38 PACIFIC COD FISHERIES. 
The station gradually increased in size and importance, and to-day, 
as well as in the past, is the largest and most important one in 
Alaska. 
In 1886 a branch fishing station was established on Pavlof Har- 
bor, Sannak Island. In 1890 a station was opened at Kasatska, on 
the south side of Sannak Island, and was operated for several years, 
finally being abandoned because of the dangerous navigation for sail- 
ing vessels on that shore. The Port Stanley, Sannak Island, station 
was established in 1891, but was abandoned a few years later. All 
of these were what are known as “ winter stations,” that is, stations 
operated in what are known as the winter months in Alaska; during 
the rest of the year the fish are too far out in the deep water for 
fishing with dories with the shore as the base. 
In 1892 a station was established on Sanborn Harbor, Nagai 
Island, Shumagin Group, and this has been operated almost con- 
tinuously ever since. Fishing is carried on here from the middle of 
spring to late summer. 
In 1883 Ivan Petroff built a fishing station on Sitkalidak Island, 
close to the Indian village at Old Harbor, on the channel separating 
Sitkalidak from Kadiak Island, where for a time considerable quan- 
tities of cod were cured and shipped to San Francisco. 
In 1886 James Madison and associates, of San Francisco, fitted out 
the schooner Francis Alice, and also started a small station at Ikatak, 
en Unimak Island. The venture lived but one season, the station 
then being taken over by the McCollam Fishing & Trading Co. 
Lynde & Hough, a well-known San Francisco firm, early entered 
the codfish industry and for a number of years were important fac- 
tors in it. Besides a fleet of vessels the firm established a number of 
shore stations in Alaska. The earliest of their stations was at Sand 
Point, on Humboldt Harbor, Popof Island, in the Shumagin Group. 
This was in 1887. It was established principally as a trading and 
salmon fishing station, its relation to the codfish industry being 
mainly as a supply station where the firm’s vessels could land their 
cargoes and refit for another trip without having to return to the 
home port for this purpose. 
The firm built a number of shore stations shortly after this— 
Unga Harbor (1888 or 1889) and Squaw Harbor (1889), on Unga 
Island; Henderson Island (1889), in the Shumagin Group; Com- 
pany Harbor (1889) and Nelson Island (1890), in the Sannak 
Islands; Chicago Bay (1890), Alaska Peninsula, and Ikatak (1890), 
on Unimak Island. Several of these had but an ephemeral exist- 
ence, as Chicago Bay, Nelson Island, and Henderson Island. 
About 1898 the McCollam Fishing & Trading Co. and Lynde 
& Hough formed the Union Fish Co. as a selling agency for 
their product. It was not until 1902 or 1903, however, after the 
