20 U. S. BUREAU OF FISHERIES. 
In 1895 three new canneries were built at Anacortes—one by Philip 
S. Cook (later owned by the Porter Fish Co. and now by the Anacortes 
Fisheries Co.), one by the Anacortes Packing Co. (now owned by the 
Alaska Packers Association), and the other by the Fidalgo Island 
Canning Co. In the same year a cannery was built at Port Angeles 
by the National Packing Co. In 1902 this plant was sold to the 
Manhattan Packing Co., which company was absorbed by the 
Gorman interests in 1906. 
In 1896 J. R. Young and B. L. Williams built a small cannery at 
Blaine. They failed in 1900 through the failure of their trap fisheries 
and J. W. & V. Cook Packing Co., of Portland, bought their plant 
and put J. L. Smiley in charge of it. In 1909 Mr. Smiley purchased 
this plant from the company and operated it until 1916, when he 
disposed of it to Lee Wakefield and E. Schoenwald, who sold it the 
following year to the Wilson Fisheries Co. 
As Ainsworth & Dunn found that they were receiving more salmon 
than they could dispose of in a fresh condition (they were first, in 
1889, to ship fresh salmon from here to eastern points), the firm 
built a cannery on the Seattle water front, at what is now Pier 8, 
about 1895 or 1896, and about 1897 built another at Blaine. 
In 1900 the Blaine Packing Co. built a cannery at Blaine and 
operated it nearly every season until 1916, when it was sold to the 
Blaine Cannery Co. 
In 1901 Ainsworth & Dunn sold all its fresh fish and canned salmon 
holdings to the newly organized Pacific Packing & Navigation Co. 
When the latter company failed and its assets were sold in 1904, the 
firm bought back its former Blaine plant and has operated it ever 
since. Mr. Ainsworth, the senior member of the firm, died in 1914, 
but the business is still operated under the name of Ainsworth & 
Dunn. 
The Pacific American Fisheries Co. was incorporated in 1899. The 
company purchased at the time of its organization the cannery and 
trap properties of the Island Packing Co., San Juan Island, and the 
cannery of the Franco-American North Pacific Packing Co., at Fair- 
haven. The last-named cannery had been built the previous year. 
By 1900 a number of canneries had been erected on the shores of 
Puget Sound, most of which were then in active operation. In 1901 
the Pacific Packing & Navigation Co. was organized under the laws 
of the State of New Jersey, for the purpose of acquiring a number of 
salmon canneries on the coast. It was supposed to be backed by 
unlimited eastern capital, and its authorized capitalization was as 
follows: Common stock, $12,500,000; 7 per cent accumulative pre- 
ferred stock, $12,500,000; and 6 per cent debentures, $7,000,000. It 
actually issued $6,037,000 common stock, $6,963,000 preferred stock, 
and $3,000,000 debentures. Subsequently the management effected 
an exchange of preferred stock for debentures, increasing the for- 
mer to about $7,500,000 and decreasing the debentures to about 
$1,650,000. 
The new company purchased a number of canneries in Alaska, also 
the following Puget Sound plants: Pacific American Fisheries Co.’s 
canneries at Fairhaven (now Bellingham) and Friday Harbor, the 
Ainsworth & Dunn canneries at Blaine and Seattle, and the Fair- 
haven Packing Co. cannery at Fairhaven. 
