26 COMMERCIAL FISHERIES OF ALASKA IN 1905. 



hatchery scheme also fell through and the plant was closed up. In that 

 year Mr. John C. Callbreath, manager of the Point Ellis cannery, on 

 Kuiu Island, operated a small hatchery on the left bank of Kutlakoo 

 stream. It was a very primitive affair, the work all being conducted 

 without shelter. About 1,000,000 eggs were fertilized and placed in 

 the baskets, but after they commenced hatching an exceptionally high 

 September tide destroyed the plant and it was never rebuilt. During 

 the spring of the same year the Point Ellis cannery burned, and Mr. 

 Callbreath, after seeing to the operation of the hatchery, returned to 

 Wrangell to engage in business. Here his attention was attracted 

 again to hatchery work and he made arrangements with the Indians 

 for the right to Jadjeska stream, which empties into McHenry Inlet on 

 Etolin Island, and in the fall of 1892 built a small hatchery about 200 

 yards from the mouth of the stream. The stream is about one-half 

 mile in length and is the outlet of a small lake 42 feet above tide water. 

 Finding the location unsuitable, Mr. Callbreath removed the hatchery 

 in 1893 to the northern side of the lake, about three-eighths of a mile 

 from the head of the outlet, where it at present stands. This hatchery 

 is a private enterprise, being unconnected with any cannery or fishery, 

 and is supported wholly by its public spirited and enterprising owner. 



In 1896 the Baranof Packing Company, which operated a cannery 

 on Redfish Bay, on the western coast of Baranof Island, built a small 

 hatchery on the lake at the head of Redfish Stream. When 200,000 

 eggs were in the water very cold weather set in and not only froze the 

 flume solid, but also froze the whole cataract. As the hatchery was 

 thus left without water, the eggs were put into the lake and left to 

 their fate and the hatchery closed down permanently. 



In May, 1896, the Alaska Packers' Association broke ground for a 

 hatchery at the eastern end of the Karluk lagoon, near the outlet of 

 Karluk River, and but a short distance from where the hatchery was 

 located in 1891. This was the first large hatchery built in Alaska and 

 at the start had a capacity of several million eggs, which was largely 

 increased from season to season for some years until in 1905 it had 

 a capacity of about 40,000,000. 



In 1897 the North Pacific Trading and Packing Company, at Kla- 

 wak, Prince of Wales Island, established a hatchery near the head of 

 Klawak stream, close to Klawak Lake. In 1898 the establishment 

 was moved to the mouth of Threemile stream, a lake feeder on the 

 northern side. 



The Pacific Steam Whaling Company in 1898 erected a small hatch- 

 ery on Hetta stream on the west side of Prince of Wales Island, which 

 was operated until the close of the hatching season of 1903-4, when 

 the Pacific Packing and Navigation Company, successor to the original 

 owner, went into the hands of a receiver. This company was the 

 owner of two other small hatcheries also, both built in 1901, one on 

 the stream entering Mink arm of Quadra Bay, on the mainland, and 



