FISHERIES OF ALASKA IN 1907. 35 
the other grades but few remained in the hands of the canners at the 
end of the year, and these will undoubtedly be sold long before the 
season of 1908 opens. 
The pack of red salmon this year was the smallest for several years, 
but. the pack of humpbacks increased very materially. The con- 
sumption of the latter has increased enormously in recent years. 
For a time the pack was nearly all sold in this country, but the 
export demand is rapidly increasing, and it is very probable that 
humpback salmon will soon become an important feature in the 
market. 
Employees.—The fishermen engaged this year numbered 3,325, of 
whom more than two-thirds were white. The cannery employees 
numbered 6,809, among whom the Chinese were the most numerous, 
followed by the Japanese, whites, and Indians in the order named. 
The transporters numbered 515, of whom 482 were whites and 33 
Indians. In all, 10,649 persons (4,110 whites, 2,466 Indians, 1,863 
Japanese, and 2,205 Chinese) were employed in the salmon-canning 
industry. 
EMPLOYEES IN THE SALMON-CANNING INDUSTRY IN 1907. 
South- 
c Central | Western 
Occupation and race. east z Total. 
Magica. Alaska. | Alaska. 
Fishermen: 
VLEET Sh -3 Deas Aig nee pe AAs (SAS SNe REN Se ar bs RE TnL ee me 364 382 1, 462 2,208 
TET TENTIVT S05 o Se aR gee ae Sa ec © Cee eee ne 1,010 78 8 1,096 
Ary oyniitsys Gia ae eek See Bie t eeer ee ee Ea eee ee DAL | leeches ARE Ik ha ee 21 
TOYS te ee acre) Reet sO SS ER a ene ly ee 1,395 460 1, 470 3, 325 
Shoresmen: 
VV AEWILT ETS cele te Deas Lines Ee iy Ae RR. Bis Peer ee een ne ORR Se 353 179 897 1, 429 
TORI OVS 9 Gs sep can SC Mane ite ee em Se OT ais al gira Rae cede me a 936 96 301 1,333 
(CLUNTaEE is, Se aN a ein ag eee gy re As Senet, Cnn 726 471 1,008 2,205 
PDA CRG oe Renee ce ee SOE Ca an ee 301 268 1,273 1, 842 
ALCO E  a a  e  ,  Pp Joe Da, SURG E a EE WeT Pee Ona 2,316 1,014 3, 479 6, £09 
Transporters: : 
Dbe hee, er een See er el eae Oe Sd pd, Mel 191 146 145 482 
TIA TA TIS oes tee i a Se = SS Es ie ae BOs | mercies oI ee ae ge 33 
4A) HUE. = Bet A a Ie ig = ph AO ee Ace tee See 224 146 145 515 
CES 5 SR OS, ad Mi ee 3,935 1, 620 5,094 | 10,649 
Investment.—There were 120 steamers and launches and 36 sailing 
vessels engaged in transporting. Of these, one power vessel, the 
gasoline schooner Rita Newman, was wrecked on Simeonof Island 
May 25; the sailing ship John Currier was wrecked at Nelson Lagoon, 
in Bering Sea, on August 9, and the sailing ship Servia, while at Kar- 
luk, broke loose from her moorings and was driven ashore and totally 
wrecked on November 6. Most of the sailing vessels are utilized in 
western Alaska for the purpose of bringing up the outfit and em- 
ployees in the spring and carrying home the employees and pack 
after the season closes, as no established steamship lines plying to 
