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  ALASKA 
  FISHERIES 
  AND 
  FUR 
  INDUSTRIES 
  IN 
  1914. 
  

  

  not 
  averse 
  to 
  the 
  adoption 
  of 
  measures 
  which 
  would 
  either 
  compel 
  

   them 
  to 
  cease 
  operations 
  or 
  force 
  the 
  buyers 
  to 
  provide 
  a 
  market 
  for 
  

   all 
  fish 
  caught. 
  

  

  Principal 
  mild-cure 
  plants. 
  — 
  This 
  season 
  Engelbr. 
  Wiese 
  (Inc.) 
  was 
  

   again 
  engaged 
  more 
  extensively 
  in 
  mild-cure 
  operations 
  than 
  any 
  

   other 
  company. 
  Operations 
  were 
  conducted 
  at 
  three 
  plants, 
  the 
  

   most 
  important 
  being 
  at 
  Waterfall, 
  and 
  the 
  other 
  two 
  at 
  Port 
  Con- 
  

   clusion 
  and 
  Hoonah. 
  Of 
  the 
  other 
  more 
  important 
  producers 
  of 
  

   mUd-cured 
  salmon 
  were 
  the 
  Vendsyssal 
  Packing 
  Co., 
  at 
  Tyee; 
  the 
  

   Alaska 
  Cooperative 
  Fishing 
  & 
  Packing 
  Co. 
  and 
  the 
  Columbia 
  & 
  

   Northern 
  Fishing 
  & 
  Packing 
  Co., 
  at 
  Wrangell; 
  the 
  Diamond 
  T 
  Pack- 
  

   ing 
  Co., 
  and 
  the 
  Salmon 
  Packing 
  Co. 
  (Ltd.), 
  at 
  Ketchikan; 
  the 
  Linden- 
  

   berger 
  Packing 
  Co., 
  at 
  Craig; 
  tlie 
  Swift-Arthur-Crosby 
  Co., 
  at 
  Warm- 
  

   chuck; 
  the 
  Taku 
  Canning 
  & 
  Cold 
  Storage 
  Co., 
  at 
  Taku; 
  and 
  the 
  

   Pacific 
  Coast 
  & 
  Norway 
  Packhig 
  Co. 
  and 
  Rasmus 
  Enge, 
  at 
  Peters- 
  

   burg. 
  M. 
  B. 
  Dahl 
  was 
  also 
  engaged 
  quite 
  extensively, 
  operating 
  the 
  

   schooner 
  Volante 
  (119 
  tons) 
  as 
  a 
  floating 
  mild-cure 
  plant 
  in 
  southeast 
  

   Alaska. 
  Other 
  floating 
  plants 
  were 
  operated 
  on 
  scows 
  by 
  the 
  Pacific 
  

   Coast 
  & 
  Norway 
  Packing 
  Co. 
  and 
  by 
  Regnor 
  Dahl 
  & 
  Son. 
  The 
  Sal- 
  

   mon 
  Packing 
  Co. 
  (Ltd.), 
  at 
  Ketchikan, 
  is 
  a 
  new 
  company 
  to 
  enter 
  the 
  

   mUd-cure 
  field 
  in 
  Alaska. 
  The 
  Alaska 
  Cooperative 
  Fishing 
  & 
  Pack- 
  

   ing 
  Co., 
  at 
  Wrangell, 
  merits 
  mention 
  as 
  being 
  a 
  cooperative 
  organi- 
  

   zation 
  chiefly 
  of 
  fishermen, 
  which 
  attempts 
  to 
  handle 
  all 
  properly 
  

   prepared 
  mild-cured 
  salmon 
  brought 
  in 
  by 
  its 
  members. 
  

  

  In 
  central 
  Alaska 
  mild-cure 
  operations 
  were 
  of 
  modest 
  proportions, 
  

   the 
  total 
  product 
  being 
  approximately 
  100 
  tierces. 
  Operations 
  were 
  

   conducted 
  on 
  Cook 
  Inlet 
  and 
  on 
  the 
  Copper 
  River. 
  

  

  In 
  western 
  Alaska 
  the 
  power 
  schooner 
  Bender 
  Bros, 
  was 
  operated 
  

   by 
  J. 
  E. 
  Shields, 
  of 
  Seattle, 
  in 
  mild-cure 
  work 
  on 
  the 
  Kuskokwim 
  

   River. 
  Upward 
  of 
  100 
  tierces 
  were 
  prepared, 
  of 
  whicli 
  20 
  tierces 
  

   were 
  of 
  chum 
  salmon. 
  AH 
  fish 
  were 
  taken 
  in 
  the 
  Kuskokwim 
  River. 
  

   Mild-cure 
  operations 
  in 
  this 
  remote 
  section 
  of 
  Alaska 
  are 
  more 
  haz- 
  

   ardous 
  than 
  in 
  soutlieast 
  Alaska, 
  where 
  cold-storage 
  facilities 
  for 
  

   handling 
  the 
  product 
  are 
  more 
  accessible. 
  This 
  is 
  the 
  second 
  year 
  

   that 
  the 
  Bender 
  Bros, 
  has 
  been 
  operated 
  on 
  the 
  Kuskokvnm 
  in 
  mild- 
  

   cure 
  work. 
  

  

  Statistical 
  Summary. 
  

  

  The 
  investment 
  in 
  mild-cure 
  work 
  this 
  year 
  was 
  $777,564, 
  as 
  com- 
  

   pared 
  with 
  $1,165,866 
  in 
  1913. 
  The 
  number 
  of 
  fixed 
  plants 
  decreased 
  

   from 
  20 
  in 
  1913 
  to 
  17 
  in 
  1914, 
  this 
  decline 
  being 
  in 
  southeast 
  Alaska. 
  

   There 
  was 
  also 
  a 
  proportionate 
  lessening 
  in 
  the 
  total 
  number 
  of 
  per- 
  

   sons 
  engaged 
  from 
  2,644 
  in 
  1913 
  to 
  2,161 
  in 
  1914. 
  Of 
  the 
  total, 
  how- 
  

   ever, 
  there 
  was 
  an 
  increase 
  this 
  year 
  in 
  the 
  number 
  of 
  Indians 
  engaged 
  

  

  