40 PACIFIC COD FISHERIES. 
As this proved to be too far from the fishing grounds, the station 
was moved almost immediately to Squaw Harbor, on Unga Island. 
In place of the dories used at other stations, this company equipped 
the plant with Columbia River boats, two to four men going in each. 
The station was worked intermittently until 1910, when the company 
sold out to the King & Winge Codfish Co., which ultimately merged 
into the Western Codfish Co. It has not been operated since, owing 
mainly to its remoteness from the fishing grounds. It is now the 
property of John H. Nelson. 
In the fall of 1902, John H. Nelson and John Einmo opened a 
shore station at Hard Scratch, on Snug Harbor, Unga Island, but 
operated it only one winter. In the fall of 1911 R. H. Johnson estab- 
lished a shore station here and has operated it ever since. 
In the fall of 1905 the Blom Codfish Co., of Tacoma, Wash., built 
a station on the north shore of Eagle Harbor, Nagai Island, and 
operated it for a couple of years, when it was abandoned. 
In the fall of 1905 the Pacific States Trading Co., of San Fran- 
cisco, which had just recently started in business, established stations 
on Herendeen Island, Northwest Harbor, and at Ikatak, or Unimak 
Tsland, and operated them continuously until 1909. The latter sta- 
tion was not reopened, but operations were resumed at the former 
in the fall of 1911, and it was operated until early in 1916, when the 
company suspended operations and sold the station to the Union 
Fish Co. The Ikatak was a summer station, while the one at North- 
west Harbor is a winter station. 
In the summer of 1908 John H. Nelson, who had opened a station 
at Hard Scratch in 1902, started a station on Squaw Harbor and has 
operated it every year since. In the earlier years of its existence 
stockfish formed the bulk of the product, but during the last two 
years considerable dried salt cod has been prepared. 
In 1914 A. Komedal, a merchant of Unga, established a station 
near that town and has operated it during the greater part of the 
time since. 
In 1910 the Alaska Commercial Co. shipped to San Francisco 
aboard one of its regular trading vessels about 90 tons of cod which 
had been caught and cured by the natives of Kodiak. The fish 
proved to be quite small, and the company had so much difficulty in 
disposing of them that it did not repeat the experiment. 
One of the heaviest handicaps under which Alaska station owners 
suffered for a number of years was the presence of saloons in close 
proximity to the more important stations. In 1913 there was one 
saloon at Sand Point (about 6 miles overland from Pirate Cove and 
about the same distance by water from four stations on Unga Island) 
and two at Unga; at and within a radius of 4 miles by land from the 
latter town are six shore stations. Asa result of the close proximity 
