26 CEUISE OF THE STEAMER CORWIN. 



OKHOTSK SEA. 



John Malloy : 



1S84. Schooner Gencoe, 42,000 fish. 

 McCollaiu Fishinff and Trading Company : 

 1884. Schooner JJera, 135,00(t fi.sli. 

 1884. Schooner TroiJtc Bird, 82,000 Ush. 

 Lyndo & Ilongh : 



1884. Schooner ylrflf(/o, 80,000 lish. 

 1884. Schooner Jane A. Fcdkcnhon, 130,000 fish. 

 1884. Schooner Fremont, 118,000 fish. 

 N. Bechard: 



1884. Schooner San Luis, 90,000 fish. 

 1884. Schooner C'o«s/;<«?/oM, 101,000 lish. 

 1884. Schooner Francis Alice, 40,0(i(t iisli. 

 Anderson & Co.: 



18S4. Schooner Wm. II. Meyer, 90,0(10 tish. 

 The salmon industry is becoming quite as important in Alaska as on the Oregon and Cali- 

 fornia coasts. 



The king salmon taken in northern Alaska arc considered as good as, if not finer than the 

 world-renowned CoUimhia River fish. They are very large, the tlesh has a remarkably rich salmon 

 color, and on opening the cans the liquor on the fish is found to be covered with oil, one of the 

 best tests of excellent quality. Generally the salmon of Alaska are very fine, and there seems to 

 bo no limit to the supi)ly. That the business is profitable the increased quantity of fish taken each 

 year by the parties engaged in the business, as shown by the following statistics, bears sulficient 

 evidence. (A barrel contains 200 pounds of fish; a case contains four dozen one-pound cans.) 

 Neville & Co., cannery Beaton Island.— 1883, 378 barrels; 1884, 1,500 barrels. 

 C. C. Rahlfs.— 18-!3, 1,200 barrels; 1884, 2,300 barrels. 

 Arctic Packing Company, Nushegak, Bristol Bay. — 1884, 2,200 barrels. 

 Sisson, Crocker & Co., Klawack, Prince of Wales Island. — 1884, 6,000 cases. 

 Cutter Packing Company, Kusilofl" River, Cook's Inlet.— 1882, 0,500 cases; 1883, 1,500 cases 

 1884, 21,000 cases. 



Alaska Commercial Company.— 1880, 100 barrels; 1881, 788 barrels; 1882, 1,088 barrels; 1883, 

 1,459 barrels. 



This firm then consolidated with the — 



Karluck Packing Company, Karluck, Kodiak Island. — 1882, 4,102 cases, 1,493 barrels; 1883, 

 13,470 ciises, 2,072 barrels ; 1884, 20,170 cases, 2,081 barrels. 



The gentlemen (lomprising these firms all state that the business is profitable, and that they 

 intend to continue. An aggregate of these amounts shows that there has been taken, in 1884, 8,081 

 barrels and 47,170 cases of silinon in the waters of Alaska. A business that has reached these 

 proportions I think may well be called an industry. 



I have the honor to be, sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant, 



M. A. Healy, 

 Captain U. 8. Revenue Marine. 

 The Secretary of the Treasury, 



Washington, D. G. 



