PACIFIC SALMON FISHERIES. 41 
and the considerable resident population which could be drawn upon 
for labor have been big factors in its development. 
The Russians did considerable salting of salmon. Petroff, in his 
report in the Tenth Census on the ‘‘ Population, industries,-and re- 
sources of Alaska,” writes as follows of the Redoubt near Sitka: 
“The once famous Redoubt or deep-lake salmon fishery on Baranof 
Island, which at one time during the Russian rule supplied this 
whole region, and whence 2,000 barrels of salmon were shipped in 
1868, now lies idle.”’ 
One of the earliest operators in southeast Alaska was a Greek, or 
Slav, named Baronovich, who married the daughter of Skowl, one 
of the old-time chiefs of the Kasaans, and received from him the 
fishery on Karta Bay, a part of Kasaan Bay, and one of the best red 
salmon streams south of Wrangell Narrows. Baronovich built a 
saltery here, kept a store and traded with the Indians. He died some 
years ago, and for some time after his death his sons operated it. 
It finally collapsed a couple of years ago. 
For a number of years a saltery was operated at Klawak, on the 
west coast of Prince of Wales Island. In 1878 the North Pacific 
Trading & Packing Co. purchased the saltery and erected the first 
cannery in Alaska here. A pack was made the same year, and the 
plant has operated every year since. In 1899 the cannery burned 
down, but it was immediately rebuilt on the opposite side of the bay. 
For some years this plant was operated almost exclusively with 
native labor, and at the present time the majority so employed are 
natives. 
The same year that the above cannery was established the Cutting 
Packing Co. built a cannery at old Sitka, and operated it in 1878 and 
1879, after which time it was closed down. In 1882 the machinery 
was taken by another company to Cook Inlet. 
In 1882 M. J. Kinney, of Astoria, under the name of the Chilkat 
Packing Co., built a cannery on the eastern shore of the inlet and made 
a pack the same year. The cannery changed hands several times and 
finally was burned in 1892, and not rebuilt. The cannery packed 
every year from 1883 to 1891, both inclusive, except in 1888, when 
it was closed. 
In 1883 the Northwest Trading Co., built a cannery on Pyramid 
Harbor, a little bay on the western side of Chilkat Inlet. It was 
operated by this company in 1883 and 1884, was idle in 1885, and in 
1888 was sold to D. L. Beck & Sons, of San Francisco, and operated 
by that firm. In the spring of 1889 it was burned, but was rebuilt at 
once and a pack made that year. In 1893 it joined the Alaska 
Packers Association, which operated it, except in 1905, until the end 
of the season of 1908, when it was finally abandoned. 
On the north shore of Boca de Quadra, about 8 miles from the 
entrance, a cannery was built in 1883 by M. J. Kinney, of Astoria, and 
