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in the total value of pack. Sockeye, or red, salmon occupies first 
place in the output, slightly over half of this coming from western 
Alaska. Humpbacks are second in quantity and value. Quite 
little attention was paid this year to the packing of humpback salmon 
in flat cans, the fish cutting out better in this size of can than in the 
“‘talls.”” A few hundred cases of dog salmon were packed in flat 
cans; partly because of the scarcity of tall cans late in the season, 
and the consequent necessity of using the flat cans or not packing 
at all. Of the total pack given below the following were lost in the 
various disasters mentioned elsewhere in this report: Dog, or chum, 
8,279 cases; humpback, or pink, 4,000 cases; king, or spring, 3,713 
cases; and sockeye, or red, 57,855 cases. These have been included 
in the statistical tables, as they had passed through all the stages 
of packing and were Eee alle: paid for by the insurance companies. 
TABLE SHOWING, BY SPECIES AND SIZES OF CANS, THE OuTPUT OF SALMON FROM 
THE CANNERIES IN 1907.4 
Southest Alaska. Tegiea Alaska. | Western Alaska. Total. 
Products. = — = a 
Cases. sanity Canes: Value. Crees. Evaine. Cases. Value. 
Coho, or silver: 
$-pound flat .........-.. 969 Se eBid Semereceral Resecite See eee eee eee 969 $4, 273 
Lpoundiilatee: 2) 2.5 - 3, 933 LSP sal eciets aisctcl at ae eae [Ree eee eae sacle 3, 933 17, 292 
i-pound tall s--. 22. =" 53, 730 212, 239 | 15, 258 $57,980 | 11,784 | $45, 600 80, 772 315, 819 
MOUs Shenk ae 3 ook 58, 6382 233, 804 | 15,258 | 57,980 | 11,784; 45,600 85, 674 337, 384 
Dog, or chum: | 
A-pOUNG Mat... = So kas vee 491 1 Wp da | | PR eee ee ey te ae el Pe ne 491 1, 228 
i-pound: fat. =... 2225.2 2 | 664 Pe AGT | eee es epee, oes ane SS Cee ae er ese Sor 664 2,125 
A= POUT alles = ee ols & 139, 237 AD AS OLGS earn eal ie es 44,025 140, 388 183, 262 544, 404 
SRO ta eases Se er 140, 392 407, 369 feeemse5|eeinoe -----| 44,025 140, 388 184, 417 547, 757 
Humpback, or pink: | | 
4=POUNG HAT... 2.20202: 17, 589 46, 093 17, 589 46, 093 
7, 406 26, 662 
1-pound flat... 
545,772 | 1,726, 525 
1-pound tall... 
7, 406 26, 662 
517, 273 |1, 635, 686 
otalestes. sess 542,268 |1,708, 441 | 10,255 32, 458 | 18, 244 58, 381 570,767 | 1,799, 280 
King, or spring: ; | 
P-POUNn dial... ee 28 yt es ear | eee Coen Sc eR eee eee eee 2 28 98 
d=povned:. Galle sate 1, 261 5, 255 | 14,355 60,291 | 27,794 | 116,074 43,410 | 181, 620 
Total Ree. TNS: 1, 289 5,353 | 14,355 60,291 | 27,794 116,074 43,438 | 181,718 
Sockeye, or red: | 
A-POUNGHg Ge. o =. eee. 45, 383 GOA Sled | eee t cors | s neh | ees 2 etree ayy nore 45,383 | 160,731 
1-pound flat) ._._....-- SORSO Te 5a dou Neca ne eam seme Sal Cameo le ek 29, 821 | 154, 646 
1-pound tall..........-. 101,945 | 463, 888 |482,968 |2, 191,994 |657, 687 |2,943, 968 |1, 242, 600 | 5, 599, 850 
OLAS e hn. Seek 177,149 | 779,265 |482,968 |2, 191,994 |657, 687 2, 943, 968 |1,317, 804 | 5, 915, 227 
Grand total......... 919,730 3,134, 232 |522, 836 |2,342, 723 |759, 534 3,304, 411 |2, 202, 100 | 8, 781, 366 
a All pound cases contain 48 one-pound cans; the half-pound cases contain 48 half-pound cans. 
Comparison of pack of 1905, 1906, and 1907.—Of the three years 
in question the pack of 1906 exceeds the other two in quantity, but 
in total value the pack of 1907 is in the lead. The increase in the 
pack of humpbacks is very noticeable; in 1905 there were packed of 
