PACIFIC SALMON FISHERIES. 157 
Pack or CANNED SALMON ON THE Paciric Coast, By YEARS AND WaTERS—Con. 
» Klamath | Eel River, | Sacramento 2 British 
Years. River, Cal. Cal. River. Alaska. | Cojumbia.| Total. 
1,353, 901 
1) 111; 039 
1, 133, 381 
1,382,391 | 52,732,983 | 21,239,618 | 115, 021, 957 
F 
« Reduced to a common basis of forty-eight 1-pound cans to the case. 
b Includes 950 cases packed at Monterey. 
CANNING INDUSTRY, BY SPECIES AND WATERS. 
The tables which follow show separately, by waters and as far as 
possible by species, the salmon canned on the Pacific coast from the 
beginning of the industry until 1915. It is only within recent years 
that the published statistics have shown the pack of the different spe- 
clesseparately. In the early years of canning the chinook, or quinnat, 
salmon was used exclusively, the other species-not being utilized 
until the chinook had begun to decrease in abundance, or a demand 
had arisen for a cheaper product. There is a very great difference 
