40 FISHERIES OF ALASKA IN 1907. 
Investment.—There were 24 salteries (18 in southeast Alaska and 3 
each in central and western Alaska), an increase of 4 over 1906. In 
addition, some of the canneries, and several of the mild-curing plants, 
also salted their surplus catch, and while the product has been 
included in the present figures the men and investment could not be 
separated from the statistics of the other branches of the industry. 
In western Alaska the saltery of Mr. L. A. Pedersen was turned into 
a cannery. The total investment in the pickled-salmon industry 
amounted to $309,313, a shght gain over 1906. 
Vessets, Boats, APPARATUS, AND SHORE PrRopERTY EMPLOYED IN THE SALMON 
Picxiine Inpustry 1N 1907. 
Southeast Alaska.) Central Alaska. | Western Alaska. Total. 
Item | | : | 
? Num- | Num- Num- : Num- 
eae Value. hen! Value. inoee Value, We! Value 
| | 
Na ltENESt os pee cactee™ Semenk TS) so ee Siltseeheseees alee cee Sees D4 |. See ees 
Transporting vessels: 
Steamers and launches. - 123 ($26; 400) | Sse seno= sree 2 $5, 750 14 $32, 150 
MONMAPEC Wyss. siete | LOO! | oie cterarcicre ciel teee ee DOW Eee See 200 ||: 2 pean 
Sailings sa. kee 2 8, 800 1 2 28, 000 5 37, 250 
Tonnageln-ca.ceeonee | WE LOSs eee eee) 13 eT Bee cace a 1800) |o-5 2 eee 
Boatseee scoters ene 91 11, 678 27 35 6, 345 153 18, 863 
Apparatus: 
Eauliseines=.)2te-ssseee2 15 2,015 14 SRS hae ss eres a29 2,980 
Purse SINGS = 45. --\sceseee 8 DESSO MS = eee | eats serra | neritic eee oe b8 2, 830 
Gillmets sono pte ceeere | 9 M040) -22.0 212 cel Scere meee 26 1,400 €35 2, 440 
TADS cease m erence er 3 3, 200 | 2 1,000 3 1, 380 8 5, 580 
Shore and accessory prop- 
BTU Virecmarieene eee ees bo cheae G45 220) 25 See 3 O00 nee susee 395500) bs Sees rors 207, 220 
Taobao se este capone eee oe 2205183) |e sere os ti) | Bae ac BZ OTOH es stem 309, 313 
a Had aggregate length of 4,940 yards. b Had aggregate length of 2,150 yards. 
c Had aggregate length of 6,900 yards. 
Output.—The pack amounted to 23,182 barrels and 4,180 half bar- 
rels, with a total value of $240,549. This is an increase of 6,256 bar- 
rels and 791 half barrels in quantity and $100,711 in value over 1906. 
Red salmon formed by far the greater part of this pack and most of 
these were put up in western Alaska. There is a large increase shown 
in the number of red and humpback bellies packed, while 191 barrels 
of coho bellies were put up (none of the latter were packed in 1906). 
The packing of salmon bellies is a very wasteful process, as all but the 
belly portion is thrown away, and to pack a barrel of bellies requires 
more than four times the number of salmon required for a barrel of 
whole fish. As the run of salmon is none too large to be handled by 
other and less wasteful methods even in the best of seasons, the use of 
fish in this wasteful manner should be absolutely prohibited. In the 
wreck of the bark Servia at Karluk, in November, 473 barrels of pickled 
salmon were lost. These, however, as in the case of the canned 
salmon, have been included in the statistical tables. 
A considerable quantity of coho, dog, humpback, and red salmon 
was prepared at Juneau by splitting the fish down the back, removing 
the backbone and entrails, and then salting lightly in boxes holding 
