PACIFIC SALMON FISHERIES. 5l 
assets in 1905 the site passed to the Northwestern Fisheries Co. In 
1910 the company put up a new plant here and has operated it con- 
tinuously since. During the period when the site was unused a mild- 
curing establishment was operated here by the San Juan Fishing & 
Packing Co. in 1907 and 1908. This plant burned down just before 
the fishing season of 1916 began, but was rebuilt in time to operate 
in 1917. 
In 1890 George W. Hume, of San Francisco, built a cannery at 
Kasilof, on the right bank of the river, about half a mile above its 
mouth. It was operated in 1890, 1891, and 1892. In 1893 it joined 
the Alaska Packers Association and was consolidated with the plant 
of the Arctic Fishing Co. 
C. D. Ladd operated a saltery on the left bank and at the mouth of 
the Chulitna River, about 6 miles above Tyonek. This saltery was 
purchased by the Alaska Salmon Association in 1899. The follow- 
Ing spring it erected a cannery here and made a small pack. It was 
operated also in 1901 and 1902, and then abandoned. 
In 1907 J. A. Herbert & Co. established a saltery at English Bay 
and operated it until 1910. 
In 1911 the Seldovia Salmon Co. built a cannery at Seldovia and 
operated it until late in 1915, when the company went into the hands 
of areceiver. In 1916 it was reopened by the Columbia Salmon Co. 
In 1917 it was bought by the Northwestern Fisheries Co. and oper- 
ated in this and the succeeding year, but was closed in 1919. 
In 1912 the Fidalgo Island Packing Co., which already operated a 
cannery at Ketchikan, in southeast Alaska, built a cannery at Port 
Graham, at the lower end of the Kenai Peninsula. A pack was made 
that year and each year since. 
The same year Libby, McNeill & Libby built a cannery at Kenai 
and operated that year and each subsequent year. 
In 1915 the Deep Sea Salmon Co., which operates a cannery in 
southeast Alaska, built a plant near Knik, on the west side of Cook 
Inlet, and made asmall pack. This plant was abandoned at the end 
of 1917 and part of the equipment sold to a new plant in southeast 
Alaska. 
Of recent years considerable salting of salmon has been carried on 
in Cook Inlet. In 1916 Dr. Knut A. Kyvig, of Anchorage, did some 
salting at Swanson Creek, Turnagin Arm, under the name of the 
Kyvig Packing Co. In 1917 the Beluga Whaling Co. salted salmon at 
Beluga. In 1918 Dr. Kyvig disposed of his interest in the Kachemak 
Bay plant to the Kachemak Canning Co. 
AFOGNAK ISLAND, 
Afognak Island lies to the northwest of Kodiak, and it is separated 
from it by a narrow strait. 
In 1889 the Royal Packing Co. built a cannery at the head of 
Afognak Bay and operated it in 1889 and 1890. It became a mem- 
ber of the Alaska Packers Association in 1893. It has not been 
operated since 1892. 
The Russian-American Packing Co. in 1889 built a cannery imme- 
diately above that of the Royal. It was operated in 1889 and 1890. 
In 1893 it became a member of the Alaska Packers Association. It 
has not been operated since 1890. 
