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Packing Co. established a cannery near the saltery and made a pack 
the same year, and in 1911 and 1912. Since then the plant has been 
closed and was sold in 1916 to Libby, McNeill & Libby. 
The Astoria & Puget Sound Packing Co., in 1908, built and operated 
a cannery on Excursion Inlet. It was closed the following year, but 
has been operated each year since. 
The year 1911 witnessed a considerable increase in the number of 
canneries. Among the new plants built and operated were the follow- 
ing: Hidden Inlet Canning Co., Hidden Inlet, Portland Canal; Hawk 
Fish Co. (later changed to P. E. Harris & Co.); Hawk Inlet, Admiralty 
Island; Lindenberger Packing Co., Roe Point, Behm Canal; Deep 
Sea Salmon Co., Cape Edwards, Chichagof Island; L. Gustave & Co., 
Skowl Arm, Prince of Wales Island (changed in 1912 to Skowl Arm 
Packing Co.), and M. E. Lane (a small hand-pack plant), Myers 
Chuck, Cleveland Peninsula. 
An innovation in Alaska salmon canning this year was when the 
old ship Glory of the Seas was fitted out as a floating cannery by the 
Alaska Fish Co., and operated in Hawk Inlet, Admiralty Island, and 
at Ketchikan. Quarters for the crew were built over the cabins on 
the quarter deck, the latter being reserved for officials. The remain- 
der of the upper deck was used for receiving, dressing, and cleaning 
the fish, which were brought on board by means of a portable elevator 
attached to the side of the ship. The ‘‘iron chink”’ and the sliming 
and cleaning tanks were also on this deck. The fish were carried in 
chutes to the second deck, where a line of sanitary machinery had 
been installed. The retorts were placed on the forward part of the 
second deck. The third deck was used for cooling and storing the 
pack. No lacquering or labeling was carried on aboard the vessel. 
In 1912 this plant and the ship William H. Smith, the latter by the 
Weiding & Independent Fisheries Co., of Seattle, were operated. 
The William H. Smith also did some freezing of salmon. 
In 1913 the Glory of the Seas was sold to the Glacier Fisheries Co., 
which operated it as a cold-storage plant. The floating cannery and 
cold-storage ship William H. Smith was not operated in Alaska during 
this season. 
In 1912 still more canneries were built, among these being the fol- 
lowing: Admiralty Trading Co., Gambier Bay, Admiralty Island; 
Alaska Sanitary Packing Co., Wrangell; Canoe Pass Packing Co., 
Canoe Pass; Herbert Hume Packing Co., Nakat Inlet, Portland Canal; 
Hoonah Packing Co., Hoonah, Icy Straits; Irving Packing Co., 
Karheen; Kake Packing Co., Kake; Kuiu Island Packing Co., Point 
Beauclaire, Kuiu Island; Lindenberger Packing Co., Craig, Fish Egg 
Island; Oceanic Packing Co., Waterfall; Point Warde Packing Co., 
Point Warde, Bradfield Canal; Pure Food Fish Co., Ketchikan; 
