FISHERIES OF ALASKA IN 1910. 



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Number and Gross Weight op Each Species op Salmon Caught in 1907, 1908, 



1909, and 1910. 



Species. 



1907 



1908 



Coho, or silver 



Dog, or chum 



Humpback, or pink 



King, or spring 



Red, or sockey e 



Total 



Species 



Coho, or silver , 



Dog, or chum 



Humpback, or pink 



King, or spring 



Red, or sockeye , 



Total 



Number. 



893, 425 



1,843,017 



12,668,722 



3127,794 

 19, 167, 110 



34, 900, 068 



Pounds. 



5, 360, 550 

 14,744,136 

 50,674,888 



7,211,468 

 95, 835, 550 



Number. 



736, 083 



2, 258, 322 



15, 106, 155 



261,693 



24, 942, 726 



173,826,592 



43, 304, 979 



Pounds. 



4, 416, 498 

 18, 066, 576 

 60, 424, 620 



5, 757, 246 

 124, 713, 630 



213,378,570 



1909 



Number. 



5S7, 734 

 1,182,006 

 9,491,482 



407,252 

 23, 024, 134 



34, 692, 608 



Pounds. 

 3, 526, 404 

 9, 456. 048 

 37,965,928 

 8,959,544 

 115,120,670 



Number. 

 996, 684 

 2,344,285 

 10,722,966 

 412.543 

 19, 202. 776 



175, 028, 594 



33, 679, 254 



Pounds. 



5,980,104 

 18, 754, 280 

 42,891,864 



9, 075, 946 

 96,013,880 



172,716,074 



CANNING. 



When the season of 1909 opened, all grades of salmon, except 

 pinks and chums, were commanding remunerative prices. The 

 prices of these two grades began to crumble in 1908 and kept on 

 dropping through 1909, until finally they reached bottom at $2.40 

 per case for pinks (a drop of $1.05 per case from the 1907 prices) 

 and $2.28 per case for chums (a drop of 96 cents per case from the 

 1907 prices). The demand for pink and chum salmon began to 

 fall off in 1907, despite which the packers kept on piling up stock 

 during the next two years, with the result that they became a drug 

 on the market, and for a time it was difficult to move them, even 

 at the above unremunerative prices. Late in 1909 the demand 

 began to improve, and when the season of 1910 opened but few 

 pinks and chums were left in first hands. 



Early in the season rumors began to circulate that prices on all 

 grades would be advanced, and the buyers, who had been content 

 to buy only for immediate necessities as long as prices seemed to 

 be crumbling, now came into the market with orders for large stocks. 

 As a result, the packers soon were obliged to prorate the orders, 

 as the pack did not begin to equal the demand. The expected high 

 prices were realized, and before the pack had come out of Alaska it 

 was all sold at the most remunerative figures realized by the packers 

 in years. 



In 1909, owing to the expected quadrennial heavy run of sockeye 

 salmon on Puget Sound, the canneries of Gorman & Co., at Kasaan, 

 of the Astoria & Puget Sound Packing Co., in Excursion Inlet, and 

 of the Fidalgo Island Packing Co., at Ketchikan, all in southeast 



