110 PACIFIC SALMON FISHERIES. 
In 1910 A. G. Denbigh, an Englishman, built a modern cannery 
near the second site of the Kamchatkan Commercial & Industrial Co. 
That year the cannery produced only about 10,000 cases, but each 
year since the equipment of the plant has been enlarged and improved 
until in 1913 the pack amounted to 60,000 cases. Early in 1914 a 
complete one-line plant of American can-packing machinery was 
installed. 
In 1912 Mr. Denbigh built another cannery 14 miles away from the 
above plant. This plant was first operated with German and Nor- 
wegian sanitary machinery, but in 1914 a two-line American sanitary 
can-packing plant was installed, the can-making plant at the first 
plant making all the cans needed at the two canneries. 
In 1915 a number of additions were made to both plants in the line 
of flat fillers, etc., while still more were in contemplation for 1916. 
Mr. Denbigh also operates a hand cannery at Compocowa, on the 
west side of the Kamchatka Peninsula. 
Up to 1912 very few canneries, and these very primitive affairs, 
had been built by the Japanese, owing to the uncertainty of tenure 
referred to previously. ‘The ‘canneries’’ were mere sheds or shel- 
ters where the cans—which were brought from Japan, made or half 
made—were filled, closed, and cooked, furnace-heated, vertical retorts 
being used for the latter purpose. If the owner lost his concession 
at the end of the fishing season he simply took his retorts away with 
him and the buildings were left to his successor. . 
In 1912 a Tokyo company (Ichigumi & Co.) put up two canneries 
near the Ozernaya River in Kamchatka, while a Japanese from 
Niigata, Japan, also put up a small plant in the same vicinity. Both 
plants were cheaply built and operated with hand-power machinery 
and small vertical retorts. That year the two companies together 
packed about 13,500 cases of salmon. 
The same season Ichigumi & Co. put up another hand-power can- 
nery, and Tsutsumi & Co., of Hakodate, Japan, built two others of 
the same type near the Kamchatka River, on the east coast. 
In 1913 Tsutsumi & Co. built a modern cannery at Ozernaya and 
installed a complete line of American sanitary can-making and can- 
packing machinery. 
The same year Ichigumi & Co. put up two hand-power canneries 
near the Kamchatka River, having succeeded to the concessions for- 
merly held here by Tsutsumi & Co. In 1914 they built a modern 
plant and installed a complete line of American sanitary can-making 
and can-packing machinery. 
The St. Petersburg firm of S. Grooshetsky & Co., which has been 
engaged for a number of years in the freezing of salmon and in the 
preparation of salmon caviar, under the name of the Pacific Ocean 
Sea Industry Association, erected a cannery near Ozernaya in 1914, 
