PACIFIC SALMON FISHERIES. 19 
this was continued by the Hudson Bay Co. Both companies carried 
on the business primarily for the purpose of providing a winter stock 
for the use of gee employees and for lécal sale. As shipping de- 
veloped on the Pacific, a considerable export trade-in malted salmon 
was developed with the Hawaiian Islands, Australia, China, and 
Japan, and with the eastern United States. Quinnat, or spring, 
and sockeye salmon were the principal species employed in the 
earlier years. 
After the boundary line between Canada and the United States 
had been established in 1846, and what is now the State of Wash- 
ington was acknowledged as part of the latter, a number of small 
traders and fish packers succeeded the Hudson Bay Co. In the early 
sixties several men were engaged in the business at Point Roberts, 
according to the Olympia Columbian of September 10, 1853. _ In 1873, 
V. T. Tull, of Olympia, established a salmon fishery at Mukilteo, 
principally for putting up fish in barrels. The first year 500 parreis 
were packed at Mukilteo, after which the fishery was moved tem- 
porarily to Seattle to take the late run up the Duwamish River, 
which is usually large. Fifteen hundred good large salmon have 
been taken af one haul of the seine in the Puyallup. 
Bancroft’s ‘‘History of Washington, Idaho, ad Montana” con- 
tains among others the following references® to the early fishermen of 
the Sound: 
In 1874 Corbette & Macleay, of Portland, founded a fishery at Tacoma. Sixty 
barrels were packed in five days, only three men being employed.—New Tacoma 
Tribune, November 14, 1874. In 1876, John Bryggot, a Norwegian, founded another 
fishery at Salmon Bay, 6 miles north of Olympia. In 1878 a company of Puget 
Sound men established a fourth at Clallam Bay. They put up the first season 600 
casks of salmon and 700 of halibut.—Morse’s Wash. Terr., MS., xviii, 17-18. In the 
following season D. D. Hume established a fishery near Steilacoom for the purpose of 
salting salmon. In 1880 H. Levy, of Seattle, went to London with 100 barrels to 
introduce Puget Sound salted salmon to that market. In 1882 a salmon packing 
establishment was opened at Old Tacoma by —— Williams. Salmon ran in great 
numbers this year. One boat brought in a thousand fish. 
The extension of the railroad to Puget Sound, thus furnishing an 
outlet to the rapidly growing population in the Middle West, did 
much to aid the industry. This also gave opportunity to begin the 
shipping of fresh halibut and salmon to eastern points. Ainsworth 
& Baise: of Seattle, operating later under the name of the Seattle 
Fish Co., were the first successful pioneers in this branch of the 
industry, beginning about 1889, andl carrying it on until they sold 
out in 1901, as noted later. 
In 1903 the San Juan Fishing & Packing Co., which had begun the 
fresh-fish business in 1899, bought this business from the Pacific 
Packing & Navigation Co., to which it had been sold in 1901 
In 1893 A. E. Wadhams, who had operated on the Columbia River — 
for some years, established a sockeye plant at Point Roberts. 
In 1894 both canneries were sold to their present owner, the Alaska 
Packers Association, an organization formed not long before this by 
a combination of a number of Alaska plants. 
About 1894 A. E. Devlin came up from the Columbia River and 
established a plant at Friday Harbor, which is now operated by the 
Friday Harbor Packing Co. 
a History of the Pacific States, Washington, Idaho, and Montana, 1845-1889, vol. 26, pp.345-349. By 
Hubert Howe Bancroft. 
