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season’s operations had begun. It was rebuilt in time to operate in 
1917. 
Late in 1916 the Lindenberger Packing Co. sold its Roe Point 
lant to the Northwestern Fisheries Co. and its Craig plant to the 
‘columbia Salmon Co. About the same time the Seattle pabking Co. 
disposed of its floating cannery Amelia to the Northland Fish Co., 
which operated it at Metlakahtla in 1917. The Sanitary Packing 
Co. changed to the Ketchikan Packing Co., while the Sunny Point 
Packing Co. took over all the interests of the Northland Packing Co., 
and in 1917 operated the cannery also located at Ketchikan. 
In 1917 the heavy demand throughout the world for foodstuffs 
caused a considerable increase in the number of new canneries in 
Alaska. In the southeast Alaska section, nine were built and 
operated as follows: Alaska Herring & Sardine Co., Port Walter; 
Miasies Pacific Herring Co., Big Port Walter; Baranof Packing Co., 
Red Bluff Bay; R. L. Cole & Co., Tokeen; Haines Packing Co., 
Letinkof Cove; Lane & Williams, Moira Sound; Northland Fish Co. 
(floating plant Amelia), Metlakahtla; Sitka Packing Co., Sitka; 
und Robert Scott, a floating cannery at Craig. The two first named 
were built in 1916 but were not then engaged in canning salmon. 
On September 13, 1917, the cannery of the Sunny Point Packing 
Co., at Sunny Point, was totally destroyed by fire, while on October 2 
the same fate befell the cannery of the Astoria & Puget Sound 
Canning Co. at Excursion Inlet. Wilson Fisheries Co., of Chicago, 
took over the J. L. Smiley & Co. plant at Ketchikan. 
In 1918 the following new canneries were put into operation: 
Alaska Clam Canning Co., Petersburg; Alaska Packing & Navigation 
Co., Pavlof Harbor; Columbia Salmon Co., Tenakee Inlet; Hidden 
Inlet Canning Co., Hood Bay; Hunter & Dickinson, Washington 
Bay; T. E. P. Keegan, Douglas; J. H. Long Packing Co. and North- 
ern Packing Co., Juneau; Noyes Island Packing Co., Noyes Island; 
Pybus Bay Fish & Packing Co., Pybus Bay; Pyramid Packing Co. 
and Sitka Packing Co., Sitka; Southern Alaska Canning Co., Quadra; 
Todd Packing Co., Peril Strait; and H. Van Vlack & Co., Petersburg. 
The name of the Sanborn-Cram Co. was changed to Burnett Inlet 
Packing Co. The Deep Sea Salmon Co. established a new plant at 
Port Althorp and used part of the equipment of its former Knik Arm 
cannery in equipping it. G. W. Hume Co. purchased the Doyhof 
Packing Co. cannery at Scow Bay. The Marathon Fishing and Pack- 
ing Co. operated the barge Amelia at Petersburg. The Southern 
Alaska Canning Co. took over the Rose Inlet plant of the Wiese 
Packing Co. 
The following new plants were constructed and operated in 1919: 
Alaska Salmon & Herring Co., Tyee; Alaska Sanitary Packing Co., 
an additional plant at Cape Fanshaw; Beauclaire Packing Co., Port 
Beauclaire; Cape Fanshaw Fishing & Packing Co., Cape Fanshaw; 
J. L. Carlson & Co., Auk Harbor; Douglas Island Packing Co., 
Douglas; Hood Bay Packing Co., Hood Bay; Olympic Fisheries Co., 
floating barge at Ketchikan, etc.; Petersburg Packing Corporation, 
Washington Bay. 
The Southern Alaska Canning Co. took over the Alaska Pacific 
Herring Co., while the Alaska Clam Canning Co. changed its name to 
the Mountain Point Packing Co. The American Packing Co. took 
over the J. H. Long Packing Co. > 
