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for such other Indians of Alaska as might desire to establish their 
homes in the reservation. The Bureau of Education, Department 
of the Interior, administers the affairs of the reserve for the Indians 
residing therein. 
In 1918 fishing privileges in the reserve were leased to the Annette 
Island Packing Co. under a five-year contract, which provided that the 
company should pay to the Metlakatlans a royalty of 1 cent per fish for 
all salmon taken by traps in the coastal waters of Annette Island and 
a fee of $100 for each trap operated, and that all labor in connection 
with the catching and canning of salmon, except that of a few skilled 
mechanics, should be performed by the Indians. The company was 
also to employ the Indians at all common labor required in the 
maintenance and upkeep of the cannery. The season of 1920 was 
the third year of operations by the company in accordance with the 
terms of the contract. 
Seven traps were operated by the company, for which a fee of $700 
was paid. The catch of salmon by traps was 967,600, for which the 
Indians received $9,676; contract labor in the cannery brought them 
a return. of $36,298.88, while payments for 75,268 salmon taken by 
purse seines and for labor on buildings and docks, including material, 
such as lumber and piling, further increased the income of the Met- 
lakatlans by $24,391.86. The total disbursement of money to the 
Indians by the Annette Island Packing Co. was $71,066.74, or 
$18,966.14 less than in 1919. 
COPPER RIVER FISHERY. 
The importance and peculiar geographical conditions of the Cop- 
per River fishery again warrant special mention. In 1920 this 
fishery produced 946,452 salmon of all species as compared with a 
catch of 1,807,401 in 1919 and of 869,350 in 1916, the year in which 
the progenitors of the 1920 run made their appearance. 
In all, nine packing companies took salmon from the Copper River 
in 1920, eight of which carried on fishing in the delta district, while 
one operated exclusively in the lake and canyon sections. Those 
operating on the delta were the Canoe Pass Packing Co., Carlisle 
Packing Co., Eyak River Packing Co., Alaska Sea Food Co., Hoonah 
Packing Co., Pioneer Packing Co., Hillery-Scott Co., and Hayes- 
Graham Fish Co. The only operator in the up-river district was 
I’. H. Madden, who packed at the cannery formerly listed under the 
name of the Abercrombie Packing Co. It is of interest also to record 
that the Hayes-Graham Fish Co. operated a floating cannery on the 
delta at the entrance to Pete Dahl Slough. 
There were 46,000 fathoms of gill nets used in the delta fishery 
and 4,227 fathoms in Miles Lake, a total of 50,427 fathoms for the 
river as a whole. This is a decrease in nets at the delta of 18,800 
fathoms, or approximately 28.8 per cent, and an increase at the lake 
of 977 fathoms of nets, or approximately 30 per cent. Practically 
no change in the number of dip nets was noted between 1919 and 
1920. 
The following table shows the catch of salmon by districts and 
species during the five years from 1916 to 1920, inclusive: 
