PACIFIC SALMON FISHERIES. 23 
In 1893 A. E. Wadhams, who had operated on the Columbia River 
for some years, established a sockeye plant at Pomt Roberts. 
In 1894 both canneries were sold to their present owner, the Alaska 
Packers Association, an organization formed not long before this by 
a combination of a number of Alaska plants. 
In 1895 three new canneries were built at Anacortes—one by Philip 
S. Cook (later owned by the Porter Fish Co. and now by the Anacortes 
Fisheries Co.), one by the Anacortes Packing Co. (now owned by the 
Alaska Packers Association), and the other by the Fidalgo Island 
Canning Co. 
In 1896 J. R. Young and B. L. Williams built a small cannery at 
Blaine. They failed in 1900 through the failure of their trap fishing 
and J. W. & V. Cook Packing Co., of Portland, bought their plant 
and put J. L. Smiley in charge of it. In 1909 Mr. Smiley purchased 
this plant from the company and has since operated it. 
As Ainsworth & Dunn found that they were receiving more salmon 
than they could dispose of in a fresh condition (they were first, in 
1889, to ship fresh salmon from here to eastern points), the firm 
built a cannery on the Seattle water front, at what is now Pier 8, 
about 1895 or 1896, and about 1897 built another at Blaine. 
About 1898 A. E. Devlin came up from the Columbia River and 
established a plant at Friday Harbor, which is now operated by the 
Friday Harbor Packing Co. 
In 1901 Ainsworth & Dunn sold all its fresh fish and canned salmon 
holdings to the newly organized Pacific Packing & Navigation Co. 
When the latter company failed and its assets were sold in 1904, the 
former firm bought back its Blaine plant and has operated it ever 
since. - Mr. Ainsworth, the senior member of the firm, died in 1914, 
but the business is still operated under the name of Ainsworth & 
Dunn. 
The Pacific American Fisheries Co. was incorporated in 1899. The 
company purchased at the time of its organization the cannery and 
trap properties of the Island Packing Co., San Juan Island, and the 
cannery of the Franco-American North Pacific Packing Co.; at Fair- 
haven. The last-named cannery had been built the previous year. 
By 1900 a number of canneries had been erected on the shores of 
Puget Sound, most of which were then in active operation. In 1901 
the Pacific Packing & Navigation Co. was organized under the laws 
of the State of New Jersey, for the purpose of acquiring a number of 
salmon canneries on the coast. It was supposed to be backed by 
unlimited eastern capital, and its authorized capitalization was as 
follows: Common stock, $12,500,000; 7 per cent accumulative pre- 
ferred stock, $12,500,000, and 6 per cent debentures, $7,000,000. It 
actually issued $6,037,000 common stock, $6,963,000 preferred stock, 
