59 PACIFIC SALMON FISHERIES. 
In 1889 a company known as the Central Alaska Co. built a can- 
nery on Wingham, or Little Kayak Island, about 15 miles west from 
Cape Suckling. It made a pack that year, and the following spring 
was moved to Thin Point, on the southern side of the Alaska Penin- 
sula. 
The Peninsula Trading & Fishing Co. built a cannery on the same 
island in 1889. In 1891 it was moved to one of the sloughs of the 
Copper River delta, known as Coquenhena, and operated in 1891. It 
was closed in 1892 and 1893. The Pacific Steam Whaling Co. oper- 
ated it until 1897, when it was abandoned. 
In 1916 the Hoonah Packing Co. built and operated a cannery 
near the mouth of Bering River. : 
Louis Sloss & Co., of San Francisco, built a cannery under the title 
of Pacific Packing Co. in 1889 at the extreme eastern end of the 
sound, close by the present site of Cordova, and called it Odiak. The 
cannery was closed in 1892. In 1893 it joined the Alaska Packers 
Association and was operated each season until 1905. In 1906 the 
buildings and site were sold to the Copper River & Northwestern Rail- 
road Co., which was preparing to build a railroad from Odiak to the 
headwaters of the Copper River. 
In 1889 the Pacific Steam Whaling Co. built a cannery close by 
the Odiak plant, but in the spring of 1895 it was moved to the spot 
now known as Orca, about 3 miles north of Cordova. Except in 
1892, it has been operated ever since. In 1901 it was taken into 
the Pacific Packing & Navigation Co. combination. When the lat- 
ter’s assets were sold in 1904, this cannery was not included in the 
sale, as at the time the plant was under lease to Capt. Omar J. Hum- 
phrey. In 1905 it was sold to the Northwestern Fisheries Co., which 
had purchased most of the Alaska plants of the defunct company, 
and they have operated it since. 
In 1915 the Copper River Packing Co. built a cannery on the Cop- 
per River at Mile 55, and made a pack the same year. The cannery 
uses no run boats, but has an arrangement with the Copper River & 
Northwestern Railroad Co. to haul the fish from the fishing stations 
to the cannery, and bring the finished product to Cordova for ship- 
ment by steamer. 
The Canoe Pass Packing Co., which had built a cannery at Canoe 
Pass, southeast Alaska, in 1912, and had not operated it subse- 
quently, in 1915 moved the machinery to Cordova and installed it 
in a rented building and made a pack. 
This year (1916) the Carlisle Packing Co. built a cannery at Cor- 
dova, while the Clark-Graham Co. built one at Eyak, a few miles 
away. 
