmon 

 color, and on opening the cans the licpior on the fish is found to be covered with oil, one of the 

 best tests of excellent quality. Generally the salmon of Alaska are very fine, and there seems to 

 bo no limit to the supply. That the business is profitable the increased quantity of fish taken each 

 year by the parties engaged in the busines.s, as shown by the following statistics, bears sufficient 

 evidence. (A barrel contains 200 pounds of fish; a ca.se contains four dozen one-pound cans.) 

 Neville & Co., cannery Beaton Island. — 1883, 378 barrels; 1884, 1,500 barrels. 

 C. C. Rahlfs.— 18S3, 1,200 barrels; 1884, 2,300 barrels. 

 Arctic Packing Company, Xushegak, Bristol Bay. — 1884, 2,200 barrels. 

 Sisson, Crocker & Co., Klawack, Prince of Wales Island. — 1884, fi,000 cases. 

 Cutter Packing Company, Kusilofi" River, Cook's Inlet.— 1882, 6,500 cases; 1883, 1,500 cases 

 1884, 21,000 cases. 



Alaska Commercial Company.— 1880, 100 barrels; 1881, 788 barrels; 1882, 1,088 barrels; 1883, 

 1,459 barrels. 



This firm then consolidated witli the — 



Karliuk Packing Company, Karluck, Kodiak Island. — 1882, 4,102 cases, 1,493 barrels; 1883. 

 13,479 cases, 2,672 barrels ; 1884, 2(»,170 cases, 2,081 barrels. 



The gentlemen comprising these firms all state that the business is profitable, and that tiiey 

 intend to (;ontinue. An aggregate of these amounts shows that there has been taken, in 1884, 8,08) 

 barrels and 47,170 cases of salmon in the waters of Alaska. A business that has reached these 

 proportions I think may well be called an industry. 



I have the honor to be, sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant, 



M. A. Healy, 

 Captain U. 8. Revenue Marine. 

 The Secretary of tue Treast^ry, 



Washinyton, J). C. 



