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Packers' Association and the Northwestern Fisheries Co. also were 

 d?iven ashore, but later on were hauled off without material damage 

 to either vessels or cargoes. 



On September 10 the Pacific Steamship Co.'s steamer Ramona, ply- 

 ing between Seattle, Wash., and southeast Alaska points, was wrecked 

 on Spanish Islands in southeast Alaska and became a total loss. In 

 addition to other goods she had aboard 11,177 cases of salmon from 

 the Funter Bay and Hawk Inlet canneries. The greater part of the 

 salmon cargo floated ashore in the vicinity of the wreck and a consid- 

 erable quantity was picked up by power boats and sold to near-by 

 canneries at prices ranging from 50 cents to $2.50 per case. The latter 

 cleaned, relacquered, and relabeled the cans and sold them as part of 

 theh own pacte. 



As all of the salmon lost in these various disasters had passed 

 thi'ough all the stages of packing and was eventually paid for by the 

 msurance companies, it has been included in the statistical tables. 



An innovation in the salmon-canning industry this season was the 

 operation of a cannery aboard a ship. Early in the year the Alaska 

 Fish Co. (a new corporation) purchased the old ship Glory of the Seas. 

 This vessel has three decks, a net tonnage of 1,939 tons, a length of 

 240.2 feet, a breadth of 44.1 feet, and a depth of 20 feet. Quarters 

 for the crew were built over the cabins on the quarter deck, the latter 

 being reserved for the ofhcials of the company. The remainder of 

 the upper deck was used for receiving, dressing, and cleaning the fish, 

 which were brought on board by means of a portable elevator attached 

 to the side of the ship. The "iron chink" and the sliming and clean- 

 ing tanks were on this deck. The fish VN^ere carried in chutes to the 

 second deck, where a line of sanitary machinery had been installed. 

 The retorts were placed on the forward part of the second deck. The 

 third deck was used for cooling and storing the pack. No lacquering 

 or labeling was carried on aboard the ship. This work was done in 

 Seattle. 



During the first half of the season the ship was anchored in Flawk 

 Inlet, a bay on the western side of Admiralty Island, in southeast 

 Alaska. ^Tien the catch began to drop off" here the vessel was towed 

 to Ketchikan, where it remained throughout the remainder of the 

 season. 



On the whole, the experiment proved very successful, the only diffi- 

 culty experienced being to secure a sufficient quantity of fresh water 

 when the vessel was anchored in the large bays. 



The use of the new so-called solderless or sanitary cans was quite 

 extensive this season, a few plants bemg fitted exclusively for this 

 style of pack. Some trouble and loss was occasioned through leaks, 

 flue, it is believed, almost wholly to inexperience or to the desire of 

 the packer to increase his output by rushing the cans through tfio 

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