PACIFIC SALMON FISHERIES. 45 
In 1897 Banter & West were operating a saltery at Sukkwan, on 
Sukkwan Island. In the same year Miller & Co. started another 
saltery on Kassook Inlet, on Sukkwan Island, while Thomas Mc- 
Cauley was operating a saltery on Whale Passage. 
In 1899 the Icy Straits Packing Co., consisting of stockholders of 
the Quadra Paeking Co., built a cannery and sawmill at a point on 
the southeastern shore of Wrangell Narrows, about a mile south of the 
northern entrance to same, and named the town site Petersburg. The 
cannery was ready and operated in 1900. In 1901 it became a part 
of the Pacific Packing & Navigation Co. It was closed in 1903, 1904, 
and 1905. In 1905 it was purchased at the sale of the company’s 
properties by the Northwestern Fisheries Co. In 1906 the Pacific 
Coast & Norway Packing Co., which had been operating a cannery 
at Tonka, on Wrangell Narrows, purchased this plant and transferred 
its activities to the latter. In 1915 the plant was leased to the 
Petersburg Packing Co., composed of stockholders of the old company. 
In 1900 the Western Fisheries Co., of Portland, built a cannery at 
the head of Dundas Bay, and made a pack the same year. In 1901 
it became a part of the Pacific Packing & Navigation Co. It was 
closed in 1904. At the assignee’s sale of the company’s properties in 
1905 this plant was purchased by the Northwestern Fisheries Co. and 
operated in 1905 and each subsequent year. 
In 1900 the Fidalgo Island Packing Co. built a cannery on the 
southern side of Ketchikan Creek. A pack was made the same year. 
The plant was closed in 1903, only a little salting being done that year, 
but was opened in 1904. It was closed again in 1905, but opened in 
1906. Since then it has been operated each season to date, except in 
1909. 
In 1900 the Pacific Coast & Norway Packing Co. operated a floating 
saltery while. prospecting for a cannery location. In 1901 the com- 
pany built a cannery at Tonka, about midway of Wrangell Narrows, 
on the western side, and made a pack in that and subsequent years 
until 1906. In that year the company purchased the Petersburg 
cannery and thenceforth operated from there. The Tonka plant 
was dismantled a few years later. 
In 1900 the Royer-Warnock Packing Co., of San Francisco, built 
a small cannery on Beecher Pass, which connects Duncan Canal with 
Wrangell Narrows, using the old Buck saltery for the cannery proper. 
It operated only the one season. It was a hand-pack plant. 
The Taku Fishing Co. in 1900 built a cannery on the southern side 
of the entrance to Port Snettisham, and made a pack in that year. In 
1901 it became a part of the Pacific Packing & Navigation Co. The 
plant was closed in 1902 and not opened again. 
