PACIFIC SALMON FISHERIES. 61 
The run is mainly of red salmon, and gill nets and traps are utilized. 
During the last few years purse seines have been used in this region 
with considerable success. 
In 1902 Charles Johnson, who had operated on the Ugashik River, 
established a saltery here and operated it under the name of the 
Lagoon Salmon Co., and made a pack that and the succeeding year. 
In 1904 and 1905 it was shut down. It was reopened in 1906 and con- 
tinued to operate until it was sold in 1914, and in 1915 the new owners, 
the Nelson Lagoon Packing Co., built and operated a cannery here. 
Unalaska Island.—This year (1916) the Pacific American Fisheries, 
having obtained a permit from the Department of Commerce, built 
a cannery at Unalaska, on Unalaska Island. This cannery is located 
inside of the Aleutian Islands reserve, and permit was given for its 
building and operation so that it might be possible for the Indians of 
Unalaska and Dutch Harbor to obtain work at home and save them 
the long trip to the Bristol Bay plants. 
Ozernoy.—In 1889 a cannery, under the title of the Western 
Alaska Packing Co., was built at Ozernoy, on the western side of 
Stepovak Bay, south side of the Alaska Peninsula. It packed that 
year and in 1890, but the fish were so scarce that the cannery was dis- 
mantled in 1891 and the site abandoned. 
Nothing was done with it for some years, but about 1905 Bostrop 
Omundsen located there and established a saltery. In the winter of 
1912-13 August Lindquist purchased a half interest in the plant and 
it was operated under their joint names until the death of the senior 
partner in the fall of 1915; since then it has been operated by the 
former alone. 
Thin Point.—Thin Point is on the southern side of the Alaska 
Peninsula, near its extreme western end. A saltery was operated 
here for several years, until the Thin Point Packing Co. was organized 
by Louis Sloss & Co., of San Francisco, and the cannery was 
built in 1889. It was operated in 1889, 1890, and 1891, and was 
closed after that date. In 1890 the cannery ship Oneida, en route for 
this place, struck on the Sannaks in April and nearly all of the 77 
Chinese on board were lost. In 1893 the plant became a member of 
the Alaska Packers Association. In 1894 the cannery was moved 
to the Naknek River, in Bering Sea, and became a part of the cannery 
of the Arctic Packing Co. 
The Alaska Packers Association operated a saltery at Thin Point 
in 1894, 1895, and 1896, and then abandoned the place. 
The cannery of the Central Alaska Co. was moved in 1890 from 
Little Kayak Island, near Katalla, to Thin Point. It operated 
during 1890 and 1891, was closed in 1892, and in 1893 joined the 
Alaska Packers Association, but was no longer operated. In 1895 
the available machinery was moved to Koggiung on the Kvichak 
River, in Bering Sea. 
