70 PACIFIC SALMON FISHERIES. 
In 1895 the Alaska Packers Association built a cannery, known as 
the Ugashik Fishing Station, on the right bank of the river imme- 
diately above the pilot station, which is about 12 miles from the bar. 
It made the first pack in 1896 and packed every year until 1907, 
when it was closed. In 1906 its outfit was destroyed in the San 
Francisco fire, and it was decided to operate it as a saltery, but the 
burning down of the Coffee Creek cannery of the association on the 
Kvichak, caused a change in the plans, and a part of the saved out- 
fit of the latter was sent to the Ugashik and the plant operated as a 
cannery. 
The Bristol Packing Co. built a cannery on the left bank of the 
river about 25 miles from Smoky Point in 1900. A pack was made 
the same year and the plant operated continuously until 1906, when 
it was shut down, and a small salting crew operated a portion of the 
plant. Eventually the plant was dismantled without. operating 
again as a cannery. 
In 1901 the Alaska Packers Association built and put into opera- 
tion another cannery about 15 miles up the river from the other one. 
In 1906 this plant was shut down and eventually it was dismantled. 
In 1901 the Red Salmon Canning Co. also built and operated a 
cannery still farther up the river and has operated it continuously 
to date. 
KUSKOKWIM RIVER. 
This, one of the great rivers of Alaska, has been but little exploited 
as yet. Very little accurate data have been obtainable about the 
river until within the last couple of years, and this relates mainly to 
the bay and a few miles of the adjacent river, which the United 
States Coast and Geodetic Survey has charted. 
We know that the river has considerable runs of salmon, but 
usually ice conditions have been such in the spring that a cannery 
crew frequently could not get in in time to prepare for the run. In 
1906 a salting outfit was sent here by Seattle dealers, but arrived too 
late for the run of fish. The outfit was cached at Bethel. 
During the last three years some mild curing of king salmon has 
been carried on here, but the lack of cold storage, both ashore and on 
the vessels operating to and from the river, has prevented any con- 
siderable development of this industry. 
ARCTIC OCEAN. 
Although it is known that there are good runs of salmon in some 
of the rivers debouching into the Arctic, the ice and other conditions 
have deterred people from attempting to extend their operations 
into this region. In 1912, however, the Midnight Sun Packing Co. 
built and operated a small cannery on Kotzebue Sound, in the Arctic 
Ocean. A small pack, mostly of Dolly Varden trout, was made in 
that and subsequent years. 
