48 ALASKA FISHERIES AND FUR INDUSTRIES IN 1919. 



In central Alaska a fire at the cannery of the Carlisle Packing Co., 

 at Cordova, destroyed a web house and contents, the combined value 

 of which was $30,144. Additional losses in that district consisted 

 of miscellaneous small buildings valued at $2,000, scows and boats 

 at $5,657, and gear at $7,550. In all, property valued at $45,351 

 was lost in central Alaska. 



Losses in western Alaska aggregated $11,770, of which amount 

 $4,450 represented the value of floating property, including the 

 schooner Premier (292 tons net), which belonged to the Alaska Pack- 

 ers' Association, and was wrecked oft the southern coast of the 

 Alaska Peninsula while making the voyage from San Francisco to 

 Bristol Bay. Small buildings and wharfs valued at $2,200 and gear 

 valued at $5,120 constitute the other losses of property in western 

 Alaska. 



The value of all property lost in Alaska in connection with salmon 

 canning in 1919 was $149,461. 



Thirteen lives were lost in this industry. In southeast Alaska one 

 fisherman was drowned and three shoresmen were killed; in central 

 Alaska one fisherman and one shoresman were killed; and in western 

 Alaska two fishermen were killed and three fishermen, one shoresman, 

 and one transporter were drowned. 



MILD CURING OF SALMON. 



The mild-cure salmon industry shows a marked advance in 1919 

 over that reported in 1918. It was centered almost exclusively in 

 southeast Alaska, the investment being credited wholly to that dis- 

 trict. A total of 5,376 tierces of salmon was mild cured in Alaska in 

 1919, an increase of 1,428 tierces over the production in 1918. Of 

 this number, 5,194 tierces were packed in southeast Alaska, 7 in cen- 

 tral and 175 in the western district. There were more than 30 pack- 

 ers of mild-cured salmon, chief among which were the following 

 concerns: 



Goemaere Fish Co. (Inc.) : Washington Bay. 



Tyee. 



Port Conclusion. 



Port Alexander. 

 Pacific Mild Cure Co ] Waterfall. 



Ketchikan. 



Cape Fanshaw. 



,3 floating plants. 



Columbia & Northern Fishing & Packing Co Wrangell. 



Vendsyssel Packing Co Tyee 



H. R. Thompson Ketchikan. 



Columbia Salmon Co Tenakee. 



M. B. Dahl & Co Floating plant. 



