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pointed to manage the business. This association was not incorporated and expired 
after the salmon were sold. 
The successful operation of these arrangements led, in 1892, to an arrangement in 
which nearly all (31) of the canneries joined, entering under the name of the Alaska 
Packing (not Packers) Association, for the purpose of leasing and operating and 
therefore controlling the canneries and pedgoing the Alaska pack for that year, it 
being found too great for the market’s demands. All the canneries in operating 
condition in 1892 were members of this association except the following: Metlakahtla 
Industrial Co., at Metlakahtla; Boston Fishing & Trading Co., at Yes Bay; Baranoff 
Packing Co., at Redfish Bay; Chilkat Canning Co., at Pyramid Harbor; Alaska 
Improvement Co., at Karluk; and the Bering Sea Packing Co., at Ugashik. 
The association was regularly incorporated on January 13, 1892, and shares were 
distributed on the basis of 1 for each 2,000 cases packed in 1891, and the profits were 
divided equally on all shares,regardless of the amount of profits derived at the differ- 
ent points. Of the 31 canneries, 9 were operated by the association, while the others 
were closed, the Alaska pack being reduced one-half. 
The year 1893 found the Alaska Packers Association organized and incorporated 
February 9. This association was formed from the canneries that had joined the 
Alaska Packing Association of 1892, except the Pacific Steam Whaling Co., at Prince 
William Sound, and the Peninsula Trading & Fishing Co., the latter’s cannery 
having been moved from Little Kayak Island to the Copper River delta in 1891. 
The agreement of 1893 was similar to that of 1892, exsePh that the amount of profit 
was taken into consideration in addition to the probable average quantity which 
could be packed at the different points. This was subject to adjustment for each 
district, and no arbitrary rule was followed. Each cannery entering the association 
was obliged to purchase an additional amount of stock, equaling two-thirds of the 
number of shares received by it for its plant; that is, a company which received 1,500 
shares for its plant was required to purchase 1,000 shares additional. The money 
received from this sale of extra stock was used as working capital. No shares were 
sold to the general public, the owners of canneries subscribing for the full amount. 
This association was then and is now (1920) the largest operator 
in Alaska, and, with its three canneries on Puget Sound, is also a 
factor in that region. 
At a number of its canneries the association has always main- 
tained physicians, whose services and supplies have been free to its 
own employees and to all natives applying for medical advice and 
medicines. This service has been of incalculable benefit to the latter, 
a large proportion of whom suffer from disease in some form or other. 
No canning has been done at Karluk since 1911, when a new can- 
nery was built at Larsen Bay, a branch of Uyak Bay, and the equip- 
ment remaining in the plants on the spit removed to it. This was 
done because frequent storms had caused havoc to vessels anchored 
in the open straits opposite the mouth of the lagoon. Since then 
fishing has been carried on as usual, the fish being carried to the 
canneries on Uyak Bay. The Alaska Packers Association and 
Northwestern Fisheries Co., the only operators now, have an agree- 
ment to divide the fish on the basis of seven.to the former for every 
three given to the latter. 
Alitak Bay.—Alitak Bay, or the “South End,” as it is termed 
locally, is a deep indentation, with several arms, on the south- 
western end of Kodiak Island, about 65 miles from Karluk. The 
seine is the principal apparatus used here. 
In 1889 the Arctic able Co. built a cannery in the southwest 
bight of Olga Bay, which is a branch of Alitak Bay and is connected 
with it by a long, narrow passage. In 1893 it entered the Alaska 
Packers Association. 
In 1889 the Kodiak Packing Co. built a cannery at Snug Harbor, 
a cove in the passage connecting Olga Bay with Alitak Bay, and op- 
erated it in 1889 and 1890. Its quota of fish was packed by the 
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