PACIFIC SALMON FISHERIES. 89 
and finally was burned in 1892, and not rebuilt. The cannery packed 
every year from 1883 to 1891, both inclusive, except in 1888, when 
it was closed. 
In 1883 the Northwest Trading Co. built a cannery on Pyramid 
Harbor, a little bay on the western side of Chilkat Inlet. It was 
operated by this company in 1883 and 1884, was idle in 1885, and in 
1888 was sold to D. L. Beck & Sons, of San Francisco, and operated 
by that firm. In the spring of 1889 it was burned, but was rebuilt at 
once and a pack made that year. In 1893 it joined the Alaska 
Packers Association, which operated it, except in 1905, until the end 
of the season of 1908, when it was finally abandoned. 
On the north shore of Boca de Quadra, about 8 miles from the 
entrance, a cannery was built in 1883 by M. J. Kinney, of Astoria, and 
operated under the name of the Cape Fox Packing Co. from 1883 to 
1886. Late in the last-named year it was sold and moved to Ketchi- 
kan, operating there under the name of the Tongass Packing Co. 
during 1887, 1888, and until August, 1889, when it was burned and 
not rebuilt. 
In 1886 Rhode & Johnson erected a saltery at Yes Bay. The fol- 
lowing year the firm became Ford, Rhode & Johnson. In 1887 work 
was begun on a cannery which was finished in 1888. Packing was 
begun in 1889 under the name of the Boston Fishing & Trading Co. 
In 1901 it was included in the Pacific Packing & Navigation Co. con- 
solidation, and when that concern failed was purchased in 1905 by 
the Northwestern Fisheries Co. In 1906 the cannery was purchased 
by C. A. Burckhardt & Co., who have operated it each year to date, 
either under that name or subsequent incorporations known as the 
Yes Bay Canning Co. and the Alaska Pacific Fisheries. 
In 1887 the Aberdeen Packing Co. of Astoria, Oreg., built a can- 
nery on the Stikine River, about 8 miles above the mouth. In 1889 
the cannery was moved to Point Highfield, on the northern end of 
Wrangell Island, and operations commenced under the name of the 
Glacier Packing Co. In 1893 it joined the Alaska Packers Associa- 
tion, who have operated it continuously, except in 1905. 
The Loring cannery of the Alaska Packers Association was built in 
1888 by the Alaska Salmon Packing & Fur Co., of San Francisco, and 
operated by the Cutting Packing Co. The company was incorporated 
in 1883 and operated a saltery until the cannery was built. en the 
Alaska Packers Association was formed in 1893 it joined that organi- 
zation. The cannery has operated every year since it was built, and 
in some seasons has made the largest pack of any in the Territory. 
Shortly after William Duncan aad? his community of Tsimpsean 
Indians had settled, in 1887, on Annette Island, which island had 
been set aside by the Federal Government as a reserve for them, 
plans were under way for a salmon cannery, but funds came in so 
slowly that it was not until 1890 that any pack was attempted. In 
1891 it was in full operation, and Tee from then continuously 
until 1913, when the plant was shut down for that and the two suc- 
ceeding years. Much dissatisfaction had been expressed by the 
natives over the operation of this and other industrial plants on the 
island, and finally the Federal authorities took possession of prac- 
tically everything, as guardian of the natives, and early in 1916 
leased the cannery to P. E. Harris & Co., of Seattle, the understand- 
ing being that they were to employ natives when available. Un- 
