46 PACIFIC SALMON FISHERIES. 
In 1900 the Taku Packing Co., organized in Astoria, Oreg., built a 
cannery on the western shore of Taku Inlet, and made a pack the 
same year. In 1901 it became a part of the Pacific Packing & 
Navigation Co. It was closed in 1904 and not reopened again. 
In 1905 it became the property of the Northwestern Fisheries Co. 
In 1900 the Chilkoot Packing Co., organized at Aberdeen, Wash., 
built a cannery at the head of Chilkoot Inlet, and operated the same 
year. In 1901 it became a part of the Pacific Packing & Navigation 
Co. It was closed in 1904 and not reopened again. 
In 1900 the Great Northern Fish Co. operated a floating saltery. 
Its principal business was salting dog salmon for the Japanese 
trade, and it operated only one season. J. E. Rice, of Whatcom, 
Wash., in the same year packed dog salmon on Karta Bay for the 
same trade. 
The Pacific Packing & Navigation Co. (an account of whose incep- 
tion, operation, and failure appears under Puget Sound) was organ- 
ized in 1901 and acquired the following canneries in Alaska: Can- 
neries of Pacific Steam Whaling Co. at Nushagak, Bristol Bay; Chig- 
nik, Alaska Peninsula; Uyak, Kodiak Island; Kenai, Cook Inlet; 
_ Orea, Prince William Sound; Hunter Bay, southeast Alaska. Also 
the Hume Bros. & Hume canneries at Chignik and Uyak; the Thlinkete 
Packing Co. with canneries at Gerard Point and Santa Anna; the 
Western Fisheries Co. cannery at Dundas Bay, Icy Straits; Chilkoot 
Packing Co. cannery at Chilkoot Inlet; the Taku Packing Co. can- 
nery at Taku Inlet; the Taku Fishing Co. cannery at Port Snet- 
tisham; the Boston Fishing & Trading Co. cannery at Yes Bay; the 
Chatham Straits Packing Co. cannery on Sitkoh Bay; the Icy Straits 
Packing Co. cannery at Petersburg, Wrangell Narrows; and the 
Quadra Packing Co. cannery at Mink Arm, Boca de Quadra. 
The company met with financial disaster in 1904, and at the 
resulting sale most of its properties were bought by the North- 
western Fisheries Co., a corporation formed for the purpose. Of the 
Alaska canneries the Sitkoh Bay plant was sold to George T. Myers & 
Co., while the Orca plant was leased to Capt. Omar J. Humphreys, 
from whom the Northwestern Fisheries Co. later on secured it. 
The San Juan Fishing & Packing Co., of Seattle, established a 
cannery and cold-storage plant in 1901 at Taku Harbor, a smallbay 
on the mainland a short distance south of Taku Inlet, and made a 
pack the same year. This plant was purchased in 1903 by the 
Pacific Cold Storage Co. and operated by it in 1903, 1904, and 1905. 
In 1906 it was leased and operated by the Taku-Alaska Packing Co. 
From 1907 to 1911 the plant was leased and operated by John L. 
Carlson & Co. In 1911 the plant was purchased by Mr. Carlson and 
the name changed to the Taku Canning & Cold Storage Co., under 
which name it has been operated each year since. 
