44 ALASKA FISHERIES AND FUR INDUSTRIES IN 1916, 
CoMPANIES CANNING SALMON IN ALASKA, NUMBER AND LOCATION oF CANNERIES 
OPERATED, AND NuMBER OF Pounp Nets OwNeED By Haca—Continued. 
Can- - Pound 
Names. maries: Location. nich 
Western Alaska—Continued. 
IBRIStOL Bay sbaCking (CO. ovata am clemnid- tos «niece nemesis 2} Kevichak Bay oa esseneccea soe eceeeeeee 
Columbia River Packers’ Association..............- 1) Nushagak Bay. .-<---p -t-63-] ae eee 
Midnight Sun Packing Co...........-..-...-----..- 1 | Kotzebue Sound............... 3 
Naknek Packing Cols. 2 2p camciemnie pos see a sleet 1] Naknek River......-.-.-.-... |... 22. 
Welsonmuagoon Packing Conc. pn ctcia nce teeee eae = 1 || Nelson Wagoon.* 7522.) sec ee 6 
Kvichak River, (2) -s<cnne eae 
4 |; Nushagak Bay...-...-.-..--.-|.-...-.. 
Ugaguk, River..0s.222 2232202 
Northwestern Fistreries Co.........--.---.---------- a) Nushagal ooo oo one = oer a 
Pacific American Fisheries.............----2-----+-- 2 joere rollers =e sorreseSt Weleaaeme 5 
Red Salmon Canning Co.........-.---2-.-----2+---- 2 { Uaushik River piemnear 50°07: 
STATISTICS. 
The number of canneries in operation in Alaska in 1916 was 100 
as compared with 85in 1915. The total investment was $34,100,853, 
an increase of $2,818,528 over 1915. The increase in investment in 
southeast Alaska was $962,118; in central Alaska, $551,650; and in 
western Alaska, $1,304,760. 
In 1916 the canning industry gave employment to 19,240 persons, 
an increase of 1,499 over 1915, when 17,741 were employed. The 
following increases are noted: Whites, 1,140; Chinese, 181; Japanese, 
225; and miscellaneous, 197. The number of natives employed was 
244 less than in 1915, the falling off occurring in southeast and western 
Alaska; but in the central district there was a gain of about 50. 
Considering Alaska as a whole, it is noteworthy that more than 4,000 
natives were employed in the salmon-canning industry. 
The pack of canned salmon in 1916 was 4,900,627 cases, valued at 
$23,269,429, which is an increase of 400,334 over the 4,500,293 cases 
packed in 1915 and an increase of $4,616,414 over the $18,653,015 
value of the 1915 pack. The pack of 1916 is the greatest both as to 
quantity and value in the history of Alaska, the previous record as 
to quantity being that of 1915, while the greatest value previously 
recorded was that of 1914, when the pack was worth $18,920,589, or 
$4,348,840 less than that of 1916. A comparison of the pack with 
that of 1915 is as follows: Southeast Alaska declined from 2,549,212 
to 2,214,280, a decrease of 334,932 cases; central Alaska advanced 
from 632,848 to 1,075,913 cases, an increase of 443,065; and western 
Alaska also advanced from 1,318,233 to 1,610,434 cases, an increase of 
292,201 cases over the pack of 1915. Continuing the comparison, it 
is observed that the pack of cohos more than doubled, increasing 
from 124,268 to 261,909 cases, a gain of 137,641 cases; chums in- 
creased from 479,946 to 724,115 cases, a gain of 244,169 cases; and 
reds increased from 1,932,312 to 2,110,937 cases, an advance of 178,625 
