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ALASKA FISHERIES AND FUR INDUSTRIES IN 1919. 



Companies Canning Salmon in Alaska, Number and Location of Canneries 

 Operated, and Number of Pound Nets Owned by Each, 1919 — Continued. 



Company. 



Central Alaska— Continued. 



F. H. Madden 



Fidalgo Island Packing Co 



Franklin Packing Co 



Hillery-Scott Co 



Hoonah Packing Co 



Kadiak Fisheries Co 



Kenai Packing Co 



Libby, McNeill & Libby 



Moore Packing Co 



Northwestern Fisheries Co 



Pacific American Fisheries 



Pioneer Packing Co 



San Juan Fishing & Packing Co 



Sockeye Salmon Co 



Surf Packing Co , 



Valdez Packing Co 



Western Alaska: 



Alaska Packers' Association 



Alaska-Portland Packers' Association . 



Alaska Salmon Co 



Bristol Bay Packing Co 



Carlisle Packing Co 



Columbia River Packers' Association .. 

 Herendeen Bay Consolidated Canneries 



Libby, McNeill & Libby 



Naknek Packing Co 



Nelson Lagoon Packing Co 



Northwestern Fisheries Co 



Pacific American Fisheries 



Red Salmon Carming Co 



Canneries. 



Number. 



Location. 



Abercrombie 



Port Graham 



Sawmill Bay * . . . 



Cordova 



KataUa 



Kodiak 



Drier Bay 



Kenai 



Orca Inlet 



(Chignik 



i Kenai 



[Uyak 



/Ikatan 



\KingCove 



Cordova* , 



Seward 



Morzhovoi Bay.. 



Tuxedni Harbor^ 



Valdez 



IKvichak River (2) 

 Xaknek River (3) 

 Nushagak Bay (2) 

 Ugaguk River 



/Naknek* 



\Nushagak Bay 



Wood River 



Kvichak River 



Kwiguk Slough 



Nushagak Bay 



Herendeen Bay 



Ekuk 



Kvichak Bay (Koggiung). 



Libby ville 



Lockanok 



Nushagak 



Ugaguk River 



Naknek River 



Nelson Lagoon 



/Naknek River 



\Nushagak 



PortMoller 



/Naknek River 



\Ugashik River 



Pound 

 nets. 



STATISTICS. 



The number of salmon canneries in operation in Alaska in 1919 

 was 134, one less than in 1918. The mvestment in the salmon- 

 canning industry was $66,495,171, an increase of $2,593,774. The 

 southeast district show^s an increase of $4,770,765; the central dis- 

 trict, an increase of $937,266; and the western district, a decrease 

 of $3,114,257. 



In 1919, the canning industry gave employment to 25,499 per- 

 sons, or 1,003 less than the number employed in 1918. Whites in- 

 creased 74, Chinese 36, Filipinos 239, and Mexicans 157. Natives 

 decreased 1,124, Japanese 34, and miscellaneous 351. 



A total of 4,583,688 cases of salmon, valued at $43,265,349, was 

 packed in Alaska in 1919, a decrease in pack of 2,022,147 cases and 

 m value of $7,776,600 from the production of 1918. This is a drop 

 of 30^ per cent in output and 15 per cent in value from the high 

 records of 1918. Perhaps for the first time in the history of salmon 

 canning in Alaska each district shows a smaller pack than was 



