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INVESTMENT IN SHORE WHALE FISHERY IN ALASKA IN 1918. 
Tiems. st seg Value. Items. ean Value. 
Vessels: Vessels—Continued. 
Steam and Pass. sss ss e650 < 8 | $420,000 Pile drivers... 2222282. 222ee% 1 $150 
Net tonnage <.. 52. <.s2.-- 1,049) jostere cr Value of plants: <2 22562 22S 326, 545 
Barre becdaadrseteoeersesre 1 30, 000 Casi capitals =s555sccad nome 32 Sata 314, 933 
BLLONNATO acct eace ee UT4G les Sees cae Wiares'paid e222 tcl is. eee 256, 983 
Launches under 5 tons......- 2 , 900 a 
WEG WHOGALS so cccs cestccr ts sfee 2 0) LNG ts ee ei eee oe | fs 2 Re 1, 350, 971 
BCOWSE a cine soa nxnscocee meer aa 2 400 
PERSONS ENGAGED IN THE SHORE WHALE FISHERY IN ALASKA IN 1918. 
Races. Number. 
RIVAER ete hte ai Sra ate Sinaia alae tS nS Soe ee nlad aid Guia ole See cceaccecwie ee cebosoece 246 
ee eee er ae etna artemis ae ER Ea aes Se SSe cinsise ine mnialels Sao aabniois aiming ateunep teams 36 
SUSE EG SERS oc ccd aes ang Stott Sas an oes oUS sesd sem POS 6 Or SEOs Sas cay Sc ROPE SeR SBE REES OBE 43 
PROTA a on sses Se ae ee ane Bae SA DORR A SAR DEMOS Eee eee ae es ees at ee taee. onde es aceed 325 
CLAM FISHERY. 
Clam canning in Alaska in 1918 was carried on by seven companies, 
four of which, the Alaska Clam Canning Co., Petersburg, Noyes 
Island Packing Co., Steamboat Bay, Sitka Packing Co., Sitka,and 
the Red Cross Packing Co., Juneau, were located in southeastern 
Alaska, while the other three, the Lighthouse Canning Co., Pioneer 
Packing Co., and the Pinnacle Rock Packing Co., were in central 
Alaska, at or near Cordova, where most of the clam pack was made. 
Clam canning in southeastern Alaska, except by the Red Cross 
Packing Co., was incidental to salmon canning. Im central Alaska 
the Pioneer Packing Co. and the Pinnacle Rock Packing Co. engaged 
exclusively in clam canning, but the Lighthouse Canning Co. entered 
the salmon-canning business. Itis srotinbls that similar action will 
be taken by the other companies, as they admit that the clam beds 
are approaching serious depletion, which in another year or so will 
have reached a point where profitable digging can not be carried on. 
The Alaska Sea Food Co.’s plant near Cape Whitshed was built 
primarily asa clam cannery. Canning began in 1917, but the plant 
was burned early in the season and was not rebuilt in time to resume 
operations that year. In 1918 it opened as a salmon cannery. 
This industry shows an investment of $247,757, which is a decrease 
of $47,230 from 1917. It gave employment to 182 persons, or 44 less 
than in 1917. <A total of 43,575 cases were packed as against 74,515 
cases in 1917. The value of clam products was $214,504, as com- 
pared with $274,036 in 1917, a decrease of $59,532. 
INVESTMENT IN THE CLAM-CANNING INDUSTRY IN ALASKA IN 1918. 
Items. Number.| Value. 
RUMIOLIOSOPERANOU: 22 to. 22 ie = foes oat ae rc nn ee A oad we hos me 3 $56, 200 
PERG R tie et on ee rete oni Se eee Eee eee ere een dieser o sce csp | sess seven 82,367 
Sepp ENTG T117 eSe RUS eee ee, ea ee, BONES 2S) SS eee eer Beer emer: | eer rr 92, 830 
Vessels: 
CORTE DUG aS Aenea apr testes (Sbchabis nonce: acer Saar e en Ee estes 1 6,000 
EGANO Ge teasico coe dain ca cece pene DERE SRE o rs oe ebb ct ocecuecnpaceccas Pe Eee ee red 
MemmasEHeN Tae sy CONS si 82.02. ceceet stomps eee eon (a ft tccdst eds enetneeser 15 7, 042 
ROUTE IMEISKHISG co lace ccc n te hice te eee emo ntnn abo noses oee Aenreeacneh 53 2,499 
PATENTS CONES x ca? s ac <'e Samana Henn we ees A ean mn eocnas aan awe obek 1 819 
