29 U. S. BUREAU OF FISHERIES. 
In 1889 a man named Morse established a cannery at Seattle and 
operated it for only one year. 
The first Puget Sound sockeye cannery was built at Semiahmoo, 
near Blaine, by J. A. Martin and John Elwood about the year 1891. 
It was bought in 1892 for $500 by D. Drysdale, who shortly after- 
ward rebuilt and greatly enlarged the plant. In the same year Mr. 
Drysdale demonstrated the commercial success of fish traps. Traps 
had been in operation before this, however. In 1893 Ainsworth & 
Dunn had a trap at Five Mile Rock, just beyond the lighthouse 
at Magnolia Bluff (now a part of Seattle), and there had been a 
trap or two in Elliott Bay even prior to this. Traps had not been 
profitable in this section, however, owing to the cheapness and 
abundance of salmon, haul seines being cheaper and more profitable 
to operate. A man named H. B. Kirby, who came originally from 
Nova Scotia, and another named Goodfellow (now living at Point 
Roberts) put in the first trap for Mr. Drysdale. 
From this time on the industry fluctuated considerably, 41 can- 
neries, an increase of 10 over 1914, being operated in 1915, while 35 
were operated in 1919. 
During the early years of sockeye canning they were not sold to 
the trade as sockeyes, but as Alaska reds and Columbia River salmon, 
for which there had been an established market for some years. 
H. Bell-Irving & Co., of Vancouver, British Columbia, were the 
ioneers in the labeling of the fish as sockeyes, this being in 1894-95. 
ike all virtually new products, sockeye salmon had a hard fight 
for several years to secure a foothold in the salmon markets, and 
it was not until the Spanish-American War in 1898 caused a heavy 
demand for canned foods that its position became finally established. 
Soleduck River.—This is a small stream, about 30 miles in length, 
which flows through the southwestern part of Clallam County and 
empties directly into the ocean. The Quillayute Indian Reservation 
is located here and the natives formerly caught salmon and marketed 
them on Puget Sound, but a small cannery, started at Mora, on this 
river, in 1912, furnished a market for the catch up to the end of 1915, 
when it was abandoned. . 
Hoh River.—This is a comparatively small river, which is wholly 
within Jefferson County, and debouches into the ocean in the north- 
western part of the county. It passes through the Hoh Indian 
Reservation in its lower reaches. A cannery was built here in 1917 
by Fletcher Bros., and has been operated each season since. In 
the spring of 1919 it was moved to a more convenient location about 
a mile from the original site. 
Queets Rwer.—This river, which is about 35 miles long, rises in the 
northern part of Jefferson County and empties directly into the ocean 
in the northwestern part of Grays Harbor County, within the bounds 
of the Quinault Indian Reservation. A small salmon cannery was 
built at Queets, in Jefferson County, in 1905, and has been operated 
every season since. 
Quinault Rivwer.—This river, which enters the ocean in the north- 
western part of Grays Harbor County, has a length from the ocean 
to Quinault Lake of about 40 miles, wholly within the boundaries 
of the Quinault Indian Reservation. 
This stream is especially noted for its long-continued annual run 
of Quinault salmon (QO. nerka). These fish, which are noted for 
