52 ALASKA FISHERIES AND FUR INDUSTRIES IN 1917. 



Whales Taken in Shore Operations in 1917. 



Investment in Shore Whale Fishery in Alaska in 1917. 



Persons Engaged in the Shore AVhale Fishery in Alaska in 1917. 



Whites 



Natives 



Japanese... 



Total 



Products of Alaska Shore Whaling Operations in 1917. 



CLAM FISHERY. 



The clam industry of Alaska is centered at Cordova, where two 

 canneries were operated in 1917, one each by ih^Q Pioneer Packing 

 Co. and the Lighthouse Canning Co., wliich latter concern was 

 formerly known as the Lighthouse Canning & Packing Co. Tliis was 

 the first company to undertake clam canning at Cordova, operations 

 having been started in improvised quarters in 1916. Before the 

 digging season opened in 1917 a new building 50 by 100 feet was 

 erected, to which the machinery was transferred. 



Early in 1917 the Alaska Sea Food Co. acquired the one-line cannery 

 built in 1916 near Point Wliitshed, about 9 miles east of Cordova, 

 and began canning operations in March. On April 4, after about 400 

 cases had been packed, the cannery w\as destroyed by fire. Recon- 

 struction began immediately, and a modern plant was soon erected 



